JESSEN FAMILY

I love my sister

2011-11-19T19:41:00.000-08:00

I love to watch my girls together! You can see how much they love eachother. Tessa is such a good big sister! she takes such good care of Kailey. I am so blessed and love them both so much.

Halloween

2011-11-11T14:58:00.000-08:00

As you can see I am trying to catch up! So... I'm so sorry for the blog overload.
This Halloween was so much fun! Tessa was a cowgirl and Kailey was a ladybug but I call her my love bug so that's what she was. We went to the corn maze with both grandma Jessen and Grandma Stansfield,and got our pumpkins at the patch Tessa LOVED IT! On Halloween night we went to our ward Halloween fair then trick or treating, Tessa thought it was the best thing ever!

Family Pics

2011-11-11T09:33:00.000-08:00

So many BLESSINGS!!!

2011-11-09T19:45:00.000-08:00

It has been so long! The last 9 months have been the fastest months of my life! In the last 9 or more months our little family has been blessed more then I deserve. I will try to catch up the best that I can.
In March Kreg got the best call! He was given a Helicopter job with Classic Lifeguard working out of VERNAL UT! I didn't think that we would ever be back in UT let alone be able to move back to our home town where we both grew up and both have our family's. We were so happy and excited! but.... they needed him to be there within days and I was almost full term with baby number two, so we had to leave in two days after finding out. I was so happy to be moving back around our family's but... It was so hard to have to say good bye to our little branch (TX family) and to one of the best friends I have ever had.
On May 4 we had our beautiful baby girl Kailey Dawn Jessen. (I got in trouble for not telling this story so here it is and sorry it took so long) Tessa and I went to Vernal (which is a hour away from home) to have lunch with Kreg but he got a call so he had to leave. Tessa and I stayed the rest of the day shopping and waiting to see if he would get back. It was getting late and he didn't show up and I was filling really tiered and sore so we went home. I was sitting on the floor getting Tessa ready for her bath and talking to Kregs mom (she let us live with her for a while) when I got up I felt like I wet myself just alittle! lol I was embarrassed but kept walking but more kept coming so I asked Kregs mom what she thought and It was soon very obvious that my water broke!! I am the type that likes to stay home as LONG as I can so we gave Tessa her bath and I packed my bags and called Kreg to tell him he needed to come home. I got him on the phone and found out that he was flying and that the helicopter broke down in SLC and that is why he never came back! (So we were very blessed that they got it fixed because he wouldn't have made it) I told him to just stay in vernal and I would call him when I started for the hospital. My mom came over and started timing my contractions and was begging me to let her take me to the hospital. but I thought I still had hours to go ( with Tessa it took me 8 hours). I was SO wrong within a half hour after my water broke I was having hard contractions! when it got to the point where I couldn't walk any more I let them take me in. My poor mom and Kregs mom didn't think that I would make it to the hospital so they put towels on the seats of the car lol! I got to the hospital and kreg was there waiting. I don't get epidurals so I got on the birthing ball and waited it out. Then everything seemed to stop so I had Kreg help me to the bathroom ( you think that I would know that when that happens its time to have the baby but I was in total denial that it was happening so fast) In the bathroom it was like deja vu i sit to go to the bathroom and then I start pushing and I cant stop!! But with Tessa I just walked to the bed and sat down and had her. This time I couldn't even stand because Kailey was coming fast! my mom went and got the nurse and then she and Kreg had to carry me to the bed because Kailey's little head was poking out! (The nurse laughed and told me that she had lots of dark hair!) Two pushes and I was holding my big but very beautiful baby girl! ( Next baby I will try really hard to not almost have in the bathroom). From start to Finnish It took me four hours. I made it to the hospital with only a little under a hour to go.
In June we bought our first and I hope our last house! It is a five bed and three bath with 4 acres of land. I love it and fill so blessed to have it! It is within five Min's of both my parents and Kregs moms house. Our closest neighbor is a half mile away! it is perfect for us.
I am so thankful for all the blessing that we have received and pray that I can do my best to be worthy of them.
(Pictures are not in order)

The Big 30

2011-02-19T07:28:00.000-08:00

Kreg turned 30 on Feb 10. Tessa and I made him a bouquet of 30 chocolate covered strawberries and took it to him at work. The strawberries were SO good! Happy Birthday Day Gov! Your girls love you and appreciate all that you do!

The other side looked better but... the guys started eating that side before i could get a pic. lol

For all who keep asking!

