Breakfast with Grandparents

My Grandma and Grandpa Hansen go out to breakfast every Saturday.  Shannon was out of town and they wanted me and the kids to go with them.  We had a baptism that morning and so we had to go in our Sunday best. The kids were so excited to eat out since this doesn't happen very often.

Sofie and her friend Sparks from her preschool class.  She got to have him for the weekend and she takes such good care of him.  She slept with him every night.

This picture is one of my favorites!!!

Seeing my kids with my momma just makes me

SMILE!

honesty of a child

This is why you shouldn't slack on keeping up on your blog. 

 I know there is a story behind this and it is about Miss Brynlee 

being mad. This is what I found outside her door. Of course now that a couple months have passed I can't remember what happened.

I just had to take a photo:)

Need I say more?

Facials and Friends= FUN

Morgan and her friend Rachel decided to do 

egg white and lemon juice facials. Morgan said it

 felt so tight and was "supposed" to help with zits:) 

OH MY!!!

BRYN'S BAKING BIRTHDAY!

So for Bryn's 10th Birthday she wanted to bake since this is what she LOVES to do.  I must say it turned out so cute.  The invitation was a recipe card and turned out so fun.

We made them all an apron out of dish cloths.  

They started by making their own pizza

Then fruit on a stick

For the cupcakes they all were given a cupcake with instructions and then after they were done we created a cupcake cake as an ice-cream cone.

Make a wish Brynlee Boo...

May all your dreams come True...

Hope you know that we sure do

LOVE YOU!!!

So Brynlee had a play at school called "Tide pool Condos" and she would come home everyday singing the songs.  She was so cute and very excited about it.  This boy had the lead role and he is also Bryns 3rd grade "crush":)  

His name is Mckay.

Brynlees best friends in her 3rd grade class are Jordyn and Logan.

Such sweet girls!!!

Our Baby is 5:(

Our Baby SOFIE is 5 and it is so crazy that there are no more babies following behind.  I am not sure I am liking this too much.  I have many days where I feel like I just don't want to let go of the baby stage but I also know that my heart tells me to sit back and enjoy this new chapter of life.  

for "Smurfs" birthday her sister Syd stayed up the night before and decorated the kitchen and made her this Hello Kitty Sugar Cookie.  Pretty impressive:)  It made my heart happy to see Syd so excited to make her sisters birthday special and to just step in and do this.  It really took that pressure off of me and I was so thankful for her help.  I love this photo because Sydney is coughing and Preston has his hands in his pants.  I thought about editing it but knew that there will be good laughs in years to come.

Sofie you bring so much happiness and laughter into our home.  I am so thankful for those whisperings of the spirit 6 years ago when I was cleaning up the girls bedroom and opening up their blinds and I felt you so strongly and the thoughts came into my mind "when are you going to let me come" and I knew we had a little girl up in heaven waiting to come to our family.  I called your daddy and asked him to pray about having another child and he said that he would.  The next day daddy expressed that he too had felt that there was another child wanting to come to our family.  I then shared the experience I had in the girls bedroom with him and we both had tears and knew that it was time.  I am so thankful for the promptings of the spirit and for that special experience that brought you to our family.

Happy Valentines Day!

This year we celebrated a little bit different.  We did something fun in the morning instead of our traditional candle light dinner.  Dad stayed home and they had to follow clues with scriptures that had them do a puzzle together and then went to another room where they sat in a circle and gave hugs, then had to go in another room and dance with mom and dad and then they all gathered around for family prayer. We ate some donuts and hot chocolate:) always a hit at our house.  I loved having a morning together on a school day. Usually we are hustling around and trying to get everyone to get dressed, get hair done, find shoes, etc... But today we actually had a great morning! Maybe it is because...

 love is in the air???

Check out this HOT chick! Isn't she cute? She went through her closet and put this together for her Valentines 50's dance for the 6th graders.  I got to help out with it and it was so much fun.  She is such a social girl and has so many cute little friends and even a few "guy" friends:) Our night ended with feeding the missionaries and we made it easy with heart shaped pizza, salad and red soda.  Sure do LOVE my family!