Bev

Family Vaca!

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Family Vacation was really great in SD. We also celebrated our ten year anniversary.

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Ethan turns 7! We had a birthday party with friends for him for the first time. It was easy as pie and really fun to have it on a wednesday after school at C.C. We had the whole place to ourselves. yeah! He had a great time and it was nice to see the parents of so many of his friends. Ethan is a very sweet big brother. He really attends to the needs of his baby sisters the best in the family. He is so loving and gentle and kind. He has a big body and huge heart.

The picture of the hands with warts is worth posting for information. We burn them off ourselves! It's way better than going to the doctor or using over the counter medicine. Call me if you want more info. It's is fun! I love burning off warts. My little brother Jerry is the original witch doctor in this field, but I am his apprentice. I'm good too!

Remodel Coming Along

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Chris Clyde really knows his stuff. This was a really big project and it turned out great. I like documenting the progress on this year of blogging catch up. It was a big deal in our lives last year. We bought the house December 2010 and we moved in the end of May 2011.

Jacque's Bread!

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My mom's bread deserves a blog post for sure. She the kind of bread maker that no recipe can do justice. I tried to just watch and follow along as she made this batch of bread. Look how my first step turned out! The dark brown mess is my version of her beautiful bowl on the left! I just thought that was so funny and sadly telling.

I make bread. I grind my own wheat and make it fresh all the time, but i still use a recipe and it's nothing like my moms. My mom makes bread for all who pass by her house. She takes it to friends. It is her gift and excuse to visit the sick and lonely. She is a wonderful bread maker and a very gracious wonderful person. When I make bread I keep it! Usually because it's not that great but also because that was a lot of work and I want it. I have a long way to go to be more like my mom. I hope I live a really, really, really, long time!

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The Girls!

Loving up the neighbors horses.

Me in my potato sack dress.

A really great pic of Kasen having to share grandma with his other cousins. That was so dang cute and funny. He was devastated to let grandam go to his Colorado cousins.

Josy wasn't too thrilled about leaving Idaho. She was worried about "Brownie." The brown mutt dog that the neighbors let run free. Josy adopted him while where were there and was pretty worried to leave her dog. So sweet.

idaho aunt jana

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Kasen was NOT happy to say good-bye to grandma. ...He was fine with us leaving!

I love this picture of Kirsten blocking the faces of the attention stealers. She as never the jealous type but still. They are attentions stealers!

I am strangely proud of this muddy picture of Josy. That's my girl!

Stuffed animals are so dead. I just would rather enjoy alive animals. I am surprisingly yucked out by hunting and guns. (although I am starting to warm up to target shooting for sport and I will probably end up being the one who bags the biggest buck in my family) So I'm not too yucked out I guess. Just inexperienced because I'm the forgotten middle child who just was kind of there. I'm really not bitter, just didn't get taken hunting much by my dad.

That potato museum has really yummy cartons of hashbrowns. We still have one left that I am saving for a special occasion. I should probably stop saving weird things for special occasions though. Tonight I cooked with some way over expired soup mix

that did fatal damage to my chicken and rice dish. I guess I was saving that mix for a special occasion instead of using it when I planned my monthly meal calendar about 3 years ago. (I don't really plan my meals for the month! I'm lucky if its planned for the week on special occasion weeks!!!)

WOW, were did that blogginess come from?

update continued more!

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(yeah, I'm pretty much good with a slight variation of the same title for all of these updates)

So Josy made this sign! She wanted to put it on the front porch each time we had a showing for our house. It probably would have worked!

Ethan lost a tooth! The experience was a little dramatic because Eth wasn't ready for Scott to pull it out of his face but Scott just did it anyway and there was a little blood and a few tears. (ok a lot of tears, it was Ethan!) Kirsten was very worried about the whole thing and I loved her affection toward her big bro. Scott made it all better when he started telling Ethan that his milk was cool blood milk from his mouth bleeding so much. Ethan got a huge kick out of that and started re-telling the blood milk joke for some laughs. (its strawberry milk in case you were worried)

Our kitchen with the new expanded wall. Our now covered orange rock wall. (i love orange so we are now landscaping with the rocks from the walls.) We also enjoy a orange rock fire pit outside.

Baptism

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Aunt Tay, Alana and I. Taylor gave Alana that pretty outfit and bow so we are just showing it off a bit.

Josy and Ethan had a considerably long phase of posting signs on their bedroom doors to warn incomers of their room rules. This one is one of our favorites. Josy says for all boys to stop... except of course Reid. Reid is a boy who is her friend too! ( we still miss them it's been a long time!)

Josy had such a fun baptismal date on 1-1-11! Isn't that just fun? It is a joyful feeling to watch your child chose to become a member of your faith. I love teaching my kids the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I am thankful for the Holy Ghost which testifies to anyone willing to know truth that the gospel is alive and well! It was a really wonderful day. One of my favorite comments from Josy was, "mom my face hurts from smiling so much."

Catching Up continued!

