The Swensen Family

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Homecoming/Wedding

Jenna came home from her mission to West Virginia and a week later Kellie got married to Steve.

It was a really fun week and I'm so glad we got to be there. The kids and I drove the 8 hours by ourselves and went down early. Thankfully, the roads were pretty good. The kids are at easier ages to travel, but they really are pretty good travelers. I can't complain!

Waiting at the temple for Kellie to come out

Personalities...

All the kids who were at the wedding. They all looked so cute in their matching outfits.

I love this picture.

Peeking in the temple window.

Kellie and Steve! What a great couple!

Kason and another friend carrying Kellie's dress train

Emry and photographers don't have a great track record. I warned my family ahead of time that anything not screaming is a success. Overall, she did great. One major meltdown in front of the camera at the reception. In order to keep her preoccupied and sidetracked from nap time we walked/ran up and down the lawn in front of the temple. I think it mostly worked.

Love

Getting ready to race

Necessary airplane throwing picture

The reception was absolutely beautiful. I loved it. Here is Emry's normal picture face.

Emry and her aunt - so pretty!

Dance party at the later part of the reception.

What fun, Emry loved it and loved dancing with her Daddy.

Bonus picture:

Back at home growing up with brothers.

They outfitted her with swords in the pants and guns.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

February

February brought lots of snow and cold temperatures,

and some really fun things too.

Still trying to get her to quit sucking her thumb...not succeeding.

Sometimes she just looks so cute doing it.

It finally warmed up to 0 degrees so we could actually go outside without it being painful. It's amazing how warm 10 degrees can feel. Now I know why Montanans think 60 degrees is warm - it's 80 degrees warmer than the long winter! I'm just hoping it gets warm enough for me to thaw out!

I do love snow, it's beautiful. If it's going to be cold, there should be snow too!

Kason wasn't feeling too well this day, but I was a good mom for a minute and pulled these two around the roads on the tube.

It was also Isaac's birthday!

We had a dinner of steak, potatoes, asparagus and rolls, with chocolate peppermint mousse cake for the birthday boy.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Way Back in January...

In January we got to go to Levi's wedding.

These little girls are best buds.

All dressed up in her dress

There aren't any pictures of the boys cause they were gone playing hard with cousins and having a grand ol time.

We missed some of the cousins, but the ones who could be at the reception sang "You are my Sunshine". Emry was/is going through quite the shy/stranger danger stage. I was excited because she seemed all ready to go up there and knew the song really well.

But as soon as the singing started, so did Emry's screaming. She started to run off the stage before Sarah grabbed her and got her to stand there for the end. Oh, well. We had a great time.

Bonus Picture:

She doesn't have much interest in potty training, only in putting on her brother's underwear. Guess she'll have that part down when she actually does start to show interest.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Recent Events

It happened!

Kason is missing both his front teeth.

What?!

I always thought kids who were missing their front teeth were big and old...

my Kason is getting big and old!

He's pretty calm about losing teeth.

He'd been bugging it constantly for a day or two and then we were all sitting on the couch one Sunday night and all of a sudden he calmly said, "it's out".

He missed Christmas, but now he can sing all I want for my birthday is my two front teeth.

Now, here's to waiting for that awkward stage when their teeth grow in and look way too big for their mouth for awhile!

What a stud

Asher was not to be left out of the picture taking.

A few things to remember about sweet, hilarious Asher lately:

-Emry was in her normal monstrous villain mode at the grocery store. Screaming in the cart, running away if out of it. As she ran around the corner of the aisle I told Asher to guard the cart and my bag in it (mostly to make him feel important enough to stay by the cart). When I came back around the corner 3 seconds later, Asher was making ninja moves to a worker man coming down from the other end of the aisle. The guy was doing ninja moves back to Asher and Asher kept up with new moves. As the man passed me he said, "you've got quite the ninja fighter there". When we were back home and I was sane again, I asked Asher what happened and why he did that. Asher said, I went like this (ninja move), and the guy went like this (different ninja move), and I went like this (another ninja move)". When I asked why he did that, he responded simply and matter of factly, "You said to guard the cart, and so I did."

-Sea eagles (sea hawks)

-balm eagles (bald eagles)

-"berry my testimony"

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Cabin Fun

2014!!

On New Years Day we headed to the Swensen's cabin for a few days. We had a great time despite Asher getting a little flu bug.

Walking across frozen Georgetown Lake.

I'll admit, I did have a few paranoid mom flashes of one of the boys falling through ice, but then the ice fishermen told us the ice was 2 feet thick!

We also had quite the fun time sledding. We'd pull the sled behind the moto up the mountain road and go flying down. The first time Kason came down he was laying in the sled like on the luge and Dick had to tackle the sled for fear he was going all the way to the bottom of the mountain!