We're not crazy!

People probably think we are crazy or dont understand what we are doing. But the simple fact is that we dont just fly by the seat of our pants, but we seek guidance from our Heavenly Father ALWAYS!

We had a great house that we had worked so hard on, transforming it from holes in the wall and a backyard you couldnt walk out to without being attacked by one of the 15 over grown bushes/trees or the bugs residing in them, to a warm inviting home we had pride in and where we started our family. But we couldnt help but feel that our Heavenly Father has other plans for us. So after over a year of prayer and pondering we decided that the short term action was to sell our house. We called an agent got all the information, but felt that although that was the right step the timing wasnt right. Almost 6 months after, we knew it was finally time! The bad economy has hit Dayton hard and houses sell for very cheap and not very quickly. But we were extremely blessed and sold our house with in 2 weeks and 20thousand more than our neighbors...jusr a reassuance that we were doing what we were suppose to do.
We decided to rent for 6 months and save as much money as possile for the next step. We arent 100% sure what that next step is but we are doing our part in researching our options and determining what is best for our family and future.
We have seen many small miracles and blessings through out the process and are confident we are headed for a bright future!

We may have gone from our nice large home, to a small cramped townhouse but I KNOW that my Heavenly Father knows me, he knows my family and wants the best for us. I KNOW his hand is in our life and in the guidance and direction we seek for our future.

                      (Tyson sleeping while we packed!)

My boys

As I sit here on the couch looking around I cant help but think how blessed I am to have such amazing men in my lie.

I see my husband laying across the room patiently holding Tyson until he falls asleep. This may seem like a simple thing but to me it is the world. Tyson loves his Daddy and loves the time he gets to snuggle with him at night, and I dont blame him! Not many men will take the time to do this!

Sometimes Tyson will come up to me and give me a kiss out of no where. This little boy who hasnt been in the world more than 2 years has the biggest heart. He tries to show us how much he loves us in everything he does! His smile melts my heart and his cry breaks it. I cant help but think that I would do ANYTHING to see this little boy smile and ANYTHING to keep him from crying.

I look the other way and see my sweet new boy sleeping so peacefully. He is perfection. When he is awake he looks straight into my eyes and I fall in love with him all over again. I love that he seems to get excited when hearing my voice. I cant wait to see what kind of man he becomes.

I hope they are both like their father.

Catching up...story #1

A lot has happened over the last month and I have yet to add it to my blog...lets start with the most important one! Grant Tyus Jensen arrived on May 9th at 6:33 am. Here is the labor story!! My mom came for 2 weeks in hopes that she would arrive a fews days before he came and be able to stay a few days after. Once she got here we tried everything to get labor going(when she got here I was already 4cm dilated). We walked for hours each day, ran up and down the stairs at the elementry school, played So You Think You Can Dance on the wii, everythign we could think of but nothing worked. One day I had contractions about every 5 minutes and finally went into the Dr. office but they told me I was right on the edge of active labor but didnt want me to go to the hospital yet...3 days later- STILL NOTHING. I was getting so frustrated and tired that I didnt want to time another stupid contraction in my life! And I thought for sure this baby was never going to come! Finally on Tuesday the 8th we were about to Dance to the wii again but for some reason felt exausted from a not so busy day. I went to bed early and woke up at 4 with a mild contraction and asked Kurt to rub my back. Within 15 minutes I had another 3 contractions and decided to take a hot shower to see if they would go away(at this point I felt like the girl who cried wolf and refused to say "its time" just to rush to the hospital to be sent home again) by the time I got in the shower I could hardly stand up and told Kurt to get his stuff ready to go. We left the house at 5 and got to the hospital at 530. On the drive there my contractions were 2 minutes apart and I was screaming for Kurt to hurry up because I was 99% sure the baby was not waiting until we got to the hospital. Luckily he did and by the time we got to OB I was 7cm dilated. I immediately told the nurse that I wanted an epidural right then and there but turns out it was too late and I had to do it totally natural. I'll spare you all the intense details but I DID IT  and luckily only had to push for 20 minutes! I am proud to say that I did but will not do it again if I can help it!   That is the clean and quick version of the not so fun birth of our lovely Tyus. He is healthy and strong and an amazing addition to our family!

Easter Pictures

Grandma fun

Kurt went to his friends house in Denver for March madness and since I'm too far along to travel anymore my mama came and spent the week with Tyson and I! He actually warmed up to her really fast which is suprising because he's usually pretty shy!

 He loved to make her play horse!

And make her read all the books to him!

 She was here over St. Patricks day which is a big holiday in my family! So of course we had to make St. Patrick day cookies.

And he loved to take all her clothes out of her suitcase and play in it!

All in all we had a lot of fun and it was SO helpful for her to be there and for him to have so much fun with her!

