What the Cool Kids Do: 2016

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Picture A Day 2015 Video

We apologize for the falling behind of our picture posting, but we did manage to finish out the year.

Or see it here on Youtube.

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Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Happy New Years Eve!

We brought in the new year at our house playing Mario Maker and trying to keep the boys awake. They both made it until midnight and we watched the firworks go off at the Space needle. Happy fun times, everybody!

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Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

Happy Birthday, Ivan!

Many evening are spent with the boys wrestling on the couch.

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Tuesday, December 29th, 2015

Happy birthday, Elina!

We celebrated with marble cheesecake and Key lime pie and chocolate chip cookie sandwiches. Thanks for being a great Aunty and sister!

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Monday, December 28th, 2015

Ruth got this cool wooden box for Christmas with special holes for embroidering through. This is supposed to be a unicorn.

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Sunday, December 27th, 2015

Magnus wanted to get into some of his toys this morning before we were awake. I think a sleepy momma may have given permission for him to use the scissors to open his box. He did succeed in getting out the toys without injuring himself. So that was good.

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Saturday, December 26th, 2015

Magnus’s present haul. We were very blessed this Christmas with some generous people dropping off gifts for all of us. Thank you, everyone!

Friday, January 15, 2016

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Friday, December 25th, 2015

Christmas Day at the Jensens is Craker Feast. Here we are together for craker feast. Gideon was sad that he did not get to buckle himself in.

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Thursday, December 24th, 2015

Happy Christmas Eve!

We went hiking this morning before showing up at Ivan and Terry’s home in Salem. We had a good time and I think we’ll be doing this again next year perhaps. Here we are in front of Majestic Falls.

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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

We decorated edible structures tonight. Magnus ended up with a house and a garage. Gideon just wanted to eat M&Ms. How did Magnus get so old?

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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Anton got Ruth a Star Wars crochet kit for her birthday. This was the first attempt. We will call him Mishapen Trooper.

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Monday, December 21st, 2015

Ruth’s official birthday cake happened tonight. Ice cream cake with white chocolate unicorns dancing on the top.

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Sunday, December 20th, 2015

The elves brought us some glo pens in our shoes a few days ago and we broke them tonight and drew with them. Good times had by all!

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Saturday, December 19th, 2015

Terry is getting a new store ready to open in downtown Vancouver. We have been helping her build shelves and haul grabage and put things on high places.

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Friday, December 18th, 2105

We went through some of Else’s Christmas decorations and separated out some of the ones we’d like to keep. These are the ones we brought home with us.

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Thursday, December 17th, 2015

For birthday treat tonight we went to dinner at Gustav’s and then went to see Star Wars with Anton and Elina. Boba Fett was there, so we took his picture.

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Happy birthday, Ruth!

Ruth has to go to mutual tonight so offical festivities will come later. But her visiting teacher brought her this funny snowman cupcake, so we still got to sing and eat cake tonight.

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Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

Magnus has been drawing pictures of the universe lately. This drawing features himself in the center with his arms out, “for giving you a hug!”

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Monday, December 14th, 2015

A close up of some of our ornaments. This may have been taken by a small person.

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Sunday, December 13th, 2015

We finally got some of Christmas decorations up today. Everyone liked putting the ornaments on the tree.

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Saturday, December 12th, 2015

Our ward Christmas party was tonight. Magnus got to dress as a shepherd (he’s the kid dressed in brown about 4 kids right of the music director). We also made cheesecake for the party, but our pans went missing (sorry, Anton!). So always remember to label your dishes you bring to ward parties!

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Friday, December 11th, 2015

We picked our Christmas tree today. It was just drizzly as we drove up, but when we got to where the good trees were, it was sleety-snowing. So we didnt look for very long. I feel like that happens every year…

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Thursday, December 10th, 2015

I made candy trays for a family friend to give out at Christmas time. It was a lot of work and I’m not sure I should do it again next year. We’ll see.

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

We read about some petroglyphs on some rocks near our house so Dana walked down and took a picture of them. They are hidden in the bushes in front of the Grant House. Pretty cool.