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New Year Eve has become a bit of a traditional celebration at our house the last few years. It just so happens to be a good time to travel across the snow covered Rockys for my family! Ringing in 2011 was especially special because Joslyn was baptised that day. More of that to come.

More pictures of the house in progress. Chris Clyde is the man! He builds stuff, so we asked make our house really pretty and he said yes! Works out.

Every Christmas morning the kids have to wait for Bama Janny and Papa DAve to arrive before running down the stairs to see what SAnta brought. It is a fun and agonizing tradition we hold dear. They arrive in their robes and slippers.

I can't believe Blaize and Alana are one already. It was just two seconds ago they were little bundles on chub in Josy and Ethans arms! Love it.

I think I'll blog a year at a time!

2011-11-17T21:16:00.000-08:00

It has been about a year! I love life and think blogging is cool but...

So here are some pictures to catch me up on this last year. We are about ready to go home to blessed Orderville and have our 2nd annual Turkey Top Shot, 3rd annual Turkey Trot, 1st annual Turkey Games for kids, and 1003rd annual Turkey Tournament! It is the best time ever! It's hard to beat Thanksgiving in O-ville. Now about these pictures:

Last Christmas we had a party at Dave and Janets with Sams family and did the Christmas story. Blaze was our baby Jesus so that was special.

Next our house right after we bought it. It is completely different now so this pictures is fun to look back on. The remodel is very much loved by all.

Next picture was last halloween 1010! My kids were heart broken because I told them we might not make the halloween party because I can't rely on them to clean up their toys after they play with them. It was a pretty big bad evening and very memorable. I of course way overreacted. The poor kids were in the middle of being sad and I had to have my halloween picture of their costumes. We did go to the party but not before I scarred them for life.

The Turkey Tournament. Need I say more? Just look at those amazing wonderful athletes. Tim Tebow has go nothin on the men in those jerseys!

Turkey Top Shot. My mom taking aim. I look forward to competing this year and trying to take home the famous hat the DeAnna so beautifully cross stitches!!!

Now I'm going to go get more pictures to post. This is sorta fun. I am in a good mood because sweetie pie Tim Tebow just beat the Jets. Go Broncos!

Photo update

2011-01-04T21:14:00.001-08:00

Another Angel Girl

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She is here!!! We are so happy to have four kids. Alana Ruth was born Saturday morning July 31st. (my grandma Beth's birthday)

Labor was intense and fast. Only 4 hours this time and I felt focused and strong the whole time. It is certainly painful but once it is over I think to myself I would go through labor again and again for this perfect little person in my arms.

We had a hard time picking a name for her. She was going to be "Kate" for the majority of my pregnancy, but I was always so unsure. Then a couple days before she was born Scott and I were out at the Macaroni Grill writing names down on the paper table cloth and Scott wrote down Alana Ruth (after his Hansen grandparents). We both loved it, and really felt something special about it's meaning to our family. So even though we didn't have a final name until she was born it was clear that she was Alana when we met her. It was fun to call grandma Ruth and let her know her name. She said Alan was a great man and she misses him. We do too. Alana will be a "straight arrow-true heart" in honor of her great grandfather.

I love that we have four kids. I look forward to holidays and family traditions. I love right now!

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Outside!

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Joslyn is happy when she is doing activities outside. She loves climbing trees, rollerblading, swimming, digging for worms in the garden, riding horses, playing in the rain, riding bikes, hiking, fishing, picking wild flowers, skateboarding down the sidewalk, playing with friends, swinging, etc...

When we go camping she has a constant smile on her face. She explores and want to climb mountains. She loves riding in the truck singing Taylor Swift songs with her head out the window looking at the river. It is so crazy to see how much she is growing up. She is a silly, wild, out going little girl. We just love her.

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We have been enjoying overnight camping trips this summer. We just attach our pop-up to the truck and drive until we find a nice little spot by the Poudre River. It doesn't take much planning and it feels like a great treat to get away. We practice casting our fishing poles, hike along the river, roast hot dogs, make smores and drink pop! It is a great time. After a comfy nights sleep we just pop down the camper and drive away. (we don't even unhook from the truck) Good times!

Nine Years

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Scott and I celebrated our 9th anniversary June 2nd. We started the day off by attending the Salt Lake Temple. It was great, we had never been there before, it was beautiful. We visited the surrounding church sites too. Cut and paste the link below to see the cool new temple model they have in the south visitors center. (I don't know how to make it a link, I used to be less techno challenged) http://www.templestudy.com/2010/05/28/scale-model-exhibit-salt-lake-temple-opened-temple-square/

We also stayed at the Anniversary Inn, in the "Twilight Meadow Room." It makes me laugh thinking about theme rooms. Theme rooms are just really funny to me. Funny like laugh out loud funny. I'd rather stay in a real meadow for a night under the stars. This was fun and cute of Scott though.

We just had a great time and were anxious to go get our kids because we had been away from Scott for a couple weeks. Linda and Bobby babysat for us. Thanks guys.

Hometown Proud

2010-06-11T21:40:00.000-07:00

I love my hometown! I love taking my kids there and watching them enjoy the beauty and simplicity. I hope my kids always like to be there and always have an appreciation for it's charm. I never remember being unsatisfied with my little place on earth.

