Jensen's first tooth!

We are very excited that Jensen finally got his first tooth, although still not visible to the naked eye. Every time we try to show someone or get a picture of it he closes his mouth or covers it with his tongue. But you can definitely feel it when he bites.

I know you can't see his tooth in these pictures, but I thought they were just too cute and wanted to post them anyway.

Apparently now that he has a single tooth we feel that is appropriate to give him solid foods, lots of it (we really didn't give him all this spagetti, Reed was just having some fun).

Stinky, Pinky Eye!

What a sad face! Jensen got pink eye this week. He looked like Quasimoto, poor kid. But don't be deceived by this sad face, even having his eye swollen shut he was just as happy and giggly as ever. What a good kid! I think it was more sad for Reed and I to see. It didn't even bother him. Apparently, seeing out of one eye is good enough.

Go Gophers!

University of Minnesota here we come! Reed was recently accepted to the Carlson School of Business in Minneapolis. We'll live there for 2 years while Reed works to get his MBA. We are so excited. Minnesota was the highest ranked school that we applied to and we feel so blessed. They have a great finance program and Reed can't wait to dive in (my words not his). We have some friends that live there and have already talked to them about living in Minneapolis. We know it will be cold, but we hear it's a great city and just amazingly beautiful in the summer with all the lakes. We would love for anyone to come visit us!

1st Trip to St. George!

We had such a good time in St. George this last week. We are so glad the Mendenhalls invited us to go. We were able to ride our bikes on my favorite, Bear Claw Poppy trail. We swam, played tennis, and saw friends. It was a great time.

Jensen loves his daddy!
It doesn't hurt that he looks just like his dad!

We were able to spend some time with our good friends JR and Aubree and their 2 cute boys, Carson and Brenner. This is JR and Brenner, with his soon to be best friend Jensen

This is us with the Wright's

This is my beautiful friend, Aubree (this is for you, please don't make a not-allie-blog)

Jensen and his daddy watching the Jazz game. Poor guy, we wore him out!


Jensen and his Uncle Ty. Tyler is about to become a dad here in September, and by the way he was with Jensen and Kylie, his little boy is one lucky kid.

Here's everyone at the Pizza Factory. A St. George tradition!

I wanted a picture of our family because I thought we all looked pretty cute. Maybe next time I won't wake Jense up from his nap.

Carson, Brenner, and Jensen. It was so cute when Carson saw Jensen he said to him, "I'm so happy to see you again!" How very formal.

Jensen loved the pool in his little floaty thing.

This one of Reed's favorite mission companions, JD Carter and his son Zach. We're sad that we missed Lacey. Maybe next time.

Jensen's Favorite Things!

Jensen's 6 months now so I though I would do a blog of his favorite things (and mine). It's kind of like Oprah's favorite things, just as exciting (for me, that is) but no one wins any cars or cool prizes.

Here's him on his saucer that he's borrowing from his cousin Kira. He loves to play in it and it keeps him occupied long enough for me to get things done.

Here he is in his jumping thing, also Kira's (thank you Erin). He gets going on this and it looks like he's doing the River Dance.
He also loves his cousin Kira (when she's not poking his eyes out). He just ligths up when he sees her. It's the cutest thing. She just turned 1. How cute is she!

And here's Jensen and his friend Oliver. Jensen loves his little jungle gym and Oliver thought he would join him. There's always room for more!

Some of my favorite things about Jensen are:

1. When he first wakes up in the morning and sees me or Reed for the first time and just lights up.

2. How he just laughs for no reason.

3. How he lights up when his daddy comes home.

4. How he loves to talk. Especially the loud squeals and then looks around to see where it's coming from.

5. How he loves his bath time. Splashing around and most of all just being naked (he is such a boy!)

6. The face he makes when you first put food in his mouth, likes it's the most disgusting thing you could possibly imagine. But then manages to finish the whole thing.

7. when he looks at a bottle, it's like he's been deprived of food for days. And then he just grabs the bottle in hunger and desperation.

8. When he grabs his hands together like he's so excited he can't stand it.

9. When he wrinkles his nose when he smiles.

10. How he has a normal sized head. For most of you this wouldn't be a concern, but I married an Edwards and this is very much a concern for me. However, I have beautiful nieces that have done just fine with the Edwards' head.

Anyway, I just wanted to share some of our favorite things and Reed really wanted to get rid of the "bra blog" from being the first thing he sees when he opens the blog.

A New Revolution in Jogging!

That is not me, by the way!

Well ladies, I have found it! A bra that allows you to jog without the bounce. You other well endowed ladies know what I'm talking about. I know you've seen them, the ladies that run and it looks like they're going to knock someone out with all the bouncing going on in front of them. Well, I was one of them. I would have to wear two sports bras for the much needed support. I have searched my entire life for such a phenomena of a sports bra that actually supports. It seems impossible, I know, but this enell bra has made me a believer.



I love to run, but I have also been blessed with being top heavy (two bad combos). Just recently I was reading my friend Alicia's blog and she said that there was this new bra for well endowed joggers such as herself. I couldn't believe it. I went right out and got one. I was standing there in the dressing room jumping up and down, and wouldn't you know it, there was no "bounceage". The great thing about it is that it doesn't completly flatten you, just gives great support. Reed was making fun of me, because it almost looks like armor. But who freaking cares, as long as there's no bouncing.



I finally put it to the test today, and I have to say that it was fantastic. So for those of you that have been blessed as I have and also love to run, here you are. You can find it on http://www.enell.com/

You'll love it, I promise!

Rolling over!

Jensen just started rolling over a week or two ago. I sound a little vague, because no one really witnessed it until last night. Grandma and Grandpa were babysitting and they saw him do it. After that, he was on a roll (no pun intended). Actually the very first time was when he was put in his crib for a nap. About 5 minutes later there was this blood curdling scream, so Reed ran into his room. And there he was, on his stomach. Apparently it freaked him about pretty good.
So now that we've actually seen him do it, I thought I'd share with all of you.

First position is to grab the feetNext, give a big heave ho over that shoulder
Ta Da! It's that easy