Life as of Lately.

.....it's been intense.

We spent last weekend in Sani Frani [by the way, I cannot call San Francisco San Francisco, or San Fran. Ewe. So, its become Sani-and that's that.]

We found an adorable house in the East Bay area that I feel like I can make into our home over the next 1+ years.

I'm constantly decorating it in my head and adding onto the running list of: what do we need to buy, what do we need to get rid of, where do we get Internet, water bills cost what?! etc....

This is the stuff keeping me up at night.

But look! 

Don't you love it?! I LOVE it. Its so charming and will fit the Christensen fam perfectly.
It's my own little1972 piece of heaven.

When we weren't looking for houses, we were most liking eating with these guys.

The Sistrunks are serious foodies, and I now I know why...

Amazing food surrounds you out there!!

So then, I come back to Utah, sans husband, to my beautiful girls and have a dance-a-thon with my mom and sister in their kitchen.

It was pretty late, so we decided to stay the night, and when we put the girls to bed I noticed Zuri was really warm...I chalked it up to she's hot from our dance fest, then went to bed.

Two hours later, she screaming.

I get her and she is baking hot....Her temperature was 102, which is high, but safe for children, so I gave her some medicine and a cool clothe hoping she would fall back to sleep..

She never did.

Hours went by of her whining and crying-there was nothing I could do. I was so helpless.

Then, all of a sudden, she started not making any sense.

She sat up in bed screaming that she was bleeding on her hands...

I turn on the lights to see what shes talking about, and she sees me and starts screaming that my face has blood all over it.

There was no blood anywhere.

I'm trying to ration with her, and she starts seeing bugs...bugs EVERYWHERE.

She running around, scratching them off of her, and watching imaginary spiders crawl all over everything.

IT was HORRIFYING!

By then, I got my parents I was so scared, and they confirmed....she was totally awake and hallucinating.

I wanted to bawl...it was an actual living nightmare and I couldn't reason with her. 

I debating taking her to the hospital, but after researching online, I found that a lot of children report hallucinating during high fevers... and that I should wait it out.

So that's what I did....she finally fell asleep and woke up the next day with a fever, but not hallucinating.

Now shes totally fine.

Thank goodness.

So THAT happened, and was the worst mom moment of my life,  then I had to go straight to my utahbrideblog.com photo shoot.

I got to wear a crazy amazing dress from Alta Moda and have my hair and makeup done by the amazing Stephanie Brinkerhoff  [PS....she has 4.7 million followers on Pinterest. She's doing something right, ladies. I'd check her out if I were you....]

The whole shoot was so cool because it was an actual mock wedding....they had h'oderves, cake, drinks, a bouquet, and a table set up......oh and a GROOM! 

Before the shoot I got an email of how the day would go, so I read it aloud to Bronson:

-food shows up at 9

-hair and makeup shows up 11

-female model shows up at 11

-Male model, Phillip, show up at 2...

I get to Phillip, the mock groom, and say,

"ohhh, I hope his name is actually Felipe and he from France, or something."

Bronson says,

"Nah, he's going to be from Provo.....and Phillip better not get fresh with you"

me:

"Phillip from Provo...waaa waaa."

and that was that.

So when I show up, I see this dark, tall guy and hear him speak...he has a slight accent....and his name is Felipe--originally from Moscow.

My groom.

ha HA!

 I was laughing out loud.

The day went on....Felipe and I had to snuggle, nuzzle the whole time.... I'm so happy he was cool about it, because it could have been so awkward. 

Instead it was SO funny.

I'll give you this sneak peak but you'll have to wait until the real photos are up on utahbrideblog.com next week.

Its a week long extravaganza....so don't get sick of my face, OK?

Currently: I am planning on finishing this post, then watching SisterWives when I really should be packing.
12 days and counting.....

My life is crazy right now, bare with me.