We Miss you Grandma

Wanda Christensen Wengren, 81, passed away peacefully at her home in Monroe November 30, 2009. She was born June 15, 1928 in Herriman to Louis Adolph and Martha Bodell Christensen. She married Delbert William Wengren, March 19, 1947 in the Salt Lake City Temple. He preceded her in death May 7, 2004.Mom was a faithful member of the LDS Church and served in many callings.The job she enjoyed the most was her work at Beehive Clothing in Richfield. Her talents include crocheting, quilting and baking pies. She loved to travel and camp with her family. Mom spent her life caring for others. Last Christmas she made over 20 sock monkeys for all of her grandchildren’s families that is now a special treasure. Her greatest joy was having her family around her.She is survived by children: Diane Romney (Glade Quinney), Sandy; Marsha(Doug) Chaston, Monroe; Sandra (Jerry) Moon, Sandy; Sheila (Mike) Reed, South Jordan; Steven (Amy) Wengren, Taylorsville; Claudia (Hans) Greeff, West Valley; Trisha Wengren (Tim Neilson) West Valley; 25 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren; brothers, Roy (Edith) Christensen, Draper; Ted (Nedra) Christensen, Phoenix, AZ; sister-in-law, Ila Keemer, West Jordan.Preceded in death by: parents; husband; grandson, Kent Douglas Chaston, Jr.; and twin great-grandsons, Bradley & Brennen Winegar; brothers andsisters: Tola (Lester) Butterfield, Leah (Annon) Greene, Helen (Melvin) Jones, John (Deloris) Christensen, Claude Christensen.Funeral services will be held Friday, December 4, 2009 at 12 Noon in the Monroe Stake Center (140 S Main). Friends may call Thursday evening from6-8 p.m. in the Sandy Canyon View Stake Center (9119 S 1300 E) and Friday morning at the Monroe Stake Center from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Monroe City Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guestbook at www.maglebymortuary.com

We love you Grandma!

This morning my sweet Grandma passed away. On Saturday my sister Monnica and I drove down to Monroe to say Goodbye. I am so happy that I got to tell her I love her one last time. She has been pretty sick for the last few years and just came really down hill the last week. Monnica and I got to talk to her and she even recognized us. We were one of the last ones to really talk with her, She didn't really wake up after we talked to her that morning.

I am excited for her to be with her husband, Mom and Dad and her siblings again. I know she is in a better place. I am so blessed to have to church and the plan of salvation and to know that I will see her again.

My Grandma was in her 80's and it's made me think about how short this life really is. She had a nice and long life yet she was done here. Now that I have a child of my own I really feel how fast life goes by. The next think I know my kids will be grown and I will be in my 80's and I hope I am ready. I know that if I stay close to the church I will be as ready as I can be. I feel so lucky to have the church in my life.

I am so lucky to share my life with such a wonderful man, I love being married to Brad and I love him even more that I will be married to him for all of Eternity.

My sweet husband brought me flowers and a card, he is the best.

I love you Grandma and I will always miss you.

11 Months!

Our sweet baby turned Eleven Months Old yesterday. I think I might cry when she is a year, she is growing to fast. She is a funny girl and I love spending my days with her. She is getting into everything now, as you can see the room behind her is covered in ads. One of Kenley's favorite things to do is unload things one by one, like the laundry basket, her basket or toys, the cupboard or the coffee table with ads. If I could just get her to pick them back up. Tonight I let her unload a basket of cloths and she was so mad I was trying to put them back like I was recking all of her nice work.

Kenley is very close to walking, she can stand alone and she walks along everything, she will take one step from the coffee table to the sofa. The other day she was standing alone and clapping. I just hope she doesn't start to walk while Brad and I are gone this week.

In this picture you can see her two little teeth! She only has the two but I think she will be getting a few more very soon.
Kenley is turning into a daddy's girl. She is so sad when Brad leaves and gets so excited when he comes home. He can't get enough of this beautiful girl.

