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Shoulder Surgery and House Selling and Moving and Commuting...Oh My!

Well, Kenny went to the doctor today, and they said his right shoulder is healing up very nicely.  He doesn't have to be in a sling anymore but still can't lift with his arm.  They have set the next surgery date for December 12.  The left shoulder has a torn tendon in the rotator cuff. We will just pray that everything will go as smoothly for the left shoulder as the right.

We finally have some traffic looking at the house.  Hopefully now that we have some people looking, we will be able to sell it.  I've got to get busy boxing stuff up, since when it does sell, Kenny won't be able to help.  I'm pretty sure that we're going to need a moving company.  It is hard to think about someone else in our house.  I hope that they love it as much as we have.  I guess you can't really think about that.

So, until the house sells, the commuting continues.  The kids have been great, but it will be nice when I can "go home" at the end of the day to my own house and not live out of a suitcase.  The good thing about this is that I plan my clothes for the week.  I should do that even when I'm not trying to pack a suitcase.  It does make getting ready in the morning less hectic when you already know what you are going to wear and it is all ironed.   Mostly, I don't want to have to scrape the frost off my car windows every morning.  What can I say?  I'm a whiner about that kind of thing. And this morning the frost was thick.  I'm dreading tomorrow morning already.

 

Award Winning Halloween Costume

I just have to post this amazing costume that Matt and Chandra did for Brittea. They are so clever! I'm sure if she entered into a contest she would have won the grand prize! Awesome huh!

We have a website

Check it out. Our agent set up this site.

www.wjhomeforsale.com

I have no idea if this kind of thing helps to sell a house or not. We are priced way too high, so we've lowered to $273,500. We hope we are in the right ball park now to get some lookers. According to HGTV (yes, I am a big fan of HGTV and TLC home shows) it is all about the numbers and getting people to come and look so that the right buyer can find us. Now I understand that HGTV is not any kind of gospel, but with how many people have looked at our house so far, we won't sell it because we haven't had any traffic!!!!

Pray for us to sell soon. I've only commuted for one week, and I hate it already.

It's been a long time....

I haven't posted anything for so long, and I don't know how great these pictures are. But I thought I take a minute to try to remember some of the things that have been going on at our house. So much has happened over the past month. I am going to try to remember some of it....

• KC and Tawni both had birthdays. They turned 24. Since they have birthday's in the same month, I think they are destined to get a joint present for much of their marriage. We gave them a BBQ grill and they have been grilling up a storm!
• When I gave my notice at work, they decided they would close the office as of November 1! That made a lot more work to close everything. I've spent the last month boxing and sorting and shipping and sanitizing. It was kind of sad. I opened the office and set it up, and partly closed it and took a lot down. I'm glad for the experience that I had there, and know that without that experience we would not have the opportunities we have now.
• The "For Sale" sign got put in the front yard and we have a lock box on the doorknob. Yikes!
• I traveled to Columbus on business one last time.
• We got new appliances in the kitchen. Our appliances were way outdated and they made the kitchen look pretty bad. We were hoping not to change them and just reduce our price so the buyer could pick what they wanted, but we had a couple of recommendations to make the updates so we did.
• We put knobs on the cabinets.
• We painted the basement. Our awesome home teacher came over and helped Kenny paint the doors.
• We got new carpet in the basement. To get the carpet, we had to move everything out of the basement. One of my visiting teachers and her husband came over to help us. It was a big job to move the furniture up to the garage. It is not coming back down. The new homeowners can move their stuff down here instead!

• We cleaned all the cabinets and boxed up a ton of stuff.
• We put together a ward picnic. It was a great success. We had a lot of people come and it was a lot of fun.
• We were released from being the ward activity committee.
• We attended a baptism and a baby blessing and had fun with family and took naps because we were at someone else's house and so we couldn't work on ours!
• My co-workers and I had a last get together. Kenny and I had dinner with all the great people that I've been fortunate to work with over the past 7 years.
• We attended a funeral. A friend that we've known for 20 years died suddenly of a heart attack. He was only 1 year older than me. What sadness...a reminder that life is fragile and how grateful we are for the gospel and the promise of eternal life!
• Our cute ward family had a going-away party for us. We were a little worried about this. We certainly don't want someone else who moves out of the ward to get their feelings hurt, but it sure made us feel loved. So many people in our ward have touched our hearts and we will never forget them. They took a picture of everyone who came to the party, so we can always have that to remember them by.


• I had to talk in Sacrament meeting. Kenny talked last month, so he got out of it. But I suppose I have given my "farewell" speech. And, if they ask us to talk when we move, we have talks all prepared!
• We have spent a ton of time on the MLS. We haven't made a decision on a house yet, but hopefully soon.

Here is a picture of Kenny sitting down. Believe me, when I say "we" above when a house fixing chore is involved...it is almost all Kenny. Working on the house has been a full time job for him over the past month. He has been working so hard and I think this is the first time that he has stretched out and relaxed for a minute.

This is long and not necessarily in order, but I hope this will help us remember all that we have accomplished when it get discouraging because it seems that we aren't getting done!

Load up the wagons folks!

The Jensen's are loading up the wagons and moving from West Jordan to Logan! Exciting times are ahead. Teresa has accepted a new position with SDL in Logan at the beginning of October. Kenny will look for something new when we get up there. Pray for us that the house sells quickly. The market isn't the greatest right now and the sooner we sell, the sooner we can be together as a family!

We are super excited and nervous all at the same time. This is a big change after being in the same house for 18 years. Everything has fallen in to place is such a way that we are certain this is meant to be. Don't come too close to our house. We might put you to work washing walls and painting!

HAPPY DANCE!!

All of the puppies are sold! YIPEE!!!!!!!