Jensen Induction

I've been spending a lot of time with Nate's parents lately due to my little car crash. His sweet mom picks me up from work everyday, (and lots of times takes me to work too), and I just hang out at their house for a few hours until Nate gets off work and can come pick me up. Nate's mom has been my primary caretaker lately with my soft foods only diet so the Jensens and I have been doing some serious bonding and I have realized one of the huge keys to being officially inducted into their family:



Simon and Garfunkel.

I already knew Nate was the biggest fan and that if we were to road trip anywhere, listening to an entire S & G hits album would be standard protocol. I also knew that they are the most played artist on my husband's ipod, even though he still won't go as far as to claim they're his favorite. But I didn't realize the extent of the roots to this liking of Simon & Garfunkel until I started bonding so much with Nate's parents Glen & Laurel.

I found out they separately spent their youth angst years relying on Simon & Garfunkel to either put a smile on their face or calm them down when having a hard time. Then, collectively they raised all of their kids with these songs playing in the background. If they were road tripping anywhere, no question an entire S & G album would be played.(Which I really respect because the majority of my ipod is just a bunch of single songs and I have few albums in their entirety.)

I never really thought twice about the fact that I have been around to see almost all of Nate's brothers and sister listening to Simon & Garfunkel in their own homes or cars. The other night after work while watching t.v with Glen and Laurel, the 25th Anniversary Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame concert from last year was playing on some channel. Glen turned it on and skipped through a good chunk of the performers until he finally got to the Simon and Garfunkel performance.(see above video, it's pretty good.) He turned the volume up super loud and it was like a concert in the living room. They told me about how they took the kids to see them at their reunion concert a few years ago and how their kids were the only young people in the audience and how the kids knew all the words to EVERY song and how it made Glen cry a little bit out of joy.

Before knowing Nate I don't think I could have even told you the name of one Simon & Garfunkel song. I am not musically inept, but those two fellas just never looked like their songs would be my thing. I love their music now and feel like it is a part of the little family Nate and I have made for ourselves. I feel sort of inducted into the Jensen family now because I understand how far back this whole liking for S & G goes. I think a lot of families have musical commonalities like this that get passed down unintentionally out of a desire for nostalgia, and I think it's great. I think mine if there was one would be Eyde Gormet y Los Panchos.(Don't laugh, they're good.) Do you have a Simon and Garfunkel?

1998 vs. 2010

I just wanted to post these then and now pictures of Julie, Sally and I. We took the latest picture on our stop in Beaver to see Julie the day before she had her baby girl. We are all pretty pregnant in the newest picture and I still think we look better than we did when we were 16.




I thought it would be a good idea to have pasta hanging out of my mouth I guess. This is from some Young Women's trip that Anna Tanner organized and we got to hang out in Palm Springs.

So many latest hapenings

I was gearing up to post these pictures and lots more of our new house which has pretty much consumed our time and thoughts for months now. We've been working on it a lot and were just picking paint colors when this happened..




Monday on my way to work I got in a serious car accident. I was going through an intersection on my green light and someone coming from the opposite direction decided to turn on their left red arrow and I didn't see them until it was too late. I slammed on my breaks and closed my eyes upon impact. I opened them and grabbed my face in pain and there was blood everywhere and I am this pregnant right now (35 weeks)...




So I was screaming and crying pretty positive I had ended the baby's life. People helped me out of the car and the paramedics were there to whisk me away in a few minutes. As soon as I got into the ambulence I felt the little man move and they heard his heartbeat so I calmed down like 100% but I was scared I might go into labor. They took me to the hospital and kept me there till 6pm the next day to monitor my placenta in case it tore from the uterus in the first 24 hrs and to give me turbutiline to stop the contractions. While I was there I had a CTscan to see why my jaw hurt so bad and found out it was fractured. Yesterday I went to the oral surgeon for an assessment of what I should do about my jaw and left there with my jaw pretty much sealed shut. Without any warning he put these lovely things on both sides of my mouth....



They are like these braces things that i put these tiny and not stretchy rubber bands on. They're so small you probably can't even tell that that is what is in my hand..



I have to double those rubber bands up on those metal things so pretty much how you see my teeth closed in the above picture is how they will be for weeks. I can barely fit a straw through my teeth so its liquid food for a few weeks. This baby is already so big and needs so much food all day I don't know how this will go. It feels like I had braces put on because of the achiness, but I guess this is all a blessing right? Everyone says the main thing is that me and baby are ok. I know this is true but I am starving and had to miss a week of work and now have no car. I guess I'm just happy that I didn't have to give birth because of all this. P.S. the fractured jaw is from the airbag, those things are crazy! It busted my lips open and bruised up my left arm. But that's actually not that hard to do to my arms if you remember correctly. Maybe one day soon I'll get some before and after pictures up of the house. But for now we are a week behind on getting ready for this baby. Thanks everyone for all your calls and texts and messages in concern. I really am thankful that the baby and I are ok. He's as active/crazy as ever.