jensen reunion

friday the 25th, the jensen's had a reunion. well it was actually all weekend, but the girls and i were only able to make it to an hour of the bbq on friday. we enjoyed the playground before everyone arrived.



then everyone arrived and mingled.

a cousin talking to kg's brother justin.

kg in charge of the grill.

cousin wendy and her daughter sarah.

niece erina.

kg's brother erik and his dad ken.

the olive girls.

river and great grandma jensen.

i love this photo of erina! pretty little thing.

uncle ferrin and cousin.

aunt becky and cousin.

cousin's husband.

cousin's child.

it was nice to see everyone and i was bummed that my flaky brain planned two things for the same weekend. i missed out on the remainder of the reunion because i chose to stick to my plans for idaho falls because i didn't want my mom driving alone and i also hadn't been there in 3 years. THREE YEARS! that is a crime. so after we ate at the bbq, mom and the girls joined me in the van and we were idaho falls bound. more to come.

happy father's day!

our father's day was exceptional. it was different than any we've had yet. usually we spend it with our families. but this year, we were with my family the week before and kg's dad and brother were out of town. it was so great to just focus on kg and let him decide how he wanted to spend the day. i woke up and got to work in the kitchen surprising him with his favorite breakfast treat, coffee cake, which i've never made from scratch before. while it was cooking the girls and i gave him gifts.

we got him a nose/ear hair trimmer, see's chocolates and a twist light.

finally the cake was done and holy crap was it good! i've never really liked coffee cake until now! so delicious. i also made his choice of bacon to off-set the sweet.
then we all got ready for church and i was stoked to learn that the klein's would be joining us! they are in town from san diego. we saved them a bench and flower had so much fun sitting with them. we took havanna and enjoyed cuddling a baby. i enjoyed sitting next to them in sunday school and relief society. after church, all the men were served homemade pie. all the dad's were also given these m&m's that were made into a bow tie by the primary presidency. super cute! we have a great presidency!
i was delighted to find out the klein's wanted to hang out with us for the day! we all came to our place to change clothes and then we went to lunch at goodwood. super yummy food of course!
i've mention before that river is a clown. she does anything for a laugh. here's some proof.

look at her eyeing that bottle!

pure beauty!

after that we went to the park! it was really lovely outside.

i love how the chains seem a mile long in this photo.

the kids love the merry-go-round.

as you can see they are progressively going faster.

i love this one! they are all barely able to hang on!

eventually the kids ran off for other adventures and the adults took over the merry-go-round as a lounge pad. :) i really enjoyed talking with scot and val while the kids played.

a boy showed up with a really cool bubble maker and the girls went wild chasing the bubbles.


and then it was time to go.
so on the way to the car kg threw the girls in the air a couple of times.



after we got home flower had to model the pants she chose to wear. she is wearing her sister's 24 month pants! they don't fit river(because of her diapers) but they fit flower just fine as capris! and they weren't tight around the waist at all. crazy.
it was really one of my favorite days in awhile. everything was spontaneous and fun and filled with great friends. my heart was filled to the brim with love that they are only visiting for a week and yet they still set an entire day aside for us, even though both of their families are here. that really meant a lot to me. we sure love them!
i'm so thankful for kg and the daddy he is to flower and river. the three of us girls are incredibly lucky to have him. he definitely picks up my slack more times than not and usually does it on little sleep. he would do anything for his girls and he shows that on a daily basis. i can't even put into words how much i love him.
thank you kg.
i also want to tell kg's dad, brothers and grandpa how much i love them and appreciate them as father's. they are all amazing and i'm bummed we didn't get to see them. i hope you all had a wonderful day.

star gazing. and so much more.

saturday was busy, yet relaxing. i quite enjoyed it.
it started early with kg leaving for the cabin at 8:30 for the EQ paintball trip. he took kas and flower. they were gone all day and from what i understand it was a successful trip.
this was the only photo kg gave me. the girls were totally wiped out on the way home.
while they were gone i got some alone time with river. we started the day off with going through her closet and pulling out all the clothes that don't fit. i then replaced them with all the 3T clothes in storage bins from flower. then i put all the misfitting clothes in the now empty bins and into the closet they went. her closet is now organized and filled to the brim with clothes that fit. how nice. in that time river also took a bath and a nap.
then we went to work. after being there for a bit my mom and sandee stopped by with fries for river. they needed to go to the mall and i needed to go to the bank for work so we all went together. first the bank, then we got a shaved ice. finally we went to the mall for some quick father's day shopping. they dropped us back off at the office and i worked till 5:00 and then we went to target for our last bit of father's day stuff.
shortly after we got home kg called and was stranded. right after he dropped off kas the truck stalled out. we went and picked them up so we could all get ready for the surprise evening i had planned. as we were putting shoes on, all of a sudden river's converse no longer fit. back to target we went to get her a new pair of cons. she is now the same shoe size as flower! since we were there we also picked up a bike helmet for flower and a potty for river.
and now for the fun. i wanted to get a jump start on spoiling kg for father's day. i let him pick the restaurant, with a small hint from me. :)
we went to tepanyaki. always delicious and entertaining.

i just love this photo. it shows her sweet pucker perfectly!

the girls love the soup!

you can see the flames in her eyes.

we love all the fresh veggies!

and what a beautiful salmon!

then it was off to bogus basin. they were doing a star gazing thing and i thought it would be fun for all of us.

this cow had other plans and didn't want to let us pass.

we arrived just in time to take photos of the sunset.

there was a cute little bat by the bathroom.

i just love the way the back light of the sunset is giving our hair a red glow. :)

kg looks good surrounded by all his girls.

we got to look through all the telescopes and the detail was amazing! we were able to see Venus and Saturn. the ring around Saturn was so cool.
one man had a camera connected to his telescope and then streamed it to his computer. so cool. the moon was really neat.

flower was amazed and i think we wore them out. ;)

awesome, awesome day!