I feel so blessed to be Kenley's Mommy, I love watching her do everything.

Happy 11 Months Baby Girl!

Black Friday!

Every year my sister's and I are not sure if we want to do the early morning shopping and every year we look at the ads on Thanksgiving and find something we want and get the adrenalin and get so excited we want to everywhere. I think this was my 7th year going & every year has been fun.

This year it was just me and Monnica because Jessie lives in Texas now :( we met my MIL Terry and Krista there too.

We went to Toys R Us because we just wanted Toys for our kids and they had everything and more that we wanted. Monnica and I got there at 9:30 to stand in line, they opened at midnight. We had fun just talking and laughing and snaking.

There were so many people there. I bet there were like 75 people in front of us and like a 1000 behind us. The line went from the front door around the side and along the back of the building and more and Toys R Us is a huge store. At 11:45 some people just started standing by the front door instead of getting line like they should have. There was this guy arguing with the store Manager and I thought they were going to start fighting. Then there were hundreds of rude people forming a mob to just rush in the front door. The ladies around us were so mad. We were mad but I thought some people were going to trample and fight everyone to get in. Everyone was squishing so close to the door we were stuck next to the building and had no where to go we were really scared the we were going to get trampled.

Here is a picture of the MOB, how rude of these dumb people to just think they don't have to wait like the rest of us. We waited 2 1/2 hours and now all of these people just get to go in.
They opened the doors at 12:00 and only let like 20 people in at a time until everyone calmed down and then they started letting like 100 people in at one time. We got in and got all the toys on our list and more. I lost Monnica in the store and she left her phone in her purse that was with me so after like 20 minutes we Finally found each other we got in line, then took turns waiting in line and shopping some more. We waited in line until 2:30 and when we were paying there were still people outside waiting to come in but when we went to our car the line was gone. I guess you can wait two and a half hours before they open or after.
It was crazy but fun and I am glad I went.
Kenley's first Christmas & Birthday are going to be great!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving was great. I started my day bright and early with a 5K. What a great way to get really hungry before eating a hug meal. I ran with my MIL Terry her daughter Krista, Krista's two oldest kids, Terry's son Trent and wife Eli, they also had her son in the stroller. We had so much fun I ran the whole time with Krista. There we over 3600 people!! I have never seen so many people run. There were so many dogs and people pushing strollers. Next year I am going to have to bring Brad pushing Kenley and our dog Rylee.

I finished in about 28 minutes. I placed 7th in my age group out of the girls and 526 over all but that is overall of only about half because they had so many people they didn't want to time everyone so at the end you got to choose to be timed or not.

I can't wait to do it again next year!

This year was a Haaga year so we got to stay home and have everyone come to us. Pretty nice. Here is Kenley in her pretty Thanksgiving dress. I just love any excuse to put her in a pretty dress. She looks so old, she is not a baby anymore she looks like a little girl.

Ashlyn took this picture, I love it. I think Rylee really thinks she is a person. I am sure she thought she had a seat at the kids table.

Sorry my camera died while taking this picture so the quality is way bad.

I had to post this, This is pretty rare, BRAD IS DOING THE DISHES! With no one asking him to.

Later that night we meet at my parents house to visit with my family and have more dessert and leftovers. I am pretty proud of how much I ate that day.

Here is a picture of my two cuties, This face means NO More Pictures Please.

We had a great Thanksgiving. Kenley had a great First Thanksgiving, she got to eat a lot!

I am so Thankful

I have so much to be Thankful for but these two are my number one thing. Brad & Kenley are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I feel so lucky to be Brad's wife and Kenley's Mom.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Baby Leah!

Yesterday I got to meet my friend Kristi's Baby Leah. She is so Beautiful and Tiny!

Leah brought back so many fun memories of when Kenley was brand new, wow it's gone by way to fast.

Congrats Brad and Kristi! She is so beautiful!