The Hansen Family

FInally a New Post!!!

2011-11-02T14:59:00.008-04:00

I'm SO far behind on bloging it's not even funny!! SO here are a TON of pictures from my last post until just recent. This has been the first time since Wayne left on Oct 15th that I have had to sit down and blog.

Catterpillers

Baby toys are just so much more fun!

This was the week Wayne was gone to a photography workshop in Miami. I was trying to get all three kids in bed by there normal 8 o'clock bedtime. Well little miss impatience was just to tired to wait for Mason to finish his bottle that she climbed into his bouncer and went to sleep.

Our Kitty/cars princess. She picked out her outfit that day and proudly wore it to the commissary!

Laid Mason down so I could get some cleaning done and next thing I know hes bent back into a question mark watching TV.

Halloween! Well not quite, Wayne got out the box of decorations which also happens to have all the costumes in it as well. Peyton found the Blues Clues costume and just had to put it on. She kept pushing into Wayne's hand saying "on peas, petty peas! until he finally put it on her.
She didn't want to take it off. She had fun running around being Blue.

She finally figured out there was a tail on the back of the costume and spun in circles trying to see it. It was the funniest thing, by the time we got the camera set to record she was to dizzy.

Everyone Loves the Bumbo!

2011-10-12T16:04:00.001-04:00

I wanted to get a bumbo for Matt but never wanted to pay $40!!I wanted to get one for Peyton but still never wanted to pay the money. Well I finally got on craigslist and found one for $5!!! I decided I could handle spending $5.
I set him on the counter next to me while I wash bottles or while i'm feeding him his cereal.

He likes it.....
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For the most part anyway

Peyton loves the bumbo, we have to hide it when Mason isn't using it or the kids start fighting over it.

New Dress

2011-10-07T22:36:00.006-04:00

I finally got around to making another front sash dresses for Peyton. I also made a matching flower headband.

Daddy's girl

2011-09-27T18:53:00.005-04:00

Peyton was a HUGE daddy's girl up until a few day's before Mason was born. She is starting to be quite the daddy's girl again.
One night she was to awake to go to bed on time ( I hate nap's, messes up the whole bedtime schedule) and was playing with her toys. She finally dragged her doll house over to Wayne and plopped down beside him. She started handing him the dolls and then started playing with a few. It was fun to watch them play with the doll house.

siblings!

2011-09-27T16:12:00.000-04:00

These were all taken on the same day. They love sticking those tongues out!

First Black Eye

2011-09-27T14:30:00.003-04:00

I'm so far behind on posts. I don't know how she got her black eye. I was in the kitchen making lunch and they were playing in the front room. All I heard was a bonk and then her crying. It didn't get as back as I thought it would, she just ended up looking like she was wearing eyeliner on one eye.

I know in this picture it looks like it is her left eye and the others her right. I was using the camera on my phone. It has two cameras one on the back one on the front. I was using the camera facing me so I could see the screen and get a good pic of her eye. Therefore it flips the picture. It was her right eye that she hurt.

"All better...All clean!"

2011-09-24T19:00:00.006-04:00

My mom came to visit and see the new baby. So here are a few picture...sorry none with my mom. But here are a few pictures of the places we took her to while she visited.
Dole Plantation

all the different dole whips you can get.

Chinamans Hat

Kualoa Ranch, where Jurassic Park was filmed.

Motsumotos famous shaved ice. Oh my gosh the first two I tried were NASTY! The one tasted like orajel. Lets just say I was VERY dissapointed, I was looking forward to trying the shaved ice because everyone says to go there. Well we went back a couple days later and oh my gosh I got coconut and it was SO good. I love the icecream at the bottom. I didn't get the condesed milk on mine. Wayne and my mom got rootbeer, they said it was like a rootbeer float.

The Temple

And of course we went "Pearl Hunting"

We saw the ship from across the harbor but when we were heading home we decided to drive over to the ship yard to see if we could get any closer. We ended up just right outside the fence from The Black Pear. It was cool to see it. They are remodeling some of it for the next movie.

And Mason's First Smile Goes To....

2011-09-13T04:36:00.006-04:00

....Matthew! Matt came into play with his baby brother one morning and was talking to him and got him to give his first smile!

Some other pictures of when he first started to smile to once he got it down.

And now we are working on getting a laugh out of him. He squeals and screams when he gets excited but we have yet to her him giggle!

The places she sleeps!

2011-09-13T04:14:00.007-04:00

I remember doing a post like this for Matt when he was about this same age and all the strange places he would fall asleep...in the baby tub, bouncer bottom shelf of the changing table. well now it's Peyton's turn to have a post of her sleeping places, though not as strange a places as Matt.

There is a short hallway as you come into our bedroom, she fell asleep in the closet/hallway one night.

Ok so this was a rough night, after putting the Matt and Peyton back in there own beds twice that night they both still ended up in bed with us!

I was afraid she was going to fall off the bed, she kept jumping in her sleep.

The only thing that kept her from falling over (besides me) was the ottoman right behind her...she was kinda sitting against it.This is not the first time she has fallen asleep standing up!

crying outside the bathroom door because I was in the shower and she wanted in.

New Phone

2011-09-13T04:03:00.002-04:00

So a couple months back Peyton thought she would give my phone a bubble bath!
Why was it where she could reach you ask? Well I didn't think she could reach so far back on the bathroom counter.
I had it to where I thought it was safe, I had some music going for her to listen to while she was in the tub. I had Matt in the other bathroom taking a shower. So while I ran back to check on Matt and get him his towel she had hoped out and gotten the phone and got back in the tub and submerged my iPhone! This was all done in a matter or 60 seconds! I ran Matt his towel and ran right back!
Well luckily Wayne and I were eligible for an upgrade so we went and got the new samsung fuse 4G, I think the commercial is pretty funny.
So now my daughter owns her very own iphone at just the age of 2yrs! I don't think it could ever make a phone call anymore but the water eventually dried out and it still works to listen to music play games and watch movies...or hours of Shawn The Sheep on Netflix!

