Christmas Day

Santa found our house, here are a few pictures of Christmas Morning around the Jenks Home.
Here are a few of things Madalyn got for Christmas: bedspread, Nintendo DSi with games, clothes and shoes, rock polisher kit, aqua sand, dance dress, curling iron, sewing supplies and a few more things. He favorite gift: Four wheeler, and DS
Morgan enjoyed: bedspread, Nintendo DS, hello kitty projector, jell pens and craft supplies, clothes and shoes, crayon maker, activity center, movie and dance dress. Her favorite gift: four wheeler, DS and Hello kitty projector.
Natalie got: Bedspread (her and Morgan share), V reader with books, clothes and shoes, makeup and stick on earrings, the movie "Tangled" coloring light up paint, moon dough, legos, pillow pet, and a baby penguin. Her favorite gives: Makeup, penguin, twinkle toe shoes
Brooklyn: Baby food, hair bows, doll, musical toy. (Really what do you get a baby that has four other sisters)
Garrett and I had a great Christmas also, we love seeing our kids excitement. Christmas is so much fun for me. Garrett got: hunting socks and pants, tools to hang the deer up, shoes, down rigger for the boat, clothes, and a handy little tool that helps out with home projects ( i don't know what it's called I just bought it). Jilayne received: clothes, coat, running shoes, kitchen plates, necklace and earrings, a gift card to a day spa for a Relax and Renew package it's 3 hours of whatever I want (What a surprise)

Christmas Morning the girls woke up at 6:30am. I guess you could say Madalyn woke up and then she went into the little girls room and decided that it was time to go see what Santa had brought them.
Natalie opening her V reader, she is going to love this. It will get well used. Madalyn and Morgan got Nintendo DSi with a few games.
I love this time of year. I love Christmas morning to see the big smiles on their faces when they open the gifts and see what they got. Sometimes they got things that they hoped for and other times they got great gifts they had not even though about asking for. My kids are the perfect age for this time of year. These are the special moments when I wish they would never grow up.
Morgan opening her Crayon Maker, you put all you used broken crayons in to this and I melts it down and makes new wild colors and designs. The girls have enjoyed doing this. They love to see what kinds of different colors they can make.
Brooklyn enjoying her first Christmas, eating wrapping paper.

Natalie dumping out her stocking. In search for the candy she asked for. She had her pack of gum gone with 3 days.
All the girls got skechers Twinkle toes, they light up when you walk.

Natalie finally got makeup like the her older sisters. She also got stick on earrings.


Garrett and I had them open this gift last. I think that Garrett was so excited for the girls to open this one. Back in October he found a Yamaha 80 Grizzly four wheeler on Craig's list that he bought. He had been looking for about a year now for a good one. He got it all washed up and it looks like new.

When they first opened the boxes with the helmets in them they didn't know what to think. They thought that they were to ride their bikes. We asked that what would you use such a big helmet for? They did know. Garrett told them to look on the Christmas tree for something, they then found the key to the four wheeler. They were so excited and we have had a hard time keeping them off it. Madalyn and Morgan can drive it all by themselves, Natalie can drive but needs Garrett behind her.

Baby's first Christmas

It was exciting for Brooklyn's first Christmas, she loved the wrapping paper. We could not get her to give it up. She just cried when the paper got to wet and we had to get her new paper to play with.

McGary Christmas Party

These pictures are from the McGary Christmas party which was on Christmas Eve day, we had a very busy and eventful day. The McGary Party was in the morning and then the Jenks party was in the afternoon. After that we came home and the girls had drawn names with each other and they got to open the presents from each other that night. They were so excited to give each other their gifts.
Having fun with cousins. We ate lunch and then played Minute to win it games.
Brooklyn turned 6 months over the Christmas break, she also got her first tooth. This is early for us, much of the girls didn't get them until 9 months.
Natalie enjoying some daddy time. We were very lucky this year, Garrett was able to get some time off work and didn't have to work close to Christmas. It's nice having him be higher up on the latter.
Madalyn playing some games.

