tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25180953358572451582023-11-16T04:03:30.462-08:009 Hansen's HappenedThe crazy happenings of an amazing life!!!Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-56686984963220099502012-12-30T19:42:00.002-08:002012-12-30T19:56:50.812-08:00Christmas 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Let me start this post off by saying, we always wondered where Nicolas got his crazies, but this pictures prove it--he definitely got it from his father!</div>
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These are the pictures we took after church the Sunday before Christmas. </div>
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There are a few things I love way too much about this photo. One, the attempt on Sarah's life. I knew Brynlee was jealous of her! Two, Elise was attempting her mad face, and it was lost behind Brynlee's head. And the third thing was I couldn't get Nicolas or Haley to make a crazy face at all, they just kept acting like themselves!! :)</div>
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I had to add this photo just to show that Sarah was smiling for every single picture we took, sadly the smile came after the flash though, so this is the only one we actually captured on tape. I also really love the peeking from Kaden and Brynlee. If you could see them, this would have been the best smile from everyone!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ok, onto Christmas. We had so many fun things this year. One was our annual Gingerbread houses and caroling.</span></div>
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Working on some houses.</div>
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Our friends Beverly and Rosetta with their finished products.</div>
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The kids had lots of fun together.</div>
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The pictures turned out fuzzy, but here's some of the group.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next came breakfast with Santa</span></div>
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Sarah was very excited to meet him!</div>
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He surprised Kaden and said, "You'd better watch out, you never know who may sneak up behind you." Kaden was so surprised he jumped, but was very happy to see Santa.</div>
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Nels had to go to work that morning, but it was probably a good thing because the whole restraunt was filled and we barely fit around the table.</div>
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We got to see Santa again on our way out. </div>
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Sarah's first real encounter with Santa was great. She didn't look quite so scared in person. But she was definitely very inquisitive of who this bearded fellow was.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christmas morning!!!</span><br />
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It all began on a quiet winter morning, with the dear little ones asleep in their beds...<br />
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Then the chaos ensued!!<br />
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The kids opened their stockings, then waited patiently for the real fun to begin.<br />
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Molly got an elf shirt (I couldn't help myself),<br />
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Haley got a laptop,<br />
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Kaden got all the webkinz he wanted,<br />
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Nicolas got an awesome nerf gun,<br />
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Shaylin got an American girl doll,<br />
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and Sarah got a cool noise maker!<br />
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Of course she didn't like it :(</div>
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Once she touched it with her hand and the frostnig bit her, she no longer wanted the cake.</div>
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I fed her one bite to make sure she didn't want any, and she most definitely did not.</div>
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However, her mood changed dramtically when it came time for presents!</div>
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Yeah, she got a baby!! She absolutely loves babies!!!</div>
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She got 2, one little and one big.</div>
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She hugs them like this all the time, and I have to carry her and the baby around, so Sean, Nicolette and Claire got her a little one for us to take in the diaper bag. Very thoughtful!</div>
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Sarah's friend Claire, and her mom Nicolette.</div>
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Elise has always had a fun style of her own. Her favorite thing to wear has long been a button-up shirt tucked into her pants with a belt. I believe the love for this style started with a crush that she had on a little boy named Diego, in preschool. She saw him with his slicked back hair and tucked in shirts, and knew that is what it took to look good! </div>
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She has also proven to have an amazing ablity to fix hair at a young age. She was the first of our children to be able to do her own ponytail. That began in preschool, and now, in kindergarten, she has begun doing some pretty fun things. Here is a picture of her two weeks ago after she went into the bathroom and did her hair completely on her own. I was pretty impressed. She has since come up with many more, all very good, and imaginative.</div>
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The last thing that I have to share about Elise is that she has been talking about getting her ears pierced for awhile, and we finally did it. But did I take her to the store to do both ears at once, nope, not me!! I am not that kind of mom! I am the kind that goes and buys an ear piercing gun and does it herself. Everything went great, until we had to do the second ear. The first one caused a scream and some tears, but how can you convince a child to do it again? </div>
