The Phillipines

Well we made it! We survived the 12 hour first flight pretty well, Marianne was an angel and spencer wasn't too bad. The following 2 hour flight was much harder because we were all exhausted. Devin's Mission companion Elder Tabien picked us up with his parents who came on the same flight as us and brought us to Cypress Towers our new home. Our apartment is great it is a little smaller then the our apartment in Indianna but not to bad, it has 2 bedrooms front room that is connected to the kitchen and bathroom. And best of all two air conditioners which we desperetly need! It is sooo hot,

Master bedroom (sorry out of order

Taiwan, our first layover

The cute kids. and the next big news Marianne officially rolled over today twice. 14 weeks old! From Back to stomach good job marianne!

Elder tabien, why he is wearing long sleaves and shoes and socks I will never know

Spencer's bedroom

The one closed

Front room, taken from Bedroom Door

View from our bedroom balcony, pretty poor all around us

Front room taken from kitchen

Cool Birthday Presents

Chad and Amanda found this awesome horse and brought it all the way down from Salt Lake to for Spencer, he loved it, his mouth just dropped when he saw it! Thanks so much

Marianne's Blessing

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to Marianne's blessing last Saturday. We held it at the stadium chapel in Provo on 4pm on Saturday and then had a wonderful dinner provided by our families afterwards. It was wonderful. Devin gave Marianne a special blessing blessing her with virture, a happy dispositionand a content spirit. We already see these things in her. Grandma Hensen, Grandma Zoom, Nana, Devin, and Marianne, 5 Generations

Everyone that helped bless Marianne, we are so happy to have such wonderful friends and family

Devin welcoming everyone

Naomi and her mom creating the masterpiece dress the days before, it was beautiful made out of th esame fabric as naomi's wedding dress material, naomi, mom, katie and darlene spent hours sewing pearls all over it, it turned out gorgeous.

Temple Visit

We hadn't gone to the temple in a while since Marianne was born, so we thought we would give it one last effort. We also thought since we were already in Chicago we would set up an appointment to have Devin meet with a lawyer from Baker Mckensie just to chat. Well it wasn't quite as relaxing as we thought it would be, we got lost and it took us over 3 hours to get there leaving just enough time for just Devin to run in and do 30 minutes of temple work before we had to leave to get to his appointment - then the lady we were supposed to meet with ended up not being there due to a surprise funeral. So we get an A for effort but thats about it. But here some pictures of the kids at the temple. Here is the dandilion that spencer brought for marianne

Here is the dandilion that spencer tried to feed marianne

Graduation and New Babies

Devin graduated from Notre Dame with a Masters of Business, MBA, Magnum Cum Laude, top 5% of his graduating class. We are so proud of you sweetheart! It was a great weekend. Devin's parents came up for the graduation. We met them in Chicago on Friday, saturday and went to a Cubs game and then Saturday was the graduation fiesta!

Wearing the Master's Hood
All Decked out in Irish ready for the Graduation!
After the ceremony, ready to graduate
In front of the Gold Dome


With Touch Down Jesus!
The Walk
Grandpa and Marianne
Enjoing the Cubs!
On Wrigley's Field enjoying the cubs game! Thanks for the tickets Grandpa

My friends out here Elise, and Donnarae and I have all been pregnant together this whole year. We all just had our babies so here is the updated shot. We had to get one of the brothers and sisters to, they were much harder to photgraph since they move around so much :)


Here is Annie (1 1/2 weeks), William (6 weeks), and Marianne (11 weeks)- So cute and fun to see them all here finally. Welcome Notre Dame Babies

Counting to Ten-Almost

Spencer has been practicing counting and we can now count to 10, well almost! But good enough good job Spencer