2011-02-15T08:53:00.000-08:00

I am always asked why I don't put pics up of my cute little baby bump. Well I don't because I dont have a cute little baby bump I am MASSIVE!! lol! BUT... I am getting sick of people asking to see it so this is for all of you.
We went out to dinner with some friends the other night, It was so much fun and as you can see they are prego as well(Just WAY smaller then me). On the left is Cammie she is a month behind me, then there is Heather and she just makes me sick! lol she is 2 weeks ahead of me! lets just say I make them both look good! Don't get me wrong I love my belly and am happy that little Kailey has lots of room to move around in. (I just wish she would realize that and get out of my ribs)!

2011-02-01T04:42:00.000-08:00

My little girl is 2! It is so crazy how fast the time goes by. This year we had a Tinkerbell party. Tessa LOVES "Tink" she even named her kitty tink. Tessa loved all the attention she got and had so much fun making wands and playing pin the wand on tink.

None of the kids could come, but those who could come were such good sports.

I did have her hair done but... Tessa thought it needed to be fixed.

Showing off her wand.

She LOVED all eyes on her.

She took all there wands from them. She thought she was really funny!

Our Branch President

Tessa had SO much fun with this game.

Sis Wood

Daddy had the hardest time! LOL he thought I moved the paper.

So excited!

BLOW!

LOL! I think she likes it!

Her car.

SO behind!!

2011-01-21T16:07:00.000-08:00

CHRISTMAS!
First and most inportant... (We are having another baby GIRL!) YAY! I am so excited! Tessa is going to love having a baby sister.
We had a great Christmas! Tessa got WAY to much but thats ok it was fun watching her play. After opening gifts we went to the Hattons for dinner again, it was alot of fun! we played the white elephant gift game, Tessa had lots of fun with that.

White elephant gift.
Dinner at the Hattons

Playing with the chickens

Kreg got his trail cam.

Cute girl

Jumping in her cute tutu! Thanks Tasha and family

She just had to have me in there with her.

Cute girl!

Thanks for the tent Emma

Pushing her baby

Thanks for the "BUGGY" Grandma Jessen

Thanks for the dirt devil Grandma and Grandpa Stansfield!

"KITTY"

Putting her baby in her new bed!

Feeding her baby in her highchair

Making sugar cookies for Santa
This girl will not eat food but.... she will eat handfulls of flour? I just dont understand.
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Silly girl

Cutting out the cookies with daddy.

Sand men!

2010-12-30T06:40:00.000-08:00

On Christmas Eve it was such a warm day we went to the beach! Tessa loves the beach! She took no time at all to run in the water and start digging in the sand. We were getting sad seeing all the snow UT was getting so we decided it would be fun to make some sand men.
Later that night we made a gingerbread house! I put the frosting on, Kreg put the Candie on and Tessa took the Candie off and ate it! it didn't last long but it was fun to make. After the gingerbread house we put out the cookies for Santa and just like last year Tessa kept eating them.

She had to carry all her beach toys!

Tessa helped make the sand men!

I think they turned out cute! People would come by and take pics of them! it was funny.

Cute lil family

She makes so many silly faces!

We just love this girl!

He would never really do it! But he had fun making her scream!

The tide came up and they started to fall apart. :(

Gingerbread House

Daddy hard at work

YAY! Its done

2 min later......

Cookies for Santa or Tessa?

She thought she was really funny!

She tried to hide!

Looking back

2010-12-08T06:09:00.000-08:00

A few days before Thanksgiving we went to the beach just to go for a walk, but if you know us you know we had to go in the water. It was so much fun! It was so fun to watch Tessa go out as far as she could and wait for the waves to come then run away from them screaming!

Snacks, movie, and Daddy.
Time to get out of the house!
16 weeks!
She did not want to go out in the water at first! but then we couldnt keep her out!
It was such a nice day for a walk
The cutest lil feet I have ever seen!
Daddy made her a hole to play in
Its coming RUN!!

It got her! I laughed so hard!
Leave it to Tessa to cover herself in mud!

Christmas at the beach

2010-12-07T07:03:00.000-08:00

I am so excited for Christmas this year! Tessa is at such a fun age. We went to see Santa at the beach again this year. She wanted nothing to do with him at first so I told him to give her a candy cane, as soon as he gave her the candy she had no problem sitting on his lap. She did get mad at him because he wouldn't open her candy for her! After seeing Santa we went down on the beach and watch the hula dancers dance, listened to Christmas music and watched all the decorated boats getting in line for the boat parade. Later we went and met some of our friends to watch the Light Christmas parade. (we really wanted to watch the boat parade but we knew Tessa would like the light parade better).

Cute lil family

Watching the hula dancers with daddy

17 weeks! The baby is SO far out and SO far up! It is in my ribs all the time. I wish someone would tell the baby it is way to soon to be that far up.

Cute lil friends
waiting for the light Christmas parade.

"See Mommy"

"Dirty see"

Playing in the dirt!

That's our girl! she cant stay clean for anything.

