1999 Jensen History (Not finished)

 This has been a very busy year for all of us. Janika just turned four years old and loves playing with friends and going to Primary and pre-school.   She sang two solos in church this year.  She sang “I Am a Child of God” in Sacrament meeting almost a year ago and a week ago sang “What Child is This” in our Christmas Devotional. She loves to do homework in her workbooks and is well on her way to reading.

Jase just turned two years old and is into everything!  He is constantly climbing on the counters, turning on the television and stereo, and playing with Daddy’s computer. With his constant activity and Janika’s constant chatter, we find ourselves very occupied. Jase hasn’t started talking yet and is attending early intervention classes for language and speech at “The Learning Center” a couple of mornings a week.  He loves it and gets excited to play with the toys and other kids.   We have been signing a lot with him and after Christmas he suddenly started signing a lot.  Janika likes to use her sign language too and will often use it to say her prayers. We are expecting another baby boy in March of 2000 and are very excited about that.

Rick has been working on his Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis in Music and should be finished this summer (Yeah!).   This year he was transferred to Snow Canyon High School and the new Tuacahn High School for the Arts to teach Seminary and he loves it.  This has kept him very busy since he is the only full-time teacher at Tuacahn and therefore has more responsibilities such as the Seminary Council and other administrative work. This has been a nice transfer since he is now much closer to home and doesn’t have the half hour commute that he had last year at Pine View. He has also continued to teach some computer classes for Dixie College and InfoWest Internet service.

Wendy is still teaching evening ASL classes at Dixie College twice a week and doing some freelance interpreting. She was also one of the trainers for a week-long Interpreter Camp in Ogden during the summer. However, she is mostly busy with the responsibilities of motherhood such as carting kids to and from their pre-school and TLC classes and trying to keep peace and harmony in the home with two rambunctious children. She has also been trying out lots of new thrifty recipes to hopefully stretch the grocery budget somewhat and is always on the lookout for other ways to cut costs.  She has been blessed with a fairly easy pregnancy so far.   She is still serving in the Young Women’s Presidency and Rick is serving in the Elder’s Quorum Presidency.

We went on a few different camping trips with friends this past year that were really fun for us and the kids. Rick and I had a nice get-away at our Seminary Area Convention. We feel really blessed as we reflect on everything that Heavenly Father has given us.  We are especially grateful for His son and His atonement at this Christmas time.   Thank you for all for your love and friendship and best wishes for the new millenium!  Love, The Jensens    

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