A Few More Birthday pictures

2011-09-12T15:24:00.007-04:00

Here are a few more pictures from Matt's 4th Birthday. I finally got around to having Wayne put them on the computer.
Some are from when we were heading to the zoo. The others are from a place called Pinky's Pub. We went there for Matt's Birthday dinner. Every Tuesday there is a guy who comes in and does balloon animals for the kids. Well lucky for Matt his Birthday was on a Tuesday this year! So he and Peyton got and animal, Matt got an elephant and Peyton wanted a giraffe.

This tree was at the Zoo. They have a lot of these trees around here, we love them they are cool trees.

"A Raffe!"

Matt and his elephant

This was a cool flamingo! We have seen some very elaborate balloon animals! A girl asked for a witches hat. The guy did a witches hat complete with a witch flying on her broom stick. Someone asked for a monkey the guy did a monkey in a coconut tree! My kids need to pick something cooler than an elephant and giraffe...maybe when they are older.

Happy Fourth Birthday Matthew!!!!

2011-08-10T18:48:00.028-04:00

1 year

2 Years

3Years

4 years

Wow has it really been four years already!?!
This year we decided to take the kids to the Honolulu Zoo for Matt's Birthday. Mason stayed home with my mom.

So my cake didn't turn out quite like i'd had hoped. I still don't have a lot of my stuff unpacked and I could not for the life of me find my food color's. Our Comissary closes at 6:30 and by the time I realized I had no food coloring the store was closed!
So THANK YOU Nichole for letting me use your food coloring. I also ran out of black and the colors to make it so it turned out more of a greyish brown. Wayne ran to the store the next morning and bought some gel colors so I could finish the cake.

My mom and I went Birthday Shopping together for Matt and she got him a Dragon that we named Puff and some Toy Story Soldiers.

Matt's big surprise was his lights and sounds Batman trike. He and Peyton have been fighting over her Nihao Ki-Lan trike since Easter. So we thought we would get him his own. They ride them over to the park almost every night.

Mason's Blessing

2011-08-03T00:10:00.004-04:00

We blessed Mason a couple Sundays ago. Wow what a stress it was to try and get his blessing outfit. I could have used Matt's but I really wanted him to have his own. I had one picked out online that I LOVED and was going to order but we weren't sure when we were going to bless him and kept putting it off. Well my mom came out to visit for a couple weeks and we decided to bless him while she was here. So we decided to just pay extra to ship the outfit over night....they don't do overnight to HI and it wouldn't get her until the 29th and he was being blessed on the 24th. So the hunt began to find a store on the island that sold blessing outfits. I found one that I loved...but the smallest it was made in was 6-9 months. I went to about 10 different stores and everyone was sold out. So Saturday I finally decided to try Babies R Us...what'd ya know they had ONE boys christening outfit left and just so happened to be 0-3 months, so I grabbed it bought it and headed home. Sunday morning we got up and all got ready on time for once. I came down to dress Mason and Wayne had already done it without me....I was a little mad but oh well. Anyway Wayne asked me what was wrong with this picture...I looked at Mason and was confused for a minuet. Then I saw a black square on his right leg....it was the security ink tag!!! I wanted to cry at first but then just realized there was nothing I could do but just deal with it. So we grabbed a white blanket and wrapped it over his legs. It was kinda funny though because when Wayne held Mason up after the blessing the blanket fell off his one leg...of course the one with the tag on it!
The blessing went fine although I couldn't hear one bit of it except for Mason's name oh well not much I can do about that either. we did get some money back when we took the outfit back to get the tag removed and told them what had happend.

The outfit I really wanted for him
Thanks Marilyn for taking the pictures.

Fourth of July

2011-08-02T22:15:00.009-04:00

This year for the Fourth we grilled some steaks on the salt block and cooked some hotdogs for the kiddos. Then we headed over to Hickam Air Force base to Pear Harbor beach for the fireworks. We stopped to fill the car up and I ran in to get drinks and some snacks and saw bubbles for 49 cents so I grabbed a couple. It was a good thing I grabbed the bubbles that kept the kids entertained until it was time for the firworks to start. Last year the kids and I flew home on the 3rd and went from the airport strait to the fireworks in Willard. Peyton got so excited about them that she threw up on me....this year was the complete opposite. As soon as they started she turn and ran, she ran right into Wayne and practically climbed onto his head! He had to hold his hands over her ears and after awhile that wasnt good enough that she put his hands over her eyes. Course we were sitting right across the road from where they were launching them. I don't think she liked feeling the boom of the fireworks. Matt had a blast and said he loved the fireworks....as we were walking back to the car he said "wow mom that was so cool...now can we go see the fireworks?" Luckily there was the fireworks going at the Aloha Bowl as we were driving home. Both the kids thought that was cool to see.
Also at our fireworks show they had fireworks that spelled out USA if you could read upside down, sideways or backwards.

Playing with bubbles and a new friend

Her thoughts about having to put the bubbles away.

so we gave her an iphone to play with...then she was fine.

And of course Mason slept the whole time we were there.

We couldn't get Peyton to look away from the phone long enough for a picture so this was as good as we could do.

Binky's Binky's Binky's

2011-07-08T05:29:00.002-04:00

Wow we have been through quite a few binky's lately. Mason like his sister has been very picky when it comes to his binky. We have gone through two kinds of Tommee Tippee's, Gumdrops & NUK's. He does not like silicone binky's only the latex but he didn't really seem to like the NUKs and wouldn't take them for long.