This last trip was eventful.

We...

Had a get together with friends at aunt Brits and uncle DJ's. We stripped a lot of wall paper and painted 3 different rooms. We played with cousins and explored. We rode ATV's and hiked.

They "sneaked". I ate homemade bread. Kimber caught lizards for everyone to enjoy. We rode horses, milked cows, made cheese, ate dutch babies and enjoyed old friends. (Thanks Dustin and Harmony) We visited graves of family members. We went swimming, played on the trampoline, had water fights, blew bubbles, hugged grandparents, ate at Soup Town, arranged wedding events, met new sister, and got to tell a lot of people about Jana peeing on Linda's porch! Ahhh GOOD Times!

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Tell them about me

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Grandma Wanda,

My grandmother passed away May 15, 2010. It's not an unusual thing for me to go to a funeral and feel it is a happy occasion. I felt the same way when my sweet grandma Sorensen passed. I believe they are happy, and reuniting with loved one long missed. My favorite memory of my grandma happened while visiting her in her nursing home room. She was looking at a picture of her husband and she said "isn't he handsome, I miss him." She also drew me close in to her and sweetly and intently told me she loves my children and asked me to tell them about her. I promised I would and I have. These are some memories of Grandma Wanda.

One of my earliest memories is out at the ranch when I thought the cows were going to stampeed us, she comforted me.
One of my favorit memories is my speical b-day with grandma. When I was 10 0r 11, I can't remember for sure how old, Just grandma and I went to st. george and grandma bought me an outfit that I picked out on my very own. She didn't discourage me (althought she probably should have becuase I have a picture of me in it and it is quite hideous. At least beverly will be happy to know it was all pink with pandabears on it. (maybe that is way I dislike pink.) Anyway she just loved me and told me how precious I was to her. Some of my other favorite memories of grandma are
1. Vitamn C
2. canned cherries
3. sitting at the table visiting over what ever was on the table
4. The tree house
5. Christmas at grandmas ( socks and underware)
6. Reading histories in her chair in the corner
7. Helping her clean her house
8. Sleeping over when I worked in kanab late
9. Grandmas kisses and Bless your heart
10. Salsa and cheese at new years
11. The cubord. You all know what I'm talking about
12. The big steel ball game.
13. How grandmas house smelled and felt

(DeAnna Dana')

How GREAT
My earliest were with Grandma and how she would love to go to McDonalds and get her a diet coke, and when I was with her, she would buy me an ice cream, then we would just go for a drive a little out of town toward lake Powell, and then turn around and come home.
1. Working for Grandma, and she would always pay me at least 2 dollars.
2. Green cups
3. Vitamin C
4. Scriptures on Tape
5. Going to buy groceries with Grandma and her old bluish/grayish car
6. The Tree House
7. The swing outside
8. The BIG pillow we always wanted for movies that was Grandpas I think
9. Definately Christmas time going over to visit and getting socks, then when she hit the big bucks we got 20 dollars:)
10. Her hair was always done up very nice
11. NEVER using the front door and never knocking, just walking in...knocking on the counter as we saw her in her chair yelling out who it was
12. OH...sleeping over at her house, in the spare room across from the bathroom, there was a mirror with flowers around it on the wall, and everytime I slept over it would SCARE the crap out of me and she would always come and take it down and comfort me til I fell back asleep. It always lookedl like scary monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.
13. Kisses on the lips
14. I LOVE YOU's
15. Her game cupboard
16. Her shelves with all her grandkids and kids on it
17. My favorite picture of her and Grandpa at the temple together, then all her kids and their families in that big black picture frame that had white lace around it
18. Bacon made in the microwave and frozen waffles for breakfast...nobody made it better than GRANDMA!!!!
19. The only time I can remember being at the ranch, and sitting on a cactus, her helping mom pull the needles out of my bare bum, while Aunt Susan held the blanket to cover me:)
20. HUGS, and how LOVED she made me feel. Like I was the most Precious thing in the whole world!!! Oh how I love her kisses on the lips!
OH and how she thinks that we are the best singers in the whole wide world.
One of the last times I went to visit her, she asked me to sing her a song...So I sang her Families can be Together forever...she tried to sing along, then told me how beautiful that was:) Going to visit her and everytime never fail, she would tell me how great MY Mother and how much she loves her! She never let me forget how important LOVE and family is. Oh, how I love that woman!!!
Wait..I forgot one...HER HUGE magnifying glass and going to get the mail:)

( Jana Claudia)

How Great! I agree!
I loved sleeping over at her house.
Her breakfast of eggs and bacon and she made mickey mouse pancakes with warm syrup.
Snacking in her kitchen. Nuts/Chips/
Vitiman C
Playing Cards with her.
Her calling me precious.
The way she really wanted us to make a tape of our singing so she could listen to us other than
Christmas time.
Playing at Mandee's and watching Kerry Don mow her lawn for her.
Her tomatoes growing in her window.
Getting a present from her at Christmas. She loved our visits.
The annual cousin Christmas party and gift exchange and talent show. That was so fun.
Glover picnics in the sands.
One time we went and hiked in some caves where treasure was supposed to be. I thought my dad was
going to find the treasure.
Getting our pictures taken with Grandpa Glover before he died.
I loved staying with Grandma when Jerry was in the hospital getting his heart surgery. I was loving life, I
got to be pampered by grandma and then eat ice-cream push-ups with dad in his classroom.
She is a wonderful grandma and I is really nice to think about our memories of her.
(Bev)

