Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Merry Christmas

Here is our 2011 Christmas card. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!



Dear Family & Friends,


The fabulous Christmas season is here again! We feel blessed to have so many wonderful family members and friends in our lives. We always enjoy letting you know about the changes life has offered us within the passing year and look forward to hearing of yours!
We’ve been in Pahrump for three years now; oh how time flies! We enjoy living here and being surrounded by so many wonderful people.
Danny has been serving as the Bishop of our ward for almost 2 years and his love continues to grow for our ward family. Even though Danny’s business has not been in the colleges for over a year now, his company still manages the concessions out at the Henderson Pavilion. He has also been a huge help in managing our home; by taking over a lot of the cleaning, patiently rearing children and even paying bills. Danny is an entrepreneur and continues to amaze me with his brilliant business ideas, one in which he is currently working on putting to action.
Jenny keeps busy of course! Between running a preschool (with 2 full classes), being a Webelos Scout leader, couching girls soccer, expecting Baby #6 in March, helping Danny manage our home and taking care of 5 children she finds it hard to take a breath some days.
We are all very excited to meet our baby boy at the 1st of March. It has been a long time since we’ve had a sweet new spirit in our home and we all can’t wait to meet him.
My mom is thankfully still living with us and has been a big help in my school and with the cooking!
Max is 8 and enjoys: T.V., Computer/Wii games, P.E., Scouts, Guns, Knives, Camping, “Collecting” & Money.
Hanna is 6 and enjoys: Reading, Spelling, Coloring, Soccer, Receiving money from the Tooth Fairy, Kissing on Walt & Making Friends.
Van is 5 and enjoys: His Pre-K Class, Playing Memory, Building Cup Towers, Computer Games & Making Everyone Laugh.
Daisy is 3 and enjoys: Her Blankie, Thumb Sucking, Preschool, Dolls, Dress-up, Playing Fashion Star (a computer game) & Bossing Walt Around.
In February Daisy started to get extremely sick. Her tummy was always blotted and she was throwing-up daily. After a long 5 months of tests and dealing with her sickness we found out she has Celiac Disease. Thankfully, with just a change of her diet she is back to her old feisty self!
Walt is also 3 and enjoys: His Thumb, His Dad & Going Bye-Byes. Him & Daisy ask when baby Clark is going to be here almost every day. Thankfully, Walt has managed to stay out of trouble this year, for the most part!
We feel so blessed to have our crazy lives with our five beautiful healthy children. We wish to extend our reverence and love to the Savior as we commemorate his birth at this time of year and at the same time extend our love to you. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love, Danny, Jennifer, Max, Hanna, Van, Daisy & Walt Jensen

School Play

Max and Hanna had there school play last week. I was so excited about it until the night of and neither of them would cooperate with my fine ideas! Max could have dressed up as a tree, but wouldn't, he only would wear a green shirt. And Hanna could have dressed up as an elf, but wouldn't, even though I had an elf costume. These children would not have fit in with my mom. I still have hope with my other children :)


It was still fun to watch them sing. I love that Hanna always knows all the words to the songs and lets just say singing is not Max's passion.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Live Nativity

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is to see the Live Nativity Play. This is performed in South Las Vegas at the Opportunity Village put on by the L.D.S. Red Rock Stake. It is so fun to watch and remind our children of the true meaning for Christmas, the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. Sadly, I forgot my camera this year, but here is a photo from last year.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Santa Train

We went to Boulder City yesterday and rode on the Santa Train with, Grandma Susan, Dee Dee and Tom and Becky's family. It's a fun train ride and Santa walks through for pictures during the ride. We enjoy visiting Boulder City, it's a cute town were Danny's Grandma Roma Jensen lived until she passed away 8 years ago.





With Grandma Dee Dee.




With Grandma Susan.




Cute Walt.




Grandma Susan, me and Daisy.




Dee Dee with grand kids.


Family Activities

I need to take some pictures, but here are a few things we've been enjoying doing around the house lately.
Building paper cup towers.

Roasting marshmallows over the fire.

"Fighting": either pillow fights, fighting with dad or jumping over/ducking under the pillow. One of these games are played almost nightly and if the kids break the "Law of Respect" they don't get to play the game that night.
Playing Memory. This is because of Van, it's his favorite game right now and he plays it a couple times a day.