The later it got and the longer we had to wait the more silly she got!

Here comes Santa!

She loved all the lights and music!

Getting the candy!

2010-11-08T14:28:00.000-08:00

Little Jessen # 2 14 WEEKS

Tessa and I went to the doc today to see the baby! I am so happy that I got to take Tessa, She didn't know what was going on really but it was still fun to listen to what she had to say. "GWOSSS" (when they put the gel on my belly) "WOW SEE, SEE" (baby on the tv) "I help" (she wanted to help move the camera thing on my belly). She is so cute and funny! I cant wait for her to be a big sister.
The baby was all over the place! It was kicking, rolling and even put its little hand up the the camera it was so cute! I love this little pic. I love the babies little nose and how you can see the cute lips and chunky checks.

Time with our Stansfield Family!!

2010-11-02T09:08:00.000-07:00

I am so far behind!! These are pics from our trip to UT in Sept. We had so much fun spending time with our family's! I will post pics of our time with both family's but I have SO many pics so I have to do it one family at a time.
We had so much fun with my family! we got to go camping, hiking, and to the parade with them.

2010-11-01T07:41:00.000-07:00

Halloween 2010!!

2010-11-01T06:03:00.000-07:00

Carving pumpkins this year was so much fun! Tessa thought it was "EEWWWWWEE GWOSS" but other than that she loved the end result. She LOVED her "MIMMY". Daddy did great at her pumpkin! My pumpkin had vines growing inside it! I have never seen that before it was crazy! I wonder if it would have grown another pumpkin inside it?

The cutest lil Bumble bee EVER! Tessa loved her costume, she had so much fun dancing around in it. We were going to be pirates as a family this year but Kreg had to work so Tessa went as a bee with her friend Kinsley. They were so cute together.
We went to the Halloween fair again this year they have food, games, horse rides, train ride, clowns, and even face painting. We had such a great time!

Another Fun Day!

2010-08-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

The first trip we went on didn't work so well... so we went again and this time it was a lot better. The dolphins were all over and would even come within inches of our fingers. One of the dolphins touched my finger with its nose and opened its mouth to imitate me smiling.
After the dolphins we went to the airport and Kreg took us on a helicopter ride. Kreg is so cute! he landed on a small island in the middle of the gulf just to give me a kiss.

Helicopter Ride

San Antonio

2010-08-14T08:26:00.000-07:00

We spent the night at the New Braunsfels resort while in San Antonio. We had so much fun with our moms and Tessa in the pool. Tessa learned how to kick her feet to swim forward, she looked like a frog! it was way cute! We went to the River Walk It was SO HOT!! but we had a good time looking at all the shops and getting a ride on the tour boat. Later that evening we stoped by the Temple. We had fun walking around and letting Tessa smell the flowers and put her little fingers in the water.

The River Walk

San Antonio Temple

Long, Fun Day!

2010-08-12T15:18:00.000-07:00

Monday started out in Aransas Pass and ended in San Antonio. First we toured the Lexington. The Lexington was used to film "Pearl Harbor" when the planes fly off of the ship to attack Japan. We saw the living quarters of the past sailors. Their bunks were very small and stacked three deep. They have an operating room, dental office, barber shop, butcher shop, post office room, library etc. Tessa enjoyed sitting on the torpedos and climbing the steep stairs. It was very hot on the ship and very confining. We also walked the plank, but luckily no one pushed us off!

Then we traveled to San Antonio and toured the Alamo. We saw Davy Crockett's knife, gun, hair brush, and a lock of his hair. They have a museum displaying items left behind in the Alamo such as clothes, jewelry, money, knives, guns, amunition, swords, etc.

We got to stay at a resort and went swimming. Tessa jumped right in and learned how to kick her legs to move forward. She looked like a frog! It was a fun day in spite of the heat and humidity. The resort was awesome. Tessa enjoyed climbing up and down the stairs and looking down at us through the rails. There was three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The resorts always have nice kitchens and dining rooms.

Walking the plank!

Torpedo and bomb assembly table

"Get off the nuclear war head!"

X-Ray Room

Operating Room

Chapel

ALAMO

Hospital Room in the Alamo

Davy Crockett's knives and gun

Davy Crockett's tin box, brush and lock of hair in the locket

Letter from William Barret Travis Lt. Col. C.OMDT. (double click on picture to enlarge)

One long day! :)

Turtles

2010-08-11T08:28:00.000-07:00

On Sunday afternoon we went to the park to feed the turtles. We had fun! it was hot and humid but I think we all had a good time.

DAY 2

2010-08-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

On Sat we went and had a BBQ at the beach, it was so much fun! Tessa had a great time throwing food to the seagulls then chasing them. After eating we talked our moms into going in the water... we had to watch out for jelly fish but other then that it was great!