We also have been using Tommee Tippee bottles but I HATE them. They are "vented" but they don't seem to work and he is very gassy when we use them. I loved the MAMs bottles we used with Peyton and since they are the only bottle that are the same shape and size as there binky's we have decided to go back to them...who knew they would be so hard to find out here?! We ended up having to order the latex binky off of eBay to get them at store price without having to pay a ton of shipping. I got two packs at store price with just a few dollars shipping where if I had bought them off target or diapers.com they would have charged me $13 shipping and then the binky's would have been another $13!
So we got our MAMs binky's in the mail today & so far he has taken to them really well.

More Blogging?

2011-07-07T23:54:00.001-04:00

So I just downloaded a new app to my iPhone called blogger+ and the last two posts have been done from my phone. So I might get more posts done now and I won't have to transfer pictures from my phone to the computer to my
Blog! So if you have am iPhone or another phone that downloads apps check it out and see if you can get it for your phone, it's easy to use.

Hair Cut or Not to Cut?

2011-07-07T23:45:00.001-04:00

So lately I've really been wanting to cut
my hair off again. I loved my spiky hair but I had it all through high school and a couple times since then. I want something different yet still that messy look. But...on the other had I dread the thought of growing it back out. It's now just starting to reach my shoulders and I've been growing it out for about a year.
Anyway if I do cut it I've been thinking of doing the faux hawk I'm thinking something like the second picture or the third and I'm liking the purple in the last picture.
It's just so hot here and I hate that sticky feeling with long hair on the back of my neck. I thought about waiting another year before giving in and cutting it but I don't know if I'll make it much longer.

Trying It Out

2011-07-07T18:49:00.001-04:00

Today I tried putting a cloth diaper on Mason, so far I've jut been using disposable diapers.
There just a tad bit to big still :) I'll try them again in a few weeks.

New Pool

2011-07-07T13:53:00.005-04:00

Well now that we have little Mason here it's a bit harder to go to the beach. So we decided to get a little pool for the kids. Well we ended up getting this one instead and it's anything but little. This thing is HUGE! It takes up our whole back porch and with all there splashing our kitchen ends up pretty flooded.

Take a Guess

2011-07-01T23:18:00.002-04:00

Can you tell which one is Matt and which one is Mason?

First picture is of Mason then Matt, Mason & Matt

Some more of Mason

2011-06-21T21:19:00.007-04:00

So Mason weighed 7lbs 8oz when he was born. Two days later for his first check up he weighed exactly 7lbs, it was SO hard to get him to eat for more than 5 seconds. I nurse him and give him formula. So weather he was nursing or bottle feeding he would never eat for more than 5 second before falling asleep. So it took about a week and a half to gain 6oz back. He is finally eating for a longer period of time now but still only drink about 2 oz at a time.
He sleeps most of the day and is up every two hours to nurse at night. We don't see much of his eyes, he keeps them closed most of the time. Sometimes he will slightly open one eye when he is awake. The past couple of days we've seen his eyes a bit more. Looks like they could end up being blue, but ya never know.
Mason is a VERY loud sleeper, he grunts and groans very loudly at night waking Wayne and me and i'm a heavy sleeper! And he does this snoring noise...but it's not snoring I guess because he makes the noise when he is breathing out not in. But it's cute...during the day, not 2 in the morning and going on 20 minuets.
The kids are adjusting well to the baby. Matt loves his "cute" little "bother" (he watches to much Olivia) Someone asked Matt if they could take Mason home with them and he got really mad.
Peyton has her days where she likes him but most days she just ignores him. She hates when I nurse him and will pull on his head. She thinks his belly button is broken and or gross and will shush him whenever he makes a noise. She will touch his head and fingers and will sometimes give him kisses.

A little bit of lately

2011-06-21T20:55:00.004-04:00

Silly faces for Grandpa Potter!
The only way I can get Matt to smile for the camera is if I tell him we are going to send the picture to grandpa. Then all he wants to do is take a million silly face pictures.

pouty face

silly face

spinning in her new nightgown.

Found this "magic" popcorn at the commissary and thought I would buy a box for the kids. They LOVED eating the blue popcorn.

I can finally get down and draw chalk pictures with Peyton. She likes to watch me draw and will bring me the chalk and tell me what to draw. I think I have more fun with the chalk than the kids!

He's Here!!!

2011-06-12T22:01:00.010-04:00

Baby Mason Jacob Hansen has arrived....FINALLY!

Wow, my babies just have to be forced out into the world.
Mason arrived June 6, 2011 7:53 AM weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz 19 3/4 inch long.

