Opposition in all things (at the Jensen home)

So I feel like life is really throwing a crazy curveball at my family right now. Generally, we are a pretty healthy family and we rarely get sick. But, in the last month or so, everyone besides my dad has gotten sick. We have all had a nasty cough in our lungs, and julia has also thrown up, had a fever, and had an ear infection on top of it all. So I hope that the rest of us don't move onto that stage of this sickness, and that we all can get better really soon.
One reason that I want us to get better soon is because we are going to Boise for spring break this next week. I am sooo excited to go and see everyone there that I rarely get to see since moving to spokane. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE Spokane, but Boise will always have a special place in my heart since I spent seven years of my childhood there. So needless to say, I am looking forward to this trip.
Another exciting milestone for me is tomorrow. I will be able to drive other people starting tomorrow! My six months are almost over, which is soooo exciting! I have been waiting, and it is going to be so nice that the day is finally here!
Also, today and tomorrow is general conference! I really look forward to hearing the wonderful messages that will be shared.

6 month update (I guess?)

Hey, so I know that I haven't been on here in forever, but I will try harder to post more often since this is pretty much my journal. My life has been absolutely amazing lately, and I don't even know why! crazy, I know. I have gone on several dates, been super busy with piano, gotten my driver's license, and joined my school's yearbook staff since my last post. I have also made many new and wonderful friendships and strengthened the ones that I already had, a lot! I now have a new sister/cousin/neighbor/any position that needs to be filled! :)

So, as previously mentioned, I got my driver's license. My six months will be up on April first, and that's less than a month! I am soooooooooooooooooooooo excited (and then some)! Along with that, I got a car! It is my cute little 21 year old Honda Prelude! I LOVE it, and just recently named it "Flynn" (from Tangled). Flynn is navy blue (half-spray painted, but that's okay) and extremely fun to drive around. It has everything that I wanted in a car when I was little. It has: a sun roof, seat belts in the door, pop-up/batman headlights, and 2 doors-not 4. So, it is my good old boy basically. (pictures to come soon hopefully on my new blog)

That leads me to the next subject. My new blog. This will hopefully get my to write on here more often because I will try to post on here every time I post on there. My new blog is a documentation of my "senior bucket list". Two of my very dear friends (Kim and Liam) came up with the idea because I had one thing that I really wanted to do before I graduated from high school. The list got added to by them and me, and now the plans on the list are being checked off one by one. So, we will see how that one works out. By the way, I should be following this blog, so it should show up on the side of this blog. If not, here is the link: http://mysillyseniorstory.blogspot.com/

Another thing was my wonderful Christmas. I got a marvelous trip to San Diego with my family. While there, I got to see many of my extended family members that I love A LOT! We also went to Sea World and the beach, but those aren't as exciting as cousins and other family members.

I also have alot going on in the piano side of my world. I just had a piano ajudication last Monday, which turned out okay. Now I just have to work on my six page song for another two months while I get to be finished with my one page song. Does it make sense? Normally, no. It only makes sense becuase I will be working on that song more becuase I have been entered into a festival and I am competing with that song. I also am now: the ward choir pianist, a ward organist, and the ward young women's music leader. I also have done alot of extra accompanying for many different people. I have done many random accompanyings for church events lately such as baptisms, singles ward choir, and other random groups. But, the best accompanying that I have done recently was playing for my fellow musician Aaron who plays the french horn. He needed a last minute accompanyist for his solo/ensemble event this year. He did really well, and got a superior. Yeah, we were pretty excited.

I think that I covered everything that I need to. More to come once it happens in a later post!

Summer wrap-up!

Hey guys! So I figured that I had better get all caught up on my summer! So I:

Went on Trek (with an AMAZING family!)

Went to BYS (and had the BEST group in the whole place-SAMSON!)

And last but not least of the huge summer activities...GIRLS CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then post girls camp, we: moved, my mom had surgery, and I got my wisdom teeth out!

Yeah, so my summer was pretty amazing, as you can see! But that's not all, oh no, that is only the beginning! I had my 16th birthday and went on my first date (now my sisters think that I am going to marry him) that very night with a good friend of mine and wonderful fellow pianist. (check out this new video he just put out- it's AMAZING! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5j-KXPMJo&feature=youtu.be) They surprised me after we went to dinner because I thought that we were going to his house for a bonfire, when...SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ran into my very own surprise birthday party! So I partied all that night just to go for another surprise birthday party of another good friend of mine the next day! that weekend was crammed with activities, but they were all worth it! Now...school starts tomorrow. :( Here we go, crazy jam-packed junior year!

10K- okay!

so i just got back from an amazing weekend in arizona somewhat recently. it was so amazingly warm (average of 75 degrees) and the lemons and oranges strait off the trees were delicious and tasted like candy! they are truly that natural winter candy of arizona! mmmmmmmmmmm so good! so, the reason i went there was to run a 10K race. it was London's Run and is a cancer benefit race. i was so surprised that i finished in under an hour (a crazy-for-me 52 minutes!), and i felt absolutely fabulous after the run! it was funny, during the race, i thought i would be sweating alot because i normally do when i run a long ways and i was running even longer and faster than normal and it was twice as hot as i am used to. however, as i was running, i was starting to wonder when i would start to sweat-i was looking around and almost everyone aroung me was sweating, but i wasn't which was really bizzare because most of the people were all in better shape than me! all in all it was a good trip though and i enjoyed seeing all of my family in arizona! hopefully i will have pictures on here soon! but for now, follow this link to my mom's blog for pictures http://thejensenseven.blogspot.com/2011/02/our-trip-to-arizona.html

not like a blizzard-it's just a blizzard!

So...in Spokane we just had a nasty blizzard. i don't mean those at dairy queen-i mean the kind with the yucky snow and wind. So, i stood out in the snow waiting for the bus in a blizzard. and yeah-i sooooooooooo wish it was ice cream instead of snow! but i survived! today it was colder when i was waiting for the bus, but there was no wind or snow! because of this my beautiful cousin rachel's flight into spokane was delayed several hours, but now she is here-safe and sound! oh-other good news: my mom doesn't have to do chemo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are soooooo happy and that gives us another thing to be thankful for this upcoming holiday season. along the lines of thanksgiving-thanks so much Shayna for the wonderful thanksgiving letter in seminary! love you all!