Christensen Family

Corbin Dale

2012-01-27T11:30:00.003-07:00

He's here! We all love him!
Since Matthew was born so fast we were really worried about making it to the hospital in time. I was having contractions a few days before he was born and they were 3-5 minutes apart for a couple of hours, so we went to the hospital, but apparently it was early labor because I was only dialated to a 3 so I got sent home. Early Wednesday morning I woke up to consistent contractions again so we went to the hospital. We had the same nurse that we had had on Sunday. I was then dialated to a 3.5, but having consistent contractions. She called the Dr on call because our Dr was out of town. He decided to keep me because of my fast labor with Matthew. After they decided this my contractions slowed down so they had to give me pitocin to keep me in labor. Kind of funny, we were so worried about making it in time and it turned out to be my longest labor. 12.5 hours. I was so happy to see Corbin when he was born he looked a little like both of his brothers. He weighed 6 lbs, 8 oz. and was 20 inches long.
We are adjusting to having 3 kids, and we are very thankful to have each of them.

Proud BIG brothers!

We taught Matthew and Landon that they need to put hand sanitizer on if they want to touch Corbin. Matthew calls it hanitizer. He puts it on and says "I member, I need hanitizer." When Corbin is crying Matthew will come over and say "Its okay Corbin, I your big brother."

Landon also put on hand sanitizer, and we told them not to touch his face, but they could touch his hair. So for awhile everytime Landon touched Corbin he rubbed hand sanitizer in his hair. Corbins head smelled like hand sanitizer. :) Now Landon makes sure his hands are dry. :)

We thought we wanted a girl, but we are glad that Heavenly Father is in charge and sends us what we need. He knows us better than we do. We are grateful for our 3 boys.

Christmas 2011

2012-01-18T17:09:00.003-07:00

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. These pictures are little out of order, but you get the idea.

Matthew playing with some of his new toys on Christmas!

Landon playing with some of Matthew's new toys on Christmas. :) He liked his toys too I think, this picture just happens to be with Matthew's toy.

Last year for the nativity Landon wanted to be baby Jesus. This year he wanted to be baby Jesus again, but I told him one of his baby cousins would be baby Jesus. He wasn't too excited about his role as a shepherd, but he sure looks cute. My mom made new nativity costumes for all the kids to wear. Matthew didn't want to participate at all, so I don't have a picture of him.

Here are the cute dancing girls we had at our family party. We sure have cute neices.

Landon and Matthew showing off the gingerbread train that we built. They asked me if we could eat it about 5 times everyday. When I finally let them eat some of it they decided it was gross and left it alone. I should have given in to them earlier.

Matthew showing one of his favorite Christmas ornaments. This one happens to be from Uncle David and Aunt Angie, it sure is cute and we still enjoy it.

Landon decorating the tree.

This year on Thanksgiving Landon was sick and very contagious, so we had Thanksgiving by ourselves at home. We missed seeing everyone, but had a fun time ourselves. Although, I do not enjoy cooking all of Thanksgiving dinner myself. It was a busy morning. Landon could tell it was a special day because I put a tablecloth on the table.

We loved the holiday season and loved to end it with our little Corbin coming to our home. More on that later. . . . . .

Halloween 2011

2011-11-05T10:46:00.003-06:00

We carved pumpkins the week before Halloween. Landon says his is the scary evil pumpkin, and Matthew's is the funny one. Don't worry the boys didn't use the knives, they just picked the patterns and Clint and I did the cutting. They loved seeing the pumpkins lit up with candles.

A Buzz Lightyear ready to get some candy.

A pudgy Woody with his pajamas on under his costume.

We had a great time trick or treating. We went around to some neighbors and the boys got a lot of candy. They had a hard time saying trick or treat and mostly just stood there, but every once in awhile you could hear a "trick or treat" whisper.

September/October

2011-10-24T15:40:00.005-06:00

Wow, we haven't updated this for awhile. ;) At the beginning of September we took the kids to a baseball game. As soon as we got there it started raining. It rained the whole 1st inning which turned out to be enough baseball for a 4 and 2 year old. :) It was a lot of fun though.

The boys getting ready to help in the kitchen.

My little brother Jared left for his mission in the Philippines. We got to see him off at the MTC. He will make a great missionary. We love him.

We went for a little hike up the canyon one Saturday.

Matthew has a little phone that he carries with him everywhere. He was excited when he found out his pjs had a pocket for his phone too.

We made halloween cookies. We frosted them and the kids decorated them with halloween candies. Here are Matthew's reaction to the licorice candy on his cookie. I don't think he likes it.

Landon liked his cookie!

Its A Boy!!!

2011-08-27T08:30:00.004-06:00

We're excited to announce that a new baby BOY will be joining our family in January. Now we just have to figure out his name. Landon wanted Rudolph, but we're not going to be using that one. :)

Overload of pictures. . .

2011-07-21T21:29:00.004-06:00

Can you find our boys? If you look really closely you'll find them behind the large tree trunk in our front yard. HA!

Dressed up and ready for church. I had to make him wear the suspenders for at least one day because he looks so handsome in them.

On the 4th of July we went camping in my moms back yard. Matthew wouldn't get out of the tent, he loved it.

Landon loved roasting marshmallows and eating smores.

Dad & Matthew roasting marshmallows.

We've been on a couple of hikes on the mountain near our house. They boys really like and like my brother Jake would say, "They are good little hikers." They really want to go again because we told them about the trail mix we would get for our next hike.

Landon turned 4 years old! For his birthday we went to a fun zone where we could go mini golfing and to an arcade. It was the boys first time golfing. They want to go back everyday.

Landon wanted a boy castle cake for his birthday. This was the best I could come up with. He liked all the candy on it.

Vampires with neon teeth.

We visited the dinosaur park and had a great time. Landon was a little nervous about the dinosaur noises he heard, and we had to keep reassuring him dinosaurs aren't alive. Matthew thought every dinosaur was Rex and loved it all.

Digging in the sand for dinosaur bones.

