January blues (or is it green, maybe white?)

The fall time thru New Years is my favorite time of year. But once Jan 2 starts, I just get depressed. The weather is cold, it gets dark about 5pm, and there is nothing to look forward to!  But this year my parents gave us a Vita-Mix blender for Christmas. So we have been making soups and green smoothies! It has been fun to see what combination of fruits and green veggies we can get in our smoothies!

Broccoli soup in the vita-mix!

Our first green smoothie!  And yes, we really do drink it most mornings!

The second week of January brought our first major snow storm of the winter. It snowed so much in fact, that we had a snow day from school!

 

Mike and I even shoveled the neighbor's driveway! But I don't know if you could call it work since we were on the 4-wheeler!

 

 

 

But, along with the snow came very frigid temperatures. The temperature never got above 20 degrees for the next 3 weeks!  In fact, the average temp was about 10 degrees for the month of January!
Spring will be a welcome sight!

Christmas at the Jensen's

Yes, even though it is April, I am finally blogging about Christmas!  You see, once again, I am a little bit behind.
Drew had not been home to decorate the Christmas tree for 6 years! So, this year, we waited until he got home to buy a tree, put it up, and decorate it!

Drew adding ornaments to the tree!

The finished product!

We host Christmas Eve at our house. Sometimes it is just Grandma and Grandpa, but this year we had everybody!

We were pretty lazy Christmas morning! Gone are the days when the kids are up at 5AM. We woke up about 8, had breakfast, talked with Greg, and then opened presents!
Here is Drew and Megan showing off some of their Christmas presents!  (Yes, Drew just needs cash!)

We then spent the evening at Grandma and Grandpa's house where we had dinner and opened more presents!

The best part of Christmas was being able to talk with Greg. We were able to skype with him for       
2 1/2 hours!  He looked good, but we all miss him. We just look forward to Christmas 2014 when he will be home!