The Bloomin' Mile

Every year Winchester hosts the Apple Blossom Festival. This is a BIG deal for a lot of people in the Shenandoah Valley. Kids get school off and there are 3 days of festivities. There are parades, a huge fireworks display (unfortunately it was cancelled this year due to construction), several races, a circus, etc. This is the third time Sadie has participated in the Apple Blossom Festival's kid's mile run, called the Bloomin' Mile. This year she ran it in 10 minutes and 58 seconds, better than her last two times!! She did a great job and we are so proud of her!

Sadie running the home stretch. Seeing us cheering her on really gave her a boost and helped her finish in under 11 minutes!

Justin made a new friend while we were waiting for the race to begin.

Isaac and Sadie found a tree to climb while we waited. Isaac stayed in that tree almost the entire hour and a half we were there!

Afterwards, we treated the kids to a dinner out and a trip to the bookstore since the fireworks were cancelled. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time!

Justin's favorite toy

For Justin's 3rd birthday he got a geotrax train set. Then with his birthday money from Grandma and Grandpa Day, he picked out some extra track to add to his set. This has turned out to be his best gift ever. He spends hours every day playing with it and reconfiguring the track. Luckily we have an empty dining room that allows him to have it set up all the time.

Most of the time he doesn't even use the remote control, he just pushes the train around the track.

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!