Christensen Clan

      We're finally posting some pictures.  Some are a little older than others.  We've had a great memorial day weekend.  We wish of course that we were in Thayne.  Hope it was nice weather!
 
Last weekend we went to San Antonio.  Maddie had a singing competition in nearby San Marcos.  It was a great family trip.  She got the highest rating possible and was declared an "all state winner".  We're super proud of her even if we did forget to take a picture:)  We spent Saturday at Sea World, and on our way home we stopped by the San Antonio temple for a picture.  It's our first weekend family trip in a year, and we soaked in every relaxing second!

     Corey and I went to dinner with some friends at "The Fatted Calf" restaurant Friday night, it was yummy.  We're saying goodbye to the Davidson family who have become good friends.  They're moving to Georgia.  I'm sad because she's my good running friend, and Ephraim is sad because it's his best friend Daniel.  They ask for each other every day.  (And it's really fun to holler to them, "Hey Eph..Dan..")

    Still house hunting and looking for answers of where we're supposed to live when we get kicked out in a couple of months.  This week we drove to a neighborhood farther in the country (ten minutes out) to check out some lots.  My friend had the little ones, so it was just corey and I.  We followed the map app exactly even though the road we were on turned from paved to not.  This was the day after the huge storm.  I noticed some water along the sides of the road, and we decided it might not be stable...a little too late.  We slid off one side, got back on the road once, and slid off again as we were trying to back out.  We tried for a good 45 minutes and got VERY stuck in the mud.  No tow trucks would come help us, so we left it overnight and came back with Corey's truck the next morning.  The kids had fun cleaning the car up, but not as much fun as Corey had in the mud.  You would think we would be turned off to that area, but it did the opposite.  It was so peaceful out there, and smelled good and seemed like a nice "Idaho-ish" area.  So now we're hoping to maybe build out there.

 I will just post underneath the pictures now.  We're so excited to see everyone.  We know we're coming a little late and it might be inconvenient for people.  I saw the emails on Corey's account about the fun run and stuff.  Please know that we're super sad to miss out on any of it, but do what's best for everyone.  We won't be offended regardless.

    Love you all!!!!!
   

 This one was at the Piano Guys concert a couple of weeks ago.

Me and my girls at Target for part of our girls night while the boys were camping out. And below, we tried homemade cupcakes.  It was the first time I've made them from scratch.   super good

 

                                               super cute Clara in her "basketball" skirt.

                                            San Antonio Trip, just chilling at the Chik-fil-a

                                                             Sea World!!!!

 I took the littles on the small rides while the daredevils went with Corey

                                       At one of the shows.  They were all very impressive!

                            So nice to have help with the little ones.  What a great big brother!

                                          as close as we could get to the San Antonio Temple

                                   

    Just a little friend I found while running.  We've also seen a few smashed toads, a turtle, and a live crawdad

 The day of the tornado warning was pretty scary here.  I came around the corner and saw Nori like this.  I asked her what she had prayed about, she said, "To make the storm stop and please don't be a tornado"                                                                                                                                                    
The three elementary kids home from field day!