Jensen Family Reunion!

My family came to visit us in Texas for a few days last week. It was so fun having them here and showing them around San Antonio! We went downtown and saw the Alamo, Riverwalk, took the rivercruise and enjoyed a yummy mexican meal. We played lots of games, enjoyed Texas bbq, spent some time in the hospital, (more on that later) relaxed and just enjoyed being together. The AlamoReminiscing of old times. My family lived in Texas for about four years when we were younger and took a very similar picture here on these steps. (Except no balloons this time…that’s why we look like goofs acting like little kids and “holding balloons”) We should’ve looked at the original picture right before to get it a little more accurate though.

On the rivercruise Our little family Just outside Casa Rio, a really yummy mexican restaurant we ate at along the Riverwalk. On Saturday Gma Rose got her dream and got to have Kennedy to herself all day while the rest of us went to Schlitterbahn Waterpark, which is ranked one of the top waterparks in the world! There were tons of slides and it was lots of fun!

From Wikipedia: “The New Braunfels park now boasts over 3 miles of inner tube rides, 7 water playgrounds for children, uphill water coasters, 17 water slides, and the world's first surfing machine”

Cute picture of Kennedy signing ‘more’Kennedy with Grandma and Grandpa Jensen just before churchOne last group picture before heading to the airport. Thanks for coming guys we had a blast having you here, come again soon!

Santa Monica

Kennedy and I got to spend some time down in Santa Monica with sisters, cousins and Grandma Barb! All the little kidlets kept us busy all weekend, but we had a blast together with all the girls! We enjoyed the Santa Monica Pier, ferris wheel, beach time, farmer’s market, movie time, delicious food, relaxing, and lots of good shopping! Thanks for the fun trip girls! Jer & Sharla’s beautiful home we stayed at across from the beach! View of the beach from the house I didn’t take very many pictures of the girls, but I’ll post what I have. The girls loved watching all the people and dogs out the window. Kennedy would wave and ‘talk’ to everyone that went by. It was pretty funny to listen and watch her! Bree and Kennedy

The girls with Grandma Barb

Corpus Christi

On Saturday we wanted an adventure, so we headed down to Corpus Christi. We toured the USS Lexington (an old aircraft carrier that’s a floating museum now). It was interesting to learn more about and neat to explore.

Captain Kennedy Zak trying out one of the aircraft guns

We then headed over to Port Aransas and took a ferry ride to Mustang Island. We did a little boogie boardin and had fun in the sun. Kennedy loved the beach and had a blast playing in the sand, oh and eating it too :)

Beach Babe

Kennedy looks like a goof in this picture, but we think it’s funny and it’s the best we could do with the sunglasses on.

We’ll definitely be back again to get more sand in our hair, we had a great time together as a family!

Random Pictures

These pictures are kind of old, but we are in need of a new post, so I thought I’d put them up anyways. Swinging for the first time with Dad She loves dogs (actually all animals) and just giggles when they lick her or she gets close to them.

Oquirrh Moutain Temple Open House Kennedy LOVES getting into the cupboardsWho me? I didn’t do it..

She also loves to climb in the fridge.

First Birthday

I (Zak) am posting today only because I promised “Grandma” we’d have pictures up tonight. And since I am already dangerously close to getting cut out of the will, I better not flake out on this one.

Here we have our pre-birthday party in St. George. Kennedy’s first attempt at indulging in a paradise of sugary goodness didn’t go down the way we expected.

Things looked good initially…

But the distraction of colorful sprinkles and sticky icing killed her appetite…

We all thought her apparent distaste for baked goods was hilarious…

It was not.

 

On her actual birthday, we decided to go a little more low-key. A simple cupcake, and only 3 spectators.

Concentrate on the objective…

Intimidation is key…

This staring contest lasted a good 3 minutes. Seriously…

Victory at last!

With a little prodding, we got some chocolate pumping through those veins.

Official Texans!

We are Deep in the Heart of Texas again! We’ve known that we were going to move to Texas for the past 7 months and it’s actually here now.  The movers came and packed everything up and loaded the truck  in Orem on June 29 and 30.  Then we spent 8 days in Southern Utah with our families, which was wonderful!  We arrived in Texas on Wed. night and the movers delivered everything to us on Thursday and we spent the next few days unpacking and organizing!  We hope to only be in this apartment for a few months while we try to find a house, so sadly lots of our stuff is still in boxes. We are feeling a little more settled now though. Zak started his first day of work yesterday and is enjoying it so far.

Kennedy thought it was pretty cool she was surrounded by boxes! A few pictures from St. George, the night before we left:

Bree, Allie and Kennedy eating yummy plums right off the tree

First time jumping with dad

Grandma Barb and Grandpa Kerry

The box chaos in Texas!