EEEWWWWW SALT!!

Fun with Grandmas

2010-08-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

DAY 1

We are so excited to have both my mom and Kreg's mom here in TX!! We have been having all sorts of fun and Tessa is loving all the attention and spoiling! On Fri we went on a boat to go see dolphins. It was such a nice day! and the ride on the boat was so fun. We didn't see many dolphins so we didn't have to pay.... we are going to go again lets just hope we see more dolphins on that trip.

Helping Grandma S get ready for the day!

This is how you do it Grandma!

Look at that concentration

On the boat

Fearless!!!!

More Pictures

2010-07-27T08:28:00.000-07:00

I got bored on Sunday so Tessa and I went to our neighbors house to take some pictures. Poor Tessa gets so sick of me taking pictures of her! but she is such a good sport about it most of the time.

2010-07-11T14:34:00.000-07:00

Gymnastics!!

2010-07-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

For the last month Tessa has been in a mommy tot gymnastics class. Tessa LOVES it! she loves the kids she loves all the rolling, jumping, climbing, and most of all she loves to jump into the foam pit. It has been so good for her. not only is she finally getting some interaction with other kids her age but she is also learning how to balance on things.(She can walk across the whole balance beam). She is getting better at sharing and she is having the time of her life.

I am not sure what this is called but it helps them learn how to balance.

Here I come!!

Hi mommy!

She loves to hang on the bar!

Coach Julie helping Tessa do a front roll!

She has SO much fun stacking the blocks!

Its a long ways down!

Jumping on the tramp

Stuck in the foam blocks

Swimming With Floaties

2010-06-18T06:59:00.000-07:00

Big Girl

2010-06-18T05:47:00.000-07:00

Fun Slide

2010-06-17T06:14:00.000-07:00

We took Tessa to the Aransas Pass pool. I had no idea that such a fun place existed in Aransas. Tessa had so much fun! I got her some little arm floaties so she could swim on her own. She did really good with them but she likes to be in my arms so she would kick and kick until she got to me. There are so many fun slides to go down! in the kids section Tessa would climb the stairs all by herself and go down on her own! she is getting so big and independent.

Tessa turned the laundry basket into her new chair She climbed up and went down all by herself! Here I come! LOL! SHE SO CUTE! INTO DADDY'S ARMS First time swimming with her arm floaties. Sleepy baby

BIG TREE

2010-06-15T06:23:00.000-07:00

We went to Goose Island to see the BIG TREE. This tree is the biggest in TX I think (I don't remember all the details). It has been in and lived through many hurricanes and is way cool.

Pool PaRtY!!

2010-05-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

For our last day of Seminary we had a pizza, pool party! It was a lot of fun.

The two girls on the bottom left are mary and makayla then the two older boys in the back are Danial, and Guillermo. They are my seminary students.

Guillermo is SO SO funny! a great kid!!

Keep away!

Left to right, Josefina, pat, Kelly, Bro Campbell, and Lori.

Keeping the ball away from her new friend Lexi. (we are working on sharing)

They cant take my ball!!!

Tessa and Mary

Port Arthur Beach

2010-05-27T08:03:00.000-07:00

Tessa and I went to visit Kreg this week at Port Arthur where he works. While there Kreg was able to spend a day with us at the beach it was so much fun. Tessa loves the beach! she likes to run in the water then run away from the waves screaming, I did the same but I wasn't running from the waves! I was running and jumping over all the crabs that got washed up by the waves they were EVERYWHERE! Kreg even gave a little yell when he stepped on a fish. We made Tessa and Kregs first sand castle, (It is crazy that it is Kregs first). Tessa had so much fun playing in the sand and getting dirty. It was nice to see Kreg and cant wait until he comes home.

Feeding the Turtles

2010-05-19T07:14:00.000-07:00

We like to go to the Rock Port Park to feed the turtles and go for walks. The last time we went Kreg caught a baby turtle for us, I was excited but when he pulled it out of the water it went CRAZY! he put it down and it started running all over, I was sure it was going to bite off one of our toes. After that they didn't want anything to do with us so we went for a walk. It is so fun to have Kreg home and to do things with all three of us.

Tessa LOVES to feed the Turtles.

Looking at all the Turtles

So sleepy

USS LEXINGTON

2010-05-16T13:05:00.000-07:00

We went to the the USS Lexington the last time Kreg was home. We spent hours in it and only made it half way through it! It is so big it takes more then one day to see all of it. A few days before we went I was watching ghost hunters or something like that, They went to the Lexington and recorded voices and saw things move around. I don't ever watch that kind of stuff or even believe it but I had to watch it because of what it was on. It made me look over my shoulder more than once and I about died when we went in a dark room then out of no where a light turns on and there is a man who yells HEY! at you. LOL he said more then just hey but I didn't listen to the rest of it. I cant wait to take my dad there someday and see how he reacts to that guy. It was a fun day and I cant wait to go back to see the rest of it.