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I attempted waiting until she told me I could do again, but I soon realized, she was never going to say, "Shoot me again, Mom." So I asked her if I could do it real quick when she didn't even know. She kind of agreed, and I took that as a yes, so I had her begin counting the freckles on her nose. She began telling me she idn't know how when, yes you guessed it, another scream and more tears were heard from my bathroom. </div>
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Well, last month we had our Parent Teacher Conferences. This is always a time I fret, since we've had a few rough ones in our past. </div>
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I was very pleased that, even though there are some struggles, the teachers recognize their potential, and are truly enjoying having them as a part of their day. <strong>Go Hansen kids</strong>! </div>
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I never posted the pics of their first day of school, so here I am, getting on the ball. We have a pretty crazy morning, with three different times of people leaving. </div>
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Haley goes first, down to the bus stop. </div>
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And after they leave, Shaylin, Elise, Paul (the neighbor boy) and Sarah and I head down to the bus stop for one last goodbye to school. </div>
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We have always had some pretty crazy mornings, but I have to say, this year, I don't hate anything. Last year, I hated lunches--with a passion! The year before that I hated the rush, and I was so stressed at it, that I was having continual hot flashes! This year, it may be early; but so far, so good. No, the kids have not been getting their piano practice in perfect, and no, all of their chores are not getting done; but, they are getting out of the house on time, there is very little screaming, and everyone leaves fed, and with a lunch in hand. <strong>Go Hansen mom</strong>!!!</div>
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Then, he wanted to see what would happen to a flip flop if placed in the freezer, so of course he couldn't put it in the door, he had to put it in the ice despenser (of which we used for lunch, and no, it was not a clean flip flop!).</div>
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Then, as we were eating our lunch, with our refreshing ice water, Kaden complained of his tasting like soap, which he has done before and there was none, so I ignored him. He said, "No mom, it really does taste like it this time." Being the wonderful mother that I am, I continued to think he was being his picky self, and nothing was wrong. Then Brynlee said she tasted soap too, and I looked and realized there were some bubbles in her water. I thought, how wierd, the dishwasher really did leave soap in their cups. As I proceeded to give them refills of delicious ice water, I noticed more bubbles as the water fell onto the ice. I opened the freezer, and that is when I found not only a flip flop, but a little purple corner of something, sticking up underneath it. I pulled it all the way out, and it was a container of bubbles (of couse without it's lid) had been lain down inside the ice to see what would happen if it too, was frozen. </div>
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(If you look at the top of the ice in my cup, you can see the film of small soapy bubbles all along it!)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nicolas' scientific find was that mom is not happy when she has to clean out the entire soap dispenser, or when non-food substances are placed in the freezer. Good find Nicolas, good find!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had to use our last day to check out the historical towns of Yorktown and Jamestown. With this, Kaden found out that because of his handicap, he gets to get him, his family, and a few friends into national parks for free for the rest of his life! He was pretty excited about his special card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The towns were amazing, with cannons, and just so much rich historical information and sights. We loved it!</span></div>
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Since it was a Sunday, we packed a lunch and ate at a picnic spot in Yorktown.</div>
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We had a friend come visit us, and he ran up the tree and turned around tio eat up-side-down. We thought this was pretty cool!</div>
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Silly Nels, he got on the wrong side of the cannon.</div>
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At Jamestown they had all the state flags and plaques that stated when it was founded, etc. We can never pass up an opportunity to pose in front of Texas, where the craziness of our family began!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We drove back to Mannases, VA where we stayed with some friends, the Atkinsons (I knew the wife growing up in Modesto, CA, and then we met them again when they moved into our ward in Texas). Nels and I have never met a family so like our own in daily routines, and behaviors, It was so fun to see the kids get along as well as they did--better than they ever have with anyone!! We're so glad we got to see them!</span></div>
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and having lunch at an Italian Ristorante (Sarah appreciated her first taste of french fries).</div>
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Sarah loved her first feel of the ocean, but something about it scared her a little, and she spent the entire day with her head buried in my neck. I tried to capture it, but this is all I got--her eating my hair and clinging onto me for dear life. I loved the tight hugs all day!</div>
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Some crazy things the Parry's told us while we were there was of how people in that area are so greedy that they have actually tried to steal Moroni on top of the temple, thinking that he was solid gold, and tried to steal the steeples for the same reason, but didn't realize they were attached so far into the temple, they were unsuccessful. And the other thing was as it was being built, people kept stealing the things on the temple grounds that were needed to build the temple, and through many prayers to figure out what to do, a dog showed up each night for the remiander of the construction, and nothing was stolen from that day on. The dog was then adopted by one of the workers, and passed away a few years ago and is buried on the temple grounds. </div>
