Love what we have become...

The past month or so has been pretty exciting! I found my wedding dress and bought it! I love it so much, it is perfect! Completely not the style I had originally thought, but thanks to my mom picking something out of the ordinary for me, I found the perfect one! I can not wait to see Cameron's face when he sees it, only 133 more days till I get to marry my best friend! Never in my life did I think this day would come!

We are loving that we finally have some nice weather!

For the past few months I have been talking to some of Brendans biological dads family, they are extremly awesome people and so loving to us even though we have never really known them.  A few weeks ago we finally got to meet them in person and had a wonderful time with them.  This is B with one of his cousins and a half sister.  He loved playing with these girls! I am so grateful that he can have them in his life now to love and support him.  

And the huge accomplishment of the month was B finally learning to actually jump rope! Yay! He has been working on this for quite a while so it was a pretty exciting morning when this happened! 

I am so grateful for these 3 kids, they are all so different and funny in their own little ways.  



March Craziness....

Well alot has been going on so far the past few weeks! Brendan had to have yet another surgery on his ears.  This poor kid has had way too many surgeries and hopefully this will be the last.  He now has his fourth set of ear tubes and hopefully the third set moving to the wrong spot in his ear didn't cause anymore permanent damage to them.  He will get a hearing test in a couple weeks to make sure. 

Caysen is growing way too fast! Up to 13 pounds and in size 2 diapers, not ok with me!:( Why can't he stay my small baby forever! He is so so so funny though which we love! So close to rolling over but still pretty lazy!

We went to Disney on Ice: Toy Story 3 this last weekend.  The kids loved it! I did not imagine Jane being as excited as she was to see Mickey and Minnie! Definitely was her favorite part!

 Her Jessie Hat, and you can't see it here but she had an awesome Jessie cup with a snow cone in it too!

 Woddy and hat and Alien snow cone.

 Brendan has started indoor soccer this last month also.  He loves it and is amazing at being the goalie, always blocks them! He has a few weeks left and starts T-Ball again.  I love watching him find things like this that he loves to do.  It helps him a lot to be able to do stuff without the little sis also! 

 This girl I thought had already been threw her terrible twos, and I was pretty relieved because they weren't so bad. YEAH RIGHT! Now I am regretting saying that because she is so hard to deal with some days lately! She has had a lot more go on in her life then most two years olds though also so she is handling how she knows how.  We love her though, she is either very very sweet or super upset, it's one dramatic to the other.  I can definitely tell that she is going to be like me when it comes to her feelings, loving you all the way when you love or fighting to the death when fighting and upset. 

Family pix 2012

We went to FotoFly earlier this week and got some new family pictures done since we have a new one in our family now.  I am amazed at the difference in our family and how much better it feels compared to  even a year ago.  Now that we have our own space, everyone has relaxed a lot more and is getting a long better.  Over the last year a lot has happened. We had Caysen come into our lives in December, and he is just the sweetest baby ever and already has such a huge personality at only 2 months old.  Jane has grown a lot and is such a funny girl, she has become quite attached to our little family and I am currently in the middle of hopefully gaining Full Custody of her from my ex.  Then there is Brendan.  Man I love this boy, but he can be such a handful at the same time.  He has started Therapy for his ADHD and they have come to the conclusion that he may have a few other things along with being high level ADHD.  We are attempting therapy first before going to medications since he has already been on so many meds for his physical problems.  

I couldn't be happier, and am so excited for the day that we can be married, and have the kids adopted by Cameron.  We then will finally be one whole family.  I love my family so much! I loved how the pictures turned out as well.  

2012..

Well we had a very rough and hard start to 2012.  On Dec 30, we noticed Caysen's belly button looked infected, which seemed very odd to me since it had already been healed for at least a week.  So I took him right into IMC to get him on some antiobiotics.  They ended up transporting us to Primary Children's in an ambulance so he could be monitored while they ran a bunch of tests and started him on IV antibiotics.  It apparently was a lot worse then we thought originally which scared us pretty bad since he is still so tiny!  Over the next 4 days, he was poked an unbelievable amount of times, but was such a good baby through it all and barely cried or fussed.  They determined it was a staff infection called MIRSA, and started him on specific antibiotics for that.  Since he responded so well, they switched him over to oral antibiotics and sent us home January 3 in the hopes they would be strong enough for it not to return.  It's been about a week now since he finished the medicine, and nothing seems to be coming back, thank goodness!

 The more I see Caysen grow (which is alot all of a sudden), the more it makes me realize how big and old these two are! In a way I just want them to stay small forever, but I know 2012 will be an exciting year for them both.  Brendan will go into 1st grade this year! Miss Jane will be in the daycare preschool she is in now still and we are planning on letting her start Ballet this summer at the studio I dance at for years in Draper. 

 Ever since Caysen was on the antibiotics he eats like CRAZY and has finally started gaining some weight! 

 The biggest change this year is going to bring for me is school.  I start next week!!! I am doing a Medical Assisting Program which takes 10 months so by the end of this year I will hopefully be working as a Medical Assistant, or at least looking for a job as one! I am so excited, although it is going to be very hard on everyone for a few months.  Luckily I have Cameron supporting me and willing to watch and take care of three kids four nights a week while I am in school!  It will be worth it in the long run though for everyone.  Once I am done with Medical Assisting, I am planning on working as that while I go to Nursing school.  I need to stop procrastinating and just jump in and do it. 



A WHOLE LOT OF DECEMBER

Well December was definetely busy busy busy...  These three beautiful kids sure did get spoiled by Santa!

They did school pictures, and as usual I figured my kids would either look really grumpy, or have extremely cheesy smiles.. and to my suprise they turned out so cute, with REAL smiles!!!

 Christmas Eve...

 This girl could hardly control herself Christmas morning and ate about 6 pieces of candy before I could even get to her!

 And Caysen woke up for aminute and then decided that sleeping through all the Chaos was a lot more appealing!

 On December 6, 2011 , Caysen Chayne Andrew Christensen decided it was time.  17 hours of or, with only 3 of that being with the epidural (ya that's right I survived that long with out it, BARELY).  6 pounds 14 ounces and 19 1/2 inches.  He is such a sleepy baby, barely can wake up to eat and usually passes right out in the middle of eating!  We couldn't love him more though!