Christmas Holidays!

I’m back!! Christmas break came and went and suddenly my head is back in the books. Rather then dwell on that after my first week back, I’d rather look back on my break and fill everyone in on my exciting life…. Ha

            SO!! It basically started on December 16- my birthday!! It starts there for that reason only and it was a great birthday spent in Salt Lake with Ken’s parents and Grandparents! I turned 21 woohoo.

Ken and my parents surprised me and shipped me home to Canada early on December 17. By shipped I mean flew. I left the Salt Lake City Airport at 830am and was in cold Calgary by 230! There my family eagerly awaited my arrival and we went home to lovely Raymond! Oh how I love Alberta…and miss it. Ken is amazing and loves me and stayed behind and worked for a few extra days. He too flew to Calgary and my Mom and I went to fetch him when he arrived. He didn’t have quite the luxury of getting dropped off at the airport in SLC by a loving spouse however. Rather, he had to trudge through snow at 4 something in the morning to catch a shuttle on campus that would take him there. (He walked in the middle of the road with his luggage cause that was where the light was…poor man). He arrived though and I took him home to show him how the Sherwood’s/Heggie’s spend their Christmas!

            The charm of that idea lasted a few days, and ended abruptly.  It was the night of my friend’s “get together”. I had left Ken at home and was over at my friend’s house when I shortly realized that I felt like I was going to die. My parents had been sick recently so I assured myself I was thinking about that too hard and faking it. I pushed that reasoning aside shortly after however. I ended up calling my dad to come pick me up and home I went.  When I got home I was informed that Ken had also been feeling sick and I found him sitting in our bedroom concentrating intensely on magnets. When I say he did that for hours, I mean he did that for HOURS!! 3 seconds after getting home I was puking my brains out. When I was back in one piece I walked into the living room where Brittney was, she too mentioned she was feeling a little light headed. 3 seconds later she was throwing up. And that’s when the glory of it all began. To spare details, Ken and I were up ALL night.  The next day we took medication and maybe were awake a total of 3 hours. Brady also got it that morning. So within 24 hours Me, Ken, Brittney and Brady all got sick. It was lovely!

            We did slowly recover, and minus that experience I really did love being home! We spent a lot of time together as a family. We completed a mystery puzzle… of which we never solved…went skating on my cousin’s homemade ice rink, we went tubing behind quads on Corner Lake, we went snowshoeing in freezing waterton, went to a hockey game (with friends), played A LOT OF GAMES (Ken loved every second of it) and just hung out around the house. AND I GOT TO HOLD HAZEL A LOT!!! How much better can it really get?!

            I love them all and can’t wait till I have all my legal married shin digs complete so I can go back to Alberta and visit them whenever the goodness I want! It will be fantastic. 

Live & Learn

Last week was quite the adventure in the Jenkin's home. I'm very glad it's the beginning of a new one, hopefully it will be a bit better!
Starting from the beginning: It was last Monday and Ken and I were just getting ready to go to the gym, when he suddenly comes to me and says, "Sonia, I hit my head, am I bleeding?"  I thought he was kidding and had put fake blood all over his head, so I sat there and laughed at him, as he ran back into the bathroom holding his head. I was standing my ground, I wasn't going to just fall for his trickery and go running to his side for him to just turn around and start laughing at me for being so gullible.  So, I continued to laugh in the other room. I then became slightly curious and went to the bathroom. Ken had his head over the sink as the clear water turned red. However, I still didn't know if it was real...(I may be an awful wife!). It took a while, but I started to maybe think he wasn't joking. So I started to ask him questions about what happened to him. Turns out he hit his head on the light switch, yes, the LIGHT SWITCH. Which is less then shoulder height above the ground... mmm not sure..Regardless, it did a real good job and he ended up getting 3 stitches.
It's a good thing he didn't get knocked out though, because turns out I am useless and I don't know how to do ANYTHING. Ken had to call the clinic and ask if he could go in for stitches, called his mom to ask a question, and then told me which way to drive to go to the doctors-since I had no clue where it was located. I did say he needed stitches though!!  I'd say that's worth something.
That was the beginning of the week, the middle of the week just scampered by and then it was Saturday. Which was a great day, I cleaned my house REALLY good and then made A LOT of cookies with my Canadian chocolate chips which are 50000x better than the state's. I had them all laid out on the counter cooling off as I ran to go pick up Ken from work. I'm dumb though, as I continue to prove to you, and left the dog inside. She has been so good and we have never had problems with her, so I didn't think too much about it. As I was walking into the dark kitchen with some grocery bags in my hands I stepped into a soft, warm, pile of dog puke!! Oh, that was great. I went and turned on the light and found that there were 2 other piles of chocolate chip puke on my white carpet along with probably 12 out of the original 40 cookies left on my counter. To say the least, I wasn't very happy that Bella ate all my delicious cookies and then discarded them through out my very clean house! Not at all happy about it.
We cleaned it up quickly though and left to Bear Lake to stay at a cabin for the night. I pouted the whole way there and then decided to be happy and forget about it. We ended up having a lot of fun and ended the week on a good note, which was well deserved after a run of misfortunes. I am slowly getting smarter though.. I'm learning when my husband is joking and when he's not, and I've learned to not trust our curious, hungry, little dog..those are very nice words compared to Saturday's. LIke I said, I'm improving. :)
I dont' think pictures are needed this week since I doubt anyone wants to see Ken's wound or the dog's puke... just say'n.

