9-16-07

Okay, so yesterday I spent the better part of the afternoon taking Austin shopping to get the proper homecoming attire. When I let people know what my plans were, reactions were, "Austin has a date?" Tis true. His second date. He was a bit disgruntled, though, when he got his answer. The cross country team all goes together and they all take someone different everytime, but still go as a group. They all know what a die-hard BYU fan Austin is, so much to his dismay, when the answer came, it came in the presence of paint on his car window that said, "Sure I will go with U." Now that should bring excitement, but he was a bit preoccupied with the shape of the U on the car, nice and bright red, similar to the U of U. It was actually very humerous. But this led us to having to go buy him something to wear. He also had to speak in church today on being a righteous father and i do have to admit, wearing that new jacket, he was a pretty handsome future father. He had 2 cross country meets this week and did amazingly well. And speaking of being a die-hard BYU fan, is it okay to pray the drive through at Subway is broken so he can close earlier and not miss as much of the BYU game on TV last night. Amazingly enough, when he got to work, the drive through was broken......coincidence??

As far as the other kids, football practice every night for Taylor, dance, gymnastics, drama, and cheerleading for Haylie. Took her to see "High School Musical" last night (the play) and she got autographs from the cast . She was in heaven.

As far as mom goes, I am hanging in there. I am doing well if I get everybody everywhere they need to go and still manage to get dinner on the table ---does throw in the oven chicken count?

Brandon is doing "spectacular" in Brazil. He leaves the MTC in 9 days, and will hit the pavement. He is good and ready. The language is coming along fine and he is loving the spirit there.

jaycie

jaycie faith jensen

shantel's first birthday

September 7, 2007

To anyone who might be reading this, our family is keeping busy as usual. With school setting in, and the initial shock of that wearing off, we are back to the grind. Austin has cross country every day after school and then a couple of nights a week heads off the working world. Taylor has football practice every evening, and is pretty tired by that time and head off to bed, of course after checking his email from his many admirers. Haylie is back in dance, gymnastics, and a drama class (need somewhere to channel that drama), as well as activity days and keeping up with her social calendar (there just aren't enough days in the week to cover all the friends she wants to play with). Most of the time it is pretty quiet around here, comparative to when everyone is home (even just the 3 of them). Brandon sends greetings from Brazil and is loving the mission life. He is getting a little tired of classes at the MTC and is anxious to hit the pavement and get going. We get weekly email and usually a weekly letter on the weekend. There is definitely a hole in our home and in our hearts, but he will be an inspiring, awesome missionary. Mom just keeps going and going and going, but aint life fun??!?!?!