It's so much fun being a Girl......

Brooklyn is so much fun, the girls love to dress her up in Princess clothes already. She came out of the kids room the other day with this on.

We have snow again!!!! Around Thanksgiving time we got our first snow fall, it stayed for about 3 weeks and then melted. We all thought that we would have no snow for Christmas then Saturday morning we woke up to 3 inches and then last night we got another 4 inches. What fun for the kids. They went outside and played and made snowmen with Garrett.

Madalyn is getting really good at snowboarding down our hill on the sleds.

Merry Christmas!!! Madalyn 7, Morgan 5, Natalie 3, Brooklyn 6 months

Morgan's Eyes

Back in October we discovered that Morgan has a few things wrong with her eye's, she has a amblyopic left eye. Which this means that her left eye is lazy and doesn't want to work very well so the right eye strains to help the left eye out. We have been doing a computer program that makes that left eye work and gain more muscles in it. We are hoping that this will help her out. She works 5 nights a week for about 30 mins. on the computer.

Ward Party

Last night was our Ward's Christmas party, they had a program that was centered around Christmas Past, Present and Future. They had the older generation do something for the past then the youth do something for the present and the the primary kids did the future. We then got a visit from the North Pole. The girls had been looking forward to seeing Santa all week. Madalyn asked for a REAL horse with a corral, oats for the horse and a big water bucket, saddle. Morgan was so cute, as soon as she got on his lap she went blank and could not remember what she had told me so many times.

Natalie told him she wanted some earrings, books, candy, and toys.

Garrett and Natalie enjoying the program.

Morgan and Brooklyn

Madalyn with Whitney and Marissa Lloyd.

The Dentist

The past few months our dentist's have made a killing on our families mouths. I think I'm the only normal mouth in our family that is not cursed. First lets start off with Garrett, we have been going to the same dentist all our married life (he is in Othello) I never really liked the guy but Garrett did and I didn't know who else to go to. So I endured until finally last year I convinced Garrett to go and find someone else. We missed a year of cleanings and check ups. So last month we finally found someone that we had heard was good. We both go for cleaning and I'm fine, but Garrett has a Mouth full of cavities. After the appointment they told him he needed 9 cavities and a crown. WHAT!!!! So he goes in to have 2 cavities done and the crown and we then found out on those to cavities he needs a root canal done on one and both teeth need crowns (and we have already maxed out all of our dental benefits for 2010) they also have us going to be maxed out within the first month in January filling all the rest of the cavities and he needs those two crowns and the root canal done still. They told us that we will owe them around $3,000 by the time we are done.

If you see Garrett or I on some street corner with a sign saying "WE WILL WORK TO PAY OFF DENTAL BILLS" you will know it's us. Have pity on us.

Then there's the kids: (Our kids go to a different dentist then us a pediatric Dentist) Madalyn has Garrett's teeth. She has had lots of dental work done over her lifetime. This past September they all had their cleanings and Madie had no cavities I was so happy. But about a month later she comes and shows me that her two bottom teeth are coming in behind the baby teeth and the baby teeth are not even loose. At that point she has not lost any teeth yet. So we call the dentist he says try and wiggle them out so we can avoid them being pulled. But last week Madalyn comes to me and shows me a big puss pocket growing over a back tooth, we take her in and that tooth is infected and they have to pull that tooth. She was not excited about, but she was excited about the tooth fairy coming to our house. I don't know where the tooth fairy found any money cause she just spent all her money fixing her husband's teeth. Morgan had her first cavities this year, she has 4. I know you are probably thinking we never brush our teeth. But that is not the case, I'm a tooth brush fool.

We just can't wait until Garrett's best friend gets done with dental school. Then we will have someone we trust. You just never know if all this work really needs done or not. Garrett was not in any pain 2 months ago and now his mouth hurts. Plus we would much rather give our money to him.

What a bad time of year for all this to happen. Hope your month goes better then ours has.