Boys Vs. Girls

 What happens when you have several of the neighborhood kids come over? They separate into boys and girls.  It is interesting to watch how for a while both genders were playing together but as time passed they separated and started to do their own things.

After playing in the water for a while the girls decided it was too cold and wanted to paint their fingernails and toenails. 

The boys, however, decided that when it got cold that they would add soap to the trampoline and turn it into a slip and slide.  They would run and slide on the trampoline and then run and rinse off in the pool. After doing this several times the boys had started to turn the pool into a bubble bath. They soon added more soap to the pool until it was a true bubble bath.

Both the boys and girls had a great time playing in our yard.  I hop that they will look back at these times with fondness and remember all the great times they had as kids.

“There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.” 

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

December 2014 Birthdays and Christmas

December is always a busy time for us, we have birthdays, our anniversary, and Christmas. Nathanial turned 8 this year and wanted to bring his friend Clinton to dinner with us since he decided he would rather have a bigger present than a birthday party.

Nathanial and Clinton

Dinner at Pizza Ranch with Tayton, Nathanial, Clinton, and Carson

Minion cupcakes

Now that Nathanial is 8 he started Cub Scouts, he is so excited!!!

For Ryan's birthday we filled 32 blue and orange  balloons (Ryan's favorite colors) with Ryan's favorite candy...

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year...

Our bank puts on a christmas activity day for all the kids who have savings accounts so we headed to Le Mars with our great friend Paige...

Magic Reindeer Food

Kiss Bingo

Decorating cookies

Decorating cookies

I left my camera out in the car, so when I tried to take pictures of our Christmas Eve dinner it was foggy...

The Table

The Food

Merry Christmas From the Jensen Family (in our AWESOME pjs)

SANTA CAME!!!!

Looking for the pickle

I don't have any pictures from Christmas morning, but Santa brought the kids a trampoline :)

8 is Great!

On Saturday, May 11th we celebrated Emily turning eight by having her baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  It was a wonderful day. Emily was blessed to have her Grandparents join her for this wonderful occasion.

 Emily was really excited for her baptism. She also told me she was a little bit scared.  She looked so pretty in her white dress.

 Our family was happy to share this special moment with Emily. Can't you tell how happy they are by their faces?

We also decorated the gym in pink and white which was our theme for Emily's baptism.

After Emily was baptized and I was helping her change we had a really neat talk.  I asked her how she felt and she replied with a typical "good".  I then told her that she was as clean as she could be.  That everything bad that she had ever done was gone, washed away, left behind in the water and that all her sins would go down the drain with the water never to come back.  She got a big grin on her face and gave me a big hug.  Emily is such a sweet girl and I am so proud of her choice to be baptized. 

"...All those who humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and witness before the church that hey have truly repented of all their sins, and are willing to take upon then the name of Jesus Christ, having a determination to serve him to the end, and truly manifest bu their works that they have received of the Spirit of Christ unto the remission of their sins, shall be received by baptism into his church" Doctrine and Covenants section 20 verse 37

April 2015