Hello????

Is anyone out there????? How come I never hear from anyone on this thing? No comments, no nothin'! I can't even tell if anyone looks at this anymore??? You can just say hello or something :) give a little update, post pictures from the homestead, of your new home, Cayson, or adventures in Spaneesh :) No I know you guys are all busy, but I just miss hearing from you on this one... I guess I just miss everyone period! Love you guys!!!!

Well.... Kyler is officially a big boy! We transitioned to a toddler bed last night, and he couldn't be more excited.

I put it together pretty much by myself, with some "help" from Kyler and Adam helped towards the end, after I put it all together and realized I did something wrong, big surprise :) Oh well it turned out great!
He really loves his cars and trucks sheet! I think it's part of why he likes it so much, but also because it's a bed like mom and dads! We don't have a bed spread yet, but that's to come later. I just wanted to see if he'd actually sleep in it. Last night he asked for a pillow like daddy, so we will have to come up with a little pillow :)

In the picture below I told Kyler to pretend like he was sleeping in his big boy bed, so funny!!!! He cracks me up.

Well the first night was a success. He stayed in it and went to bed, and he didn't fall out. Needless to say I checked on him 3 times last night (baby made me get up to use the bathroom anyway!), and Adam did again when he went to work. We were worried he'd fall out! :) We are so proud of him. This morning I heard him wake up so I got up and got dressed, etc. Then about 5 minutes later, I hear the pitter-patter of his little feet running into the living room. It was so weird that he could get up all by himself. So we will have to work on staying in bed or at least bedroom until I come get him. But pretty good for a first time!


Ok now if you have been reading this, I better get a comment from you! I want to know what you think, ok?

This is so FUNNY!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9557359248

Click on this link to find a dancing family of elves that you might recognize!!!

Love, Rach

Happy Halloween!!!

Hello Fam! This blog is pretty dead so I thought I would post on here and make you guys look at it :) Here are some pictures of our pumpkin carving session Tuesday night!

Kyler wasn't too sure about the insides of the pumpkin at first! Squishy!!! Eventually he got over it and liked helping Adam remove the slippery seeds!

Kyler especially liked the pumpkins after they were lit!

The next day was Halloween and we had a blast! Isn't Kyler a cute farmer? I think he really enjoyed dressing up! First Kyler and I went trick or treating at an assisted living center. It was so fun and the old people loved him! One sweet lady asked how old he was and said he was a special boy :) He really got the hang of saying trick or treat! He says is so cute! But the people handing out the candy just let him pick so he eventually gave up saying it cause he got candy with out it. But it was sweet when I would have him tell them Happy Halloween! He said it, Happy A'ween! They loved it!

Later that evening after Adam came home we trick or treated some of our neighbors and then went to the ward Halloween carnival! Adam was excited to be a red neck AGAIN! and got many laughs and surprised looks. Most everyone didn't recognize him! I was appropriately a pumpkin and we had a good time at the carnival. Our chili won most original even though we were going for spiciest :) oh well! And there were some really good cinnamon rolls too. Kyler had never had so much candy in his life, so of course he was bouncing off the walls! He probably only had 6 pieces, but for him it was plenty and more than he's ever had in one evening!!!! We had never seen him so crazy, he wouldn't sit still for 1 minute, he was all over the place. He was definitely on a sugar high!!!!! The first of his life! But he eventually crashed about the time Adam took him trunk or treating, while I handed out the candy at our trunk. They had fun though. After seeing Kyler act the way he did, and knowing that I would probably eat most of the candy anyway, I ended up putting 10 of our favorite candies away each of us and 6 pieces or so for Kyler, and throwing the rest away! I was glad to do it :) Maybe I am a party pooper, but oh well! Kyler wont know any different :)

Overall we had a great night as a family! Hope your Halloween was equally as fun for each of you! Post your stories and send pictures if you have em!
love, Rach

Fall Colors!

Just wanted to let you all know I miss you! I hope everyone is doing well!

Chris and I drove up the canyon last weekend to look at the leaves. I tried to take some pictures, but we were too far away. I will post what I have though. I love fall! Can't wait until we can all see each other again...

More Pictures

Hey Guys I posted some pictures of our vacation on our family blog but thought I would save some for y'all to appreciate! They are in backwards order but I am too lazy to change them...

Lovely... :)

Kyler and Grandma cruisin in the expe' with their shades!

I like this one a lot

Kyler running the car battery down!

It was a lot of fun! the only thing that could have made it better is that everyone was there! It makes me sad to think I don't know when the WHOLE family can be together again... :( The Holidays just wont be the same... But life must go on I supposed. I love each of you and think of you often. Thanks for everything and everyone just being themselves.... isn't our family great?

