We're Moving

I've been reluctant to put this up because our loan is still in proses, but since I'm starting to pack and I'm getting very excited I might as well let everyone know we're moving to PAHRUMP, NV. If you have not heard of Pahrump, it is a small town (well, not too small it still has 25,000 people there) located about 40 miles Southwest of Vegas. The commute is not bad at all, actually if your from CA the commute is nothing! Pahrump is famous for legalized prostitution (brothels), it use to be a farming community and didn't have phone lines until the 1960's, it really started to develop in the 1980's. Pahrump has a Super Walmart (all you need in a town), three casinos, a McDonald's and other fast food chains. The only thing they don't have is a Trader Joe's which I'll have to have Danny do that shopping for now on.
We have been talking about moving for the past two years now so it still doesn't seem quite real. Anyway, about our house... It has 4 bedrooms all with own bathrooms, a guest bath, an office, a loft, a family room, formal dining room, living room, kitchen, laundry room, and the garage has been converted to 4 other rooms (which we'll use for storage and my preschool, which I'll start back up next Fall). Most of the house is on the main floor the only rooms upstairs are the loft, a bedroom and a bathroom. The house is on a half acre lot (which is currently not landscaped or fenced in). The previous owner was a custom home builder, the house was a model home and the garage was his office. Let me just say we got a great deal on the house (only $63 a square foot) and we couldn't pass it up! Danny can't bring himself to buy anything unless he feels it's a great investment. We have put about 5 offers on 5 different houses in the last 4 months and this one has just worked out perfectly (so far), so call it meant to be because I'm not even sure how we began looking in Pahrump. I had never been there before and living there had never crossed my mind. Here are a few pictures of the house...
If we enjoy Pahrump we'll have plenty of room to "grow" into this house.
In our current "rental home" we haven't had a working dishwasher for 2 months, only 2 sometimes 3 burners work on our stove, our freezer has a layer of ice in it and our microwave burns my popcorn every single time! Our new kitchen has a subzero fridge and Wolf appliances. I guess I need to learn how to cook and enjoy it now!
My current bathroom is a one man bath. The neatest thing in our new bathroom would have to be the shower, which has seven shower heads! Of course, we will only use all seven on "special occasions". The downfall about this bathroom is we just might get cold.

The office.
Look, there is even a ladder that goes back and forth like on Beauty and the Beast (my friend Autumn pointed out).
The loft.

Reminder to all, we just got a great deal on this house, and remember it's located in Pahrump! All the places we have lived since we've been married have been free rent in exchange for office manager work, cleaning, or we've had students live with us to pay our rent (up until we had the babies). We feel so blessed to be moving into our very own home. Please come and visit us, we'll have plenty of room for visitors!

A "Jolly" Thanksgiving

Every Thanksgiving we go to a movie with Danny's family and have dinner at his brother Jeff's house. This year we didn't go to the movies we just watched Fred Clause together at Jeff and Cindy's house. We dressed Daisy and Walt in Christmas outfits for Thanksgiving because they won't fit in them next month, so we had to put them to use. They're 3 months old.

(This is the only picture I took on Thanksgiving, oops).

Here is a video of Hanna making Walt laugh...

Pictures

I just got Van's 2 year pictures and Daisy & Walt's blessing pictures...

Max's School Play

Max's school had a Plimoth Plantation Pageant last night and it was so cute!

Max with his cousin Andrew.

Here is a short clip of the play. My niece Ruby is the first to go and Max is last. Max was trying to get everyone to stand on the X like the teacher said. Oh no! Does he get that from me? Oops!

DISGUSTING

We have deep cleaning day once a week, which includes vacuuming. Well, I knew our vacuum hadn't been working very well it wouldn't suck up stuff unless I use the tube which is impossible to vacuum the house good with the tube only. Well, last Wednesday I asked Danny to vacuum, as soon as he started he said this doesn't even work and I've said I know I've told you that. So he went and bought a new belt and cut all my hair off the spinner and cleaned out the vents and dumped all the junk out of the container. As soon as he started vacuuming he was so excited at how well it was working. Here comes the disgusting part, after vacuuming the house just one time the container was full! I'm not sure if any of you girls lose a lot of hair after having a baby, but I lose a ton! It comes out without any pull, just running my hand through my hair I'll pull out a bunch. For example this is how much hair I lost just today while doing my hair and yes, I always have my brush cleaned out. So just think how disgusting my floors were with all the hair I shed, YUCK!

Daisy and Walt

Daisy and Walt are getting bigger and stronger! Here they are during "tummy time". As you can see Daisy's head isn't as heavy as Walt's. Daisy puts her head up so high and she can hold it up for such a long time.
Walt had it up for a little bit, but as soon as I got the camera he was all worn out. At least he was still happy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAN

Van turns 2 years old today! We had a little birthday party on Saturday at the park for him.

Here is Van with his cake, there was a horse behind me so he was a little too distracted to smile and look at me.
He enjoyed everyone singing to him.
I think he was excited to get his very own light saber.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BOY! WE LOVE YOU!

Our Eventful Week

Here are some pictures from the baby blessing last Sunday...




Grandpa Ernie and Grandma Debi came to meet Daisy and Walt. The kids always enjoy
having them visit!

Happy Halloween!



We went to our wards trunk-or-treat for Halloween. I thought I got a picture of all the kids dressed up, but I guess I was too busy (I got all of them ready and brought them to the church all by myself, it was a little crazy, Danny came later). !
Max was a police officer, Hanna a witch and Van and babies still basketball players. The kids always enjoy getting candy!



