Avery's baptism

These two girls are too cute!!!  If I were on the ball, I have a printed picture from eight years ago where they are laying side by side on a blanket on the ground.  Nicole is about eight weeks old and Avery is about 7 weeks.  They are two great little friends who will have many amazing stories to share.

Their baptism was a fabulous day.  They were the only two from our ward to be baptized.  Their baptism was the same day as the Stake mini trek.  Aurora and I took off very early that morning and hiked half the trek.  Aurora and I left with Ashlee when we were at lunch, came home changed and took off with the family to the Stake Center for the baptisms.  Grandma and Grandpa Jensen were able to come at the last minute.  It was really nice to have them there!  Kayla, Nicole's sister, gave a great talk on baptism.  Avery was quite nervous about the baptism process.  She flew through it! Beth gave a great talk on the Holy Ghost, Don helped by leading the music and my sister Laura played the piano.  Aurora and I played Love is Spoken here as duet together.  These pictures are right after outside the church.

I love the expression on Nicole's face in the last two pictures!

Their baptism started at two in the afternoon, which is right during Cooper's nap.  This is his really tired face in his carseat on the way home.

Max is another friend Avery has had since she was born.  I love her looking at Max here.   Rachel and Max came up from Salem for the afternoon for Avery's baptism.  They have had so many funny, fun, great and mischievous times together.  Their two imaginations together are limitless.

As Avery is not much of a dress lover, she changed her clothes promptly when we got home! We ordered Baja Fresh, hung out, talked and enjoyed the beautiful afternoon.

4th of July

We have kind of made a tradition of running Hillsboro's 5K CAT walk/run and then watching the parade on the fourth of July.  The girls and I have run/walked while Dave grabs a place for us the watch the parade and watches Cooper.

Bagely park swings, a great place for a two year old to spend a long time.

You can see Aurora and Myah here, they added to their bib number a green "running in honor" for  and they put their Grandpa on both sides and Grandma, because they have all had cancer and the 5K is a cancer awareness run.

Assessing the candy quantity so far!

Myah is pointing to the "Shawn Lindsay" sticker.  He is my cousins's husband and we are lucky to have them live not too far away.  He was in the parade and came right over and gave them stickers.

Cooper loved his "baby flag."

If you can't tell from the last two pictures, Cooper thought much of the parade was too loud.

A knuckle bump with the blueberry!

Myah, Avery and Aurora all ran the 5K.  I should have done a better job at training them.  Myah left the pack and ran it in 30 minutes and Avery, Aurora and I came in at a little over 36 minutes.  Great job girls!

Victoria B.C.

Just a few weeks ago we took at quick trip to Victoria B.C.  We left Port Angeles on the ferry and had a little excursion.

Hanging out in a donut shop with a really huge chicken in their window.

We had a little time to burn in Port Angeles before we needed to get on the ferry, so we walked around and shot some pictures.  We found a tsunami escape route that would lead the residence to higher ground.  The kids ran up and down the ramps numerous times.  Some are a little blurry, but they were running at lighting speed!  The kids loved driving the car on the ferry and then going upstairs.

The girls at the stern of the ferry right before it was to dock in Victoria.

These gardens are absolutely amazing.  Dave being a landscaper was even more amazed than I!  The kids were not into the gardens quite as much.  They did last a while and loved running around on all the paths and taking turns (fighting about) photographing everything.

This was the transition from the Japanese garden to the Rose Garden.  The effect made me feel like I was in the secret garden!

Impressive Foxgloves!!

Dave and the girls walked to the "Craigdarroch" castle that really isn't a castle.  I hung out at the nice quiet hotel room while Cooper took a nap.  They said it was really cool and huge!  Great descriptive words from my 12, 11 and 8 year olds.

We took a short tour of their Parlement building.  Dave and Cooper took an even shorter tour.  He lastest about three minutes.  The architecture was incredible.

This was a beautiful, clean city.  We ate at a really "green" cafe,  had really expensive gelato, swan in the pool, walked and walked and walked some more.  Saturday morning I woke up with Cooper and walked him around downtown Victoria.  Not a lot is open on Saturday morning at seven!  We loved seeing new places and only had one barf!

Funky fruits!

We met my brother Nate and his wife Maile last weekend and tried to go out to eat. We found waits of an hour to an hour and a half at the three places we attempted to eat! Nate suggested H- mart in Tigard. Maile had already tried to get us meet her there a few weeks ago but it didn't work out. We had the best time! This is a huge Asian market with so many cool things! We ordered Korean and Thai food from the vendors inside. The food was great and there was no wait! We walked around the grocery store for over an hour and laughed at many of the crazy items they had on their shelves. Dried Flounder hanging on a rope, dried shrimp, twenty different types of anchovies and more! The fruit was so awesome! Our new favorite was the Jack fruit. It has little pods of fruit surrounded by stringing material that is inedible. The yellow pod fruit was fun to eat and our kids loved pulling it apart. Thanks for the great cultural experience Nate and Maile.

Sun Valley, Idaho

Whohooo-our old stompin' grounds.  The executive decision was made by non-other than Dave in order to celebrate his 40th brithday we must go skiing.  Together.  By ourselves.  No kids.  One more time-No kids.  I was easily convinced.  We lived in Hailey almost ten years ago and have only been back once and we were way over due.  A really quick plane flight and only a 15 minute drive to Mt. Baldy!  WOW!  At home we are just getting settled in after 15 minutes for our 2 hour drive to Meadows.  Delightful!  Two great days of skiing. On Friday I would guess to say there were only 300 people skiing.  No lines, no people on runs, no waiting! We even left the resort for lunch and we were back skiing in 30 minutes.  We had great sushi with some old friends Friday night.  Thanks a million to the Browns, Shaws and Cannons for helping us out so we could go without children.  

Imagine-Sunshine in Sun Valley!  

You've got to love the self-portraits on the chair lift and other locations.

A cute little sun right outside of the Sun Valley Lodge.

Well I kind of look like I just woke up.  I loved that all their pavers in their sidewalks are heated.  As a result there was never the slush on their sidewalks.

One of the four lodges at Mt. Baldy.  They are beautiful!

This photo was taken at the Round house.  This is the original lodge that has been there since 1936.  Sun Valley was the first ski hill to get chair lift in the United States in 1936.  This lodge is fine dining and they serve lunch and dinner up there.   We did not eat there.  It is almost circular and has windows almost all around the whole building.  This give a magnificent near 360 degree view of the valley.