The Jensen Family

Phase Ten Twist

2012-02-11T15:31:00.001-08:00

Yep it's fun. Thanks Gma!!!!

Rough Rider!

2012-02-11T07:55:00.001-08:00

B loves her new bike, but is not quite ready to take the training wheels off. We will start practicing for that when spring rolls around!

Kynlee has fun chasing B around. Her legs move faster than her on a bike. But this spring will be her turn to learn to ride the trike and bike too! :-)

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Tooth fairy

2012-01-22T15:54:00.001-08:00

Dear tooth fairy,

.... Please stop by the Jensen house tonight, Brooky lost her first tooth, make that two teeth. However, some difficulty was encountered and she swallowed the first. Oops! We will put the remaining tooth under her pillow tonight.

Thanks,

Love Sheena and Brooklyn

Static

2012-01-21T17:30:00.001-08:00

This was quite impressive!

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Brooklyn's new room

2012-01-20T16:59:00.001-08:00

Here is B's new room:

We got her: hello kitty bedding, a pink trash can, desk organizers, a desk chair, and she got a new desk we found of the side of the road for free.

We still need to get a few wall decorations and I am going make her a wall hanging that she can pin/clip her drawings to so she can display her art.

Very cute.

Darn technology

2012-01-17T19:24:00.001-08:00

Well, our laptop is kapoot. The graphic card and hardware for the screen is bad. It will cost almost as much to fix than to buy a new one!

I told my father-in-law that it is okay. We can do without one for a while.

Then I get an email today from my t2t professor. Class started today.... Oops.... Forgot I have online masters classes to take. Crap, I really do need my laptop.

Jeff thinks he can rig my laptop so it runs thru a different monitor and hook up a different keyboard. Jimmy rigged will be how my desk looks, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

PS. Look at this stuffed animal Brooklyn got from her doctor today after getting her shots!!! Wow! All I used to get was a sucker or a sticker!!!!

B at her party!

Her hello kitty cake.

And the girls warming there hineys by the fire. Don't worry, I warned them about the time I burned my butt. Hahaha.

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Hi Gma.

2012-01-09T17:16:00.001-08:00

Better post some new pics or I know you'll be calling asking for some! :-)

Bought this really cool scarf for $1.75 at Dillon's. I love it.

Bought this awesome washer and dryer set at an auction for $80 and sold the set for $250 on Craigslist! $$$!

Other happening:

-school started back up again so I am trying to get in the swing of things. Tomorrow I will have 15 middle school kids in my classes 'testing' out high school science.
And my district observer came today and said I am the best first year teacher she has ever seen. She said I am better than most seasoned teachers she knows. (not that I have a big head or anything).... But I kinda knew that already. Hahaha

-B and K have been sick. I think B had an ear infection and K had a sinus infection. Both are getting better.

- Wes is still loving his job. He has been doing really well and getting lots of overtime.

- B has her birthday party of Saturday that I need to get ready for. She wants to re-do her room in Hello Kitty. We will see. We might spiff it up a little.

-we set Kynlee her own room back up as she and B were not working out in the same room. Kynlee was waking up Brooklyn all the time and not sleeping well. The separate rooms seems to be working much better.

- I start masters classes again in a week. Bring on the hectic mess!

Love you Grandma! And everyone else!

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Christmas Morning

2011-12-25T09:58:00.001-08:00

We got way too spoiled today.

And poor daddy is tired.

Life is good.

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From Dad

2011-12-25T09:34:00.001-08:00

This cute little address sign! Thanks dad! And thank you to everyone for making our Christmas so wonderful. We are too spoiled!

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Christmas Eve

2011-12-24T15:37:00.001-08:00

Our dear husband and dad is at work today. Sacrificing his day to serve the community. We love and miss him.

The girls and I are going to a christmas party at his aunt's house:

And I actually took the time to curl my massive amounts of hair:

And here is our resident elf. Hahaha her ears crack me up!

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The Cruise

2011-12-24T15:33:00.001-08:00

The western Caribbean: we left from Florida and went to Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, and Cozumel.

Photo Shoot

2011-10-23T11:08:00.001-07:00

Before church today we decide to take a quick photo shoot.

Here is what we came up with!

Abby

2011-09-30T15:48:00.001-07:00

Meet Abby from NCIS...

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Celebrity day at school!

PBR

2011-09-24T21:14:00.001-07:00

- Went to the Pro Bull Riding event tonight!

Wes won a drill for being the biggest stud. They had a dewalt stud finder on the megatron and it stopped on him and beeped! Haha!

Saturday

2011-07-30T09:24:00.001-07:00

The day began with a bath. Then off to pick up Brooklyn who had a sleep over at Billie and Jeff's house. She was babysitting Uncle Brandon.

Then to the store for some much needed essentials!