Precious Moments

2010-05-15T14:29:00.000-07:00

Tessa and I get sad when daddy leaves for work. Tessa says her goodbyes at the gate, it is so cute! She loves to give him kisses through the bars.

Little Fish

2010-05-14T13:14:00.000-07:00

It has been SO HOT! it has been between 88-90 for a while now. The only way to enjoy that kind of heat is at the pool! Tessa has been going swimming with her friend Bri the last couple of days and it has been great! We really miss going swimming every day. Tessa is such a little fish! she loves the water and is not scared of anything.

Rolling Eggs @ Beach

2010-04-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

EASTER

2010-04-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

Easter this year was SO much fun! We had Easter late so Kreg could be here. On Easter day Tessa and I went to the park with our friends Brock, Chan, and Bri to blow bubbles and play. When Kreg got home we colored the eggs and then that night Tessa had fun putting them in her Easter basket, The next morning she had so much fun running around the house to find all her eggs that the Easter bunny hid for her, then she went to one of her favorite places to play (under the computer desk where we tell her not to go.) and found her Easter basket. We then went to the beach and let her roll her eggs and fly her kite. Tessa had SO much fun! She is so fun to watch, she is at such a fun age.

Ready to get the bubbles!

High Five! Bubbles Rock!

Tessa and her friend Bri

CHEESE!!

Tessa LOVES to gather eggs and put them in the basket!

Coloring her first egg.

Best Daddy EVER! Real men color eggs

Getting her basket ready for the Easter Bunny

EASTER MORNING!!

So sleepy!

Pro egg roller!

FUN AT THE BEACH!

2010-04-23T19:22:00.000-07:00

Summer is officially here! We try to go to the beach as much as we can. The weather here is so nice right now, it is not to hot yet so we are trying get out as much as we can before it gets in the 85, 90's. If this makes anyone jealous you can come see us and we would love to take you to the beach!

Cheerleader

2010-03-17T07:51:00.000-07:00

We took Tessa to State Wrestling. Our nephew Zack took State! It was so much fun, I think Tessa liked it. She looked so cute in her little shirt! she would clap when everyone else did it was great she is silly. Congrats Zack! He has taken state every year and we are hoping he will take it again next year.

Dancing with Elmo!

2010-03-16T15:26:00.000-07:00

Tanner and Jackson have a dance with me Elmo. Tessa LOVES that Elmo she will dance with it and then along with Jack push it over making Tan mad. Tessa had her hair all done up for church that day, when we took it out for her bath it looked so funny so we went out to show the others. The kids had Elmo out so Tessa started to dance, she is always so cute when she dances but when she has her hair all crazy and her pink tights on it is so funny! (Kreg makes fun of my voice on here so PLEASE dont listen to it. That is what I have to do to keep her dancing.)

Fun with Cousins!!

2010-03-08T06:32:00.000-08:00

Tessa got to play with her cousins when we were in UT. She had SO much fun with all of them, sure they would fight every now and then but that is just how it goes. I think she misses all the good times I hope that someday we will live close so she can get to know them better and so they can be good friends as they get older.

They are all SO cute! we had a sleep over it was great.

Having way to much fun! They did this every day for a week.

Give me FIVE! YA!

Tessa and Carley

Say "CHEESE" They are so silly!

Watching a movie with uncle Kenny. (He is not always this grumpy looking)LOL

Going for a ride!

Just chillin!

They thought that my bed would work better as a slide then a bed. They had SO much fun!

Taking a ride on the panda.

Little Dare Devil

2010-02-17T07:58:00.000-08:00

Fun in the Snow!

2010-02-16T21:06:00.000-08:00

We have been in Utah for the last month visiting our familys. We have had SO much fun playing in the snow! Tessa whats to go outside all the time. We pull her around on a little sled. We have been taking her down little hills and even small jumps and she just loves it! Kreg took me snowmobiling and I dont think he wants to take me ever again! LOL! It was a long day I am so out of shape and my mask kept fogging up so I would just leave it up so I could see but then the snow would fly in my face. So I went around a corner to fast not being able to see and went off the road it took us two hours to get me back on the trail! I did have fun but poor Kreg had his work cut out for him.

2010-01-29T15:27:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun getting our family pics in the snow! We had them taken by my sister inlaws friend Ragan she did so good I am so happy with them. Tessa did so good and had so much fun in the snow.

2010-01-18T11:31:00.001-08:00

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My Baby Girl Is One!

2010-01-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

The year has gone so fast and My little baby girl that use to be so small is now running around like a little tornado tearing everything apart.

