It's a Small (Amazing) World After All...

I just found out the best news!!
We subscribe to the Church News, but lately, it's been ending up in a stack of "to-read"things, along with the newspaper and other stuff like that. Well yesterday, the kids and I went to the park and I decided to get the mail, since we would be walking past our mailbox. There was the weekly Church News in there, and once we were at the park, I actually could sit down and read it while the kids were playing.

Well, I opened it up, and lo and behold, there was a picture of my mission president and his wife in there, President Larry Stoddard, and his wife, Annette. As I read the article, tears came to my eyes. They have been called as the new temple president and matron of the Idaho Falls Temple!!

I actually had to read it a couple of times, because I didn't believe my eyes. They are so amazing. I went through some hard stuff on my mission, and they both helped me so much. They helped me to become a better missionary and a better person. I love them and I'm so excited to see them again. I feel so blessed to have our paths cross again. If you want to see their picture and article from the church news, go here: http://www.ldschurchnews.com/cn/view/1,1721,500006516,00.html0.html0.html

On another note, we went to the zoo on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. When I told my dad we went to the zoo, he said, "Oh, so you didn't even have to leave the house all day?" ha ha. Very funny dad. No, this time, we decided to go see different strange animals who make loud noises (instead of just watching our own kids).

Here is Emalyn posing in front of the Otters. This was her favorite.

Look how brave we are!!

I know, this picture isn't too exciting. Yeah, no kidding. The sign said, "penguin feeding, 3:30pm". So we waited. And all they did was give one fish to one penguin at a time, and write down which penguin ate the fish. Then they'd give another penguin a fish. So not really all that cool. Kind of a let-down. But the rest of the day was really really fun.

Last weekend was also the Father's and Son's campout. Tyler and Scott had a blast. Here are some photos:

Scott also learned how to take close up pictures with our camera, aren't these flowers pretty?

Emalyn decided the other night that her potatoes would taste better with Strawberry Jam on them. We just had to take a picture of it to document it. And she really ate them.

Krysta-isn't she getting so big?

Emalyn LOVES flowers. So I showed her how they wear them in Hawaii.

Our trip to Utah

We went down to Utah this past weekend. We were supposed to go the weekend before for Scott's family's "Jensen Reunion", but we were all sick and it was supposed to get cold at night. So instead of going then, we went down one week later and got to see Scott's family.
On our way down, we saw Grandpa and Grandpa Jensen (Amy's grandparents). Grandpa actually said my name when he saw me! That made me so happy. That was the only thing he said while we were there, besides yes and no. He seems to be doing much better than before, from what I heard. It was so good to talk to Grandma. She has such an amazing ability to be so positive while going through all of this.
We also got to see Megan and Weston's place. We all had a pizza dinner together. The kids were pretty excited to eat while sitting on the floor. After eating and taking a tour through their new place, we went on a walk and fed the ducks together. They were some of the strangest ducks I've ever seen! They weren't hungry! I've never seen one duck not eat when you throw bread at them, let along a whole flock! But Tyler and Emalyn still had so much fun walking after the ducks and playing with them. Walking after the ducks is kind of like chasing them except you are not running and the ducks didn't appear to be concerned at all. They just walked the other way. So it looked like a kid/duck parade. It was cute.
After that, we spent the rest of the weekend with Scott's family. Heidi is pregnant and having her first baby in September. Her baby shower was on Saturday. She found out at the shower that she's having a boy! We're so happy for her and Jaron.
At the family dinner on Saturday, Scott, Tyler and I played the Wii a lot. Nancy bought Mario Kart, (which brought back lots of memories of way back when we used to play it in my family. That was the only nintendo game that I ever really got into.) and it was even more fun that what I remembered because we got to hold steering wheels in our hands and pretend we were actually driving! I lost pretty much every race (sound familiar Dave?) and Scott and Tyler were pretty good.

Anyway. it's good to be home now. Krysta sleeps so much better here and it's nice to get back into our routine and day-to-day life. My sister, Cheryl, is participating in a triathlon this weekend. Whoohoo!! She rocks! Good luck cheryl!

hello, again!

Well, just in case anyone still visits this blog, hoping for a new post, here it is!
I just haven't felt like blogging in the last month and a half, not at all. It just felt like I was so behind, I'd never catch up. But I guess I've decided that even though I'll never catch up, I'll still try to keep you all up to date on the Jensens.

We just got through passing around pink eye (or conjunctivitis- one of the coolest words to say out loud). I got it yesterday, and that makes all five of us! So yeah, that's been fun.
Hmmm... what else is new?
Oh, we bought Tyler and Emalyn new bikes last week. Tyler already had one, and we couldn't figure out why he never wanted to ride it. I just blamed it on his cautious personality, and the fact that he doesn't have depth perception (since his eyes cross). Anyway, his friend was over and wanted to ride bikes, and (surprise surprise) Tyler said he didn't want to, he'd just watch. After a while, his friend wanted to try Tyler's bike. (His name's Austin, by the way.) Well, Austin had been doing pop-wheelies, and riding around all over the place, but when he got on Tyler's, he could hardly pedal it! Yup! The pedals were pretty stuck. Scott tried oiling it, but it just didn't help. So we went to the store, intending to buy a bike for Tyler. But Emalyn hopped on a bike while we were looking for one for Tyler and started riding it all over the store. The price was a steal on both of them, so we ended up buying a bike for each of them. And now, we spend the better part of each day outside riding bikes. Well, at least Emalyn does. Tyler is still pretty nervous about it. But would you want to ride a bike if you couldn't tell for sure how high up you were and couldn't tell if the sidewalk seams were level or not? But at least he gets on and rides it a little now.
Oh yeah, and we started swimming lessons yesterday. My life is absolutely crazy. The lessons are everyday for 30 min, for 2 weeks. So, it's a good crazy. Tyler and Emalyn love the water.

We're going to try to go to Utah this weekend. We're pretty excited to see everyone.