Comments

I was just informed by my sister that my comments were turned off for all of my new posts. So sorry! I don't know how i did that. If you were to trying to leave a comment on any of my posts before, but couldn't it is now fixed to where you can leave a comment on any new posts, but still not on the ones you couldn't before.
So you can comment on this post for any of the others if you want.

(I was wondering why no one loved me and weren't leaving comments!)

Ready for the Lights!?!

Another tradition Jake and I do is doing up our house with a lot of lights! Just take a look for yourself and if you can drive by!

We also do the inside with a ton of decorations too!

Christmas Cookies!!

Every year (since living in Hemet) Jake and I have made it a tradition to make treats the first weekend in December and hand them out. At first it started out being just our neighbors, family and home teacher, but now we keep expanding it every year and include some friends we have made as well. It's starting out to be a fun tradition that i hope to keep up and do with our children. We always do sugar cookies and peanut butter kiss cookies, but for the third item we keep switching it up. This year it was pumpkin bread! We like to do it early so that people aren't already tired of holiday cookies.

100 Statements

I saw this on my cousins blog and deceided, WHY Not. I'm just sitting here at work bored!

100 Things
RULES: There are 100 statements and you bold the ones you have done. Copy it and play for yourself!!

1. Started your own blog - Yes
2. Slept under the stars - all the time when i was young on the trapoline
3. Played in a band- In 4th Grade
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower - i saw some of it
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland- of course
8. Climbed a mountain - all the time, i do enjoy hiking
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Looked up an old boyfriend on Facebook
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch - i kind of taught myself to draw i guess
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning- oh yes
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty - i was there, but didn't go to the top
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept in an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb - when i was little i think
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset -on the beach many times
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise - we should have for our honeymoon, but Jake was sick
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language - does making up your own language with your cousin count
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing - That's what i get for having an Uncle Harry!!
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41 Sung Karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted - it was one of the character things at grad night
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - you mean Vegas doesn't count
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling - it was snorkeling and i couldn't really do it, but i tried
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud - it's called Mud Fights! So fun
54. Gotten out of a speeding ticket - never been pulled over yet for that
55. Been in a movie-i agree with Heather, does a home movie count
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching - i went i just didn't see any whales because i got sea sick and had to lay down
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Adopted a stray dog or cat
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy - does a blanket count
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square - i'm almost postive (we were there)
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job - and i don't even know why!!
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible - i think we must have sometime growing up, if not does the Book of Mormon count!
86. Visited the White House - not inside, but took pictures outside
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby - almost
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone - of course
99. Been stung by a bee - a number of times
100. Read an entire book in one day


Yeah I've done more then half (57 to be exact)

I'm not pregnant, I'm just a professional basketball stealer!

It just looks like a basketball right!?

What is it??

On Thanksgiving I was at my mom's house in San Diego and it was around dusk when i finally went to get my stuff out of the truck to stay the night. When my sister and i were coming back in we saw this big spider. We thought at first it was a small tarantula, but when we caught it and brought it up to show my mom she shinned the light on it and told us it wasn't a tarantula because as we could clearly see in the light it wasn't hairy like a tarantula. So we took some pictures of it and let it go far away from the house. Well since i love looking at spiders and knowing what I'm looking at i went on a search online to find out exactly what we were dealing with. It took me a while but i finally found a picture that matched our spider exactly. Our mystery spider ended up being a male California trapdoor spider. Which makes since for us never really seeing one before because they rarely leave there underground burrows. The males only come out in the fall to find a mate.

Last cake decorating class!!

This last Tuesday was my last cake decorating class for Course 2. I'm so very glad it's over. Don't get me wrong I loved taking the classes and wish i could take course 3 right now, but I'm so tired and don't have the energy i need to put into these classes right now. I guess that has something to do with being 33 weeks pregnant! I was very much debating to take the Course 3 in December and do it all before the baby comes, but decided there is just too much going on in December. Maybe in April I'll continue them again. Well here are some pictures of my final cake!

Oh the Joys!!

