Summer Time Swim

Nothin' beats the pool on a hot Summer day ... we've been many more times since this day ... but, this is the day I got pics. :)

I'm nearly caught up! We got our yard in this weekend!!!!! YEE-HAW!! Pictures to come in a couple more posts ...

Perfect Princess ... Princess Perfect?

She is 4 years old ... definitely big girl material. And yet ... she is our baby. She has us wrapped around all 10 of her pretty little fingers ... and we are at her beck and call. She is our princess - and can do no wrong. Spoiled ROTTEN. And when she IS rotten (refer to the "she can do know wrong" sentence) - we often just get some good laughs. But - MAN! - she can throw a pretty darn good fit ... this princess of ours:

Krystal M Jenson ... Summer 2009.

Hari-Krishna Temple

We've lived here over a year now - so, we decided we probably should do a little more exploring in this area. :) We decided to take a tour of the Hari-Krishna Temple just South of us ... Tina and kids joined us. It turned out to be really quite fun!

The outside of the temple really is amazing.

Here are the kiddos admiring the llamas. The Llama Fest is this week ... I wonder what it's like? One of these years will try to attend.

The inside of the temple is kind of strange .... but has a lot of interesting things upstairs. The kids were quite fascinated.

This is one of Krystal's newest "poses"...

Here's the gang of kiddos. We are way out numbered!

More interesting "things" ... hahaha - I don't even know what to call them. I wonder what they use this little tiny piano for? They also had a large basket full of musical instruments - and several large drums. I would love to be in attendance for whatever musical worshipping they do. Looks fun!

Our little family on a fun family outing...

Thanks, Tina - for joining us on a fun day together!

Parking Lot

Memories with Dad ...

The kids made up this game that they call "Parking Lot". Krystal usually chooses to be a van or a garbage truck (who knew a princess could choose to be the garbage truck?!?) and Aaron always chooses to be a motorcycle. Tyler calls out the car "names" and they try to run through the parking lot without getting hit with the balls Tyler throws. They could play it all day long if Tyler could ...


Makes me remember the days of rough housing with my OWN daddy. Those are good memories. Wish I had a picture! :)

"Today is Summer"

I think it was July 1st when Krystal realized that we had FINALLY gone most of the day with no rain ... and hot hot HOT! So she promptly announced to us all .... "TODAY IS SUMMER!" Halleluah! July 1st ... June had only a few days with no rain, I think. So - anyway - we had to go purchase a little pool. And ... she played all afternoon in the stifling heat. And by evening (as you can see in the pictures) ... it got cold and windy and rained ... again. :) Marissa and her friends couldn't make themselves get out of the little tiny pool, because they were so cold. Hahahaha. Welcome Summer!

Jenson Family Football

I didn't really grow up with a lot of football playing ... so this "football at every possible get-together :)" has really been a fun experience (although - when the boys play tackle - I'm constantly nervous of injuries)

These football games with anyone and everyone are fabulous memories for all ...

Here are the girls sitting on the sidelines:


When I say "anyone and everyone" ... I mean it. Here's Kryssie Krys runnin' and runnin'. She is determined that she is the fastest runner ever because "no one could ever catch me, huh Mom?" And the boys always give it their all ...


Plonns was the highlight of the show for me that day. :) She is quite the enthusiastic football - uesq -er. I was in awe with her amazing abilities ... even with baby Ty in tow. Wow.

Ty makes a phenomenal quarter back:

When Tina brought baby Amy over to the sidelines - Krystal made a bee-line to her. Aunt Tina is so fun! We are VERY happy to have her back in Utah with us.

Look at these quick, skilled moves .... :)


Here's Krystal with Aunt Lori making up cheers. This particular cheer was ... "Ra! Ra! Shish-Kum-Bah! Kick 'Em Where It Counts!!" hahahahahahahaha! Gotta love that Lori! I sure do! And Plonnie is spectacular - but she knows when she's goin' down!! Brett is Q.UI.CK!!



Cute littles .... Julia and Kyle:



Pretty Angelina adding a little "umph" to the call of cheer leader:



More of the cheer section ... We sure are grateful for these get-togethers Grove and DeAnn!