Landon with his birthday present

Stylish Matthew

2011-06-21T14:12:00.002-06:00

Here is a photo of Matthew in his favorite shorts. But they look like strange pants, you say. It is a swimming suit that is Landon's. Matthew LOVES to wear it. Our neighbors probably think we are really strange when we let him go on walks outside wearing this. But, at least he likes it right?

Matthew's birthday

2011-06-19T16:56:00.009-06:00

We can't believe that 2 years ago our Matthew was this little baby. Now he is a big 2!

He was a bit shy at his birthday party. He didn't love all the attention he was getting.

He is my little helper. I made the mistake of letting Landon crack an egg and Matthew was watching so he had to crack one too. He makes sure we know he is a big boy too.

Both boys enjoy helping me with the dishes.

Matthew fell of the couch and hit his lip on a toy. You can't tell very well, but he has a fat lip in this picture.

Tired, smile for the camera.

We went to a local parade and had a lot of fun. Some nice kids by us made sure our boys got some candy so we got a lot.

Landon did not enjoy the firetruck horns and sirens.

Matthew enjoying the parade.

2011-04-26T16:08:00.003-06:00

Our boys love to have fun! They usually play very well together. Here they are having fun on their semi truck that they convert into a bike. Matthew kept saying "cheese" so his eyes were closed because he was in the middle of saying "cheese"

Matthew is a funny boy. He definitely is his own person. If I had to describe him in one word it would be playful. He loves to play and jump and run and smile. He has recently decided that pants and diapers don't feel very good. He takes them off whenever he gets a chance. Therefore he wears onesies during the day which stops him from taking off the diaper. At night we have to safety pin his jammies closed so that he doesn't take them off. One night last week we forgot the pin. Clint found him in the morning stark naked with a diaper to the side of him, asleep. He slept like that ALL night. Needless to say he was ornery that day probably for his lack of good sleep. Hopefully we don't forget the pin anymore. We have no idea what we will do when it is summer and he doesn't wear jammies that we can safety pin.

Update on us.

2011-04-04T14:16:00.003-06:00

At the end of February we went to the free day at the zoo with my good friend Marissa and her family. It was very crowded, and I ended up getting a parking ticket so free day at the zoo actually cost us $30. Next time I think we'll just go on regular zoo day it will be cheaper. :) We did have a great time though!

Landon is about the same size as those apes, and sometimes he acts like one.

Landon and Benson climbing around on the rocks.

Turtle Landon.

Turtle Matthew.

Matthew LOVED the zoo. If you ask him to tell someone about the zoo he will go stand by them and jabber about all the animals he saw. We don't really understand him yet, but he sure does talk alot.

Matthew also LOVES to sing. In church he will take the hymn book away from us so he can have one all to himself and he will sing his little heart out. Last week he entertained a lot of us on Grandpa Parker's karaoke machine. I think he might be a singer like his Dad.

Isaac & Taniel (my brother and his awesome wife) knew that we needed a little cheering up lately and sent us a care package. Here is what Landon did with the packaging.

Matthew loves this hat. He wanted to wear it to the store the other day. We talked him into leaving it in the car while we went in the store. What a funny boy.

Matthew also loves his new (hand me down) pjs from Landon. He loves cars.

Valentine's Day and other happenings. . .

2011-02-15T18:18:00.006-07:00

On Valentines Day we had pink pancakes. I saw a recipe online that suggested using pureed beets to make pancakes pink. They said you could not tell that the beets were added, so I decided to give it a try knowing my boys would like it. The recipe was right, you could not tell there were beets in them, and Landon & Matthew liked having a special breakfast.

Later that day we decorated sugar cookies. You'll notice that ours are frosted with green frosting. I ran out of red food coloring, and didn't feel like trying beets to color the frosting. So, we used green. Matthew enjoyed the frosting. I don't think he did anything except eat frosting.

Landon decorated his cookie like any 3 year old would by putting on as many candy hearts as he could.

Clint surprised us all with fruit and chocolate dipping. It was very delicious.

Landon recently started primary. He got some scriptures and picked out some fabric for me to make him a scripture bag. He is the cutest little sunbeam and enjoys going each week after the initial scare that he doesn't want to go he does fine. We had some hand me downs that I just recently went through and found a suit coat in size 4. Landon insisted he wear it to church. It was big, but he sure looked handsome.

One time when my sister Michelle was little she decided to put on all the clothes that she owned at once. I was telling Landon about this and he decided he was going to do that too. He got 3 shirts and a jacket and then gave up.

Matthew likes Landon's underwear. It has all his favorite characters on it from Buzz Lightyear, Lightning McQueen, and Mr. Incredible. When I do laundry Matthew finds the underwear and puts it on. He then runs around the house being a super hero. It is pretty funny to see. Landon decided to join him this day. Funny boys.

Here is Landon holding his newest cousin Ella. On the way out of the hospital from seeing her he declared it was his favorite thing to hold her and that "In fact, I want to go up there again right now." (Can't really see Ella's face in this picture. oops)

What can we say Matthew likes superheros already. He will also wear this cape and run very fast around the house for hours.

December

2011-01-12T18:09:00.002-07:00

Finally here are some of our pictures from Christmas. Matthew read books with Grandma Proctor for a long time. He read other books besides the Princess one, but this happens to be the one I got a picture of. :)

We had the kids dress up for the nativity scene and reading of Luke 2. Landon decided he would be baby Jesus before anyone really could tell him who to be. He acted the part well and acted like a content baby. Sorry to Katie who actually is a baby, next year I will make sure I tell him he should be a shepherd or wiseman.

On Christmas Eve all the kids got Christmas PJs. Here are Matthew, Cameron, Jadyn, Bridger, Carlie, and Matthew.

We visited the Christmas village after Christmas this year. It was WAY less crowded, but it was still very cold.

The boys have loved playing in the snow. You can always tell if they had a good time if their cheeks are bright red when they come in. Landon might just enjoy the hot chocolate just as much as the playing in the snow.