Now home with my butt parked in front of my computer trying to get some school work done before I have to go to my class this week! :)

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Testing

2011-07-22T20:07:00.001-07:00

Testing 123.... Blogger is being dumb!

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Grrrr

2011-07-19T13:56:00.001-07:00

Trying to post pictures from our catfishing trip.... but it wont work! This irritates me!

Picnic at the Riverside

2011-06-27T15:37:00.001-07:00

It was a beautiful day so we had a picnic down by the river downtown. Girls had fun running around and being silly.

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2011-06-26T14:20:00.001-07:00

My pretty girls!

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Hi everyone

2011-06-20T18:43:00.001-07:00

Wes just got his Father's day gift today. A helicopter! :)

I have been busy planting and beautifying my house.

My new flowers!

My big bass!

Brooky and a turtle we caught! Trying to steal our fish.

Me at work.

And yes... Me and Dan Marino. More pictures soon. Love and miss you all!

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Brooky's field trip

2011-05-25T10:36:00.001-07:00

We went to Tanganika for Brooky's last day of school.

Getting ready to feed the lemurs.

Mommy and Joey

Miss Brooky is getting sooooo big and so smart. Congrats on finishing your first year of preschool Brooky. Love you.

Tim!!!

2011-05-20T02:51:00.001-07:00

Went to the Tim McGraw concert! So fun!

Must say I was escorted by the hottest cowboy in the joint!

We make good cow folk don't we?

My new boots!

The Band Perry and Luke Bryan opened for the concert. It was awesome. Very good show. Tim is an old man and he still looks and sings great.

Love you all!

Night at the Lake

2011-05-17T05:11:00.001-07:00

Kynlee holding a crawdad... Not scared one bit. She liked him actually!

Sea monster #1

Sea monster #2

Michelle's sea monster

Full moon and a fire

And the biggest marshmallow mess ever!

Oh and by the way.... At 11:30 pm Brook wakes up crying wanting to go home. So I took her and left Wes and Brandon camping (Kynlee spent the night at Michelle's). Little stinker butt. I was excited to camp! Oh well, maybe next time! :)

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Mothers Day

2011-05-08T09:29:00.001-07:00

Today is Mothers Day. Gmas and mom's I love you all.

Here are a few pics from today:

My peonies are all bloomed out! So pretty!

She was bring a stinker at church so we walked around the building numerous times. :) isn't she getting so big?!

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Easter 2011

2011-04-24T19:26:00.001-07:00

Had our neighbors over for dinner and egg hunting!

Our awesome neighbors.

Garden and Fishing

2011-04-20T15:30:00.001-07:00

Anyone know what this is??? I can't figure out the name!!!

Here is my bed pretty much finished!! Planted a veggie garden too on the side of the house.

Been fishing tons lately. I love it!!!

Eating mexican food! Yum!!

My fun new Five Finger shoes for running.

Pretty cool huh!! They rock!

Someone got a marker!

Love you all!!!

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Living Room ReVamp

2011-03-30T16:06:00.001-07:00

My living room got a revamp this week. A 55 gallon fish tank and 6 new plants!

Just got some danios and tetras to try in the tank. Hope they survive. Was worried about the pH but the fish store guy said that he uses the same water and thru do fine. We will just see!

I love plants! :)

Fishing and around the house

2011-03-22T13:16:00.001-07:00

Been super busy lately. Got a job at Lowe's and am loving it. I work in the outside lawn and garden.

Working there has gotten me excited to fix up my garden beds this spring! Here is a before of the back:

So ugly! So we started ripping things out and my neighbor boys ripped out my dead roses!

Aren't they so sweet! Their family is from Columbia. They are awesome and the best neighbors we could ask for!

Here is what it looks like now:

Still need to dig up a couple things then lay the landscape fabric and mulch. I am
Planting rhododendrons where the roses were.

Today I also FINALLY replaced my dumb front door handle!!! It was the hardest door to get in and out of... Until now! Ta-da!!!

In other news, we went fishing/camping yesterday and this morning! Well... Let me explain. We were going to all go camping. But Kynlee would have no part of sleeping in the tent. I took her home and Wes camped with Brooky. We catch some nice fish! Bass and a green sunfish!

Wes caught the best 2 bass! One of them using scrambled eggs! Hahaha!!!!

Baby green sunfish.

Dirty faced B!

The girls had fun and so did I! I am definitely doing this more often!!!

Geocaching

2011-03-08T13:08:00.001-08:00

First time for everything! Today we went geocaching. Geocaching is like treasure hunting using GPS! We found two caches!

The turtle trinket we took. We need to get a trinket to leave.

Brooky with the second cache!!!

I see lots of geocaching in my future.

Engaged!

2011-03-05T16:29:00.001-08:00

Brooky informed me a couple days ago that her and Riley are getting married when they get big. Just thought I should inform you all of their engagement!

Aren't they so cute???

