May 2012

I'm really trying to be better at blogging normally. I know this time of life will be hard to remember in a few months! Life for us lately honestly has been very quality time focused and strengthening the relationships that we have with one another. Which has been hard with Patrick's schedule with work and bishopric duties. BUT, somehow we have had a really great month! I guess we've just been focused on the time that we do have together and make the VERY best of it that we can!
To start off this month we enjoyed a great visit from Dad and Mom Munson. They came up and helped us with our projects, spent some good time together eating and going on a drive to Logan to get stuff at Gossners Cheese factory AND Cox's Honey! I learned a lot about honey on that trip! Patrick got shelves up in our cold food storage area and Mom and I painted the baby room.

Also this month Patrick and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! Totally crazy to think we have been married for 6 years! Our anniversary fell on Mothers day this year, so we ended up celebrating our anniversary on Saturday before. The day went like this, Patrick went and played basketball that morning for about an hour, then came home to a surprise! Then we quickly left and drove down to Utah County to be with my family and pick out things that we wanted of my Mom's things. Then driving up to Mom and Dad Munsons house to drop off the kids and go to the temple. We did sealings as tradition has been the past 5 years on our anniversary and then went out to dinner together! It was nice to just be together! We laughed at where we went to eat, Golden Coral, b/c it's not the most romantic place, but we both were really hungry and could eat as much of whatever we wanted! Patrick learned that Golden Coral was my favorite place to eat growing up too. So it made it seem a little better! :)  The next day, our actual anniversary AND also Mothers day, turned out wonderful! Patrick made me dinner and let me take a nap and while I napped Patrick played with the kids and asked Porter some questions about me for mothers day. It was adorable to hear his answers! They set up the SWEET Grandpa Christensen Juice Caboose train! Porter was in HEAVEN! And once Kinley woke up, she too was in heaven! They had so much fun playing with it!

Loved being the tunnel for the train.

See the Joy on their faces!

Also this month Patrick found time to build a ladder for the kids bunk beds and we switched Kinley over to Porters room. So they are now sharing a room after about 2 weeks of them being in the same room, they are loving it and we as parents are learning to deal with bedtime! haha ;) It's a great thing and they love it.
In this video the kids were laughing hysterically, but of course once I started recording it turned to squeals and screams, but you still get the gist of what fun these little monkeys have at bedtime.


As for our Memorial Day Weekend...We started it off with a BANG! We headed on down to Hill Air Force base to see the air show! We were so excited! As we were driving in through lines of traffic we watched the planes flying and doing corkscrews, going straight up in the air and diving back down! It was awesome. As soon as we parked and got out of the car to walk into the show, it started to sprinkle. Then as we got closer to going in it started to rain harder, then we found a nice spot about as close as we could get with all the people there, under an airplane and ended up huddled under blankets, stroller canopies and the 2 umbrellas that we had! Our spot was a great spot! so nice that we thought we could sit there and wait out the storm, because in our minds after all Utah weather only lasts 20 min! Well it didn't stop and it just kept comin...then it started to lighten up so we decided to head for the cars. Needless to say once we got back to the car, my hair was SOAKING wet(no exaggeration! I promise), my face felt like it had been frost bitten and my feet were all wet and cold too! We ended up coming back home and getting pizza and watching a movie with our dear friends the Tuttles! Even though the day was a flop...we still had a blast! It was a great day. Then Monday we spent getting things done. Patrick built a table and a shelf for our bedroom. I ran errands, mowing the lawn and cleaning the cars.  We enjoyed our weekend! Then the rest of that week we took extra time to paint the table and shelves, we also went to Kelsey's High School Graduation and spent a day with the Munson fam! Sadly I have no pictures from any of these events. Funny thing is...Patrick was taking pictures the whole time at Kelsey's Graduation, just not with our camera! haha.

April 2012

Well April... hmmm... It's been so long that I can't remember what went on in April. I know we did lots of stuff, it's just this pregnancy brain of mine. Lemme think....what did we do in the month of April?
Well continuing off of the month of March, because of the WONDERFUL weather we were able to really work on our lawn and flowerbeds! We got the first big job of the year done, weeding and some good mulch put in! We were super stoked to get that all done! Now if we can just keep up with it so we can just have small little jobs each weekend rather than full day weeding chores, etc...

