Chase and Amy: August 2009

Sunday, August 30

No Place Like Home

We made it! After months of looking we are finally all moved in! Thanks to all of our family we were able to move three days earlier than we were planning on so we didn't have to miss school and work. It feels weird actually having the space to spread out!

And if you'll notice this last picture of the closet, that is my most favorite part. Notice how our clothes, and only our clothes, fit nicely into it!

It's interesting now that we have lived in four different apartments since we've been married how quickly each one feels like home. Chase made the comment that it doesn't really matter where we live, as long as we make it ours and have each other, that's where home will always be.

Monday, August 24

I'm DONE!

It's official. My internship is done and over with. I turned in my report on Friday and the evaluation was done today. It was good experience, and definitely an eye-opener, but it feels good to be one major step closer to graduation. :)

Friday, August 21

Summer in Review

I'm kind of sad this is the last official day of summer break. But also kind of relieved. Here's what we did all summer:

6 Trips to Idaho
4 Trips to Kaysville
Ben and Christie's Wedding
Chance and Syndney's Wedding
Old Friend from elementary school's Wedding
Old Friend from Single's ward Wedding
Girl's Weekend with the Family to make a quilt
Grandparent's 50th anniversary
Family Pictures
Anniversary Trip to Park City
School shopping trip to Park City
Family Vacation to St. George
Found a new apartment
Moved 5 couples
Painted a house
Started Packing
Dad's Birthday
Mom's Birthday
Sister's Birthday
Nephew's Birthday
Chase's Birthday
Girl's trip to Tai Pan
Fireworks in Idaho Falls AND Logan
Got a new calling as RS Secretary
Started and finished an internship
Got a job promotion
Kept "Hotel Christensen" in business
Went through one major and one minor truck repair
Planted tomatoes and watched them die
Started sewing for business (kind of)
Made wedding invitation/video
Re-finished an oak table
Applied for graduation (YAY!)

That's it; I'm done with summer, bring on the school!

Sunday, August 16

They're Married!

The last of the summer weddings is done! We're so excited for Ben and Christie! This day was a long day in coming. We're excited to have them both as married friends now.

Thursday, August 13

Very Happy

Ya' know why? I only have 20 hours left of internship! Yay.

Tuesday, August 11

They're Married...

Chase's brother, Chance, got married this last weekend in Idaho Falls. Here's the happy couple.

And me with all the girls of the family. Chase's aunts and cousins are awesome and so much fun, it was great to laugh and talk to all of them.

And of course one of me and Chase in front of the temple.

One wedding down... one more to go this weekend!

Monday, August 3

Oh for the Love of Closet Space!

We're moving! And the thing I am MOST excited for.... FIVE closets! I never thought I would be so ecstatic over storage space.

But let me tell you, we are very happy to be going from this one closet that has EVERYTHING in it:

To this:

Okay so maybe, this isn't exactly what our closets will look like, all perfectly organized and such. But I have high hopes.

We will miss our little apartment. We've had alot of fun times here, but we've worked hard and it's time to move on.

We will miss:
Our cute apple wallpaper.

And our fun green walls

And how much it feels like home.

It's amazing how things work out when you're patient enough to wait for them. (And believe me, it was so hard for me to be patient!)

We won't be moving until the first weekend in September, but that will give us enough time to get all the weddings over for the summer, school to start and have time to pack.

Thanks for letting me be excited!

Saturday, August 1

The Thing I love Most

The thing I love most about blogging is not writing posts or anything like that; it's changing the background and the header. I'm not sure why, but I like to change them and see what I can make it look like. So as most of you can attest to, my blog never stays looking the same for very long. That's all, I just love it.

Lauren Funnies

9/12/2012

- Every time she hears the dryer open Lauren runs in and holds her arms up ready for me to hand her laundry from the washer. I hand her every little piece and she throws it into the dryer making sure nothing is hanging out.