Hanna said, "I don't even look scary." I had forgotten the reason why she wanted to be a witch, she wanted to be scary, my bad!

Pumpkin Carving Contest

My sister-in-law had her 7Th annual pumpkin carving contest last Saturday. Everyone dresses up and gets so into both the pumpkin and costume contest. We have so much fun thinking of what we will be as a family. This year we were "TEAM JENSEN" a basketball team with our 5 kids, Danny the couch and me the cheerleader.
I got the kids jerseys from Walmart and then I ironed on there number and "Team Jensen" on the back and for the babies I just had to navy outfits and ironed on a basketball and numbers on the front and thanks to my sister I used her cheer sweeter. We won the funniest costume and Danny won the scariest pumpkin "Mega Mouth".




Carving our pumpkins.
A few of the pumpkins, with Danny's winning pumpkin "Mega Mouth" next to Max's "Scary Zombie" (with dad's help of course).
My brother Kurt came with Skye, he a nerd and Skye a hip-hop dancer.
My sister also came with Kristine and Baxter, Baxter a scuba diver.

It was so nice having almost all my siblings in town (we missed you Uncle Greg), we had a wonderful time together! We were happy to have Micheal at the pumpkin party as well.
Danny blessed the babies yesterday, he always gives our children such wonderful blessings, they're so lucky to have him as a father. (I'll post those pictures when I get them back).

Daisy & Walt

A girl in my ward is a photographer and just took some cute pictures of the twins. Here are a few of them...

Kia Sedona For Sale

We're selling our 2004 Kia Sedona, so if you know of anyone interested in buying a mini van let me know. It has almost 73K miles on it, we've had no problems with it we've just out grown it. Still in great condition inside and out! It also has a V6 engine and a hitch already attached for towing. We are selling it for $7995. OBO.

Happy 30th Birthday Danny!

Today is Danny's 30Th birthday (yes, I'm 5 months older than him). Last night I took him to the Venetian to celebrate both his birthday and our anniversary. We got a great deal on a room and we only had to take the babies with us. My mom had Max, Hanna, and Van and then Danny's mom Dee came to the hotel with our niece Olivia to watch the babies from 6-9 last night. Danny and I were able to go to dinner at the Grand Lux, take a ride on the gondola, and go in the hot tube for a little bit as well. I've found out what will turn your man on more than anything else; what you do is do our hair in a way you've never done it before and your man will think you're the most beautiful women in the world (wear a wig if you need to)! Basically, he'll fell as though he is having an affair with another women (that's OK as long as it's still you)! The sad thing was Danny was all over me and was waiting all week for last night, but the babies did not cooperate at all, so we didn't even get a chance to do the you know what, poor Danny!
Good thing Daisy and Walt are so cute that all we could do was hold them and love on them! We had a wonderful time and we thank our wonderful mothers for taking care of all our babies!

Just a cute picture of all our babies the other morning!

Good News!

Walt gained 11 oz. in 3 days and Daisy gained 6 oz. Walt is now 8 lbs. 3 oz. and Daisy is now 7 lbs. 3 oz. What I did these past 3 days was nursing a full nursing and then gave them each 1 oz. of formula and so they were taking 8 oz. of formula in 24 hours. My doctor told me today to let them eat as much as they want from a bottle after nursing. He was happy they gained, but still wants to see them next week to be sure they're still going up. So we were happy about their growth!

Catch Up Post

OK, I got my camera fixed so I can post pictures again. The babies are 6 weeks old today. Poor Walt had his circumcision today, glad that's done with. The Doctor is concerned because they haven't really taken off with their weight gain, especially Walt, so I have to bring him in again Friday and if he hasn't gone up a good amount then he'll possibly need to go back to the hospital. That was pretty depressing. The Doc. asked us to start supplementing formula and that will hopefully solve the problem, so we started that today and hopefully they will gain enough by Friday. Walt now weighs 7lbs. 6oz. and Daisy weighs 6lbs. 13oz. The Doc. says even though they've gained some weight, on the growth chart they aren't going up, they're actually lower than 5% for both weight and height.
Daisy is my social, smilie little girl, but also is the one I have to hold a lot because she has a very sensitive tummy and gets colic easy. Walt is very serious and very observent when looking around his eyes are always WIDE open. He is patient and always lets Daisy feed first if taking turns. It's been a lot of nursing these first few weeks, but I feel so blessed to have these wonderful spirits in my home and life!
My brother Greg came to town last weekend to meet the babies. He had more fun playing with the bigger kids. The kids had a lot of fun playing with Uncle Greg!
Here is one of my favorite pictures of Daisy and Walt at two weeks old. (I just wished it turned out better).

My turn.

I love you too. You are the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. . . Now lets get naked!

Seven Years Together

Today is Danny and my seven year anniversary! A few things that I just love about Danny... he's patient, never loses his cool, very easy going, friendly to everyone, still can make me laugh, wonderful father, plays with the kids, family man, strong priesthood holder, hard worker, attractive, strives to fulfill his church callings and he's fun! I love you Danny so much and I feel so blessed to have you as my husband! Thank you for a wonderful seven years!

Baby Shower

A couple of my friends and family members had a baby shower for me and the babies! We had planned to have it Aug. 30th, but then the babies came a little sooner than we'd thought, so we had it the next Saturday instead and I was able to bring both Daisy and Walt with me. Me niece did the invitations and the shower theme was diapers and casseroles! This was all we needed and it was a great idea! My ward has been wonderful, they brought in meals for the first 2 weeks and now I have frozen dinners for another 2 weeks and enough diapers for a long while! We are extremely grateful to all those wonderful people out there!