Jenne Family

Finally, an update! Happy Halloween

2010-11-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

Cruella DeVille. Isn't she cute!

It was fun to put this costume together. We were very last minute planners. So thanks to Haley we got it done. Haley was priceless when it came to the crazy long black nails, and the false eyelashes.

2010-11-02T15:41:00.000-07:00

In the subway on the way the Glenn Beck Rally. Part of the adventure.

Some anti-Beck people had this 'great' sign up on our way to the rally. I thought it was funny. I am sure Glenn loved this picture of him.

Tim was out photographing the crowd. It was a great day.

2010-11-02T15:10:00.000-07:00

Here are my beautiful girls at the WWII Memorial.

Some of us weren't up for the Holocaust Museum. I thought it was a bit intense for Ashley so I sent her with Lindsey. So here she is in the Museum of Natural History.

8-28-10. Four Hot Girls, but it was wonderful to be in such a huge crowd of Patriots.

This was taken the night before the rally. Right behind us is the stage. We weren't anywhere close the next day. I wish I would have spent the night on the grass right behind me. I could have done it and then we could have gotten close, but it was great anyway.

2010-11-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

Here we are outside the Holocaust Museum. I just want to point out the sculpture behind us is a broken swastica. This was the third time I got to go thru the Holocuast Museum, but everytime it has been with tired people or young kids so I know I could go back and still see much that I missed there. It is amazing, troubling, and worth doing.

Ashley and Emily by the Washington part of the WWII memorial.

Here is a picture with the Beautiful Temple behind us. Oh, so beautiful.

Another picture of us outside the Washington D.C. Temple. I was so excited to get to see this temple. We didn't have much time so we just had time for a walk around it and a quick visit to the visitor's center. It was so beautiful. I hope we can go there again sometime when we can go through the temple, but the chances are rather slim since Lindsey and Drew are moving to Tri-cities (Hooray, Hooray!) so we won't be as likely to go back east without them there.

I can't really explain this picture. Basically it speaks for itself. It all happened one day after church when he was still in his suit. I think most everyone likes a good picture now and then outside the portable toilets, right? I just couldn't resist posting it here for the world (Or some little part of it) to see.

Sweet little Baby Darcy Elle

2009-08-03T17:11:00.000-07:00

Here is this cutey, Darcy Elle, peeking out at the world. Not even 24 hours old. She is so precious! I am having the time of my life! I love this Grandma stuff! I am so thankful that Lindsey and Drew invited me to come be with them so I could meet this sweet baby. It reminds me so much of when I had my own new babies, but it has its pluses :) I am not sore, or tired. It is so nice to get to share it with my own daughter. Lindsey has had quite a few friends come by and visit. Even some Dad's! It has been fun to meet them. They are all so nice, and seem so genuinely interested in meeting and holding Darcy! It is cute. Lots of handwashing going on. (very consious of germs) What fun! What fun!

This was a picture during her 1st bath, the famous 'sponge' bath. She like to open her right eye long before she opens her left one, she is very funny. I've been calling her a little 'one-eyed pirate' when she does this.
Here she is all bundled up. Lindsey has started playing dress-up with her so here she is with her hat and the big purple flower on it. Nothing like baby girl clothes for a good time. How happy we are to welcome her to our family. I am glad I get to stay a while because I already don't know how in the world I am going to leave her.

visiting with the fam.

2009-07-24T21:51:00.000-07:00

Okay I admit this was posed but it sure is cute. Whitney likes 101 dalmations so the girls were watching with her and they got glued for the photo. 3 cutey cute girls.

This is a picture of most of the Jenne's outside Luke's following Michael's blessing. It was such a priviledge to be there to hear the beautiful blessing that Luke gave to sweet little Michael along with a chance to hear his testimony also. We sure love these kids of Luke and Natalie's. Such lucky grandparents! It was so good of so many of the family to come. Alan and his family surprised us, I didn't know they were going to be able to make it but it was great.

A picture of me with Whitney. She is such a busy little body! I love to watch her as she takes on the world with gusto.

Who is this handsome foreigner you ask? Brother! Here is Tim modeling one of the hats that Tanner brought home from Russia.