Zoo on a pretty day

2011-03-01T14:29:00.001-08:00

We took the girls to the zoo today because it was SO nice!

My penguins!

Kynlee flipped over all the birds. She ran around pointing and saying 'oh OH oh'!

Grizzly!

Gators... Well Caiman actually, but who would know that but me?!

Plus here is one from our shopping yesterday. Kynlee is too stinkin' cute for her own good!!!

Painting

2011-02-18T09:48:00.001-08:00

Nice weather= hurry up and paint!

Dance Party

2011-02-12T17:17:00.001-08:00

YouTube Video

Had the Zogg kids over tonight. We had a dance party!

Kynlee loves her boyfriend Lucas. And apparently picks her nose too.

Fun times!!!

Snow Day AGAIN!!!

2011-02-09T07:42:00.001-08:00

Glad we came home when we did. It snowed 6 inches yesterday and a few more overnight!

Shoveled snow and played then built a fire and enjoyed the warmth!

Adventures of Dad and Sheena

2011-02-08T14:01:00.000-08:00

Yesterday Dad and I got to go for the most amazing hike ever! We saw some awesome sights and talked more than we have talked in years. Very grateful for the opportunity to go and share that with my dad!!!

We went to Pinon Canyon and hiked down to the dinosaur tracks. It is the largest collection of dino tracks in North America.

The first part of the hike was down... we had to get into the canyon. It was a pretty go getting down.

There was still a little bit of snow left in the shady areas and on the north side. It started at 28 degrees but ended up at almost 50 and we were both sweating!!!

Dad at the beginning.

The Purgatory River runs thru the canyon and is what uncovered the dino tracks.

There is a cemetery next to an old mission home ruin. 3 of the 4 graves were woman and were all in spanish. Probably a spanish catholic mission with nuns????

After a 5.6 mile hike in, we finally got to the tracks. 60% of the tracks are allosaurus tracks. Allosaurus was a meat eating dino like a mini T-rex. To give perspective, I have size 11 womens boots on. I have BIG feet. But look at their prints!!!

The other prints were from the long necked variety of dino called apatosaurus. These were the gentle giants who were herbivores. HUGE foot prints!

You can see the trails they made. All walking in the same direction. Following one path.

The Purgatory was beautiful right by the tracks. We sat and had a picnic lunch that we packed in. It was so peaceful.

Me and my dad

Sitting in an apatosaurus footprint. Pant legs were rolled up because I had to walk bare foot in the river to get to the apatosaurus tracks. Water was only about 4 inches deep, but it was cold!!!!!!

This was the mile sign about 0.5 miles from the dino tracks heading back to the trailhead.

The way back up out of the canyon was.... up hill. We had to stop for a few breaks so the "old man" could rest a tad. HaHaHa!!! Secretly I was breathing hard too!

I wanted to say a big thank you to Wes and Grandma for watching my girls so I could go on this wonderful adventure with my dad. Grandma, I love you more than you know. And I always will. You are very special to me. I love you and I am sorry. And thank you Gpa for letting us use your truck. I love you too!

Finally, thank you Dad for taking me and spending time with me. I have missed you so much over the years and this was a very special trip for me. Thank you! Sorry about your blister. I was so proud of you!!! I love you!

:) Sheena AKA The Adventurer! ----- signing off----- :)

2 minute outing

2011-02-03T12:01:00.000-08:00

We went to the YMCA, got some energy out. Came home with the full intent of playing in the snow.

We lasted long enough to get these two photos. Brooky and I got were freezing. Of course, gym pants are not 17degree weather appropriate!!!

We had fun in our 2 minutes. As you can see... Brooky is STILL full of character.

If you ever see a "normal" picture of here.... you can assume I cheated and used Photoshop!!!

Snowed In

2011-02-02T14:26:00.001-08:00

Anyone what to come dig us out??

Drifts about 2 1/2 feet tall in the driveway.

Brooky needs dug out too!

Kenny-Ken and Momma

2011-01-31T08:01:00.001-08:00

My lil love!

Pop Rocks

2011-01-27T17:28:00.001-08:00

And one more video just for fun:

YouTube Video

Cereal for Dinner

2011-01-27T17:18:00.001-08:00

Here's what happens when I don't feel like cooking or parenting for that matter:

YouTube Video

Notice, Brooky is still in her jammies and it's 7:11pm. Disclaimer: normally we aren't allowed to play at the dinner table.

Kynlee Update: the medicine may be working. She's been eating a lot better today. No vomiting, but when it says that a side effect is diarrhea... It's not kidding. She has had soft serve ice-cream in mustard flavor all day, probably about a quart full! Gross, I know!

Anyone want to volunteer to come change a few diapers? I'm pooped... pun intended! :)

Kynlee Girl

2011-01-25T09:31:00.001-08:00

Well, Kynlee always has been a skinny butt. But we have been getting worried because her eating is getting worse.