We also made a gingerbread house (thanks Vanessa). We had fun and as soon as we were done Landon wanted to eat it. I didn't get a good picture, but Landon immediately took a bite out of Santa.

On Christmas Landon told me was "really enjoying the day." When we delivered plates of cookies to a few people he would say "Merry Christmas to all and to all a Goodnight." After Christmas Landon wanted to write a thank you note to Santa. His note said "Dear Santa, Thanks and Your welcome." I guess he is saying your welcome for the cookies, or maybe for being good. We really had a great Christmas, and Landon is already planning for next Christmas.

Ho Ho Ho

2010-12-13T15:58:00.004-07:00

We are getting ready for Christmas at our house. We went to Temple Square with our cousins. Here is Landon showing off his warm mittens and Jadyn is smiling in the background. We had a great time, but didn't take very many pictures.

Here is Landon practicing being a reindeer.We got a pomegranate, and Landon thoroughly enjoyed it.
We made Christmas trees with ice cream cones. Landon loved making his and then getting to eat it. Matthew ate frosting until we took it away and that was good for him.

Merry Christmas!

Six Years Ago . . .

2010-12-10T14:10:00.002-07:00

Family Vacation

2010-11-14T15:33:00.004-07:00

We had the great opportunity to go on vacation with Clints mom and brother and his family (Todd & Vanessa). We had a wonderful time and wish that vacations didn't go by so fast. We went to the beach, Disneyland, & California Adventure. Here are a few of the pictures:

The boys on the airplane. They had fun flying, but I think Landon's favorite part was the moving walkway at the airport.

Matthew is the kid who eats everything. Here he is after he tried some sand.

Landon has been excited for weeks about driving the cars at Disneyland. After the first ride he cried when it ended and said he wanted to go again. I think we rode it 4 times in a row. Good thing there wasn't a line for this ride.

Landon wasn't quite sure about meeting the characters. His cousins were excited to see them all, and we think he took their lead and jumped in to meet them as well. After he met Whinnie the Pooh, he said: "Mom, why do those mans dress up in costumes." He knew they weren't real, but he would want to see them all by himself. Funny boy. Ariel told Landon he was handsome. By the look on his face it seems he was quite taken with her as well.

Right before we left we went to Downtown Disney to look around. Landon saw the giant lego and wanted a picture taken by it. This is his pose that he came up with. We're not really sure where he got that from, but he sure is a silly kid.
We're already planning our next vacation. Too bad we have to save for it. :)

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T11:24:00.002-06:00

Happy Halloween from Dash (the Incredibles) and Squirt (Finding Nemo)

We carved pumpkins, and Landon didn't want to touch the pumpkin guts.

But, in the end he and Dad carved a good pumpkin.

Landon likes to be tucked in everywhere when he goes to sleep. He has us put a blanket around his ears so he can't hear. We took both of these pictures in their room with the light off. Funny kid.

He is his Uncle Isaac's nephew. . .

2010-10-19T19:40:00.002-06:00

Matthew eating ice cream reminds me of my brother Isaac eating ice cream when he was little. I haven't seen Isaac eat ice cream lately, but I don't think he licks out the bowl anymore.

I better get busy

2010-10-08T10:15:00.003-06:00

We are headed to Disneyland next month and if we're going to look like this while we are there I better get sewing.

Our little puppy. . .

2010-09-19T20:57:00.002-06:00

This morning Clint took the garbage sack out of the garbage can and put the bag by the back door. He was planning on taking it out with him a few minutes later when he left for a meeting. Meanwhile, I was in the bathroom getting ready for church, and Clint went upstairs for a minute. I hear Clint come back down and ask Matthew what he was doing. Matthew was taking garbage out of the sack and spilled some gravy on the floor. Clint was a little annoyed because Matthew was making a mess, then Clint said "Matthew, what are you, the family dog?" Matthew obviously understand the word dog because he gave a little bark in response to the question. It broke the tension and we all had a good laugh. What a funny little puppy we have. :) He is also good and mooing and roaring like a dinosaur.

Update

2010-09-15T14:37:00.004-06:00

We made a recent trip to Wheeler farm. It is fun, entertaining and free which is three of our favorite things. :) Matthew was very tired when we got there, but he loved to look at all the animals.

Landon loved getting on the real tractor.

Clint & Landon & Matthew on the tractor.

Casey, Landon & Matthew posing in a little playhouse.

Can you tell he ate something yummy? I think this time it was hot chocolate.

We had a BYU party with the cousins. We had a great time. Here is Bridger and Matthew. These are both classic looks that I get from both of them. What cute boys.

Cute cousins, Carlie, Matthew, and Jadyn.

Landon got a new shirt. He likes it when people make comments about it. We saw a friend at the store and she didn't say anything about his cool planet shirt, and he was sad.

This is just a funny picture of Matthew. We all feel like this sometimes don't we?

2010-08-09T18:38:00.002-06:00

One Handsome Boy!

2 Handsome Boys!

3 Handsome Boys (before the promise of a treat if one of them smiled.)

3 Handsome Boys (after the promise of the treat for a smile)

Landon loves his sand. We bought this at the beginning of the summer. He has spilled so much that he didn't have very much left, so we bought him some more brown sand. He wants to go to the beach.

Matthew loves the sand too, and Landon is good to let him play and not get too upset.

Landon's new smile is the wide mouth frog.

Potty trained!

2010-07-27T19:36:00.003-06:00

Landon is officially potty trained, hooray! This is him at the beginning of the potty training.

Here he is after he earned this new toy. He did a great job, and we're all glad he doesn't need those diapers anymore.

This picture doesn't relate to potty training. :) It is a family picture taken of us at my friend Nicole's wedding.

July

2010-07-19T14:03:00.003-06:00

This month has been pretty busy so far. For the past 7 months I (Casey) have been involved with the YW in our ward doing a "Spectacular." When I graduated from high school I didn't think I'd be back on a football field learning a show again. Now I did not perform with them, but I had to be on the field during it so our stake would know where to go. Do you see me in the orange shirt in the middle. :)

For the 4th of July weekend we went to Melba, Idaho to visit Andy & Candice and the girls. We had a great time seeing all (almost) of our cousins. Thanks Candice & Andy!