It's impossible to pass up one of these great photo ops. This was on our way to Canada for Ty's mission report. It was a great trip. It was beautiful. We scrambled around and got our 'enhanced driver's license's' before we left so we could get over the border.

Places we've been

2009-07-24T21:37:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken at the Hotel in Boise when we were on our way to the Family Reunion. Ashley loved the fancy bathroom. I wish I could remember exactly what we paid but I think it was $48 on Hotwire. I am a fan. This is the best place that we have gotten for the best price, but they are always better than Hotel 6 or something like that. There were really great beds and bedding. That's all that I really care about. Emily the ping pong queen. We loved this great place in St. Anthony where we had our reunion. There were a million great things to do.

Ah, Haley found the costume box:) Pretty hard to resist!

This was the great riding toy room. Even the Mom's had fun with these toys. Here I am taking a break from all the action and having a chat with Cameron.

Oh, Well here is another picture from the wedding. I guess it is a bit random but now it's uploaded I sure don't know how to take it off. It's a good picture of Emily anyway. Nice one of Tim too of course.

Karen's Wedding

2009-07-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

I haven't put anything on forever so I have lots of random pictures to add so here goes: I have to admit that I don't really take very good pictures as a rule, but I am posting some of them. This is me with all my brothers and sisters at the beautiful Karen's wedding.
This was on the crazy 'hike that Tim decided to have in May. It was warm at home but after we got up above Ellensburg it was cold. Ashley was in her shorts. Emily created these 'sweats' for Ashley out of her sweatshirt :)

This fun time was when we were bowling after the wedding. It was sooo fun. We had a great time. Unfortunately I don't really take such grand pictures but I liked this one because it had the great form of both Tim and Emily all at once. How lucky!

Here is a sweet picture of Luke's form.

Opps, back to the hike again. Here we are enjoying the hike in the SNOW! We were not prepared. The hike didn't last that long. It was an adventure we were not quite ready for I'm afraid. I fell through the snow, it was really deep in some places. My foot got stuck and I pulled my shoe of getting out of it. I was a little bit cranky by then I must admit. I lost my sense of adventure.

Emily Singing at Jr. Miss "Everything"

2009-05-03T20:52:00.000-07:00

I finally figured out how to download a video. Yahoo. So here is most of Emily's song for Jr. Miss. I wish it were a higher quality recording, but it still sounds good. We were sure proud of her.

Ashley's 2nd Grade Sleepover

2009-05-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

This is part of Ashleys sleepover at the school on Friday Night. Those are her legs next to Mrs. Longmire her teacher. This is during the reading time. Each child was to bring their favorite book. This is in response to the challenge. "Everyone who likes to read raise their feet". Mrs. Longmire is a fabulous teacher.
Here is a shot of Ashley looking through her book. She chose to bring "The Midas Touch" which is a little crazy because we have never read that to her. There are millions of books we have read together but she wanted to bring this one. Which is fine...just unique.
One of the great activities was bubble blowing. Here is a picture of Ashley. But Hey it's the wrong one! I am so good at this blogging stuff:) I know that I could download another but I just don't know how to put it here. Oh well. It will have to do. I have another where she actually has a bubble out there. Well, that's the way it goes with me I guess. She sure had fun.

Her very favorite activity was riding the scooters through the hallways and the gym. The kids had a blast. There were kids that never went to sleep. There were 2 dads that stayed up all night. Peter Yorgesen and Tony Langdon. What good sports. I went to sleep about 12:30 then I got up at 2:00 for the races in the hallway. I think the kids loved to be able to do things that are taboo during regular school hours.

I finally figured out how to put a video on so here is a video of Ashley riding a scooter amid the chaos the next morning as we were getting cleaned up and ready to leave. The kids were really so good. No troubles. Maybe a little messy, but that was easily remedied. But then what was there to complain about it was a wild and crazy night of one fun thing after another and the rare chance to stay up all night! They had a water fight outside, they blew bubbles, they threw frizbees, they ran races, the did some reading, there was plenty of food and snacks, they finished a Mother's Day Present (we were banned from the room of course). It was an amazing night. My first thought about it was that Mrs. Longmire has to be crazy to do this thing...but then after watching it all happen and being part of it I was reminded why I think she is so wonderful. What a big heart!

