Yeah! Joe and Tesha are here.
1. Having arm wrestles on the kitchen floor with Leah
2. Making peanut butter cups for the CHOCOLATE DIPPING PARTY!
Daniel and Ellen, Jared & Steven
Daniel and Ellen, Jared & Steven
3. Just so the rest of the family sees what we see all the time!
4. Emily tasting the chocolate covered popcorn.
We had a great time and dipped all kinds of things in Chocolate! We have peanut butter cups, pretzils sprinkled with Spencer's peppermint dust, cinnamon Santa's and bears, rocky road,
and movie popcorn!
5. Visiting afterwards
6. Monday we took Noelle and delivered Mike's wedding invitations.
We then went to Rob & Emily's along with Joe & Tesha's family.
We stopped on our way to eat lunch at Chic Fillet to see Spencer at work.
7. We had so much fun at Rob's and David and Amanda also joined us after their Dr. appointment in Salt Lake. Things are looking great with the twins!
Jetta can do cartwheels!
Distant cousins together again - Matthew and Zach
8. Dad found Rob's puzzle
9. Kids in every corner of the house along with some neighbor kids.
10. Emily making sugar cookie dough:)
11. Games for the adults - Telestrations. We had a fun time! Thanks you so much Emily for the good food and great time together.
12. Noelle, Steven, & Sophie with their decorated cookies.
13. Ben, Zach, Robert, Scott, & Jared decorating cookies.
14. Christmas Eve. We didn't have a baby Jesus! Chris' family was still sick. So we read the Christmas story, shared our thoughts, and sang a lot of songs with Ellen and Daniel and Mike and Emily. It was really great. It was the longest (45 min.) Christmas nativity we have had.
15. Christmas morning - We had Mike, Ellen & Daniel and us.
16. I gave Dad a picture frame with pictures from our mission.
Yes, I got homesick for all the people.
17. The day after Christmas we had a dinner at Uncle Bill's with all of Dad's siblings.
Uncle Doug is in from Tennessee. It was so good to see them.
We are planning a big Jensen Reunion next summer.
18. That evening we took: Sophie, Elise, Audrey, Noelle, and Marrie along with Paul to the Brigham Temple to do baptisms for the dead. We had a wonderful time.
19. Deciding what we are doing after the baptism
20. Eating at Wendy's afterwards
21. Audrey's special look
22. Marri
Then it turned into a sleepover. This is not p.m. It's the next morning and they are still sleeping.
However, Elise and Nikki had had a pretty big day the day before traveling up from Arizona.
23. Breakfast of pancakes with strawberry topping.
24. The party continues. We decided to take our Arizona cousins sledding, but we didn't have any snow, so we took them to Old Main Hill and called Mike to come help.
It was so much fun. I love sledding vicariously now. I can remember the thrill of Gordon's field across the road. I'm not cut out for Old Main. They screamed and laughed and had such a thrill and so much fun. Marri and Sophie came and joined in. Cecily had hurt herself the day before, so she watched. I was very glad Mike was there to do the steering and going down with them.
25. Sophie and Noelle
26. Elise and Nikki
The party continues as we all went to the movie to see,
"Into the Woods." Disney did a great job and we all enjoyed it.
Noelle said she was keeping track of the analogies to life we talked about on the way home, but I don't think it was 17.
27. Elise, Nikki, Sophie, Marri, Grandma, Noelle, Audrey - Grandpa took the picture
28. Sunday was Amanda Capener's farewell with dinner afterwards.
Mandy is U. Ralph's daughter. She did a wonderful job speaking, and it was a beautiful day.
29. A Margaret and U. Ralph
28. Me, Kenny, A. Melony, U. Ralph, Amanda, Rosie
29. After that we all went to our home. We had a wonderful rest of the day visiting and the kids had a ball outside in the cold and snow.
Levi with China Doll
30. We went through 2 gallons of homemade hot chocolate/
31. Nikki was very diligent in making a snow fort.
33. Games downstairs
34. Actually, a very beautiful sight. It means our empty home is now full!
It has been so wonderful to spend so much time with family.
It's so good to be home from our mission to New York Utica.
We will see the rest of you on Wednesday.
Thank you all for being such a blessing in our lives.