Landon with his cousins Jadyn, Bridger, and Cameron on the way to the parade.

Landon getting ready for the parade to start.

Daddy & Matthew enjoying the sunshine.

Landon loved their giant sandbox (aka sand volleyball court).

Matthew at the park

We also celebrated Landon's 3rd birthday. He got a tool belt for one of his presents. He really does like it even though it doesn't look like it in this picture.

Matthew trying out the headband that I learned how to make in RS. (Laralee I hope you like this kind, I'm sure it will look a lot cuter on your baby girl, but I guess just pretend you didn't see this.)

Landon with his birthday cake.

Landon loves birthdays and he especially loves his birthday. When I was little we got to pick what was for dinner when it was our birthday, so we have continued that. Landon picked Baked Ziti, corn on the cob and Orange soda. What a good boy. We can't believe he is 3.

Matthew's Birthday and Island Park

2010-06-18T08:25:00.008-06:00

We went to Island Park with all the Proctors, and somewhere along the way we saw some of the Christensen's. While we were there, we celebrated Matthew's 1st birthday. On the way up we saw Mike, Kelly, Caiden, & Mikayla. Caiden and Landon had so much fun playing Buzz Lightyear.

Matthew got to try out the Rocking horse. He loved it!

Landon liked it too.

Matthew got to open his presents with all of his cousins.

Landon's absolute favorite was riding the 4 wheeler with Daddy. He was always asking if they could go again. He told Clint that we're going to have to get a 4 wheeler sometime.

We took Landon fishing on the river. He thought it was very fun.

Matthew wasn't sure what to think of his birthday cake. He didn't really eat it, and it seemed like he was annoyed my the frosting mess on his hands.

Landon tried smores for the first time, and they were a hit! I tried smores again thinking they would be just as good as I remember, but I was disappointed. Smores don't taste as good as they used to. :)

Landon pretended like he was a bear with the bear rug.

On the way out of town we got to play at Great Grandma Christensen's. She is so cute, and loves to play with the kids. They love her box of old toys.

We had a great time with all the family that we saw. We hope to see everyone else sometime in the near future.

Zoo and other happenings....

2010-05-20T13:52:00.006-06:00

Last week we went to the zoo. We went on a Friday because we figured it would be less crowded. We got there and there were tons of people there, it was field trip day. We noticed kids from at least 5 schools. We still had fun though. During our picnic lunch there was a big rainstorm and all the classes left. We didn't get to ride the train because of the rain, so we were sad about that. Landon didn't really want to take pictures so he isn't smiling in any of them.

This is one tired boy one afternoon a little while after a nap. I guess he didn't get to nap for long enough.

Matthew the daredevil. He climbed on by himself.

We got Landon a big boy bed. He chose the Lightning McQueen one of course. He loves it. We thought it was going to be very hard to get him to stay in it, but so far so good. (Knock on wood) He hasn't gotten out once for the 2 weeks we've had it.

Landon is my little puzzle buddy. I've always like puzzles, so I'm glad to have a buddy that enjoys them too. Of course we did this 100 piece puzzle together, but he does a good job and works to find where the pieces go.

So, anyway, that is some of the things we have been doing lately.

Freakaphobia

2010-05-02T18:42:00.009-06:00

Ok, so we'll admit it, we have weird phobias. Casey HATES wet bread, I can't stand the thought of sucking on a wet wooden spoon. But guess what we found out? We are not alone. Check out this article. That's the power of Google. So if you think you are the only one who can't stand bellybuttons (Omphalophobia), feet (Podophobia), knees (Genuphobia), or bald people (Peladophobia), think again. If it makes you uneasy, there's probably a phobia named after it.

For those of you that hate getting shots, there's a list a mile long for that one:
Fear of needles or pointed objects (Aichmophobia)
Fear of blood (Hemophobia)
Fear of pain (Agliophobia)
Fear of doctors (Iatrophobia)
Fear of hospitals (Nosocomephobia)
Fear of the color white (Leukophobia).

I found a new one a couple of weeks ago when we were watching one of the episodes of the Amazing Race. For those of you who watch that show, you'll remember the recent road block where they had to make a certain amount of noodles before they could leave. Well, at that road block they had the world's smallest person, Pingping.

I don't know what the deals was, but he kind of freaked me out. I'm sure he's nice and all, but I was glad when they finished that whole section of the race. After the episode finished, I was curious, could there be a phobia about small people?

Sure enough, a quick google found achondroplasiaphobia, the fear of little people.

So, the moral of this story is that I found another benefit of the internet. I found out I may be a bit weird, but at least I'm not the only one.

What have we been up to?

2010-04-21T13:29:00.003-06:00

We've been camping in the living room. This small tent will entertain these boys for a LONG time, it is fun for all!

Daddy and the boys.

We went up to "Baby Animal Days" in Logan. They had a bunch of animals that we could go in the cage and hold them or just pet them. Landon didn't pet one thing. He wasn't that interested in the animals. We think it is because he saw the little train they had first. We had fun riding on the train. They also had pony rides, but we figured Landon wasn't going to want to wait for that when he didn't even want to touch the other animals.

the chicken coop

Landon also enjoyed the old car that he could get in.

This is where I found Matthew this morning, reading something while sitting in the cupboard.

So, that is what we have been up to lately.

Matthew's 1st Hair cut

2010-04-06T13:22:00.003-06:00

Before:

After:
We bribed him with a sucker.

Here he is with his hair dry and combed.

Ta Da!!!!

2010-04-01T11:54:00.004-06:00

Matthew got his helmet off! He has a round head and a bunch of hair.

See, his hair is long.

We had an Easter Egg hunt at Grandma & Grandpa Proctor's.

Matthew wasn't too sure.

Landon got to pet a baby duck.

Matthew's favorite past time is getting all the wipes out and trying to eat them. He gets really mad when I take them away or put them where he can't get them. Therefore, he gets mad at me a lot. :)

Happy Easter from Landon and his little bunny friend.