30,000 feet at 30 weeks

We went to St. Louis this past week, on a business/pleasure trip! Kurt had some things to do in a town about 2 hours away from his parents so I tagged along and hung out in St. Louis for the 2 days we was gone and then we spent the next 4 days enjoying family time! I wasn't too concerned on how traveling would effect my body with how far along I am but MAN did it take a toll on me. I found myself getting pretty grumpy by the end of the trip simply because my body ached.
We had a couple of incidents on this trip. One- the morning after we arrived, while Tyson was exploring Grandma and Grandpas house, he ran into the bathroom slipping and falling face first into the bath tub, which split both top and bottom lips, leaving them VERY fat and tender, and chipping his front tooth. Kurt's best friend from college is a Dentist and has come in very handy over the past few years! We called him immediately to which he said if you cant see any of the nerve then there is nothing you can do for a baby tooth. Luckily its not THAT bad!
Two- on the flight back home, I was holding Tyson on my side in the Las Vegas airport and suddenly felt warmth seeping through my shirt where he had peed through his diaper. If you haven't been to the Vegas airport in a while, they are doing construction and we had to walk clear across the airport to catch out connecting flight. So we were in a very big hurry- as big of a hurry as you can be 7 1/2 months pregnant and body pushed to the limit that is! So I ran to make sure we didn't miss our flight, while Kurt went to a gift shop to buy us new clothes so we didn't get on the next flight smelling like pee!
Three- When we finally got to the Reno airport, they too were doing construction and we has to walk outside all the way across the airport(again) to baggage claim, where they LOST our car seat. Luckily we had brought our second car seat to fly with and left the other one in the car. They told us they would bring it the next morning but it didn't show up until the next day about 530pm. Good thing we have a car seat in each car or they would have gotten a grumpy ear full from a pregnant lady!
By the time we finally got to the car, I could hardly walk anymore, my back and legs were about to give out and I felt extremely nauseous. Got home, and threw up pretty much everything that was in my stomach and have been sick ever since. Not sure if I caught something somewhere along the way or my body is just saying it needs a rest!
Four- then to top it all off- because we didn't have a car seat in my car, Kurt took it to work and left the truck for me. I get a call about 545pm from Kurt saying that the tire blew on my car and he would have to try and change it on the side of the road. He did it pretty quickly but when he got home, told me that it wasn't that my tire was bad but that a huge chunk of metal stabbed it through it.
So although we had a great time in Missouri, we had our share of mishaps!

Recent Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures...of Tyson of course!!

Heart ache

My heart aches for my brother and his family...just glad no people got hurt. But still sad for their all they lossed.
http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1456820484001

UGH.

Let me take a few moments to complain. I try really really hard not to be a complainer. I mean I have an amazing life, with an amazing husband who loves me and a handsom son who brightens my day. I dont have any major trials going on in my life. I have a nice home where my family is safe. My life is pretty darn great and there are people in a lot worse situations than me, so I have no right to complain... But lately its really hard to hold it in so let me just vent for a moment.
My belly is getting so big that I can hardley hold Tyson anymore and when I do, I feel so much pressure I can barely stand it. I try to get down and play with him but any position I sit in is uncomfortable. He is getting more and more adventurous and I'm getting more and more tired and more and more uncomfortable. I am so tired but cant seem to get comfortable at night or during the day to take a nap.
Some times I have to go to peoples houses who have breakable things and Tyson seems to go right to those and wont leave them alone. I chase him around, ware myself out and try to hold him on my lap which I said before I can not do anymore.
I really do love being pregnant and feeling the baby move and grow but I am SO READY to be done. I know it will be hard when I am trying to give two babies attention but I will actually be able to bend over to play with them and really give them both the attention I want to!
 I'm tired. I'm worn down. And I'm grumpy. Thats my complaining for the moment. The end.

Wyoming is cold!

                Like I said I went to see my family in WY for a week...here's a little peak of our fun!

The big 2-5.

UGH. That means Im half way to 50! That is really scary :)

Well my birthday was almost a month ago but as you know I am way behind. And since I am skipping my nap today, which I am already regretting. I figured I would blog a little.

I went to Wyoming to see my family for a week. That is the LONGEST I have ever been away from my husband. Including while we were dating. It was hard to be gone from him but nice to get out of my daily routine in Nevada. While all of my family live with in a 3 hour circle of each other you would think it would be easy for me to see everyone and spend quality time with each of them...but its not! Each have a different schedual of course. So everyone planned on coming to my parents house for one day to get together. This isn't unusual. Like I said, everyone is busy and has different scheduals so we usually are able to get together for atleast a couple of hours. As my nieces and nephews started showing up, they got out balloons, ribbon, party decorations and again I thought nothing of it. Just kids finding things to do at Grandma's house I suppose. As we started to play games, I started to get a wiff of lit matches which I just shrugged off as pregnancy nose catching someones fireplace or something. Then all of the sudden out of the blue my sister and her husband come around the corner with a cake singing happy birthday and suddenly I realized that this was all for me; making sure everyone was able to come, the kids blowing up balloons, the smell of the buring candles they were lighting on the cake. I dont know if it was suppose to be a suprise or not but it was! And it was great! I'll have to get pictures from my Mom since she took all of them on her camera. But it was really really great and I felt very very loved!

When I got home my husband greeted me in the airport with a big hug and kiss and 2 birthday presents; a movie and child cabnet locks. I really did need to put some locks on cabinets so I again assumed he was getting me a practical gift. When we arrived home, there in the middle of the living room sat a cherry wood DVD cabinet with doors that close and will fit all of our movies from 2 shelves into one. Tyson constantly liked to pull movies off the open shelves and Kurt knew how much a closed cabinet WITH LOCKS! would mean to me! What a great way to spend my 25th Birthday! I got a lot of amazing gifts, was suprised a lot and got to spend it with people I love!