Enjoying the Fall Season

I love everything about fall. It's such a perfect time of the year and the weather is usually really nice. It rained here last week on and off, but it's always nice to hear the rain outside with the thunder and lightening and it's just cozy to be home knowing that you are safe inside. The only negative is that the kids get a bit anxious being home all day and are constantly asking me to go outside. We usually go to the playground or on a walk at least once a day sometimes even twice. So this week we have enjoyed the nice cool fall weather and have gone out everyday!!! :) They love it!

Braden insisted on bringing his fire truck with him on our walk. He is such a boy!

And Brielle insisted on bringing her backpack!

On Monday, my friend Courtney from our ward called me and we went to this really cute farm called The Frying Pan Farm. I think the name is funny...but they have farm animals there, cows, horses, chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, etc, etc. Courtney has two girls and one is Brielle's age. Her name is Brinley and she gets along with Brielle incredibly well! The kids LOVED going to the farm and enjoyed seeing the animals! But the sad part is that I forgot to bring my camera! We will be back again probably next week so I will make sure to take pictures.

We have really nice neighbors and there is a really nice couple in the building next to us who we have become friends with. They have two little girls, one of them is a newborn and the other one is about Brielle's age. They really like playing together! Judy, the mom has been telling me about this really awesome park that we should go to since we got here and yesterday we finally got to go. The park has a really weird name, Clemyjontri Park, but it is so much fun! There are so many toys and the best part is that it is FREE! It is so big and the kids absolutely enjoyed every minute. It was perfect jacket weather and we played and had snacks there. It is only about a 20 minute drive there and the drive is just so beautiful. I was telling Scott that after living in such a beautiful place it will be very hard to leave this place and go back to rural Idaho, if we ever decide to go back...:)

Here they are just enjoying the day. Our little neighbor Bella is so dang cute and LOVES to play with Brielle. It's nice to be able to make new friends and get to know different people.

This little guy has been keeping me on my toes lately, but he is so loving and sweet and I hope he never stops cuddling with me but I think that's just wishful thinking!!!:( He has been talking a lot lately and it's fun to listen to him!

These two keep me so busy everyday!!! I honestly can't let my guard down otherwise I find them both in the bathroom playing with the toilet water and Brielle telling me that her finger is a fish swimming in the water! Sometimes it is so hard to keep a straight face and keep myself from laughing. They both are accomplices in mischief. Brielle has been such a chatter box, lately. She seriously talks ALL DAY LONG! I'm not joking when I say ALL DAY! And some of the things she says are so funny...I have a quite a few funny stories:

1. The other day, Brielle got a hold of one of our ipods and she was just pushing and pushing buttons. Our conversation went something like this:

Denisse: What are you doing Brielle? You know that the ipod is not a toy.
Brielle: Mommy, I'm just checking my e-mail!
Seriously, how can I not laugh.

2. Scott takes the metro to school everyday, it is about 10 minutes from our house so we drive him there and pick him up everyday. We spend about 20 minutes a day in the car. We usually have the radio playing while we are driving and of course Brielle has an opinion about what songs should be playing. If she likes what's playing she says: "Turn it up mommy, turn it up" and then starts singing whatever is playing. Among her favorite songs are "Bleeding love" and "Apologize". When she doesn't like what's playing she expresses her opinion about the song. This is a conversation that Scott, Brielle and I had the other day:
Brielle: Daddy! I don't like it this song! Change it! I don't like it!
Scott: But daddy likes it Brielle.
Brielle: No! I don't like it!
Denisse: Brielle, it's daddy's turn now ok?, after this song is over we can change it and you can have a turn.
Brielle: I don't like it this song mommy! It's Brielle's turn, it's not daddy's turn, it's Brielle's turn! 

Scott and I are just laughing our heads off in the front seats...she just won't drop it until one of her favorite songs is playing!

3. She has been a little parrot lately, repeating everything I say. When I put Braden in timeout she is right behind me putting him in timeout too.
Brielle: Braden! You go timeout Braden! See my hair! Don't pull my hair Braden! You are naughty! You go timeout!
I have to hide my face and keep from laughing because then Braden thinks it's funny that I'm laughing and it just defeats the purpose of timeout...

4. The other day I had a bad headache and just wasn't feeling well. I put on a movie for the kids to watch and I was resting on the couch and told Brielle that mommy wasn't feeling very well so to please keep it down and be good and watch the movie quietly with Braden. This was her response: "Mommy, you no feeling well, ok, you need a blanky mommy? here you go, here's a blanky for you mommy."
It was just such so sweet of her!

Pardon Brielle's nakedness in this video. The first thing she does when she comes home from being outside is take her clothes off!!! It drives me CRAZY!!!! But I think I've given in...I ask her to put a shirt on every 5 minutes...she's at this stage where she has an opinion about EVERYTHING!!! I don't exaggerate when I say EVERYTHING...This video that I took of her is right after we got home from the park...I guess some girl was climbing on of the toys, which was a train, and Brielle thought it was very wrong that she was doing that...she didn't say anything to the girl but she went on and on about it in the car and kept saying that the girl was naughty! I just get a kick out of it every time I watch it....

Since these two sure give me a run for my money, timeouts continue to be the LAW in the Jensen household! Sometimes, though I can't control the laughter because it is just funny that they don't move from the corner. They stay there as if there were a real fence there that won't allow them to move. Here is a picture of Braden on timeout.

This post is pretty long already but I have to share with you that Scott and I just got called to be ward missionaries and we had to give talks this last Sunday about missionary work. We are both so excited about this calling because we have so many opportunities to share the gospel here in this area! However, now we really don't have an excuse that all of our friends are LDS and we don't know any non-members...so the pressure is on! But we are glad! Scott had the opportunity to go out with the elders the other day to teach an investigator...hopefully I will get to go out with the sisters soon too. Another great thing that comes with the calling is that the sisters want to go to the temple once a month but they need a ride there and so I get to give them a ride and do a session with them once a month. I think the Lord is so mindful of our needs and I think going to the temple more often is something that I need in my life. (By the way, totally random, I finished painting the kids' room today so I will be posting pics soon!!!)