Update from the Jenkins house!

I apologize for taking so long to update you all like I had promised. I have been very busy with family coming into town, friends of my dad visiting, and dealing with the emotional roller coaster of this whole mess.

For those of you who do not know, my dad was diagnosed with very advanced brain cancer on Tuesday of this week. He had kidney cancer nine years ago and underwent surgery and treatment and it has come back with vengeance. . .this time in the brain. He has been acting strange for the past few months--very sleepy, non-engaging and impatient. We didn't know what was going on because these are very uncharacteristic behaviors of my dad. We thought maybe he had some sort of a chemical imbalance going on that was causing symptoms similar to depression. Turns out, we were wrong.

There isn't anything the doctors can do that would leave my dad in a state worth living in. We are enjoying our time together as a family and need all the prayers we can get. We have experienced such a generous out pouring of love from our dear friends and family members. It is overwhelming to think just how many people know and love our dad, and how many people he has touched throughout his life.

I withdrew from school for the semester and will continue back when I can. I am not sure when that will be right now... but it will happen sometime. BYU has been great in helping me get out of my classes, I hope I can get out of my housing contract as well... oh well. I have other things to worry about. Jesse came home and will be here for a few days. It will be hard when he leaves. We don't really know what the future hold for our family but we are blessed to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives and we know that families are forever. We will live with our father and our Father again someday. That day will be a great day.

Right now I am just trying to help out as best as I can. I am taking care of all my dad's medications and funny demands. The other night when he was still in the hospital, he called at 2 a.m. asking where is razor was. Then he called back at 4 a.m. asking for an egg mcmuffin with cheese. He never ceases to crack us up. He makes us smile and laugh all the time.

I will write again soon just to keep everyone updated. Right now things are great. We have a window here where 'the elevator is going almost all the way to the top.' Not sure when this will end, but we consider it our gift and will cherish it forever.

Things to do incase boredom consumes your soul.

As you can probably tell, I am partial to lists. I love them and can't do anything without one. This is a list I made in the event that I am bored. I am making it available to the world because I oppose boredom. Enjoy.

1. Public Library
2. Museum of Peoples and Cultures
3. Take Pictures and edit them
4. Go to the temple
5. Spray paint stencil-pictures
6. Hammock party
7. Dress like a biker and go on a scooter ride
8. Make homemade smoothies
9. Bake a cake and doorbell ditch it
10. Watch the Office
11. Make a music video
12. Make Clay pots
13. Flower Bomb some cars
14. Make a chalk target and throw stuff at it from the top of a tall building
15. Water game-Like beer pong but with water
16. Tennis
17. Go to an art gallery
18. Styrofoam telephones like 1989
19. Fugitive
20. Finger-paint with pudding
21. Invent a new game
22. Four square tournament
23. Make up a dance and perform it in a public place and work the crowd
24. Play “Who's that” in a restaurant
25. Burn things with a magnifying glass
26. See how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop
27. Write a song about being bored and perform it for a random apartment
28. Have a pic-nic in your front room
29. Put on as many clothes as possible and take pictures
30. Juggle
31. Make a tire swing
32. Volunteer
33. Climb Trees
34. Flip coins into the ASB or JSB fountain
35. Put soap in a fountain
36. Double dutch
37. Bottle cap hockey with pens as the stick
38. Popsicle stick puppet show
39. Change your message machine
40. See how many fast food workers you can confuse
41. Hypnotic cliff jumping
42. Dye hair
43. Tube down the river
44. Slip-n-slide
45. Ultimate spoons
46. Make toothbrush bracelets
47. Make a pinata
48. Press flowers
49. Make ice cream
50. Hide in a bush by the Botany Pond and scare people
51. Throw water balloons at canoodling couples in the park
52. Learn to play the harmonica
53. Make chili and invite friends over to eat it
54. Make a torch and burn stuff
55. Go fishing
56. Pool Hop
57. Shopping cart races
58. Dress up like hicks and go to Demolition Derby
59. Shave a word in someone's back or chest hair
60. Get a facial
61. Freeze things with liquid nitrogen
62. Buy live baby chickens and raise them
63. Sew a quilt or pillowcase
64. Invent new food combinations
65. Make a fort
66. Melt records into bowls
67. Have a Lemonade stand
68. Find a stray dog or cat and keep it for a day then return it
69. Make a match head bomb in a tennis ball
70. Light Artillery shells
71. Ultimate hop-scotch
72. Shaving cream sculptures
73. Banana split party
74. Put live gold fish in someone’s bathtub.
75. Progressive dinner
76. Explode a watermelon with M-80s
77. Stage a ninja fight and afterward pass out cards saying we will perform at birthday parties
78. Cheap Theater
79. Make sock puppets
80. Play the Wal-mart game
81. Human Statues in the park
82. Kiss in the rain
83. Puddle jump
84. Make an instrument
85. Scavenge
86. Write a limerick
87. Make a paper press
88. Gallon Challenge
89. Talk with a lithp
90. Sharpen carrots and stab people
91. Fake sneeze on people
92. Fake run into doors
93. Spin around really fast while staring at your shoe then try to jump over it
94. Make popcorn balls
95. Make cup cakes and hide secret messages on paper in them
96. Cup cake cones
97. Saran wrap everything in your roommates’ room
98. Write a letter to Santa and mail it.
99. Breath fire by spitting powdered sugar on a lit match.
100. Put Mentos in a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke