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Gorgeous temple grounds</div>
Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-82045277876699946632012-08-06T06:32:00.002-07:002012-08-06T06:32:39.549-07:00Washington Zoo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The next day, we headed to the D.C. Zoo, and had a great time!!!</span></div>
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Ready for another hot day outside</div>
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Kaden getting bit by a T-rex head</div>
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Shaylin getting totally eaten by that very hungry dino!</div>
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This Orangutan walked on this wire directly over our heads to end up in this enclosure so it could do a show for us. Pretty crazy that it wasn't even in a cage, it could have gone anywhere in the zoo and hung out.</div>
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Nels and the kids watching the giraffes and elephants</div>
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They had little spray areas to cool down, and the kids definitely took advantage of it!</div>
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I found a frog to kiss, cause everybody's got to kiss a frog :)</div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-57472217428339670382012-08-05T20:08:00.001-07:002012-08-06T06:46:50.688-07:00Washington D.C.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We were so excited to be able to visit our nations capitol this year, even though it was hot (not as bad as I've heard it being, only in the 90's, but very humid). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We stayed with some friends in Manasses, VA, and drove to the capitol from there. We had a great time, to great in the Natural History Museaum and ended up spending most of the day there. The kids were in Heaven! We saw dinosaurs, rocks, sea creatures, jewels, lava, Neanderthals, and much more! What fun!!</span></div>
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The White House</div>
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Elise has always said she wants to be a police girl, so we got her to pose in front of the white house gaurd!</div>
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The Ohio sign in front of the World War II Monument</div>
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Lincoln Memorial</div>
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Haley caught in deep thought in front of the Vietnam Memorial</div>
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Shaylin being fed by the Neanderthal</div>
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Nicolas with all the rocks! He was so excited!</div>
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The White House on our Way back to the car. Gorgeous!</div>
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We realized we'd be heading home right in rush hour traffic, so we walked around a bit and found this gorgeous door, some people passed by and offered to take our picture, so we accepted.</div>
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We got stuck in a Falun Gong parade/Protest/Plea for help. Pretty crazy, it was going through the lights, along with the flow of traffic, and was 10 blocks or more long!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we had the opportunity to do a bit of a history tour this summer. Our first stop was Gettysburg, and we thougoughly enjoyed seeing and understanding the things that went on there.</span></div>
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The battlefield on Weatfield Drive (right across from the famous peach orchard)</div>
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The painting of the battlefield in the museaum's Cyclorama, done by a french artist a few years after the battle. It was 42 feet tall, and 360 degrees around. Pretty cool!</div>
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One of the monuments out on the battlefield</div>
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The kids and Nels sitting with Abe Lincoln in front of the museum</div>
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Nicolas couldn't get over how cool everything was, especially these authenic cannon balls (he posed with a surprised face for almost every picture throughout our entire trip)</div>
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Shaylin, Brynlee and Sarah in the Gettysburg address room</div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-76243426198091328812012-07-08T13:14:00.003-07:002012-07-08T13:15:23.306-07:00Haley's pastime<div style="text-align: center;">
Where's Haley you ask?? No one's seen her in three hours, where could she possibly be? Oh, there she is--she's reading. I had always wanted to be into reading like some of my friends were when I was growing up, but definitely never got there as a child. Haley, however, reads more than, not only every child I know, but every adult as well. During school she was reading a new book each afternoon. And not just little 100 page books, but over 300 pages, a lot of them, and she'd be done before dinner, bedtime at the latest. She's amazing!!!</div>
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Sarah is six months, infact, she's almost 7 months, and we are still loving every second! This month has brought quite a bit of fun for us all. At the beginning of the month, she started rolling all over around the floor, then she <em>really</em> got into eating food, and looks at us longingly during every meal. She has also started doing a very excited grunt that sounds like she's trying to show how excited but very tough she is, and has become so loud that I've had to leave 2 sacrament meetings due to her enthusiasm :) She also broke through her first two teeth this month! And the last and most fun thing (I think) is that she's starting to sit up. We had a friend come over to play for a few minutes, so we sat her up to say hi. I expected to have to hold her up, but she sat there for more than 5 minutes. She's gonna be a pro before we know it!!</div>
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Very happy to be together</div>
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Claire and Sarah</div>
