Weddings and Other Stuff

So my two younger brothers are getting married!!! Riley is getting married October 9th to Alli. Kade is getting married November 20th to Miki. I am very excited for both of them. However, I am having a difficult time finding dresses for both weddings. Alli and Riley want black dresses. You'd think that a black dress wouldn't be hard to find right? Well the problem I am running into is that they are all above the knee, strapless or really low in the front. Yesterday I ordered 3 dresses off this site williamrierausa.com and I really like the dresses, but I just hope one of them fits and looks good :) I am going to send the other 2 back, they were free shipping, so I really don't think I will be out any money.
Miki and Kade want light gray skirts with white tops and pale yellow cardigans... We also have to find Jeremy some light gray slacks... I need to take a trip to St. George and go shopping.
I like the idea of buying new clothes except for the fact that I am trying to loose weight and now I will have brand new dresses that will be to big... Maybe I can take them in later :)
I am still waking up to work out, which is sooo hard somedays. But I keep telling myself that it is worth it. Just keep pushing play!!! At the end of this week I will have been doing P90X for 4 weeks! It really has gone by pretty fast and I already have seen some good changes in my muscle strength (even though you can't see it:) and in my flexibility. Just keep pushing play.
The other day the kids and I were taking Jeremy to work because Jac had been sick and I wanted to take him to the doctors. Well we were hit by a guy and to make a long story short we now have a rental car. It's a brand new Impala. It's so nice and I am so freaked out that something is going to happen and we will have to pay for it. The lady wanted me to by the insurance on it, but it was like $12.99 and day and we might have it 4-7 days... I don't think so. I am just praying and praying that nothing happens. Jac keeps saying "Mom car, pretty." Yeah, I wish buddy ;)
Well I better go, Reese is letting me know she is not happy being ignored.

P90X and The Smartest Dumb Dog I Know!

So, I haven't blogged about this for many reasons, but today Jeremy told me that I should... so I am :)
Jeremy was given some P90X dvd's and I have a friend who had told me about it before and loved the workouts and so I decided to give it a try. I am in the middle of my 3rd week out of 13 and so far I love it! I wake up every morning at 5:30am and workout... it's really great. Jeremy does his workouts at night, this way there is always someone with the kids and we don't have any interruptions.
Well, there is this exercise where you lay flat on your back with your legs spread straight out and you put one hand behind your head and take the other hand and hold it up towards the ceiling, then you sit straight up and cross over and touch the opposite toe with the hand. I have never been able to do this. I could do sit-ups in high school, but that was before two kids and a LONG time ago :) Well... today I did it. I didn't do all 25 reps, but I did a lot :) I am excited to keep going!

On another note...
Our dog Maya has figured out how to open our sliding glass door. See the door doesn't have a lock and so we have to put a bar down to lock it. The problem is that during the day we pick it up or Jac uses it as a sword... not fun. Well last night my sister brought a cookie over for me to try and I left it on the table. I was going to eat it after the kids were in bed. When I went back in the kitchen Maya was sitting in the middle of the floor and so I told her to go out and when I barred the door shut I noticed the cookie was gone (I didn't really need it, but it's the point of the matter). Then this morning, I noticed one of Reese's onesies outside and it was all chewed up... and just 15 minutes ago (as I was typing the first half of this blog) I heard a noise and so I got up and checked and she was on her way out the glass door... so I told her out and as she left I noticed something in her mouth so I followed her out and she had my bear that I got after my Grandma died (it was hers)... I am a little past mad now. Seriously what dog knows how to open a sliding glass door?

Some Changes

Things are going good right now. The kids are doing great and we are doing well too.
Jeremy and I have decided to get rid of our cell phones to save some money. (The clutch in his car went out and it will be $500 to fix it! Having one car is not fun). We are kind of having a hard time saying goodbye to the freedom that a cell phone gives, but hey when you can save $80 a month then it makes it a little easier :) I will let everyone know what our new "home number" is when we get it. The bright side of all this is that we will be able to get the Internet at home which will help us keep in contact with people and Jeremy will hopefully be able to pick up some freelance work on the side. Which is how he justified getting our super nice computer with the tax returns this last year :)
We also recently got family pictures done by our very talented friend Noelle. they turned out great and we had a blast getting them done. I will post a few for you to see. If you would like to see more or check out her work go to studionoelle.com
Well the kidlets are sleeping and I am going to go read for a few minutes :) because that's the only time I can.

