A Day at the Wild Animal Park

Since the beach weather was so yucky, we ended up going to the Wild Animal Park. My sister had free passes which was wonderful! My mom stayed home with baby Vincent (my sister's little guy) and the rest of us went and enjoyed the park!

Van looking at the sleepy lion.

Hanna, watch out for the Gorilla!

On our tour we saw lots of neat African animals and heard some very interesting facts!

The Black Rhino can weigh up to 3000-4000 lbs.!

Happy 4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July celebration this year! We first went to our stake breakfast and program, which I always enjoy. Later, our friends Autumn and Jeff invited us to Jeff's aunts 4th of July party (on the 3rd). They had this fun pool that was so nice and warm! Had yummy food, lots of fun treats (homemade ice cream, slushies, chocolate cover fruit and marshmallows on festive sticks, bottled soda...) and some very fun fireworks! We had a great time! On the 4th we went to Jeff and Cindy's for dinner and more fireworks with the Jensen Family.

They had this fun rope swing and this 10 ft. wall that Max enjoyed jumping off of!

Danny doing sparklers with the kids, these sparklers were so nice because they were so long.


Everyone with sparklers.

Swimming Lessons

Luke, Van, Daisy, Walt and Hanna
Like I mentioned early the kids got free swimming lessons so I even took a mommy and me class with the twins. Daisy was doing just fine in her floaties before swim lessons, but poor Walt was too afraid, when I would barley move away from him he would panic. Well, since their swim lessons you would not have known Walt was ever afraid. He jumps off the side (with his floaties on), floats on his back and puts his head under all the time, he just loves the water now.

Daisy swimming (or drowning). Walt swimming.

Hanna enjoyed jumping off this 5ft. high dive with no life jacket and had no problem doing so.

OB, Daisy, Walt and Luke. Van is pretty much swimming without his floaties I just make him wear them because it's much less work and stress on me. Maybe now that my mom's back she can watch the babies and I can watch the others.

Summer

Here is what we've been doing a lot of this summer...SWIMMING!

All kids 5 and under (everyone, but Max) were able to take 2 weeks of swimming lessons through the city for FREE! So I have been taking a mommy and me class with the twins. Thankfully the life guard does it with Daisy for me and uses her to demonstrate. Daisy is like Van in the water, she just jumps right in and loves it! The classes have made Walt feel much more comfortable. Hanna was already swimming she's just improving her strokes and other skills. And when Van isn't being a little stinker he shows his great skills!

My wonderful friend Shelly has this awesome pool and a huge heart! We've been swimming here about 3 times a week. In this heat swimming is all we really can do! So thank you Shelly!

Here is what we haven't been doing enough of...SLEEPING!

Walt

Not sure where these glasses came from, but Walt really likes them and I find it funny whenever I see him wearing them. Danny has started online website design classes, so he did a little editing practice to this photo.

Found Walt in the office with these glasses on, a pen and my phone in his hand. Too cute!

Van

Van fell asleep on the kitchen counter while waiting for his lunch to be done. Would this be considered dangerous?

T-Ball

Max on 1st base.
Hanna on 3rd base.

T-ball season is officially over! Max and Hanna played on the same t-ball team this year, (the Indians). It worked out great for me and Hanna enjoyed being on the same team as Max. Max however, felt that he was playing with the "babies". He did look a little strange out there because he's so tall (at age 6 he started wearing size 10 boys pants and jeans), but he was in the right age group. This might be our last T-ball season, it is too time consuming for me. Excited for soccer to start. I'll be coaching Hanna's soccer team in the fall.

Danny's Skin Infection

Danny was playing racquetball last Thursday and fell and hurt his knee. On Friday he had a fever and a lump under his lower knee. He was feeling miserable and by Sunday he knew it was infected so he went to urgent care, they gave him antibiotics and sent him home. The next evening he was in so much pain and the infection had spread so he went back to urgent care. They gave him an I.V. and stronger antibiotics and sent him home. By Tuesday his infection had spread down to almost his ankle and his friends told him to get to the hospital (in Vegas of course). He went to a hospital in Vegas and was admitted for two days. Danny was treated for Cellulitis (a general term for a skin infection). Because Danny had no open wound (which is rear) they needed to make sure the antibiotics were working before letting him go home. We are glad he's back home and is recovering well. A big thanks to all our friends for there help, concern, love and prayers!