We took her to the doctor yesterday. She weighed 21 lbs 3 oz. Actually at 25% which is better. But her eating is not good. Getting that kid to eat is hard. She acts like we are feeding her dirt when we would be happy if she'd eat cookies and ice cream!

Doctor put her on a reflux med. We should be picking that up today.

If in two weeks she is not eating better then we have to take she to a pediatric gastroenterologist to see what the problem is.

I just want my baby to EAT!!!

I love my girls!!

Christmas Morning

2011-01-23T13:04:00.001-08:00

Playing with video uploads. Let's see if this one works. Seems to be having some trouble!

YouTube Video

New Blog App

2011-01-23T11:35:00.001-08:00

My Sis in law was asking about Blogger Press, an iPhone app. I had a free version and loved it. When she was asking about it, I looked at the new app and it had video uploading and text editing! I haven't posted a video in FOREVER! So I bought it. The $2.99 was worth it to show you this video:

YouTube Video

Party time

2011-01-22T16:06:00.001-08:00

The birthday girls!

Kynlee chowing down on her gluten free cupcake.

Presents!

Singing happy birthday!!

Blowing the candles out.

All the princesses (and prince)!

Princess Cakes

2011-01-22T12:24:00.001-08:00

Here are the cakes:

Rupunzel!!!

Belle from Beauty and the Beast!

Birthday Prep

2011-01-22T08:52:00.001-08:00

Princess is primped:

- Sheena

Time to Eat Healthier

2011-01-20T17:10:00.001-08:00

Whoa!

I didn't realize I had gotten so fat! Those 5 lbs I gained over the holidays are really showing.

Bye bye cookies and cake.... For now!

- Sheena

My baby is 4!

2011-01-19T05:44:00.001-08:00

4 years ago today, this lil sweetheart tested our faith, pulled at our heart strings and struggled to survive. She came thru! She's happy and she's healthy and she's 4 and still tests our faith and patience!!!

We said "can we hug you Brooky?" She told us "no I'm not Brooklyn, I'm Rupunzel!"

Corn doggies!

2011-01-18T12:22:00.001-08:00

Just so cute! Girls have been so good and we have tons of errands to run and stopped at QT to fill up the car tires with air and I bought the girls corn dogs!

Their favorite!

Plus they were 2 for $2. Bonus!

- Sheena

Sleep Over Update: Dream

2011-01-17T06:34:00.001-08:00

Scroll down to see the fun pictures of our sleep over.

I must tell you about what woke me up last night (besides the feet in my back and no room in my bed).

In the middle of the night Brooky starts saying "Give it back! Give it to me!".

I roll over and ask "What are you talking about?"

She proceeds to wake from her dream tell me that Jensen stole her fish stick and wouldn't give it back!

Do you dream of stolen fish sticks?

Now the girls are both in bed with us, holding hands and falling down. Timmmmber!

Good morning world!

Sleep Over

2011-01-16T19:11:00.001-08:00

Brooky is having a sleep over in bed with us tonight. She fell asleep. Once Brooky is out... She's out!

As a baby we could change her diaper and everything and she wouldn't even budge!

Still the same... So I had fun taking these:

I know, I'm mean... But she'll never even know. She never even budged!

This one is freaky! I opened her eyes and she was still asleep, never moved a muscle! Eyes all wacky!

My sweet little angel:

What a sweetie! Especially when she's asleep.

I wish her sissy slept like a rock like her. But nope, Kynlee is the lightest sleeper on earth! I swear you look at her bedroom door and she'll wake up.

8:48pm

2011-01-12T18:55:00.000-08:00

It's 8:48pm.

I am laying in bed watching Olivia with my almost 4 year old.

She just offered to go get me a snack and a drink...

She thinks being a sweetie will let her stay up past her bed time. And obviously it is working.

She is currently in the bathroom filling a mug with water for my drink. Bathroom water. Yum.

Wonder what I am getting for a snack?

She love me. It's sure nice when she shows it every now and again. I could get really used to being catered to!

Jensen Family Funny

2011-01-10T19:34:00.001-08:00

Tonight Wes was saying the prayer to bless our dinner. Of course my eyes were closed, but I had to look over when I heard Brooky whisper to herself, "This is taking too stinkin' long."

Apparently Wes says long prayers and Brooky was extra hungry.

Hahahaha! Priceless. That's my Brooky!

- Sheena

Snow Day

2011-01-10T08:44:00.001-08:00

Brooky's school was cancelled because of snow today. We got 3-4 inches last night with more supposed to be coming today.

We got out and played in it this morning.

They love having dad home.

Bangs

2011-01-04T19:34:00.000-08:00

I barely trimmed a few stranglers and voilà. Bangs. We have been fighting chlorine damage ever since last spring when we had B in swim lessons and we were in the pool almost everyday. Her poor hair was been fighting damage ever since and breaks really easy. No more rubber bands in the front for a little while to let it grow out and not break.

