Walk on the Beach

Today when we were driving home from church the weather was just perfect. We hurried home, scarfed down some lunch and headed for the beach to take a walk and do some shell collecting. We had a great time. As Steen and I were walking barefoot in the sand with the warm sun beating on us we couldn't help but laugh and think how weird it was to be walking on the beach in our shorts on November 29th. We would have never imagined ever living in the state of Florida, but we are loving it. Then Steen jokingly said that maybe on Christmas day we will have to go to the beach. I think we may just have to make that a tradition!

Decorating the tree

We put our tree up on Friday. Everyone else around here already has there's up so we decided to join the club and put ours up too! We turned the Christmas music up and had a great time decorating the house. Here are a few pics of the kids decorating the tree. I will post more pics later of the finished product!

Mr. Underpants

When Daniel came downstairs the other morning this is what he was wearing. He was so proud of himself and thought he looked great. I just had to take a pic!

6 Months!!

Can you believe that Natalie is already 6 months old? She's got the biggest smile ever and is tons of fun to have around! We just love our little Natalie. Soon she should be crawling and her two little bottom teeth are making there way up, just in time for some turkey at Thanksgiving!!

Our First Visitors

We had a super fun visit from Steen's family this past week. We showed them around the area and kept busy while they were here. We started the visit off with Steen's birthday celebrations! We also went hiking to Falling Water State Park. Of course we spent lots of time at the beach playing in the water and shell hunting. We ate lots of yummy food here at home and at a variety of restaurants. We had a great time and are already missing our visitors. Enjoy all the pics:

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Katie and the birthday boy!

(Notice the banner in the back ground? That's my latest sewing project!)

Steen was spoiled with gifts from everyone!

Cake and ice cream time. Yummy!

Smok'n Butts BBQ was crazy delicious. We love living in the BBQ country.

Here's everyone at the falls. It was cool, but it didn't compare to anything we are used to in the gorge.
Natalie loved all the attention from her grandparents and Uncle Anton.

Here's our beach. We never get tired of looking at this view!

We got lucky and happened to see a huge group of sting rays from up on the pier.

Here's the kids having a great time playing in the sand.

Here's the kids with the St. Andrews pier in the background.

Noting like a Florida sunset.

Me and the kids at sunset one night.

Here's the fam in front of our house.

Thanks for visiting us Jensens. We had a great time with you guys. Come back soon!

Happy Birthday Steen!

Happy 31st Birthday

to the worlds greatest Dad and husband. We love you!

A fun last few days...

We've had a fun last few days. On Sunday Megan participated in her first children's primary sacrament meeting presentation. She looked so cute and did a good job. Natalie has also been doing a good job eating her rice cereal. She gets a little messy, but ends up getting it down. Daniel is getting in his back molars right now so he's been a little cranky, but is doing well. We survived our first official tropical storm. Ike brought us some wind, lots of rain, and left us in the dark with no power for about 13 hours. We were prepared and had fun playing with our flashlights and telling stories to the kids in the dark. We are looking forward for a visit from Steen's Mom, Dad and brother Anton. They will be arriving tonight. The kids can't wait. All is well here in Florida!

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The cute (and messy) little eater!

Daniel looking handsome before church.
Megan all dressed up and ready for her primary presentation.

Trick-or-Treating

Happy Halloween! Here are some highlights from our trick-or-treating adventure.

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Here's Megan the butterfly princess and Daniel as Indian Jones!

All three kiddos ready to hit the road for some CANDY!
Here's the kids trick-or-treating. So many people deck there houses out with spooky decorations here. We went to some pretty cool houses!

And here's little Natalie wanting to eat some candy so bad. When we got home we dumped it all out on the carpet and she went wild so we let her roll around in it for a second!

Trunk-or-Treating!

On Friday night we had a branch Trunk-or-Treating activity. The kids had a blast. They got to play some fun games and of course get lots of candy. We also made a batch of chili for the chili cook-off. We didn't win, but had fun coming up with an awesome batch of chili! Enjoy the pics...

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Natalie at the church all dressed up like Cinderella!

Here's Indiana Jones and the Butterfly Princess playing some put-put golf for one of the games at the church.
Daddy and the kids getting ready for trunk-or-treating.

Mommy and Natalie ready to leave for the party.

We had a great time!!