Jensen Family Happenings: March 2010

I haven't felt the greatest for the last month so I've slacked off on this blog, but I got tagged to do this post, so maybe it will get me back into the swing of things.

1. I love my family
2. I miss the mountains and the snow
3. I would scrapbook, bead, and sew all day if I could.
4. I hate being the center of attention
5. I am still a little bit afraid of the dark and I sleep with my cell phone under my pillow when Kyle's gone
6. I have the best husband! Since I've been so sick with this pregnancy he's taken over cooking, cleaning, laundry, and diapers when he's not at work!
7. Finding a good deal is exciting for me and I usually won't buy anything unless it's on sale or I have a good coupon for it
8. I love to cook (when I'm not pregnant)
9. A Symphony bar and a Coke are the perfect remedy for a bad day.
10. I love the gospel!
FOODOLOGY
What is your salad dressing of choice? Ranch or Thousand Island
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Depends on what I'm in the mood for...but I've never been disappointed by Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill.....I've also been missing Los Hermanos lately.
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Brownies and Peanut Butter Cups
What are your pizza toppings of choice? Sausage & Onions or Papa Johns Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza - YUMMM!
What do you like to put on your toast? Butter and homemade Strawberry-Raspberry jam
TECHNOLOGY
How many televisions are in your house? 2
What color is your cell phone? Blue and Sliver
Are you computer savvy? not so much
BIOLOGY
Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
Do you have any children that are left – handed? Not so far.
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Moles and Two children ( I think they took part of my brain with the 2 kids too.)
What was the last heavy item you lifted? Does Kyler count? If not, it was the box of food storage that we keep on top of the cabinets.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? Possibly when I was like 5 years old....I don't really remember exactly what happened.
BULLCRAPOLOGY
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Probably not
If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Maybe just Beth, it would make legal documents so much easier since I don't think of myself as Mary. But I really like my full name so I'd probably just keep it anyway. I think Mary Elizabeth is pretty.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Yes. There's a lot of things I would do for $1000.
DUMBOLOGY
How many pairs of flip flops do you own? um... lots - 6 that I can find right now, and that's after I recently had to retire 2 pairs.
Last person you talked to? Layla
Last person you hugged? Kyler right before I put him down for his nap.
FAVORITOLOGY
Season? In Florida: Spring. Anywhere else: Fall
Holiday? Christmas
Day of the week? Sunday, so nice and no work :)
Month? um. none
CURRENTOLOGY
Mood? Tired, unmotivated
What are you listening to? Layla entertaining herself in the other room.
What should you be doing right now? Dishes and Laundry
Current favorite TV Show: 24
Worrying about? Money, whether we can afford a bigger house when the baby comes, figuring out what we can get rid of so our house doesn't feel so cluttered
RANDOMOLOGY
First place you went this morning? the bathroom and then the kitchen
What’s the last movie you saw? Return to Me
Do you smile often? Usually
Sleeping Alone Tonight? No
OTHEROLOGY
Do you always answer your phone? No, I rarely make it to it in time.
It’s after ten o’clock in the evening and the phone rings. Who will it be? Don't usually get calls that late unless Kyle's working and it's him calling to let me know when he'll be home.
If you could change your eye color what would it be? I'm happy with my eye color
If you could have a body part altered, sucked or botoxed, which part would it be? So many to chose from...definitely my tummy, hips, and, thighs - they haven't been the same since I was pregnant with Layla
Do you own a digital camera? Yes
Do you have a pet? yes, a cat
Favorite Christmas song(s)? Jewel's O Holy Night
What’s on your wish list for your birthday? um.. that is really far away..... but I am in search of some cute yellow heels!
Can you do push ups? a few
What are you looking forward to? This weekend. Kyle has Friday off and it's General Conference, doesn't get much better than that!
Does the future make you more nervous or excited? Depends on the day, but probably more nervous.
Do you have an accent? Depends who you ask.
Do you cry easily? Not usually, but pregnancy hormones do me in.
Plans tomorrow? Change diapers, do laundry, do dishes, the usual.
Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? Yes, but thank goodness for prayer, great family, and our Savior.
Name 3 things you bought today: I didn’t buy anything today, but yesterday I had Kyle pick up some bread, milk, and french bread on his way home from work.
Have you ever been given roses? Yes.
Current worry? Getting through this pregnancy without losing complete control of the house to the kids.
So, now I’m supposed to pass this award on to 7 people, but I'll just let anyone who would like to do it.

So, I may be a little late getting this post up, but we did celebrate her birthday on time.
And, boy did we ever celebrate!
I asked Layla what she wanted for her birthday dinner and after lots of "discussing" I finally convinced her that we could not have cake and ice cream for dinner. So, she chose to cook hot dogs outside.

So, we gathered dried up pine needles from the backyard (we've already gotten rid of at least 10 trash cans full of the things and we still have an abundant supply! I guess that's what happens when you have 7 pine trees in your backyard - but the shade in the summer is so worth it!) and Kyle filled the wagon with dead branches and wood from an empty lot near our house.

Layla wouldn't let me get a decent picture of her, but she LOVED cooking and eating dinner outside!

And Kyler loved the roasted marshmallow Kyle gave him (although I don't think he actually got any of it in his mouth!)

Earlier in the day, we took Layla to get a kitten for her birthday. (The real reason for the cat is for rodent patrol, but it worked out that we got him on Layla's birthday) She loves her little Mo-Mo and can be heard scolding him throughout the day telling him he "knows better than to" do whatever she has caught him doing.

Layla loved opening her presents! As she would get close to having each one unwrapped she would say over and over again, "I wonder what it is! I wonder what it is!"

Kyler also enjoyed helping with the present unwrapping, and surprisingly, Layla didn't mind!

After all the presents were opened, Layla was checking out the alphabet flashcards she had gotten and Kyler took the opportunity to play with the kitten.