Congratulations, Jaiden!

Jaiden decided to run for Junior Class Officer for Activities and Assemblies and the results were announced tonight. She won!! Congratulations, Jaiden!! Click HERE to see her student council VIDEO!

2020-2021 Student Body and Class Officers

Student Body Officers

President: Jacob Moody
Assemblies:Ethan Bunting
Activities: Gavin Gough
Women’s Rep: Oliva Stuart
Men’s Rep: Tyler Awerkamp
Publicity: Julia Call
Secretary/Hist:  Heidi Wakefield
Artist: Sophie Hafen
Tech Specialist: Derek Morgan
Cheer Rep: TBD

Senior Class
President: Charley Jensen
Secretary: Jocelyn Ostler
Publicity: Tavie Landis
Men’s Rep: Max Barnett
Women’s Rep: Rebekah Desmond
Activities/Assem: Sean Pifferi

Junior Class
President: Erin Gunn
Secretary: Shailynn Lamb
Publicity: Emma Miller
Men’s Rep: Isaac Anderson
Women’s Rep: Ruth Sumner
Activities/Assem: Jaiden Jensen

Sophomore Class
President: Gwyneth Lamoreaux
Secretary: Tanner Wakefield
Publicity: Brinkley DeMille
Men’s Rep: Bryce Christiansen
Women’s Rep: Breckyn Johnson
Activities/Assem: Brynley Kint

Wendy's Birthday

Today was my birthday (52) and it was a GREAT day!! I felt very loved! Rick left me a Facebook birthday message with a few pictures through the years and a sweet little note which brought loads of sweet messages from so many people! Grandma and Grandpa Gubler (my ministering sister) in our ward dropped off a bag of gluten free popcorn and some cute, fancy soap and a sweet card. Kaci dropped off a cute little gift of bath salts yesterday and the RS presidency dropped off a little gift of a note pad, pen, and chocolates. Allison brought over some home-made gluten-free monster cookie bars, which I love, and we had a nice visit! My mom gave me a special gift early. Mom Jensen sent me a nice card and money. I really appreciate everyone's thoughtfulness!

Rick brought my car in to Costco to get the tires rotated -- something that has been on my to-do list for a couple of weeks now. He also brought Josh to the Dermatologist for me so that I could take a nap! He arranged to get my computer fixed and has been working on our home videos -- I love that! I am so grateful for him! Janika and Jase and Ellen sent a nice text this morning and my mom sent a nice e-mail (she already gave me an amazing gift early) and several people texted me to wish me a Happy Birthday!

Rick brought me out for take out from Apollo Burger (my choice because I love their salads so much). We went to a pretty park in Washington to eat it and then stopped at Walmart to pick up a couple of things I wanted for my birthday and then grabbed some of my favorite ice-cream from Albertsons. When we came home there was a rose and package of mini recess peanut butter cups from Jase and Ellen (my favorite candy) and Jaiden and Jenna had made a gluten free chocolate cake from scratch! We all had cake and ice-cream and sang "Happy Birthday." So all in all I had a happy day!

Masquerade Ball!!!

Since Senior Ball was cancelled for our high school kids we decided to have our own dinner/dance at home! We decided on a Masquerade/MASK-erade theme. It was so fun! Rick cooked a delicious Peruvian dinner of stuffed avocados, Solterito Salad, Rotisserie Chicken with sauce, and Martinellis'. Then we took pictures outside.  

We had a model runway for guests to introduce their masks. Janelle, Jaiden, Josh, and Jenna all made their own masks and Jenna made the masks for me, Rick, Ellen, and, Jase. Ellen made all of the cute corsages and boutonnieres. Josh actually won "Prom King" with his Thneed Mask made from a paper towel for his hilarious presentation of it's many uses. I am so glad that my family can have fun in pretty much any situation!

After pictures we had a fun "runway" to model our masks!! You can watch those HERE!!!  After the runway we had a fun dance!! Josh won Prom King and Jaiden and Ellen tied for Prom Queen! 

