Dance

All ready for the rehearsal. maddie danced the rehearsal, but decided that was all we were getting out of her!!

 

Softball

Doing her catcher thing!

Wont let that ball get past her

Great jump catch

anticipating the ball

Moms arm after It was hit with a bat! Fractured Elbow

Dented brand new bat

Practicing with her private coach

Outfield

outfield

Her Team!

Long Year

This past year has been long. But We have made it through it with our heads held high! There is so much just from the last couple weeks to share. Emily Promoted the 6th grade. Aubrie and Madison had a Dance Recital. Emily's softball team to the award for good sportsmanship. Myself I am still working and still in school.Although school would be easier ane better if I could just pass this Math test!!!. Well I think I will post some fabulous pictures now!

I am a slacker!

So I noticed that I havent been very good at updating the blog. So much has been going on in my life it has just seem to pass me by. Emily turned 11 this year! What a big milestone! She is getting to be such a big girl and even had her first maturation program this year! Yikes!!! She is once again doing softball and is totally loving it. Aubrie just had her preformance in the ballet Giselle. She of course did fab! Maddie well is Maddie! School has been keeping me really busy. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I should be starting my student teaching by the end of the year, fingers crossed! With all that going on and Adam now truck driving, I am super busy, but i promise to try and update more often!

christmas

Christmas just seemed to come out of the blue this year! With alot going on i lost track of time and neglected to make all my treats that we normally hand out. Oh well there is always next year. The sat before christmas we went to see the Temple lights with Adams younger brothers family and he older sisters too. It was great fun as Aubrie and Mackay are like stuck together like glue when they get together. Monday the 19th was Adams 42st birthday and we spent it at Zoolights with My older brother and his family and my mom. That was alot of fun. Even the 17 year olds had a good time! On the 21st my little sister flew in from North Carolina to spend the holidays with us. Emily, Aubrie, and I picked her up on the 22nd and went and had a hair day! That was great fun! The 23rd we went to my brothers house in Grantsville. We started the night by Santa coming for a visit! That was fun as everyone that wanted a gift had to sit with santa! Even my Dad!!And then we did family pictures out in their yard. Everyone was wearing some type of red!( as this Family bleeds red!!)( of course it isnt just for the U either!! My nephew played for Grantsville high football too!) We then went in and did more pics in front of the fireplace. And to round it all off we all got funky jammie bottoms and black shirts and had a few pics taken in the theater room!! That was a blast! We finished off with a yummy dinner and games typical jensen fun! Christmas eve found Adam at work for a little bit and then we headed down to my parents. We had a good dinner and then it was present time. My sister had decided that they were coming out christmas afternoon to bring her presents for the girls out. So Keri ( my sil) and i along with my mom decided it would be fun to do the 12 days of christmas for Tiffany. We had the fancy boxes that have the song versues on them and she had to sing the verse to open the box. After she would open 1 someone else would get one. By the time she got to the 12th day everyone was singing and as she opened the box all she found was a little black box. See Tiff had been telling me for a while that she wished she had a pair of nice square diamond earrings. So i decided i would get her some for her birthday next year and went to put them on layaway. Well i told my Sil about it and she said no way we are doing it for christmas. So when tiff opened the box she just couldnt believe it. The tears were flowing and so were the hugs. I think she liked her gifts! Christmas morning came and the girls woke us up at 6am went to their stockings and then got ready for church. Not one complaint! After church we opened the gifts ( having to take 2 intermissions to clean up paper!!) I think the girls were very very happy! My parents and mys sister came out to deliever a few other gifts. My sister got Emily a new softball bat! She loves it! She got Madison a 16 inch goofy doll! She is in love with goofy!! And then she did probably one of the greatest things ever for Aubrie. She got her tickets to the Nutcracker by ballet west for the 26th! Aubrie was extatic! She got dressed up on monday and went and had a great time!

You cant see it but she had to dig in a huge box to try and find her ipod. this is her victory pose.

maddie just loves this ipod for kids

the girls opening their netbooks

aubries haul

emily's haul

christmas pics

Aubrie after digging for her Ipod!

Dad with the chess set he really wanted

Santa brought the family the wii fit!

Santa brought maddie her own version of the ipod!

Santa brought emily some new converse!

Christmas Morning

The girls All ready in their new christmas church dresses!

Aubrie with her stocking















Madison with her stocking!















Even Aloice got a new collar in her stocking!


















Emily with her chocolate covered bacon from her sock!

Christmas Eve

Tiffany opening her 12th day gift! Her diamond earrings!

Us kids got Mom and Dad season tickets to Deseret Star playhouse!

Maddie needed to search the bag a bit closer!

Thanksgiving

We went to my brother and sister in laws house out in Grantsville this year. It was so much fun. showed up at 11 am and left at 8:30pm. The kids played and played. They played pool and ran and then Nate and Riley took Emily out side and played catch with her! She had a blast. We had a great dinner and played cards afterward!

Aubries Baptism

Saturday the 5th Of Nov Aubrie was baptized in along with alot of 8 year olds. We were lucky as our ward got to go first and Aubrie was the first baptism of the day! This first pic i took a few days before so i could get it to the store to put on her cake!

The morning of she was so excited she woke me up every half hour starting at 3:30AM!!!!!

This one was taken as we got to the church getting ready to change. Her Oman made her dress and Aubrie just loves it!

Here she is in her jumpsuit allready to go. She was so excited that she was so fidgety!

Here her and dad are ready to go!

Once she was done i met her in the changing room. She had such a huge smile and looked at me and said ," that was so Awesome!! i feel great!!" then she said even though the water was a little cold!lol

Pumpkins 2

This is the best way to view Aubries and my pumpkins.

Pumpkins!

Hers i am hard at work getting the pumpkins cleaned oout! I cleaned out 4 out of the 5! The 5th one didnt get cleaned out! Seems like i always do it, because i am quick!

Aubrie working hard on her Alice!

Dad taking his time on his. and this is the one that didnt get cleaned out!

Halloween 2011

We love to decorate the outside in for halloween. You can kind of see some of the madness in this picture. but if you want the true effect inside and out come visit us on October 31st!!

Madison and daddy carved mickey inot her pumpkin. I would say she wa pleased!

Yup very pleased! a kiss for mickey!!

Halloween 2011

We had a really good time this year and having the weather play nice was wonderful!! Emily carved a vampire in her pumpkin and dressed up as bat girl! Shes wasn't to happy to let me take her picture!

Aubrie carved alice from twilight in her pumpkin ( seen better at night) and dressed up as a good witch. She never hesitates to let me take her picture!

Maddie really didnt want to wear her costume, but boy did she want to go trick or treating!! She had been practicing for weeks everytime she asked anyone to open something she would say trick or treat! However once again for the second year in a row she was sick on Halloween so she didnt get to stay out as long as her sisters. Once she got into hercostume she made a cute bat princess!

Aubrie decided she needed to have a picture with mister bones!

I actually got a costue this year. Normally i piece together something, but this year i splurged! It was supposed to be a vampiress but i made it into a fab witch,vampiress whatever!!lol