One year ago and Now.

Her birthday was on the 31st, its amazing watching these little ones grow and learn. When they have something intriguing in there hands trying to figure it out you can watch them and just see the gears turning in that little head of theirs. They are so precious, they are what makes life fun. Nothing else matters.

Pictures at the Beach

2009-12-29T21:03:00.000-08:00

Our Neighbor Took these Pictures for us. She did a great job! Thank you so much it was fun. It was a really bright windy day so we had a hard time keeping our eyes open.

Tessa's first B-day Party!!

2009-12-29T20:09:00.000-08:00

Tessa had here first Birthday party today! at first Tessa was not sure what to think of all the people in her house but after a while she started to have fun and stop being shy. we played a few guessing games then went right to the good part GIFTS! Tessa is so spoiled! it was Christmas morning all over again. (this time she didn't hesitate! she knew what to do and did not waist any time!) She wanted to get all the toys out of the box's right away! she couldn't wait for one toy to come out of its box so she tried to get in with it. Tessa was putting on a show! she would climb on top of the box then bend over with her little bum in the air and look at everyone through her legs! it was so funny. When we finally got her away from her toys she got her own big cupcake cake! (I thought that she would go crazy on that cake and eat tell she got sick!) Tessa would not even try it! at first she just wanted to go play! after awhile she gave it a try but that was it. She smashed some in her face then started to toss the rest around. It was a fun party and I think that Tessa had a good time. Thank you to all of you that came and thank you so much for her gifts.

Party

2009-12-27T13:10:00.000-08:00

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!!

2009-12-25T20:02:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-25T19:27:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-12-23T22:04:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-23T10:14:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-20T11:14:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-16T14:51:00.000-08:00

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.

It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas!

2009-12-12T11:26:00.000-08:00

Well Tessa and I finally got our Christmas tree up! Tessa had so much fun! I would put the deco up and she would take it down. Tessa thinks that it is time to open all the presents. she tries to get to them all day. She is going to go crazy on Christmas morning I can't wait. The next day we went to our branch party, we had a little fun. Tessa had a hard time because it was late for her but other than that we had a good time. Dad you would have loved it! we had the best fish I have ever had (I am not a fish person) the men from the branch worked hard all week out on the ocean catching them for the party. Then at the end when we were leaving Tessa got a present and even showed off some. She said "HI" to my visiting teacher and was blowing kisses to everyone around her it was so cute.
Tell me what you think. Yesterday I was asked by too people if Tessa was two years old! I think that is crazy! She is small. she is in the 25% in height and weight. I don't think she looks that old but tell me what you think.

Santa came to Texas!!

2009-12-06T20:05:00.000-08:00

I took Tessa to see Santa yesterday at the beach. He was in his shorts and flip flops! it was the funniest thing. Well as soon as Tessa saw him she didn't think he looked to funny! she held on to me as tight as she could! I had to really pull to get her off my neck! poor baby was scared to death but I had to get a pic of her first time with Santa (not like she cares to remember). So I went and sat by Santa so we could get a happier picture.
Tessa did not like Santa at all but she had fun looking and the train and playing with the deco on the tree. After we were done with Santa we took a walk on the beach. Tessa wanted to get in the water SO bad! I had to chase her down a few times to stop her from diving in. We had fun, I hope that she will like Santa better next year.

The Big ONE!

2009-12-06T19:04:00.000-08:00

My baby is going to turn one on Dec 31! It is SO crazy how fast time goes by. I went and got Tessa's year old pictures early so I could have them before her birthday. I should wait until her birthday to show the picture but I cant help it she is just to cute.

2009-11-04T09:24:00.000-08:00

Kreg decided that we all needed to get away, so we went to New Braunfels for a week. It was a much needed trip! we had so much fun! We went to the Alamo, The Caves with No Name, and the San Antonio Zoo, and also had dinner with some good friends. We stayed at one of our resorts it was really nice. It had a upstairs with a railing at the top that you could look down and see the kitchen and the front room. Tessa loved to climb the stairs to the top then look down at me in the kitchen.

The Alamo

Steven and Carlyn's Wedding

2009-11-03T18:05:00.000-08:00

I finally got Steven and Carlyn's wedding pictures so I am jumping back alittle but that is ok. for you who do not know, Steven is my big brother.

Carlyn welcome to the family and I am way excited to get to know you better.

The Flinstones

2009-11-01T18:03:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun dressing up as the Flinstones! The community had a Halloween fair that we went to with our friends Brock, Chantell and their baby girl Brightyn. They had food, games, and a small train for the little kids to ride it was a lot of fun and a good place to be for Tessa's first Halloween.
We were eating and little girl came up to kreg and told him that he was in her cartoons! it was so cute.

