Thankful Posts A-F

So I was talking to Chris and I wanted to start a fun new tradition for us to do this year for Thanksgiving.

So I was on pintrest. 

Which I am OBSESSED with, like maybe even more obsessed with PINTREST that I am FACEBOOK. 

Can you believe that.

Well I saw this cute little pin that had a thankful tree on  there like this one...

And I decided we should do a Thankful tree.

But I never really got around to it.

So I have been posting our thankful posts on facebook and I also wanna blog about it.

I know I am really behind on my blog. They are saved and unfinished.

Life has been crazy and hectic.

So I am going to do my thankful posts.

Letter A.

I am thankful for Attitude and how its your own choice how your attitude is and how your attitude will be for your day and for your life. And everyone who has helped me build up my attitude.

Chris is thankful for the attention that I give to him.

How cute :)

Letter B

I am thankful for all the many blessing I have received and will receive.

And Chris well he is thankful for breasts. Go figure lol.

Letter C.

I am thankful for CHRIS and the amazing man he is to me.

I am so happy he is mine and all the great things he does for me and Lola.

He cooks for me, cleans, works so hard for us. And he motivates me to do so much better with myself and my life. I love you so much!

Chris is thankful for Christ because if it weren't for him we wouldn't be here today.

Letter D

I am thankful for my DAD. He is such an awesome guy that does so much for me and my family and everyone he is around. His selflesness and his patience with me.

I love you dad!

Chris is thankful for the determination that we have in our relationship to do better and move forward.

Letter E

I am thankful for exercise and the motivation Chris is to me and that I have to want to exercise and have a healthy happy lifestyle.

Chris is thankful for encouragement. For all the people in his life who encouraged him in his good and bad times and never giving up on him. I am grateful that he encourages me as well.

Letter F

I am so thankful for my family. From my extended family, my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, parents, sisters.

And my little family of me Chris and Lola. I love you all so much. And miss you all too!

Thanks for always supporting me and caring for me and never giving up on me.

Thanks for everything Fam(ily).

Chris is thankful for forgiveness. Because everyone messes up so we all need to be forgiven . That's what the power of forgiveness is for.

Yup... I did it again/ Chris' 22nd Birthday

Well I dyed my hair brown again..

I was ready and needed a change and my hair was FRIED from all the bleach in it.

So I thought why not go brown.

Plus Chris LOVES it so thats good too, right?

On a side note nothing too exciting happened in August.
Volleyball started so I am reffing that and working.
Chris is keeping busy with work and taking good care of me.
He turned 22 on September 1st.
His original plan for his birthday was I bought him a ticket to go to Seattle to see his old friends and just spend some time up there. But we ended up having to move out of out place and a few other things came up so we had to put his trip on hold.
But I acted like we weren't doing much for his birthday.
So he thought I was just bringing him breakfast to his work.
But I ended up going to the dollar store and getting a bunch of balloons and candy and some other stuff along with his breakfast to take to his work.
I also got him a card with some gift cards in it and the new Lil Wayne Carter 4 cd.
His face was priceless going into his work.
After work we went to Applebees for dinner.
It wasn't a huge special birthday but I tried my hardest.
Here are 22 reasons why I LOVE CHRIS!

1. He always gives me great advice
2. He helps build me up when I am down.
3. He plans stuff out for our future.
4. He helps me remember the important things in life.
5. He is a hard worker.
6. He inspires me to do better.
7. He loves me for me.
8. Even when he is right he still will listen to me, usually he is always right.
9. Family is as important to him as it is to me.
10. He LOVES sports and so do I.
11. He is athletic.
12. He helps us remember to say our prayers every night.
13. He is always willing to help me out.
14. He moved us both times on his own.
15. His physical features: smile, eyes, body, tan skin, dark hair, etc.
16. How he tires to better himself and us daily
17. How he is willing to change and do things for me even tho he doesn't always love it,
18. How strong he has become, emitionally.
19. His positive attitude.
20. His happiness with himself.
21. He helps me remember how much the little things count in life.

22.I love him for him and I wouldn't change anyting about him ever.

I am so glad I have spent another b-day and another year with this boy.

We have been through a lot and I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

I am so thankful and grateful to have you in my life.

Thanks for everything.

I love you!

Rex Family Reunion. Nanny and Grandpa's 50th Wedding Celebration.

In the last weekend in July we had a family reunion with the Rex side of the family.

