We need your help!

Well as most of you know Jon and I have been trying to adopt a little baby boy for about 7 months. We have been anticipating his arrival with great excitement. Well about a month ago we were informed that the Mother was thinking about not placing the child for adoption. She had some very good reasons not to. We kept hoping that the situations would change. Well the baby was born today and as of now nothing has changed. We are in the process of getting our profile ready to view on the web so keep us in mind if you hear of anyone thinking about adoption and let us know or have them check us out on LDS family services website. We hope to have another baby join our family soon.

The Annual Jenks Family Egg Hunt

This is the first year that I let Baylee dye the eggs and she did so well. We only had one spill and that is when Momma was not paying attention and she grabbed an egg and threw it in the orange dye. It splashed all over her and the rest of us. She learned real fast that she needed to be careful.

So It is April and Boise gets snow!! The hunt was in Mountain Home and we heard that they had gotten 3 inches of snow so we had to break out the snow boots and gloves and all the other great winter gear so we could go hunt the eggs in the snow. Baylee loved it! She still keeps putting on the boots everytime we tell her to get her shoes on. I am afraid she might end up wearing her snow boots with her shorts this summer.
This is Baylee and I waiting for the hunt to begin. She hunts in the 0-4 age group. I figured she would run after the eggs but she took her sweet time.






She was able to find 18 eggs. Next year Jon says he is going to work on her going faster. She really did take her sweet time getting the eggs.
Baylee and several other little kids her age decided it would be fun to hide the eggs for the older kids. After the adults put the eggs out they went around and gathered them into piles and pulled them out of there hiding places. We had to get them to throw them back out before the hunt began.

Daddy showing off his big guns before the start of his hunt.
Then it was daddy's turn. He knows how to go fast. He came in Third place. It was very cold during the Adult hunt and kept getting colder but Baylee would not go inside she had to go with daddy to find the eggs. She loved every minute of the day. Her hands were so cold and she was covered in mud by the end but had a huge smile on her face when she fell to sleep.

Easter Dress

We had Baylee wear her Easter dress the Sunday before Easter since we don't have regular church on Easter because of general conference. She wanted curls so the night before we put the sponge rollers in and got the curls. She looked like a little doll in her dress with her hair done this way.

Ducks

We have this group of ducks that came to our house last year and guess what they are back this year. Not sure if it is the same ducks. Baylee and I got home from shopping the other night and when I got her out of the car the ducks were right there waiting. They were so close you could almost reach down and touch them. They followed us as we went inside and Baylee wanted to take a picture so I helped her get the camera out and take a few. They fell asleep on the grass as soon as we got done taking these pics.

Building Towers

This week I had my friends boys while she worked and Baylee loved having the older boys to play with. They were building blocks together and it was so cute to see her actually building. Usually she tells me to build so she can knock them down. She was so happy when she got it built and then she promptly knocked her tower over.

Oh how they Grow!

This is Baylee and Saidy when we first got Saidy. Baylee loved to cuddle up with her and Saidy was so good about just laying there letting Baylee use her as a pillow. Now see how much they have grown in a year.


They may both be bigger and alot more active but they still are the best of friends. Saidy will still just lay there so that Baylee can do what ever she wants to her. Baylee loves to take care of Saidy and when we let Saidy come in to play all you hear from Baylee is giggles.

A day at the farm

Baylee loved being a helper on the farm. She thought it was fun to feed the cows, she would throw the hay on their heads. She got a little scared when they would come close to her but eventually she was brave enough to help feed it some grain. We couldn't get her to use her hand to feed the grain but I thought she was pretty brave just to stand there.

Baylee got to help gather the eggs. She did a good job and only broke one egg even though she would throw them in the basket.
Danielle being a cowgirl on her sheep was fun to watch. Dixie didn't like it too much!


Baylee was a little nervous at first to pet the sheep but she then got into it and loved touching them.

All in all the trip to see Tyce and Danielle was a lot of fun. We enjoyed the farm and also seeing Malachi be baptized. It was a little hard with Baylee at bed time but come to find out alot of that had to do with her having Croup. We ended up going to see a doctor on Sunday morning before heading home. This is Baylee's second trip to Utah in the past 18 months and both times she has gotten sick, we are starting to think she is allergic to Utah. JK. We love going down and visiting. Thanks Jensen family for such a great weekend!