This was Emalyn's first year on an all-girls team-let me tell you, they were COMPETITIVE! Her team called themselves the Purple Butterflies and they had a great season. Poor Emalyn got sick a lot this season and actually missed 3 of the games due to getting Strep Throat over and over. She actually played in one game where she was very sick-I didn't know that she was-and still ran pretty fast in that game. She's turning out to be one great player. In the first photo below, she's the goalie, one of her best positions. She is a great ball blocker.
Tyler just loves soccer more and more every season. His goal this season was to kick the ball 3 times in a row-showing that he can follow through with the ball-and he made it! He is also a great goalie, but he showed his greatest improvement in being a better forward. His team did not name themselves all season, but Tyler wanted their name to be the Blue Bears.
In the picture above, Tyler is goalie and is blocking a goal tried by the other team, and in the picture below, he is just about the kick the ball (he has the navy blue hoodie on under his light blue uniform).
This last picture is of a butterfly on Emalyn's finger that had a sad misfortunate incident with Scott-although he
says that he didn't MEAN to hit it-who died later that day. Emalyn took very careful care of it until it passed away.
So, even though I kept hoping he would want to come on his own, he decided to be much more patient than I and come on his scheduled date, October 19, 2010. It was scheduled because it was a c-section, and it went so smoothly for both baby and me. He was born at 9:23 am, weighing 7 lbs 7 oz. and was 21 inches long. 
We weren't able to come up with a name for him before his birth; Scott and I'd tried but we just couldn't settle on one name. But after seeing him, we both felt his name should be Russell Ketcheson Jensen. 
On our last night in the hospital, we were served what is called by the nurses, a "stork dinner". It was so yummy, and I was able to sit at the table with Scott and eat with him. That made me really happy, because I wasn't able to get out of bed and sit at a table after having Krysta. Can you see how much food they gave us? It took some careful finagling by the nurses to get it all to fit at the table. And we ate almost all of it.
In the hospital, Russell's bilirubin count started getting higher, and the day after we got home, it was high enough that they brought us a "bili-blanket" to help him get better. He literally glowed for a few days. He's fine now. My sweet mother is here holding him. She came out the day before Russell came to take care of the rest of the kids while I was in the hospital and for this past week. I don't know what we would have done without her. She's an angel!
These next two pictures show a pretty cool trick that Russell can do. Yup, he was already rolling over to his side before we left the hospital! 
Here are my two guys standing on a raft that was half on the shore, half in the water. Somebody apparently thought it was attached to the shore, umm...it wasn't, and they fell in. Don't worry, it wasn't any of our four guys.
What Jaxen found along the way to give to his Mom. So sweet.
Tyler brought his yo-yo on the campout and practiced a lot. He can do some pretty neat tricks with it. This one is called rocking the baby.
They found an elk track. (See the imprint next to Scott's foot?)
Tyler made it to the top of the mountain!!
Tyler, Uncle Jaron, and Jaxen hiking together.
Does this really need any explanation? Other than WHY?
Um, yea, I was forced to show these pictures too. Of a store they found on the way home. Again, no other explanation is necessary. Or even possible.
We were at Crater's of the Moon! Again! But this time I was overcoming a silly fear of mine-going there when I'm pregnant-and this time nothing bad happened. It was one of the best days we've spent as a family. I was able to go on all of the hikes with everyone else, and I wasn't even sore the next day. Which goes to show that all that exercise I've been doing this pregnancy is really paying off!
I wish this picture above was bigger, so you could really see the pretty yellow flowers that are growing amongst desolation all around. For those of you who don't know, Crater's of the Moon used to be an active volcano about 2000 years ago. Nature is still recovering, even now. This little flower is a lesson of growing and blooming wherever you are planted to me. Even on a lava rock.
