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Well for those of you who I don't have your phone number... (or I forgot) we are having a BOY! I am thrilled that I will have a cute little Levi in my house. I'm sure it will definitely be an adventure, but we are so excited! Levi was very proud of himself because he has been sure it was a boy since day 1. I am glad he got his wish. It will be fun! They said I am actually measuring at 21 weeks, not 20... but sadly aren't changing my due date. Probably just a bit larger of a baby considering the Jensen genes. Everything developmentally looks excellent, so that is great! Now.. whether I will be able to push him out.. that is another story, we'll just have to wait and see! After my mother's and sister's histories, I don't have the greatest of chances... but I am sure going to put forth a good effort! As of now we will most likely name him Brighton Levi.. unless I have some major change of heart between now and then! We can't wait for this new adventure and are so excited to start our family!

Ella's new BEST Friend, Lefi.

I guess he officially stole my role :) She wanted him ON every single toy with her, NO watching! Her favorite place all weekend was on his shoulders!

How you know you're totally broke.

Not only.. do you stay at the Holiday Inn for your anniversary...

You steal ALL the cups for use at your house because you're too cheap to buy plastic cups! :)

Hooked on Phonics Worked for Me!

FROM A TEACHER:

My five-year old students are learning to read.

Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, 'Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!'

I took a deep breath, then asked...'What did you call it?'

'It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!' ;

And so it does...




' A f r i c a n Elephant '


Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

HOOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Well as some of you know, I quit my job two weeks ago! Today was my last day and I haven't felt this relieved to be done with a job in a very long time! I have been lucky enough to have several options come my way. I have a few dance classes to teach and also a family that I will most likely nanny for, and some houses to clean. And I just listed the ads for it online today! We are excited for fall! Levi now has a full time position doing therapy with his students ( WITH BENEFITS!! which is the only reason I could quit my job!) I am VERY excited for my new jobs if you can't tell!:) Levi said when I got home, You haven't been this happy in a long time! And it's so true because I've been tied down to a job I could hardly handle everyday! So it should be fun for sure! Wish us luck! On anther note, we got to go look at our new apartment in Rexburg this weekend! Well.. it was in shambles and construction :) But we saw one just like it too that is finished. We are excited to move up there! The next few months will be quite the adventure for us!

The Last Few Weeks..

Ok, here is my explanation.. My pictures aren't showing up on the edit screen, just a bunch of jumbled text! So... the pictures are of.. a weekend family reunion at Bear Lake, Levi and I's frosting fight on my birthday, Levi waterskiing on the Snake with the Jensens,Micah & Shannon fitting in Levi's XXL hoodie (which is too big on him to begin with and very stretchy :), and our trip to Yellowstone! There ya have it!

ABC'S

Lame that I have nothing else to post about.. I KNOW!

A – 21… 22 in 24 Days 
B - Bed size: Queen but we need much bigger so Levi can stop whining about me and my bad sleeping habits! I am all over the place. Funny thing is, I know that, and I warned him before we were married. I cannot be held responsible for what I do in my sleep!
C - Chore you hate: Dishes..our new apartment has a dishwasher thank goodness!
D – Dessert: Raspberry cheesecake with pretzel crust
E - Essential to start your day: hitting snooze, twice, both for five minutes each.
F - Favorite flower: lilies
G- Gold or Silver: white gold
H - Height: 5’6” on a good day  5’5” on a bad one
I - Instruments you play(ed): piano
J - Job you had in high school: worked for my dad.. milking cows, moving pipe, calving, feeding.. etc
K - Kid(s): none, YET!
L - Lunch spots: Del Taco!
M - Mom's Name: Laurel Denise
N - Newest item bought: new laptop
O - Overnight hospital stay: none so far
P - Pet Peeve: lying
Q- Quote from a movie: too many to name just one.. 
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 4 brothers, 2 sisters, 1 brother-in-law and 3 sisters-in-law 
T - Time you wake up: Usually about 8 these days
U - Underarm deodorant?: Dove Go fresh.. the citrus kind
V - Very surprising fact: geeze.. I don’t know. Nothing surprising here!
W - Ways you run late: snooze, hair, can’t decide what to wear, and I’m a bad judge of time 
X - X-rays you've had: ha ha lots of them.. legs, arms, knees..
Y - Yummy food you make: tri-tip, pasta, Parmesan chicken..
Z - Zoo animal: definitely monkeys. I would actually like to own one!

SO how I feel today! :)

First day at my new job!

So..I got a promotion of sorts and moved from being the service managers assistant to being... the service managers assistant/office manager at our Wells Cargo and Xtreme Accessories Dept! I moved offices and now get a corner office with a view :) As opposed to my corner office staring at the wall :) It will hopefully involve a small raise and some bonuses as well which I am excited about. Change is always nice and this change is good.. cause now I get to boss a whole bunch of guys around! :) Wish me luck!

Finally got my stuff back!!

We took our lousy laptop in to get fixed a few months ago.. and they had to replace the hard drive. SO... they loaded all our important stuff, mostly music and pictures on to an external hard drive. Well when we got the computer back all of our stuff was locked into the hard drive and I put off going to have them help me get it off forever. We ended up getting a new computer though and I finally did it last night and I feel so much better having all my stuff back! I was a little worried I wasn't going to get my 5,500 songs and my 8,000 pictures back! I feel so much better! :)

Chris Farley reincarnated as a girl & pre-bluetooth..

HA HA this is terrible. But oh so funny, right? :)

This one's just plain funny :)

Why college is not user friendly.

College is not user friendly. Here is why. When Levi decided to go to Weber, I decided to transfer as well. Well I decided I wanted to major in Dance Education. I knew it was going to take me a little longer than I wanted because I had transferred at all. Well I found out this last week exactly how long. Just to put it in perspective: To graduate from college in four years you have to take 15 credits every semester, never take any extra classes, never take a semester off, never work, and you HAVE to know exactly what you want to do RIGHT out of high school so you can start on their little plan. And if you don’t it will take you seven years to graduate. When I transferred and met with my advisor she gave me a plan of classes to take. She didn’t say any of them were imperative. She just said to start there. Well this one class, improvisation was offered at noon, and I don’t get done with work until 2:30. SO.. I couldn’t take that one. Well as it turns out, that is prerequisite to a choreography class. Well the choreography class is only offered EVERY OTHER YEAR. Well since I didn’t get into improv.. I cannot take this class until Fall of 2011. That means at the very earliest, I can graduate in May of 2012. That will be exactly SEVEN years since I graduated from high school. How annoying right? So yeah, I am trying to get them to accept a summer intensive workshop at BYU as this stupid improv class so I can get into the choreography class in the Fall. I will be moving to Provo for a week and a half, taking that time off work as my week of paid vacation that was supposed to be used for a summer trip, and staying with Rachael and going to a dance class for 5 hours a day. But we will see what thy tell me. Anyway, long story short, College is NOT user friendly I have decided. And.. WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO POSTPONE WHAT I WANT TO DO FOR WHAT I HAVE TO DO?? Someone, please answer that one for me! :)

What we've been up to!

Happy V-DAY to ME! (and Levi)

For Valentines we decided to be a little more practical and start our furniture collection! Yippe! We kind of went on a spending spree though :) We just kept finding good deals! We got a new table.. so cute and SO cheap and exactly what I wanted! Two new couches.. a TV.. um.. a Wii... What else? I think that's it :) We've been saving up for all this stuff since we got married so I didn't feel too bad about spending it. Levi also went somewhat impractical and got the roses.. but that's just what you do on Valentines day right? :) We've had lots of fun with all our new things!

Our latest family photo..

What can I say? We like each other! :)