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You can see one of her little teeth in this one!</div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-75865527665781373362012-07-08T12:50:00.003-07:002012-07-08T12:50:46.569-07:00Relaxation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I got the most pleasant surprise the other day. I was sitting down nursing Sarah, and very ready to close my eyes for a little R&R, when Shaylin and Brynlee asked if they could give me a foot massage. They had found some foot lotion, and wanted to practice with it, and I was in no way going to stop them, nor did I expect what I got. It was not just a 2 second, have hearted little rubbing of my feet, but it was a 30 min. amazing foot rub!! I was more than happy to stay all day in this chair! What a treat!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, it’s July, and I feel it’s time to let you in on another of my, I never expected’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is good, my children are wonderful, but somehow when I began having children, I had this false assumption that things would remain clean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What everyone neglected to tell me was that they don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our house would quickly be filled with inanimate objects that will be spread anywhere they get flung by anyone with the hands or the ability to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they don’t find their home until someone decides it’s time to clear the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that sooner than later, the children will be gone and I'll be missing these messes, so I do accept this fact (most of the time).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did however capture a few of these crazy messes one morning before I cleaned up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, here are some pictures of these inanimate objects that seem to be completely happy in the middle of the floor, and almost seem to be asking for someone to step on them (especially the really sharp ones). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a friend walk in on our apartment when we had just one child, and her toys were strewn everywhere. He commented, "We know who rules this house." Well, if anyone comes over and questions who rules this house, these pictures just might give you the answer! So...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I never expected that I wouldn’t see the floors (or any other surface in my house) for many, many years.</span> </span></div>
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</div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-55291288367334330372012-07-01T20:25:00.002-07:002012-07-06T13:13:05.833-07:00Inspiration!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I find myself tonight, completely moved and
inspired by a book that a dear friend recommended to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book is “Heaven is Here” by Stephanie
Nielson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of you who have not
heard of it (I had not) I too highly recommend it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cried more than once, more than twice,
okay, I cried off and on through the entire book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it, she spoke of her recovery from a plane
crash, and the many challenges that life still holds for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was both inspirational and uplifting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also reminded me to reflect upon
everything good we are blessed with each and every day of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On her blog- </span><a href="http://nieniedialogues.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">nieniedialogues.com</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, she said in
one of the videos, “I am Stephanie Nielson, and I am not my body.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a profound statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all so caught up with what we need to
look like, we forget that we are not our bodies...we are our spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are who God made us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are who we become as we wake up and work
toward new goals each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are who we
want to be, and no one can change our attitude toward life but us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a passage in her book which was a
quote from one of Elder Holland’s conference talks--one that I plan to put up
in our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It states, “I testify that
bad days will come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly
promises are always kept.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know this to be true, and I hope to always remember the things she
shared, and use each day to bless my children’s lives, my husband’s life, and
the lives of those I come in contact with each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I can accomplish this, I will have lived a
good life. One worthy of the blessings my Heavenly Father has in store for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-5023512311967036372012-06-25T08:58:00.001-07:002012-07-06T13:14:16.477-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Along with all the wedding stuff, Sarah and
I got to go visit my mom and step-dad, Bill in Springfield, OR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our camera has not worked right for a long
time, so when we first got there, Bill was so nice and gave us his camera (a
very nice one) cause he just got a new one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here are some of the pictures we took of the fun that we had there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We met my Grandma (Bama is her nickname) at
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friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Echo would run up to her and
try to get her to play, but very quickly learned to steer clear of her grabby
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compared to our usual schedule, that I often found myself sitting on the couch
watching my mom run around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a
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while driving back to my mom’s house, from Trina’s.</span></div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-37247257671184202002012-06-24T19:59:00.002-07:002012-07-06T13:16:35.951-07:00The after Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After the wedding, Antonio’s family and a
