the rest of may and all of june...

may ended with me going  back to las vegas for my grandma's funeral.  since it was in the middle of the week chris couldn't take time off to join us so daniel and i went alone again.  the sunday morning we woke up early to hop on a plane and chris woke up sick... sour stomach not feeling too hot... and by the time we got the the airport he was definitely sick,...  after he left us and drove home he had to stop twice and pull over to be sick... yep  stomach flu.  BAD!  turned out to be lucky he wasn't flying with us.  we got there and hung out with family and monday were busy getting ready for the funeral.  i was terrified that i was going to get chris' sickness and hardly ate anything the whole day... turned out to be a blessing as i woke tuesday morning (the day of the funeral) and was sick.... but not throwing up... haha  mostly just felt like crap and nauseous all day.

the funeral was great!  my grandma was such an awesome lady.  my favorite part was singing with my sister.  we sang be still my soul.  the last verse we sang in unison. and it was pretty powerful... emotionally and way powerful in my ears.  my sister has some serious pipes! and mine aren't too bad so you put us together and my head felt like it was reverberating.... or whatever... but at the very end of the song she held my hand that was holding the music... it was kinda sweet and got me all choked up... which i understand now as she really wanted to sing the last note the longest and knew i would cry if she showed me some love... hahaha it worked!!  i totally had to cut out early of the last note.  i also got to sing with my brothers.  all four siblings sang abide with me.  so pretty!   i love that all four of us can sing like that.  both brothers are so talented. i do also have to mention the eulogy my mom gave... i bawled through the whole thing it was so well done!  perfectly sentimental and sweet and told a beautiful story of grandmas life.

after the grave dedication  we headed back to the church for the luncheon... and of course several cousins were nice enough to bring diet cokes for everyone!! wouldn't be a christensen gathering without some DC.

the day after the funeral we were wiped out and my mom woke up sick... woops i brought the flu with us... over all only mom, jack, sam, and greg ended up getting the flu from me.  daniel did have a good time playing with all of his cousins.  

thursday i hopped on a plane back to jacksonville.  and perfectly enough daniel and i woke the next day with really bad colds.  not just really bad colds... but really hideous colds that would turn into tonsillitis for both of us... needless to say we did NOTHING for 2 weeks and i slept or layed on the couch all day and daniel did really well playing by himself or cuddling with me a bit.  finally with antibiotics we got them knocked out but it was brutal.  chris was very sweet and understanding and luckily super busy finishing up things in his residency that he didn't mind i wasn't feeding him and was helping out a lot at home.

the whole month wasn't a waste... we had some good times with friends

this is daniel crab crawling after he figured out it hurts to crawl on concrete and was cutting up his knees bad...

i took a few pictures of my boys sleeping... daniel sleeps all over the place where as chris lays perfectly still on his back with his arms at his sides...

we made it out to the beach at least once...

but had to stay inside many of the days in june due to crazy non stop rain and scary thunderstorms...

on their respective days we celebrated mothers and fathers day... chris got me the best card ever... i will definitely keep this one... plus a pedicure!! 

and i made him this cheesy candybar cover... but he liked it anyway... haha

i have decided its easiest to cut daniels hair while he's in the bath.  

we did get to go to a waterpark one day with the dental battalion for family day and after it rained for 20 min we decided to leave and go to lunch... it was yummy!! and daniel really enjoyed the black beans... gave himself a nice goatee..  

i also got to go on an awesome ladies night out for kristens birthday!! we went to indochine... an awesome resturant and had amazing curry!!! then we shopped trader joes after...and trader joes had these cartoon cutouts so we took our pics... and of course ihad to take out my front tooth to make it that much more ridiculous...  a perfect and fun evening with the girls... Lacey, Kristen, and Amy.  

he loves to sit with his daddy on the couch and watch tv... usually right after a nap he likes to have a little cuddle time.  

and this kids hair is just crazy!  i have to cut it so often it just grows super fast!  and is always a laugh when he wakes up.. 

some projects i did in june were to reorganize daniels baby clothes and things and put them in bins with labels... now i need more bins for this next size he has grown out of!!

i also made this hilarious woman for primary... its a picture of a mother and i cut a whole through her right eye and then glued a spray bottle to the back ... used this on mothers day... i told the kids they had to sing so beautifully they made this mother cry and then when they were singing well enough i started squirting them with the water.  it was so funny and they actually kept singing so i would spray them... 

chris' aunt sharon also sent us this cute pink chair that was gracie's... i took apart the cover and used it as a pattern and made this cute blue jean cover for daniel.  not that he minded the pink but this turned out super cute and he sits in it everyday.  

i also made this cute little blanket for my newest nephew axel slade.  i was even able to sneak in his name with the alphabet material.  its down in the bottom left corner.  love how it turned out..

i also sewed this fun giant beach bag to put towels and what not in.  it is seriously huge... and then i made one for my friend kristen for her birthday.  her's was the yellow fabric on the outside and black on this inside.  i love it.  i used outdoor fabric so its completely wipe-able.  

   

we got together with some friends in our ward and decided to go to the temple in raleigh.  we took turns watching each others kids at the church next door as the other would do a session.  it had been a long time since we had been able to attend the temple.  really nice to go... chris was so good to play with the kids... they had fun attacking him...

daniel loves to climb in the kitchen cabinets... 

our little yoda baby...

he's been taking off his own bib lately.  he liked it better as a hat... or veil

this is what he does now when he throws a fit... gets down on the floor and putts his head down... after bonking his head on the hard wood floors a couple times and realizing it hurt, he now carefully throws himself on the nearest carpet.  he will even walk over to one and then fall down.

this is our little walking dead zombie baby after eating some watermelon.... 

our little future dentist...

and yes i am still missing a front tooth, sadly i broke my retainer in half a week and a half before i was having my implant done so i had to wear just the one half with the tooth.  not the most comfortable but it was only a week... 

lastly we met chris at the o'club for some lunch and he put his cover on daniels head and got these cute pics of our little lieutenant .  even looks like hes saluting..