Spring Happenings

Loved watching Alycen in "Thoroughly Modern Millie"--a fun production. Fun to have Lance, Jill and girls along with Bret and Jane's family there the night we went. It's always fun to get together with family.


MOVING DAY! This is Candace's new home--it really is a nice location. Ryan and Shandee Lott, Mom, Dad, and Alycen along with Seth, Dawes, Taeg and I helped her move in.


Thought I'd show you all just a snapshot of what Candace has been up to in the weeks prior to the move. I went to help a couple different times and was amazed at all she was doing. This is the kitchen after tearing out the old cabinets and getting it prepped for paint. I'll just show you this room but every room except one bathroom of this 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath town house was torn down to about this level and then patched, painted, carpeted and tiled. It is looking so nice now--like a new home, but sooooo much work.


Making progess--paint is on the walls and part of the cabinets in. Brad and Laree have been absolutely amazing in their help with this major remodel. I know Candace would say there is no way she could have done this without them.


Almost finished! Dad finished getting the kitchen sink in Saturday night and Mom helped get a few of the boxes unloaded. There is still plenty to be done but it's amazing what was accomplished in 3 weeks.



Coloring eggs at our house (the big boys were enjoying a couple of days at aunt Melanie's) and getting to spend time with Christensen cousins hunting easter eggs at the Christensen lodge--sooo fun!

Our Hawaii Trip

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Memories from the holiday season

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There's no business like show business...

The end of February our stake had a roadshow competition. Both Seth and Dawes got to participate in our ward's production. I got to be the accompanist for the show and help with some choreography and costumes. It was a group effort to make it a success but it was a successful and fun show.


Just Wednesday the high school finished it's run of the musical "Oliver". Seth got to play the part of Oliver's grandfather. He was thrilled--a major speaking part without having to sing any solos. The whole cast did a fantastic job--right down to the English accents (check out the video below). A special thanks to those of you who were able to come and see him perform--it meant a lot.

Oliver

This really was a fantastic production--I know, I know I'm the mother and will always say that but other people thought so too. I thought you might enjoy hearing a little clip of the English accent that Seth worked hard to perfect.

Christensen winter wing-ding

I'm really slow getting this posted but here are a few photos of our President's Day weekend. We got to spend the whole weekend with Clendon's family and had a blast--the videos at the bottom are from this weekend too.

This is for the cousins living far from the snow and to show just how young Grandma is--notice she makes it right to the bottom of the hill.

Our Christensen family reunion always has a family olympics. This is part of the make your own rap competition--Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!

If I could bowl like this, I'm sure my score would be MUCH better. We had a lot of fun bowling as part of our winter wing-ding.

For those of you who have been to our house and seen the bathroom you know this project was way overdue but we put it off as the thought of no bathroom for our family of 7 was a little overwhelming. This did take longer than anticipated and was a lot of hard work but we think it was very worth the effort. We took the old tub out and stripped the old lath and plaster to make room for the new and improved bathroom--take a look! By the way---a HUGE thankyou to Grandma Christensen and the use of her bathroom over the course of our 3 week project.


Getting closer....the tub is in and the drywall up.


Just as we finished installing the last of the trim our septic system stopped working. We ended up having this backhoe come to dig into our drain field. We had a plugged drainfield pipe so after replacing some pipe and putting a load of rock out in our drain field we were set to have every aspect of our bathroom like new.


The Finished Product!

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Our Trip to Hawaii

Our first glimpse of Hawaii was at the Honolulu airport where we found these beautiful gardens where there were pools with these really big fish--it was an impressive welcome to Hawaii as we soaked in the warm, moist air. Kyle and Carolyn greeted us at the Hilo airport on the big island with alohas, hugs and these really fun leis--what fantastic hosts they were!

Boogie boarding became a family favorite--everyone but Taeg got pretty darn good with a boogie board and looovvvved it!

Some of the boys fun purchases at the farmer's market. We spent a Saturday morning here and Clendon was a super sport to keep Taeg entertained as the boys and I shopped--good thing there was a little park across the street.

Kye and Ladd weren't too sure about snorlkeling at Captain Cook monument but they did ok. Ladd even decided the sea kayaking we did for a mile across this bay wasn't too bad by the end of the day--it was quite an adventure.