Adventures in the Snow

I don't even know where to start

So like the title of this blog says, I have taken soooo long to update that every time I even think about it I get overwhelmed. Anyway, I will start with the good news, on December 4th I found out that I am pregnant! Yeah! About a week later I started throwing up....crap! Oh well, that is the way it goes with me. Luckily we went to the Valley to stay with my parents for the holiday and I could spend all my time laying around on the couch and Russ got the chance to go make a little extra money by working at his old job over the break. We were there for a month and had a great "craw-chris" ("Christmas" as William would say it). This was a great year because he is excited about presents and he is soooo easy to please. I knew that he would love every one of his gifts and he did. Right now I am in the Valley again because after a couple weeks at home on my own my stomach couldn't handle it anymore and would not let anything (and I mean anything) inside it. So Russ drove William and I down here on Sunday evening, took me to the hospital and stayed well after midnight, then drove back to catch a few hours of sleep before his 8:00 class. He is coming today and I am soooo excited. Me and William have missed him so much. Life without him is not the same. Oh, and I have been better all week with the medicine they have given me. I have not thrown up since I was in the hospital and it took a couple days for me to regain my strength, but I am doing pretty good. I will add pictures soon and more details of the time that we have had, but for now that is all.

Thanksgiving again

We had dinner with Russ' family on Friday and Russ got sick that morning. He felt nauseous all day and slept some. We got to hang out with Nate and Jacie (my cousin) for a little while. Nate told Russ to take some Benadryl, so on the way to his parents we got some and Russ slept on blow up mattress the whole night. This is Russ after he woke up for the tail end of the evening. Here he is sitting next to his dad.
And this is Russ loving Don's pug, Ladybug, and tolerating conversation with his brother :) Just kidding, that may be what he missed the most when sleeping.

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William had fun. He loved the fruit salad. As soon as he was done eating I hardly saw him the rest of the night. Except for when he messed his pants big time, that is why he is running around pant less. Good ole Tempe, where you can run pantless all you want.

As soon as the big cousins stopped playing with the tether ball, William was right on it.
Here he is playing with his adorable cousin Elleigh and piling rocks with Roxey.

And his favorite is Grandma and Grandpa Christensen's slide. All in all it was an enjoyable evening and I was glad to see so many family members I had not seen in awhile. But what really makes me happy is to see William interacting and playing with his cousins. I married into the right family for that!

Happy Thanksgiving

We left home for the Valley on Tuesday evening. We got there in time to enjoy some Taco Bell with Connie, after which Russ and I watched Nacho Libre and then went to bed exhausted.

Wednesday was my family's Thanksgiving. William loved meeting his new baby cousins and wanted to "hoe it" (hold it) all the time. I did too.


William also got to play on Grandma and Grandpas trampoline and he loved it until his cousin Vaeh tackled him. Which one is the boy? They had a lot of fun together and William was excited to see all of his cousins.


Russ' family does Thanksgiving on Friday so Thursday was a lazy day. I went shopping with my sister and we watched Scoop. That was a fun movie. William just played and played in the nice weather outside.

Dinner at our House

Here are some pictures of dinner at our house. I already love our dinner time. William eats really well and has discoverd different ways to make us laugh. Like squinting his eyes (I am not quite sure why that is sooo funny to me, but it is) and looking out of the corner of his eyes and talking really slow. Here he is eating fetticini alfredo and I loved every minute of it.

Why he looks like me

These pictures represent why I would tell R that W looks nothing like him.

















But after looking at these pictures side by side I am willing to admit that they do look somewhat alike.

You be the judge

Russ and I are arguing over this all the time, so maybe you could help us with your comments.
Who do you think he looks like?