Church At Home

Janelle gave the lesson today. Since we already had a tent set up in the basement we thought it might be neat to have our lesson there since the lesson was on Mosiah 1-3 covering King Benjamin's sermon to his people gathered in tents. We had Janika and Brandon join in with us through a zoom call. Rick said that he LOVES having church at home and hopes that they continue having church at home once the social distancing mandates are lifted. I told him there was no way that was going to happen! After the lesson we went upstairs for the sacrament and then had a song practice. Later on tonight we all went and played soccer at the park (for Josh's birthday which was last Thurday). It was fun! 

  

Gratitude Mirror

I went upstairs to help Jenna with her school work and happened to notice this message on the bathroom mirror -- so cool! We sure do have amazing kids!

If you can't read it it says:

Gratitude List: Please add when you feel grateful :)

*I'm grateful for more family party time!
*I'm grateful for croquet! And basketball, and Balderdash!
*I'm grateful for nice weather
*I'm grateful for the Book of Mormon

A day or so later there were tons more!! 

Jaiden Jensen's "Corona Talent" Video

I happened to open up a message from Janika that Collin Kartchner (popular youth speaker on the dangers of Social Media) was having a "Quarantine Kids Got Talent" contest and Janika suggested the kids join in! She sent the message a few days ago, but I missed it somehow and just saw it on Friday afternoon and the cut off to send in a video was Saturday at noon -- which didn't leave much time! Jaiden said that she wanted to do it and so she chose a song and recorded herself singing it in the studio, along with a couple of video clips of her singing it. Then she had me video her doing some improve dance moves the the song and then edited it to a clip under 60 seconds. It was pretty stressful due to technology glitches, but in the end it turned out nice! She sure is a talented girl! Click the link below to see her video!!

Jaiden's Corona Talent Video

I told Josh he should enter in the ping pong trick shots he has been working on. So at 11:45 on Saturday he and Jaiden were hurriedly putting together some of his clips and adding music and sending it to Collin Kartcher on Instagram. They were stressing out because it wasn't uploading to my phone, but finally at 11:59 a.m. it uploaded and sent! Whew! Just in time! I wanted to include his video here also but he said it isn't finished yet and he doesn't want me to show anyone his masterpiece (my words, not his) until it is finished!!  So stay tuned!!

Janelle and Jenna could have totally entered a video too -- Jenna's clay creations, a song, one of their paintings...  I have been going through the videos entered and there are hundreds of them!! I don't know how he will choose winners -- they are so many that are amazing!!

Camping Inside

Jase and Ellen and the kids were going to sleep outside in a tent but then it started to rain and so they set up the tent in the basement instead! I had the kids clean out our window wells outside and then they started playing in them!

Happy Birthday, Josh!!

Josh is 14 years old today! He was born on Easter Sunday just 7 minutes after I arrived at the hospital! Josh loves soccer and is anxiously awaiting the re-opening of the soccer season so that he can both play -- and ref!! Josh independently keeps up on all of his school work and is a 4.0 student. 

He loves to play pickle-ball and was disappointed that we had to cancel his "Pickle-ball Party" this year due to the social distancing mandates. However he has been learning new skills with ping pong and has been making an AWESOME video of ping pong trick shots. I can't wait to see the finished project! He misses his wood shop class but has been making his own cool projects in our shed -- even though we don't have many tools to work with. Josh is an awesome kid and we sure love him!

This morning we had Josh open his presents. He had actually gotten his presents early (shoes and couple pair of soccer shorts and a whistle and timer since he was planning on becoming a ref for Ivins soccer this year). So the only thing he had to open was a soccer ball. Since we couldn't have his friend party Jaiden had the idea for all of the brothers and sisters to pitch in $5.00 each and rent an "in-theater movie." Since no one can currently go to the movie theaters Amazon and other companies are renting out new movies for $20.00. It is expensive, but less money than taking your whole family to the movie theater. Jaiden said that Josh really wanted to see "Trolls World Tour," and so she headed this up and it was a nice surprise for him.

So tonight we had a nice dinner of Crock-pot chicken and salad and veggies, along with a pizza that Janelle got him from Papa Murphy's. The kids and I watched the first Trolls movie, since I had never seen it and then after brownies and singing "Happy Birthday," we all went to our basement theater to watch "Trolls World Tour." It was cute, but different. I liked the first one better. Josh also wanted us to play soccer for his birthday, but we didn't have time and so we made plans to do that in a few days.