Testimony

Today was fast and testimony meeting at church. There were a couple of kids who got up to bear their testimonies and Lincoln totally surprised me by asking to go up there. He asked Shawn to take him up there and he was pretty patient on the stand as he waited his turn.

Then he and Shawn got up and and pointed at me and said (with Shawn's help and guidance) "I love my mommy and bear my testimony and I know the church is true, I love my mommy, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Needless to say it has been a very emotional Mother's Day.

A couple of others milestones in Lincolns life:

Lincoln has been sleeping in a real big boy bed for about 2 months. I took Lincoln on a date and we picked out sheets and a comforter that matched the crib stuff. To my surprise he choose Cars sheets over Toy Story. He has been very excited about his big boy bed every night since.





Lincoln has also developed an interest in photography. He loves to take pictures. Here are a couple of his Ansel Adams impressions:




Finally just a couple of snapshots of Lincoln being cute.

First Father/Son campout

Linc and I recently went on our first annual father's and son's campout with the Mtn. Vista ward on April 23-24 at Sycamore Creek, about 30 minutes southwest of Payson, AZ. We started by going to "Donald's" for a good cheap burger to fill us up before our drive. Lincoln was pretty happy with his burger. . .and then got entirely sidetracked by his kid's meal toy.


Linc was so excited to be camping he totally forgot that part of camping is actually "sleeping". After roasting a couple of marshmallows, he told me he wanted to go to bed, which kind of surprised me. So, we got in our sleeping bags. . .and then Linc started jumping around the tent and opening and closing the windows to "see the fire". We did that for about 45 minutes and then he wanted to go back outside, so we did. We went out, roasted a few more marshmallows and finally, around 11pm, he finally told me he wanted to go back to bed. After about another 10 minutes or so of tent wrestling, he laid down and told me to leave the tent so he could fall asleep, which I did, and which he did.

We didn't freeze, in fact we were quite warm although it had gotten pretty cold. Seems like we have now perfected our layered camping bed setup which includes foam pads, an air mattress, a blanket, a sleeping bag, plus another blanket, or two, depending on the level of coldness you may be exposed to. I'm not even supposed to be telling you this!!! It's a secret!

Lincoln really likes to hike. He's always asking us to take him hiking and when we do take him hiking and we're done hiking, he gets sad and says he wants to keep hiking. Yeah, he likes hiking.


As we were hiking, Lincoln kept picking up sticks to hold as he walked, a trait he picked up from his mom. We found a really nice branch that we ended up bringing home with us. We'll carve it and bring it on any campout we go on now. We call it the . . . wait for it . . . "FatherSon Stick". We're so stinking original I can't even stand it!


One of the kids caught a lizard and showed it to Linc. It jumped on his arm and hung out there for a bit before crawling up and onto Linc's back. He thought that was so funny and we've laughed several times since then about how the lizard crawled on his back.

Camping pretty well tuckered the little guy out. Thankfully, despite his exhaustion, he was able to keep a good grip on Spiderman on the drive home, preventing the sly webslinger from escaping. Mwah ha ha ha!


Looking forward to our next camping trip, which will certainly happen sooner rather than later.

Easter

We had Easter at my Aunt Anahi's and Uncle Mike's house this year. Lincoln did a little better finding eggs than last year. Last year he would find an egg and sit and eat its contents immediately, this year, he filled his basket as fast as he could and then sat down to gorge himself.

Lincoln was playing with my dad over by the pool and was jumping around and counting the flagstones around the edge, he starting jumping faster and faster (probably a jellybean sugar rush) and lost his balanced. I turned around to check on him just as he stumbled backwards into the swimming pool. LUCKILY, my dad was right there to fish him out. I think we will start swimming lessons this year. Poor Lincoln, he got embarrassed and upset when everyone came over to see if he was okay and starting talking about it. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of Lincoln soaking wet.

Lincoln-isms

Look at that face...you can tell his is full of mischief!

Lincoln: "Daddy's Batman."
Me: Really, who are you?
Lincoln: "I'm Spiderman."
Me: "Well, if you are Spiderman, and Daddy is Batman, then who am I?"
Lincoln: "Hmm.......you're pretty."