Baby Mason was due May 30th and on the 22 of May I was playing with Peyton on the floor when my back started to hurt. I finally decided I better get up and walk around, that it was hurting from sitting on the floor. WOW I went from a pain level of a 1 to an 8 in a matter of seconds. Contractions started and got stronger fast. I decided to jump in the shower to see if it would go away but it only got worse. At first I didn't know it was contractions it was a never ending pain. After an hour of walking around the house and trying to lay down we decided to head to the hospital....yeah as soon as we got there they stoped!! We went in anyway and they said I was really dehydrated. So they hooked me up to an IV and monitored my contractions for two hours. The DR came back in and said if I made progress (one more cm) then she could admit me. She looked at my contractions and said they looked beautiful checked me and said to go home....I was SO MAD!!
So military policy...they can't induce until a week after your due date! Well we made it through that EXTRA LONG week and were getting ready for the hospital Sunday night when I got a voicemail from a Dr at the Hospital. I was thinking they were going to tell me they needed to change my date. So I called back and they said they wanted to know if I could come in now. I guess they were getting a few people in and wanted me to come in to make sure I had a room and didn't have to come in a different day.
So we called our relief society president to see if she knew someone that could come sleep at the house since our baby sitter was set up for the next day. So we had a girl come stay the night but she had to go to work around 7am, so the relief society President came in the morning got the kids ready and took them to there sitter. I'm so thankful to all you guys that took care of the kids that morning.
So we went to the hospital and they started my induction a little after midnight. They kept coming in and turning up the pitocin every hour or so but my contractions weren't getting any stronger. So finally they came and really turned it up! Wow contractions kicked in so I called for an epidural. Woulnd't ya know it I had to wait because someone had to go in for a c-section. So after a very LONG hour I finally got my epidural. Then the nurses came in and were looking at Mason's heart rate on the charts. He was stressing a bit and they were trying to decide what the cut off was for to low of a heart rate. They decided it was 120 and Mason was between 113-115 so they put me on oxygen. The Dr came in to check on us but still couldn't break my water....an hour later it broke on it's own...boy that was weird. Anyway an hour after my water broke we had gone from a 4 to a 9! I have had HORRIBLE pains in my right hip this pregnancy and the epidural was working on everything but my hip pain. They said I just needed more meds and gave me a button. I HATED my epidural this time. It worked WAY to well and I couldn't barely move my toes. I didn't like the way the meds felt cold going in and know i was going to get a lot more numb when I was already overly numb. They finally talked me in to pushing the button again...after I told them about 5 times that I thought it was time because the baby was starting to push on my ribs which is exactly what my daughter did when she was ready. They said oh no your only a 9 we will check you again in an hour! Finally after LOTS of complaining to the nurse she finally thought it might be a good idea to try pushing just to see if the baby was ready! Really? What a unique idea...moron! I was so mad at her. Anyway it was time and he was born a few minuets later.
Oh but don't let me forget to mention with my other two babies I had one nurse and the Dr there for the birth. This time we had 3 Dr's and about 6-8 nurses. They were a bit worried about the way the baby's hart rate kept dropping. But really did we need so many nurses, half of them were just standing there staring....yeah it's bad enough to have the Dr there let alone a whole crowd! One Dr got there just in time, he ran in throwing his jacket down on the floor.
But everything turned out fine and Mason is a happy healthy baby.

Ready to go home, luckily this time I only had to spend one night in the hospital.

One of the only times we've really seen he's eyes. This kid sleeps 24/7 and even if he is awake he usually keeps his eyes closed.

Rain Rain and more Rain!

2011-06-11T01:40:00.004-04:00

Wow it rain a LOT this last week. We had flood and flash flood warnings and watches. I thought we were going to wash away!
Mostly it seems to rain at night but one morning we saw it headed our way, it always comes from across the golf course. So we called Matt and Peyton over to see the rain. Matt wanted to go out and play in it so we said ok. Next thing we know he's taking his clothes off?! I guess he didn't want them to get wet. We told him he had to at least wear underwear. Then next Peyton is trying to take her clothes off....we made her wear her shirt and diaper! They had a ton of fun playing in the rain.

Keeping Busy

2011-06-10T16:49:00.013-04:00

Trying to keep the kids and myself busy until the baby comes. It was hard for me to get around and when I would walk the baby would get VERY active and it was painful.

So we went out a drew with chalk.

played on our playground

Made a BIG syrup mess for mommy to clean up...but it was really yummy!

Found mommy soda and was bouncing off the walls for hours!

Colored for HOURS!

Road our bikes

and we went to the USO Sesame Street Live show. We thought it would be fun for the kids to go one one last outing before the baby arrived....boy were we wrong! But whose Idea was it to have a kids show at 7pm?!!

Two VERY excited kids to see Elmo!

OK there's Elmo...now we can go?!!

Beach Day

2011-05-29T19:58:00.007-04:00

Last week Wayne took just Matt to the beach. Matt was so excited to have a day with daddy. It was all he talked about friday evening, about how it was just he and daddy going to the beach and mom and Peyton had to stay home. Peyton and I spent the time watching tangled and pigging out on Cheeto's and reading books.

2011-05-29T19:47:00.004-04:00

Wayne has been taking the kids to the park lately to get them out of the house and running around. It's very hard for me to get around right now. We love having the park right out our front door.

Another reason we love letting them run around the park for an hour....

there in bed by 8!

Cloth Diapers

2011-05-29T19:32:00.002-04:00

So we decided it was time to get a full stock of cloth diapers...boy was it a pain in the but. All I can say is we will never order from cottonbabies.com again! After a MONTH and at least 15 phone calls we thought we finally got our diapers....they sent the wrong diapers. Long story short...I think they were tired of a VERY angry Marine calling them and got us the right diapers, and fast!
We decided on the Bumgenius Elementals. I loved my Gdiapers but I hated stuffing them, and that they came in sizes so you had to order a bunch in each size. The elementals are so easy. Theres one size to get them through the diaper stage and you don't have to stuff them. Just put them off and when it's time take it off and throw it in to wash. There just like a regular diaper. we payed for 24 diapers and 24 cloth wipes just under $600 but we have been using them on Peyton and will use them on this baby and the next and when you total that up it was either spend the 600 on the cloth or about 2000 on paper diapers...hmm that made it an easy choice for us.

She's 2!!

2011-05-05T17:09:00.016-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Wayne & Peyton!!

