HERRINGS

Kevin 35!

On June 21st Kevin turned 35! We are so lucky to have him as our husband and father! Kevin loves us, takes care of us, provides for us, plays with us, and is wonderful!

Kevin asked Julie to make him a Transformers cake for the Jensen birthday party. She did a great job with the spliced logo of the Dicepticons and Autobots.

Plus it was yummy to eat even if it did have a million holes in it from candles :-)

Kevin asked for fishing gear for his birthday and boy did the Fam. deliver! Joe got him a nice pole and open face reel. Colbys got him a tackle box and "tools". Jason and Anne got him a Disney Princess kiddy rod! and then they gave him his real gift of a tackle bok and hooks and lures. We had fun and will have many more hours of fun through out the summer!

Freedom Acedemy

Our family has been a part of Freedom Academy charter school for the past 6 years. Kevin started the year they opened as a 1st grader and Sarah joined him 3 years latter. I also worked with the lunch program there for 3 years. We have had so many wonderful experiences there and made some wonderful friends.

This year the kids had a FANTASTIC music teacher named Mrs. Chock. She really helped the kids love music in a variety of ways. One of the many things she did was teach the kids dances that they presented at the end of the year.

Kevin learned the Pasadoble and really had fun with it.

Sarah learned a folk dance and did really well.

Kevin and Sarah also were a part of the track club after school and really enjoyed it. They got to have a big meet at the end of the year on the Provo High track field. They both did several events and did very well at them.

Through MUCH though, research, pondering, prayer, tears and heavenly guidance we have decided to go another rout with schooling. We will miss many people from our time at Freedom Academy. We are excited for our new adventures and are SO grateful for a Father in Heaven who cares so much and really will help with every decision in our lives.

JIVE DANCE

Both Sarah Collette take dance at Jive ~ A Dancer Place. Every year Jive has a huge concert. The girls have a full dress rehearsal on Thur. then 2 shows on Fri. and 3 shows on Sat. !!! It is an insane weekend in a really good way!

This was Sarah's 7th concert with Jive so she is an old hat at it she has become a very good dance and really has fun with it!

This was Collette's 2nd concert. She was one of the "older" dancers in her class. She LIVES for the concerts. She LOVES the hours of hair, make up, costumes, etc. When she gets on stage ALL her attitude comes out and really finds its moment to shine.

In case the weekend was not crazy enough it was also a womens retreat for our ward, Kevin and Sarah both had acting auditions and most important KEVIN AND JOY'S 12th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!

SARAH TURNS 9!!!

On May 3rd Sarah turned 9 years old! Sarah is amazing, loving, sweet, talented, caring, considerate, beautiful, smart, funny, and just a tinny bit blond :-)

We had a house full of friends from church and school over to celebrate with us. It was all girls except one boy ~ "the only decent boy in my class"! We had lots of fun!

We also had our traditional Jensen party at Grandpa and Grandma's house. Sarah requested an ice cream and brownie cake with NO FROSTING! As always aunt Julie delivered beautifully!

Not selling myself short

So Modbe is offering a cruise to it's top consultants. For the first couple weeks after it was announced I was on the fence about how I felt. Sure it would be fun but I really don't like to set myself up for failure and would hate to let myself think, dream, plan for it and then not get it. Then I thought THAT IS A REALLY BAD ATTITUDE! I really do believe that we make our own destinies SO..... KEVIN AND JOY ARE GOING ON A CRUISE! I am going to do all I can and earn this. The more I thought about it the more excited I became. We always have had kids with us if we went someplace and that is great, we love being with our kids but....

So IF you have been eyeing a new Modbe swimsuit or a pair of Jeans or anything else NOW would be a great time to call me and we will put a party together! You get FREE stuff and I will know I have truly done my all and be content with the outcome :)

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EASTER

Every year for Easter we split the fun into 2 great days. We have Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. On Easter Saturday we all get together, color Easter eggs (a lot of them), fill plastic eggs with candy (even more of them) and have a huge, crazy, Easter egg hunt. This year because it was wet, cold and yucky outside we split the hunt into little kids and big kids and had it in grandpa and grandmas living room. There were 9 kids under 12 and then Joe and Amber too :)

We had fun with our egg creations and we all ate WAY too much candy

Then on Easter Sunday I break out the new Easter outfits. I am pretty laid back about letting people choose their own clothing, etc. EXCEPT on Easter :) I get to choose and every one gets to smile and be nice. I also get to take as many pictures as I want and they can not say a thing. At this point in history everyone has this routine down quite nicely and I am a happy mommy overall.