- Lauren sits on the counter while I get ready in the mornings. She picked up the bottle of hairspray and started "spraying" her hair. While fixing dinner she sat on the counter and grabbed the PAM bottle and "sprayed" her hair.

-She does not like doors or drawers left open. If she sees one open she will close it. If there is something poking out of a closed drawer she will try and tuck it back into the drawer.

-When I dust she needs a rag too and follows right behind me and mimics every move I make.

-Lauren loves taking baths. She gave her baby doll a bath in the sink today complete with rubbing her head and cleaning out her ears.

- She likes to take all her stuffed animals and babies and take turns wrapping them up and rocking them. Then she sets them in a row on her bench and gives them all a drink from her sippy cup.

- When she's trying to get my attention and I'm standing at the kitchen counter, she will wiggle in between me and the cupboard, push with all her might against the cupboard and stick out her bum against my legs to push me away from the counter.

- Lauren waves at every car and person that drives or walks in front of our house.

- She knows how to rock out to music BIG TIME. Driving the other day she fell asleep. A while later I looked back at her and she was awake head-banging and wiggling in her car seat to the radio which is a common occurrence.

- Chase gets her out of her crib in the morning and she comes to wake me up. She gives me a kiss and climbs in bed with me and has to be tucked in. That lasts about five seconds and then we go have breakfast.

10/3/2012

-She fell out of her crib last week. Down another wrung the mattress went!

- She's started carrying her baby around even more. I catch her giving her kisses on the head, feeding her crackers, taking turns eating a cookie, wrapping her up and rocking her, walking with her around the house and pointing things out, patting her on the back, putting her in the chair at the table and tucking her into bed.

10/11/12

-Lauren tried going potty today! Wasn't quite sure what to think and was nervous about falling in. But she really liked the flushing part. :)

11/15/12

-Lauren succeeded in dumping 18 eggs into the shopping cart last week without breaking a single one!

- When she's getting dressed she likes to run around naked for a few minutes, throw her diaper away, and then lay down to get dressed.

-She found an old purse and carries it around all day on her shoulder with her baby in the other arm. She waves to me and heads to the door and gets a little upset when I won't let her leave.

-She learned how to climb on her rocking horse and spends hours a day rocking and climbing on and off.

11/18/12

-Lauren spilled some water on the carpet. I told her to go get a towel to clean it up. She walked to the kitchen to grab what I thought was a towel hanging on the oven that wasn't there, and instead grabbed the rug and dragged it over and started trying to furiously mop up the water.

12/10/12

- Like Father-Like Daughter. Lauren can find our phones, open Netflix, find Curious George and turn it on. All by herself. She will pull the laptop up on her lap and pretend to type and turn it off and on. She's more tech literate than I am!

-We didn't realize just how much she understands. Looking at books the other day, I asked her questions and she would point and find things that I had no idea she knew.

- She's started singing Old MacDonald. The only part she knows is eee-i, eee-i!

2/22/13

- Getting ready the other day, Lauren walks in with her hands on her hips and yells "Hey guys!"

- She's into counting, but everything is "two." One, two, two, two, two...

-Walking is not an option...run-hop-skipping is a must!

- Lately she likes us to sing to her before bedtime. Her favorite song is "Do" (Old MacDonald) and gets mad if we try to sing something else.

- She plays possum all the time and closes her eyes when she doesn't want to do something, or in the last few days-pretend to be asleep with fake snoring and all!

3/2/13

-She's quite concerned about everyone's well-being. If you cough or say ouch, she'll come over by you and ask, "ew awight?" (You alright?)

4/22/13

- The other day after being sick I was sitting on the bathroom floor. Lauren came in and asked "ew awight?" then pulled the brush out of the drawer and brushed my hair for me. She did a pretty good job and didn't even pull!

- She got her "big girl bed" a few weeks ago. In the morning she comes in our room and peeks over the edge of the mattress to see if we're awake. The she either wacks us awake with her George or Bear or pounds on the mattress, then grins and says hi mom!