my kids are great!

New York

While Brian was in RA training and gone everyday all day we decided to go and visit our wonderful friends in Houghton NY for a couple days. So Toby, Zoe, JoAnna and I packed up and headed out!! It was our first time to NY. We had so much fun and we are so glad that we did! Here are some pictures of our trip.

We went to a state park, unfortunately it started to pour right after we got there so this is all we got to see. But it was an awesome waterfall and Toby hasn't seen anything like this! He thought it was pretty cool!

Campbell and Zoe playing with the new food Sarah bought! (and by playing with I mean chewing on! ha ha!)

I love this picture!! It was so hard to get a picture of Toby and Campbell with them both smiling and looking at the camera. This one looks likle Campbell is laughing and Toby is praying over her!! :) Really Campbell was mad that Toby was trying to hold her still so she was screaming at him and Toby blinked!

Toby was the photographer for this picture of us girls!! JoAnna, Sarah and Me.

The whole group! (minus Jeff who was taking the picture!)

We had a great time hanging out and seeing the kids play together! We can't wait to visit again! Thank you Kirksey's!

LOVE

Some of my favorite things that I hear from Toby: 

"I love you Mommy!"

"Mommy, I want to go to heaven to be with Jesus."

"I like you!"

"It's okay, I'm right here baby girl" (speaking to Zoe when she is upset) 

"You my sweetheart!" 

He is so sweet to me and to Zoe. I am so excited to see the two of them grow up together! So far they love each other very much...... I know that will change sometime! :) I cherish their laughter together now so much! 

Toby's first love

Toby's first love Izzy is here visiting and he is loving it. 

More pictures to come....

potty training

No more diapers for this little guy!! Now that deserves some sort of PARTY!! :) He doesn't tell me he needs to use the potty like most kids do. Instead I get "mommy, I peeing!!"  Those are now my favorite words.

Here he is workin those cute little undies! 

Such a cute guy! He has done such a great job! 

Now how do you know when they really have it and you don't have to worry about it anymore??

I am just savoring this feeling!

7 years

June 1, 2002 was when it all started. We created a new Jensen family. 7 years ago today. It doesn't seem like I am old enough to have been married for 7 years and have 2 kids!! 

Here is us on that wonderful day 7 years ago: 

 In honor of today Brian made me something wonderful! He framed 4 of our family pictures and then had our family verse framed and they are now hanging in our living room. The verse is one we picked out together, one that we want our kids to grow up knowing and for our family to function having this verse in mind with everything we do. Here is the verse:

'And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. - Mark 12:30-31

what it looks like with everything, 

I had fun finding old pictures of us from our time together. I want to share some with you. I tried to get them in date order, but honestly it was hard. :) I did the best I could. Here we are young, married and childless........

On our honeymoon in FL. 

At our reception in Minnesota. 

At our first Indy 500 as a married couple. 

Back in Fl where we had our honeymoon with my basketball team - so our 1st year of marriage.

Second christmas together. 

This picture was right before I found out I was pregnant with Toby. (in October 2005) 

This was in April of 2005 at a banquet with North Central. 

Our picture we took for our Christmas card. I think it was during year 3. 

Christmas time, obviously, I think year 3. 

Our cat, PJ. Well my cat, Brian didn't like her! I think year 2. 

Brian's graduation May of 2003. 

Summer of 2004. Brian was in a friends wedding. 

Okay so they weren't really in order at all!! I tried! :) So crazy to think back to our lives then. Now 7 years later we have Toby and Zoe and live in PA! I wouldn't change the way our life is at all! I love my husband and I love our children. 

Toby, 2 years old & Zoe, 4 months old

The Jensen Family

 

summer is here

It's official. Summer has arrived. When all the students pack up and leave, I know it's summer. This year I was not ready for it to happen. I was enjoying having people around all day everyday to talk to or to play with or to just know I am not alone in this big huge building during the day! Well graduation happened to day and we had to say our goodbyes. Goodbye for a summer to some and goodbye for a while to others.

Here is how we spent the last couple weeks and a couple of the awesome students we get to share our life with:

Ate at the hot dog shoppe for breakfast for the first time...It was wonderful! 

Spent some time with Krista who is going to be working in Jamaica all summer. Then she is going to be in D.C finishing up her program. We will miss her next fall. 

Hung out with Ashlie, my friends soul mate, lots. She will be gone all summer working at a camp. We can't wait for her to come back in the Fall!! 

Walking around the new part of campus the day it opened up. It looks wonderful! 

Taking family portraits of our family of 4! 

And going to graduation. Jenine graduated and is getting married this summer. Toby is her ring bearer and will be living right down the road. We are excited for them staying here! 

We love that we get to work with students. They teach us so much. Beaver Falls just won't be the same without all of the students here.