SORRY FUTURE WIVES!

Tonight as Jared was cutting all the hair out of the bottom of the vacuum to clean out the brush the boys were watching him and were totally disgusted!

Tyson asked, "is that gross?"

Jared: "ya"

Tyson: "will I have to do that when I am married?"

Jared: "yep!"

Tyler: "I don't was think your mom will do it" (he meant wife)

Tyson: "gross!"....."wait! I won't have to you will cause we are living together!"

Tyler: "oh ya!"

Then they went down the hall towards their bedroom playing rock, paper, scissors to see who would get stuck cleaning the vacuum!

SPRING BREAK!

We didn't get to go anywhere for spring break this year - it was to hard with trek, dance and cheer. But we did go to Fat Cats and watch Beauty and the Beast - the kids thought they were so cool in the recliner chairs, ordering food, having it delivered to them and watching the movie. The kids went to the Halls one day and played and the boys all had a cookie and lemonade sale and came home with a couple of bucks a piece - little entrepreneurs.  And of course we had sports in there too - love how it exhausts them - actually by them - I mean Eli and Tyson, Tyler never sleeps in the car, he is a mini me! My dad and Ren Pope went up to their mission reunion!  Eli had what hopefully is not his last soccer season. Coach Steve James decided to finally put his son into club soccer so he won't be coaching anymore. Eli LOVES soccer, but unless you are on club, its to hard to find a good competitive team to plan on otherwise. He was a star and a real go getter. The coach LOVED him and so did his team, he turns into a beast on the soccer field. I hope to get to see him and his little deteremined face race up and down the field while his cheeks shake cause he is running so fast and he jukes the players out and jacks the ball from them all while calling out to his team mates what to do! I love him.

ALYZA!

Alyza is our 5th child! We started out watching her just a couple of days a week for a couple of hours and then for a year we didn't have her at all. Then we took her full time while her parents worked. She comes with us to doctor appts, errands, preschool, I joined a playgroup for her and she even comes to our family pictures with us! The kids miss her when she isn't here and treat her like a sibling. She is just their cousin, but some days she might as well be the 5th Jensen!

TWINS MOWED THE LAWN!

Having 3 boys has finally paid off! The twins mowed the lawn for the first time today! One of them might not have been strong enough to start the mower by himself, but when the other two were doing laughing - they helped him and both boys took a turn at mowing the lawn!

RANDOM PICTURES!

The twins volunteered to go up and sing a song for points in primary

 fresh haircuts and looking handsmee

trying ice cream sammies for the first time

Grandma Joyce LOVED the poinsettias we got her for Christmas

Tyler got in trouble in school and when he came home before he could even tell me what happened he burst into tears...ya no punishment needed for him other than writing his teacher an apology note - he was hard enough on himself.

The boys discovered that their daddy had a slew of football, baseball and basketball cards and they spent several nights gathered together trading their cards

During spring break these twirps came with me to bootcamp and they required a post workout smoothie afterwards

PIONEER TREK!

Emma went on the pioneer trek! She had the BEST time! It changed her. She came home and wanted to talk and talk and talk to us. Finally at 10pm - we were exhausted and excused ourselves to bed! She went into a family not knowing the parents and most of the siblings. She became good friends with a girl in our Stake Mckenna Jones and then she became good friends with Jason Tomlinson - she had never talked to him before which was funny because we have been in their ward for 9 years - he is 2 years older than her but they became great friends! She was also in a family with Tyler Embley from our current ward and got to know him better. She LOVED her Ma and Pa DeGooyer! They even had a family reunion afterwards with dinner and games! I loved getting texts from people in the stake telling me how great Emma was doing, not complaining, constantly working, pulling the most with Jason, etc. Uncle Norm couldn't believe a cheerleader was that capable of doing what she was doing - ha ha! Sister Hansen (the stake president's wife) called Emma and asked her to give a talk up there about a modern day pioneer. Emma and I struggled with this and then I came up with the idea of these youth being modern day pioneers because they are having to navigate their way through life with the good and the bad of all this new technology and that their parents never had to deal with... of course Emma took it and did outstanding with it and the leaders loved her talk! I got to help out with trek and be in charge of the trek fun run with Tiffany Brown, I was in charge of the trek facebook page, gathering all the trek letters for each and every youth from their parents (pain in the butt, ha ha) and then I got to go up and wash hair for the youth, including President Hansen. I washed my first beard, first black person's hair, first man's hair, it was a day of firsts. I LOVED being up there. The spirit was so strong. I didn't want to leave. It was an amazing site to see, I can't even describe it. I am eternally grateful for all those who put so much work into this for the youth. It was an experience which Emma will never forget!