Fun Fun

2010-03-14T19:18:00.004-06:00

When I was little my mom made us a hopscotch in the basement with scotch tape. We spent hours down there playing and inventing new ways to play hopscotch. Landon saw an episode of Curious George where they played hopscotch and wanted to play himself. He seems to get a lot of ideas from George. Anyway, we made a toddler version, and Landon loved it.

Mr. Cool himself. . . . .

Matthew has learned that the food that Landon gets to eat has a lot more flavor then the food we give to him. He crawls super fast if Landon ever leaves his sippy cup on the floor or somewhere Matthew can reach it. Landon gets really mad when Matthew finds his food, and Matthew gets really mad when Landon takes it away. Here he found Landon's chocolate milk.

Here he found his muffin.

and here he found his banana. :)

When Clint was blessed he wore this little blue outfit. We took a picture of Landon wearing it when he was 7 months old.

We finally got Matthew to try it on, but because Matthew is 9 months old, it was a lot harder to get a picture of him wearing it. He is very mobile and active.

Don't you just love his hair and his little toothy grin with only 2 teeth. :)

Happy Birthday Clint

2010-02-11T10:38:00.003-07:00

Matthew has had his helmet now for 7 weeks. The Doctor said he'll probably have to wear it for another 5 weeks. We have noticed big changes in his head shape, but the other thing we've noticed is that hair grows fast in 7 weeks. . . . He will definitely need a haircut when he is out of the helmet.

Look at the long hair, and it will only get longer. :)

We celebrated Clint's birthday this week. He got a chocolate pudding trifle cake. It is huge. We've only ate a little bit even a few days later. If you want some stop on by. :)

Landon was SOOOOO excited for Clint's birthday. He watched for him at the window all day. When Clint finally did get home Landon waited by the door impatiently. The first words he could say were Dad, those are your presents. Clint got them and Landon opened them as fast as he could. Ha. Little kids make birthday's so much more fun. We had a great party. Happy Birthday Clint!

Our birthday activity: attaching balloons to Landon's diaper while he ran around the room.

Matthew has turned into quite the funny kid. The other day he wanted to play with the balloon ribbon. He just kept it in his mouth forever. He would crawl around and the balloon would follow him.
Silly boy!

Oh what do we do in the Winter time,

2010-01-21T15:13:00.005-07:00

When all the world is white?
We find new clothes in the closet to try on Matthew.

We earn sugary blue bottle candy for going potty. Although, we haven't made it much further than this, we don't know what we are doing.
We take a mini vacation to the Bear River Bird Refuge and Tremonton. Landon was doing his best at a bird imitation.
We get ready to go swimming at the hotel in Tremonton.
Matthew loved swimming in his little baby boat.
Landon loved the hot tub, and not the big pool. Yes that is a picture of my white legs. Clint and I decided not to make a debut in our swimwear since half of the family (Parker side) will be hanging it on their walls come December.

Merry Christmas

2009-12-31T17:05:00.003-07:00

I love Landon's smile in this picture

I love Matthew's smile in this picture.

Matthew with his cousin Eve. They are 4 months apart. She loved to hold on to him, and he wasn't quite sure.

Me & my Sisters and Mom at the Annual Proctor Chocolate party. We all make something to bring to be dipped in chocolate. I love this tradition a little too much. I eat too much of the chocolate.

Me and the boys at the City light exhibit. It was very cold, but we lasted for 45 minutes.

Matthew and Daddy on Christmas Eve.

Matthew and Santa.

Landon and Santa.

Christmas baby.

Landon and I decorated a gingerbread house.

We have had such a fun Christmas, and hate to see it end. Landon keeps asking if Santa is going to come again "tonight" every day. We were able to visit all of our family and have some fun. Landon got to play with all of his cousins (except Caiden). We can't wait for next Christmas! This year has brought some trials and a lot of blessings. We are thankful for them all.

Doesn't he look cute?

2009-12-22T22:56:00.000-07:00

Mommy's Little helper

2009-12-09T14:59:00.004-07:00

Landon has started helping me empty the dishwasher. He loves to do it. Sometime when he can see into the drawer I guess I'll teach him about how to put them in the drawer in an orderly fashion.

These next pictures are from my phone, so a little fuzzy. I love this one. Landon and Matthew woke up in happy moods, and Landon wanted to rock Matthew in the rocking chair.

Matthew has torticollis/plagiocephaly. Which means he has a shorter muscle in his neck which makes it so he tilts his head to one side and doesn't look 90 degrees in the other. This then causes him to get a flat head. We are happy that our insurance company authorized him to get a helmet. He will wear the helmet for about 2-3 months for 23 hours a day, and after that his head will be normal shaped again. We went to get a cast made of his head so they can make the helmet. He didn't love getting a cast made of his head, but he wasn't too concerned about it. Clint's cousin Leno said Matthew might as well learn to wear a helmet because in about 20 years he'll need one when he plays on BYU's football team.

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-23T21:37:00.003-07:00

We are very excited for Thanksgiving and some to play with our family and friends. For FHE tonight we made turkey hats.

Do you like it?

They wouldn't look at the camera.

Matthew just woke up. He is usually so happy when he wakes up even when he has a cold and a new tooth coming in.

Landon fell asleep really good on the way home from playing with Grandma Jana. He slept like this for 2 hours. I'm not sure what they did over there, but whatever it is it wore him out.

Landon LOVES the snow. He wants to play in it as much as he can. Unfortunately it melted, or maybe fortunately. I guess it depends on who you are.

Halloween

2009-11-01T18:42:00.006-07:00

For family night last week we carved our pumpkin. It was fun, Landon loved seeing our Jack-o-lantern all lit up with the candle. Clint did a good job on his part carving, but as you can tell with my part I got a little to hurried to take out the carved part for one of the eyes and took out the whole thing. :) Oh well.

Of course we had Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. We couldn't get a good picture of both of them together. Landon wasn't in the mood, I guess he just wanted candy.