Just a few to begin with:

I remember being her sweetheart. She was always kind and gentle. She loved brushing my hair, and moving the bangs out of my face so she could see my "beautiful eyes". She would hold my hand and we would sit on her bed and talk about all her fun jewelry... She would help me try them on and model them in her mirror. She would always say, "what a beautiful girl you are Linda, You remember that." I always have remembered that my grandmother thought I was beautiful. She loved to show me her perfume too. Oh the fun smells we would make as we picked rose petals, and made them into beautiful "perfumed" balls to string on necklaces and bracelets. Most everyone would be in the garden, or outside doing something "fun", but Grandma loved to make things with me inside and never made me go and help, I could help her in the kitchen, or take a rest in the
bedroom. She would make sure that it was quiet, and there was NO light coming in to distract me. She would bring me an extra pillow, and a blanket "just in case", and she'd lay it at the bottom, covering my feet. She did this for me even as an adult when I'd drop by on my way back from Vegas, or some other trip.

Grandma always told me not to worry about getting married, that I was a very special girl, and someday a very special boy would find me, that I would be priceless to him. We would sit in the back room (this is after Grandpa had passed away) and listen to books on tape, and I'd rub her feet.

Grandma would always comfort me because she knew that I was scared of the dogs at the ranch. She was with me when I found the biggest, most beautiful spearhead I had ever seen. We were just walking along and there it was.

RUMMY : I swear she knew a way to cheat to win. It was fun to play with her.

New Years Eve at Grandmas were some of the funnest I had in high school. :)

Food, Food, and more Food : everything but those Danged beets , well, and the occasional parsnip. :)

Salsa!!!
She had the best sweet pickles too.
Nights of watching the adults play pinocle.
The steel ball game ... I so could get the highest score.

CHRISTMAS, THANKSGIVING, Holidays

I have so many great memories of horse racing days. I loved the pictures, the family, the races, the sounds, the cousins, the stands, the food, and the race itself. Oh ya, and then there we all those horses too...
heehehe.

Days of playing in the basement making dances to Kami's new favorite music. Grandma would fix us snacks, and remind us to be careful with the "stuff" downstairs. We would have to eventually get something out of the storage and bring it up.

I know we were all loved, but I'm pretty sure I was her favorite. "_) I remember most about Grandma was her love, her happiness, her devotion to her family, her sweetness when I walked in the door. Her hugs and kisses, her ability to tell me how much she loved and appreciated me as her granddaughter. It brought a smile to my face to drive up to her house because I knew the my Grandma would be there with a hug, a kiss, words of encouragement, and a vitamin C to make my day a little brighter.

I'm already tearing up, so I'll write more when I have made better list. (Linda)

Happy Birthday Big Man Ethan

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Ethan is now six years old! I love it when he turns a year older because people never believe he is "only 2, 3, 4, 5!" Now he is six and his stature is still unbelievable. He is a sensitive soul. He reminds me of my brother Jerry, my dad, and myself in the tender heart area. He is a good boy. He loves his friends and birthday presents. His favorite foods include steak, chicken, pizza, and bacon! He also loves veggies and everything else I feed him, except tomatoes. He is loves to snuggle and read books together. He knows dinosaurs! He also loves wii video games. He plays the piano every single day. He never tires of trying to figure out how to play new songs and working on his piano lessons. He likes baseball and plays with the ball that he got at the Rockies game often. He is almost 80 pounds and I am not sure how tall he is. He wears size 8 boys clothes. His shoe is size 3. He has lost one tooth and has another loose one right now. He likes to play "superpowers". His very favorite super power is "every power in the world." (which makes Josy mad every time and she then refused to play "superpowers" and Ethan just doesn't get why!) He is one great kid and I am very happy to be his mom. Ethan is loved.

Colorado Spring Break

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It has been a really fun day so far and it is only 3:22 in the afternoon. We are having a great snow day and it's Scott's day off. I had a baby doc. appointment which was nice and things are going well. I am 21 weeks, we are having a baby girl and that is so exciting of course.

We went sledding in the sunshine today. I think I may have gotten a little sunburn!

Kirsen is taking a nap while Scott, Ethan and Josy are watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Ethan explained that can watch that movie now because he was only 4 when he tried to watch it last time and now he is 5. He has made it clear that he can't believe he used to be afraid to watch that movie.

Magical Power

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So I am going to have a baby and the day dream of laying down on my bed, especially from 5:30 - dinner time is like dreaming of happy bliss.