When did this happen....it goes so much faster with the second one. With Matt it seemed to take a long time to get to his first birthday. With Peyton i'm wondering where her first birthday went to and how we are already to her second?!
This year instead of going out to dinner, Wayne decided on going out for breakfast to iHop. It was nice to go out for breakfast, and the kids were both in great moods so that always helps.
After that I had to run to the store to get Wayne his ice cream cake he wanted and then to another store to pick up a pillow pet for Peyton. I found out the night before that they sold them here on base, i was glad because now I didn't have to order it and pay a ton of shipping!
After that I came home and started Peyton's birthday cake, nothing fancy this year. I'm in to much pain if i stand to long so I just bought a cake topper this year and some candles. I was going to do some pink lining on the cake but ran out of frosting. I figure she's only two and she's not going to care so i'm not running to the store to get more...good thing because later she tried to feed her hippo some cake by pushing it head first into the cake! Wayne and Peyton had a good birthday!

Trying to blow out the candles as daddy lights them.

Daddy had to help her get her present started.

Then Matt decided he better "help" her open her gift.

But she caught on quick and decided she didn't need help after all.

She saw her cake and tried blowing out the candles again...even though they were already out.

"LOOK, it's a pippo!" She was SO excited over her new hippo! We named her Pip the hippo, because she calls them pippo's.

Her cake after she shoved he hippo in it.

She thought it was for her to ride it. Even after we got it put together she kept trying to climb inside it. She finally figured out it was for her dolls.

Cookies and Cream ice cream cake.

I got him a Camelbak because he runs pretty much everyday and of course a Harry Potter Blu-Ray. He always gets one for Christmas and one for his birthday...only two more to go.

Getting ready for baby

2011-05-05T16:48:00.003-04:00

We finally got our crib out here to HI! We bought this crib in VA, it's A Baby's Dream brand and they are VERY hard to find...at least where we were.Our other crib was a floor model and was recalled with an stop using immediately!
I have wanted this crib since we were pregnant with Matt. This crib is normally around $600 but when I checked on there site it was on sale for 5 and so we waited for our taxes and headed down to the store to get it. It was on sale for just a little over 4 and then we got a military discount! So we got an amazing deal on it!
Anyway long story short the store didn't order it when they said they would and we thought we had plenty of time. We thought we were moving around April...a week later we got a call saying our move request went through and we were moving in two weeks! We called the store and there was no way for them to get it to us in time. So we gave permission for the store to let Wayne's friend pick it up and then he would ship it to us.
So here it is and we just got the new bedding put up on it!
You'd think we would have everything we needed for the baby since we have two kids already! WRONG, we had to get a new bottles, a car seat, pack and play, swing, bouncer and playmate. Our swing just wasn't meant to hold a two year old....who knew? So we got a mammaroo, they are really cool. They don't swing at all, they sway and bounce...ya know the same way we sway and bounce a baby when we are holding them.

Easter

2011-05-02T16:02:00.010-04:00

We didn't color as many eggs this year...oh well next year we will do more. and this year we just used regular grocery bags on the kids. Peyton liked it but eventually ripped hers off, I figured she was in a pair of Matt's old jammies so oh well if they got color on them. This year I bought what I thought was a pirate egg kit...I didn't really read the box. It was a Princess pirate kit. But Matt liked it anyway, we didn't tell him it was a princess kit. We also didn't realize one of the colors was black, so when we pulled the egg out it was a dirty brownish green color? So I looked at the box and sure enough there in the picture is a black egg. Wayne thought that was strange at first, I figured ya I guess that makes sense. So we had one black egg.
After egg coloring the kids went to bed and Wayne and I got there easter baskets ready. This year they each got there own bucket of 52 count chalk. They were buy one get one free so Wayne got them each there own. Wayne and I remember an easter when we were little that we got a bike for easter. So we decided to get Peyton a trike, it was originally for her bday but I decided to give it to her for easter, Matt got a Cars scooter and they each got a crayola dry erase crayon book to use for church or car rides. They love there scooter/trike and love to draw outside with there chalk.

I cut the neck just a bit to big.

At first she just smiled and would put her hand on it, but I think she wasn't sure if it was really for her.

Playing with there chicks. They wind up and hop around.

trying out her new trike, she is to short to reach the pedals. The box said 2yrs and up...I forget she is shorter than most 2yr olds. But she's learned to steer it and to just push her self using her feet. She has gotten really good at pushing herself around the house, but watch out she WILL run you over if your in the way!

More miscellaneous

2011-04-25T22:31:00.003-04:00

Just some miscellaneous pictures of what we've been up to lately.

Haha, yeah definitely siblings!

She fell asleep at my feet by the stove when I was cooking dinner. She wouldn't let me pick her up because she wanted her daddy.

Aww daddy came home and feed her dinner.

Getting ready to go out.

She LOVES to color, and she always brings her music toy so she can listen to music and color. She loves classical music.

She was trying to get her shirt off, she came up to me crying because she got all tangled in her shirt.

Watching Tangled with Matt, he later pulled out his quilt and cuddled up with her. He loves his sissy.

New House On Base

2011-04-12T00:54:00.010-04:00

Here are some pictures and video walk through of our new house on base.They had two and a half weeks before we moved in...well the day before we were supposed to move in they called and left a message on my phone saying they needed to pull up all the carpeting upstairs and our move in date had change from that Wednesday to Friday!!! I was so mad! We had been living in a hotel for a month...I'm 7 1/2 months pregnant and have two kids who are tired of living in a hotel. I told Wayne to call them and tell them we will sleep on the mattresses down stairs but that we are moving in the next day! So we moved in the next day and camped out in the front room that night. Surprisingly the kids slept on there own mattresses, we didn't think they would because Peyton got used to sleeping with Wayne and Matt was used to being with me. Well Matt did through a big stink over it but eventually slept on his bed. The next day we had to move the mattresses back into the garage because our new couches and Matt's new bed were being delivered, the people came and redid the carpeting and then Wayne got all the beds made.

The downstairs
The upstairs

Matt's new bed, he didn't like it at first until....
we showed him the "secret" tunnel!

