Has it really been...

Two years since Ryan and I finally got married? As the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun! So here are some of the Jensen Family happenings of 2006-2008:

• I finally graduated from BYU after several absences of different natures. There was my random attendance at USU for one semester, a semester in China, and a year and a half in Brazil. I spent my last semester commuting from Park City to Provo two nights a week and to the Salt Lake Center another night a week. Driving through Provo Canyon in the fall was quite an adventure. I almost hit deer on several occasions, and one night driving home through Parley's in a snowstorm I thought I was going to die (literally!). But I survived and became a college graduate. I was so happy to be done...but now I miss it! Learning is cool!
  

• Ryan said good-bye to Park City Television and started working for the National Ability Center. Well, ok, he didn't say good-bye for good. He still did high school football in 2007 and has the opportunity to do it again this year if he wants to. Last week he hosted the evening show while Ori was on vacation. So he's still got a foot in the door. President of NBC? Still a possibility for sure!

• Tyler was born! So, it wasn't the funnest thing I've had to go through, but it wasn't as bad as I thought thanks to the DRUGS! Heaven bless them! The anesthesiologist was my favorite person in the whole world. I mean, ok, congratulations to all of you who have made it through "natural" childbirth (personally I think that having a baby's head and shoulders come out of the place they come out of validates the word "natural" no matter what!), but honestly...NO THANK YOU! Keep the epidurals coming or there will be NO MORE offspring of Ryan and Megan Jensen. Ty is so much fun! We never imagined how rewarding raising a child would be. It is so wonderful! And I LOVE having a baby with chubby cheeks! I have never understood cheek pinching. Now I do!

• Ryan ran for state House of Representatives of district 53...as a DEMOCRAT! Yeah...what? The biggest surprise was that Ryan declared a party at all. But he did. We went to the Democratic Convention which was very interesting. I decided that for me it's not about the party, but about the person running. There have been a whole lot of Republican Jack-A's lately, and I have to admit that I LIKED some of the democrats I heard speak. Including my husband! He was the youngest candidate. He's so awesome! Kathy Lofft won the nomination for Democratic candidate, but Ryan did a great job! He's an awesome speaker and has some really great ideas. He had a lot of people come up to him and tell him how impressed they were with him. I don't think this was the last we'll see of Ryan on some political trail. I'm so proud of him.

• We started our own business! CALIENTE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS! We're a perfect team. I graduated in business management/finance so I'm handling all that side of things, and Ryan does the actual services (although I've started learning about all that myself, which I'm excited about). We do corporate, sports, real estate and events productions. We're excited to see where it goes!

• We still live at Todd Hollow Apartments...aka Little Mexico. It's a party every night, let me tell you. The problem is, I'm not feeling much like partying after finally getting Ty to sleep and getting some time to myself. Usually sleep is the much preferred activity and so every once in a while we get to yell at people to please shut up when it's 2 in the morning and we can't take it anymore. Oh, and let's not forget the ice cream man who must feel that it's his duty to stick around for 3-4 hours at a time. He'll finally leave, and then the OTHER ice cream man will show up for another 3-4 hours. So Pop Goes the Weasel has become the official theme song of our life here. A couple weeks ago it meant so much to me when the the beloved truck pulled in playing a DIFFERENT song! La Cucaracha! It was exciting! The saddest thing is when I find myself humming the ice cream songs even when he's not around, or making up different words to the tunes. Usually the words have something to do with going outside and breaking the musical function on his truck, or worse (HEY! When it's 10:00 pm and the ice cream truck is STILL here, I'm not responsible for my thoughts and/or actions anymore!).

Anyway, as a whole, these last two years have been very eventful! We've had so much fun and continue to congratulate ourselves on choosing each other as spouses :) Last weekend we left Tyler with Grandma Linda and went on a vacation to Switzerland!! Ok...it was just midway (a whole 15 minutes from home), but it definitely FELT like we were in Europe!



We stayed at the Invited Inn. It's the coolest little bed and breakfast. It's owned by this older couple (Bill and Suzie) and they live in part of it. There are only four guest rooms. They have a parlor and a dining room and a sun room in the back where you can play games and watch movies (they pop popcorn). They do tea time at 4:00 in the afternoon (we had smoothies and cookies, but if you wanted tea you could have tea!). They have a bird named Fritz who can whistle the USC fight song and a bunch of other things and says Hello and some other stuff.

Friday evening we did the Sunset BBQ on the Heber Valley Railroad. It was so much fun! We rode along Deer Creek Reservoir and then stopped and ate and there was live music. I had really wanted to do the Comedy Murder Mystery show they do, but it wasn't that weekend. This one was great though!



Saturday morning Bill and Suzie made us a great breakfast and we met the other people that were staying there. One couple was celebrating their 34th anniversary, another their 12th, and the couple that didn't show up for breakfast until 10:30...yeah they had gotten married the night before :) They were all really nice. We joked about how it felt like we were distant cousins staying at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We even took a "family" picture! The guy who had just gotten married is an opera singer. We found out that he served his mission in Rome and knew Ry's roommate Ben, and Scott Rafferty. Anyway...it was so different than just staying at a hotel and we loved it! Especially because our room had a jacuzzi and a SAUNA in it! We felt like we had our own spa right there in our room! They really did spoil us. So if anyone is looking for an awesome place to take a close vacation, we highly recommend it!



Saturday we drove around Midway and took pictures of cute houses and went to some little shops and ate lunch at the new Cafe Galleria, which is a pizza place on Main Street. I also had an absolutely SINFUL dessert from the Breadstix bakery (another little cafe there). It was a big brownie with m&m's, caramel, chocolate chips and other crap on top of it. Awful (which here means Absolutely Wonderful, Fattening and Utterly Life-threatening)!










That evening we went up to my aunt and uncle's cabin which is just outside Heber. Our family "campout" was there this year. We just went for dinner and a ride on the four-wheelers. It was a fun weekend! But we did miss Tyler! Thanks Linda and Kel for taking care of him.

Bring on more adventures!!