Ever wonder what happened in April...?

Here we have about 50 pictures of Jes' wedding. I mostly posted so many because she hasn't seen these yet- and I finally got around to editing them, so Merry Christmas Jes.

This one is my favorite of the whole thing.

My studly husband waiting to go into the San Antonio temple. Jes and Tony were living in Austin, where we all met up for the shim-dig, and drove to San Antonio that morning for the ceremony.

Skipping to the end- there they are-

They had quite the crowd waiting.

Awww- "stisters"... and the debut of a new tattoo... at least to me... weirdo....

Happy...

Not so happy...

With a bit of crazy for good measure...

The Jensen kids. It was fun to be all together.

And this was neat to me- I haven't seen a picture of all these people together for a long time!

W/ Grandma and Bapa

W/ Momma and Grandma

Hehe. He's getting so big! What a monkey.

The bit of photoshoot I was allowed.

That's the window of the room they were sealed in.

Mah baby and me.
Alex started saying, "eeeeww" after kisses- at which I threatened his life. I told him the second my son said one of my kisses were "eeww" he was a dead man. Oh don't worry- he now says it about half the times I kiss him. At least he still does it....

Another of my personal favorites-- the pre-walk-down-the-isle-prep.

Dad "giving her away"...though she was already married at that point. Details...

Exchanging vows.
Another great moment. This is right after Jence brought the rings up (a taaad prematurely), and he is looking at his dad for what to do next. He was promised cake if he walked the rings up to Jes and was a bit put out that Jes didn't offer it to him immediately....

We got some "bridals" in after the ceremony.

Liz outdid herself taking this pretty picture.

Jence appeared to like the crawdads. Note Heather and Ephraim were able to come over for the par-tay.

Crawdads awaiting a boiling death... in a salt bath that makes them puke... on ice, just to make the shock that much more exciting...

Think he's warming up to them?

This kills me- Max and Ezra were all over investigating these little critters, all the while Jence held on tight to daddy with this look on his face.

The main event- the crawdad boil. I tried a potato that was delicious, but I wasn't in an enough of an un-nauseated place to actually eat...

Hello....

Jes getting things started. I think she actually tried to get her dress dirty, though in the end she only had one little spot on her.

Dad and all his brothers- I love this one.

Becky

The delicious cake from the 24 hr Mexican bakery- the one with the neon Madonna on the sign.

Aaaand what event would be complete without another picture of Jensen wanting cake...? He was actually a very happy camper after he fiiiiinally got some.

Easter

Growing up in the Jensen household the Easter Bunny brought empty baskets (with grass) and left candy all over the family room for us to gather. Now, I remember E.B. being very generous with the candy- it was closely (and evenly) spaced all over everything- like the above picture (and E.B. probably would have left a few goodies along the top of the pictures as well). This little table is where E.B. started at our house-- and then realized that he wasn't providing candy for 5 Jensen kids ranging in ages from 2-14, rather one sugar crazed two year old. So he slowed it down after that...

The Easter Bunny would bring hats to the Garner's house (which I think I explained last year...) This was our first year combining the two traditions.

(see- he slowed down on the candy a bit)

Daddy is pointing out Jence's hat/basket. (I think that Al was excited- he didn't know the Easter Bunny brought him a hat too.)

Oh boy- Hershey Kisses are his favorite.

Convincing him to put the Kisses in the basket instead of his mouth took a little time.

There's the excitement...

And he's got it down.

Peeps at the top of picture/door frames will always be Easter to me.

Al found his treat...

I guess the door frames are a little high when you're two.

He found his chocolate bunny.

Get 'em all Jence! Double fisting...hehe.

Daddy trying to get the stickers off his hat, but that didn't stop him from grabbing at his pile.

His haul.

Aaaand trying to get him to go eat some breakfast before he ate any more chocolate.

HA!

Peeeeeps! (After breakfast)

And on Saturday we dyed our eggs...

The first one goes in...

Oh, this is going to be good!

Getting the hang of it...

And with the confidence surge comes resistance to daddy's help... (look at Al's "noo" face).

Love the lips.

And the first one out- that was a surprise!

Awed...

Pretty colors.

Momma helping getting the eggs out to dry- again, the "no" face in response to the "do-it-myself-face".

Hehe...

Alex was nervous that this would be too much of a headache with the monster- but we had a lot of fun.

He loved the colors and was convinced that they now would be yummy to eat... perhaps the vinegar solution changed them to chocolate?

Waiting for them to dry....

Blowing on them to help them dry... or cover them in spit....

And now the stickers. He was so careful where he put them- so cute.

Daddy helping.

We had a wonderful Easter (which included an egg hunt in the back yard, which I will post later because I'm not super woman...;) and wish well to you and yours!