She's darn cute with little bangs though!

The back is getting quite long. She is trying to grow Rupunzel hair. Only 19 more feet to go.

Bad Hair Day

2011-01-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

This is more the norm than the exception. I think she gets it from Gpa Lynn and Gpa Jeff and Gpa Loran.

After Christmas

2010-12-26T15:54:00.000-08:00

The girls got so spoiled. I have opened gobs of toys. Brooky has managed to paint her lips with fingernail polish "on accident" and lose her Rupunzel barbie (now found) and play with about every other toy she got as well as wear all her new clothes.

Kynlee has had hours of fun playing with her piggy bank toy and car and all the other goodies she got.

My girls are spoiled rotten!

Thank you everyone for spoiling us!

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T09:29:00.001-08:00

Brooky discovering her Santa present.

Letter from Santa.

She got the one and only thing she asked Santa for, a unicorn pillow pet.

Kynlee in love with Brooky's vanity. I see a lot of bickering in the near future.

Cookies for breakfast. Kynlee pointing to all her presents!

Happy

2010-12-17T14:01:00.000-08:00

Hi y'all.

- Sheena

Dear Santa....

2010-12-14T19:26:00.001-08:00

We've been good... This week anyway.

Everyone needs good reading material, right?

Ha ha! See the ring on her butt from sitting there?! No potty though. Darn.

Bundled up. We finally found a coat in Brooky's old clothes that fits Kynlee! Yay for not having to buy one.

Wes grew his hair out for the winter. Nice huh?

Brooky and her friend Preslee. They are best buds.

Playing dress up at Preslee's house. Brooky informed me that she NEEDS dress up clothes (hers at home are WAY too small I had to put them away) and she NEEDS kid makeup and NEEDS more fake stick on nails and she NEEDS a Rapunzel barbie doll. We went and saw the movie Tangled about Rapunzel, the girl with long magical hair... Now Brooky is obsessed.

Hope Santa pulls threw this year, Mommy and Daddy have no more Christmas money!!!

PS. We got our big family picture back... It is GRrrrrrrrreat. I will post a picture when I get a frame!

Good Morning

2010-12-10T08:31:00.001-08:00

It has been a rather interesting morning. Here is what we have been up to:

Yes that is a Brooky leg poking out the bottom of that pile.

Brooky and Kynlee each earned a Hershey kiss for cleaning Brooky's room:

I asked Kynlee if she ate any of hers or if she was wearing it all.

I soon realized that their "cleaning job" was a little off. They are too smart and only made the room look good from mommy's view.

My point of view:

Kid view:

Yes everything was shoved under the bed.

All in all the kids have been good today.... So far. It's a nice and needed change!

Stinky Feet!

2010-12-07T18:13:00.001-08:00

Wes is getting pampered by the girls:

I told him good thing he has the Karst girl to pamper him.... Because I'm not gonna touch those stinky feet!!!

Splash

2010-12-06T10:53:00.000-08:00

Taking a bath with mom. Too much fun playing with mom's gargantuous feet!

Pee Pee

2010-12-01T11:40:00.000-08:00

I am a proud Momma today. When you say "poo-poo" or "diaper", Kynlee says "poo" and points to her diaper.

I decided to break out the potty. She had fun sitting on it this morning. Then this afternoon I asked her if she needed to go potty.

She said "poo" and pointed to her diaper.

I said "ok lets go".

She walked to my bathroom and I got her diaper off and put her on the little potty.

She immediately wanted to get up, but I covered her face with the towel hanging behind her and played peek-a-boo.

About 5 seconds later, she got a funny look on her face and I heard it!!

She tinkled!!

We clapped and praised her and she was awfully happy! I guess we will be trying to go "potty" more often. Maybe Kynlee will be potty trained faster than Brooky. She is 15 months now, and Brooky was potty trained by 19 months.

Good Job Kynlee!!!

Our Family Pictures

2010-12-01T09:39:00.000-08:00

We finally got our family pictures back and I am SOOOOOO happy. They turned out beautiful.

Here are just a few!

Daddy's Girls

2010-11-28T18:01:00.000-08:00

Here is the first picture we have gotten back from our photo shoot. I LOVE it!!! Can't wait for the rest of the pictures!!!!

Sisters

2010-11-19T09:57:00.000-08:00

Having too much fun being squished in a tub at walmart!

We are getting very excited to go to CO for Thanksgiving, but sad we have to leave Wes behind. Brooky keeps talking about having a 'sleep over' at Gma Brundage's house. She can't wait.

I am excited to cook good food and hang out with my family. It's been a long rime since I've been able to spend Thanksgiving with them.

We are trying to get the final nativity set orders completed and I have been having a blast knitting things. If only I owed a Hobby Lobby and could get whatever craft things I needed whenever I pleased. That would be amazing.