JR MISS

2009-04-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

Here is Emily getting ready for Jr. Miss. What a big production it all is! But she looked great!

All dressed up and forced to pose! I had other pictures but they didn't turn out so great so this is all I have.

This is part of the opening number! Oh baby! This was to some song "black and White" I think and the theme of the night was color your world. (I think)

All my pictures of her actually moving in the fitness routine were blurry so here is a cute one at the end when she was...what else posing again!

Here she is in her fancy dress with her friend Eden. She is hold her certificate of Award for winning the talent! Yahoo! She was so awesome! I will try to put on a video of it. I tried already but it wouldn't load with these pictures so I loaded these separately and will give it another try later.

2009-03-26T14:34:00.000-07:00

Isn't this a nice official sort of picture! Entering the MTC. Kinda reminds me of George Washington! Such an exciting day.

I thought it was funny that they had a seam ripper at the MTC front desk for picking out the stitching in the pockets of the Elders' new suits! Here's Haley taking care of business for Nick.

I thought we got a pretty good picture of everyone here.

Yikes! I would actually like to delete this picture of me but I don't have the skills! So only look at Nick here!

It was fun to see the boys walking along together all dressed up in their suits. They look much alike.

We have gotten 3 letters from Nick so far. He also wrote to Linz so we have heard a good bit from him. He sounds good. He sounds like he is really enjoying himself. I love to hear what he says. Here are a few quotes.
"I love it here. I wouldn't be any where else. I know this really is God's work."

In his latest letter he said this "I love it here. The only other place I would want to be is in Arizona already but I could definitely use to learn some more so I think I can wait. "

It's funny, he has made reference several times to his companion, Elder Allen, telling the District stories. He was telling us his schedule and he said "After that we go back and my companion Elder Allen usually tells our district a story. I recorded some of them so I'll send my memory card home soon. "

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December 2008

2008-12-30T07:38:00.000-08:00

We have had a wonderful Christmas. It is a rule at our house..you have to have some happy pictures with your gifts! Here is Emily with her new coat! It was evident that Luke did all the shopping and wrapping of Nick's gift himself. Let's see it was wrapped in pink, non Christmas paper and he got a Hannah Montana Christmas Card. See how happy it made him:) Nick did however love the Leatherman! It was much better than the snugglie his was telling us he was sending! Such a comedian!

The gang posing following the traditional re-enactment of the Nativity. I don't know what happened to our costume box, we would have had some better outfits if I could have found our box, but weren't the wisemen creative with their costumes! When I was looking at these pictures I crack up..I should really have had more imput on the costumes I see! Nick made the big effort to get a lampshade and his robe from graduation. Tim's 'crown' reminds me of a hard hat! He made it himself..can you tell! Ashley has been worrying about her costume for days. The Shepherds did quite well, notice the candy cane shepherds crooks. This tradition combines our love of the nativity story with family quirkiness! I hope it doesn't get sacriligious. This year we added music, which actually was very touching.

Here are the wisemen singing "We three Kings" . It was interesting. Nick wasn't into it much but we got a note or two our of him. It still was fun.

This little angel sang "Glo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ria. In excelsi deo" It was great!+

More December photos

2008-12-30T07:13:00.000-08:00

Here are our singing Shepherds! Aren't they beautiful!

Mary and Joseph singing "Mary Lullaby" It was really very great. You can count on Lindsey, she had Drew practice with her earlier in the day so of course it was good.

Here is some of the action on the hill thanks to a snowy year! I believe this is what Tim calls a "skeeter" it was Emily's scooter that he modified and made a ski for it to use on the snow.

This is the one picture we have of Nick as he opened his mission call. Emily was in charge of photography and she must have gotten caught up in the excitment! Arizona Tucson, spanish speaking mission. He is leaving March 11th. We are all very excited about it. He was especially excited that he got to go Spanish speaking.

