Office with a view

Jared works at the Great American Tower on the 26th floor. His team has a great view, and he can see a lot of the ballpark and field. Day games are fun - sometimes there are fireworks when the Reds hit a HR or win the game.

Sometimes there are other sounds... on occasion, cars or trucks will crash, sending everyone to the windows to spectate!

 

KI Days

One of the Christmas gifts we gave the kids was KI passes, and we've been putting them to use, even before the summer begins.

We had a fun KI day with Sarah and Eric Brown

Jared is now known for "encouraging" the Browns to ride rides they normally would not!

It is also fun to run up to KI in the evening after work. A cool cloudy evening means shorter crowds.

We are getting the little 3 onto some of the bigger rides for them

 

Celebrating together

Special events like birthdays and holidays in Cincinnati mean that we get to celebrate together! 

It is special to be just down the road - it also means that whenever any family comes from out of town, we get to see them!

Cincinnati weather

We have some of the most beautiful sunrises!

And sometimes it rains TORRENTIALLY!!!

 

Best school picture EVER

Liam's school picture is the VERY BEST school picture EVER!!!

Cousins come for Easter and Jacob and Claire's birthday

A benefit of being in Cincinnati - we get lots of visitors!!! This time it was for Claire and Jacob's birthday.

Okay, maybe it was for Easter. We spent most of our time at Nana and Papa's, but we did decorate Easter eggs at our house.

I'm sure there was a BYU egg too!

As is often the case, when one Jensen sibling comes - all the Jensens follow! We ended up with all the cousins from across the country.

Cousin time is the best

The ladies

We got a couple good(ish) pictures - though apparently Torin only "wanted" to be in 1.

Youngest to oldest, lined up for Easter Egg hunting.

The birthday twins!

 

Opening Day

Opening Day in Cincinnati is a celebration! So of course, we decided to walk one block to 5th street to watch the opening day parade. There aren't super high hopes for the 2019 Reds season, but opening day ushers in one of the nicest seasons of the year!

The view of opening day is awesome from the tower!

 

Spring Break Cincinnati

This Spring Break, we decided we were going to spend it as a "Staycation" in Cincinnati since Jared just started, so we did a bunch of fun Cincinnati activities.

Taylor and Hayley came to Cincinnati too

We spent a night at Great Wolf Lodge

and had a fun time on the water slides

We took a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo

And we enjoyed some blue sky doing archery in the backyard - taking lessons from Liam!

 

School

Liam writing about why meteorologists are important: 

They help us know when a meteor is going to hit our house.

Kate: Dislike - This girl dislikes her hair

Jacob was student of the week!

Crazy hair day at the Greene School

One of the things we love about being in Cincinnati is that when the family comes to visit Nana and Papa, we get to be part of the fun! Liam wrote about this 1for a school writing assignment.

"Over the weekend, I celebrated Easter and my now 1-year-old cousin's birthday. All my cousins came for Easter and my not yet married uncle and his girlfriend also came. My 0 year old cousin came too. I did join in the Easter egg hunt."