HALLOWEEN 2013!

Halloween was great again this year. We stuck with all the usual traditions...drilling holes in pumpkins, ward trunk or treat, soups for dinner at the Parrys, trick or treating with the Parrys, coordinating costumes with them and Grandma Rodgers and I got to help in the classrooms with the boys school parties! It was another successful Halloween!








The Devil, A little mix of everything, Yoda and Captain America

I seriously have cute kids!

Zoned out playing video games

We told these two crazies to pose for a picture and they both did this - I told them they would regret it when they were older so I am posting it - and then they decided they better do a cute one too!


Two Wonder Womans with matching trick or treat bags

Captain America, Superman, Mrs Captain America, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman and Mrs Spiderman


After trick or treating, I took these girls to a haunted house in the neighborhood and at the end of it, you can have a beer or a full size candy bar - I bet you can guess which one we picked :)

INSIDE THE GILBERT TEMPLE!

So Jared and I were lucky enough to get to do a random side job today. We got to go inside the Gilbert Temple to clean up some of the construction dust, banisters, glass stair case railings, etc.

We got to see the locker rooms, chapel, baptismal font, celestial room, sealing rooms, etc - we saw it all!

If you didn't know, its the largest temple built in the last 17 years. Its 5 stories tall. By the baptismal font, there is a glass wall and behind that are several rows of pews for people to sit on to watch that ordinance happen. All the stained glass windows use the colors blue, green and yellow. There is a really cool water fountain thing out front. No door handles on the outside of the temple because it will be automatic.

They were in a big scramble to get the place cleaned up as best they could because some big wig from Utah came down today to walk through it - I asked if it was the Prophet and it wasn't so I didn't try to stick around to meet the person.

While I was sweeping this one area, there were 2 cute grandpas working away and I was thinking to myself what nice grandpas they were and then I heard the one grandpa say to the other grandpa, "so how long were you in prison for?" I think that's the first time I have ever heard that in the temple, it made me giggle.

Jared and I had someone try to take a picture of us together in one spot in the temple but after it blacking out after 3 attempts we thought perhaps someone up above doesn't want us to have that picture - so we took these instead.

30th BIRTHDAY FOR THIS SPECIAL GIRL!

This special girl turned 30 this month and we were lucky enough to celebrate it with her! We made sure she got the things we promised her, cake pops and the Dirty Dancing sound track - what could be better!

CHICK-FIL-A ATTACKS!

Well maybe they didn't attack Tyler per se, but Tyler did leave Chick-fil-A as the loser. He was playing inside and ended up getting hurt. The boys came out to tell me so I told them to tell him to come see me and if he didn't then he can just keep being stubborn. He didn't come out. 30 minutes later we left and he was still just sitting there not playing. He cried out in pain when I tried to put his shoe on so I carried him. He limped the rest of the day and the next day. Finally the third day when he was trying to run to get on the bus and he was still limping, I decided to take him in. Jared and I were sure he had Jensen weak ankles and that he had just rolled it. We were wrong. He had broken a small bone on the top of his foot. Oops! 4 hours later we left with a boot and a happy boy (only because I bribed him to smile for the picture with a BIG sucker!)

ps - the doctor said that kids can't remember to fake it that long so next time if he continues to limp, I should take him in sooner - bad parenting on my part. 

11 AND STILL BELIEVES!

A SUCCESSFUL SATURDAY FOR THE JENSEN KIDDOS!

Our weekends are jam packed and super exhausting, but we love them. We especially love the weekends where all of the kids have some great successes!

Emma FINALLY after 2 years got her aerial! I haven't seen it, but she called to tell me she landed it (which she has done before, but she was wrong), Miss Val called to tell me and her friend Bella told me! So by george, I think she might have it!

Eli played in his first soccer tournament this weekend: 3 games and 3 losses. What's so successful about that?! Well, we are proud that he survived his first tournament weekend, he played his freaking heart out, he is the one of the only few kids on the team who is not afraid to charge the other team AND he made one of the only two goals in the second game. Oh and they played up in every game so it's hard to beat kids who are bigger when the entire team only comes to their shoulders.

Sadly, I missed the amazing goal (I was at the twins' baseball game) but here is the summed up version of it. All the parents are disappointed it wasn't on video and they still talked about it the next day! Eli kicked the ball to go into the goal and a player on the other team kicked it away straight into Eli's face! It flattened him to the ground and the ball slowly rolled, rolled and rolled some more until it made it into the net! Eli was down and out on the field while the ball was rolling so he had no idea what was going on, but when he came to and hopped up he was surprised to see the entire team running towards him and cheering, he had no idea what happened. Later that night his nose and eye were green from the ball, but Eli didn't care, he pretty much thought he was awesome and talked it about it several times!

The Jensen twins were on fire yesterday at baseball! I couldn't have been more proud of either of them. They had their best game yet! They each got to bat 4 times and Tyler hit 3 singles and 1 double and Tyson got 2 singles. Every time they made it to base they ended up being able to score! The Jensens were the only two to score in the 3rd inning - holla! Every time they came home they had the world's biggest smiles on their faces - I loved it!

Tyler had to sub and play catcher today - he is the cutest catcher ever, but buddy - you have a lot of work to do if you ever want that job again :) Bless your heart! Tyson played right field and got the ball and threw it in whenever it was hit to him.

 Tyler is the ready position

 Tyler throwing it to first base - the only time he touched the ball
 
 Tyler batting

 This is my serious favorite - whenever Tyler is on a base - this is the position he stands in - he is ready to take off like a bolt of lightning

 Tyler got one of the medals at the game because him and one other player were the only ones to hit doubles today

 

Tyson I do apologize I don't have any pictures of you today, but I didn't take any of these - Coach Rodney took them - I will work on getting some of you next week! 

After all the games and dance ended, we met up with the Murrietas at San Tan Flats for dinner.

ELI'S GOLDEN BIRTHDAY!

Eli turned 7 on the 7th so it was his golden birthday this year! Gold balloons, gold wrapped presents...but that's about where the gold stopped, oh well. Eli woke up on his birthday and opened his presents - he got an xbox. Then later that day we took all the kids to Flipside to play for 3 hours and then grabbed Barros on the way home. Eli played xbox for a while and then it was off to eat at Lucille's BBQ with the family including Grandma and Grandpa Rodgers and Grandma Jensen. After dinner all the kids went and spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa! Eli did have a birthday party at Flipside a week before his birthday with Bo, Jake and Logan, but we completely forgot to take pictures, oops! Eli is such a good kid with an amazingly kind heart and spirit. He is sensitive when it comes to his feelings, but rough when it comes to sports. He is the 2nd smartest kid in his class and his teacher is in love with him (along with a little girl at school). We are so blessed to have him in our family!