We tried to get a butterfly painted on Tessa but she wanted nothing to do with it! she ended up with a big purple blob.

Tessa and her cute friend Brightyn

Tessa loves puppies! so we got her a pink puppy and she loves it!

Tessa on the train

My BIG girl

2009-11-01T17:07:00.000-08:00

Tessa walked today! she is 10 months we all thought she would walk alittle Early. It is so crazy how fast she is growing up.

Daddy's Trick Kisses

2009-10-24T19:55:00.000-07:00

Tessa loves kissing Mommy but I had to get creative and trick her into kissing me. She knows that if she wants that cheerio then she has to get it with her mouth. Sometimes she'll try and take part of my lip along with it.

Thanks to Grandma, Tessa gets to enjoy some of her Halloween goodies early. She couldn't decide between the cinnamon rolls and the new books. We love you grandma!! In everything your going through you can't stop thinking of others. Thanks for all you do.

I decided to put this sticker on the back window of my truck to remind myself of my awesome Dad. He loved riding in the mountains, and I'm always going to miss him.

Random

2009-10-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

So I took this picture a month ago. Tessa will give me this face all the time but no one else and I cant explain it so I finally got it on camera. I completely forgot about it so I ran into it today. Tessa was sitting on my lap when I saw it. When I saw it I started laughing so hard so I showed it to Tessa and told her that she looked so silly. well I am not sure if I scared her or if I hurt her little fillings but she started sobbing! I felt so bad!
She also gives me some really cute faces. Oh I love her! She makes me laugh all the time.

First Balloon

2009-10-05T11:42:00.000-07:00

Before Kreg left to go back to work we went shopping. Tessa loves to get out of the house. she likes to see and wave to all the people around her. She was smiling and having fun with the lady who was checking us out, the lady thought that Tessa was so cute (of course) so she gave her a HEB balloon. Tessa didn't know what to think of it at first but by the time we got out to the truck she loved it and would get so mad if I took it away. It is now four days latter and I still have that balloon in my house It does not float anymore and it is really small but she still plays with it every day.

What a fun day for Tessa.

2009-10-04T18:14:00.000-07:00

When we were home for my brothers wedding (I will blog about the wedding in a few weeks kreg took those pics) we went on a picnic in the mountains with my family. We had so much fun! It was so nice and Tessa loved every sec of it she crawled all over. It is always nice to go home and visit but the cool mountain air makes it even better.

Tessa and Grandpa great. Tessa loves to sit on his lap he gives her all kinds of food that mom wont let her have yet. LOL we love grandpa

Cute Girls!

Crawling all over her daddy

And on Grandpa Stansfield. If she could get to you she was on you!

Grandpa is so funny!

Thank you mom and dad for setting up the picnic it was way fun! It is so hard to not be there anymore. We really miss our family's and being able to go to the mountains and on family outings. I hope that we will be able to move back some day.

2009-08-18T08:59:00.000-07:00

I don't have it on video yet but tessa started crawling yesterday. This video is right before kreg left so he has not seen her crawl yet but he did get to see her do this.
The last 2 months Tessa and I have been in Utah visiting Kregs and my family so I am so far behind on my blog. I can't get everything in but I will try to catch up alittle. We had fun camping trips, Family pictures, picnics, and we went to Altamont Days where I put Tessa in the baby show. Tessa got to go on her first air plain ride. She did so good! and loved all the attention she got from all the people. She turned five months while we were there so she got to try cereal and she loves it. I left tessa with grandma stansfield for one min when I came back I could here my mom laughing and this is what I found. Tessa got to try a Popsicle of course she loved it. She had a lot of fun with her grandpa Jessen. This was Tessa's first camping trip. We went with Kregs family it was so much fun and tessa did so good. she slept better camping then she did at home she is such a outdoors girl. I hope she will keep that up. It was fun being with his family and all the kids.

This is just some of the other things that we did.

This is Altamont Days and Tessa winning the Baby Show.

2009-08-16T18:26:00.000-07:00

Tessa has her own form of crawling

Tessa is growing so fast! It is good and really fun to see what she will do next. but at the same time I cant help being alittle sad. My baby is almost 8 months old.

2009-08-01T19:17:00.000-07:00

Bill Jessen is a wonderful husband, father, fatherinlaw,and grandpa. On Dec 27 doctors discovered that bill had cancer. After fighting the cancer for six months Bill was called home to our father in heaven.
Bill was a giant of men. he was kind and loved by all. Bill loved doing many things. he loved riding his horses, going to the mountains, camping with his family, snowmobiling, and playing with his grandkids.
We all love and miss him. I am so thankful for the knowledge that if we live the way we have been taught we will be able to see and be with bill again.

