The "5th" of July

We celebrated the 4th on Monday the 5th this year, the day after our little Angel's blessing. Grandma Leesa turns her hill into a huge water slide. The kids always have a blast! They look forward to it every year. Uncle Tyler was the "splash zone" complete with a cup of water he splashed on every one that came down. It was pretty funny. Gavin and some of the other kids took a turn with the splash zone cup! It was so cute. If it didn't take so long to post videos maybe I would post one but it always takes me forever.

Leah's Blessing Dress Pics

*Her blessing day pictures are two posts down.*

3 months old and lovin' this girl!

I realize I am adding this when Leah is almost 4 months old! But better late than never. She is an absolute joy. She sleeps though the night. She brings a smile to everyone. She loves getting her diaper changed-seriously...just loves it! She rolls everywhere...yes, goodbye bassinet. Boo hoo...:( She laughs. She cries(well, that's pretty obvious). She has bright and beautiful eyes that love to watch the leaves dancing in the trees. She loves to be outside and take walks. She is ready to conquer the world and I am not ready for her to! Must....slow....down....please!

Leah's Blessing

Leah Rose Jensen was blessed on July 4, 2010. Since the 4th of July is my favorite holiday...well, that and Halloween...it was only fitting. If you can't be born on the 4th of July than you might as well be blessed that day! She was so adorable. It was a great day. I have no other words but to say how much I adore her...how grateful I am for the people that supported and helped us that day, and how much I adore, adore, adore her!!! It was a beautiful blessing for a little beauty.

The twins are 7!

The twins turned seven years old on June 16th. We planned to party at the park with all their friends but had to have it in our house because of all the bad wind that day. We made do and I think the kids still had fun.
Megan wanted a flower cake and her current favorite color is purple so this is what I came up with:

Zach was eagerly anticipating Toy Story 3 coming out two days after his birthday and was over the moon about this Toy Story cake with all the figures. Thanks Disney Store:Happy Birthday kiddos!
Girl Table + Gavin and Zach
Boy TableZach with his presents:
Meg with her presents:
We took the twins to Brick Oven that night, and oh my...the joy on Zach's face when they sang to him and he stood on the bench...priceless:

What a great day for them! Happy Birthday Megan and Zach! Can't believe it has been seven whole years. We sure love you!

A trip to the zoo

I took the four kids to the zoo on Memorial by myself while Brandon did some much needed yard work. It was VERY CROWDED!!! But, it was really nice. We took a lunch and ate it in the zoo. It was pleasant and we still got to see lots of animals and enjoy the day. My mom watched Leah for me. :) Thanks Mom. It was a great day.

Dear Leah Rose,

How can over two months be gone already? Didn't you just barely make your entrance into this world? And now, you are smiling and cooing and are awake all of the time. You suddenly seem like a real member of the family, but it's all happening TOO fast! Aren't you supposed to let me rock you and hold you all day long and never grow??? Wasn't that part of the deal? Okay, I suppose not. Dang. Well, then I'd just better enjoy every minute of every upcoming stage since time is going to march right on and you are going to go ahead and grow up anyway. I just hope you feel beautiful, special and so loved along the way, because that's what you are and will be.

I love you to pieces!

-Mommy

School's Out for the Summer!

Here we are again at the end of another school year. This has definitely been the best school year for ALL of our kids thus far. It will be tough to beat! All the kids loved school the whole year. They loved their teachers and friends. Everything was just great. I am always sad to see it end. It never fails that I cry every last day of school. I cry the first day also, but with the last day...it's sort of like the end of an era. It always reminds me that they are getting older and time is marching on. It's bittersweet for me! The week before school ends the kids participate in the school's dance festival. It is always a blast to watch and the school does a great job. It was a great day for Megan because she won an iPod!!!
Here are Megan and Zach with the best teacher, Miss Cottrell!!! She is our angel on earth! She is so positive and loves all the children so much. Plus she is adorable!
Tanner has had a great group of friends this year. He always finds such great friends to associate with and we are SO grateful for this. I hope it continues throughout all of his school years. He is very friendly and makes friends easily.
Tanner also had a wonderful teacher and school year. Mrs. Lepore is so kind and patient and just was the best thing for Tanner. He was in a split class where 1/2 was 2nd graders and 1/2 was 3rd graders. He was a 3rd grader and she handled the split class so well which is not an easy task. He really enjoyed it!

Big Girls Don't Cry

I didn't do such a good job filming this one! She is over towards the right on the back row and sometimes you can't even see her. Whoops! But it gets better and the end is really cute.
Getting her rose after the concert

Striking a post on the stage

After the concert with one of her best friends, Hannah. She'll be moving to Florida in a month. :( The twins are really going to miss her.
Our family-well, some of us!
Grandma Leesa came down for the concert
Megan and Munga(that's what the kids call my mom)

Almost There from The Princess and the Frog

Working on getting both of Megan's dance concert performances and the dance festival performances downloaded and put on here. She is in purple...6th from the right at beginning when they line up...apron up high. what's with that little girl pushing her to move up at 1:02? That really bugged me. But worth watching for the pose Megan strikes at the end.