Lots of love to everyone this wonderful time of year!

Kynlee wants to go too!

2010-11-17T13:28:00.000-08:00

She really wants to go to school with Brooky. Whenever we drop B off, Kynlee screams. She wants to be a big girl.

We need to get that hair in a ponytail so she can see!!!

- Sheena

Curls

2010-11-14T17:29:00.000-08:00

I forgot to post these the other day. Brooky and Kynlee both got their hair curled.

Kynlee got her top curl put into a ponytail and she ended up looking like Reba with her hair flipped out. It was cute!

Knitting

2010-11-12T22:32:00.001-08:00

I have taken up knitting. Although I cheat and use a Knifty Knitter Loom, but it is still knitting!

My scarflette!

Kynlee in her new hat! And a glimpse of our newly refinished deck!

Brooky's hat. I am going to add a crocheted flower to the side.

My Lil Daredevil

2010-11-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

I walk into the family room to see this.

Then she starts laughing and raises her arms up. When she raises her arms she wants you to tickle her pitties.

So I tickled them and she was happy.

Brooky was caught doing this:

Making her bed! I told her we needed to clean up the home so Daddy would be really happy when he got home tonight. I went to check on her a few minutes later and there she was cleaning her room.

She misses Wes a lot. She wants him home ASAP.

Eyes

2010-11-07T07:31:00.001-08:00

Someone learned how to cross her eyes:

I told her to not do it or her eyes might get stuck like that forever!

Hahaha!

Ouch... My neck!

2010-11-03T08:45:00.001-07:00

Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is a mountain of laundry!

Ahhhhh, it's gonna eat me ALIVE!!!!!

Laundry is the biggest pain in my neck!!!

I guess if laundry is all I have to complain about right now, I am doing pretty good. God is good to me.

What's gonna eat you alive today?

:) Sheena

Canning: More Apples!

2010-11-01T10:47:00.001-07:00

The last of the apple canning is complete in the Momma Chef kitchen. (remember my apple craze at Walmart... Apples for 50cents per pound).

I decided to can some apple pie filling. It was easy as pie... Haha... I love food jokes.

Here is what you need:

5-7 quart jars, lids and rings
About 6.5 lbs of apples
5 cups white sugar
1 cup corn starch
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 ts Ginger
1/2 ts nutmeg
2 ts salt
11 cups water
3 tbsp lemon juice

Peel, core and slice the apples.

In the meantime, boil water to sterilize the jars, lids and rings.

Mix all dry ingredients in a pot. Stir in water and bring to a boil. Stir until thick then remove from heat and add lemon juice.

Pack apples into hot jars.

Pour sauce over apples to 1/2 inch from top of jar.

Poke a spoon or knife into the jar to remove air bubbles.

Top off with sauce to 1/2 inch of top.

Seal with lids and rings and boil in a water bath for 20 minutes.

Remove from bath and let cool. Check lids for seal and voilà! Homemade apple pie filling for about 1/4 of the store price!

- Sheena

Stink Bug

2010-10-30T18:28:00.000-07:00

Together they make a stink bug:

Trunk-R-treat pics to come soon.

- Sheena

Jack-O-Lanterns

2010-10-30T10:09:00.001-07:00

B and our cool pumpkins!

Mine says Primary for the smile because I am in the Primary Presidency at church, we teach the 4-12 yr olds. We are having a trunk-r-treat tonight with a jack-o-lantern contest.

Brooky drew her very own face. I just cut it out for her. Look how good she did!

The Crud

2010-10-29T16:36:00.000-07:00

Well, both girls are sick. Brooklyn has a sinus infection, bronchitis, and on the verge of an ear infection because SOMEONE waiting too long to take her to the doctor thinking it would "blow over". Yes that someone was me. Kynlee has a sinus infection and on a little girl who doesn't yet know how to blow her nose.... it's rather disgusting. Both are on antibiotics since yesterday afternoon and I am hoping that by tomorrow evening they will be a little better

I am feeling like poo today... I am hoping by tomorrow afternoon (48 hrs of antibiotics) the girls will be feeling better and I will not develop anything.

Happy Halloween Weekend to the Jensen Family. Maybe I don't need to dress the girls up in costumes after all, just let their boogers run everywhere and put them in raggy clothes and call them walking zombies!

Sweet Sisters

2010-10-24T19:02:00.000-07:00

After a great day at church, we went to Billie and Jeff's house (Wes's mom and dad) and I caught this:

They are so sweet. Best friends. Kynlee copies everything Brooky does... Including coughing. Brooky has a cold with a bad cough right now. If she coughs, Kynlee has to cough. It's funny.

- Sheena

Pumpkin Patch 2010

2010-10-23T14:10:00.000-07:00

I finally am going to post pictures from the pumpkin patch this year. Grandma and Grandpa Brundage were here in Kansas visiting and we had such a great time. I miss them already.