A Blue eyed Big hair girl

2009-05-23T09:10:00.000-07:00

A Blue eyed, Big hair girl. I love Tessa's big blue eyes! but I really love her hair! It does something new every day! you never know what you will get. On this day it was the biggest I have ever seen it! (no I did not tease her hair) Tessa thought it was great because we couldn't stop laughing and playing with it she loved all the attention!

Big blue eyes!

Big Hair!

Who wouldn't love the attention!

Fun day

2009-05-17T15:11:00.000-07:00

Well I had a crazy but fun day. I had a Relief society enrichment on sat morning at a members house. I thought that it would be close by; at the most maybe 5 min away. so i left Tessa home with Kreg because it was her nap time and I was sure that I would be home before she woke up hungry. As you all know I am from a small town where we use land marks instead of addresses. so I am really bad at fallowing maps and directions so I had a friend tell me over the phone how to get there. As she was telling me she said something about getting on a ferry! ya a car ferry! I was so nervous! I have never been on one and I was sure that I would do something wrong like pull on it and then fall off or hit another car or something like that. But I am happy to report that I did nothing wrong and was just fine. It was a fun experience and the enrichment was fun. the only problem was that it took me a hour to get there so I was there for ten min when Kreg called me to tell me Tessa was up and screaming because she was hungry. poor baby she had to wait a hour to eat and poor Kreg he could not make her happy. I felt really bad that I didn't take her with me.
Latter that day Tessa and I went to the air port to see where Kreg works and to show tessa off. It was fun we sat outside and talked to all the mechanics and let tessa play in one of the helicopters. Out here they all call Tessa pebbles from the flinstones its really cute! It was a long day but we had fun.

Me and my friend Chantell at the enrichment. She is going to have a baby girl in 2 weeks. We are way excited! Tessa will then have a friend.

2009-05-15T12:38:00.000-07:00

When Tessa wants to get your attention she will coo and make all sorts of noise tell you give her the attention she wants! she did that to kreg one day and they had a ten min conversation it was great!

Not a great start

2009-05-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

As soon as we moved in and started to put things a way Kreg got a call from work, They told him they wanted him in louisiana for the next two weeks! and that he had to leave the next day! So here we are not all the way unpacked, no fruniture, no internet, no tv, and a teathing baby who hates the hot humide wheather and now kreg had to leave us for two weeks. I was so sad! It was the longest two weeks of my life! atleast we have some friends down here who helped me when they could. We went swimming with them, and they let us barrow some movies to help pass the time. Tessa loves to swim! she will stay in the water forever so we went almost everyday.
When Kreg finally made it home after his two weeks Tessa rolled over for the first time. She had been so close to rolling over for weeks but kreg kept telling her that he wanted to see her do it so she waited tell he got home; he was so happy. Now that he is home we are moved in all the way and we now have tv and internet and funiture on the way.

We made it!

2009-05-15T08:02:00.000-07:00

> Well we made it!

We are now in Texas. It took us four days to drive here and it was not fun at all! Tessa hates anything to do with her car seat and traveling so she cryed most of the way. We made a few stops on the way to give our self's a break we went to the Hole in the rock, and stoped at the arches. It was a long trip but in the end it was worth it because now we can all finally be together.

Tessa helping her daddy pack the U-Haul. It was a lot colder there than it is here!

Texas here we come!

HOLE N THE ROCK!

Kreg helped change her diapers and tried to help keep her as happy as possible.

Ya it was a very long trip!

Ok we did have our fun times. and she did make it all better when she gave us those big smiles!

We stoped for a break and tessa spit up so hard that it came out her nose and mouth! it was so sad and all over. After we got that cleaned up she had a messy diaper that made everything around her messy as well. So we found some shade and grass and took a long break.

Time to move in!

She was SO happy to be out of her car seat! she just laid there and played while we packed everything in.

2008-11-03T19:28:00.000-08:00

She takes after her daddy! she is shy and does not like to have too much attention. But I am thinking and hopping that she has my lips. She would not move her hand so this was the last one we could get of her. She now weighs 3 lbs 6 oz.

2008-11-03T19:20:00.000-08:00

We had our 3-D ultrasound! it was way fun. We had a really hard time getting a good picture of her because she was behind my hip and behind my ribs. Oh and she is really shy; she would not move her hands.

2008-10-17T17:28:00.000-07:00

This is one of the helicopters that kreg gets to fly. He is loving it and having so much fun!

My First Blog

2008-10-17T16:50:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog so I thought I would just update you on what we are up to these days. Kreg got a new job in Louisiana so he is there and I am now living with my parents again. As much as I love my parents I cant say that I am happy to be here I would much rather be with my hubby but this is how it has to be for now. I am now 28 weeks along! and getting very large! I cant wait tell I get to meet her.