Spring Break

One nice thing about working for the school district is, I always get spring break off! This year, we took a girls trip to Disney Land!  Abby was competing in a dance competition at the Anaheim Convention Center, so Mom, Julie, Diane, Rachel, and myself went down there to support her. We also played alot in  Disney Land! Julie hadn't been to Disney Land in about 35 years, so it really was a first visit for her.
The first morning, we rode Splash Mountain 3 times straight. Of course, we got soaked!

Splash Mountain was Julie's favorite ride!  We rode it lots. We finally learned to at least keep our hoods on!

One night we did the World of Color/dinner combo. We ate dinner at Ariel's Grotto, and had an awesome meal! This was the appetizer!

And this was the dessert!  Everything on the plate was edible!  YUM........

The World of Color show is shown on a huge water screen. It also has fountains, and sometimes fire! Here is just some of the scenes.

After dark, the ferris wheel lights up!  It shines over the midway in California Adventures!

Julie, after her first day in the parks! 

On the last day, we got Mom to ride California Screaming!! She loved it!

Here is some various pictures. We had such a great time!  I love sister trips!

I can't wait until the next girl's trip!!!

All about Meg

So here it is, April, and I haven't blogged for awhile! Here is what we have been doing!

Meg celebrated her birthday Feb. 10th, she turned 15!
She got some clothes, movies, and a Kindle!!!! That is her favorite. (Check out the glasses!)





Megan is also learning how to sew for a Young Women's project. She is sewing a dress with Grandma Bakes.

Stay tuned for more to come! I have a lot of checking up to do!

The January Blues

January is usually my least favorite time of year. After the beautiful fall and wonderful Christmaas season, I usually spend January in a funk! Boise usually gets inversions, so we don't see the sun. It is just cold and dreary! But this year has been different. No inversions at all, the weather has been warmer than normal, but we also have not had snow.

We started out the year with Megan's basketball team going into tournament. The high school pulled up 6 players from Megan's city-championship team from last year. So, this year they struggled a bit. But against all odds, they made it back to the city championship game. Unfortunately, they did not win the game, but they played their best! Here are a few pictures:







The day after Megan's game, Mike and I went to St. George with my sisters and their husbands, to surprise Dad and celebrate his 80th birthday! We totally surprised him, he was not expecting us at all! We did a session in the St. George Temple, but my favorite, we went to Zion's National Park and did some hiking. The scenery is beautiful! This is the Court of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Mike, Dad, Todd, Diane, Julie, Rachel, and Marty at the base of the Patriarchs.

We hiked along a trail to the start of "The Narrows," and saw several deer.
Mike and I next to the Virgin River.

Two days after we got back from St. George, Jan. 18, we finally had our first snow fall! Megan and I were the only ones home, so we had to shovel the driveway.

Meg and I are pretty proud of ourselves for shoveling the whole driveway! We counted it as our cardio workout!

So much to do, so little time....

I haven't blogged for awhile, so I will try to catch up as fast as I can!

This fall went by in a blur!

Mike and I rode our bikes on the greenbelt for the last time at the end of October.

We love the greenbelt! We discovered "graffati alley" where all sorts of pictures have been painted.

The 1st weekend of November, our YW Pres. took the young women in our ward to my parent's cabin in Donnelly for Personal Progress Boot Camp. We had a chocolate fountain, played games, had some great discussions about Personal Progress, and two young women took a dunk in the lake! Brrrr........

Next we hosted Thanksgiving at our house this year. We had all of Mike's family. His sister Pam, her husband Brian, and their kids Josie, Taylor, and Lizzie. And his brother Chris, his wife Pam, and their kids Sydney, Dani, and Cassie. And our whole family was home, even Drew! Just a few pictures from the weekend.

Megan had a quilt to tie, so she enlisted everyone's help!

We had no idea that Chris was so good at painting fingernails!

It was finally December, and Christmas! Of course, that month always flies by with not enough time to do everything. So again, here are a few pictures from Christmas!

Mom decorating her Disney Tree!!

Frosting sugar cookies!

Christmas morning:

Then, of course, Christmas dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Bakes's house! This is a tradition that we love! Aunts, Uncles, cousins, everyone there!

This brings us to the end of 2011. Hopefully I will do better next year at chronicling the crazy day to day life of the Jensen's!!

Volleyball

After having sent two boys thru high school sports, we are now trying the girl route.
Megan played on the sophmore volleyball team at Capital High School this fall. I took her and some of the other girls on the team from Fairmont Jr. High over to the high school. They had great season. Here are a few of the pictures from this season:
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The sophmores had a great coach! His name was Phil Buffington, and the girls loved him! Here he is talking to the girls.

On Oct. 15th, they went to District Tournament. They went into the tournament in 2nd place, and won 2nd place in the Tournament.

Megan talking to Grandma Bakes after one of her matches.

Here's the team after it was all over! We are so proud of them!

Megan has had one week off, and starts basketball tomorrow. She will be staying at the Jr. High to play basketball, so she should get lots of playing time! Here we go again!