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Tanners apple orchard 2

2009-09-19T21:22:00.000-07:00

this is one of my favorite pictures from the day. Its jenn's sister dawnwith the three girls. Dawn likes to drive the short bus The also had goats and either alpacas or llamas you could feed.

A couple of funny pics of the girls

Although this is not a cartoon character one of the things they had at the orchard with a head made out of a pumpkin

Tanners apple orchard 1

2009-09-19T20:55:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Tanners apple orchard located in Speer, Il. It is only about an hour and a half from the Quad Cities.

Here is a picture of the three girls in grandma's van getting ready to leave in the morning

At Tanners they have pony rides in the Kids area. The girls loved it. They rode on the ponies three times

Also throughout the orchard they have various cartoon characters with there head made out of pumpkins and gords. Here is a picture of Mickey and Minnie Mouse

My new "old" project car

2009-09-17T13:04:00.000-07:00

Here is my new "old" car since the one I had got hit. This is a 97 honda civic two door. This car should do everything I need it to do, Which is getting me back and forth to work while using as little of gas as possible. This car gets Thirty if not more miles per gallon. It came with three sets of rims, one black, one stock, and the chrome ones on it.

My poor car

2009-08-15T02:00:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I was sitting in my living room messing around on the computer at like 2:30 a.m. and I heard this loud screech and then bang(not like a gunshot but something hitting something).I looked outside and I see this white grand prix sitting next to my car with the driver looking around. I didn't really know what to do I wanted to run right out so he didn't run away but I had to let Jenn know what was going on. I ran upstairs and woke Jenn up and told her to call the cops and tell them somebody just hit my car. I went outside to confront the guy. He said sorry and he was looking at his cell phone. I wanted to stall him till the cops got there so I asked if he had insurance and he told me yeah. He gave me an insurance card which is apparently expired but is the same insurance co. he has. I memorized his license plate(just in case he ran) and went inside to write the info down. Inside Jenn was on the phone with the dispatcher giving her what little info she knew. I sat inside watching this guy until the cops came. When the cops came they gave him the sobriety test and he passed. He told the cops he had three drinks and that was at midnight. I am actually glad he wasn't drunk. He did seem very apologetic. He was only 21. Below are some of the pics that I took after the cops had done all of the investigative work.

This first pic is of my car with the front over the curb and the back off of it. When Jenn parked this it was parrallel with the curb. Kind of gives you an idea of how hard he hit me

More pics of how hard he hit me

This is the main damage he did. He must of hit my front first and then slid into the drivers door or something like that. It is pretty bad though

More pics of my car from the side

You can't see it in these pics but the spring is actually on the tire and the piece hanging down in the back of the tire is on it as well. It is pretty much inmovable. the tow truck driver who was very nice said he would come back and put it in my drive way on his way back from taking the guy and his car home. Hopefully he wasn't lying

This is how Natalie plays peek a boo

2009-08-06T21:59:00.000-07:00

A few hours after Grace was born Natalie was playing peek a boo with her. I thought it was Halarious.

Grace Alexis

2009-08-05T16:11:00.001-07:00

Here we are the Morning of. The girls were ready to go to Grandma's house

Jenn getting ready to go to the hospital

Grace Alexis Jensen was born at 3:22 p.m. on August 4, 2009

She weighed 7lbs 12oz and was 20.5 in. long

Here is a close up. Who does she look the most like?

Family Fun Day part two

2009-08-01T19:24:00.000-07:00

Here Is Kelsie and Sydney at Michaels playing joust. I guess Kelsie won. At least thats what we let her think

This was pretty fun it was trampoline basketball. Let me tell you it was a workout. I think I was tired after about two min.

Here is Natalie and Madison enjoying the jump house they had a blast

In the evening we went to Indian Bluff park and had a bonfire and played games. Here we are sitting around the bonfire cooking marshmellows. I know its not a big bonfire but it did its job.

Family Fun Day part 1

2009-08-01T19:00:00.000-07:00

Alright On Saturday we went out and had a family fun day since My dad was in town and also my aunt. We started off by going to Michael's fun world or as Natalie decided to call in Michael Jackson's fun world. After that we all met at Indian Bluff park for a bonfire and games. It was a long day but a lot of fun. I will have to post more pictures because I think I maxed the pictures out on this blog.

Here is a picture of Natalie enjoying the ball pit. I think this was her favorite part of Michael's

Here I am taking batting practice. Can never have to much practice. I am working on my swing for fastpitch softball for next year

Here is the orange team getting ready for laser tag. The only one missing in this group is Sydney.

Here is Dad and I ready for laser tag. We were on the green team with some other kids. I would also like to make note that we spanked the orange team and the other kids on our team just sat around our base while Dad and I did all the hard work

Fireworks in the Day.