We enjoyed a great Easter this year! The Easter Bunny was overly kind to the kids this year! On Saturday morning the Easter bunny came to our neighborhood park and the kids got to run for their treats! The kids had tons of fun! I tried to teach Porter to be kind and not think that it was ALL for him. Then once I told him that, I realized all the other kids weren't going to be that way and Porter would get jipped. I could tell he was even processing the idea and really going to listen to me.I could see through his eyes that in his brain he was thinking he wasn't going to get anything and he was ok with that. What a sweet boy! But we ended up coming away with Plenty for the kids! They had a blast running to find the candy, toys and eggs out on the field. All Kinley would say was..."I Run, I Run, I Run!" Then Sunday they woke up and saw what the Easter Bunny had put in their baskets. They were stoked to find a blow up trampoline for indoors or outdoors! And Peeps, Church clothes that I made for them, Porter got a bus and Kinley got a Minnie and Mickey Rhyme book! Like I said Spoiled! We went to church and then came back and had lunch and while waiting for Dad to get home from Bishopric duties I sat and listened to them beg and plead to go see if the Easter Bunny had brought them candy to hunt for downstairs. I held off as long as I could and then ended up letting them go on their hunt! They waited with MUCH anticipation on the top of the stairs while I got the camera ready so dad wouldn't miss it. Kinley didn't even want the eggs, she wanted the candy that was out in plain sight, Porter wanted all the eggs! It was fun to watch them at this age. Everything clicked and they had a BLAST!
 This month we also enjoyed lots of Kite flying days! It was awesome! The kids had a blast and really enjoyed it. Then one day Kinley was holding the kite and let go...it ended up in a tree, she came running inside crying to tell me what had happened, while dad got the kite out of the tree. Neither one of the kids has wanted to hold the kite since. They just enjoy watching it now.
Also this month Porters preschool had their class pictures taken. They said that if we wanted siblings pictures taken as well we could bring them in. I wasn't sure how much more it would cost to do that so I got Kinley all dressed up and ready to go and get her picture taken just like Porter. Once there I found out how much more and decided Eh-Nevermind. We came home and Kinley wanted her picture taken . Luckily it was a beautiful day and so I took a stab at taking pictures of her myself! I think I got some pretty cute ones!





We also enjoyed Conference! Both the kids were so excited to sit and listen to the Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, who to them has the coolest name, very close to Munson and also shares the first name with a certain famous friend of the kids. I'll give you a hint, starts with T ends with homas the train! Porter sat and listened to ALL of President Packers talk. I think about 4 minutes before he ended his talk Porter looked at us and said, "He's talking for a long time!" We nodded and encouraged him to listen more. So he did! We were so proud of him!
We most certainly enjoyed tax season ending this month and finding out that Patrick met his projected goals for the tax season! We had fun going bowling and eating pizza at the company party. Also this month Patrick and I enjoyed a great date out to see Hunger Games! We enjoyed it and thought they did well with the movie over all!

We took Kinley's Binkie away this month too. We decided to cut the end of the binkie off and let kinley find it. Well when she found it her heart was broken. I mean I have never seen this girl so sad before. She sobbed and sobbed, "my binkie broken" I hugged her and tried to comfort her. We did it at night before bed and i was regretting it the second I cut the binkie, but what was done was done. So I held her for a little bit and then we went into her room and I told her I would cuddle her. As she was still crying I told her that in her prayers she can ask Heavenly Father to bless her with the courage to be brave without her binkie and to bless her with comfort and peace. Immediately after her prayer she looked at her binkie and handed it to me and said "Mom. I don't need it. I big girl now!" She woke up the next morning and said with a smile on her face "Mom! Jesus love me and help me with my binkie!" That was a 2 year olds testimony of the power of prayers being answered and the peace we can feel and be blessed with from the holy ghost. Well so I thought... I still think of it that way, but she also still thinks to this day that Jesus can fix her binkie. She sees her broken binkie and looks at me and says "Mom! Jesus fix it!" So I get to re-explain myself lots, but I find it a great opportunity to reteach the children of gospel principles. After all children learn best through repetition. 

Last but not least we had 2 Dr. appointments this month. One was a regular one and the other was with an ultrasound tech. So we really got to see the baby at 27 weeks along. Oh wait, No we didn't, she was a stubborn little stinker and was wedged down low in my pelvis so her face was TOTALLY smushed and hands were in her face and everything, so we didn't get a very good picture of her. The ones we did get were more side profile and they are comical, because she looks so mad that she is so smushed! But in the pregnancy area of life, things are all good! I'm healthy and so is baby! We sure are blessed!