It's a Girl!!

Lauren & Dan, proud parents of Bella. (hmm wonder where that came from?)

Well, well, well Look what we have here

Well imagine my surprise when I spent a Sunday evening with the Cordners and the Jr.Jr. Jenkins families only to find that the family has a Jehamaco Blog!

I pondered for some time why an extremely interesting person such as myself, who also happens to be a very integral and treasured member of this family, would just now be discovering this well kept family secret.

Apparently certain more established members of this wonderfully extended family feel that those of us without, spouses, children, grand-children, nieces or nephews, school, jobs, girlfriends, pets, a permanent address, a full grasp on correct grammar... or delicious recipes have anything note worthy to add to this fantastic blog... and maybe they're right...

...all the same I feel like I have an obligation to inform the rest of you of what my family of 1 has been up to as of late...

...which is conveniently and quite accurately summed up in the picture posted here...

...so...yeah that's about it!

Much love to all,

McKay

New Year's Eve in San Francisco

Well, Jayne asked for it and so here it is. We spent New Year's Eve day in San Francisco and Paige and Holly spent about 45 minutes of New Year's Eve making music down by Pier 39. As you'll see, the girls had a very vocal "fan" make her way over to them to listen to their songs. She had partaken of some adult beverages earlier and was "feeling the groove" as she coaxed and cajoled the crowd into tossing some money into their guitar case. . At one point you'll see her grab a drawing of Jimi Hendrix and wave it above her head while shouting "Obama!" We were just a few people out of the thousands who showed up in San Francisco to ring in the New Year that day and we had a blast - a New Year's Eve we'll never forget! By the way, when Paige and Holly totaled up the nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills, they had made about $25.00!

Post Christmas Christmas Carol & Happy 2009 to the Jenkins offspring!!

It's been kind of dead on the Jehamacoco blog the past several weeks, so I thought I'd share a little post Christmas cheer. This is Corinne's performance at the Madrigals concert in the historic St. George Tabernacle. We included the falling microphone and my chatty little neighbor friend ...all for your enjoyment. (Hoping the Havens will post some video of Holly & Paige serenading the streets of San Fran!!)

Jensen family update :)

It's about time I joined the ranks of Jehamacoco-ing. Here's a lil' update on us and life in Daybreak, Utah.
First of all, it's getting cold. I don't know how I ever tolerated Rexburg. I guess now, it's feeling that much colder, because I've faced the fact that my freezing little toosh will be here for the rest of my life! yikes. But yeah, the autumn time was enjoyable and very beautiful. I guess I can look for beauty in the winter... maybe.
We are excited to be celebrating our first Christmas together. Thank goodness, Steve doesn't have to work Christmas day. He works Christmas Eve day but will be home the next morning. Dec. 24th through Jan. 1st are called "black out days" for firemen . So you have to work when you are scheduled, and you can't take your day off...unless you can find someone crazy enough to trade with you. (A little fire district enlightenment there for ya).
Steve's work has been good to him. Not any fires since this last summer, not too many drunk girls hitting on him, and no life threatening situations while he's been on the ambulance, so he's good. He loves every day he goes to work because of the possibility of something really cool happening. Poor guy, jk. He still loves it. On his days off you can find him on the computer updating our budget for the month, as he is (we are) diligently trying to knock out as much debt as we possibly can. He's gotten me hooked on recording and analyzing our expenditures. We get all psyched thinking about the day that we can finally escape the bondage of debt!
Work is going well for me. I love what I do, teaching has it's challenges, but I don't think I could be happier doing anything else. I love all those little, and not so little kids.
We are pleased to see all the excavators and loud tractors outside our house gone. For those of you who have seen, there has been tons of construction going on right outside our house, with a new road going in and a trax line ending almost at our doorstep. On the note of teaching, though, Daybreak has announced the building of a charter school opening fall '09. The location of which, is also going to be right behind our house! So, with the news of that, I've applied for a teaching position there. How could any one pass up the op. of working in their backyard? I've recieved word that they'll be reviewing applications in January. So far, things sound good...so we'll keep crossing our fingers.
Hmmm...anything else??? Steve and I are anticipating a laparoscopy comes February. Finally! We were scheduled to have it done a week ago, but good ole insurance won't cover me till I've been on with him for a year. I'll manage a few more months with the hope that all will be taken care of soon. Till then the hope of expanding our family remains dim, and we'll see how things go after that ;)
Married life in the Jensen household steadily remains a joy as we are inching closer to our year anniversary. It's awesome to have someone to face life with, to enjoy the little moments that make it great, and work with to overcome the obstacles that make it a challenge. He is my little soul mate, surely.
We look forward to our Cali trip. Never a dull moment in that Haven's household. And hopefully we can recruit a souvenir called "Paige" back up with us. We'll see.
Happy Holidays to all JEHAMACOCO!!! We love you all and are so glad to have come from and enjoy the company of the absolute #1 family ever.
Love,
Crystal and Steve

Baby Jenkins

Baby Jenkins Family visits the Cox's enroute to Disneyland.

Awwww... photo op!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! The miles between us are many, but we feel
the family connection no matter where we all are. Hope your day was filled with

good food & good company... ours was! We have much to be grateful for!

Corinne & Madrigals performing at Jubilee of Trees

Colton... keepin the music alive

MARSHALL! Come home... there is NO party without you!

Thanks for sharing, Colton.

Lauren has beginner's luck with her incredible Thanksgiving dessert!!

Pretending to be Britt

who am I kidding... we're just wanna be's

but give us an "A" for effort

smiles hiding the growling stomachs

Newlywed chefs

end of day- all burned out

(just like me)

Jayne