Checking out the view from her window....we had to move the bed away from the window. It was to tempting for her to destroy the blinds.

New Car!!!

2011-04-12T00:21:00.007-04:00

Finally!!! I have a new car! We just out grew our saturn ion by one passenger. We saved our taxes and combined some of our moving money a bought a Volvo CX90 turbo, yeah not really a good mix...me + turbo will probably equal my first speeding ticket soon!! My relief society president back in VA, when Wayne was going to school she and her husband would come get me and the kids and take us to the park and just get us out of the house. Anyway they had the same volvo and I LOVED it. So I told Wayne I wanted one, we'll we ended up going home for a funeral and Brother Slater drove us to the airport in there volvo and Wayne really liked it. So when we saw this one for sale we jumped on it. The guy was selling it for 9500 and we talked him down to 9200. I like having my own car now if I need to get out of the house with the kids when Wayne's at work.

Matt checking out the trunk...he thought it was cool he could climb over the seat into the trunk.

Build A Bear

2011-04-11T23:58:00.006-04:00

A couple years ago we started taking Matt to Build A Bear for Valentines Day. Well I guess there is no BAB out here on the island....so we decided to get the kids one last animal before leaving and that they could get any outfit they wanted for there animal. We normally don't buy outfits. Matt's first bear got overalls and last year his frog got boardshorts. This was Peyton's first time making an animal. We tried to let her choose which one she wanted, but every animal we held up she would giggle and reach for and hug it. I wanted to get her Hello Kitty because that is the theme of her room, but it was just way to big to put in out suitcase. So we picked out a bunny for her. Matt had a cool camouflage bear picked out until he saw a monkey.
This tradition has ended....it was WAY to much money for two kids, there is no way we can afford to do this with our growing family! Maybe when we come back to the states it will become a birthday tradition...course there birthdays are all so close together!

Hugging the hear for lots of love....

Rubbing the heart on his knee so he can be a fast monkey...

and a kiss for so the monkey is always loved.
Making a wish and putting in the heart.

Peyton's turn.

They gave her a button to push to fill up her bunny

Going Away Dinner with Wayne's co-workers.

2011-04-11T01:00:00.008-04:00

We had one of Wayne's going away parties at his work and then his second one was at a Japanese steak house. We had fun and appreciate everyone coming to say goodbye.
Matt and Mrs. Reese, he ended up sitting on almost everybodys lap...he likes new people.

Matt thought the fire was SO cool! I think everyone had more fun watching Matt's reaction than what the chef was doing!

First time using chopsticks....

He's catching on quick!

Trying out the chopsticks...she eventually just used a fork.

They always have you try to catch a piece of food in your mouth...I actually caught it but not till the second try...I hate being stared at. Anyway Matt tried about 5 times but didn't catch anything. The look on his face, he was SO devastated and MAD. So I took a piece of chicken and dropped it in his mouth, he was as happy as could be after that! Everyone thought his devastation and then his excitement after "catching" a piece was so funny. It was...to bad we didn't get it on film.

Some picture I forgot to post

2011-04-11T00:23:00.006-04:00

Here are a few pictures I forgot to post. Some from before the move, during and from our stay in UT.

She LOVES to color...

Especially on herself when your not looking! These were NOT washable markers....she was pink for a few days!

Keeping her entertained while I got ready.

The look I got when I told her she was done!

Having some sun chips and watching a movie with mom, we had our own room from the boys...they were watching Spongbob.

eating salt right from the shaker?! I remember doing that when I was little.

While cleaning my parents basement I found my brother's old Superman costume....I claim it as mine...I loved that cape!
So I decided to let Matt try it on since he is getting into all the super heros and such....ya he wanted nothing to do with it.
So I put it on Peyton who didn't want it on until it was on.

Then when Matt saw how fun it was to "fly" he wanted it and then we had kids fighting and screaming over the cape....so I went out and bought all the materials to make them there own capes! Someday I will get around to making them...hopefully before Halloween!

Dole plantation

2011-04-06T22:02:00.007-04:00

Ready to go out for the day.

When it rains these mountains will get all these little water falls. It's very pretty to drive through.

We didn't even make it in the door before we were spending money on pearls!

Matt thought the oyster was gross looking.

Because we made a jewelry purchase with our pearl we got to open a second oyster for free...it had two pearls in it!

I decided to wait on putting the other two in a jewelry setting...it was just to expensive.

Lunch! Teriyaki Chicken, sticky rice and a salad that was SO yummy!

Mmmm she liked the pineapple.

We took the flowers from our lunch and put them in Peyton's hair...so cute!

Going for a train ride...Matt was so excited to go on the train.

Our first few weeks here on the Island.

2011-04-06T21:29:00.008-04:00

Our lil room we lived in for a month...at least we had a partial kitchen.

They had a VERY tiny playground at the hotel.

The view you get when coming over to the base.

First time for Peyton at the beach.

trying to scope up sand without moving...she didn't like on the sand on her hands or feet.

playing in the sand with daddy.

Cali to Hawaii!!

2011-04-06T21:11:00.005-04:00

Finally the day had come....our finally leg of our move from CA to HI! Matt was SO excited to go on the plane to Hawaii. We decided to ship his big car seat in the saturn and buy a booster for the plane....ya they aren't allowed to use boosters on the plane. And of Peyton and I got colds the day before our flight so she was a bit ornery. Matt is such a mommas boy and said I had to sit by him on the plane, good thing Peyton is such a daddy's girl....she didn't miss me...that and she slept most of both the flight.
Left LA around 1pm flew up to Seattle and flew to HI from there. We landed at about 9:30 and made it to the hotel at about 11? The airlines for some reason decided to send all the bags but mine to HI, lucky me! My bag got sent to Tennessee or some place around there?! Anyway the next day I ran to the store to buy some clothes and toiletries and then the next day my bag showed up...I was so glad to have it back.
We lived in the Lodge on MCBH for a month! Not the funnest thing for a pregnant woman who is in her 7th month and two kids under the age of 4. But we made it through the month and had fun exploring things to do and going to the beach...a LOT

Backpacks on and there ready to go!

