The Youngest Groomsman

On Dec. 18th Luke's brother Ty married a completely wonderful girl, Mackenzie---we love her and are so excited to finally officially get her in the family. The wedding was amazing with lots of highlights including Dean joining the wedding party in walking down the aisle at the ring ceremony and standing with all the other groomsmen.

From left to right: Josh, Luke's dad, Ty, and Luke.

Dean, his adoring grandma (even though you can't see her, we'll get more pics up as soon as we get them, maybe even one of me) holding him. It took Dean about an hour to decide that he was done with the bow tie and even sooner than that for him to ditch the jacket, but at least we got a few shots while he had it all on!

Four Months Old

Dean is a loud, smiley, lovable 4 months old! I can see a ridge of teeth on top and bottom (although I guess that doesn't necessarily mean they're about to pop out), he's grabbing his feet, putting everything in his mouth, and talking to us like crazy. Oh and there is nothing he loves more than to stand and jump (with a little steadying from us).

Missing Megagail

So we haven't posted for a loong time and as I was about to start catching up I saw this picture of my best friend Megan and decided she needed to know just how much I miss her! Megagail is what we called the orchard inbetween houses where we always met up (mostly before we could drive, but it has always remained a special place). I miss those summers meeting up on bike or canoe and later taking off in our volvos. Megan, there is no one like you, you are the best, and I can't wait to see you again!
The above is a pic. from a visit back in May. Looking at it I found some other pregnancy pictures that I never posted, even though I was asked. So even though they are irrelevant now, I was feeling sentimental (or something!) so I decided to post anyway--just for the heck of it---mostly for the record I guess.

Eight months.

One of the only profiles I posed for.

Two days overdue. Dean was such a punk---guess he was just too comfortable.

Dean Craig Christiansen

Here he is!!! Sorry it took awhile to post.

The perfect baby, except from midnight to five am.

Dean was born July 6, 2009 at 5:39 pm. 7 lbs 9 oz, and 19 inches. Everything went smoothly and the doctors and nurses were all great. We're grateful for how well everything went. Neither Dean or Abby had any complications, and the labor went rather quickly. 5 hours.

Photo Tag

The tag: post the sixth photo from your sixth photo file and blog about it. And then tag six others!

So this is a photo from our trip to Cordoba, Argentina over a year ago. We were living in Buenos Aires and would explore the country by bus whenever we could. This particular trip we took the red-eye bus there and back to avoid the extra cost of a hotel. It was a spontaneous trip, we packed Luke's backpack and took off.

We arrived early that morning in the city of Cordoba, second largest in Argentina, and found a place that while not serving breakfast yet still had medialunas dulce (sweet croissants) and juice for us. After that we explored the city seeing all the old churches and monestaries---it is a beautiful city!

For lunch we took another bus up into the hills so that we could see some of the smaller towns. Cordoba is in a foothill region that reminded me alot of Sonora, CA where I grew up. It was so nice to get out of Buenos Aires----to fresh breezes, green grass, to a place more rural. The town we went to wasn't that far away, but it took us three hours to get there because the bus literally stopped at every person's house to let them off--even if it was just 20 feet from the last stop. But we finally got there, walked around the few houses, found a place to eat, and caught the next bus.

Back in the city we walked around some shops, found a delicious place to have dinner, and then jumped on the bus back to BA and got arrived home the next morning.

It was a wonderful, spur-of-the-moment trip that we'll always remember!

So now I tag: Megan, Alli, Whitney, JP, Lee, and Lissy.

18 - 3 Slaughter

Saturday was another great game. Poor Winthrop was slaughtered with Luke helping by putting up 2 goals and 3 assists. This pic is from a different game---my camera ran out of batteries yesterday, but you get the picture. I actually started to feel sorry for Winthrop and hoped they'd score a little more, but they just couldn't get anything past our defense, and obviously our attack was doing it's job.

Other than that not much going on this weekend. I worked a cocktail/auction party for the Republican Party of Rockbridge County----I'm a Republican, but even I will admit that that party was looong and boring.

And we've started to hear back from law schools---acceptence letters with a scholarship offer always makes for a good day! We probably won't be making a decision for a while though, we're still waiting on several schools.

Oh, and the dryer in our apartment broke down, but it's actually kinda nice----I've got a lot of laundry to do, but I'm just going to have to think about it later!

Knights Win 7-3!!

Today SVU played a great game against Carlton (from Minnesota, I think). The team really worked together and Luke got the job done as middy moving the ball up the field. And now I'm going to brag---not only is this a fabulous picture, but seeing Luke continue running the ball despite the body and stick checks was even better. I just love his expolsive action out on the field! He's only got a few more games left in the season, I wish there were more, I can't get enough!

And as a funny side story somehow I got the button on my back jean pocket stuck on the bleachers---it took me til the end of the game to get it unwedged. I seriously thought I was going to have to stay there. Okay so it's not that funny---but it seemed so to me stuck like super glue to that one spot.

P.S. Ali LaVanway---I was so excited to see your comment and I have no idea how to get to your blog to comment back!!! Plus I need an address, ect...How are little Ezra and Willa doing? I don't allow drive-by comments---you've got to be accountable to responses!