Lifey as a Wifey

It's been a month and a half since I became Mrs. Jenkins. The time just flew by! I can't even believe that it is the middle of October, it mostly blows my mind because that also means that this semester of school is already half way over! It does this to me every year. I get going with all my school stuff and suddenly i'm registering for the next semester. I will not complain about this. I have actually loved this semester so far. It is super challenging, but I have finally made it past all my general classes and can now focus on the things that I actually enjoy learning about! 

I am still in a sign language class. It is crazy that this is my 3rd semester of it. It is my absolute favorite thing. It is something  I LOVE being able to do (although not very well yet) and hopefully will continue to do it for the rest of my life. I definitely want to pursue it and end up using it through out my life and career.  I am also in an anatomy of speech class, which is pie after my full human anatomy class last spring.. although it will always be a love/hate relationship I will be quite happy when it finally comes to an end. And THEN, I'm in a phonetics class that is SO interesting and I really love learning about. It is basically just being able to hear speech and transcribe it:  d͡ʒəs laɪk ðɪs (just like this). So ya, I do actually learn stuff at school, so I suppose it is worth these 6 years of my life. Maybe.

Besides school I just live a wifely life. This can become lonely when you don't have a job, cause you don't have a green card, and your husband is off making money! So I spend my spare time cleaning the house and cooking dinner... when the time comes around... Actually, let's be honest, I straighten up the house if we're lucky and maybe clean it on the weekends and I cook perhaps every other night. (We have to eat leftovers sometime!!) So I actually don't know what I do the majority of my life besides school. :)

This has been a good little week so far though. It is our lovely fall break and my last day of classes is tomorrow! I can handle this, especially since I woke up today at 7:30, which is when class starts. I tend to keep doing this!!  OH, sorry this was going to be the last paragraph, so i'll just carry on and change the subject. Ken is great and for our little FHE last night we had a bonfire outside and then packed up all our blankets and headed up to a look out of Logan and star gazed on top of his car. And then we saw THE BIGGEST shooting star ever!! It was crazy beans, it even broke up into smaller pieces before it disappeared. I thought it was pretty cool! 
Anyways, PICTURES!!!

 I got my other half of my ring and I love it! It's made up of blue sapphires.

 We went on a hike.

 Fall is coming!!

 I look like a boy.

This is our Bella, she LOVES to cuddle with us, RIGHT beside us!

Anyways, as I wrote this my lovely husband cleaned the kitchen and did dishes. I should go be productive now!

Crazy Changes

So there isn't much of a gap between May and September right?? So summer got slightly crazy and busy and I never found the time to update my blog. I can explain this by adding that I worked every day from 6am till sometime in the afternoon and frankly, it kicked my butt.  I did get really  good at waking up super early and teaching aquafit- always a pleasure. And although it all sucked and I was exhausted by 9 every night, and missed out on multiple things since I felt the need to gain near 8 hrs of sleep every night, it did prepare me for this semester of school. Which is also kicking my butt. I have to be at school by 730am every day monday-friday. This honestly means I get out of bed at 6:50, grab a hoody, throw on jeans, brush my teeth, maybe comb my hair, perhaps add some mascara (depending on how ambitious I feel) and walk to campus. I look really good all the time!

Ken, my husband, he's new- we got married- he really enjoys the fact that I get so ready every day. It's his favorite. But for real, he does still like me. We have been married a week and a half...so he better. And it's really nice having a husband. They do lots of nice things. For instance, when I forget things at home that are due in class- he goes and fetches it for me! and when all our flowers on our table are withering, he goes and gets new ones for me. It's honestly the greatest. I love him to death. I try returning favours by being a good wife, but it's really really hard! I do not know how people go to school and keep their house clean and make supper all while getting A's. Beat's me. 

ALSO, I should get some wedding pictures in a couple weeks, and when I do i'll talk more about THE WEDDING. It was awesome and I loved every second of it! 

Here are some fancy pictures from the summer...  out of order.

 We had a nice BIG family reunion and this is what Sherwood family could make it. Pretty dang good looking family eh?

 There was a slippery slide we went down lots, Brady really enjoyed it.

 I hung out with this fellow a fair amount of time!

I held her as much as humanly possible and I cry that I can't see her anymore.

I went to the temple for the 1st time!

And now I am  happily married!!

It was crazy and stressful, but I had so much fun with my family this summer and I miss them all to bits! I can't wait to see them again, which really does feel like never. In the meantime, however, I do get to be with the best guy in the world. SO I guess I can't complain! 