Ps. I am sure you all got the pictures of our ultrasound that Adam sent. If you want another look I posted them on our fam website. LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Thanks for your phone calls and congrats. We are excited for our little boy and feel really blessed with the opportunity to have another child.

Lion Tales

Gin, I just felt the need to dedicate these pictures to you. Hope you enjoy :)

Just thought you'd all enjoy a little picture of me showing my teeth at Sea World when we were in the "shark cave". Also, a nice picture of the San Diego temple. It's so gorgeous!! And a beautiful picture of a Logan Goose species. He enjoys taking long strolls at First Dam Park in Logan, Utah, and swimming on a lake of poo (Logan sewer ponds) in the winter time. Something in the sewer ponds keeps him from freezing. Mmmm. Good eatin'. He also enjoys an occasional minnow for breakfast and water skeeter for dinner, and chunks of moldy white bread, stale crackers, marshmallows and anything else Andy could find in our cupboards for a late-night snack.

Remember Who Rules This Campground?

Ok everyone....I want you to know that this is very precious and goes back now about 3 decades. Yes....its Aud and Di and Company right? They are still kickin' in good ole' Duck Creek Village, UT You would have loved this years camp host.....To you Adam and Jesse....do you remember "greaser" when we went pheasant hunting to the Fish Lake Hunting Club in Koosharem? Well this guy was his twin brother. Anyway, he was nice and he jumped my expedition battery because it went dead. We missed you guys on the camping trip. It was alot of fun. The altitude there is about 8700 feet and we were the only ones there. Yahooooooo! We had alot of fun with Kyler. He loves camping and fishing as you will be able to see from the other pictures.

Good Stuff!

Mom and me at Devin's luncheon :)

Look at the cute wagon behind us that Chris hauled around when we went fishing. ahhh! how precious!

Everytime I drive by this I want to take a picture for Gin, so I finally got it! It is in Payson...Gin, you could move back and take it over someday. Sound good? :)

Answer

Ok, Ok I will tell you what the mystery photo is. I was trying to wait for Mom and Dad to see it, but that might take a while and everyone wants to know :)
..... it was fresh bear poop! You can only imagine how excited Adam was to find it, all fresh and recent, he kept commenting on how you can see the liquid or urine around the droppings it was so recent.
So it wasn't me who took the photo, as soon as he showed me the poop I knew a photo was going to be taken. It was like no other poop I had seen before! It really looked like cranberries and oatmeal to me. That is one healthy bear. Good thing he was long gone when we came!
Thanks for playing along with my little game :)
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Cache La Poudre River

Adam had a few days off, so when he caught up on sleep we took a little trip exploring.

This is the Cache La Poudre River. We went for a little day trip driving up the canyon that follows this river. Adam would like to come back for some fly fishing, he saw some great spots!Can you guess what this is left fresh for us that same morning??? Take the poll!!!Here Kyler is giving his typical cheesy smile.

Time for our picnic lunch

Kyler couldn't resist the water, he just had to splash in it! Here he is picking up some "cones" in the water

we must have walked with back and forth with Kyler at least 50 times! As you can imagine, he was ticked when it was time to go!!!

Not happy to be going!

It was a fun trip! It was pretty arid in this canyon, but on our way back we found another road away from the river and it had lots of pines and green grassy meadows. There were some beautiful cabins we saw as well, too bad they aren't ours! We are excited to explore another part of the mountains near us and hopefully find some better campgrounds. The campsites in this canyon are for tents and were $16 a night!!! some didn't even have water. We would like to explore the Rocky Mountain National park also when we have some more time, because it's $20 just to drive thru there! So we'd want to spend some time and get our money's worth. We couldn't believe the prices these Colorado hippies charge for their precious mountains :) j/k. It was nice to get out of town and explore.

This was the pond that was home to some huge rainbow trout. Jenn and I threw some food in there and they went crazy--it was like a boiling pot of water as the fish fought over the tiny morsels of food.

These are our pictures on our way to Payson this weekend to celebrate my birthday. We stopped at a little creek (Tonto Creek) and took some pictures while we soaked our feet in the cool water. That was a lot of fun and it was very beautiful scenery. Shortly after we were at the creek, we went to the fish hatchery and looked at all of the huge trout swimming in this pond.

When we got back home we went to Black Angus and had steak. We later went to coldstone and got some good ice cream and watched Rush Hour 2 so that we could fully prepare ourselves for Rush Hour 3, which just hit theatres.

Hope you guys are all well!

Greetings Jensens!

Hey Family!
Just wanted to start a group blog where we can communicate and share updated pictures of eachother. You can write on this page or if your want your family to have your own I will put a link to it on the side and this can just be main page to get to every individual family blog.
Love you!
Rachel