FHE at the Dixons

Right now Will is focusing on getting his Pinewood Derby done. He is making a yellow and blue Hot Rod. He is getting excited to race his car to the finish line!

Kirsten is keeping busy by Irish Step Dancing, doing school work, and babysitting. She also enjoys attending Stake Dances now that she is fourteen. Kirsti is happy that it is the fourth quarter of school because she is looking forward to the summer.

Lindsay is a sophomore in high school.
For those of you not fluent in Webdings, Lindsay is a sophomore in high school. She is having fun on her high schoool tennis team and is kept busy (and tired) with school and early morning seminary. She is excited for her 16th birthday in 97 days...not that anyone is counting.

Debi, the stake media relations assistant, has taken over the upstairs computer. During her "time off," she does housework and chauffering. Check out Debi's recent essay at http://deseretbook.com/time-out/friends

Jim is trying to keep the family funds coming in faster than they're going out. It's enjoyable for the most part but he's waiting for some contracts to finalize so things are a little slow right now. He's also enjoying working as the priest quorum adviser. They're all great young men and they're all pretty active. He's also working with Will on his pinewood derby and he's always up for watching BYU sports.

The Jensen's almost Quarterly Report

This year is already going so fast, and with the warmer weather here we have been ready for spring. The kids have loved getting out their scooters and Janie just wants to walk (they of course go in 4 different directions at various speeds). Janie's favorite word is "Luna" so she always watches for Luna animals outside. She loves fuzzy things like stuffed animals, her new cute lamby coat, and her fuzzy pruple scarf. As shown in the video, Janie's favorite thing to do is climb and stand up on the highest place she can. Notice the laugh with delight when she reaches the top.
Stryder still loves fuzzy things. He likes to do a lot of imaginary play with anything ranging from fuzzy animals, toy star wars figures, or even his colored spelling tiles. One day he wanted Ari to play with him and Stryder told him which tiles were fighting the other ones and Ari said "I just wanted to make words." Stryder wants to take karate classes but the gym we looked into was $120 per month - he may need to take some community classes first!
Isaac is finally working on potty training. When we would talk about wearing underwear instead of diapers he would just say "Nah" and "I'm just a little boy." He was being a little lazy boy! Now if we say he needs to wear a diaper like at bedtime he laughs and says "That's silly, I don't wear diapers!" If he can tell I'm mad he says "mom, I love you." But if he gets mad he says "Mom I hate you." He wants to build a slide from our new house to Grandma and Grandpa Browning's.
Ari still comes up with funny phrases... Ari-isms. I think he's past the "yesternight" but he does get confused about eating dinner in the morning. He still calls oranges "orange berries" (like blueberries or blackberries) He even says apple berries. Ari loves mom and dad "infinity and beyond years", and thinks it takes infinity and beyond hours to get home from Springville. He insisted that "Who let the Dog's Out?" was really "Who Likes a Dog Sound?" He is stuck on "us want to do something" rather than "we". He is incredible at head stands, back handsprings on the tramp, climbing the walls and just being brave and crazy. His video shows doing a flip going down two slides and the subsequent adrenaline rush!
The big news for our family is that we are building a house in South East Provo. It will still be a few more months, but we are hoping to have some Seven Peaks time at this house.