Scott helped Braden unwrap his presents...he didn't show much interest in doing it himself...he was definitely interested in playing with what he got though...
I think Brielle's favorite present was her Dora purse that Aunt Penny made for her and what came in it...a play phone and keys...it was fun to see how excited she got...I have to say that Christmas with children is a lot of fun. I think it will only get better and better as we are able to explain to Brielle and Braden what the meaning of Christmas is and the meaning of getting and giving presents!!!! 
She might follow in her daddy's footsteps...
Talking to my mom on Christmas day...
Aunt Penny and Braden
Scott and Grandma Jensen
Kara made this cute scarf for Brielle for Christmas. Brielle thought she was sooo cool wearing it!
Brielle LOVES talking on the phone, it's one of her favorite things to do. She calls everyone... hello Kem...hello grandma...hi Scott (she's been calling her daddy by his first name lately!!!!)...hi Nathanial...it's so funny to hear her!!!
On the 24th, we went sledding with the kids and some friends from our ward. I thought it would be fun for Brielle to play in the snow, since we've gotten plenty of it...
These are the before pictures of Scott and Brielle...
This is them coming down the hill...
This is them after...as you can see Brielle is NOT so happy about all the snow on her face, head and everywhere else...it didn't go as planned...after that Brielle was miserable!!! She was freezing...poor little girl...I had to go sit in the car with her...oh well...
Braden had it nice and warm in the car seat. 
We had such a great time with Justin, Stacey and Jack. Scott and I have been blessed with great friends. (Jack is missing in this picture! :( He was sleeping!)
Isn't he cute?
The boys! (Braden's face cracks me up!)
While Stacey was here she colored my hair all one color, no more highlights...at least for now...I went darker than usual...close to my natural color...I really like it!!!! Thanks Stace!!!!:) 
I hope Justin doesn't get mad at me for posting this picture! But I think it's HILARIOUS! This is how much fun we have with the Heaton's!
To start off, I have to say that every year I forget how bad Rexburg winters are! They are NOT fun!!! As a matter of fact they are awful! After almost 8 years here I just can't get used to the winters here. Too much snow, too cold, slick roads...the other morning I left at 7:30am to go to work as usual not realizing that it had snowed all night. I took our BMW with bald tires (not a good idea!!!! we were going to change them to our snow tires that very day), for those of you who have lived in Rexburg I was driving up the hill going up toward the temple. Anyway, I got to a point in the hill where the tires were just spinning...there was no moving up the hill! I stopped traffic!!! There was a super long line of cars behind me. The tires were just spinning...I left the car on the side of the road with the emergency lights on. This nice guy gave me a ride back to the apartment and Scott gave me a ride to work with our other car. My class was supposed to start at 7:45am....I got there at 8:05!!!!! My nice husband had to go back and bring the car home! (Thanks Ryan for helping him)
Brielle has a little boyfriend from our ward, his name is Hyrum and he's 3! They are always sooooo cute together and they get so happy when they see each other and they are always giving each other hugs!
Our good friends Justin and Stacey are in town for the holidays and this is their little boy Jack. Jack is 6 months and Braden is 10 months. Jack is as tall as Braden!!!!! Us Jensen's are short!!! There's no hope for us!!!! No hope at all! Jack is such a cute little boy and we wish they lived closer so that we can play with him!!!! I hope these two become as good of friends as their dads are!!!!:) We love the Heaton's!!!! and we miss them!!!!!
This is the treatment Braden gets from Brielle sometimes. She sits on him!!!! My poor little boy! But look at his face! He's smiling!!! It's so fun to see them interact! For the most part Braden takes "the abuse" with a smile but there are times when he defends himself by pulling Brielle's hair!!!!:)
Braden loves his carrots but lately he's been wiggling so much every time I feed him. So this is what happened...instead of having carrots in his mouth he ended up with carrots in the middle of his forehead!!!!
Brielle LOVES chocolate! One of her favorite things to say is "mommy chocolate". She says that almost 10 times a day. I usually don't give her any unless she's been really good, that day she had been such a good little girl and I gave in and gave her some chocolate frosting!
Our little nephew Nathanial (Scott's brother Ryan's son) turned 1 and they had a fun party at Leo's Place. These 3 get along so well and it's so fun to get together to watch them interact. We tried so hard to get a picture of the 3 of them looking at the camara...this is the best we could do!
