The Christiansen Chronicles: April 2009

Thought of the Month

"Think of it! when his body was taken from the cross and hastily placed in a borrowed tomb, he, the sinless son of God, had already taken upon him not only the sins and temptations of every human soul who will repent, but all of our sickness and grief and pain of every kind. He suffered these afflictions as we suffer them, according to the flesh. He suffered them all. He did this to perfect his mercy and his ability to lift us above every earthly trial."

Howard W. Hunter

"He is Risen," Ensign, May 1988

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

update

This is just a quick update to life at the Christiansen house.
I'm finally getting over my pneumonia. I've had it for about a week. Dr. Vandemerwe gave me a different antibiotics and it seems to be working. He also gave me some Robitisson with codine. That stuff is good!!
Neil has been so good about doing double duty around here with me sick. I couldn't have gotten the rest I needed without him here.
The kids still live {even with eating their dad's cooking ;)}. Poor Felicia has been helping out with the laundry. She really doesn't mind doing, but after doing a weeks worth for a family of five she'll probably never want to look at dirty clothes again. Listening to her and Andy doing the dishes has been funny. Felicia loves to go hunting and has no problems cleaning out ducks, geese, etc. But, when it comes to having to clean food off the plates so they can be put in the dishwasher is another story. She thinks that is the grossest thing in the world. And, Andy doesn't mind cleaning off the dishes as long as he doesn't have to get the food out of the sink. What can I say, my children are weird.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Easter yesterday. We had so much fun. We went over to Neil's parents for Easter dinner. The Easter Bunny hid a lot of eggs in the yard. So the kids had to go find them all.
On another note. Neil was asked to give the lesson in Elders Quroum yesterday. I was so excited and nervous for him. He has never done anything like this for church before. I heard that he did a really good job.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

painting

Ok, I tried to channel my mom's artistic abilities. But, it didn't work. I still think that the windows turned out ok. The bunny is totally stupid, though.

How we met

Ok, I keep getting asked how Neil and I met. So, instead of telling the story over and over again I'll post it here. We met on I-15 going to see "Far and away". That is what happens when your date gets injured during football practice. So, then you are the only person in the car without a date. And, the driver of the car recognizes the Ford Mustang flying down the freeway as we are getting on. The driver than rolls down his window, motions to the driver of the Mustang to roll down his window. Yells out that there is (and I quote) "a chick in here without a date to the movie. Do you want to go with her?" The Mustang driver says yes and screams off to meet us at Valley Fair Mall. When we get there like 10 minutes later, leaning on the back of the Mustang is a guy wearing his Army uniform. I knew I had just seen the man I was going to marry. I was right, I did marry him. We've been together a total of 20 years all because I didn't have a date!