Birdy

Brady is 18! I can't believe my little buddy is an adult.  I have to blog about Brady because the kid cracks me up and I have been special enough to have him as my brother for 18 years of my life.
Whenever I describe Brady it always ends in, "well, Brady is just Brady." People that know my family would 100% understand this statement. There really are no words to fully describe him and the only way to understand him is to get to know him.
Brady is our family clown. He can get anyone laughing. No matter how mad I am at him, I am constantly holding back bursts of laughter- he knows this and uses it to his advantage. He also is one of the kindest people I know. He is always looking for ways to help out and to be happy around people. He is always so polite around people, he really has such a special spirit. I do love him and cannot wait to see what life has in store for him! He will do amazing things.
Happy birthday Birdy!

Whirl WInd

Ever since school ended life has kind of gone by fast and a whole lot of things have happened...
1st I studied my face off for a good 2 weeks basically and ended up doing very well in all my classes. So my first 2 weeks out of school I anxiously awaited my grades to come in.
2nd I came home to the most gorgeous niece and instantly fell in love with her. I have not gone a day since without seeing her, I will die when I have to go back to school. I could just hold her ALL DAY! Sadly, i'm not the only one that feels this way so I have to share her. We could say she is definitely loved. Whenever she is at our house everyone swarms her and marvels at everything she does. I wonder when that will stop, cause even when she makes very strange faces people laugh and comment on how cute she is. Let just hope she doesn't think too positively of this and continue it through out her life  :)
3RD!!! The most amazing guy ever (Ken) came to visit me and I was able to show him off to all my family. Ask him, that's literally all we did. My family is kind of a big deal and not just my immediate family -He had to meet my grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. I believe they all approved and they better have because...
4TH!!!! He was SUPPOSE to leave Monday so I said my goodbyes and waited for him to text me and let me know he was back in Montana. He let me know when he was nearly in Great Falls and then that was the last I heard from him... until my Dad told me he wanted to go take pictures out on the Ridge during the sunset and I go out with him and I see Ken!! I knew the second that I saw him what was going to happen. Not going to lie I was a little nervous. He had chinese lanterns going off... some didn't go off due to wind (welcome to Southern Alberta), but I was still impressed. And then  he said a bunch of great stuff and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I of course said yes because he is perfect and there is no better guy.  So i'm ENGAGED!
It's strange being with someone and nobody in Raymond has a clue who he is, and it stinks having him not live in relatively the same place as me- he lives in another country! However, I do still get to talk to him tons and there is nobody else I would rather talk to. He is truly amazing and I cannot wait to marry him!
I really wasn't lying when I told you lots happened! I'm sure the rest of the summer will continue in the same  manner. I now will plan a wedding, hold baby Hazel, look at my ring and visit my future husband! Sounds like a pretty fantastic few months to me!

One Day I Will

            So it’s been a while and a bunch of goodness has happened. My mom came back to visit me, along with my aunt and uncle Peterson. The weekend they came ended up being gorgeous. It was the weekend of General Conference and Saturday was amazingly hot out. We went to the Saturday morning session, my mom and I watched it in the Joseph Smith building and it was a very cool experience. We went early and were able to watch a vast majority of the Joseph Smith movie and so I was bawling before the Conference even began then conference was amazing and so I cried all the more. I’m rather emotional lately.            

            I wanted really badly to go in to the Conference Center, since I have never been, and so Ken (the best guy in the world) and I decided we would trek down Sunday morning after saying goodbye to my family and go to the afternoon session. WELL, before we even hit Ogden we were stuck in traffic, over an hour later we finally were able to move. We reached Salt Lake and were half jogging all the way to the conference center—with time quickly dwindling. Anyways, we get there and we are seriously 5 people away from the door and they tell us they were full. Ya, you could say I was disappointed. Real bummed out! So I pretended to be tough as we walked back to the car, but I don’t hold things in very well, so I just looked out the window and was a bum for the next half hour. I really wanted to go!!

            Then this last weekend I told Ken that my friend was singing at the Conference Center on Saturday and that we should go. You should know that Ken is amazing and will do anything I want to. So we leave Saturday morning at 11:00 so that we can go find tickets and watch her at 1:00. We drive all the way down; get there and they inform us that they are sold out! Now tell me how the goodness that happens, the Conference Center is huge! So I was a bum… again. I just get really sad when I drive forever to do a good thing and then it doesn’t work out. And it wouldn’t even be that bad If I didn’t drag someone along with me… but I act like it’s this magnificent idea and tell Ken to come with me and then it doesn’t workout so well. Then I just feel bad so then I get sad and then I’m a bum. It’s a vicious cycle. I have now retired on thinking of ideas.

            Regardless, Ken will still hang out with me, he doesn’t really mind too much that I’m not very good at plans. He also continues to be amazing and think of great ideas, so really- my contribution is unneeded.

            To prove that he’ll do anything for me, I say, “ Ken, put on these glasses and lets drive around looking at people and pretend we don’t know anything is wrong” (aka, lets just make fools out of ourselves). He does it.  

* May have based this off of an actual event from the mother*