Scott comes home from work and the house is in a state of loudness to say the least. I am getting dinner started. Scott takes over everything and tells me to go rest if I want. I want! So I go upstairs away from the "loudness" (a nice way of saying ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) and ... wait for it... Relax. It's funny because I can't sleep I am too entertained by the conversations happening between father and kids. I also sorta wonder if Scott is OK. (Sometimes he asks me where common things are in our house/kitchen. It blows my mind every time he ask me because wow... he really doesn't know where the trash bags are or the cleaner!)

Back to my point though! He makes the most delicious meal and sends J and E to get me for dinner. It was awesome. While I was resting Scott took this picture of all the kids reading. I love this picture. I also don't understand how it happened. When I make dinner Kirsten is holding on for dear life to both my legs. Scott is just magic I guess.

Home

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It is a real honor to know and be great friends with Jessie, Eddie, Tiana and Dash. Eddie has been gone for a year serving in Iraq. I can't believe he is home. It was so long, but so short now that it is over. A lot of things happen in a year when you have little kids.

Jess is such a sweet, strong, and composed person through hard times. (I cried more than her over this).

I get a bit tired of Scott's long hours at work sometimes but of course it is hard to complain while my best buddies man is at war!

Now that he is back, I can get down to really feeling sorry for myself again!

It is truly a blessing to be a citizen of this great nation. It is a blessing to have a family, a hardworking husband, a great husband, the gospel of Jesus Christ, friends, a warm home, etc.

Look I just blogged again!

Christmas 2009

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Good fun!

Yep, time to stop "blogging"

The People Who Make My Day

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My attempt at a new photo of all three of them. I should have called Britt! It was not a success. This was the very best picture I got out of a good effort by me and Josy and even Ethan was doing his best. ...that little stinker Kirsten!

hot chocolate anyone?

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Had a little Christmas party. (Thanks Sam)

White elephant gifts were exchanged and some lucky fool got these yummy things and shared!

Thanksgiving

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My favorite time of year in O-ville.

We have the turkey tournament. The Turkey trot. I ran a 1/2 marathon with Jess. (thanks Jess) We camp on my parents front lawn. We eat. We play cards. We just enjoy the goin ons of the place.

I could do a better job of pictures, but I don't like waiting for it to post!

display

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Britny showed the kids how to be window display people. They still talk about it. What a rush!

Tradition!

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Well it's official. We have a tradition. Broncos Game with DJ and Britt at least every other year. This year they suck. I also broke my camera at this game and that is what I get for going to a football game on sunday. Lessons learned... Maybe?

Same Birthday!

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ONE

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Wow! She is one and she is so wonderful!

Sam made this adorable cake. Sam makes everything beautiful, that is for certain.

Kirsten Jacqueline's Birthday was on the same day as her great grandmother Jacque's funeral. We will miss you grandma.

Caroline's Mom

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I really can't begin to describe my feelings here on this post. I'll just say that my best friend lost her mother to cancer. I made a quick trip home to pay respects.

As I look back I attribute much of who I am today to this woman who raised my friend.

I love you.

Mickey and Minnie Wonderful

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So on halloween I had the whole morning to myself because of these two little mice. It is amazing how much these kind of things mean to me.

If I wrote a list on how to make my day, I would put at the top of my list... "Take my kids to the zoo!"

They took Josy and Ethan to the zoo and got them awesome snakes that they still sleep with.

thanks Sam and Dane

love you

30 Years YOUNG!

2010-01-05T18:41:00.000-08:00

I still can't stand blogging, but I like it! Whatever.

I am going to attempt to update just for fun because it is not even 8:00pm and my loves are in bed. Triumph!

So I can't even believe my birthday this year. I must give a big thanks to Jess. She is a really really good friend and she really made the bulk of the awesomeness of my birthday happen.

I was planning a great night at "Wicked" for my birthday for months in advance. The big night arrived and we were at dinner with Britt, all the others when in walked Britny and Jana. They surprised me with the help of Jess for my birthday. It was the best ever... EVER!

I still can't believe how great that was and it has been months. Thanks guys.

We had a great time...

see this is why I don't like blogging. I don't like the writing part.

whatever.

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The crew.

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Disneyland was a Halloween delight. The firework show stared the disney 'bad guys' like Ursula the Sea Witch.

IT was really really cool.

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The first week of October 2009 we went on our first official "family vacation."

We:

Flew to California

Arrived really late at Mark and Laura's

Opened gifts from our wonderful hosts

Started eating giant disneyland lollipops in the middle of the night.

Went to sleep.

Watched conference.

Went to the beach.

Ate the best taco's EVER.

Enjoyed chatting with Laura in the van with Kirsten, while Josy managed to fill her bathing suit to the tip top with sand.

Went to sleep after looking through some of fabulous Laura's design magazines.

Woke up really excited to go to Disneyland

WEnt to disneyland.

Rode Snow White first and Ethan cried. "it was too scary"

Rode Peter Pan together and everyone loved it.

Rode lots of other rides and enjoyed the great food and entertainment.

Frontier land singing man sang a song to Kirsten and she was in a trance.

Laura joined us at Disneland.

We rode more rides including Ethan's favorite the submarine Nemo ride.

