A year in review.....

This took me awhile but I have completed the task of getting caught up on the blog since last year.  Yeah for me.  Its not really in order but at least Its up. Now I just need to make sure to update this thing at least once a month. 

Thanksgiving in St. George.  We went to the Tuacon to see the lights and visit with Santa

 Jan. This is New Years Day.  Tradition all the guys go Rabbit Hunting.  (I saved us all from the picture of Jaden holding a blown up Rabbit by the hind legs His first Kill)  This is Mathew and Jaden being pulled by Uncle Ians Suburban down the road.  Jaden Said it was "awesome and fast" 

 Jan. Bryson Celebrated his 5th Birthday with his first friend party.  He had a PJ party with Breakfast for dinner, games, and treats.  He loved it.

 Regan's 3 year of Cheer Competition started in Jan. as well.  They did so good this year.  Won Nationals in Salt Lake and Las Vegas.  They are really coming together.

 Brysons Friends for his big Party.

 Regan tried her had at a second attempt at Soccer.  She showed promise but did not like it.  Cheer is in her blood

 May.  Jaden had his birthday party.  His friends came over and had cake and pizza then Steve took them to Boondocks for and afternoon of fun.

 "Baby Beans." I just can't get enough of this little girl she is too cute 

 One of those moments when you check in on the kids before going to bed and you can't help but grab the moment.  They had rounded up some stuffed animals and were just happily asleep.  The buddies are awesome

 Steve wake surfing with his buddies on Echo Reservoir

moment to capture some of Lena's first smiles. 

Came into Lena's room to find Bryson had taken her out of her crib and was just having a great moment with his baby sister

 I was folding laundry and looked up  to see suka just resting her head on Brysons butt as they watched cartoons.  Luckily my camera was right there and I just loved this shot.

 Regan and Jaden's first day of School.  5th grade for Regan and 2nd for Jaden

 Bryson started a week later for his 1st day of Kindergarten.  He was so excited to ride the bus. and for all the new school clothes I got him we would not hear of it and wanted to wear long sleeve pants as he calls them and a long sleeve shirt.  I think it was like 85 degrees that day, but whatever. He is too funny

 Three kids in School and loving it.

 These two Pictures show Steve not in his finer moments.  I am super Lucky that Steve is super handy, but when working on a car he is an angry boy  The Power Steering had gone out in his car so he decided to save the money and do it him self well...he made it ten times worse, lucky for us his dad came down a few weeks later and spent 3 days under the car trying to fix Steve's mess.  Love Dave for saving us.

 My Dad retired this summer so to enjoy some time with him He and I hiked up to Lake Blanch us Big Cottonwood Canyon.  It was so fun and such a pretty hike. 

 This was a cool shot of the fire in Herriman.  Its about 20-30 miles from us but it was just amazing to see it from our deck. 

 All my cuties.  Love the kids

 These are picts from Jaden's 2nd grade program this year.  They did a western play called Stone Soup

 Bryson tried his hand at T-Ball this year.  Jaden did Flag Football but we sucked rocks and didn't get any pictures of him. 

Regans Cheer team working on one of their stunts for this year 2011.  They are amazing.

Regan and Steve during one of Regan's games. She is goalie here and really was pretty good at it.

Jaden's 7th Birthday party. We had his friends came over we had cake and pizza and then Lucky Steve got to take them to Boondocks for a few hours of fun. Jaden had a great time. It hard to think he is 7. He is such a stud, he is so smart and try's so hard to do the right things.

The "bean" So far her nicknames have been Lena Bean, Beaners, Lulu, Lena Lulu. She is just so dang cute and has been such a joy. She is great baby during the day. But her nights are rough. She is usually up every 2 hours all night crying and fussy. She is having a hard time with pooping, and at night it just seems to hit. I am starting to think I will never sleep again, and its putting me in this dark place of helplessness, I am really starting to loose it. I NEED MY SLEEP. :)

Steve's parents came into town 2 weeks after she was born. One of the nephews graduated from High School and they came down for the commencement ceremony. Since they were here they asked if we could bless Lena in case they could not make it down again. It put me into an anxiety ridden state. Its hard for me to even let the kids breath on her much less a house full of family and kids. ( Even though we love them.) So we said fine but asked that it be short and sweet. We did her blessing at the house. It was a great blessing from Steve. During the blessing however, Jaden and Bryson showed true form they decided the prayer circle looked like such a great fort. They snuck between every ones legs and then would poke their heads out and say "Eric, Eric look at us" (Eric s their cousin) Snickers went around for sure. I could toatlly see the funny in this, but I was so embaressed they for sure got a time out and a good talkin to after that one.

