Welcome Home Steve!

It has been a long 11 months but it finally over!! We were very blessed that he got to come home a month early!!! Steve got home from his deployment to Afghanistan a couple weeks ago. We have loved being together as a family again just spending time together and relaxing. The following pictures are from the Welcome Home Ceremony.

PIZZA is a must in our house so it was the first meal.

Mass Posting!

I put Tanner down for his nap and got a phone call at the same time. I left Tanner in his room but heard him crying after I left.  After the short phone call I went up to see what was wrong and if he had gone to sleep. I started to panic because he was not in his bed. This is were I found him...under Sabrinna's bed. SOUND ASLEEP and SNORING

I am noticing that in a lot of pictures I post Tanner is not wearing any pants. The boy does have pants and he does wear them more times then not. It just happens to be a funny coincidence that he doesn't have them on in pictures! :)

We recently got a chance to visit family in UT. Grandma and Papa Hansen got some baby chickens. Sabrinna loved holding the chicks!

Such a loving and motherly face!

Where's Tanner?

Sabrinna creating a dinosaur at the Dino Museum in UT.

Playing at the erosion table!!! I even had fun with it :)

Tanner giving the Brachiosaurus bones a big hug!

I think Sabrinna's face says it all!

Sabrinna and baby Hadley. I think Sabrinna is in 7th Heaven.

February's Happenings

Last month I posted pictures of the damage done to my car. It is now fixed and I am so happy to have my 4-Runner back. And yes I got a good rental!

Tanner-Man the Super Fire Fighter!

Sabrinna LOVES babies! This is a common appearance at our house...a doll shoved up her shirt because she is getting ready to have a baby. She will be such a good mother.

Sabrinna was giving a talk in church so we were practicing. We used the vacuum as our microphone. Tanner needed a turn and Sabrinna was very willing to help him. :)

Sabrinna getting baptized!

Sabrinna filled her baby car seat carrier with water. She took it into her room where she dumped the water into a big storage container. She then came and told me she was getting baptized. She was so serious about the whole thing. It was a great teaching opportunity but I had a great laugh as well.

Tanner Helping me vacuum! Such a stud!

Whats Happened in January!

I have been a blog slacker! So here are some of the pictures I have taken over the last month.

Special performance from the DIVAS!

Mr. Fix- it and his side kick.

Tanner got some tools from Santa last year and he is always looking for things to fix. If he sees Steves tools he says, 'Daddy tools'. He wants to be like his Daddy and fix things around the house!

Busy at work!

This is what a two year old looks like after you let him help you make rolls!

Its hard to see but my PARKED car got backed into last weekend. The passenger door is dented! Both door will need to be replaced. I better get a good rental for all the trouble!

Super Scripture Specs!

We had a FHE the other night about reading our scriptures. The kids made Scripture Specs. They ended up running around the house like super hero's. They soon became my scripture hero's!

The Duet

The kids wanted to sing a lovely song for us. Tanner is Sabrinnas little shadow. Monkey see Monkey do. My friend Raelene and I thought they were pretty funny/cute during their performance.

Cowboy Christmas!

Sabrinna has been in a dance class for the last year or so. Today she had her winter performance at the cities "Cowboy Christmas".  It was adorable to see the girls up there doing there routine. They were all so distracted by the audience they missed alot of there steps. I think it made the performance all the more fun to watch.

Conquered!

Tanner is such a boy! I was doing laundry one week and I put all the laundry on the couches to fold at one time. Well Tanner decided to dump the majority of the cloths on the floor and drive over them with the 4wheeler. He was so excited when he would make it to the top of the pile. He would then back up the 4wheeler and do it again. What a stinker!!!

Trunk- or -Treat

Our ward had there trunk-or-treat this last weekend. They had a chili cook off, games for the kids, a maze to walk through, and then the trunk-or treat. The kids had a great time going around collecting candy.

Sabrinna was a southern bell or Charlotte from Princess and the Frog.

After a 10 minute battle to get Tanners monkey costume on we were able to get a family picture. He was not happy! Even milk did little to appease him.

Once the hat came off he was better. I gave him a banana and he started to bit it trying to get it open. To bad I didn't get that on camera. It was hilarious!

Our decorated trunk. Spiders and pumpkins!!! Nothing special but the kids had fun helping me get it ready.

Tanners CANDY!!!

Sabrinna and her spoils!

The kids had a great time at the activity. It was fun to take them around and dress them up!

Peek- a -Boo

Where are the kids?

Peeeeeeek-

a- BOO

The kids have always loved to play in the pillows on our bed. I finally decided to document them playing! They have me cover them up with the pillows, then count to ten and go look for them. Hum.... I wonder where they are?

This ones for you Steve!

Like Father Like Son!

Visitors!

Last week my parents, sister, and nephew came out from Utah to visit for a couple days. We had a wonderful time! We went to the ZOO, Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, did some shopping and hung out. I was so glad they could come visit!

At the Entrance of the Zoo

Tegan is trying to kill the giraffe.

We were super close to the tiger but could not get a good picture.

I have been the the Zoo 4 times now and this is the first time I have ever seen the bears. They were very active, walking around and eating. It was an amazing sight. I would not want to come against one of those in the wild!

Sabrinna and I feeding the birds!

papa and the kids

The Family!! (notice Tanner and the bag of Cheetos. He loves those things and would not put the bag down.)

Playing in the sand box

Tegan and Sabrinna with balls in their shirts. They thought this was the funnest thing!

Playing in the rocks at Garden of the God!

Sabrinna's first time to carve a pumpkin! She wanted to see the 'slimy' stuff inside.

Its a little blurry but these are the finished results!

At the top of Pikes Peak

I believe you can see 5 states from up on top. maybe its 4?!?!?

It was really windy and Tanner would not sit up so we could get a family picture! its kinds of funny!!

The highest point!!!

Over all we had a wonderful time. We did some fun things and saw some amazing sights! Thanks for coming to visit!