MJ is 4!

MJ turned 4! I know, I can't believe it either. I think she had a good birthday. We had a little party with some of her friends on Sat, and then on Sun a family party. Amazing Mark made the cake. Turned out it was a stripper cake because when you cut it open, Barbie wasnt wearing clothes!!

LEMONS!!

We have had lemon trees (2) for about 6 years. Until this year I think we have gotten in TOTAL 4 lemons. This year the trees went crazy!!

Grandma Posey's Funeral

Well Grandma Posey lasted 97 years. She passed away 11/8 and the funeral was 11/15 in Cortez CO. This is us at the lunch after. Where is Jens and Uncle Carlos? Oh yeah, the amazing Carlos was pushing Jens around so I could eat. How nice. :)

It was really nice to see family that we had not seen in a long time.

Cortez was . . . interesting. We got to change hotels at 1030 pm after realizing the water had brown floaties.

We did get to stop at Four Corners:

Arthur and Clark had to switch places because Jens was freakn out at Arthur's hair.

Mark didn't get to go. I am certain that next time we take a 9 hour trip each way, four day leave he will come :).

A Piano!!!!

We went to Utah over Veterans Day weekend (It was a crazy last min decision, one of Mark's family members died so we thought we would go be with his family). We picked up Grma Jensen's piano- awesome!!! We love it. MJ plays me songs all the time. I am sure the songs will be even better when the piano is even close to being in tune.

Notice the two inspirations. Thanks Lis for the awesome Jesus picture.

MJ and Jens also came home with BYU shirts from Gma and Gpa Lemon

Yes We Can HOPE

I want so bad for MJ and Jens to understand the significance of what has happened tonight. I wish they could feel my sense of HOPE and finally some optimism. I wish they knew how much vindication this gives so many people. I wish they could they could see the difference between just yesterday and tomorrow. I wish they could see the attitude change in leadership. I HOPE they will be able to look back at this moment of time and appreciate it. I HOPE we can ride the momentum to produce bigger, greater, better. And mostly, I HOPE this means a stronger foundation for their future.

November 1st

This year for my birthday I decided to plan everything out- this one had to count. My Dad was nice enough to watch the girls so Mark and I could go shopping. Then we ate at Cafe Rio. We went for a bike ride (I got my butt kicked). Mark made my favorite foods (Carmel, Chocolate, Angel food cake, home made chips, candy, candy candy). Clark and Carlos came. And we played some Wii. And all throughout the day I opened presents. It was definitely one of the best.

Halloween 2008

Oh, Halloween-one of the best days of the year. We started out by going swimming in the Dennet's new pool. Yep, it was warm enough to swim. MJ made sure Tigger and Pooh were buckled up for safety.

Then we went to trick-or-treat at Mark's work.

Uncle Clark and Uncle Carlos went too. They were a lot of help.

My Dad was an even bigger help and washed the car and gassed it up for us while we were visiting Mark.

We did go Trick-or-Treating. Jens favorite house was the one that just left the candy bowl out. She went to that house twice. MJ thought everything about it was fantastic. She loved handing out the candy just as much as getting it. (They didn't get any soup though :))

Check this out

Have you ever thought, we can do this project, it wont take too long. And then forever later it still isn't done? Last week we had our carpets cleaned. While the furniture was all moved Mark and I thought it would be a good idea to paint our room. Our room isn't that big, and we have painted every other room in our house. Only problem, we knew we couldn't do it with the kids around. So after they went to bed on Friday night (10/24) we started to paint. At about 4am we called it quits. We have worked on it just about every night since. We still have some touch ups to do but here are the before and after pictures:

I almost forgot to take the before picture

I love it!!

Halloween is my FAVORITE

Ok, lets be honest. Does it get any better than an abundance of candy and dressing how ever you want? Oh no. Halloween is by far the best holiday. We went to a fall festival (and the camera fell out of my pocket in the car, so this is the only picture I got), and this is MJ showing off her Hello Kitty painted arm and balloon sword. The picture I wish I would have gotten was MJ finishing the obstacle course, or Jens in pure delight blowing on her "loot" as MJ would say (I think the rest of us say flute).

After the fall festival we went to a Halloween Party. They had a bunch of different themed rooms with things to do. It was well decorated- they had spooky decorations, and they had a bunch of things to do.

pumpkin patch

We went to a pumpkin patch with some friends. It was super fun. MJ loved everything about it, but mostly she loved the slide.
Jens like the animals. She kept signing dog though. That was about the only thing she liked. Oh, except when we went home :)
PS- it was HOT?!! So much for fall weather.