Happy Halloween

Thought I would give you all a sneak peak of Andrew's Halloween costume. We think our little shark is pretty adorable.

Girls' Weekend 2006

Every year my sisters, mom, and I try to get together for our annual girls' weekend! We have a great time chatting, eating goodies, staying up way too late, and giggling. We had a great time this year up in the mountains of Colorado.

Although it is called Girls' Weekend, we often have male visitors. I can't blame them, we have so much fun they just can't stand to stay away! Although their not girls, we are glad they came.

This year we made mosaics- many thanks to April for planning the project. Here we are staying up late to finish our fun projects.

Breckenridge, CO has a cute main street with quaint restaurants and little shops. We had a nice lunch and afternoon wandering the shops together. We were so sad to say goodbye and all agreed we don't get to see each other nearly often enough!


Sunday night, all the girls flew home and I stayed and spent one more day in Denver with Mike's sister's family. Andrew and I had a great time with Keri and her family playing games and making Jessica's Halloween costume. It was a treat to be able to see both sides of the family in one weekend!

Andrew Update

Andrew has taken to books recently. It's cute to see him turn the pages and be so interested.

We had a great conference weekend listening to General Conference on our computer. Andrew was so happy and cute during both sessions on Saturday and afterward we took him for a ride in the stroller while we rollerbladed! We had a great weekend together.

Andrew loves exploring EVERYTHING! We now have to keep the bathroom door closed because it's his favorite place to wreak havoc!

Andrew is learning to eat lots of things and gets very excited about it. Most often more food ends up on him than in him!

A Date to Remember

We don't go on official dates that often, so it was a special treat when Mike asked me to go on a date with him last Friday! He made arrangements for our neighbors to watch Andrew, but the rest of our evening was a surprise. We drove downtown to a nice Italian restaurant and met up with our good friends, Ryan and Suzanne. After leaving the restaurant Ryan and Mike blindfolded us and drove us out of town where we could make a fire and roast marshmallows. While driving, our cell phone rang and the number was from our neighbor's house. I was immediately nervous. We don't leave Andrew that often and we've never had a babysitter call. I answered and the conversation went like this.

"Is this Elizabeth Christensen?"
I replied, "Yes, it is."
"This is Officer White from the Lincoln police department, are you ok?"
I was not a woman to be messed with when it comes to the safety of my child. I very rudely replied, "What? Is Andrew ok? Let me talk with Marcy!"

Our conversation went on and I was absolutely rude to the officer because I thought our neighbors were playing a joke. Realizing he was getting nowhere with me, the officer finally handed the phone over to my neighbor who then informed me that this was not a joke, and there was really a police officer in their home. He assured me that Andrew was ok, so I didn't see what the problem was. Then, he explained that someone had seen Mike driving us around town blindfold and thought we were being abducted!! Ha!

We had quite the conversation with our neighbors when we got home. Our date has become the joke of the neighborhood. Saturday, we woke up to find our driveway sidewalk chalked with...

Mike and Elizabeth sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Frist comes the blindfold,
Then comes the dragg'n,
Then comes the copper in the paddy wagon!
OR
First comes dinner,
Then comes dessert,
Then comes the cop thinking Mike's a perp!

Also, this morning I passed all the neighborhood kids at the bus stop on the way back from my run. One little girl said that she heard about our date and they all started laughing! Our neighbors said they never thought they'd have the cops in this neighborhood because of us!!