Enjoying fall!

Notice the Y on Avrie's cheek.  She is a huge BYU fan and had to have a Y painted on her cheek (not a pretty butterfly or sparkly fairy eyes but a Y - for her DAD!

We went to Gardener Village to see the funny witches they had for Halloween.  Aunt Nicki was nice to take a few - ok probably around 100 pictures.  We had a lot of fun!  Thanks again Nick.

Avrie Kae

Both Kevin and I can't believe how old Avrie is getting. She is so smart, sensitive, and not shy whatsoever! We hope she knows how special she is to us. Now lets just hope she can get over her dreams of wanting to be a truck driver when she grows up. She amazes us everyday!

Snow White

Ken, Avrie, Me and Kevin at Avrie's school on halloween.
Avrie as Snow White.

She loves dressing up.

All zonked out!

I love this girl!

Lucky Kevin caught the Swine Flu

Do to Kevin getting the Swine Flu, and great inlaws to take Avrie for the night, I have a moment to myself tonight so I will catch everyone up on what we have been up to.

First off Swine Flu is not fun at all! Kevin is miserable and thought he might just be getting over it, but I just checked his temperature and it's over 100 degrees again so he is still contagious. I feel like an overworked single parent. He does so much to help out and I am ready for him to be normal Kev again. Right now I here him in the back room coughing his lungs out.

Kevin was his normal self Monday at 12:00 - checking his fantasy team and doing all the sports stuff he loves to do. He said he started to not feel very well and the insensitive wife I can be ignored him. Shelby came over and I told her Kevin was starting to get sick (for everyone who doesn't know Kevin - he is a germaphobe BAD so he has done everything to the extreme to avoid getting our family sick with the flu) he said the only thing that was going to get him through what he thought was just a cold was the Jazz game of course. Kevin came walking out in his garments and didn't care that Shelby saw. She said he must be sick he doesn't even like it when I walk around in a tank top. Ha ha. Around half time I walked in to check on Kevin and he looked like a tomato. He was bright red. He said it was hard for him to breath and I felt his forehead and it was on fire! I told Shelby I was running to WalMart to get a thermometor because Kevin was on fire - Avrie started screaming and crying because she thought I meant he was really on fire. I came back and checked his temp and it was 102 degrees. Right when I told him that he said I need to call my mom. Ha ha . We took him straight to the ER. Shelby was so sweet to take Avrie for the night and what has now lasted multiple nights. Avrie isn't minding at all, but she was so scared the first night. I took his temperature again on the way and it was just barely under 104 degrees. We got there and checked in. They took his pulse which was 250 twice of what it should have been. They double checked it because they thought it read wrong, but the next machine read the same. Kevin's eyeballs were bright red and he was acting crazy. He had to lay down because he was dizzy and thought he might throw up. The doctor confirmed it was swine flu and sent us home with lots of meds and said to stay in a room for approx. 7 days. We are now on day 3.... I miss him:( He is going nuts! Luckily for the playstation - thanks Taylor, movies, meds and yummy meals he is getting through it. So everyone wash your hands and don't volunteer at the halloween party at the elementary. Ha ha thats where we are guessing he got it.

Thanks everyone who has taken Avrie so she doesn't get it! I have the best family in the world!

Avrie's 5!

I can't believe she is 5 already! She is still loving her cat!
She has named it Gigidee

Avrie at the Zoo.

The carousel was so much fun. It was her favorite part.

Opening presents. She is so spoiled being the only grandkid on 3 sides! Ha ha thanks for all of the gifts everyone!

Ken made her a box for her sticky (duct) tape. She LOVES tape!

Her cake that Ken decorated. She thought it was the coolest - She requested this exactly.

More presents!

Happy Birthday Avrie! I love you!

Avrie's favorite things at 5:

Her grandparents

her kitty

her swing set

her red and white blanket still

cheese

four wheeling

dancing

t ball if her dad will stay on the field with her

snow cones

Her aunts and uncles

Jorie

I carly

her and her dad's garden

planting anything!

the pageant

playing pretend....

she is a daddy's girl for sure lately but says when she grows up she wants to be just like her mom :)

Random moments of the last 5 months

Avrie on easter finding easter bunny tracks (baby powder) haha
Avrie dressing up as her idea of a hostess. This sums Avrie's personality up pretty good.

T ball

Preschool graduate

Our new kitchen - I will put more pics of the house soon.

My wonderful happy husband - notice the Playstation controller in his hand.

Grandma Shelley and Avrie at her dance compitition

Capitol Reef

It's been a while....

