it was a long day but play dough was a wonderful treat. they played with it for an hour and a half straight and even better took a bath for the next 40 minutes after that. Hooray for a long lasting activity!
as a side not he has been living in buzz pjs but we did but 3 pair.
we let gray go to Kiras birthday party. Luckly no one in the family was sick.
how cute is this
and this one
I think she liked our gift
jenna LOVES uncle dave
pj buddies. 
do we have style? we sure do !
Sky takes first with his base
and B, in his last derby, takes 2nd with his luge racer. It was a great day for us. the boys were over the moon and we were right there with them!
on Friday grandma and grandpa came to visit and have dinner. sorry, I remembered the picture just as they left, they didn't have jackets on the entire time. aunt betty aslo came by sadly he was not up to photos
on saturday he had more visitors, and they took livs with totally fun for her!
he was happy to pose with KB.
we got to the hospital at 9 am and put into this pre op room, all ready with our hospital pjs and fire truck slippers
10:30 time for surgery, David got to take him back and stay until he fell asleep, in about 60 seconds he was snoring, true.
here we are after in our own room. the post op room was a little hard coming out of the "nap" 
of coarse drinking was no problem for my boy, he couldn't leave until he drank 8oz, he drank about 20. nothing like chicken broth yum.
we watched toy story and we took turns who got the bed with him
the toy cart came by and he selected play dough, with his one hand
it was only just over 4 hours and we could go, given the great drinking. notice hippo was there the entire step of they day.
we came home to a wonderfully decorated sick bed thanks to B, sky, liv, courtney and caleb not sure if jackson helped out.
he even got visitors the same night how lucky is he. However when they came he exploded with excitement. It only took him 10 hours to break the Dr.s rules. They brought him a united states puzzle that they calmly put together and then he went on to karate chop the pieces to get them apart.
finally he slows down to nemo
and they are gone it was along day and I'm glad it is over. We realized how blessed we are with our childrens health today sitting next to moms and dads with their babies in heart surgery or replacing their permanent breathing tubes our tonsils seemed rather small in comparison. But THANK GOD for Dr.s and modern medicine I do I do!
this is our before picture. now go look at your own tonsils (if you have them) and see how much room you have back there. and wait for the after picture to come. (may be a while before he lets me look)
Gray got mail, thanks to the Condaps for the "get well" package. We will take a picture by the sign when he actually feels junky, but we already have it hanging up. see you all in a few short days!
now these are old however it was still fun and worth seeing. with our diam from IKEA in hand we set out to bowl.
and the winner is Gray
yes for those of you who are not a Christiansen climbing up the laundry shoot is part of our heritage and yesterday Gray discovered (I wasn't about to show him that) the age old fun. he went up and down about 13 x. It certainly brought a huge smile along with floods of memories!
these first few photos got out of order but you will figure it out.
colby flying down the hill
a beautiful way to begin the show
stop a look at this , my favorite action shot of the week. you will notice B just standing there in the dark coat, then next to him is Sky on his back- legs in the air, and then someone else just hitting the ground. I have looked at this one over and over to try and figure it out. It's like 3 pictures put together.
Angela and Sky go snow shoeing
Gray as a ginger bread man.
David and Gray
this is Erik and you may notice that Gray is one of the ones laying down