An awesome catch by the Aar-Bear:


Yet ANOTHER awesome catch by Plonners:

These next two pics are probably my favorite from the bunch (and - there are MANY more than I have even posted - believe it or not). First - the Football Flamenco. I don't know how - but Tyler and Jeremy are very capable of the funniest faces and accidental poses. In this shot ... that looks totally choreographed ... they are both TRYING to get there hands on that dang football. The only result, however - is this fabulous dance move, apparantly. haha. And I thought these two huddles were so funny - one team works together and does it right ... the other -- well, they like the 1 on 1 approach with each other a little better. :D

Ready ... set ...

HAIL MARY! (is that what it's called? I am WAY into football terminology. haha)

And she's at it again ...

A few more laughs with Tina ...

We love the Jenson Family partays. They rock.

2 Marissa Stories

I decided that these stories of Marissa's 12-year-old beginnings needed to be documented so that we NEVER forget them (although it seems impossible that we COULD ever forget). So ... here goes:

#1. A few preludes: Marissa loves dogs ... and especially loves Huskies. Marissa can be quite dramatic which = screaming, spazz-o-ling, flayling of arms, LOUDness flowing over. Marissa quite often spills or trips or messes up and is quite fond of the term "Oh Geez" when little things happen.

Now for the event: Camping. Shower time. There is one shower open and we are sharing a camp ground with a youth group and a young women's camp. Needless to say - the line is long. Marissa had all of her stuff packed and ready - and took her shower. I told her to just hurry and put on her shirt - and wrap her towel around the rest of her (instead of getting all the way dressed in the shower room) so the people waiting in line could take their turn sooner. So - she came out carrying all of her stuff in one arm and holding her towel around her waist with her other arm. And we started walking together back to our campsite. Well, to Marissa's extreme excitement - a couple walking a HUSKY came up the path toward us. Before even thinking, Marissa pointed at the dog and said, "O My Heck, Mom - look!!!! it's a Husky!" However, she pointed with her hand that was holding her towel around her waist .... aaaaaaaand the towel immediately dropped around her ankles. She said, "oh geez" ... bent down to pick up her towel - MOOOONING the whole entire world behind her ... and the two of us preceded to laugh hysterically while we tried to get that dang towel wrapped back around her. :D! No huge dramatics ... screaming, crying, scrambling ... just a simple "oh geez" - like this just happens every day. hahahaha. That's my Marissa.

#2 - Marissa had the opportunity of doing baptisms for the dead on her 12th birthday. She had a rather unique experience (which was shared with me later by the Young Women's president). Apparantly there was a lady at the temple that asked to watch the youth perform baptisms that day. She had several names in hand. When Marissa was led into the font - this lady that was watching - told one of the temple workers that Marissa was the girl she had been waiting for. They immediately pulled Marissa out of the baptismal font and had her perfom the confirmations of the names the lady had right then and there. Marissa wasn't sure of all that had happened - just told us that she had done things a little differently then everyone else. We know that Marissa is here on earth with us today for many special reasons - and this just may have been one of them. She is indeed a special child with a bright countenance - and is being watched over. We are so lucky and blessed that she is ours.

Palisade Camp Ground

I have to admit - I have seriously been thinking lately about my camera obsession. It seems that if I remember to TAKE pictures of our adventures - I am prone to take about 50/day with my OWN camera ... and many others with other cameras. Therefore - I am now on my third post of our 3 day camping trip from 2 1/2 weeks ago. :) I KNOW that I won't regret it - these are good memories I'm keepsaking. So - enjoy if you can ... although, I know it won't be as much as I enjoy them over and over and over again myself.

Here we are almost all together - (Tyler couldn't join us until 11:00 that first night -Thursday ... Kristy and James had been here since the Sunday before ... and Mom and Dad had come Tuesday). We are a good lookin' group.

These two girls just play and play and play and play. Here they are playing pirates ... with their treasure maps and all ...

We made tinfoil dinners our first night and roasted strawberry marshmallows.

My kids are HUGE fans of their Grandma and Grandpa!!

Bringing bikes on this trip was awesome. The kids (Aaron and Hanna especially) rode around all over. The campground is kindof a big oval trail - so they could just go around and around. Aaron was in heaven.

James and Kristy brought this fun rodeo toss (?) game that was a huge hit! Doesn't it look fun? We all had a blast with it!

We bought our very own tent this year and we love it. It's quite spacious. Here's Krystal taking pictures of her baby in the tent (I wonder where she learns that?) ;)

Never can resist a good book or two ...

Thanks again, you guys, for such a fabulous trip!!

Next time ... Kent and Leisy ... we want YOU there too!!