Don't Forget to Vote!

Ok, so I know I am a week early-but just a reminder for the procrastinators out there! Regardless of who your "candidate" is I really do think that this will be an interesting election and that in these times that we live in we cannot afford to not let our voice be heard. As I have traveled through different states during this election year I have seen and heard many different ideas and thoughts, and I find it still amazing how the media can spin so many different stories from the same event. So I guess my soapbox is this, study the candidates, learn about what they support and really pray and think about who you believe will lead our country the best. I don't think we are at a point yet in this world that we are in the minority, so stand and be heard.

Oh, I am down now! :)


Happy Voting!

Apple Pie

I was at Walmart the other day to buy a new rug for the front entryway since we just got our carpets clean and I noticed that apples were on sale for 98 cents a pound! So I of course bought like three pounds and then when I got home wondered how we were going to eat 3 pounds of apples. And then genius struck! Alan loves apple pie so I thought it would be fun to make one, so we did! The only problem is that my pie dish is a litlle small so as you can see, we had quite the mountain of pie!

I kept telling Alan that if we put all the apples in it was going to be soupy, but he insisted. So we popped the pie in the oven, with a pan underneath to catch what I was sure was going to bubble over.

35 Minutes later, we had a beautiful goldern brown pie!

Until we cut into it that is...and then we realized that yes, we now have a very tasty apple soup! So back in the oven it went and about 20 minutes later and we had a much denser and even tastier pie. Finally! Never mind it was almost midnight, it still tasted wonderful!

I guess we will just have to keep trying until we make it perfect! YUMM!

Autumn is here...I hope to stay!

I love Autumn-thus the new layout for our blog. I love the colors, I love the smells, I love the weather! It actually dropped below 60 degress last night. I had the windows open and it was quite chilly in the house in the morning but when I came home from work, Alan had closed the windows and the crisp, cool air was gone. He said he was cold! I love it though, nothing beats being able to wear jeans and a sweatshirt-I could live in those clothes everyday. Too bad I can't wear that to work anymore!

Slackers

Ok...so I know that we have not been keeping up with the blogging world and some might call us slackers. But I promise, we have been super busy-so instead of writing a novel on what we have been up to since July, I will recap the past 3 months:

July- ok so we obvioulsy survived our week with out AC just in time to fly to Illinois for Sarah's wedding in Nauvoo. The temple was beautiful, it was so fun to see family and gosh, I'm old! I can't believe my little sister is married!

Nauvoo Temple

Sarah and Elijah-the newlyweds!

Alan and Kaylee

The Cake

We then stayed the night at my parents so that we could go to church with them and attend Leslie's baptism. Alan and I bought her a hot pink CTR ring for her special day, although we did have to special order it since she wears a size 8!

The illegal picture of Leslie before her baptism (Alan forgot that you are not supposed to take pictures in the chapel-which Leslie reminded him of!)

Newest Member of the Church!

Family pictures

Michelle and Kaylee

Cami and Lucas

Racquel and Brandon

Bradley

Adam, Amanda and Emma (a little over a week old)

August- 2 weeks later we flew to Idao for Alan's brother Daniel's homecoming. The trip out there was a little rough since there were weather dealys and we ended up spending the night on the floor at the airport-we made ourselves a nice little fort for some quite but goodness are those floors hard! I swear I could feel the concrete through the carpet. But we did finally make it safe and sound if just a little tired and stiff!

We all went to the Zoo in Idaho Falls and met up with my brother Naithan and his family.

Grandpa and Hannah

Hannah posing in her stroller

Jamie and her Chicken friends

Dianna and Brandon

Erin and Jason

Daniel

We went on a session to the temple and then went to feed the ducks one evening.

Grandma and Hannah

Marci and Hannah

Alan and Grandma Jensen

Since it was our wedding aniversay-can you belive it, one year already!!! We went to a day spa and had hot stone massages which felt heavenly after sleeping in the airport! We spent the next few days visiting with Alan's family and preparing for Daniel's homecoming dinner.

The Jensen Clan (well minus Lara and her family)

September - Alan took his CCRN test and passed of course, like anyone had any doubt that he wouldn't, well he did, but I kept telling him he was silly! So that was one more item checked off the list for grad school. Alan also finished up all his applications and sent them off. All he has to do now is finish a physics course that he is taking on-line. He has to have that done by mid December.


I was called as the YW President-I sure did not see that one coming! I love it of course, but boy do those girls keep me on my toes! :) Thankfully my travel schedule has been reduced as I am now officially the training manger for my company so I stay more local. That has been a wonderful change.

So, that is our past few months-I told you we had a lot going on!!