My bucket list.

This semester I am taking Accounitng 200 at BYU and it is an intense class. Hours of videos to watch online and many more hours of actually working out the problems for homework. I have been enjoying the class so far and I hope that I can get a decent grade. One part of the class is to try something new. I have put a lot of thought into this because I really want to try something awesome. I like picking up random hobbies every now and then and I think this is the perfect opportunity. To decide what it is that I will take up this semester, I have decided to post my secret list of things I want to do before I am too old and crotchety to do. Here goes:

1. Hang-glide over the Swiss Alps in Switzerland
2. Sky-dive
3. Take Trapeze lessons
4. Kiss under the Eiffel Tower in Paris
5. Make a wish in the Trevi Fountain in Rome
6. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
7. Slide down a mud slide in Guilin
8. Play Ping Pong in China
9. See Wicked
10. Pet a sheep in New Zealand
11. Milk a goat
12. Meet the Prophet
13. Eat a fortune cookie in Hong Kong
14. See the Sacred Grove
15. Watch a performance at Carnegie Hall in NYC
16. Eat a hot dog in Central Park
17. Pose with a wax celebrity at a wax museum
18. Swim in the Atlantic Ocean
19. Snorkel at a white sand beach
20. Snorkel at a black sand beach
21. Hold an octopus on the Great Barrier Reef
22. Catch a firefly
23. Buy something at Harrod’s
24. Learn to Kite Surf
25. Pick a coconut
26. Send away for more pages to my passport
27. Visit the land of my ancestors and eat pizza
28. Go to Africa
29. Be a bee keeper
30. Learn to sail
31. Run a race longer than 5K
32. See the Terracotta Warriors
33. Ride an elephant
34. Kiss a dolphin
35. Weigh 130
36. Learn how to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards
37. Learn another language
38. Graduate from college
39. Learn to play the piano
40. Take Avery to Disneyland
41. Jump on a trampoline, again
42. Ride my scooter over the BYU bridges
43. Learn to make real Italian food
44. Meet Donny Osmond
45. Run a marathon
46. Perform the Hoedown Throwdown
47. Fish in the Atlantic ocean
48. Train my tongue to do that clover thing
49. Get a Vita Mix
50. Go spear fishing in the Caribbean
51. Surf in Australia
52. Eat fish and chips in New Zealand
53. See Death Cab in concert
54. Paint an old chair with ZEBRA
55. Go back to 21 Choices
56. Ride a Ducati 1098...tri color.
57. Buy and Honda Rebel
58. Go horse back ridding down the Grand Canyon
59. Visit Nepal
60. Go to Tibet and buy Tibetan prayer flags
61. Dye my hair blonde, again
62. Go camping