Lots of happenings

So much has happened over the last two weeks and I am talking other things not Christmas. First, of all our shower decided to leak into our master bedroom so we had to tear out the old one and replace it. And as you may have already guessed this just is a hugh task. Lots of mess and lots of time especially when your husband is working lots of overtime. Well it is finally done! I think we can start using our new shower tomorrow when everything is dry. It looks really nice and will be really nice to have our shower back. Our new shower has a place to sit which should be cool. I will have to take a picture for you all to admire.

The next big happening was very scary. My oldest daughter Courtney was in a car accident. She drove home from BYU with her roommate Kristin so she would not have to drive home alone. Kristin lives in Arizona. Courtney was also going to help finish mixing the new Noteworthy album for a couple of days and then fly home. The Friday before Christmas her and Kristin were trying to make a left turn in one of those lame left turn things where you just have to wait until you can go no arrows. Well, the light turned yellow and the cars were slowing down so they decided they could go but at the sametime they decided to go a big truck decided to try and "make" the light before it turned red. Well, the big truck t-boned the little honda right on Courtneys side. Thankfully, the car had airbags which I am pretty saved Courtney from some serious injuries or maybe even death. The truck was going about 50 mph. Both girls are going to be fine. Kristin had to stay in the hospital for a couple of days because her brain was bleeding. She is home now recuperating and mostly just has some pretty bad headaches. Courtney was released the same day after lots of tests and even a catscan. Courtney is still really sore especially on her right side and has lots of dizzy spells. She also is very nervous in the car and likes to sit in the middle of back seat and sometimes she crys because of flashbacks. But hopefully, all this will pass and she will recover fully. I am sure they had angels watching over them and am very grateful to a loving Heavenly Father who watches over us. Things like this really make you think about how quickly life can change.

Courtney and Katie have to head back to Provo early because Noteworthy is opening on New Year's eve for Rockapella a pretty well known acapella group. They were on the show Carmen San Diego. I am very sad that they have to head back early but this will be a fun experience for them. Katie also moved into a new apartment and so she will have a chance to get everything organized before the new semester starts.

We had a very fun and blessed Christmas. A Christmas angel sent our family such an amazing gift (thank you so much whoever you are, we can't thank you enough for your kindness!). We spent lots of time with family, ate some delicious food and remembered our Savior. We even had a Happy Birthday Jesus cake. Hope you all also had an amazing holiday and that your New Year is filled with lots of happiness.

Back to a somewhat normal life

So, now that the election is FINALLY over, I am back at home and can start having a normal life again. (whatever that is) I really need to do this more often so I don't feel overwhelmed when I finally do sit down to update. Yeah, the election was crazy! I believe it was the worst ever. Talking to everyone that has worked voter reg for a while they all said they have never been through an election like it. 80% turnout which is pretty amazing since it is usually much, much lower. You might saw it was overwhelming. I mean I love seeing people get out to vote an all but my goodness I was not prepared for the wierdness of the public. Let's just say it was defitnetly a learning experience.

So what has been happening with the Jensen Family .... let's see we had our fall production at EGMTC the Jr. cast performed 101 Dalmations and the Sr. cast performed Roger's & Hammersteins Cinderella. Both turned out really well. David was Horace (one of Cruella's henchmen) in 101 Dalamations and Ciara was Portia (one of the step-sisters) in Cinderella.

Stephen was released as Bishop after 5 years. It was very bittersweet we love having him home but at the sametime it is also sad. Especially for him. But he is now serving in the Stake Young Mens as 1st Counselor which will be great. He was an amazing Bishop for the Gerber Ward and we loved seeing him up there on the stand every week but it is nice to have him sitting with the family agian.

This is a picture of his board in the Bishops Office. Mostly written on by the youth of the ward. He didn't erase any of it for 5 years. So, it was very sad to finally have to erase the memories. So, we took pictures.

Thanksgiving was very memorable. We went to my parents house for dinner which was amazing. My Mom can cook. We had ham and turkey and all the fixins of course. My brother and his family was their as well. We decided we needed to take a family picture since it had been so long since we had taken one ...which I think means we have never really taken a family picture. Anyway, we went out onto my parents porch to gather for the picture and the neighbor decides now would be a good time to come over and visit and say "thanks" to my mom for the nice dinner she took over to his house. Well, he came right as we were about to take this long overdue family picture and for some reason just couldn't get the very large "HINT" we were giving him and well we now have a new member of our "family" in this first picture we are all laughing so hard that we just couldn't stop even for the picture. Michael the neighbor is the one peeking over katie's head in the middle back.

So yeah, here we are totally laughing our faces off, especially my family. Katie was especially wierded out by the neighbor she said "it looks like he is about to eat me"

We did finally get a "good" picture without Michael the neighbor.

Alicia, Robert (my brother), Katie, Courtney, Me, Stephen

Ciara, Dot Devey, Timm Devey

David and Michael (Robert's little boy)

Here are a few more pictures we took that day. After my parents we went over to the Jensen's for dessert, games and singing. We are putting out another CD so we had to practice.