2009-07-04T17:00:00.000-07:00

Here is a little video of Natalie doing some of the smoke bombs that we got out in Milan. We actually got some pretty good fireworks from this place but you obviously can't do them in the middle of the day. We are going to go out to our church tonight and watch the bettendorf fireworks and shoot off the fireworks we got. Look for some more pictures to follow tonight. Maybe a video or two. I think it took like a half an hour just to upload this one.

The name of our child is

2009-06-28T19:13:00.000-07:00

okay these are the two names we are thinking about. Actually we are only thinking about one. I just want to show jenn that my name is a good one to so vote on which one you like. I am sure i am going to get into trouble for this. It may be my last post.

brant

Kansas City Softball Tournament

2009-05-23T20:58:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we had our first fastpitch softball tournament. It was a really fun experience. These are our new uniforms which I must say I think look pretty cool with the red on red. They actually look like the LA Angels jerseys. Our team name is the Quad City SilverBullets. here is a couple of pictures from the day. For this tournament I played Center field and batted second for all three games. It took a lot of getting used to since I have never played a true center field before and created a few errors. I also did a lot of bunting in the games and learned that I need to learn how to drag bunt because and our coach said. "Your bunting was attrocious". It was still a fun time though. The video below is of my last at bat of the tournament. I got a hit but only because the second basemen bobbled the ball. whats funny about this is Shayna, Natalie and Jenn talking and yelling stuff in the background. Shayna and Jenn said they remember yelling nothing. Natalie is still fooled into thinking I can actually hit a home run. She will learn someday.

Good times outside

2009-05-17T18:03:00.000-07:00

The girls love to play outside. I am so glad that we have had a nice weekend for mothers day.

Here is Natalie helping out her dad with keeping the lawn looking great.

Here she is taking a little break for some fun.

We had a beautiful day for a mothers day picnic. The girls enjoyed playing on the playground and the adults had a great day just chatting.

I really love my two beautiful little girls.

childrens museum

2009-03-21T17:35:00.000-07:00

today we went to the childrens museum. It was a little small but i'm sure the kids enjoyed it. here are a few pictures from the day

for some reason shayna wanted to take pictures with me, her, and cody in it. Why she would want cody in any picture is beyond me
you would think that since cody isn't good at sports he would at least be good at checkers. Not true
more pictures of me
sydney peeking through a whole

ITS A GIRL!!!!

2009-03-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

well we went to the doctor today and they lady told us she is 90 percent sure that its a girl. Good thing we didn't get rid of all our girl clothes.

Stay tuned

2009-03-10T04:09:00.000-07:00

just wanted to let everybody know there is a big announcement coming on thursday, so check back thursday night.

A few pics of the girls all dressed up

2009-03-03T20:55:00.000-08:00

On Saturday night the girls and Madison went over to stay with grandma while Shayna, Jenn, and I went to our Sunday school party. Grandma put all their hair in curlers for them to sleep in. when they woke up this is what their hair looked like. Because she did their hair Jenn and I put the girls in the dresses that were bought for them to wear for Easter. they probably will still where them for Easter, but I liked them to much to wait for Easter to see them in the dresses

Sydney with her hair in front of the mirror

Natalie in front of the mirror

Sydney and Natalie together in their Easter attire

Sydney, Natalie and Madison showing off their hair that grandma did

everytime Natalie smiles for a picture, she either closes her eyes or squints the left one. its kinda funny to watch.

A few more pictures

2009-02-13T20:05:00.000-08:00

Here is Natalie thinking about jumping in

These are Sydney's two friends that came to swim with her. The girl in the back is Taylor and the girl in the front is Arianna

Jennifer and Natalie enjoying the "warm" tub

Dawn and Natalie

From left to right Sydney,Taylor,and Arianna

Sydney Turns Eight

2009-02-13T17:21:00.000-08:00

On friday night, the thirteenth, we had a birthday party for sydney with two of her friends and all her family. We rented a hotel so the girls can go swimming. Sydney picked out a Hannah Montana cake for her party

Here they are

2009-02-07T10:01:00.000-08:00

Here is the pictures. Mom is excited because the van comes with a built in car seat. plus for me but not a deal breaker.

Exhausted

2009-02-06T09:35:00.000-08:00

Well early good news to anounce. She found the van she liked at Turpins in Geneseo so today I drove out there with Mom and Natalie and made and offer on the van and came to an agreement, so by tonight or early tomorrow morning we should have a van for Jenn to drive around. It is a Chevy Venture (warner brothers edition) It even has a DVD player so we can try and keep the kids a down to a dull roar while we drive.

Just Starting

2009-02-01T20:25:00.000-08:00

so i am just sitting here after watching the cardinals almost win the superbowl and figured what better time to start a blog, so here it is. Jenn and I will try to post frequently on here about our family.