Who ever said being pregnant is "oh so much fun" I think is insane. (Yep this is me complaining again) The only fun thing is feeling the baby kick and move and that's not always so fun when it hurts. My thing right now is the oh so much fun back pain, which I'm either getting used to or it's not as bad anymore and the lovely braxton hicks contractions! I thought they said these "practice" contractions weren't supposed to hurt, but mine are half and half. Sometimes they just feel like my belly is tightening for a couple of seconds (normal) and the other time it's more painful and it lasts for a couple of minutes. The pain will subside after a like 20 to 30 seconds, but my stomach still feels tight for minutes afterward and i know when those ones are completely done cuz then the maybe freaks out and starts moving all over the place! I guess the only reason I'm complaining is cuz it woke me up last night around 12:30 with a more painful one and then i don't know if i had smaller ones or not cuz i couldn't get comfortable and really fall asleep for like 2 hours. In and out of sleep always having to roll over to find a comfortable spot! (What annoys me more is one of my co-workers who I'm not even telling this too leans over and is all oh that's nothing to worry about in my pregnancy's yadda yadda yadda) I'm not concerned i was just complaining! I know it's totally normal. Anyway i've made this long enough!
Oh one more thing has anyone ever had jaw pain during pregnancy. My jaw all the sudden on Tuesday locked up on one side and hurts to open it too wide. Kind of like lock jaw. It's getting better and it doesn't hurt unless i try to open it too wide, but still it's annoying!

Mosaic about Me

Ok so i saw this on my cousins blog and thought it was cute. It's a mosaic all about me.
Here is what you do!
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search or just google it.
b. Using only the first page of search results, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker. Choose 3 columns with 4 rows. The mosaic maker is on this web address: http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name -


Here is Mine!

The Nursery

My baby's Nursery is finally under way. A couple of weeks ago we enlisted my always helpful brother in law Ben to move our guest bed out of the baby's room along with the other furniture that was in there into other rooms. Then it stayed that way! Jake didn't want me to put anything in there until he put in a ceiling fan. Well he finally installed the ceiling fan (which he says is a major pain. He says someone that is 6'5 should not be up in that attic) and well the remote for the ceiling fan is also the same frequency as the one in our living room so they turn each other on and off. He now has to change one of them (he's not too happy). Anyway he did this while i was at work yesterday and when i came home i saw that he also put together the crib! YEAH! Now there is something for the baby in the baby's room. I was so excited and got out the bedding and started putting that on. Jake says that the walls are too white and wants to paint now (which is what i wanted in the first place, but he didn't want too so i wasn't going to push him) So now I'm excited about painting the room too. Now all we need is the glider, which I'll be re-covering the day after thanksgiving at the mom's house (since it was my sisters and it doesn't match my nursery....thanks Sarah for the free glider) and then Jake still needs to build the changing table and dresser that will match the crib. (He's first going to re-do his bathroom so I'll have to wait till December for that) It just seems that time has flown by. I was going to have this all done so long ago, but time has just gotten away from me!! (I'll post a picture when it's all done!)

Poor Puppy

My poor little puppy dog gets cold and since they destoryed their bed this is what she does when it's too cold for her!


You can just see her little head poking out!

Cake Decorating

So since I showed a not so good cake on here i thought I'd show some cakes that I'm more proud of. The first is one that i made for my cake decorating class. The second is a cake i made for one of the Young Women's birthdays at church!


If you look close you'll see that his feet had fallen off and i had to prop them up! You can't tell, but i ended up just doing the front of this cake. (that's all i had time for in class) I brought it home and Jake kept asking when he could destroy it (we weren't going to eat it because i didn't have enough eggs when making it so i improvised since it was for my class) As soon as i took a picture the poor bear was then demolished! I should have taken a picture of that!


The flowers and the trees are made out of royal icing. The trees base is a sugar cone (in case you were wondering) and the characters i bought from the Disney store!


I was very happy with how this cake turned out and it ended up that there was just enough cake for all the YW and i didn't have to bring any of it home!

The Zoo

So we went to the zoo back in September when Kari (jake's sister) was here and i finally got the pictures off my camera. I'm a little slow, but i thought i'd show off my cute niece and nephews!

Belly Watch!!

So i though i'd show so pictures of my growing Belly (at least the pictures i've taken, which have all been at work on my camera phone.....sorry only time a remember to take photos)

You've seen this one before. This was at 15 weeks!

Here i am at 20 weeks! Yeah i'm was half way done cooking!

This is me Now at 26 weeks! I have grown 11 inches in my waist and have gained now 21 pounds. I tend to grow a 1/2 inch to an full inch a week now. This little boy just keeps growing and growing! Only 14 weeks to go!!

Bogus Attempt!

Ok so here is my not so pretty attempt to make a cute cake after not making one in sooooo long. It's been 3 years since my last cake decorating class i had and my creativeness was not up to par. Even though everyone thought this was cute which by the way thank you to those who did, i can't help but be my own worst critic though. I have all these little figures that i bought hoping to do some cute cakes later in life i thought it was high time i used some of them. So for one of the girls birthdays at church i tried out my much needed to be practiced upon abilities to make a cute cake. The theme as you can see was Sleeping Beauty. In my head i had the cottage and a stream (which i was going to do trees as well, but didn't want to take that much time doing them). I was going for the forest scene. Cute in my head and ok turn out, but it was just supposed to be better. For one thing everything started out all wrong. When i turned over the cake most of the bottom stayed in the pan(which i know and totally forgot to put wax paper down) Then when i was frosting it i couldn't get the frosting as smooth as i wanted it. Then i couldn't find my basket weave and my grass tip. So instead of the cute basket weave on the cottage and grass all around on the ground i did little strokes of my knife to make the cottage look kind of log cabin feel and i sprinkled cinnamon sugar on the ground for dirt. I put too many characters on the cake, but didn't want to leave any out so as an end result here is the cake.