A Little Something About Everything

Someday I will have the Internet and I will be able to blog all the time. As it is I am at the mercy of my sister and her husband for the use of their laptop.
So I will sort of go through what we have been doing the last couple of months.
For the 4th of July we went down to Washington for the annual foot races and Jac won first place in his age group. In fact his cousins Eden, Isis and Lydia won first in all of their age groups too. It was a lot of fun, HOT, but fun. the Jac LOVES to play with his cousins.



Later in July we went to our McMullin Family reunion, which is always camping for a few days. The weather was nice and we just hung out playing card games, visiting and we even did a little fishing. Jac was so excited, we got him on video doing a little dance while he sang "Fishy fishy fishy". I wanted so bad for someone to catch a fish so that Jac could see one, but no one did... well Jeremy did about 15 minutes after Jac and I left. I learned how to play domino's and Jac had a blast getting dirty and wandering around outside. Jeremy got tons of mosquito bites and he and Jac slept in the tent while Reese and I got to sleep in the trailer.





A week after the reunion we had Reeses' blessing. We had a lot of friends and family come and we are so grateful to everyone who came to support our little family. A couple of days before Sunday, I thought I might try her dress on her ( I was feeling like playing dress up) and as soon as I got her dress on her she spit up all over it and I was so mad at myself because when I tried to wipe it off I put some snags on the dress. Thankfully you can't see them unless to get really close though.
We had the luncheon outside in our front yard which was great except for the uninvited flies. Although the kids had a great time trying to kill all of them.



I apologize for such a long post. I really don't have anything to do right now because yesterday I herniated a disk in my lower back. I laid on the floor for about an hour before Jeremy could get home to help me up. It's a good thing Jac could get my phone from the other room when I asked. I was getting Reese out of her swing when it happened. Thankfully I was able to get her to the couch before I fell to the floor. Then I just pulled her down with me.
I'm so thankful to my parents. My dad came up yesterday and watched the kids while I went to the doctors and my mom came up today to help me while Jeremy finished working on the things he has to get done for work on Monday.

2 Years Old!!!

I can't believe that Jac just turned two yesterday! Just having Reese a few days ago made me think back to his birth and it seriously seems like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital! I sat down and looked through his pictures last night and I wanted to share some of them with you all.
He is such an amazing person. He keeps us on our toes :) So sweet and loving, yet in the blink of an eye he can be up to no good. He is repeating everything we say and loves to watch Toy Story and Cars and LOVES to give his little sister kisses... hard kisses. We have to keep a very close eye on him :)
Happy Birthday Toad, We love you!!!

She is here!

Reese Pearl Christensen is finally here (and has a name) :)
Jeremy and I went into the hospital at 2am and I was given a pill (Cytotek) around 3am to induce labor. I started having contractions, but I was slowly dialating. My doctor came in around 10:45am and broke my water. The contractions became so much worse and lucky me the Anesthesiologist was in a C-section :) I had to wait for almost 2 hours for him. Then the first epidural fell out about an hour and a half after and I had to get another one! Honestly though, he did such a good job sticking me I barely noticed him doing it. I even had to ask Jeremy if he was done. I expected it to hurt more. My first experience had been a nightmare and this time really wasn't that bad. I still continued to dialate slowly and so they gave me Pitocin around 4pm and I was a 6 plus. When the nurse checked me again around 5:30pm I was a 9. Once they got everything ready my doctor (I just want to add here that I love my doctor, I think he is awesome) showed up and I pushed for about 15 minutes. I am so happy that I got an epidural :) The contractions I was having after my was broke were crazy intense.
So :) she was born at 5:54pm June 8th, weighing 8.8 pounds and was 20 inches long. I am so happy that we decided to have her induced. My doctor said he was glad we made that decision also. He said she probably would have stayed in there another week and then I could have been having almost a 10 pound baby!
She is so sweet and I can't stop looking at her!






Thank you everyone for all your love and support!

A little frustrated

Yesterday Jeremy, Jac and I went up the Cedar Canyon just a little ways and took a walk. It was such a nice day and we wanted to get out of the house and do something fun. Jac loved running up and down the trail and throwing rocks into the river. As we were coming down the mountain I needed to use the restroom so we stopped at Lins and I started having some pretty intense contractions. So we headed home and started timing them, every 3 to 5 minutes. After about an hour and a half we took Jac to my cousins house and headed to the hospital. They checked me and I was at a 2 plus which was awesome because when I went to my doctors appt. on Thursday I was not dilated at all. So they watched me for an hour and my contractions continued but weren't as intense and I hadn't changed so they sent me home. The nurse said that she thought I would be back in the morning to have this baby... The frustrating part is that here it is 9:24am and I am blogging :) I want to be having a baby :D
I know she will come when she is ready and I don't want her to come if she's not, I'm just a little bummed.