few others went back to Trina’s house and had an after party, which she says
went on until after 1:00am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom, Lona
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My mom, dad, and step-mom, Marte hanging
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Antie Lona (Annie Lona is
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dancing! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love this picture, she looks
like an angel </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span></span></div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-69313670896256628552012-06-22T10:08:00.001-07:002012-06-22T10:08:44.751-07:00Caught with his pants down!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Kaden had needed help getting his pants up after he went to the bathroom, but we were getting cereal for everyone, and the next thing I knew, he was eating at the table with his pants still at his ankles. Later that morning he was sitting at the piano singing 5 little monkeys at the top of his lungs. What a cutie!</div>
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three days, and got almost everything done, including wrapping over 200 hundred
tamales (it was both of our first time, but I think we did pretty darn good!),
and were ready for the big day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
started out very slow, but eventually all took showers, got the kids dressed,
fixed her hair, then ran out the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were just a few minutes late, so missed out on a few finishing
touches (of which no one else knew, so it was ok), and got our pictures
taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled out my camera to take
some pictures, after the professional did her work, then quickly forgot about it
and didn’t snap another picture until after the dinner was over, and the first
dance began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty sad, but I’m glad I
at least got these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a beautiful
day! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Trina had Antonio on his knees so she could
fix his hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The expression of love
that he had on his face, as he waited for her to be done, was so sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t capture that moment, but I could
get this of how cute it was to have her fixing him up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so they could dance alone, and their embrace was filled with so much emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen any
two people cling to each other the way that they did in that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both had tears of joy as they shared
their first dance as a married couple, and everyone watching was touched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Dad and Marte ended up surprising us by
showing up, and I’m so glad they did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">We never worked it out ahead of time, but
Sarah ended up hanging out with my mom through almost the entire wedding, so
that I could help with everything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah
and I are both very grateful!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">After we had taken down all the tables, and
cleared almost everything out, I came back in to find my mom had kept her chair
and was still sitting, as if her table were there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pretty funny!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Me, my dad, both sisters, Trina and Shauna,
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Shauna had to leave early, but I had to get
one last picture of her and I before she left—I miss you Shauna!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518095335857245158.post-34420637756269508982012-06-21T08:34:00.004-07:002012-06-21T08:34:48.729-07:00A small wedding vacation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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visited my sister Trina in Washington for her wedding!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trip started off with a lot of wedding
preparations.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The first stop was for my sister's Shauna, Trina, and I to get a manicure and pedicure for the wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of fun!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was our first time ever doing a sister’s outing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty sad it took us this long, but that’s what happens when you live all over the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Trina ended up
getting some nails put on that had a glittery finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They looked very pretty, and no, these are
not the finished product, we just had to snap a shot of her right after they
got attached!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Antonio kept calling Sarah “my new baby.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very sweet </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here he is with his two kiddos, Isabella and Lorenzo; and his “new baby,”
Sarah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Lorenzo didn’t know me very well, but I won
his heart by throwing a football back and forth almost every single day we were
there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a cutie!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I also couldn’t resist making a fun lunch
when I babysat him for the first time, while Trina went to a meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made chocolate chip pancakes with fruity
faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He requested an angry dinosaur
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I had a few things to fix on the wedding
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</span>Lorenzo snapped this of me fixing the hook on the back of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This was the first time Sarah met any of
her cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isabella and her are only 3
months apart, so they had fun getting to know one another by grabbing at each