Mom and baby. Lena is about 30 min old. She has had a bottle at this point. She is just a doll. I always forget how little babys are at first.

My Mom was staying with the kids while I am at the hospital. She brought the kids later that evening. Regan couldn't even contain herself she was soooo happy to have a little sister. She had dreamed about it for years. Bryson kept saying " Thanks Mom for having a sister" and Jaden just stared at her and soaked her in. He had just a huge smile on his face. After about 1 hour though I was ready for some peace and quite with the kids so they headed home for the night. This picture is amazing to see all our kids. Perfect.

Bringing Lena home.

All three kids played Soccer this spring. Defiantly Not Jaden's forte. He suffered through it, So did Regan. She actually showed some promise at being a goalie, but she loves Cheer to much. and running around after a ball was not her idea of a good time. Bryson had a good time with it. Bryson seems to have a just a knack at sports.

Annul Easter Egg Hunt at the Hansens. It was a cool Easter this year. Usually we spend the morning with the kids hunting eggs, but this year we were rushing to get the eggs with the kids. It was so freezing. But we had a great time with the kids.

Regan's 10th Birthday Party. Regs had a great time. She invited her fav 5 friends. One couldn't make it, and we had a girls night out. We went and saw "when in Rome" and then had dinner at Applebee's. Regan is growing up to be so awesome. She is gorgeous, super social, talented, and a blast to have around.

Ok this takes a serious level of self confidence on my part to even post this pic. This is me the night before Lena is born. I look at this picture and think a few things. 1. Holy crap I am huge, 2. my face is super shiny and 3. I can't even believe I went around wearing outfits like this. Disgusting but what makes it worth it...... ....strait from the womb, This Lena's first few seconds of life. She was born at 1:45pm May 17th 2010. She was 7lbs 8 oz and was 19.5 inches long. She was perfect. I don't know why but with every pregnancy I have such anxiety that something is wrong until that anticipated moment when the baby comes out and they look perfect have all fingers, toes and the Dr gives the A-OK. Labor with her was actually the best one yet. I was induced that morning at 8:30 am. We set up the lap top ( holy crap I couldn't believe the rooms did not have even a VCR) totally out dated. And watched Avatar. By 10:30 contractions were starting to bug me we called the Anasethiologist down and he gave me an epidural, I fell asleep for about 45 min. At 12:30 Dr Smith came in and broke my water, I could totally tell Lena was ready to join the world around 1:20. We called the nurse in and she checked things out and said OK you are not quite there yet so lets check again in 30 min. I am thinking what 30 min. I swear she is right there. I knew it was time so Steve called her in again at 1:30 she got the Dr. there and with two contractions She was out and screaming. My Pregnancy was by far the worst. I had been on Bed rest from Feb-early May. I had NEVER been more uncomfortable with being pregnant in my life. It was defiantly some long 9 months. But the delivery was a breeze, so that was a bright spot. I was ready to run a marathon after that. It felt amazing to not be pregnant.

a year in review

finally I am back at the blog. After talking with my friend Tami and realizing this is a great way to keep up with the family going ons. The kids will have it for years. Here we go from my last post of School starting in 2009 to today Oct 26 2010.
SEPTEMBER:
School started Regan started 4th grade and Jaden started 1st grade. Jaden is doing a Chinese immersion program at his school. Half of his day is in English, and the other half is in Chinese. Even though Jaden is not a fan of he whole process and program. We find it awesome when he can say things in Chinese.
Regan Started her third year of Cheer with Peak Academy. She L-O-V-E-S cheer. Her hope and dream is to be a professional cheer leader and cheer coach. She is awesome. I think as a parent its exciting to find that thing that your child really gets into, it makes me feel like I'm doing something right. Now we just need to find out a way to pay for it.