Went home and drove through In N out! Yum but so Yuck at midnight!

Sleep!

Disneyland

Sleep

Disneyland

Sleep

Breakfast on the Beach. (to die for french toast)

The kids LOVE the beach.

We loved our vacation.

Kirsty

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Sweetie

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I love that she is looking at me.

Pretty Girl

2009-09-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

Brittany is very wonderful! She also takes great pictures. She took this of little Kirsten today. This happens to be one of my favorites of the bunch. I can't believe how big Kirsty if getting. It really is hard for me to watch time steal away the baby in my kids. I am so glad to be a mom and blessed to have important gospel truth in my heart to teach them. Even when you are not happy you can still have peace and joy because of the great Plan of Happiness. Ahhh good day.

SuperMark

2009-09-02T20:06:00.000-07:00

I just love that we have a brother who is crazy muscle mania! This is Scott's "little" brother Mark. The other day I heard Josy and Ethan very seriously discussing if Uncle Mark was the strongest man in the Universe, or the World, or the United States, or Colorado??? Ethan thought it was the Universe or the World and Josy was a little more practical and thought is was probably the U.S. or Colorado. They both adore their Uncle Mark and think he is Superman. I think he is too!

2009-08-27T20:37:00.001-07:00

The street that I grew up on. If anyone really knows me, they know I love my small town roots. I love my sweet hometown. I love it! Did I mention that I love it. I am a small town snob. I get a bit snobby when I hear a person worry about a town with "nothing to do" because of the lack of malls, clubs, stores, stop lights...! I judge them harshly as spoiled little city kids! So there you go. That is all out there to offend a few city kids some of whom are my dearest friends.

2009-08-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

A serious problem. This picture represents one of the serious problems I have. I love food. I love to use food as a feel good drug and it stared as a child with these rolls. It was never intended by my mother to cause such problems but it has, and of course... I blame her! Thanks a lot MOM!!!

2009-08-27T20:27:00.000-07:00

Finally checked that hike off my list! "The Narrows" was a great hike. It was fun, beautiful, difficult, and a good bonding experience with Jana, Tate, Burt, DeAnna and Jeremy's random friend from school! It was long and I am going to remember to not do that again from top to bottom. It was one of those things I just needed to do at least once in my life a lot like running my marathon a few years back. I grew up only a few miles from this world famous hike and I always was a bit ashamed I never had gone through them. Now I can say, been there, done that, loved it!

Thanks Sisters especially for coming a long. I just love you guys.

2009-07-13T20:46:00.000-07:00

2009-07-12T14:22:00.000-07:00

We went on a great family bonding, memory building activity. We drove up Storm Mountain in my hubby's really cool truck (that I am trying to appreciate). It was a great time. The road had some pretty challenging parts to it as we crawled and climbed over a particular difficult part Josy started screaming in terror that we were going to crash. It was funny.

2009-04-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

We went to the a movie in 3-D! It was such a great time. I loved the technology and I loved, most of all that we had the place to ourselves. When Kirsten cried it was a beautiful thing. I just changed her and fed her and held her without missing a scene. That was a memorable movie. I ate way too much popcorn and loved every bite.

2009-04-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

Some reasons I love that my brother Jerry got married to Casey last friday...

it was so beautiful.

They will be very happy.

All of our family was together

we had a lot of fun.

Bert took his brother in laws out to shoot his gun.

They loved it.

We had a really fun Easter.

We colored eggs,

Had a egg hunt, and went and rolled them.

A family from DC area stopped and watched our egg rolling.

Then they judged who had the best trail.

Tate won according to them.

I voted for Jerry and Casey.

They lost points for bringing a shovel, pipes and a hoe.

I thought it was smart!

We hiked to the "V"

WE jumped on the tramp

Pop Up camping

The smell of Home

the people at home

britny

watching Ethan and Josy dance with Scott

David singing, toasting, being dorky with Tate

Jana and DeAnna's diet! (admiration)

Jerry's smile watching Casey walk toward him at the wedding

Josy and Chloe bff

cousins hiking up the red hills in their white dresses!

Burt, Bobby babysitting, happy meals.

Now wanting to leave.

Loving to be back in Fort Collins.

Live is not always great but it is always joyful even in sadness.

that makes sense to me.

(I don't like to be distracted by grammer, punctuation, spelling etc.)

rambling.........

2009-04-18T09:38:00.000-07:00

We love to go to Orderville. I Love Love Love it there. I could live there and have no problem with the fact that we don't have stop lights, stores, or "things to do." I adore my roots. I want very much for my kids to love it there too, and they do. One of my little silly fears is that they will be "city kids" who can't get past the fact that there is no toys r us in Orderville to have fun there. When we go there we always get to ride "Goldie" Colman's horse. We love Goldie and his albino friend! So thanks Colman, Jason and Kalee for allowing us to come visit and ride Goldie. It is a highlight of our visit every time.

2009-04-18T09:29:00.000-07:00

This is to my great new sister Casey. I thought you might like this picture of all your sisters... we sure love you a lot!