Campus Food Service Ends

Danny has owned his own Food Service business called Campus Food Service and has provided food services for the three community colleges in Las Vegas for the past 6 years. Danny and his brother's, Tom and Jeff started the business as a Hogi Yogi in August of 2003. Soon after they received the bid at the Charleston Campus and relocated there. 2 years later Danny bought out his brother's and received further bids at the other two campuses. Every few years the college has to put the bid out for the public to have the opportunity to bid. Well in the past 6 years he's been doing this no one has been interested in the contract. This year the largest college food service business in the WORLD (Sodexho) decided they wanted the contract, so with that being said Danny was out bid. Danny was shocked that Sodexho would ever want the contract since they are such a large company, but since Danny has been there he has set it up so well that they became interested! They are even interested in keeping Danny's current employees and planning on running it mostly the way Danny has it set up. Danny put in an amazing bid showing how a small business will continue to work with the college and continue to improve their stores, he also showed how his pricing is 20% better on food items then Sodexho at UNLV. The college is just hoping a big company will come in and take away all their worries. Danny is doing just fine and will continue to trust in the Lord. He feels blessed for the hands on business experience and will continue to be an entrepreneur!

Grandpa's Birthday

Cute little conversation I had with Hanna on Thursday...
Me- "Hanna tomorrow's grandpa's birthday."
Hanna- "We need to send him money." (That's what he does for the grand kids)
Me- "Should we send him as much as how old he is?" (That's what he does.)
Hanna- "That will be all of our money."

I had a good laugh and loved sharing this with my dad on his 64th birthday! Happy Birthday dad!

Sharing Your Talents

I feel so blessed to be surrounded by such talented woman here and more importantly that these woman magnify there talents by sharing them with others (like me) who may not be so talented. UNTIL NOW!!!!

One friend does a once a month cupcake class and teaches us fun and interesting cupcake skills. These are spaghetti with meatballs (cupcakes).

Another friend has a monthly cooking class and has given out some wonderful recipes that I've even been enjoying trying out! And more importantly they've turned out great and I've even enjoyed doing so!

Homemade french bread, YUMMY! Made twice last week. And Chicken Parmesan, looking forward to making again!

Another friend taught me how to make this cute little diaper cake!

Another friend taught me a few knew hair techniques to do on Daisy and Hanna's hair! I have also learned how to make hair bows from another friend! I made the hair bow that's on top of the diaper cake. And these too! (Oh, the purple ones, not the brown and white ones.)

Oh ya, and I got my hair done!

THANK YOU, YOU WONDERFUL TALENTED WOMAN WHO HAVE SHARED YOUR TALENTS WITH ME!

Preschool

I had my Pre-K Class graduation and Preschool class program last week, so I'm off until Fall.
Both class programs went so well I was very impressed and I know the parents were too! I currently have no pictures for my Pre-K graduation except for the cute cupcakes we made and the class photo, (my friend will be sending me more so I'll update later). They were awesome though, it was so rewarding seeing their progress! Hanna was in my Pre-K class, which means she'll be starting Kindergarten in the Fall!

Here is my preschool class during their program. Van is in this class, but he still has another year of preschool, then Pre-K.

Daisy and Walt

Daisy and Walt are already getting to be so close it is so cute! The other morning (while Danny was watching them and I was getting ready for my Preschool class graduation) I found them giving themselves a bath. The water was even warm!

They have been climbing out of there port-a-cribs (which Daisy is in Danny's closet and Walt in mine,) and have been getting each other up to play. So I put Walt in the big crib in Hanna's room and they've been staying put for the most part. In the day I find them in Daisy's crib together with their blankies and "reading" stories to each other. (This is not during nap time, they just sneak off together and that is where I find them). They've been watching a lot of Signing Time lately and this evening Danny turned it on for Daisy, but she had two request her blankie and then Walt. They are such a joy and it's so cute seeing them growing closer each day. Here is a picture of their routine nigh-night kisses.

They are 21 months old now, this is the age Van was when I had them!

Max and Van

I have realized a lot of this I've been posting on FB and haven't posted on my blog, so I'm catching up.

Max received student of the month for the month of April in his First Grade Class!

                                           Future Missionary, Van Tolman Jensen (current age 3):

Happy Birthday Max and Me

I turned 32 on May 5th and my big boy Max turned 7 years old on May 6th! Since our birthday is only a day a part we get to have a special birthday lunch together.

Made cookies on a stick for Max's birthday to bring to his class.

This picture is a silly one, but I like it because it shows his innocence. This was Max's birthday dinner request, an artichoke.

It's been a busy month with Father's and Son's that we are officially celebrating his birthday this Sat. Max went to our Father's and Son's and to his cousins' as well. Max finally got a Play Station 2. He's been wanting some kind of game thingy since he was 3 years old. Danny's brother Jeff and cousin Andrew gave it to him and he and Van have been loving it! I've been enjoying using it as a great incentive as well!

Here are some gifts that I got... phone calls, cards, chocolates, a dinner gift card, while teaching a cake in one class and cupcakes in the other, all my wonderful FB messages and of course mom babysat so Danny and I could go to dinner and she even made me french toast for breakfast, my favorite! I felt loved.