TLC: Episode 1

The Lost Chronicles:

Untold Stories in Jennifer's Life

- Epsiode 1

On the 23rd of Friday, October, 2009, my father and I departed on a weekend hunting trip. Our destination was the northern edge of the Superstition Mountains, right south of Roosevelt Lake. It was there that we were assigned to hunt. We spent most of our time looking for our elusive foe, the white tailed deer. Hour after hour, we tirelessly trudged on, pausing ever so often to look with our binoculars and listen. Up hills and down valleys we went, experiencing hot dry sun, and wet cold depressions in the shadows; whipping trees and stubborn cat claw hindered our movement. All too soon, the day was almost spent, and hope seemed to the waning along with the sun. I sighed as my father panned the nearby mountains with his binoculars. Was this going to be another fruitless hunting trip like before? Was I ever going to even get to see a white tail in these mountains? All of the sudden my father tensed and called to me too look too. After a couple of tense moments I saw it too! Two deer! But alas! They were practically four hundred yards away horizontally, with that being across two gullies, and about four hundred yards straight up a very steep side of the mountain. But we had to try. So across we hurried, up, down, up, down. Rolling through every brush we couldn't avoid. Then we quickly marched up, and up, but not so fast that we would tire too quickly or alert our foe. The going was once again tough and slow. The side of the mountain was loose with rock and shale and for every couple so steps forward, I would side back at least a foot, at times. Finally, we were at the top, overlooking the valley where we were camped. But where were the deer? Despite all our efforts, we failed to make it up the mountain fast enough before the deer moved somewhere else to bed down as it got hotter. Tired, we continued to walk along the ridge hoping to see them on the other side but to no avail. After resting and then hunting some more, we returned to camp to sleep in the back of our truck, under the stars.

The next day was more fruitless than the first, as we saw nothing. So by mid afternoon, we packed up and headed home. It is true that we were tired and disappointed, but during my hunt I caught something even more elusive than my prey, alone and quality time with my father! What is better than that!?

The view of Roosevelt Lake, from the top of a ridge.

Me, in all my hunting glory!

My dad and me, during one our our breaks.

A look at what we what we went up and down :)

Coming Soon!

My dear friends! Sorry I have been MIA for so long....lots of stuff has happened :) but i promise that I'm gonna update for reals soon..... so hang tight for some traveling back in time in my new series: The Lost Chronicles: Untold Stories in Jennifer's Life. !!!

I am dying....

so basically i haven't updated in a good while due to the fact that I am dying from multi-test-and-report-itis. I was infected with this disease when i discovered that my professors have been conspiring against me and planning everything to happen at the same time. Hopefully though, the treatment which i have prescribed myself, which consists of seclusion and minimal human interaction,will work and i will overcome this illness in about two weeks time. Prayers will be most welcome as I go through this difficult time. Love you all!

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!)