I just went to my brothers wedding. He has not always been my favorite person to agree with! He is my little brother, we used to slam each other into the wall, and not just for fun. Now, I want to say it out loud once again that I am so pumped about his choice of wife. Everything we ever disagreed on is obsolete in light of this angel who he somehow convinced to marry him. I love the way she fits into our family so beautifully. I love her family. I love her kids. I am just happy for you Jerry and Casey. I wish you the very best forever. Congratulation and now all you need to do is move to Fort Collins!!!

2009-04-17T14:03:00.000-07:00

Brit Kirsten and I. We stopped by Elizabeth Sky Studio for Hair. Brit has opened her own salon and I am so proud of her. Great work cuz!

We had a great time over the Easter Weekend in S. Utah.

Grandpa

2009-04-03T17:11:00.000-07:00

We just returned from Scott's Grandpa Hansen's funeral on Tuesday. I didn't know my own grandpa's, I was too young when they died. I am so lucky to have Grandpa Alan. He had a great spirit about him. He made you feel like you were special to him. When speaking with him I always felt like he was very interested in my life and my family.

He was a great example of love. He was very funny, charming, and all around wonderful.

I will miss him. I am happy he is no longer suffering in this life and is now enjoying some "fishing."

Outing with Isabelle

2009-03-24T20:39:00.000-07:00

We had a great time getting to know little Isabelle. Thanks for visiting Linda even though you are a very boring guest. Thanks for the yummy meal you prepared and the great company. Scott misses being able to watch crime shows. I feel those shows are pretty much the root of all evil so, he misses you.

This is us at Horsetooth res. Isabelle is a up for any outing even when she is half asleep.

2009-02-09T15:46:00.000-08:00

So we had this big surprise party Saturday. It was so much fun.

It was also a double birthday party for my Scottie and Eddie. We surprised Eddie for his birthday and for a going away celebration. He is leaving for Iraq on the 15th. We will miss him, we love him and we thank him for his service.

I love having friends over here. We LOVED having the Bakers here too.

It was just great.

My new Post

2009-01-31T20:43:00.000-08:00

I am happy to report that I am blogging again. I admit I blog like I diet.

I love love love my fellow bloggers though. It is so much fun to see their fun times. So here is what I did today.

At 9 I went to a church b-ball game. Church basketball is so much fun to me now. (the first time I played I cried in the car after the game) I just couldn't get that lady wearing penny loafers out of my brain and I missed basketball terribly. So it is all good now and we won. Linda made a basket and I jumped up and down like a cheerleader (who just had a baby 2 month ago) and hugged her. Ahhh church basketball.

Then me and the kiddies had lunch together. I made them grilled cheese and apple sauce and cottage cheese. Ethan, thanked me very sincerely. He said, "Mom, I love you more than anything." He is always full of very heartfelt love. Often he will take my face in his hands and make sure I am looking into his eyes to tell me sweet things. After lunch we practiced writing. I had not planned this amazing activity. Josy was just writing a list of things she wanted to do today and it turned into writing lessons for Ethan too. Josy list said this...

"rid my bike

go to gramas

pla poly pokits

skreem my head off outsid for fun."

Then she skips to the last thing on her list. That is Josy in a nutshell. She loves to be goofy as can be. Her middle name is Janet and it is so fitting. Grandma Janet is the biggest goof I know. They both have the best laughs and best smiles. If I am having a bad day she will tell me to come over and she'll help me just "snap out of it."

Now I am running out of steam for the rest of the day and I think it is because it is one of those days that I loved but I look around at the end of it and see that not much is accomplished to speak of. I was a mom today. I had some great teaching moments about being honest and how choosing the right is the way we all can be way happy.

It is 10 pm now and Scott is watching a fight at someone's house. I can't stand that stuff. I think it is so sad and I want to cry when I see clips.

Ok It is official

I totally posted a blog post and I thank my cousin Candi for the inspiration.

by the way, thanks Britt for the great heart/feet pictures. You are a gem of a person and a priceless friend.

Candi Cane

2009-01-31T20:24:00.000-08:00

Well, I just talked to my cousin Candi. I love her and I wish I had an old pic to post.

I don't do this blog thing very well but I love looking at all you people who do. I have

not seen Candi's yet but I bet it's good.

Happy Christmas Time

2008-12-29T15:07:00.000-08:00

Gotta love kids. I really really do.

Baby Face

2008-12-29T14:14:00.001-08:00

Kirsten at 5 and 1/2 weeks. What a little sweetie eh?

Sugar and Spice

2008-12-20T16:55:00.000-08:00

Baby Kirsten Jacqueline was born Nov 19th and she is a dream come true sweetie pie angel face.

2008-10-26T18:29:00.000-07:00

Princess

2008-10-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

2008-10-26T18:19:00.000-07:00

Every sunday we spend the day at Grandma and Grandpa's. Today we made a halloween treat.

Wrong Turn--- come to Colorado

2008-10-19T18:19:00.000-07:00

My little sister and I.

