Christmas 2013

Making gingerbread houses.  The kids would not be serious about making them this year and all they did was make a huge mess.  Plus they ate as many candies as they put on their gingerbread houses.

Katie and Sadie playing dress up on Christmas Eve

Grammy had a fishing both for Christmas Eve

Katie planned a gift exchange for Christmas Eve

 The traditional acting out of the Christmas Story

 Christmas Eve PJ's

Santa came to the Christensen's house.  He got Garret hot tub filters.  (Anything that we bought in December, Kirt wanted to give to the kids.)  He also got a new iPod.

Katie got hot tub chemicals.  She also got new skis.  

Tanner got shot gun shells

Christmas morning pics

 Tanner got his room redecorated in a Boston Red Sox Theme

 The kids all got bow and arrow sets from Grandma and Grandpa Christensen

Garret's 1st time snowboarding

Garret had his 1st snowboarding lesson at Lookout Mountain

Kirt's Employee Christmas Dinner

Tanner breaks his arm

Tanner broke his arm playing indoor soccer the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  He doesn't even really play on the team, he was just filling in because the team was short some players because people were out of town for Thanksgiving.  His outdoor soccer coach, Reid Dickinson, asked him if he would fill in and I pretty much made Tanner play even though he didn't really want to.  Who feels guilty now?

Thanksgiving 2013

This year we had Thanksgiving the Friday after Thanksgiving. I had to work on Thanksgiving, so everyone was nice and waited to have Thanksgiving dinner on Friday.  Mom and Dad were in Utah with Granny, Marsha and Jim, so I got to host.  Jon, Michelle, Sadie, Nixon, Cameron and Rachelle came to celebrate with us.  Kirt and Tanner deep fried a turkey in the back yard.  Of course these are the only pictures we have from the day.    

YM Shooting Activity

Tanner gets his braces off!

After 2 long years plus a few months, Tanner gets his braces off!  He got them on the day before 6th grade and he got them off on November 4th 2013.

 Before

After

Halloween 2013

Pumpkin Carving.  I put tape on mine and painted the face on.  So talented aren't I?  The kids all did letters on theirs this year.

 Tanner's 49er's pumpkin

Katie's Harry Potter pumpkin

 Garret's G for Garret pumpkin

 Katie as a baby and Garret as Harry Potter

Katie and her friends Olivia and Elise decided they were all going to be babies for Halloween this year.  They all bought the same pair of PJ's separately without knowing it:)

School Pictures

8th grade picture

 4th grade picture

 1st grade picture

Disney Land, Universal Studios, and Sea World Trip October 20-26 2013

On October 20th we left Spokane and headed to Disneyland.  We spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Disneyland and California Adventure.  We went to Universal Studios on Thursday.  On the way back from there, we drove by our house in West Hollywood, had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and went to the LA temple.  On Friday we went to Sea World.  Saturday we flew home.  It was a grand adventure!

On our way!  Katie and Tanner doing homework in the airport.

Disneyland! Happiest Place on Earth

Lego store

Carsland

 

 One of the kids favorite rides was the swings

Garret got chosen to be a Jedi Master

 The Carousel

 Autopia

 Snow White's wishing well

 Statue of Walt Disney

 Splash Mountain

Tarzan's Treehouse

 Heimlich's Chew Chew Train

 Dumbo

 Tom Sawyer's Island

 Universal Studios

Statue of Christ at the LA Temple visitors center

 Sea World