Happy 9 months of marriage to the most wonderful man in the whole wide world! I love you so much, Joshua Jensen – so much! Thank you for being the man who loves me, leads me, and points me to Christ. I love being your wife.

Saturday evening we had Sharleston and her son, Nick, over for dinner. Sharleston used to be the secretary for the linguistics department at UTA and was very helpful to Josh, especially when he first came to UTA.  She is a very sweet lady and considered herself the “den mother” for the linguistics department.

We had a delightful time with our guests. I made bacon wrapped chicken (thanks, Emily for the recipe), along with red potatoes (thanks, Ruth B.), mixed vegetables, and rolls.

Thought you might enjoy a snapshot of our Spring Break activities this week. Josh has a color-coded list of things to get done, and I’m preparing for my comprehensive exam. We’ve had our past few meals on our card table, since cleaning up our regular table and then getting everything out again seemed like too much work.

Last Saturday night (for our weekly Josh and Amy Night), we did some shopping and then went to Mimi’s for dinner. We both enjoyed our meals and then went home to play a game of Othello (you’ll have to ask Josh who won).

Sunday night we babysat the Johnson kids, while their parents went house hunting. The Johnsons have three adorable children and are expecting their fourth in July. We spent the evening playing games, having razor scooter races in an empty parking lot, reading, eating dinner, and watching a movie.

On Thursday and Friday, my department hosted its annual Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL. The photo above shows me with Jacob, a conference presenter who traveled from Mexico. If you look closely, you’ll perhaps notice that this photo was not taken at school but in our apartment. Jacob’s cash-to-expenses ratio wasn’t looking so good on Friday, so to help that situation from getting worse, Amy and I invited him to stay at our apartment last night. Of all our very appreciative guests (many of whom read our blog — so let me emphasize that all of our previous guests have been very very appreciative), Jacob was probably the most overflowing in his gratitude.

We enjoyed our time talking with him, and we have an open invitation to stay with him and his wife in Hermosillo, Mexico, next time we’re down that way.