Jensen update

So I realized that a lot has happened with us over the last month since my last post. First of all, Todd got a job!! He has had a TON of interviews over the last month and got offered 2 jobs. One was in Boise and one in Twin Falls. After a lot of thought, we decided on the one in Twin Falls. We are super excited to go but the job doesn't start until next fall. Accounting firms have a recruiting season every fall for jobs opening up the following fall. It's still a long way in the future but we are so glad to know where we will be and where he will be working.

We are also getting ready for a very busy Christmas break. Todd and I both are finished with finals on Tuesday this week and we are both so so excited to be finishing this semester. On Thursday, we are leaving for Connecticut! We're super excited! I haven't seen the kids since last Christmas, which is the longest I've been without seeing them, and Todd has never been out there. We are staying for a week and planning tons of fun things with the kids in CT and New York. We come home just before Christmas to spend the holidays with our families and then we are off on our honeymoon!! We are going on a cruise to Mexico during the week right before school starts. Todd's sister and brother-in-law got married back in January and never got a honeymoon either so they are going to come with us. We are very excited to spend some relaxing time in the warm weather.

We hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

More wedding faves

Wedding Pics

I know that it has been forever since our wedding but I just got the pictures back a month or so ago and it's taken me forever to figure out this whole blogging thing. Anyway, here they are!

This one is of us and Todd's friends and their wives. These 5 have been buddies for a very long time and Todd was the last of them to get married. They were excited to make the "Fab 5" become the "Top 10".

Todd and the boys.

Me and my besties. My 2 favorite cousins next to me and my 2 best friends from high school on the outside. It was so much fun to have them all there.

I love this picture! And yes, those were really the shoes I wore :)

I was so excited to start blogging....

I've been doing a pretty good job keeping up with the whole blogging thing and I was super excited to post pictures of Halloween this year. Todd and I went to the party that they have every year at the institute. They have a carnival-type party and then have a dance later in the evening. We were playing one of the games with my camera in my pocket and...it fell out on the gym floor and broke. :( I was so mad! So, my blog is going to be lame and boring for a while until I either get my camera fixed (which doesn't seem likely) or get a new one (which is even more unlikely). LAME!

Pumpkin carving

Last week for family night, we decided to carve pumpkins with our friends Beau, Mindy, Brady, and Katie. This was our final result. Ours is on the far right. I don't think you can see it very well in the picture but our pumpkin had a perfect lightning shaped mark on the top of it so naturally we made ours Harry Potter. It didn't turn out as good as we had hoped (carving glasses ended up being much harder than we expected) but we had a great time.

Our giant tree

We had a ward auction last week to raise money for Primary Children's Hospital. It was such a great time. We had loads of delicious food and a very entertaining time during the auction. Everyone from the ward donated their talents for the cause. Todd and I just bought a couple things but we were really excited about both of them. We got a date night provided by the bishop that we are super excited about. We also got leaf raking service :) We are even more excited about this one. We have this HUGE tree in our front yard. We absolutely love it because it has been a wonderful shade tree during this past summer but we have noticed that the leaves on it have just started to turn orange and we realized that this tree is going to turn into a huge job once the leaves start falling. When we saw the leaf raking up for auction, we were so excited and determined to win it. We ended up paying $12 for it but I'm sure it will be worth every penny.

I never thought I'd have a blog!

So Todd and I were talking about how terrible we have become with keeping journals. We have each written in our journals maybe 2 or 3 times since we've been married. I love to look at everyone's blogs and I think that it is a super way to do a bit of journaling and also to let all of my friends and family know how we are doing and what's new. So...I am starting a blog.

Recently, our lives have consisted of work and school and not much else. We are both so burned out and sick of school that it has been a real challenge to get things done. We are both in our last year (YAY) but (as crazy as it sounds) I'm not sure that it is a good thing that we are both almost done. We seemed to be equally unmotivated this year so I think it makes it worse for the other. We are definitely excited to finish school and be able to move on with life. Todd is majoring in accounting and is starting the process of applying for jobs. He has been also tossing around the idea of law school so we will almost surely end up moving next summer. It has been really fun looking at all of the possibilities of places to go. It will definitely be an adventure! :)