This is a photo from Emily's B. day. Didn't want to neglect her! She mainly spent the day running back and forth from Yakima with her friends but dropped in for some cake and ice cream. Happy 17th.

Coincidence

2008-12-07T14:55:00.000-08:00

It was really interesting to take note of how small the world becomes because of our connections in the church. Here are a few of the things I was thinking about this week.

1. Once upon a time Natalie was the roommate to Marci Sabin. (For anyone who doesn't know, Marci is from Mattawa)

2. One day when Mom and Dad were at the temple in Billings Mt. the word was going around that there was a member who needed a ride to Powell and they said that they would take him. It was nighttime. They went to the corner where they were supposed to meet him, it was dark, and they picked him up and according to Mom "Had a wonderfully pleasant visit during the
1 1/2 hour trip home. When he got out of the car Dad had him stand in front of the headlights so he could actually see him since he hadn't been able to see him in the back seat of the car. Later, they were to discover that he was married to Natalie's cousin Amy. His name is Mark, I am not sure of the spelling of his last name I will guess that it is Andresen.

3. Of course there is the connection that Whitney was born in Powell WY. 20 miles from Byron where I grew up.

4. And last weekend we discovered that Lainey had already met Whitney's birth mother because they were in the same group at EFY several years ago.

More fun in Utah

2008-12-07T14:11:00.000-08:00

I always put the pictures in the wrong order, but here is Whitney crawling on Luke. She's getting herself around these days. She isn't exactly crawling, but whatever you call it she's movin'. She's the cutest thing around I think!

Before Church on Sunday Luke and Natalie had a luncheon for all the family. Here are Drew, Emily and Lance (Kurt's youngest). This is Lance's favorite expression, so Em. and Drew are making it with him. I don't know if Emily was doing it on purpose or just that involuntary thing you do when you are watching others.

Here's little sleepy Whitney. She was really tired when this pic. was taken but after a short nap she did great during her blessing. Luke gave her a beautiful blessing. Notice the shaved face of Luke. Enough to make a mother smile:) Actually I don't really mind his beard. He's a handsome dog anyway:) (That is an old expression that I can trace to my Mom and Dad!)

Here are my beloved sisters. Beth and Heidi. I guess I have to admit Heidi is a sister-in-law, but that doesn't matter I love them both. Heidi welcomes us into her home at a moments notice and manages the mess like a champion.

Here's a pictures of the Luke Jenne Family. Luke, Natalie and Whitney. Signed, SEALED and delivered. What a beautiful sight!

Thanksgiving

2008-12-07T13:44:00.000-08:00

Following Thanksgiving this year we went down to Utah and our sweet Whitney was sealed to Luke and Natalie and of course, therefore to us. What a fabulous thing. This is a picture of most of the family that was there. As I look at it I see that some of Natalie's family must have already left, but this is most of us. We feel so blessed to have Whitney in our family. I enjoyed visiting with the Moline family too. We also got to meet Whitney birthmother and her parents. It was quite emotional to contemplate their gift to us.

This was some of the fun times during our Thanksgiving merry making. The girls were enjoying each other. Notice the collision going on between Lindsey and Emily :)

Here are a few photos of the great "Thanksgiving Bowl". Nick, who is usually a lineman, but was a receiver in this game, is catching a pass! Whoopee for him!

Here he is battling it out with Jefferson!

Two beautiful babes on a bike ride through the vineyard. Such a beautiful fall!

2008-11-06T12:30:00.000-08:00

This was our modesty fashion show. The Y.W. put it on for the achievement day girls. It was very fun! Our theme "M is for Modesty". Seriously I don't really know what exactly that means but I was trying to think of something to say and I don't like modest is the hotest, that was the only other thing I could think of so I just made this one up. Whatever :)

Emily was soooo funny. She was all about being a serious model, so she was determined NOT to smile. She is a real ham. So I am putting up all her pictures. I made up the descriptions for all the girls. This is one activity I feel proud of, partly cause it was so hard to get cooperation at first but in the end it turned out just great. I kept telling the girls to bring me descriptions of their outfit. No one was doing it. So I tied a string on all their fingers on Sunday that I told them not to take off till they had called me. How many called? One. (well it seemed like it might work at one time duh) So I had to be on the phone a long time. But I did that. Then I had to make up a 'fun' fashion showy description of their outfits.