I am just going to give you a quick update on the last 5 months. Here we go:

We are in the process of buying a house in Ephraim. We love it. My mom is so so sweet and came and bought us groceries. Thank you so much! You have no idea how bad we needed them!

We went to a Jazz game and I had them all do the sad face to get my Father in Law to a game.

Avrie had a dance compeition in Provo. She did so good. Thanks everyone for coming!

We added a cat to the family. Ask me if I am excited - NO but Avrie wanted it for her 5 year old birthday. I am such a sucker. We also got 3 frogs. We are down to one!

jensen update

Sorry I haven't posted in the last little bit. Life has been a bit crazy! My camera connections still don't work so sorry for not posting any pictures.

• Avrie's Valentine Party: Avrie's preschool had a valentine party this morning. She was so excited. Me being the crazy busy forgetful Mom didn't realize it was so soon until my Mom reminded me that Valentine's was this week. So last night at about 10:30 I went to Wal Mart. Avrie tried to stay up, but was sound asleep with Kevin on the recliner. So I put 16 cute little Tinker Bell valentines together with little pencils and made her a valentines box. She woke up the next morning FURIOUS. Who is going to want pencils mom. That's all we do at school is use pencils. We are kids and we need candy. Whoops! She went to school so mad! When she got home she realized it was ok and was just so excited that Brock was there. Ha ha he is this cute little kid and she loved what he gave her. A heart sucker. She said she loved it with all of her heart. She loves Valentines now.... pencils and all.
• Nate and Rhonda's Jazz Party: Nate and Rhonda were so nice to invite us to dinner and another crazy Jazz game. It is never a dull moment at these events. Kevin, Vern, Me, Rhonda, Avrie and Payton (unless his Dad mentions Kobe's name) are big Jazz fans and poor Nate the Laker fan. Brent was there to but I am not exactly sure who he was going for. It was such a fun game to watch. Rhonda is a great cook and had lots of good food for us. They are such great friends. Go Jazz!
• Work is a lot busier these days: My amazing night managers quit. Britt got an awesome opportunity to coach at the University of Utah football team and everything just happened so fast and left me all alone with 288 crazy college kids. I miss Amanda so much. It's just not the same anymore and it never will be. I hope you guys the best, but you really just should come back. If you know me I am not an emotional person and I was a wreck. I still am a wreck. Amanda was my security blanket and I always knew I could ask her for advice and how to handle things and she always just new. Wherever you end up teaching I will give you the best recommend ever!
• Kevin bought me some new furniture and decorations! I love them and I love him!
• Shelby went to State Drill team. They did awesome. I can't believe she is a senior. She is an amazing dancer. We had an eventful experience up there. for lunch Ken and Linda had a gift certificate for Applebees (not my favorite), but I thought how bad can this be.... Ken and Linda always go to the exact same place when they come up north and always have so I was so excited to show them somewhere new. Well Kevin ordered a steak and potatoes dinner and can't eat until he has everything he orders well they forgot to bring out his potatoes and 20 minutes after they brought out his steak they finally brought his potatoes. They came in two piles - one was ice cold they seriously had ice on them and one pile was so hot it burnt his tongue. so he thought he would just mix them and be fine with it, but they stayed cold. He nicely asked for more and the manager offered cheese and bacon bits and everything else you put on potatoes. They brought them out about 20 more minutes later and because he can't eat his steak until all of his food is there it had gotten cold. Meanwhile we are all done eating and Kevin hasn't even started to eat. So he takes a bite of these amazing looking potatoes and in the first bight finds a spit wad. he never swears and he swore more in that dinner than I have ever heard him. So we get the manager back and he actually had the balls to explain it. He was trying to justify the paper in his food saying its just the paper we scrape the potatoes up from. So he is like I will get you a free desert and Kevin just asked if he could get a discount. He agreed and the waiter came back and said we have good and bad news. The good news is you got 50 percent off of your meal the bad news is we gave it to Vern. We were laughing so hard. My drink had dirt in it not a little it was disgusting. It looked like someone crapped in my cup. I still gag over it. I didn't say anything until everyone was done eating so they would still eat. Anyways nothing can just be normal with the Jensen's and Kevin ended up eating somewhere else. Needless to say we will never go there again.
• We went to a jazz game and they let me take a picture with the guys that do the half time show. So I wrote on a paper jungle (my father in law's nickname) the Jazz miss you, come back to a game and told them to make a sad face. It turned out so funny. We blew it up and I gave it to him. He loved and now I think he will come with us. I will post a picture of it later.
• A few cute things about Avrie right now so I can remember: I asked her if she knew what the chicken pox are and she said Mom do you think I'm an idiot? I didn't even know she knew that word and I am pretty sure she doesn't know what chicken pox are.
• This is so embarrassing and I can't believe I am telling you this. So I sat down to get on the computer and said ouch. She asked me what was wrong and I tried explaining what a zit was and that I had one on my butt. HaHaHa. She laughed so hard. That was that and I was glad to have that conversation over. It wasn't she went to school and shared that her mom has a zit on her butt and has a hard time sitting. She told me she was so happy to make her teacher happy and it made her laugh so hard. I could have killed her! i will try to remember what I say around her
• She has been on an estrogen outburst lately...drama queen to say the least. She always says don't talk to me, don't look at me, don't think about me. Just let me be I just need me time and don't ask why. I say don't act like a teenager and she says well does it look like I am going to stop. I hope this is just a phase. I miss my sweet little girl.
• Avrie is in the CTR 5 primary class and came out and said its really good to be a VCR meaning CTR. She loves church.
• Things she loves right now are: dance, grandmas and grandpas (ALL OF THEM - she is so lucky to have so many to spoil her), her aunts and uncles, McDonalds cheese burgers, crackers, head stands, SpongeBob, Icarly, her room, her blanket, catching snow on her tongue, hugs and snuggling, popcorn with movies, the computer - she loves the starfall website, her Buddy - Dad, getting her Mom a diet coke to keep her sane, jump ropes, lip gloss. She is so special. She is my hero. She is the perfect combination of the two of us. She has the biggest heart and is so sensitive and observant of everyone else's feelings - that is from her dad. She also is stubborn and KNOWS she can do anything without a doubt, she never gives up, a leader, so outgoing, she loves to meet new people - she gets these qualities from me. she is going to conquer the world. Oh yeah and she is the smartest 4 year old I know. She definitely gets that from me. Kevin would beg to differ. Ok she does get that from him. Avrie we love you and are so proud of you! Happy Valentines Week!

