The Jensen Family: April 2012

Honor Band

Jacob was selected to be in the honor band for Minnesota. He spent a full Saturday with the band and then performed that night. It was a honor and good experience for him.

The family celebrated Jacob's birthday by having cake and ice cream and opening presents. Then on the weekend Jacob had some friends over for a late night video game party with pizza and donuts. He had a great birthday.

New Years Eve 2011

Darren and the kids had a fun time playing games and eating food. Here is a picture of the Headbands game. Rylie was really funny playing this game. She had to look and see what she was, then pretend like she didn't know. The younger kids were allowed to stay up until 10pm. I worked, but was home by 10:30pm. We continued the games and snacks with Jacob and Ali. We had a good time.

Christmas 2011

Christmas was on Sunday this year. We had our traditional continental breakfast upstairs (in Emily's room), then we got ready and went to church. We only had Sacrament meeting so we figured the kids could wait to open presents.

After church we lined up on the stairs before going to see the presents under the tree. We have to keep with tradition. We all changed back into pajammas for the rest of the day. We had an enjoyable Christmas day.

The kids were very happy with what they got this year.

Rylie:

Josh:

Alison:

Jacob:

Emily:

Christmas Eve 2011

On Christmas Eve we had a whole day of activities since it was a Saturday. Each child assembled and decorated a gingerbread house.

We also made and decorated sugar cookies (a favorite). Some cookies were more sprinkles than cookie.

We had our traditional favorites meal. Each family member gets to choose one favorite food item and we put it all together for a variety buffet. This year Darren made spetzle, I chose shrimp cocktail, Jacob chose garlic bread, Alison chose Chicken and Broccoli casserole, Joshua chose Fried mushrooms, Rylie chose Papa Murphy's veggie delite pizza, Emily chose frozen grapes and we had homemade fries (since I was already making the mushrooms. It is always a fun meal.

After dinner we read the Christmas story from the scriptures, Read Grandma Burgess' story, opened the present of new pj's and went to bed. We had a great day.

The Kids

Darren grabbed the kids one night while I was at work and took this picture. December 2011

Darren and Stacie

I realized we do not have many pictures of Darren and me so I had Jacob take one. December 2011.

Emily's 3rd Birthday

Emily had a fun birthday. She wanted a pink elephant cake. We played with balloons and opened presents.

Rylie's Winter Program

Rylie's preschool class had a winter program on Dec. 14th and party. Josh went with me to watch it. Rylie did very well. After they went back to their class for food.

Ward Christmas Party

The kids were excited to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas. Emily was a little hesitant, but she did it without crying. We had a good time. They had the kids make crafts after they saw Santa, then we had dinner. Short and sweet, a perfect ward activity.