I love this picture. It totally reflects Brooky's personality. Making an evil goofy face behind Gpa.

Kynlee, our little snuggle bug, getting in some good snuggles with Gpa Brundage

Posing next to her booty of pumpkins!

Gma B and Brooky hunting for the perfect one! Too many to choose from!

Aaaa HA! This is it!

We had a wonderful time! See you next year Cox Farms!

Halloween House

2010-10-22T14:00:00.000-07:00

Our family has started a tradition of building a Halloween house. Here we are getting started!

Kynlee could hardly stand the sight of the candy that was supposed to used to decorate the house that we had to feed her some to prevent her from screaming the whole time. Yes, that is the remnants of candy corn on Kynlee's neck.

Wes holding the roof on for A LONG TIME! Trying to get the roof to not slide off!

The final product! Spooky!

About 30 seconds after our finish... the roof fell off and I gave up and told Brooky to eat it! She was happy to oblige.

Guess What!?

2010-10-21T14:59:00.001-07:00

Momma Chef got a new oven range!!!! WooHooo!

Kenmore with convection, Turbo boil, a keep-warm burner and keep warm setting in the oven, self cleaning, air guard (pick and choose whether or not you want the smell of your baking food to be released into the house! Cookies yes, cabbage no).

This momma chef is happy! Can you tell?

Thanks Gma and Gpa Brundage. Merry Christmas to me Merry Christmas to me, Merry Christmas Dear Sheena.... And family.... Merry Christmas to me!!!

To be delivered on Monday and pictures will follow!

- Sheena

No Candy

2010-10-20T15:46:00.001-07:00

Really? Already? She's only one!

Kynlee points to the candy bowl which we moved high up onto the mantel because the girls wouldn't stay out of it. She squeals.

I say, "no candy, you already had one."

She gives me a big cry and this face:

'Tis the season for candy corn... But not too much for my kiddos.

On a different note, I have been swamped this week. Excited for my weekend (Monday and Tuesday) then get called to sub Monday-Wednesday and a half day Friday. Not that I mind because we can use the extra cash to help pay down debt. However, I have 15 nativity sets to finish by tomorrow, a lawn that needs mowed and fertilized, a deck that needs new stairs and stair trusses and deck boards and stripped and stained, a house that needs painted on 2 sides, and a bunch of stuff that I need to do for Primary at Church, plus laundry that needs folded and put away and a garage that REALLY needs to be cleaned and organized and pumpkins that need to be cooked and canned. Two disastrous little girl rooms to clean/organize and a playroom that needs cleaned. Oh did I mention I need to go oven shopping (which I would LOVE to do sooner than later).

I think I need to squeeze a few more hours into each day and find a few babysitters to watch my kids so I can get caught up!

Pumpkin Spice Whole Wheat Bread

2010-10-18T19:36:00.001-07:00

Not to be confused with Pumpkin Bread (the quick sweet type... Like banana bread), this is whole wheat yeast bread with pumpkin and spices in it.

The recipe I concocted rose and baked perfectly! I wish I could say it tastes perfect too... But I am on diet and can't eat it!!! It is going to some lucky families tomorrow! I will have to hear what they think about it.

Here you go:

Pumpkin Spice Whole Wheat Bread

2/3 cup warm milk
1/2 cup warm water
2 eggs
1 cup puréed pumpkin (either canned or fresh cooked)
2 TBSP oil
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 TBSP yeast
2 ts salt
2 ts cinnamon
1 ts ground Ginger
1/2 ts nutmeg
1/4 ts allspice
3 cups red wheat flour
2 1/2 cups white wheat flour (or white all purpose flour)

Mix together the first 12 ingredients. Add 3 cups of red wheat flour and beat vigorously for 3 minutes. Slowly (by the 1/2 cups), add the white wheat flour. Do not add too much. Dough should be slightly (just very slightly) sticky, but if you spray your hands with cooking spray it should not stick to you. Knead for 5 minutes.

Let rise in greased bowl for 90 minutes.

Punch down then separate into 3 medium loaves or 2 large loaves. Make sure to spray the loaf pans with cooking spray and make little plastic wrap tents to keep the dough soft! Let rise 60 minutes.

Bake at 375 for about 25 minutes for medium loaves or 25-30 for large loaves.

Oh and don't forget to whip up some Pumpkin Butter with the extra pumpkin to top this bread while you are waiting for the dough to rise!!!

- Sheena

Cheese Curls

2010-10-16T05:51:00.001-07:00

We got spoiled while Gma and Gpa Brundage were here. We are so sad to see them have to go home.

They always get the girls cheese curls and Velveeta Mac and Cheese (which Brooklyn LOVES because I usually buy the cheap stuff).

Gma and Gpa, we love you guys so much. We had blast and we can't wait to come over and spend more time with you.

