I hope you all had a merry Christmas--we sure did! This is our family after church on Christmas day. I should mention that Evelyn's dress was given to her by a secret Santa as well as some other very kind gifts. But I'm getting ahead of myself... Christmas eve first:
As you can see, we honored the Jensen tradition of making a Merry Christmas pizza on Christmas eve (just in case you can't read the bell pepper message on the pizza, it says Merry X-mas).
We enjoyed our pizza as well as popping Christmas crackers. Evelyn was willing to keep a crown on long enough for one picture.
Here Evelyn is on Christmas morning digging into her stocking! She is at the age now to get excited about gifts and seems to like surprises.
Here she is with a child-friendly nativity set....
This was my home-made gift for Clarisse. Forgive me for showing off. No drawing could ever be as cute as the real Evelyn. Clarisse's artistic side was manifested in Christmas dinner. It was a masterpiece! We wish we could have seen our families, but it was good talking to some of you on the phone. Love you all!

Evelyn is growing fast and seems more like a little girl every day. Here she is looking pretty in her Sunday dress. Her hair has gotten much thicker in the past few weeks.

Evelyn is starting to develop an active imagination and seems to give her stuffed animals some personality when playing with them. Her favorite is a stuffed rabbit (Thumper from Bambi).
Thanksgiving is old news by now, and Bekah has already posted photos on Facebook. I'll give you a quick synopsis, though. Bekah came down for a few days, and it was really fun spending time with her. It was also really nice kicking back a bit and letting Bekah entertain Evelyn (Thanks, Bekah! I hope we didn't take too much advantage of you!).

We took a little tour of sites in downtown Salt Lake, and our first stop was the Cathedral of the Madeline. We saw the inside for the first time, and it was AMAZING! I didn't take pictures because I thought it would be irreverent.

We enjoyed seeing the lights at temple square! It was worth braving the bitter cold. Below is the Christmas tree in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.