Since we are busy moving, I'm posting our Christmas letter on my blog this year. You can look forward to our Christmas 2009 letter in your mail next year. Thank you for your understanding!
Dear Family & Friends,
I can’t believe the Christmas season is here already! I must admit I’m not quite prepared this year, but I do have a few good reasons for that. If you have already looked at our family picture you might have guessed why I’m not prepared; it would have to be because of our TWO new babies! Yes, we had twins, baby girl Daisy Marian and baby boy Walt Denmark came into our “little” family on August 26th 2008. I guess we needed to make-up for not having any babies last year. Another reason we’re not quite ready for the Christmas season would be that we’re moving sometime this month (hopefully before Christmas), and I’m not planning on decorating until then so our house just doesn’t feel very Christmassy.
It is a crazy time to be moving, but we have been talking about moving for the past two years and we feel blessed to be able to do so now.
We found our first home of our own in 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 you’re 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 Wal-Mart (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.
Danny will continue to work in Las Vegas; he doesn’t mind the commute because he is use to driving to each of his food service locations all across town. Danny’s business “Campus Food Services” is doing well, he renewed his contract with the Charleston Campus this last summer for another 4 years and has also picked up a few more business accounts with government buildings around town. Danny is an entrepreneur and continues to think of and work on other projects to keep him busy!
Our five children under 5 keep me busy daily! Between Max’s homework and off to Kindergarten, Hanna’s gymnastics, Van and the horrible, no good, terrible two’s, and nursing two new babies, let alone laundry, dishes, packing and Christmas, I don’t know how I’m still sane!
It has been nice having Max in Kindergarten this year. He attends my SIL private school located right down the street from us and goes on Tues.-Friday from 9:00-2:30. It’s been so fun hearing him talk about the Solar System, Mt. Everest, repeating poems, and saying his phonogram rules. Max is in a combined Kindergarten and First grade class and is still taller than everyone in his class. He enjoys being in the same class as his favorite cousin Zachary and playing at recess with all his other cousins. We’re going to miss his school when we move, but Max reminded me that he’ll be able to meet more friends.
Hanna is a mini-me when it comes to loving babies! She loves holding and kissing on her new baby sister and brother as much as possible. I didn’t know a 3 year old could help so much with a new baby, but when they both just want to be held I place one in Hanna’s lap while I try and make the other happy.
Van just turned 2 years old in November and can really be a joy to be around if he’s not throwing one of his many tantrums of course! How did I forget these times so quickly? It must be that children bring much more joy to help us forget these hard short moments in life.
Daisy and Walt were born at home three and a half weeks early. Daisy born first weighing 5lbs. 8oz. and Walt was born 15minutes later weighing 6lbs. 10oz. Three hours after their birth Walt had to go to the hospital and ended up staying there for one week because of too much fluids in his lungs. They’re 3 months old now and already showing such differences.
Daisy is a social butterfly who has been smiling since day one. She has a very demanding cry when Daisy wants something, but is as happy as can be as long as she’s being held. Walt is a serious little “man” who is 2.5lbs. bigger than Daisy and is very patient and sweet. When Walt cries we know he’s waited long enough!
We feel so blessed to have our busy lives with our five beautiful healthy children. We enjoy sending out our annual Christmas letter and look forward to hearing from each of you! We hope your year has brought you much happiness and blessings. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Love, Danny, Jennifer, Max, Hanna, Van, Daisy & Walt Jensen
Email: gojensens@hotmail.com
Family Blog: http://goteamjensen.blogspot.com/
New Address: 2141 S. Cortina St. Pahrump, NV 89048
Max's birthday was May 6th just a day after mine so I took him to lunch at the Deli and we both got sandwiches and ice cream, yummy! (Thanks to my friend Allison who got me a gift certificate there for my birthday. She also made me a big brownie cookie, that was so sweet of her, it really made my day). It was so nice to have some one-on-one time with Max, he is such a good boy who's growing up way too fast!
We celebrated Max's birthday on Saturday where we had his Army Party! The kids had a wonderful time going through an obstacle course, having a water balloon toss, and playing "hot grenade". I was so glad Danny was there he always does such a good job with the kids. He took charge of all the games having the "Soldiers" march to the different activities and so on. 
Most of the kids wore camouflage, which made it all the more fun.
The kids doing the water balloon toss.
Here are some kids doing there army crawl through the finish line. Their medal for finishing the course was a root bear float. Max had a very Happy Birthday, thanks to all his friends and family who came to celebrate with us!