OCTOBER:
Steve and I celebrated 11 years of marriage this month. And Steve started a new job with our friend Ted Browmans company; IntegraCore. Its completely outside anything Steve has done. The interview process was intense. Some 7 interviews to finally get the job. Its good to know people who own companies and who are willing to give us a chance. Steve has always done Mortgage, real estate, investments, etc and this is a sales job finding companies who make a product and they IntegraCore will help you make your product, package, store, and ship your product. It will be alot to learn, but Its money and at this point that is all that matters.
Halloween was great, we trick-or-treated the neighborhood, and had our annual hot dogs ala A-mart in the circle. It is a great tradition our Neighbor Adam started the first year we all lived here. We all pitch in on Hot Dogs stuff, hot coco, etc we hang in the middle of the circle with a roaring Fire. Its a blast.
At the end of October I found out we were having another baby. "Shocker" Steve had always hoped to have one more child but I was not too sure. Is it not ironic that the moment that pregnancy test says positive you are puking your guts out for the next 4 months. Well thats me at least. I think it started out as shock and then morning sickness set in. It will prove to be the hardest pregnancy I have had so far. Being 35 and preg is hard. The kids were bouncing off the walls when we told them. They had all been begging me for another baby for years.


NOVEMBER:
We spent Thanksgiving in St. George with my parents and Ian and Kellies family. This is a pic of a hike we took to these great Indian petroglyphs. We went swimming, to this great park they have down there, the boys went golfing one day, Steve did is black Friday shopping. We really enjoyed the time.
DECEMBER:
Ahh the Christmas season. I was soo sick I had a hard time this year getting into it. Plus we were in financial crisis. I was worried how we were going to do it. December came and Steve said forget the bills this month lets give the kids a good Christmas and pay what we can. So the kids had a great one. We figured out that Regan is getting to the age where she wants a more grown up Christmas, so we saw some disappointment on her face with some of the things she got. It was funny. Hey I remember one Christmas I got bath mats, a garbage can and shower curtain for my bathroom. That was a banner year for me. LOL

JANUARY:
Started with the annual Rabbit hunt on New Years day. I will guard us all from the grotesque picture steve took of Jaden holing a dead blown up rabbit by his hind legs and instead show this pic of Jaden and his cousin Mathew sledding behind the suburban. Steve was freaking out but this was pretty normal stuff for my brother and I when we were kids. Ian was driving his car and Steve was in the back getting pics and hoping the boys would make it alive.
We found out the first week of Jan. that we were going to have a girl. Steve was so happy. Years ago when Jaden was only 3 months old Steve woke up in the middle of the night and thought he saw Regan coming into our room to climb in bed with us. He thought though that her head was too tall over the foot board of our bed, but he leaned up on his elbow to have her crawl in. When he looked at her is was not Regan, but a girl about 8-9 years old with longish brown hair, in a white nightgown. He just looked at her for maybe 10 seconds and then she was gone. After when he was trying to decide if he was really awake or if it has a dream he had an overwhelming impression that she was a daughter that we would have one day. Well the next one to come along was Bryson. I had thyroid cancer right after Bryson, and had surgury to remove it and one dose of radiation. 18 months later I miscarried, I figured maybe since the cancer and all and that my hormones are wacky, that maybe that was why I miscarried. We we continued to try again for the next year and my body was just not working right with the womanly stuff. I was beyond trying anymore and said forget it. Steve just hoped that one day I would change my mind. Well I guess Heavenly Father changed if for me. Steve just new that this baby is the one that visited him years ago. I was on my pathway to freedom. Bryson would be going into Kindergarten the next fall and I would be free to pursue something. Life throws you a new ball once in a while and we are ecstatic that this is what we are getting.
Bryson celebrated his 5th birthday will his neighborhood friends. We had a PJ party and had his favorite breakfast for dinner,played games, and had a great time.

one great day

Had the best sunday.
We slept into 9 which is great. I sat in bed with Lena doing computer stuff until 11. We took the kids to lunch and had a great time. Came home got Lena down and took a great nap. Have been curled up in my bed with the rain and wind outside most the day. Could have cared less about the house and getting it clean, the laundry piled up at the foot of my bed...its been a great day.