She decided she didn't like her bag, so I took it off. As soon as it was off she wanted it back on...silly girl.

Matt thought it was cool that there are mountains in the sky!

One more flight to go!

Looking a little bored.

I think they've had enough of being on the plane...what do you think?

UT to Cali

2011-04-02T19:21:00.006-04:00

Next on our way to Hawaii we drove to California. We got up really early and drove straight to San Diego, the next day we went to Sea World. The kids had fun for the most part. Matt was ready to go once we saw the sharks...which was the first thing we saw! The dolphins weren't doing a show that day so I was a bit bummed about that, so we went and saw the sea lions, the kids enjoyed that and thought it was a fun show. By the time it was time to see Shamu the kids had had enough and were tired, ornery and ready to go. I didn't get to see any of the show thanks to a little girl who insisted on screaming as LOUD as she could once it finally started...oh well maybe next time.
After Sea World we drove up to LA. The next day Wayne took the car to be shipped to Hawaii and spent the day relaxing in the hotel.

VA to UT

2011-04-01T18:08:00.004-04:00

WOW what a LONG drive it was to get from VA to UT with two little kids. Luckily we bought a dvd player for the car and Matt got a new Nintendo DS. We've since hidden the DS since he became addicted to it 24/7.
We had stayed a few nights up at my cousins near DC while we were in the move out process. On February 4th we started our drive to UT, we got up and left at 5:30 in the morning and drove to Lexington KY to stay the night with Wayne's cousins. The kids had fun running around and playing with cousins. The next day we drove to St. Louis and stayed the night there so Wayne could see one of his old friends from Lejuene. We took the kids swimming which was so fun for them after being in the car all day.
The next day we drove to WY....the LONGEST drive EVER! Not fun with a little girl who has a cold and can scream really loud and four hours on end...that and with an almost 7 month pregnant woman.....poor Wayne!
Finally on the 7th we made it to UT. When we were driving into Brigham Matt recognized where we were and said look mom it's Grandpas and grandmas mountains! He was SO excited to finally be there and was even more excited when we pulled up to the house! To bad grandma and grandpa were at work....he was a bit mad they weren't home.
So we stayed for a month and visited with Friends and family and just tried to relax before the next drive to Cali.

Trying to keep the kids entertained and contained in Matts room while the packers packed up the house.

Matt and his new DS

There last meal at the house, and watching TS3 on the iPad

Hawaii

2011-03-09T21:15:00.003-05:00

We are finally here in Hawaii! We drove from Quantico VA to UT & stayed at my parents for a month. It was good to see family & friends. On the 2nd of March we drove to San Diego, spent a day at Sea World & then drove to LA. We dropped our car off to be shipped to Hawaii & on the 5th flew to Seattle & then to Hawaii.
We are right now living at The Lodge on base, it's pretty nice has a small kitchen so we can have some meals here. No stove so we are limited to what we can cook. Right now we're just trying trying to find things to do...that we can do with young kids.
My good photos are all on my camera & we have no computer right now. If your on facebook you can see all my (iphone) photos there. I will post pictures as soon as I can.

It's a ......BOY!!!

2011-01-26T21:42:00.004-05:00

So Hansen baby #3 is a boy!! We are excited for him to get here. Now the baby name battle will really get going, Wayne and I like two different names and the one that we do both agree on we like different spellings. So we'll see what happens with the name game.
Normally up at Ft Belvoir there not supposed to do 4D ultrasounds but the tech said the baby was in such a good position that she would take a few photo's for us.
So here he is!

Last week Wayne and I went shopping and got the baby this home coming outfit. we didn't know yet what the baby was and we figured this was good for a boy or girl....I was hoping for a boy because I thought this would be cuter for a boy.

My mini me's!

2011-01-13T11:45:00.006-05:00

Most of the time I still think they look like Wayne but then every once in awhile I see a lot of me in them....besides there attitudes, which is starting to scare me! I know I'm always saying it but that's because it's just so fun for me. But when you don't have any family that looks like you it's fun to look at there pictures and compare them to when you were little.

Another baby update.

2011-01-13T11:28:00.002-05:00

I had another appointment the other day. Baby is doing well, heart beat is 155 and I'm measuring right on 20 weeks.
This pregnancy is going by way to fast! I just haven't felt pregnant with this one. If it weren't for this little guy or girl being so squirmy at night I wouldn't have any idea that I was pregnant...and for the belly that's starting to get in my way.
I'm barley making the weight chart based on my pre-pregnancy weight. I'm there but just barely. I've only gained 8 lbs so far and I'm halfway through already...course chasing around two little ones you tend to burn those calories probably as fast as your eating them.
When the Dr went to listen to the heart beat she said will start lower on your belly, baby's tend to hang out low still. So she looked and looked and looked and looked...nothing. So she moved to the side a bit...still nothing. Moved to the other side...nothing. Finally she moved up about mid belly and there was the heart beat. She said "Wow, your baby is up really high already! Most of the time there hiding down low."
So I guess I'm carrying this little one up high...not looking forward to when they get bigger and are kicking me in the ribs. It's bad enough when there low and doing it.
We go in on the 26th, down to our oh so favorite place (said VERY sarcastically!) Fort Belvoir to have our ultrasound to find out if this baby is a boy or girl....it is also the day the movers come to pack up all our stuff! Fun day that's going to be.

