Easter 2009

I'm finally posting this years Easter pictures!! Sadie, Isaac and Justin had a lot of fun looking for their baskets and eggs.

They each received a Webkinz from the easter bunny.

Grandma and Grandpa Jensen came to visit the day before and Grandma helped the the kids color eggs.


They were tie-die. Pretty cool!
This picture was taken after church. Isaac wasn't feeling well, as you can tell. The poor kid was sick for the rest of the day and never really ate any of his Easter candy.

Girls Night In

Today starts spring break for our school district, so Sadie and a few of her friends had a great idea to kick off the break. A SLEEPOVER! They've been planning it since Monday, on the ride to dance class. So last night we had three 8-year old girls running (and I literally mean running) around our house until 11 pm. They did stop occasionally to watch a little bit of "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" and eat some popcorn and Orange Julius (Sadie's favorite). Overall they were really good and had a lot of fun. Then at 7:30 this morning they were up running around again!

Isaac's book presentation

Today at school, Isaac presented one of his favorite books to his Kindergarten class. It is called "Wall E: Smash Trash". He loves this book and has been working really hard on learning it for his class. He was also the "Top Apple" this week, which means he is the line leader and gets to help his teacher during carpet time

Here is Isaac helping Miss Wurst with the days of the week and numbers of school days, etc.



Isaac did such a great job reading his book to the class! Unfortunately my memory ran out before I could finish recording, but I did get most of it. Way to go Isaac!

Justin's Third Birthday

Yes, we do know that Justin doesn't actually turn three until March 14th. But since Grandma and Grandpa Jensen are going to be in Florida then, we decided to celebrate it a little early this year. It was a beautiful day, so Justin got to go to the park and play outside quite a bit. One of his favorite things to do! Then, once the cake was finished and the gifts were wrapped, the festivities began!

He loved opening all of his gifts!

Everyone loved the Geotrax, even the big kids!

The Lego's were a big hit too!

Then it was time for the cake! Can you guess the theme???

Thanks to Gina for for the cute tractor sweat shirt and for letting us borrow her tractor cake pan.

The birthday boy enjoying his cake and ice cream!

A wonderful time was had by all. We are so grateful for such a wonderful little boy! Happy Birthday Justin!

Snow Day!

Well, we have yet another snow day without an appreciable amount of snow, so I felt it was fitting to post pictures from our last snow day! We finally broke out the home-made finger paints and they worked surprisingly well. And they are made with soap, so when the kids are done, just rinse off their hands and they are sparkling clean! You can even use them in the tub, but we have not tried that yet!

Then with their hands clean, it was time for some kid-friendly baking. Snickerdoodles are great for the kids to make.

I think Justin ate every cookie we gave him to roll!
Just look at our beautifully deformed snickerdoodles! Yum!

Air and Space Museum

Last Tuesday (yes, the day of the inauguration!) we decided to take a trip to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space museum at Dulles with some friends. It turned out to be the perfect time to go! No one was there because of the inauguration, so parking was easy and the kids had a lot of space (no pun intended) to run in the museum. The kids were enthralled by all of the planes, rockets, missiles and the huge space shuttle. We had a great time.

Ellen, Sadie, Justin, Kenzie (in the stroller), Isaac, Raenie and Dallin

A real, live space suit!

The museum is basically one huge hanger, and this is one end of the hanger from the central stairway.

This is the other end.

Justin and Kenzie are so cute together!

The kids in front of the space shuttle Enterprise. (Not to be confused with Starship Enterprise)

Gigantic missiles.

I'm not sure what this is, I think it's a satellite or something. Raenie and I thought it looked totally fake, like something out of an old Flash Gordon movie!

The kids running Air Traffic Control. Frightening!

A view from the Air Traffic Control tower. I think that is Ashburn, the town where we used to live.

Let it Snow!

Monday we finally had snow!!! We've had a lot of precipitation this winter, just none of the good stuff...until yesterday. It started while we were at Jazzercise, so on the way home the kids were begging me to go outside. But we had to get lunch first...

Then I had to get a shower...

then we had to go to Costco.
Finally, the torture was over and we got to go outside.
We had such a great time that we hardly noticed the frigid temperatures.

Sadie and Isaac had to help shovel the driveway.
What great little helpers!
We even managed to eke out a snowman with the little snow we had.


And when we finally found a stick to use for the arms, Sadie and Justin insisted in holding his hands for a picture.