(yeah in my head i pictured something totally different)
I can't wait to take some cake decorating classes again!!

One more Pic

I forgot about this pic. I liked the Jelly's, but i wanted to have Sam sit on the ledge that was there and pose right in front of them, but he didn't want to get to close to them. Oh well i'll settle for this pic!!

Fun day at the Aquarium

We had the pleasure to take our cute little nephew to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Longbeach. (We were supposed to take Maeby too, but she was sick). Of course i didn't check the battery in the camera which was almost dead and did die on us so i had to revert to my phone. These pictures were all taken on my phone. We had a lot of fun even though it was a lot smaller then i expected. Sam really liked it. Only bad part of the whole day is that i got bitten by one of the birds. Evil Bird. All of the sudden it just clamped onto my thumb and wouldn't let go. I was shaking it to get it off, but it wasn't letting go, even by that time it was upside down. I couldn't really freak out about(which Jake said that i hardly showed that it was biting me) cuz Sam was right there and he was already a little frightened about the birds. He didn't want to get very close to them and i didn't want him to be afraid of birds for the rest of his life. The bird was most likely just trying to get the nectar that spilled onto my thumb earlier, but i still say it was an evil bird!

This is the Evil Bird. See how it's already looking at my thumb! This was taken right before it bit me. This is as close as Sam would get to the birds!!

This bird was a good little birdie! (i don't know how the pic turned out like that, but i like the colors)


A bunch of Seahorses. I thought they were cool!

See all the baby sharks on top of each other. Yeah we got to pet those.

I think Sam was trying to grab one!

Too bad there weren't sharks that were actually this size there. We did see some big sharks, but nothing that big.

We also got to pet bat rays which was really cool cuz they would come right up to you saying pet me! I don't have pictures on here cuz that was on my real camera and I haven't gotten those pics off yet.

We ended up eating at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant that is across the street from the Aquarium. It was fun. They quiz you on Forrest Gump Stuff and try and make it a fun experience. Since i don't eat sea food i had a nice hamburger which i shared with Sam. Jake had a whole lot of different type of shrimp and Sam tried some too. Overall it was a good day!!

Fine already I'll do it!

Now that 3 people I know say that everyone on their list needs to do this I'll do it already, but I don't tag anyone else to do it! :)

3 Joys
Being able to do whatever I want...when I want.
Spending the Whole Day with my husband!
And this one is pre-mature....but welcoming my new baby into this world (that will be great joy)

3 Fears
Getting a phone call from someone at the Sheriff's saying that Jake is in the hospital .... or worse!! (yeah already had them call once and freak me out. You don't call someone at 5:30 in the morning and say is this Mrs. Jenson and then go on to say this is Sargent ______ from Southwest Detention center, I think my heart stoped right there until he went on to say is your husband home yet and asking for him to call them when he gets home)
I would agree with Sara and say looking up after washing your face and seeing some scary guy in the mirror! Creepy!! (that goes for anyone attacking me actually)
Losing a child that is in my care whether it is my own or someone else's and having to tell that person (and I don't just mean losing them in a store or somewhere, but also them losing their life)

3 Obsessions
My husband would say that one of them is reading.....(hey I can't help it if it's a really good book and I don't want to put it down to make dinner, get fast food)
If you can have an obsession with being lazy then that's me.
Not having my dogs lick me.....I HATE that!!

3 Random Facts
10 years ago I HATED to read (I would even watch the movie to do a book report) Now it's one of my obsessions!
I used to not be able to snap and can now do it, but with my pinkie finger!
I like to examine the bugs/spiders in my house Before I kill them!! (if they are outside I'll leave them be)

Rockin and Rollin!!

5.8 earthquake right outside of chino hills and here in Temecula it was fun! We were shaking for a while. Not just seconds but mintues. After it was over me and my co-worker Chris look at each other and say that was cool and Rena looks at us and say you guys are sick!! I don't know i guess i'm just a sick person. Even if i was in the middle of it and i didn't get hurt i think i would still think it was cool. Especially if things acutally fell off the walls. Now i think i would start to get worried and acutally duck down if things fell of walls, but i would still say cool afterwards. I know i'm WEIRD!!

I have a little pooch!