This is a good picture of Curious George because it was taken weeks ago when I finished the costume and he wasn't aware he was going to get any candy.

Matthew is the cutest Man/Baby in the yellow hat I've ever seen.

He liked Halloween because he got a lot of attention. I guess other people thought he was the cutest man/baby in the yellow hat also.

Landon happy to be home with a full bag of candy in the pantry.

A nice older lady in our ward gave me this outfit/pajamas for Matthew. It is girly, but I had to take a picture of him in it. The tag said it was for boy/girl 3 - 6 months. HA. Pretty much anything that can be for a girl is girly. I still think he looks cute even though he may be a little girly. When he is older and sees this picture I will tell him he only wore it to bed, which is true. :)

Update and some pictures

2009-10-16T08:33:00.002-06:00

Brothers

Do you enjoy your hot chocolate as much as Landon?

A little chubby man with a flat cap.

Yep, he really enjoys that hot chocolate.

New Sunday clothes, and the toys he wants to bring to church.

Mom and the boys.

Dad and the boys!

We are doing very well at our house. We got the news yesterday that there is no evidence that the thyroid cancer has spread anywhere. This is very good news especially since I had surgery so long ago. Anyway we are very happy and blessed. These are the pictures of what we've been doing around here lately. Mostly drinking a lot of hot chocolate!

2009-10-08T19:12:00.001-06:00

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Yep thats PURPLE sand

2009-09-17T10:42:00.002-06:00

Landon loves playing in the dirt. Everywhere we go he is looking for dirt. We went to the library a few weeks ago and the line was long, so I took the kids outside and Clint got our books. Landon of course found some dirt to play in right by the door. He was having a great time until we wanted to leave. I decided we should have some kind of dirt at our house. Even though we don't have much of a yard. So, off we went to walmart to get a sand box. They only had colored sand. Landon chose purple, probably because he knew it was my favorite color. They also had blue and green. He has LOVED having a sand box. It is small, but that is good so we can bring it in the house. Any chance he gets he wants to play with the sand. Kind of crazy that it is purple, but it makes it so we can see better where to clean it up. :)

Our conversation from the other day.

Landon: "Mom, what are you doing?"

Me: Making muffins, what are you doing?

Landon: "Oh, just eaten brown sugar."

:)
I love that he did not even think that he shouldn't have climbed up on the bar stool to reach the brown sugar. He loves that brown sugar. :)

Everyone who reads our blog probably knows about my upcoming Radioactive Iodine treatments. I was supposed to be in isolation this week. My Doctor says I'm not ready yet. I will have a blood test again in two weeks and then I should be ready.

August

2009-08-27T12:43:00.003-06:00

August is almost over, we can't believe it. Matthew is our little smiler. He smiles so easy. He is a great baby, we love having him in our home.

The other day I decided we needed some fun. So, while Matthew was asleep Landon and I made paper sailboats and a little pond to blow the sailboats across. It only took about 3 seconds for the sailboats to turn into really wet paper, so before I knew it, Landon was getting his feet a little wet.

Then, the next thing I know Landon is going "swimming"

So, I decided if he was going swimming he might as well get his swimming suit on. He had a great time and was very sad when I put the "pool" away. I did move it down to the floor as well.

This past weekend we went up to Island park with all my family. I was bad though, I didn't take one picture. I got 2 videos, one of my nephew William singing zip a dee do da, and one of Clint and Landon riding the 4 wheeler. Landon kept saying we were going to the country to see a real moose. It was funny, he really gets into Curious George. We just missed seeing the real moose, but we saw 2 elk. We had a great time up there, it was nice to get away to the country.

Matthew's blessing

2009-08-04T09:15:00.003-06:00

Matthew was blessed this Sunday, and we were pleased that a lot of our family came to see. We had a good Sunday. Matthew looked very cute in his blessing outfit. He screamed during the whole blessing, but we could still hear Clint, so that is good.

Brothers

Eve, with her big smile. It is so easy to get her to smile.

Matthew is starting to smile as well.

We got Landon a Curious George for his birthday. He loves to give it hugs and kisses.

Landon made an airplane with my measuring cups.

A bunch of pictures and Landon's Birthday

2009-07-16T11:20:00.003-06:00

Matthew is getting chubby cheeks!

We bought some cherries, and this was the first time Landon had tried them. This is what he did while I was on the phone. Yes the stains came out of his clothes with OxyClean.

Matthew got this cute bib from a lady in our ward.

Matthew is getting a double chin as well. :)

Landon got to wear one of his birthday hats right when he woke up. He was so excited it was his birthday. We had a lot of fun.

Here is my attempt at a Curious George cake. It doesn't look exactly like him, but Landon liked it, and I guess that is all that matters.

Matthew had fun at the party too.

Landon was amazed by the candles. He called them fireworks.

We had a great birthday. Grandma Jana came over for the party. Landon got some fun toys and he's been playing with them ever since. It was fun to see him so excited.

Its been awhile

2009-07-12T21:41:00.003-06:00

Here is a picture of Landon on the 4th of July. We were at my mom's house, and he was cautiously watching everyone take their turn on the slip n slide. He didn't try it.

Our computer is down, so all the other pictures that we have will have to wait for another day.

We love boys!!

2009-06-18T13:18:00.002-06:00

Here are a few pictures with everyone. We are having so much fun with our boys. Landon is a great big brother. He loves to help feed Matthew, and doesn't like to see him cry. We are truly blessed.

Landon got to take a break from the hospital by visiting Grandpa Van's Semi truck. He loved it and had to tell me all about it when he got back.

Our family!

Landon learning how to help feed Matthew.

Landon and Matthew's first meeting. Matthew hasn't even had his bath yet.

Matthew's here!!

2009-06-12T14:01:00.005-06:00

We are really excited, Matthew decided to join us this morning. It's kind of a crazy story. It was a whirlwind of events, but let's just say that we got to the hospital a little after 9 am and he was born at 10:05 am. We felt like we were on an episode of ER or something. At one point Casey asked for an epidural, but the doctor just said, "It's too late for that, we're doing this one Pioneer style." I guess we waited a little too long before going to the hospital. Either way, we decided that once Matthew figured it was time, then there was no stopping him. So, here are some pictures. We have more photos with the whole fam (including Landon), but our camera is being dumb, so we'll get them posted later (Thanks Martha!!)