Wow, that was a really long post of the most random things. I love my life. I am blessed!

Sundance

My mom, sister Nicki and I went up to Park City last weekend. We had so much fun. I love this tradition. We wished Mandy could have came - next year! These first four pictures sum it all up. I really have no idea the last time I laughed so hard. I love spending time with my mom and sisters. They are my very best friends!! We didn't end up seeing anyone famous like other years because we went on the last Saturday, but it a blast anyways.

I had never seen my mom laugh so hard ever. She was acting so funny.

I have seen Nicki laugh this hard before, but not for quite a long time.

Park City main street

The free water bottles that we pledged to never throw away.

My moms boyfriend.

The over the shoulder celebrity look. Haha

These dogs were HUGE! I loved them and I am not much of an animal person.

Thanks Mom and Nicki for such a fun weekend and putting up with my crazy driving!

Love you!

Happy Birthday MOM!!!

I know, I know.... I can't believe it either. It's your birthday again. I swear you were just 29 wearing your cowgirl shirt with tassles and boots with your big brown hair, wearing your exclamation perfume - ready for a night out dancing! Haha! Happy Birthday! You are truly the greatest Mom in the whole wide world. I look up to you so much. You are so beautiful, smart, and fun. I know it's cheesy, but I really hope to just be at least as half as good as a mom to Avrie as you were to me. Now stop playing on the computer and take yourself out to whatever you want! Do something that you love to do and haven't done in a while. Avrie said she will get her ears pierced for your birthday - hahaha. I can't wait to come up and celebrate at Sundance this weekend! I love you!

Shelby's last year of Drill Team - She is the best dancer ever!

My sister in law Shelby is an amazing dancer. She is a senior this year and competes at region today for her last time! Good Luck.
Shelby at a dance compition in Richfield
Shelby and Avrie
North Sanpete Drill Team


Kevin, Taylor, and Josh enjoying the dance - haha
Taylor and Shelby - I love this picture!

Her biggest fans!
Josh and Taylor
Linda and Shelby. Linda is so so sad her little girl is growing up.
Shelby and her coaches.
I had to put this picture on because her facial expression is so funny.
Shelby and Ken. Ken's favorite thing in the whole world is to watch Shelby dance. It's a good thing Avrie is in dance too!
Avrie gets so excited to sit with Grandpa Jungle and watch the dances.
Another dance - this one was at half time of the boys Varsity Basketball game. They did great!

Avrie, Cheyenne and Jorie

Shelby, I just wanted to let you know that you can't ever stop dancing. Watching you dance and all the fun trips to your dance compititions are some of my very favorite memories.