What a week!

I did take at least one picture everyday, but sitting down and blogging about it just didn't happen.

So here is how the week went.

Sunday, Julie, and 6 of her 7 kids arrived.  

Monday

Dean knows I love salted nut rolls, and things had been out of control here, so he was sweet and got me one.  Dex found it, and knew the only place he would have peace and quiet, (and not have to share the candy bar) was in the pool.  This is how I found him, all by himself, the candy bar was so soggy, the wrapper was filled with pool water, and he was loving it!

He is willing to share Grandma Ej...but not a candy bar!

Cristian had been set apart as a missionary before he came up, so he had to follow mission rules, which meant he was always in a white shirt and tie.....looks awesome on him!

Tuesday

Mike and Dean working on the fence again.  It looks awesome!  Mike will be glad when this is done so he doesn't have to wake up each morning to Dean tapping his foot, wanting to work on the fence!

While they were working, we noticed this big smoke cloud.  This is the beginning of the Alpine fire.  It was an awesome fire.  For several nights afterward, we watched it from our house climb up the mountains.  The glow at night was amazing!

Wednesday

Wednesday was the 4th of July, and I already posted pictures of that on a previous post, so I'll spare you having to see those again.

FYI, Savanah got to dance at the Stadium of Fire on the 4th.  We are too poor to buy tickets to that, but I heard it was awesome!

Thursday

Cristian is to report to the MTC today!

Jeff and Brandon showed up from a trip to Phoenix just before it was time for them to take Cristian to the MTC.

We got our Jenson family together for a breakfast so and everyone got to say their "good-byes".

It's been in the mid 90's everyday, so we got the yard ready for the big get-together, and of course, this is the only day for a month we get rain!  I'm sure the firefighters appreciated the rain....but I didn't!  Would have been nice if would have waited for a couple of hours to rain.

We got to have Cristian put his pin in our missionary map.

Of course, he had to sign our missionary book.

We had all my brothers and sisters here.

It was great having all this family together!

 Ok, is it just me, or in this picture does Hanna looked scared to death of this big family?!  

Hanna, you think there are a lot of Jensons.....just wait till you meet the Ellis side of the family!

 Last picture of all the "Jeff and Juiles" for a while.  Cristian will be gone for 2 years, and before he gets home Brandon will have left for his mission, and before Brandon gets home, Derek will have left for his mission.

Friday, the Jensons all wrote to Cristian and send him a care package.

Friday
Happy Birthday Grandpa Ellis!

Friday evening, we got to meet Joan, Hanna's mom.  She and Hanna came over and had a BBQ with us.  

We only got this one picture from that evening, and that was of Joan putting her pin in our map, she served her mission in Australia!

Saturday 

Saturday started at 3:45 am!  Yep, another race day.  We ran "the Hobbler Half Marathon".

Here we are at the finish line.

Julie, Ej, Deaner, Braden, and Kass.  

This was Kassidy's first half marathon, and she did awesome!

Julie finished 3rd in her age group, Dean was 4th in his, Kass was 8th in hers, Ej was 10th, and Braden was 11th. We were all happy with how this race went.....but it was a little too warm! 

Brandon and Derek were volunteers for the race. Here is Julie showing off her bling!

And of course, the photo of the race shirts and medals.  (kind of ugly shirts this time!)

We ran out of time yesterday so we didn't get to visit Grandpa Ellis, so after the race, and a shower, we ran up to visit Grandpa for his birthday.

That evening, we had the Jenson's over again, this time for dinner and a report from Chenelle on her amazing trip to India.  Krista and Chandler made Chicken and dumplings for all of us.  Chenelle gave a great slideshow presentation on her trip.  Hearing about all the service and the leprosy colonies and living conditions was so interesting. 

Sunday

Kass and Drew spoke in our church.

  

Julie and 4 of the kids left right after church.

Hanna and Braden stuck around long enough to eat hambergers with us, then they took off for Phoenix.

So sad to see them go, it was so fun spending time with them!

I think they may be back up in September!

Monday

Jeff and the rest of the Jensons left to go home.

Time for my nap!