Happy BirthWEEK to me!

This past week I celebrated my 23rd birthday, my first as a wife! Unfortunately Nick had to work on my birthday so he promised me a week's worth of celebrations! On my birthday I spent the day with my dear family. We went out to breakfast and my parents bought me a BBQ for our new (rental) house that we will be moving into soon! My little (teenage) brother even blew off his friends to spend the day with me, mom checked to see if he had a fever haha. For dinner we were joined by Nick and the rest of my family at BJ's and we had a great time!

Nick woke up early to make me breakfast Sunday!


When I was little I always hated July 6th because it meant my birthday was over, but not this year with my birthWEEK celbrations! Nick and I went to Red Robin on Wednesday, Yum! On Thursday we went to see "Monte Carlo," it was way cute and kind of a remake of the Lizzie McGuire movie. When we got home I put my hair in an updo, put on some big sunglasses, and imitated Cordelia Winthrop Scott the snobby heiress from the movie. Yes, I just turned 23, but sometimes I still like playing dress up :) Meanwhile Nick just rolls his eyes, even though HE is often found peering around corners with a tactical vest on and nerf gun on his latest "secret mission." I guess you can say we are both in touch with our inner child.

23 years old and still obsessed with "The Little Mermaid"

Getting back to my celbratory week, our last event was going to Disneyland on Friday after work! I went on "Ariel's Undersea Adventure," the new ride at California Adventure, a ride I have been waiting for for 22 years! It was colorful, it was musical, it was MAGICAL! My favorite part was the end which depicted Ariel & Eric's wedding and had fireworks in the background. We also saw the new Soundsational Parade which was really entertaining. I love seeing all the little girls sitting on their daddy's shoulders excitingly calling out to all the characters! So cute! And we decided to start a new family tradition, yay! We bought a new pair of disney pins, one says Mrs. and the other says Mr., we decided to get a new pair every July for our anniversary and we won't trade them. I love family traditions and I'm excited to one day have a whole collection of "anniversary pins."

Frying pans... who knew, right?

I’m going to try to update my blog more. I want to be able to look back at it someday and remember forgotten memories! If I keep going at this rate though I will only find a few sporadic posts!

So what have we Jensen’s been up to?? We’ve made a few more trips to Disneyland! We got to meet up there with a few friends [Kelsie, Ben, Melissa, & Forrest] we hadn’t seen in a while! While we were there they pin traded and it looked like so much fun! Annnnnd now Nick and I have a new hobby/addiction!

On another trip to Disneyland we took Nick’s sister Morgan with us! Poor Morgan had to endure our frequent stops to every crew member with trading pins. I was really happy to find out that Morgan’s favorite ride is the Hollywood Tower of Terror! (Nick doesn’t like the ride so we never go on it) We went on it twice and then devised a plan to force Nick on the ride. Surprisingly, it didn’t take much for him to come willingly. Nick always claimed that these type of rides make him sick, which I thought was a prideful cover up for fear. But alas, it took him stumbling off the ride to the nearest trash can for me to believe him. Oh well! Live and learn! At least we got a priceless picture out of it! Haha notice Nick’s face, doesn’t it look like he’s having the time of his life??





In other EXCITING news! We are expecting TWO BABIES in the family! Nick’s sister Sydney and her husband Thomas are expecting a baby girl in September and my cousin Kris and his wife Ashley are expecting a baby girl in August! It’ll be exciting for us to have little ones in the family before we’re ready to have our own ;)