Party

Kreg and I are having Tessa's TX birthday party! We are having it on Dec 29 @ 5:00. Everyone is invited Please let me know if you can come so that I will know how many snacks to have.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Merry Christmas everyone! We had such a fun Christmas. Tessa came out this morning and did not dare open her presents (I have been telling her "NO" for a month every time she would try to open one) after a little bit she knew I was not going to get mad and she had fun opening all her gifts then playing with all her new toys. The night before we helped Tessa put out a plate of oreos for Santa. Tessa was so mad! she did not want to leave cookies for Santa Tessa wanted to eat all of the cookies! After a bit we had to just put them up high with her note to Santa so she couldn't get to them anymore. It was so much fun watching her with all her new toys and I cant wait tell next year when she will enjoy it even more.

NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS


LEAVING COOKIES FOR SANTA


EATING SANTA'S COOKIES


JUST ONE MORE


CHRISTMAS MORNING

Dinner at the Hatton's

Kreg and I have the best neighbors you could ever ask for! Carl and Connie Hatton are our new neighbors, they are so much fun and are so good with Tessa. We went over to the Hatton's for Christmas dinner with some others from our branch. It was so nice to share Christmas with others and to just be able to get out. Tessa loves all the attention from all the Grandmas and Grandpas! Tessa and I sat by Carl at dinner to day, (Carl is one of Tessa's favorite people!) all through dinner Tessa had her little feet on Carls lap, when she wanted his attention she would kick him, grab him with her hand or talk to him. As soon as he would look at her she would smile and start laughing as he would tickle her. We are so blessed to have all of them in our lives!

Tessa loves Sister Bailey


Sis Stone, Bro Bailey, and Carl in the red shirt

Our Tropical Branch!

This is for my family who have been asking me forever to put up some pictures of our cute little green Branch building. The building used to be a Tropical furniture store before it became a church, that is why it is green. when Kreg tried to show it to me for the first time I could not find it! I was looking and looking we even had to drive by a few times before I found it! but really who would ever think the little green building would be a church? I laughed so hard! Then I laughed even more on that first Sunday when I saw that the members parked on the lawn in the trees! I thought that this was a red neck branch if I had ever seen one! Maybe I thought this because of all the horror stories I had been told about small branches by other people. Stories about dogs in the nursery's, a convert letting out a hallelujah every now and then (nothing wrong with that! I would not mind that at all) and getting 4 different callings on your first day (nothing wrong with this just alittle much with all the other stories). But I am so happy to tell you that Our little branch has some of the best people I have ever met in my life! and are not red necks at all. I love our little branch with all my heart and am so blessed to be a part of it.

My Sick Baby

Last Thursday Kreg,Tessa,and I went out for breakfast. Tessa was having a great time! She was getting every ones attention as always and just loving being out. I did notice that she didn't eat as much as she usually does but other than that she was as happy and normal as could be. Kreg put her down for her nap at 2 thinking she would go right down because she looked SO tired and out of it. She slept some, but for about 30 Min's just laid there and made a little moaning sound so Kreg went in to check on her and came out to tell me that she was so hot so he took her pants off. I went in and felt that she was burning up so I hurried and took her temp, it was 103 so we rushed off to the doctor (This is the first time she has really had a temp or even been sick.) The doc gave her some more medicine on top of what I gave her then sent us to the ER for some tests. Poor baby had to get a catheter so they could get a clean sample and then she had some blood drawn, they had a hard time finding a vain it was so hard to watch! poor Tessa was just sobbing I felt so helpless! Well hours later they tell us that they think it is a virus but they are not sure so they gave us some meds for her and told us that if her temp went up again to bring her back (they got it down to 101). We Finally got her home and in bed at 9:00 she was so tired. The next few days her temp stayed at 101 so we kept her on her meds and waited to hear about her tests, during that time we learned Tessa LOVES medicine! she begs for it when she sees it, she caries it around,and is in a very good mood when it is in her system lol! she is fun to watch. Well we have now taken her off the meds because she has the croup so I just give her Tylenol. I hope she is better for Christmas! She does not have a temp anymore so she is doing a Little better each day.


EATING BREAKFAST

AT THE ER

TESSA ON HER MEDS! SHOULD I BE WORRIED? LOL!

Happy Holidays

I just got Tessa's Christmas pictures back! She is so cute I love how it turned out! Here is our Christmas card for this year, I am SO bad at mailing them out so I am just going to put it on the blog for everyone. So hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love the Jessens.

KISSES

I just went into our family room to check on Tessa, She was sitting by the couch watching Baby Einstein, I thought that it would be fun to just watch her for a while (she didn't know I was watching her) the little animals would do something silly and Tessa would smile even give a little giggle every now and then, Then the animals started to blow kisses facing the TV so it looked like they were blowing them to the one that was watching. well I taught Tessa how to blow kisses last week so she knew what they were doing right away! so she started blowing kisses back to them! It was the cutest thing ever! Oh then she clapped for herself because that is what we do when she blows kisses to someone. I am so happy that she is in my life! she makes me so happy.