Today While mowing the lawn I spotted a little frog hiding in the flower bed. I caught him and called Soren over so he could meet a real live frog for the first time. Here is the little bit of video I got of the event. More »

This past Thursday April 26th at 5:40 pm my second son Ian Boyd Jensen was born. Following is the story of his birth. On Wednesday April 25th at about 3:45 pm I got a call from Holly while I was at work. As with each call from Holly for the past week my heart skipped a beat when the phone rang. I picked up and she calmly told me that her water had just broken but that she was not having any signs of a contraction. Having carpooled to work that day I promptly grabbed my stuff, hollered to my ride that we were leaving and headed home. More »

Happy birthday to my little brother Uncle Tad. He turns 28 today. More »

My barbershop quartet 4.0 placed 6th this weekend at the Forrest Grove Ballad Contest. This was my first contest ever to compete in or attend and man was it fun! Everyone we met supporting the event was chipper and helpful and truly loved the barbershop craft. There were also some amazing quartets in the competition. What an honor to get to share the stage with them. We got lots of performance opportunities both on and off the stage during the weekend. More »

Last night I recorded some video of Soren at 2 year and 3 months saying "Antidisestablishmentarianism". I introduced him to the word the previous evening and got him to say it in two parts and this was the second time we worked on it. Yup my son is a genius. :P More »

Today my barbershop quartet 4.0 performed for the second time together at a Jet Cities Chorus concert. There were several other great quartets and singing groups at the show today including the Illumni Mens Chorus who I sang with last spring on America's Got Talent. They did a bunch of their Popsicle (pop and classical smashed together) songs including the "Hit Me Baby One More Time". It was good to hear them sing again. We also got to hear the swan song (barbershop lingo for last performance as a quartet) of Live Wire. Our tenor Ted has a sister who sings baritone for them. More »

I have been singing my barbershop songs all over the house and did not quite realize how often I had been singing them until Soren joined in singing with me. I was able to sing it again with him during lunch and got a bit of video of him singing it with me.

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We have officially survived what I'm calling Snowmaggeddon - Winter Ice Blast 2012 which is a combination of terms that I have heard on the local television news stations to describe such an event. They get pretty sensational when it comes to snow here. But it has been a pretty crazy weather week for us here in western Washington. The snow started on Monday afternoon and continued off and on until Wednesday. We took some time both Monday and Tuesday afternoon to take Soren out and play in the snow at the park down the street and in the back yard. On Wednesday the weather took a turn for the worse and the snow cranked up a level. More »

With a few inches of snow falling the past few days in our neighborhood Holly and I took some time during my lunch break to head to the park and build our first family snowman. We bundled Soren up in his snow gear and slowly shuffled to the park over the ice covered sidewalks. We arrived to find ten or so kids enjoying the snow. Soren watched them with great interest as they ran around him throwing snowballs and sledding down the hills of the park. A few kids kindly offered to share their sleds so I could give Soren a ride down the hill a few times. After peeling Soren from the sleds we all took turns rolling the large ball of snow to the correct size for our little snowman. More »

Today Santa visited Wildwood Elementary during lunch. Soren was lucky enough to see Santa and get a chance to sit on his lap. He even got a new toy truck before Christmas this year. Thanks to all the Wildwood Elementary teachers and staff for putting the event together. More »

Today was the debut performance of my barbershop quartet named 4.0. We were invited to sing a few songs at the Jet City Chorus fall Community Concert. It was great fun to be performing with my brother Tyson singing bass, Ted Chamberlain singing tenor, and Chris McMafferty singing baritone. I am excited to be singing barbershop and have enjoyed beginning to learn the style and technique. I look forward to more opportunities to sing with these great guys. Thanks to the Jet City Chorus for having us sing at their concert and thanks to our families and friends for their support. More »

Soren turns two this week and Holly worked and planned a fantastic Thomas the Train themed party. We had train balloons, plates, cups, sandwiches, wooden train whistles, Thomas the train cardboard costume, Train painting activities, train shaped cookies and an amazing Thomas the train cake. The cake was awesome and looked just like Thomas would if he was made of cake and covered in frosting. We had a great showing of friends and family on hand for the event. The kids played with one another with Soren and Cameron practicing some sharing. Holly thought up a good way to use the Thomas the train costume that we made for Soren for Halloween. More »