Jensen Update 5-10-2020 Mother's Day!!

We had a great weekend! Friday night around 11:00 p.m. Janika and Brandon showed up! They had decided to surprise me by coming for Mother's Day! So that was a nice surprise! Janika brought us a mask she had made for me and Rick. Saturday Janika and Brandon went swimming with the kids in the morning. Scott came over for a visit -- so that was nice! The rest of his family was off hiking but he couldn't because of his back. The family worked on a project we are doing for Father's Day and then Jenna and I went swimming with Jase and Ellen and played a little water volleyball. Saturday night everyone watched "Psych The Movie" in the basement.

Mother's Day was great! It was so nice having everyone there - except for Jared and we got to do a video call with him later in the evening. Josh taught our lesson and did a great job! We then had a lovely meal of ham, cheesy potatoes, beans, corn, and salad for lunch and prepared for Mother's Day Tea!

Mother's Day Tea consisted of Dad being a "nose coach" with a covid-19 mask around his nose. He talked in this weird unintelligible way (I am not even sure how to describe it) while also signing. I interpreted for him part of the time but he said, "You don't need to interpret for me -- they can understand me just fine!" Which of course nobody could -- except me since I know sign language. His job was to teach people how to breathe.

Janika and Brandon were "vacationers." Jase and Ellen played the parts of Sully and Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc. Janelle was a person who fell asleep in the sun. When she told me she was going to be a sunburned person I thought, "okay..." But she really did look like someone with an awful sunburn! (Thanks to some red paint mixed with water -- and blush for her face). She played her part really well!

Jaiden was Baljeet from Phineas and Ferb. She has been practicing her Indian accent recently. Josh was a zebra and Jenna was the devil. I wore Jared's track uniform and all of his medals and called myself "Jaredina" (Jared for short). I tried to be loud, excited, walk with a strut, show off my muscles, and take secret snapchat videos.

We took pictures and then had treats -- chocolate covered strawberries, cheesecake, apples, blueberries, yogurt, and ice-cream -- LOTS of sugar, ha ha! It was a fun time! After Mother's Day Tea Janika and Brandon headed back to Logan. It was fun having them here this weekend! Tonight we did a video call with Jared. He is SO funny! He had the whole family cracking up the entire time! It really made me excited for him to return home in a couple of weeks! I remember when he left for his mission -- I knew that one of the things I would miss most was his sense of humor!

Other fun parts of Mother's Day were reading all of the memories about mom that Chris put together and going through the new family blog that Jen put together! Mom and I texted and e-mailed a bit and I also talked with Mom Jensen for a bit as well. I called one of the ladies I minister to wish her a Happy Mother's Day and she kept me on the phone for an hour and so I didn't get a chance to call the other lady I minister for. All in all it was a great weekend! I feel very grateful for my crazy family!