We were celebrating my Nanny and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary.

Which meant we got to go to Richfield and see BOTH side of the family which is ALWAYS a bonus.

We went up to Richfield Thursday night.

We stayed at Grandma and Grandpa C's which is always a bonus.

Grandma even made us two batches of peanut butter bars.

MMM I love them.

So we got to Richy and visited with the Christensen family.. Aunt She, Rish, Ty, The Barclays and Grandma and Grandpa C!

I love being in Richfield and spending time with family.

Then we headed over to My Nanny and Grandpas house to see the other side of the family.

My Uncle Kevin made a really awesome slide show of my Nanny and Grandpas first 50 years of marriage.

It was fun to see the pictures of my mom and her siblings when they were little.

My mom was a used to be a little chunck. Can you believe that?

Because I couldn't haha.

They slide show made me a little teary eyed. But then again what doesn't.

The next day we woke up BRIGHT and EARLY and headed up to Manti.

The parents did a session in the temple and the kids did baptizims.

 My cousin Celeste, Addie and I watched my Uncle Jud's girls.

They are SOOO adorable.

And oh boy let me tell ya we had a ball!

We finished getting ready in the visitors center bath room.

Added some curls to the girls hair.

Then we played lots of fun things outside,

Like...

Dance concerts.

Sang songs.

Ring around the rosies.

Played tag..

Then we got hungry and I was craving a COKE so we drove down to Millers Drive Inn.

We all got ice cream and had a ball.

Finally everyone was done at the temple.

We went to the motel to check in.

We stayed at the Temple View Lodge

Got changed and went to the luncheon at the Manti House,

The food was much better then when I remembered it last time.

We heard stories about how nanny and gpa met ate laughed and just had a good time.

Since there wasn't a pool in Manti or really anything else to do we decided to walk up Manti's main street and checked out all the cute little shops.
We had a fun time.

We got back from window shopping and put a blanket on the grass and just relaxed while the little girls and adults took their naps.

Then my mom and Uncle Jud decided that we were going to have hot dogs and salads and chips for dinner.

So while that was being prepped for all of us we were playing volleyball and sat around and chatted.

After that we walked up to the temple to watch the sunset. It was BEAUTiFUL.

Then we walked back to the motel and had s'mores for dessert.

The next day we woke up, had breakfast and parted our ways.

Some of the family went back home and the rest of us went back to RICHY!

We hung out some more.

Went swimming.

Did a cute craft

Here is mine

I don't know why it won't flip but it won't.

I think I want to make more of theses but do just a T then a & and a C too.

So thats what I wanna work on next.

It was so much fun seeing both sides of the families and spending time with them as well.

Here are more picutres of the weekend.

Scotsdale Trip July 2011

July is honestly my FAVORiTE month out of the WHOLE year.

I LOVE the weather.

I LOVE the Holiday's that are celebrated.

I LOVE the food.

And I LOVE the fact that I got to see my family Three times that month.

I think that's a new record since my family moved down to AZ.

My first trip was going to Richy for the 4th. I already blogged about that.

Then there was the Christensen family reunion...

but... I ended up going down to Scotsdale with Chris to hang out and be with his family.

We got to Scotsdale and this was something very different for me because I have never been here so it was a lot of fun to be in a big town with lots of fun stuff to do.

We went to Dave and Busters to have dinner and play arcade games with Chris' Uncle Andy and his girls

They are so adorable.

But of course I forgot my camera.

Then we layed out by the pool a lot.

Went shopping 

and clubbing too.

It was a nice and very much needed vacation.

Here are pictures of that trip.

Here is us Driving. 

The drive to Scotadale was quite the drive.

 Chris LOVES his Grandmas hammock.

 On the hammock again.

Her house was BEAUTiFUL! 

I loved ever part of it but espically the POOL!

 My pool boy cleaning the pool.

 Chris LOVES swimming with goggles.

 My honey.

 Chris and Me getting our swim/tan on.

 Cheese Chris.

 Part of the pool and his grandmas house.

 Toes in the water.

 Chris was laying on his grandmas hammock and got attacked my some horse flies. Pook guy.

 Me just LOVING life laying by the pool.

We also went clubbing while we were down there.

His brother knows EVERYONE is Scotsdale.

So we went to Old town and

 Driving home

 On our way home.

 Dylan I know we didn't go to the reunion but we still got our shirts.

Here is Chris in his Christensen Family Reunion shirt.