Its been awhile

2009-06-01T14:30:00.003-06:00

We've been having fun waiting for our new little baby to be born. We had a visit from Michelle, Heber, Eve, & Jack. Landon loves playing with his cousins.

Eve, What a cute baby!

Jack. I was impressed with his big smile for the picture!

Heber, I can tell whose child he is. :)

Landon loves the swings at the park.

One of Landons favorite activities is to push his fire truck down the sidewalk . It works nice for me because I can just sit there. :) You can see my baby belly is getting quite large. We should have our baby soon.

2009-05-04T10:03:00.005-06:00

Yesterday at church it was super crowded, and we were sitting on the back side row with another couple in our ward. Landon was so good, I think he was entertained by everyone around him. We have a deacon in our ward who is Native American. He is a cute kid, very friendly and smiley. Anyway, he was standing behind us and walked toward the front of the chapel. Landon saw him and pointed and said: "Oh, Nephi." He thinks this kid is Nephi. We have been reading the Book of Mormon readers and this is where he's heard of Nephi, but we thought it was pretty good that he connected the two. :) Funny kid.

Funny Landon

2009-04-23T12:38:00.005-06:00

Landon is getting so big. He looks like such a big boy in his "boy jammies" as he calls them.

He had a recent encounter with the banister at the bottom of the stairs. He was running around like a crazy man playing and he tripped on the rug and flew into the banister. He hit really hard and I thought for sure there was going to be blood and a cut in need of stitches. His forehead was dented in, but the skin didn't break, so we didn't have to make trip to the doctor. This picture was taken a couple of days later. Hi cheek was still bruised and his forehead had a scratch.

Potty Breaks - Landon takes potty breaks. He runs in the bathroom. Sometimes he puts the toilet seat up, sometimes he just stands there. But, he really does go to the bathroom and usually comes out and tells me I need to change his diaper. If the bathroom door is closed Landon finds me fast looking like he is going to wet his pants. He says "Oh door, closed." We aren't sure how young to start potty training, but it seems like he is getting the idea.

You can tell we've been to the doctor a lot lately when Landon is playing with his cars and says "Bye, See ya, I'm going to the doctor." I guess he does like it because I usually bribe him with treats to be quiet, and he gets to ride in an elevator.

If offered a bandaid Landon puts it straight on his neck, because that is where bandaids go. I guess my 'bandaid' on my neck was the first time he has seen bandaids a lot. :)

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T18:58:00.005-06:00

Landon and I (Casey) happened to be at Walmart when the Easter bunny was there, so I thought I would see if he wanted to go see him. I told Landon he would get to sit on the Easter bunnies lap, and maybe he would give him a treat. Landon ran to the Easter bunny and got on his lap and he was very excited about the Easter egg he got and the chocolate it had in it. It was fun, I was surprised he wasn't scared of him. I still haven't figured out what a bunny has to do with Easter, I guess it is just a tradition.

What have we been up to?

2009-04-02T20:40:00.006-06:00

We have been fixing cars....

Getting cozy in our blanket. . . .

Playing with sidewalk chalk and getting all messy. . . .

Riding on TRAX. . . .

and falling asleep in the car.

Our favorite 3 recipes (not) to try at your home

2009-03-15T18:28:00.007-06:00

Casey is always looking for yummy, new recipes to try, and we've noticed that there are lots and lots of places to get good suggestions for tasty food. So we decided to roll out our own personal top 3 food combinations to avoid at all cost (Yes, we really have tried all of these, and they were not good)!!

#3 - Garbanzo beans on pizza.

Here's the story behind that one. When Casey makes taco salad and tacos, she adds garbanzo beans and it tastes great. So we thought, hey, why not try the same thing on hamburger pizza. Needless to say, something is lost in the translation from Mexican food to Italian.

#2 - Homeade Italian soda.

One night, I really wanted an Italian soda, but didn't want to run out and find a place that had one, so we thought, why not try to make on instead? Our thought process kind of went like this... "What do we have that could substitute for a soda? Well, we have baking soda, we could try that, vanilla, you know, creme sodas have that, sugar, doesn't everything tastes better with sugar, and of course, water." Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time, it didn't sound so crazy. Casey had a couple of sips and didn't like it, but I drank about half of it, I didn't think it was that bad. But, about an hour later, I didn't feel to well. We decided to retire that one after the first go around.

#1 - Dehydrated eggs and hamburger sausage.

After typing that out, I realize we should have known before we even started that it wasn't going to work. Casey was trying to figure out what to make for dinner today, so I suggested potatoes, sausage, and eggs. The only problem was that we didn't have any sausage or eggs. Casey, being the resourceful cook that she is, remembered that she had seen a recipe for homemade sausage on the internet the other day. It called for pork, but we only had hamburger and figured, pork = hamburger (it doesn't). We also had dehydrated eggs from our food storage and thought that it would work well (Casey had used them before in other recipes and they worked fine). The best way I can describe it is hamburger coated in a kitchen sponge, with a few spices mixed in for good measure, not good.

Now we know (we hope) we're not the only ones who have had good ideas go bad, so let us know about any of your funny or disgusting concoctions.

We realized that the common thread in each of these three adventures was that I (Clint) had come up with the suggestions. Let's just say that the moral of this story is that we are all glad Casey is the cook and I do the dishes.

Normal Life

2009-03-11T14:13:00.002-06:00

We are back to our normal life, and we like it that way. Landon is getting so big and learning how to talk more and more everyday. He had crazy hair this morning!Clint's mom came and visited us last weekend and we took Landon to a children's museum. Doesn't Clint make a great king!
At the museum they have baby dolls. Landon like to play with them and feed them bottles. He must be getting ready for this summer when he will get to do that at home.
Landon loves to play with play dough. He made some "string cheese" and ate some of it. It is the homemade play dough though, so I know what is in it. He didn't really eat a lot of it, but I think he liked his extra salty treat.