One of the girls left her outfit at the school and another got hurt and was at the Dr. but it still turned out very well. I ended up doing the decorating. I went to the church because I was going to help one of the girls do it, but she never showed (had car trouble I found out later) so I did it myself. I just found these big cardboard pieces up on the stage and put them up. I was going to put the words along the front of the stage but then when I found these things I did it this way.

For young women party decoration you can't beat balloons and crepe paper. The price is right and they cover a good bit of space.

I can't wait till the girls come home for a tutorial on blog stuff. I can't really get the pictures and the words to move around like I would like to but...this blog reflects me I guess, kinda of helter skelter.

2008-11-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

For all of you wondering when I am ever going to put something new on this blog...Here it is!
I tried to get some volleyball pictures of Emily early on in the season but our camera was too lame.
Finally with a new camera I went to Em.'s last home game of the season and what do you know, my battery was low so I only got a couple of not-so-great pics.
But I thought this one is cute of her anyway, tnat's the important thing, right? Even though it's not showing too much 'action' at the moment.
The camera has such slow reaction time it is hard to get an action shot.

Tim and Ashley are hard at work making a pumpkin head for our Halloween Man.

I would like to suggest for all pumpkin carvers Tim's technique which includes the use of an electric drill and an electric saw.

Here is Ashley posin' it up with the Halloween Man!

I really like this silly face she had going. In case you can't tell, she was a cheerleader from H.S. Musical. We actually saw HS Musical 3 last weekend. Cheesy plot of course but the dancing and the singing is great! I am impressed! It always looks so fun.

Back on topic...Ashley had a fun day. There was a carnival and trick or treating at the church. Out here that seems to be the only way to trick or treat. We did stop at Behling's and she went to Grandma's.

This is what Nick has been doing with his time lately. He leaves for school about 6:45 and gets back around 3 and then goes to work till 10 or 11. He has worked till 2:00 a.m. a few days. This is quite a fancy piece of equipment. Tim took some video of the whole process. Pretty High tech.

Here's the inside view. You can't see the 'joystick' that he holds onto on his right that has all the control. All the years of playing video games may actually have paid off :) Great thumb action! Kip told Tim he was glad to have Nick there. We are so glad Nick has the work.

Nashville 2

2008-08-18T05:47:00.000-07:00

This is the parthenon in Nashville. Who knew there was a parthenon in Nashville?? Not me, but it was interesting to see. It is a to-scale replica of the original Parthenon. Amazing craftsmanship.This is the inside of the parthenon. This is a huge statue of Athena (greek goddess. Remember your mythology?) She is holding Nike, another greek goddess.
We went to see the temple which is in Franklin, which is outside Nashville. It is beautiful. It is one of the smaller temples. As usual, plenty of posers available for photos :)
A vacation that includes a 7 year old is different than it would be otherwise. We went to the Children's science museum here in Nashville. I guess I was searching for dinosaurs here.

Here the girls are enjoying a little wheelchair basketball.
Love this shot! Some serious listening going on.

Here's Emily inside the guitar.
Posers at the planet display.
Emily and Ashley caught a ride on the magic school bus!

Trip to Nashville

2008-08-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken in front of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Nick and Drew and Lindsey have been here working for the summer, so we couldn't resist the temptation to come and check it out.This is a picture of my favorite group that was performing when we were there, "Diamond Rio." Each group only performed 3 or 4 songs..not enough for me. I loved to see all the backup singers, the people on the different instruments and I like to see places that I have heard about all my life. I really enjoyed it all. The pool at the apartment complex has been a highlight of our visit. Ashley likes to swim all the time. We drag her around to different things but to keep her happy we have been swimming in the morning and then at night when we come back. Nick is growing this mop of hair for some odd reason this summer. I am looking forward to seeing his handsome face when he finally gets it cut at the end of the summer.This sweet photo was taken in the Dallas airport, our layover. It's been an adventure.