Holiday fun with the Jensen Family

Every year we go to Cabela's to visit Santa. Its close to the house and the picture is free. This year we invited the Jensen family to join us. Getting four little girls to sit for a picture is not as easy as it might sound. It was a fun afternoon and well worth the wait in line to see the big guy.

Mya found the perfect resting spot.

Always worth the wait!

A few weeks later we got together again to make gingerbread houses. The girls were no help. They had a great time eating all the candy though.

Jason made his look like the temple.

I seem to be the one always taking pictures so this time I made sure I was in one!

New carpet

In november we finally got the carpet put in the basement! Its thick and soft and amazing!
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After

Happy Halloween

This year for Halloween we borrowed costumes from our neighbors. During the day Mya was a ladybug which of course I have no pictures of. For the trunk or treat she was a cow. Olivia was princess Belle. She was in heaven! It freaked me out a bit cause she looked like she was going to prom and I'm pretty sure I will never be ready for that!!!


This is Olivia's weird fake smile. It makes me crazy.

Fall fun

Like everyone we had a busy fall and it would take forever to catch up so here are a few of the things we did in September and October. In October my parents took us up to Logan for a weekend. We got a hotel and just relaxed. It was great. We took the girls swimming which they loved. On saturday we met the Lewis family at the North Logan pumpkin walk. It was so fun and not as cold as we were expecting which was a plus. I think we decided we need to do the pumpkin walk every year.






I got stuck with Yoda.


Typical saturday morning.

Like most kids Olivia and Mya love the park. My parents have a great one up the road from their house. It will be more fun this summer now that Mya can walk.




When I get a quiet moment, which are far and few between, this is how I like to spend some of my time.



This not so little guy has lived by one of the upstairs windows for the past 2 years or so. If you've seen our house its a long way up to the window he made his home so we never made the effort to get him down. Jason decided on day it was time for the spider to go so he made the climb up and got him down. As you can see its huge! I felt really bad about killing it since hes never caused any problems so I went inside while the deed was done.


Jason's parents bought some land up Spanish Fork Canyon last winter so we spent a lot of time up there during the summer. Theres water and power so they parked the trailer up there so when we went up we had all the comforts of home. The best way to camp with little ones! I usually forgot the camera but here are a few pictures from the last time we went up. On one of our drives we found this tree and of course Jason had to hang on it.


On our way up we stopped to get some donuts and boy did we enjoy them!

Growing up way too fast

No matter how hard I try to keep Olivia from growing up she still thinks she needs to. She turned 3 in September and decided she wanted to have a princess party. All of her girl friends dressed up for the occasion. The boys did not. Big surprise. She wanted a princess cake so I started looking around for one because I am not skilled in making cakes. The cheapest one I could find was at least $20. I decided I would rather make the cake myself and spend the $20 on her. Plus it was for a bunch of 3 year olds. They don't care what it looks like as long as it has lots of frosting, and boy did it!! We played games, had a little lunch, opened presents, but the best part was making Rosie and Brittany dress up and do make-up and face painting! Congrats to Rosie for still fitting into her old prom dress!! All in all it was a great day, even if Olivia did get a little older.