Jana is so much fun and I am posting this to try and remind her how much fun we have when we are together. So next time you want to take an eight hour trip choose ME. Forget about that wonderful little town with all the great little cousins and grandma and grandpa. I get too homesick when you and everyone else go home without me! Thanks for telling me that you are all just having a horrible time though.

Come to Colorado.

Learning to ride a bike

2008-10-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

Joslyn learned to ride her bike on friday night. She has been on her bike from that moment on every possible second. She wants to go to bed as soon as the sun goes down so she can wake up an ride her bike.

On Sunday she was riding with her grandma and she overcorrected and flipped over her handlebars. She landed on her head. Her helmet was too loose and this is the result.

She is totally happy and not deterred in the least to ride her bike as much as before.

2008-10-02T15:24:00.000-07:00

Thanks sissy

2008-10-02T14:58:00.001-07:00

So I still don't like this but somehow do it anyway. Like pregnancy I guess. It's like I want to be a part of the bloggy crowd but it's not who I really am. I like my cousin Devin and Kari's blog and thanks to John Denver they will always at least think of Colorado. I hope to have them living here someday.

Thanks to Jana for making my blog more cute and less plain. Although if I actually made my own blog it would look, well plain and not managed kinda like my hair.

I just finished ironing my cutie pie Scotties shirts and he is going to think I am so great when he notices after work tonight.

Now I am listening to Josy, Ethan and their friend T play a version they made up of pictionary. It is adorable. Well until I just had to take away the magnadoodle because they started fighting over it. (that is funny how that adorable thing was so fleeting.) Now Josy is in her room and Ethan and T are hangin out in the living room. Ethan is telling her what to do, totally oblivious to the fact that T is much older and wiser and probably doesn't have much interest in being a flying dinosaur. T is so so sweet though.

I read this quote on Kara's blog the other day and have thought of it more than once. It goes something like this... "Sometimes I have to remind myself that I am right in the middle of everything I ever wanted." That's a good one.

I am getting to that point of just wanting to hide for the next couple weeks then months to have this baby and recover and somehow be in shape and fab before I know it.

oh well whatever. Being such a jock my whole life, for me makes "letting myself go" way too easy.

Now I am going to look for a picture to post too. Ahhh Blogging.

2008-09-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

This is my "precious" grandma Glover. She always calls us precious and is so extra sweet and loving. She is not so good with her memory anymore but she was having a great day this day that we visited her. She was looking at a picture of grandpa and she said in her frail little voice, "He is so Handsome isn't he?" She also said she misses him and that she wishes he would come and get her. She noticed I was pregnant and she said I was having a boy, which is fun because we are not finding out this time so I think that is inspired, she only had boys though so that might be why she thinks I am having one. She lights up when she sees our kids and once while I was visiting she asked me to tell them about her. It is emotionally difficult to visit every time but so important and I wish I could be there more. The kids sang songs to her and she sang along. It is always hard to see her suffer but she never fails to be thankful and so extra sweet.

There you are Laurel

2008-09-11T19:09:00.000-07:00

This is me with my good pal Caroline. This is the day before she had her baby and I am only a few months along. I really need at least one fat friend.

She is such a good egg.

Tucker

2008-09-11T18:26:00.000-07:00

I have been trying to get my wonderful in-laws to buy a puppy since Josy was around 3. She loves dogs and I do too as long as I don't have to take care of them. So this is just the best deal ever. Tucker is the sweetest little boxer we have ever seen. He is going to grow up so handsome and well behaved thanks to Janet's nurturing nature.

What a dream.

Grandpa Glover

2008-09-11T18:15:00.000-07:00

"Ice cream" grandpa is so great. When we go visit or they come from Orderville, grandpa makes it a point to "sneak" as much as possible. He is great at being connected with his grandkids and letting them know he loves them.

Slushy Papa Dave

2008-09-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

So my two kiddos love their papa Dave. He is their "slushy grandpa" and he does make the best slush drinks ever. He is also the best wrestling partner for Ethan. If Ethan grows up to be tough, it will be because of his training with Papa Dave.

Football

2008-09-10T11:56:00.000-07:00

We went to a random football game. Poudre and some mustang team. Poudre worked their opponents over and we had a great time eating our take out and nachos. It was cute to observe Scott try to explain the game to Ethan.

I had a great time for two reasons, we were making a new adventure, and hey I love football and being outside. That was three reasons.

New

2008-09-08T19:07:00.000-07:00

today was fun, hows that?

We got a Wii

2008-09-06T08:22:00.001-07:00

I do not like video games.

Orderville Utah

2008-08-05T12:27:00.000-07:00

We are in O-ville right now and loveing it. Exept that Josy and Ethan got a little sick. Ethan was throwing up all night and it was so sad. He seems better today and we are planning on going on some more hikes and horse rides today. We have hiked the "V" and "Red Hollow." I love taking them hiking. It is so beautiful and fun. This is some late night ice cream from, who else, ice cream grandpa.

A Whole New World

2008-07-11T15:13:00.000-07:00

I am not much of a scrapie bookie kinda girl so this blog thing seems like it is the best alternative to keeping a little memory log of our lives.