other’s faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so funny!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trina snapped a shot of Isabella pulling up
Sarah’s lip while she was trying to get Sarah’s hairbow off, and the day
before, Sarah had gotten a good hold of Isabella’s hair!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That didn’t make Isabella happy, but man was
it funny to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both wanted what
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">These are all the cakes we frosted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People were so kind to donate already made
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This is the dress hanging after everything
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decided to listen to the dentist and, even though my wisdom teeth were in great
health, get them removed for ease of cleaning my mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silly me, did I forget I'm in my 30's now?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was I thinking? Now I have to revert to
eating baby food for the next month, while the gaping holes, where my gigantoid
wisdom teeth were, heal closed! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent 6 long years growing those suckers
in. I remember feeling the pain of them, forcing their way up, on many
occasions, and was very proud to say I had room for my wisdom teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, now my drawer is holding the nasty
little buggers, along with my 2nd baby tooth that I also had removed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, tomorrow, I will be the proud new owner
of 2 fake teeth on a retainer (to replace the two that never had permanent teeth
to grow in).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I have to say, getting my wisdom
teeth out was not too bad, annoying, yes, but altogether, I really liked being
put to sleep (nitrous oxide is my new best friend). My face had hardly any swelling, and other than the change in diet, no one would ever know. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I do have one complaint, however, as this picture shows, anesthesia and
me, well, we are not the best of friends! As soon as I woke up and realized how
comfy I really was, the nausea set in. I had nothing in my stomach, since I had
been put under, so I had nothing to lose, but I had a very hard time convincing
my body of that, and went through the actions every time I sat up. Eeew!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a huge popped blood vessel under my
eye to prove how badly my body wanted to empty itself of the vile anesthesia.
Anyway, after about 6 hours of lying around waiting for it to get out of my
system, I began to feel better, and could actually get off the couch and eat,
or shall I say drink some dinner. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">It's sad to me that with how fast
I seem to be able to get over sicknesses, and surgeries that I have to deal
with the nausea. If not for that, my healing time would be amazing with so many
things I've done! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Well, I sat here for over an hour
today trying to upload the video of Sarah's love for food, but for some reason
it's not gonna happen. All I can say about it, is she was made for eatin'!!!
She absolutely loves food. I was going to wait until she was 6 months, but
every time we sat down to eat food, she complained until we handed her a graham
cracker or something. So we had her try some cereal yesterday and she was
grabbing Nels' hand with the spoon and helping put it in her mouth. She ate the
entire bowl!! She is, by far, our best eater!!! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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we went with some friends to ride motor bikes, and roast marshmallows and hot
dogs. This has been a tradition for the last four or so year, and we have loved
it every time! The kids were so excited that Nicolas went so far as to fix his
own hair! He asked me to hair spray it, and I gladly obliged. What a cutie!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">The gorgeous woods when the
sun came out to play!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12pt;">Some very cool stuff growing
on a tree stump<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">I got creative
for my last school breakfast and made up a recipe using some ideas from my new
favorite muffins. I named them candied Pancakes because they get this crispy layer of sugar on them from sprinkling the brown sugar over the last side before it's flipped. I thought they were pretty darn good, but lately, I'm a sucker
for oats, so let me know what you think!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Candied Pancakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">1 c. quick oats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">1 c. buttermilk<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">½ c. wheat flour<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">½ c. white flour<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">5 t. baking
powder<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">1 t. salt<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">¼ c. veg. oil<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">3 T. sugar<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">1 c. milk<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">2 eggs<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC";">Brown sugar for
sprinkling<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mix oats and buttermilk in microwavable bowl and
cook in microwave for 35 sec.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When done
add all other ingredients and mix well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oil pan and begin cooking pancakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before you flip to cook other side, sprinkle a small amount of brown
sugar over the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flip and cook other
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since these pancakes are made with
mostly cooked oats, they need to cook a little longer than a normal pancake, so
make sure it’s not too gooey before you take it off the heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serve pancake sugar side up so it stays
crispy, and eat plain or with a very light amount of syrup. </span>Bigmamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04727482279978812227noreply@blogger.com0