Max & Hanna's Triathlon

The triathlon consists of a 50 yard swim, 2 mile bike and a 1/2 mile run. If you live near Vegas you should have your kids try it out next year, it's so much fun! It's in Blue Diamond, called the Diamond Kid Triathlon.

They're ready!

The hard thing about having 2 kids in the same race is being able to see them do everything.
GREAT JOB MAX and HANNA!

Hanna won 3rd place for her age group!


Daisy wanted to be held the whole time, she was making me crazy!
Grandma Dee Dee came to watch!

After the race the fireman came for some fun!


Hanna loved being sprayed by the fire hose! Max wouldn't have anything to do with it. Danny brought Van and Walt to get a little wet, but I think as soon as the fireman spotted Danny the fireman went right for him, they were soaked!

Daisy's Endoscopy

Daisy had her endoscopy and we found out she does have Celiac Disease. It was a blessing to hear that it was something easily treatable with a gluten free diet, which is found in wheat, rye, oats and barley. It's different then an allergy. She isn't allergic to wheat, rye, oats or barley, it is the gluten that is in those foods that eat the lining of her small intestine. The good news is, it's been 2 weeks that she has been on the diet and she has only thrown-up one time (and I know what it was that I fed her). She has also gained one and a half pounds already! The rest of the kids were tested the other day (they have a 10% chance of having it)and Danny and I still need to be tested (one of us are the carriers, I'm pretty sure it's Danny). Daisy has done so well about not eating what her siblings are eating. She understands that she will get sick and she doesn't want that at all! Before the diet she was throwing-up 10x's in a 2 week period and her tummy was constantly blotted and cramping. Here are a few pictures before her endoscopy...

One of Daisy's favorite meals (before Celiac), spaghetti (she won't be having typical spaghetti ever again.

Short Vacation to Cali.

We went to CA for my brother Greg's wedding and got to do some other vacationing items while there. We stayed the first night at Grandpa & Grandma Gravell's. The kid's always love visiting grandma and grandpa! They enjoy the BBQ, swimming, juice, snacks, treats, (basically being spoiled) and of course all the fun they have with both Grandpa Ernie and Grandma Debi!

Daisy loves her Grandpa! Daisy was all alone in the spa and her floaty came off. Thankfully she's a screamer, I ran over, stepped in and pulled her out. (You possibly can't see, but I'm wet from my knees down; not sure why Danny cut my face off).

I was happy to get this shot of Max!

Debi was a great sport playing ping pong with the kids for a while!

Settling down before bed and after a long fun day!
The next night we stayed at Shelly's house (a friend of my sister's). Shelly was so sweet for having our large family crash her house. While staying there Walt unlocked the front door and went on a walk (almost made it all the way to the park up the road) and he also let Shelly's dog out (she was a goner), which thankfully the neighbor found and brought her back home and Shelly found Walt. Oops.

Most of the Gravell cousin's. Aren't they sooo cute!
(We are missing Walt and Vincent).

Our family! Hanna & Daisy were the flower girl's, sadly I got stuck at the top of the stairs helping them know when to go down, so I didn't get to see how they did.

Heather and Greg Gravell! Heather looked beautiful!

Celebrated My B-Day

Danny and I stayed the night at a 5 Star Las Vegas hotel, Vdara. It was really nice, but a little too pricey for us. We actually got a fantastic deal on Price line, but then when we got there we had to Valet park only, there was an additional "hidden" fee we had to pay, everything was hard to get to and the pool was not kid friendly (we had planned for my mom to bring the kids the next day to swim). We would have been much happier at the Rio. The biggest perk about the hotel was it is a non-smoking and non-gaming hotel. We relaxed, shopped, ate and slept in (I couldn't do that too well), all in all we had a had great time together!

Since we couldn't swim at our hotel we went to one of my mom's time shares and was able to get into the pools there. We had a lot of fun together!

Check out Danny's Before & After shots; that he "reveled" to me on our night out! He started working out in February and I hadn't seen his chest since then. He lost 31 lbs. in 3 and 1/2 months! Before....

After...

Max's Baptism

Max Daniel Jensen was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Saturday May 28, 2011.
Some things that you might want to remember about this day is that your cousin Andrew spoke on Baptism and Grandma Susan spoke on the Holy Ghost. I'm sure you will also remember that dad held you under the water a little too long because he was trying to get your legs to go under and you came up coughing out some water. Then dad had to try again, the second time you laid so flat and straight to be sure you went all the way under. There were many family members there to share this special day with you.
We are so proud of you Max and pray that you will continue to follow your Savior Jesus Christ's example so that you will continue to have His Spirit to be with you always. We love you Max and feel so blessed to have you in our lives!

You and dad in your "whites" ready to be baptized.

You & dad (Bishop Jensen at the time). Unle Tom, dad, Uncle Jeff and Max.

You and Grandma Dee Dee. It was Grandpa Ernie's 65th birthday.

All the boys, or should I say "Men"!

All the family that were able to be at your baptism.

You & Zachary are best of friends. You with your brother's & sister's.

Grandma Susan made you this beautiful "Eagle" quilt.

"Who's Bad?"

Walt Sleeping

I just think pictures of sleeping children are so cute! This picture of Walt sleeping with his thumb in his mouth made me think of my brother Kurt (I also sucked my thumb, but this is the way that Kurt would place his pointer finger on his nose just like Walt in this photo).

A funny story about Walt...last week I went outside to check on Walt. I found him with only a shirt on playing in the hose with some mail that he hands me which is not ours and was soaking wet. I instantly slap his hand and he asks in his cutest 2 year old voice, "Why?" And continues to say, "why" while I'm trying to explain to him why I slapped his hand. I put the mail in the sun in hopes for it to dry out a little before I go tell the neighbor what had happened to his mail. While I go gather his shorts and diaper that he left in the gutter in the mud I start to understand what Walt was doing. I realized he went to get the mail (I'm still not sure why he got the neighbors mail, because they live over a half acre away), but while getting the mail he must have dropped it in the mud and decided to be a big helper and wash it off. I quickly realized why my innocent 2 year old was so confused at me slapping his hand. There is still so much for me to learn as a mother. I need to do better at seeing things through my children's eyes before I quickly over react.

Preschool 2010-2011

This past year I taught 3 different preschool classes, I taught a Mon/Wed preschool class, a T/TH Pre-K class and a Mon-Thurs. afternoon Pre-K class. This last week I had two Pre-K Graduations and a Preschool Program to finish up the school year. It was a busy week, but the programs turned out very nice and I'm happy to be done for the summer! It worked out with Danny being home with the kids this year, but it takes a lot of time, patience, and energy; so it's good to be off and have the whole summer with the family! Van was in my preschool class and the pictures are from his class program. Next year Van will attend my Pre-K class and the twins will be in my Preschool class, which is crazy to think about!
Congratulations Van you did it!

Friends Are Great!

It's so wonderful to have such great friends! Since I was in the hospital with Daisy on my birthday we couldn't have our planned potluck birthday luncheon last Friday. So my friends moved it to yesterday (a week later) and we enjoyed each others company. I forgot to take pictures until the end so here are a couple pictures of those still hanging around talking. Thanks guys for being such wonderful friends!


My Hair!
Danny thought it would be fun to bleach my hair, at home! So we tried and it didn't turn out so well. I went and had a girl I know look at it today and she said it will take her 4 hrs. to "fix" it and she can't do it until Wednesday. Thankfully I'm so tall and most people can't see the top of my head, because that's where it's pretty bad. It's blotchy all over too. I should know by now that going cheep isn't always better! Thankfully I got it fixed on Saturday night, so I didn't have to go to church the other way.