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.