Two Decades......

So before I get to all the 'happy birthday stuff', there is a lot of other stuff I need to catch up on! So school is being crazy and I can’t tell it to stop.....nuff said. I had a circuits test two weeks ago and barely just got it back. And when I took it I totally thought I failed it but hallelujah, I got a B! And earlier I had taken a quiz in my Engineering Mechanics class and got it back, I had totally bombed it. And we have to pass these quizzes to pass the class (long story short). So, devastated, I went and talked to my professor and he was so nice! He said "well let’s have a look at it, I probably graded you too hard." so he looked at it, and I really only did one thing wrong, so he regraded it so I went from a 4/10 to a 9/10!

So my whole point in this story is the lord really helps us. Ever since my summer school class my confidence in my test taking skills has gone way down. But the lord always has confidence in me and I thank Him so much! He helped me keep my cool about my quiz and because of it everything is going to be fine! (Until next quiz...) ha!

So school is interesting but a wonderful (at times) learning experience.

So.......................... I’m 20 now...... CRAZY!

So this birthday has been pretty interesting. We went out to dinner on Wednesday (my birthday was Thursday) cuz all of us were too busy the night of my real birthday. So we had cake, not on my birthday, and all I really did on my bday was open presents! But it was still fun. My singles ward is amazing where the Bishop and his wife cook dinner for all the birthdays of that month, and by coincidence, the dinner was on my bday! So that was a fun thing to do. It was just strange cuz Thursdays are like my longest days so I really didn’t see mom and dad all that much, and I had a differential equations test the next morning so..yeah it was strange but fun.

Me and my cake!

Me figuring out what Im going to wish for....

that morning (one of the 3 pictures of me taken ON my birthday.... what a break in tradition!)

Well its been real. Hopefully i will get to update soon again! love you all!

Three Cheers for Trials.......

so..things arnt going super right now....i think that i did awful on a test, but the results have not come in. And this a no little cause of much anxiety that I am feeling, and have been feeling since Tuesday (the day of the test). And try as I might I can only smother it for a bit, but it aways comes back. and the sucky part is i soooo knew the material, but i blanked and panicked somewhat, but hey maybe the Lord will soften my prof's heart and all will be well...

and though this has been a huge trial for me, i know i will be a better person and all for it, and im so excited for conference, cuz it is basically going to be AMAZING! but still, life is not fun right now.

but hey by 20th birthday is a week from today, and that is pretty much craziness in and of itself. huzzah for something eh?

new house, new room

okay so im finally going to get around to blogging about my new house. the delay is due to the fact that i just finished my room about....10 minutes ago :) hahaha. so first im gonna do the general areas upstairs....

This is basically the first look of my house right after you walk in the front door...

A look at the Living Room...just fun antiques

This is the Great Room. (basically the Family Room and Kitchen)

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Now here is my room!

My awesome blue book shelf, the quilt i made...yup this room just screams me!

okay, so there are going to be some of you guys out there that are just completely bored with this post cuz your like "jen, we have seen this all already", just wait you people! the long awaited and long commented/confusing tree is done! *cue next picture!*

ah-ha! success! its awesome isnt it? here is a closer view:

So finally I am done, and happy with it! huzzah! well im off for now! im gonna so swimmin in my new pool! hahaha! ja ne!

First Impressions

So I am officially done with my first 3 days of school for this Fall 09 semester and I thought I would write my first impressions of my classes so far (I will probably laugh at these later because classes are pretty dynamic little creatures...)

1. Differential Equations: this is my first American math teacher I've had at ASU. He seems really nice, but he is a new teacher, so he might be pretty inexperianced. But so far his teaching style has been pretty good, so i am fairly pleased.

2. Engineering Mechanics: This class is going to give me a lot of grief in the future, I will tell ya that right now. My teacher seems pretty thorough but who knows what is going to happen when things really get going.

3. Circuits: This one seems pretty good also. I learned some ciruits in my Physics 2 class i took this summer and felt good about it, so we shall see if this class changes my views at all. But so far it seems to be okay.

4. Physiology: This is an ultimatum class to me. It is either going to be really fun, or really really hard. My teachers (there are two of them) seem way cool and like they know what they are doing, but there is just so much that we are going to have to learn, im kind of daunted.

So in this little analysis I have tired to be pretty optimistic and stuff. I actually have been having a hard time getting motivated for this semester but im making myself go while finding/maintaining my motivation to learn!

Well im off for now, but hey, the valley has been really clear lately so its been gorgous! Huzzah for Arizona (when its not smoggy and pretty!)

not dead....

wow, it has been seriously FOREVER since I last posted, and while this one is going to be real quick (cuz its main purpose is to prove that Im not dead ;)) I just wanted explain why the long break.

First off I started a summer school course, Physics 2, so bascially, I had no life...(ask my sister) then we moved in the middle of that and Ive been wanting to post pics but im too lazy and forget to take my camera with me when i go on my daily excursions around the house. and now im on week 2 of my two week break so im just kinda chillin with Emily and fam.

And you wanna know something that is probabaly one of the huggest shockers of my life?!!! I have hardly been on the computer this last month...maybe two! Basically ive just kept busy with fun projects (mainly my room) and just read when i get bored or tired. how fun is that?! I love it actually :) !

well i think that is all for now. thanks for hangin in there with me! love ya all!

(YAY for pretty temple flowers!)

Daddy!

In light of Father's Day, I am going to take a break from my usual ramblings about myself, and give a little tribute to my most amazing father. My Dad, as I have just recently stated, is amazing. He works SO amazingly hard to support our family, it leaves me in awe. And because he not only works hard at work, but in all the things he does, it instills in me the drive to do my best at whatever I decide to persue.
And please, all you people who think that my father is some gruff, intimidating man... you are just wrong. He only acts it cuz he can :) yes my father is powerful and commanding, but he is also so very kind and gentle.

So here's to you Dad! I hope you have a wonderful day! Love you!

The Proud Father

Sporting the beard only two months later...

Where we once visited Dad at work,

he now gets to be visited by his grandchildren!

Of course, he was always up for the ever-popular horsey ride

Playing, what I believe to be go fish or old maid, with his girls. Isnt he awesome?

Playing with his grill

My Dad and me!

Missouri!

Okay, okay. I've had these pictures save on here FOREVER but havent just gotten around to writing about Missouri, but now im going to so here I go!

First off, Lily was SO cute! She turned 1 a couple of weeks ago, and is just walking around and chatting up a storm. She loves to point at everything, and especially at things she is not supposed to mess with. hahaha

So, the land of Missouri is very interesting. It is very flat but has lots of hills so it kind of makes up for the lack of mountains. It rained alot (very randomly sometimes) but otherwise it wa a really awesome place to visit. Oh and by the way, there were Amish people that would just drive their buggies down the sides of the roads!

Also there were like a million of these little 'po-dunk' towns that we drove through, and lived in for a week. Though they are fun and old-timey, there is nothing to do in them besides go to antique shops and eat! hahah but its all good!

So here is me and em in our retal car (that got awesome gas mileage by the way). I was the official navigator and only messed up once :( , but that was on the return trip to the airport and it was so simple it was confusing...ha.

And Em was an awesome driver! I wasnt allowed to drive the car since im not 21 (poo) so she had to drive the whole time, but did awesome!

And now as I part, I leave you with a video of Lily saying the two things that she learned while we were there. A Banana is now "nana" and the doggy goes "woo woo" (in a barking kind of way :))