Here is Kynlee enjoying her cheese curls.

- Sheena

PS. Thank you Penny for the darling earrings and necklaces. They love them.

Red Robin Crazies

2010-10-11T16:16:00.001-07:00

We had to cut off Grandma tonight. As you can see she had one too many:

Ha! Just kidding. Love you Grandma!

One year ago

2010-10-10T20:41:00.001-07:00

One year ago, we went to the pumpkin patch. Kynlee was a baby baby. Brooky was scared to death of the scarecrows.

And Wes and I were fat!

Going back on Wednesday to take more lovely pictures!

Oh yea, and gma and gpa Brundage will be here tomorrow! Can't wait!!!

- Sheena

Bad Hair Day

2010-10-08T06:16:00.001-07:00

Mine's equally as bad, but the beauty about being Mom is that I don't have to post pictures of myself... I can just embarrass the kids.

We are all getting very excited for Gma and Gpa Brundage to come!

Walking

2010-10-07T10:50:00.001-07:00

By the way, Kynlee started walking 2 days ago. She is doing awesome!

- Sheena

Made in The USA

2010-10-07T10:31:00.001-07:00

Kynlee is 100% USA, Kansas bred and corn fed!

I think corn is her favorite food.

- Sheena

Brooklyn

2010-10-06T18:13:00.001-07:00

I am so impressed with my little B. She is learning so much at preschool. In 6 short weeks look at how well she can write her name. Keep in mind... She's only 3! Two more years until kindergarten. At this rate she'll be ready for 2nd grade at that point!

And she colors better than ever being really careful to stay in the lines and change colors too.

I love her so much!

Eek!

2010-10-05T12:48:00.001-07:00

My newest project:

Eek! Blocks

They turned out so cute don't you think!?

Sisters

2010-10-05T10:10:00.000-07:00

Here is my cute little wall hanging that I have been neglecting. It is a scrapbook page displaying picture thingy ma bob. I love it but haven't made a page for it in FOREVER. So I decided to make a cute one of the girls.

- Sheena

First sleepover

2010-10-01T16:33:00.001-07:00

The beginnings of Brooky's first sleep over:

Fish sticks for dinner....

Playing outside

Kynlee being jealous and wanting to go outside with the girls!

13 month Stats

2010-09-27T10:09:00.000-07:00

For the record:

At 13 month Kynlee still hasn't broke 20 lbs. She is 19.75 lbs and 30.5 inches. 75% for height, 25% for weight, 50% for head size.

My sweet, petite little girl got 3 shots today and gets more in 2 months.

- Sheena

Shopper

2010-09-27T07:52:00.001-07:00

She got mad when it was time to get out.

My little grocery shopper!

Homeless Child

2010-09-25T12:10:00.001-07:00

If I didn't know better, I would have mistaken Kynlee for a homeless child today.

One Kynlee + a well used/dirty garage floor = a faux homeless baby!

Sunday Morning

2010-09-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

The menu for breakfast this morning:

Waffles
Cheesy puff corn

These two foods are arguably the girls favorite foods.

And yes, I did make them eat their waffles before they got any cheese puffs!

- Sheena

Holy Hail Stones!

2010-09-15T18:43:00.001-07:00

Some of the stones were 5 inches in diameter! My yard looks like a meteor shower hit, craters everywhere... I am scared to look at my roof...

The tornado that decided not to come all the way down.... Blocks from my house!

Mrs. Jensen

2010-09-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

I have been subbing the last two weeks for a high school biology teacher who had surgery to remove cancer. Ihave been having a grea time and it has been really good to have this change in routine. It has made me miss being home with my girls all day. It has made me miss sleeping in until 7:30am. It has made me miss seeing my husband during the day.

As I have been subbing I have had the chance to see kids that have come from many different homes. It is an eye opener to how family and morals are falling apart. It is amazing to see how some students behave and treat others. It makes me want to do the very best I can to be a good example for my children and to teach them the right way to live and treat others. I want my children to be Christ-like. I want them to treat others with respect and to love themselves enough to stick to good morals.

I am very excited to have a little extra money to get some basic maintenance done on my house, but I am also excited to be home again and to do basic maintenance on our family. I love that I have such a good husband who works so hard at two jobs so I can stay home and raise our children and care for our home. I guess this long term sub job has been good for me in many ways and I am grateful I had the chance to do this.

God is good!

Bye Bye Brooky...

2010-09-06T13:45:00.000-07:00

.... Brooky Baby Weight that is!

Today I finally reached my pre Brooky weight and boy am I happy about that. 3 1/3 yrs later, it is nice to have my body back!

It is great to feel good in my own skin. And for once I have decided to be happy right where I am, because I have shrunk out of most of my clothes and am too cheap to go by more right now. Size 10-12.... I love you!

Yes I am a little nutty. I get to go on a date tonight. I'm excited!!!