So as people have pointed out I'm getting a little fat....I mean a little pooch! (I keep forgetting to take a picture of this little growth i'm having so i finally had a co-worker take a pic on my phone. As you can see my lovely desk in the background!) So i've noticed the pooch for quite some weeks now even though everyone else said i wasn't showing. I'm glad people finally think i'm starting to show. I loved the Young Woman comments that they said i finally look normal. They said i was concaved before. I wasn't concaved! Now the picture looks like i'm arching my back but that is just the shape of my back and i always stand that way. Jake said i wouldn't be showing as much if i didn't arch my back like i do, but i can't help it! My body is just weird.

So even though it's early for this to be happening i can already notice that my belly button is starting to stick out more. I have a weird belly button already and it doesn't suprise me that it's doing this. My belly button is a inny outy kind of deal. I know it sounds weird and it looks weird too, but hey it makes me different! So i'm afraid i'm going to have a Huge belly button later on when the baby pushes it all out. I always said i would put a bandaid over it so it doens't poke out so much (cuz i dont' like that look) but i don't want to wear a bandaid on my belly for 5 months! Anyway. Other woes of being pregnant so far have been some headaches which i never get grrrrr, stretching and moving around of my internal organs which is quite uncomfortable so far, my siatic nerve on both sides acting up (thank goodness it's gone away mostly, cuz that hurts), back pain (already) and i'm still really tired which i thought would start to go away a little more then it has. (i'm falling asleep at work still) Ok so i'll stop complaining now. When i complain to my co-workers all the say is JUST WAIT. I really don't want to just wait cuz i don't want it getting worse. Alas thats life being pregnant right!!

So Happy!

So there is another house for sale right near us and i'm the happiest women alive now. It's the people that we have wanted to move out since we got there. The kids just leave trash everywhere. All over the streets and in people's yards it's just not right. They are also always outside which is fine, but they are always in the street blocking it and won't move out of the way very quickly. So if i were buying a home and drove down our neiborhood i'd keep driving.
I know what your thinking well they won't move out too quickly cuz they have to sell their house first right . . . Wrong! They are renters so i'm sure the owners gave them a notice so they can fix up the house to sell it. And i'm sure it needs a lot of fixing seeing how they trash the outside! So in hopefully either 30 days or 60 days depending on the notice we should have a clean street.
I'm also looking forward to the kids not ringing my doorbell all the time and asking for weird stuff. Yeah they don't ask for thinks like sugar and flour it things like lightblubs and duct tape (for their baby. . . still wondering what they were going to do to the baby with duct tape??) and cation tape and wood . . . and then there's normal things like a rake or hammer. We let them borrow stuff when we first moved in, but they either didn't bring it back (like glue) or they didn't treat it very nice so we just started saying no to everthing they wanted to borrow.
Jake says it's not so great cuz they will be another house on our street for sale and empty, but i think that might be a great thing.
So now we will have the house to the right of us empty and for sale, the house across the street and one over to the left empty and for sale and now hopefully soon the house across the street one over to the right empty and for sale! It might start to look like we are the problem though! Hopefully not!

Preggers!

So I'm not this far along, but it was a fun picture to take. My due date is January 18, 2009. This picture we took to send to my sister Lori on her cell phone, but then when we called she said all text messages were blocked. So much for that idea! Here's to being 9 weeks 2 days along! Only 215 more days to go!

Before and After

We have spent a lot of time trying to remodel our house over the past two years and here's some before and after pic's to prove it. We are very happy with what we have accomplished!

Before After

What our house looks like now. We painted it and put in new plants and put in a bench ....that's just the front yard!

Now the BACKYARD!

Our Yard used to be just bark. EVERYWHERE! So we took out the bark along with so many truck loads of dirt and brought in new good dirt and made what you see below!

Now we have nice plants and grass that we can go out and enjoy! A new fence is the next thing we hope to do back here!

Here is our lovely kitchen when we first moved in. This is Laurie and Ben's handywork. Don't worry they didn't want it that color either, but once they were done painting they didn't want to do it again.

Check out those floors and the cabinets. Lovely don't you think. Now this is what we did with it.

We refaced the cabinets, added an island, painted of course, put in track lighting and a fan. We also put in all new tile. So much better!

Last big thing was our fireplace. Have a look!

We thought at first just to paint and try to make it look nicer.....but after a while we did what you see below.

We ended up doing a lot more, but i don't have the pictures to show. We got new carpet and baseboards, all new interior and exterior doors, molding, painted everyroom, re-did the bathrooms completly, etc etc. I could keep going on, but i won't bore you. It's not only the big things, but also the little things that make a huge difference. We aren't completly done yet, we still have to save up some more do do the rest! We are so proud of our home!