Biking Zion

A couple Saturdays ago, we went to Zion (I love living so close to that awesome place). Park did great in the chariot!

107 miles baby!

This is my awesome mom. To celebrate her 10 year anniversary of beating cancer, she wanted to do something big. She's a machine i tell you. So she came down to STG and did the Zion Century! Turns out it was actually 107 miles!!

I rode the first 40 miles with her, Clay rode the rest. They were soaked and freezing by the end. But she did it! Rain, wind, flat tire and all!

And here is Parker with some awesome bed-head and sleepy morning eyes. What's a blog post without at least 1 pic of Parker :)

This little man Parker

Thumb-suckin cutie.
He is so good at smiling for pictures. And smiling in general.
Love those blue eyes.
We laugh so hard when he shudders at something he doesn't like to eat. These days though, he eats everything. That's all he does all day long, eat, eat, eat. Clay is jealous.
He loves playing with Clay's hats. He'll probably fit in them soon-at his last check-up his head was in the 90th percentile!

Longboarding

Remember the very first time your dad ever took you longboarding? Me neither. Mostly likely not because I was too little, but because I'm pretty sure it never happened. I mean, let's be honest here, how many of us can picture our dads longboarding? It's quite a comical mental picture to me. Don't get me wrong, I love my dad, and he is good at a LOT of things. However, longboarding is not one of those things. I'm pretty sure about this, but who knows now, with all the kids out of the house, it could be his new hobby of choice....right.

Anyway, it was a beautiful spring day (sorry if you don't live in st george and its still winter where you are, I really empathize) and we went to our church parking lot to take Parker longboarding for his first time. The good news is that there weren't any signs that said NO SKATEBOARDING, LONGBOARDING, OR ROLLERBLADING, so I didn't even feel guilty.
I think Parker loved it. It took a few minutes to get used to it, but by the end, he was just snuggling up to Clay and enjoying the ride.

Snow Canyon

Dan, Kim and the boys came down last month and it was so fun to hang out with them!
We went on a little hike up Snow Canyon and played at the sand dunes for awhile (Kim's favorite :)

Halfway to Nursery

Parker is 9 months old- in 9 more, he gets to go to nursery! I think that's probably how you think of your child in terms of age on Sundays right?
He is pulling himself up to kneel and stand, and he loves to just stand up leaning against the couch and hang out lookin around. I love this picture of him with his mouth open, and his little shorts. Which, thanks to the Christensen genes, are always too long. His long torso and short legs makes for some great belly-shirt/capri ensembles

Little ragamuffin. He totally pushes off his toes when he crawls and this is the result. We didn't want the circulation in his chubby little toes to get cut off, so we just cut the feet out of his pajamas. His first pair of cut-offs...


And here is this picture again because I didn't mean to upload it again, but I did, and didn't know how to change it. But its cute so who cares.

P-diddy

He's a good little hiker munchkin


Gettin him ready to watch some Olympic speedskating. I think the ears may slow him down a bit.