Family Times

2009-02-16T14:36:00.002-07:00

Here are a few random pictures in no particular order.

On Valentines Day, we enjoyed Isaac and Taniel's wedding. Landon had no problems wearing a white tux. He wasn't even worried about getting chocolate, or raspberry punch on it. Congratulations Isaac & Taniel. Welcome to the family Taniel! We love you guys.
Landon wanted to dance with Isaac & Taniel during the dance. It was embarrassing. :)
Here is our newest niece Eve. Isn't she so beautiful?
Clint had a birthday!!! (Thanks for bringing a cake Vanessa) :)
Landon is our little handyman. He loves Clint's headlamp.
I bought this pillow for my surgery because I heard I would need it. But, it turns out I didn't need it. Landon had fun playing with it though, and now if we need a vibrating neck pillow we have one. :)
Does every kid get in the dryer?

Its a Boy!!!!

2009-02-06T19:14:00.003-07:00

Well, we are having another boy. We are excited. Landon will be a great big brother, and he'll soon have a little friend. We don't have any names picked out, but I'm sure we'll come up with one.

On a side note....... Some of you know, and some may not. We have been having a crazy time at our house lately. When I went to my first OB appt for the baby the Dr noticed that my thyroid was enlarged. So, I was sent in for an ultrasound and a biopsy. The results came back as suspicious for cancer, and they suggested surgery. So, I had surgery on Wednesday and they found it really was thyroid cancer. So we were really glad I got it taken out. I am now taking thyroid medicine and after I have the baby I will have some sort of treatment for the cancer. Anyway, we didn't really know how to say all that except to say it.

We feel that we have been very blessed lately. We have been watched over so much. We are thankful to have the fullness of the gospel, and the priesthood. We know that Heavenly Father is watching over us and helping us do the things we have to. We have great family and friends. Thank you all. We have really felt everyone's prayers and concern.

Which way should I point this thing?

2009-01-23T19:44:00.003-07:00

The other day, Casey noticed Landon was playing with a spray bottle but didn't think much of it because she thought the sprayer didn't work. Well, you'll see......

We cried the day we took the tree down.

2009-01-02T09:16:00.007-07:00

We've had such a fun couple of weeks. . . We made gingerbread cookies

We made gingerbread houses with graham crackers

We ate candy canes and got all messy

For Christmas we got to go to Idaho. Here are Landon and his cousin Caiden on Christmas morning.Landon LOVED Grandma's glasses

Caiden is so cute!

Landon has loved Christmas, and especially Christmas trees. He thinks all the trees that don't have lights on them are broken. When he goes up for bed or a nap he tells the tree Bye Bye. We took our tree down yesterday, and we were a bit sad. Next year Landon won't be as fascinated with the tree and the lights. We've had such fun with Landon this Christmas!

Its a.............. Baby!

2008-12-19T14:16:00.004-07:00

Here is the first picture of our newest family member. He or she will be her on or around June 23. These pictures aren't the best because the baby was moving around all over. (It must be related to Landon). We saw 2 legs and 2 arms and a heartbeat. We get to have the ultrasound to find out if its a boy or girl on Feb 6th. We feel blessed and excited to be able to have another baby.

'Mas tree 'Mas tree

2008-12-12T22:18:00.005-07:00

So Landon LOVES Christmas trees (we think he loves the lights on them). He calls them 'mas trees. Ogden has a Christmas village that we decided to take him to last night. He loved it so much that he would just laugh as we were walking around looking at all the lights. It was really fun until we decided to leave because it was pretty cold. Apparently a 1 year old doesn't get cold when he is looking at Christmas lights because he screamed the whole way back to the car because he wanted to stay and look at the lights. Well, ya can't win 'em all I guess.

Thanksgiving

2008-12-05T13:50:00.003-07:00

Well we're finally getting around to doing our post about Thanksgiving. We had a great time and got to see both sides of the family. We missed Isaac & Taniel and Mike, Kelly & Caiden though. Our camera was buried in everything we had to bring so we didn't get very many pictures. This is one from the Reindeer games at the Parker Family Christmas party. Landon wasn't too excited to wear the reindeer ears.

Landon loved staying at the hotel for the party. He would run out of the room and to the "bater" (Elevator). It was funny. We took him swimming, and he would have liked that more if it was a littler warmer. We had a great time!

As we were leaving my moms house, Landon ran out the door. My brother Jared said Landon is the fastest baby he's ever seen. :) We have to agree with this. He is fast! He runs everywhere he goes. We can't wait for Christmas when we can spend more time with all of our family.

Our New Toy

2008-11-18T09:49:00.003-07:00

We got an AWESOME deal on this piano, so we couldn't pass it up. We think it will be fun for the whole family, even more fun then a rice cooker.

Rice Cooker...Who knew?!

2008-11-11T18:31:00.002-07:00

Landon has always loved small appliances. Funny huh. Whenever I use one to make dinner he watches it and wants to play with it. We think he likes the lights. Anyway, yesterday I gave in and I let him play with the rice cooker. He played with it for at least a half hour, which is a lot for him. I had to go to the grocery store, but I couldn't get him away from his new toy. I put his shoes and coat on while he was playing with it. He still wouldn't budge. So, I opened the door, because usually when I open the door he comes running and wants to go outside. He wasn't coming, so I was still saying "Come on Landon, let's go to the store." Then I see him come around the corner hefting the entire rice cooker. He wanted to bring it with us. It looked so funny because it was heavy for him. I made him leave it home, and in the car on the way to the grocery store he kept saying "rice". I always heard that you don't need to buy toys because kids play with anything, so now I know they even play with rice cookers.

We've Moved!!!

2008-11-06T15:31:00.000-07:00

Well, we haven't sold our house yet but we decided to move on over to blogger. Here is a picture from today. Landon got to talk to his favorite aunt Candice, he loved it.