If you haven't guessed, Lincoln's new "thing" is Spiderman, he jumps around and squirts "webs" out of his wrist just like Spiderman. I took Lincoln on a date the other night and we found a pair of Spiderman jammies, which greatly have enhanced his Spiderman moves and obsession.
Me: Goodnight, Lincoln, I love you.
Lincoln: No, Mommy, say "Goodnight SpidermanLincoln!
Me: Goodnight SpidermanLincoln.
Lincoln "Thank you"

Shawn taught Lincoln his middle name earlier this month and he goes around cheering for himself, I am ThomasLincoln Jensen....we try to explain that it is Lincoln Thomas Jensen, and that Thomas is his middle name. Lincoln's response is : I'm ThomasLincolnThomas Jensen. Now with the Spiderman kick his name is "SpidermanThomasLincolnThomas Jensen....move over John Jacob Jinglehimmer Shcmidt!

Shawn and Lincoln were in the kitchen having breakfast and Shawn burped. Lincoln said "I excuse you Daddy."

Blue Airplane

My brother James watched TV the exact same way; wide eye, mouth hanging open, I am not sure what he is watching, but obviously it is very intense!

These 2 pictures are my new favorites of Lincoln.

Shawn has been out of town on business trips this month and Lincoln has really enjoyed going to the airport to pick him up. In fact he packed his "back back" every day and would tell me how he needed to go to the airport and that he was going on a blue airplane to Washington because he had work to do. I have really enjoyed watching him pack and listening to his plans for taking the blue airplane.

Friday night when we went to pick up Shawn, Lincoln kept telling me "Thank you for taking me to the airport, I have to go to work". Well when we got to the airport there was a line of people standing there and Lincoln told me that he needed to get out. I told him to wait until we got around to the north side because that is where Daddy was. When we pulled around he thanked me again and told me he could go in the "that" door. We pulled over and parked to get Shawn and Lincoln HONESTLY thought he was getting out to go inside, when we pulled away from the curb, he got very upset and was crying telling us about how he needed to go on the blue airplane and had to go to work. I felt bad that he was so upset about it, but it was so cute.

3 Years Old!!!

Hey Howdy Hey! It's Linc's 3rd Birthday!

Lincoln will officially turn 3 years old tomorrow. Yay! We had a birthday party for him today with friends and family in the park. As you might just be able to tell, he had a Star Wars themed party, complete with matching tablecloth and streamers from the friendly neighborhood party store. We had a great time with everyone who came. Thanks!

I took my drawring skills in a new direction, the edible kind, and made an R2D2 cake. Beep boop beep bop!

Linc was pretty thrilled with the Star Warsiness of the whole thing.

Someone brought a Darth Vader helmet which will substantially enhance Linc and Dad's daily lightsabre duals.

Ashlyn and Amara came dressed as twin Princess Leia's, complete with cinnamon roll hair arrangements.

John and Nicole were the awesome two who held off several kids and one hungry coyote to secure a pavilion in the park for the party. They even did all the decorating as well.

Linc and girl buddy Ya-Ya (Olivia)

As far as Lincoln is concerned, this is the only way to ride a swing: on the lap of an awesome grown up person. Thanks for the ride Nicole!

Spider Jensen's, Spider Jensen's, friendly neighborhood Spider Jensen's. . .

My mom got really high at the party!

Pizza!

Daddy Daughter

Ah Yeeeeah! Papa and Momma Bullen!

What Jensen's do well: stuff our faces!

Just plain old cute!

Linc: A new car!!!

Linc's favorite new toy at his Star Wars party was an official talking Woody figure. Props to Uncle John and Nicole on that!

Jigglers & Jumping Rope

A few nights ago, we made Jell-O jigglers. This is what ensued. . .

A couple of cute things he has said that we don't want to forget:

Lincoln: "Daddy, where is my Jesus picture? He loves me...okay, bye"

Me: Lincoln why don't you come help me make lunch?"
Lincoln: "Not right now Mommy, I'm busy"

Lincoln: "Mommy, I am going to come to work with you today"
Me: "But who will help daddy watch Seasame Street"
Lincoln: Shrugs his shoulders and makes a "psht" noise like "not my problem!"

Shawn and Lincoln were cleaning the garage when Linc found a jumprope. Shawn showed him how to use it and then gave it back to him, with this result. . .

If you build it he will come....

Lincoln has started catching and throwing the ball this way. We know its a little "backwards"
but we will take what we can get.