Christensen Clan

The last two weeks have been fun and flown by.  Eleanor and Isaac each had field trips that the little ones and I joined in on.  And Corey went with us to Isaac's.  Maddie competed in an academic pentathlon all day last Saturday.  She loved having an extra day of tests and learning!  She has a cute friend Adri who went as well... they had tons of fun.  Clara is doing great playing basketball.  All the other girls have played for years, and this is her first try at it.  She just smiles and plays with happy determination.  She is a hustler and fun to watch.  And she loves her new bright pink basketball clothes we bought her.  That's probably what she loves the most;)  

     Last weekend my brother Justin and his family came to stay for three nights.  We LOVED it!  They got us tickets to see the piano guys here in Dallas.  It was of course amazing!  The kids had fun playing with cousins.  They left on Tuesday morning and that night Corey and I had tickets to WICKED.  It was my valentines present.  It was incredible.  Needless to say, we've been singing lots of songs about "popular" and "defying gravity" around here this week:)

     The weather has been amazing.  Lots of warm days, but we got our share of the cold storm.  It went from 87 one day to a few days in the 40s and 50s.  I loved it!   Yesterday was perfectly 65 and we had a fun day together as a family.  Corey had Saturday off which is rare for him.  We were all ecstatic!

     We have been house hunting quite vigorously and it's amazing how exhausting it is.  Kind of fun, but hard to find the best situation possible for our family.  We don't want a neighborhood anymore, but we can't seem to find a house we like with basic things like a laundry room, in the yards that we love.  We'll keep looking.  Our lease here is up at the end of August.  We hope to know where we should live before summer.  We are planning to come to Idaho July 8th-Aug 4th.  Corey will stay the first full week, then fly back to Texas and work.  He'll possibly come once in between to see us for a few days, to enjoy Clara's birthday and hopefully the sealing of baby Grover to Tracen and Melissa.  Then he'll work some more and come back Aug 2nd to drive us back.  I will fly with at least Hazel.  No one and I mean NO ONE can stand her in the car for more than an hour.  We are so excited to see everyone.  Very sad to miss the fourth of July. Corey's partners both need that time off and he got Christmas and Spring break off, so he needs to stay.   Does everyone else know their plans? We hope we see everyone.  Melanie, Hazel has requested a twin cousin birthday party, if you could check with Stori and let me know if that would be ok!  

      Have a great week everyone!