Himalayan Salt Block

2011-01-10T14:40:00.003-05:00

Wayne got me himalayan salt block for my birthday this year. It came a day late but it was so fun to get. I opend the box and had no idea what it was at first. Took me a minuet and reading the name of it a few times for it to click. I was so excited I wanted to cook on it right away...but we had no steaks. I was telling Wayne to bad we don't have steaks and he said we do...I picked some up on the way home! I was so excited to get cooking.
I went to the DC cooking expo with a friend, Operation Home Cooking. I found the salt slabs there and tasted some steak that was cooked on it..oh my gosh it is so good. So I had told Wayne about it and how I wanted to get one.
You can put them on the stove in the oven or on the grill. You slowly heat it up, so it takes about 30-40 minuets to heat up. Then you just throw your food on there and cook it. It cooks the salt right into the meat, not just on the outside of the meat.
So we went through our pantry to and threw a quick meal together of steak, mashed potatoes, corn, olive (for the kids) apples and sparkling cider. It was a VERY yummy birthday dinner.

The first picture is of our steak, we cut it up because we have little kids.

These are the salt slabs and the other pictures are just to show what else you can cook on it.

Peyton's New Do

2011-01-08T12:51:00.004-05:00

Peyton got a new do when dad was washing her hair.

Despicable Me

2011-01-07T12:36:00.002-05:00

It didn't take long for both kids to start mimicking the beginning of Despicable Me...I think they only had to watch it once. It's so funny though.

Hawaii Update

2011-01-07T09:15:00.002-05:00

Hey all,
Well we originally had orders for Wayne to check in at Hickham Air Force base between the 1st-30th of June. Well because of our due date being 30th of May we decided to see if we could get his order's changed. So yesterday Wayne got a call saying that his order's had been changed, we now have a check in time of March 1st-30th!
So looks like baby # 3 will be born in Hawaii! We are definitely a military family. Matthew was born in Jacksonville NC, Peyton was born at Ft Belvoir VA and this one will be some where in Hawaii, we don't know yet if it will be out in town or on base.
We now have about 6 weeks to go through all our stuff and get rid of things we don't need or use anymore...that's is always the good thing about moving, the de-junking part.
We will be driving our car to UT and then to CA and have it shipped to Hawaii from there. So we will have a few weeks in UT to visit family and friends. Then we will have a day at Sea World before we go. Each year we get to pick from Sea World, Bush Garden, or Sesame Place to get in for free because we are military. We figure this will be something fun for the kids to do before the baby comes and we never go anywhere.
So we will see you all in UT sometime mid February!!

Stuck

2011-01-06T15:48:00.003-05:00

So i'm pretty late on this post, this happend about...3 weeks ago? Anyway we had just got her a new toy and she was using it to climb up on and onto the couch. Well she waits till I leave the room to do this because she knows she's not supposed to.
So as I was fixing breakfast I hear her wining and ask Matt if he's being mean. He replys "no, Peyton's just stuck, she's just stuck mom mom" I reply stuck? (as i'm trying not to burn the bacon curious as to how she is stuck) where is she stuck? Matt: just stuck in her toy, she's in trouble mom. So I removed the bacon from the stove and went in there to see what was going on.
This is how I found her.

So I tried to...unstick her. Her foot was in there pretty far and not budging. I called Wayne and told him to come home....15 min later I call him and he's still at work. He had to finish something first. So i gave up on that idea and started tugging and pulling some more. With a lot of crying and screaming I got her unstuck.

Brushing Her Teeth

2011-01-06T15:41:00.004-05:00

It's taken awhile but Peyton will finally get her teeth brushed without kicking and screaming. For a long time we just got the brush wet and let her chew on it then we started putting a little bit of tooth paste on it...she didn't like that but got used to it.
Now she will kick and scream after we put the tooth brush away...I really don't think she needs to brush her teeth more than 7 times!
She's getting pretty good at doing it on her own now to

Sleepy Heads

2011-01-06T11:24:00.013-05:00

With the kids sick over Christmas I got a lot of cute pictures of them sleeping.

Christmas Day!!

2010-12-27T16:11:00.017-05:00

The kids had a great Christmas and Matt was SO excited for Santa this year. He is finally old enough to understand what santa is about...so we took advantage of that and if he was being mean to his sister or not listening we would tell him he needed to be nice or santa might not come. It even got him to go to bed on time the last few nights before Christmas.
Unfortunately the kids were sick again this year so matt ended up in bed with us Christmas eve. When he came into bed he told me he thought he heard Santa downstairs and was so excited, so I told him he better hurry and get back to sleep. So he climbed in and went right to sleep. Then when I was getting out of bed in the morning it woke him and he sat straight up and said again mom I think I heard santa down stairs can we go see. By then it was 7:30 so I told him as soon as Peyton wakes up we would go down....2 minuets later we were all going down stairs.
Matt was excited but then realized santa wasn't there and was pretty mad. I guess he thought Santa would still be there to play with him. I told him Santa just comes to drop off your toys, he has a LOT of other kids he has to stop at and then he goes home to sleep!
Wayne and I had fun watching the kids open there gifts and watching Matt get excited over what santa brought. I got Wayne his Band of Brother's the Pacific on Blu-ray and he got me an iPad and Santa brought us a new TV.

Our tree before Peyton got to it.

We finally put the gifts under the tree the night before Christmas Eve, it was quite a challenge for Matt to not open the gifts.

Christmas Eve dinner...I forgot a LOT of stuff for the dinner so we just had ham, potatoes, sparkling cider and olives. I forgot rolls, green beans, christmas ribbon jello and the stuff for the candy cane cake!

Opening his Christmas jammies...he was SO excited he got to open a gift.

"Mom, I just LOVE my new christmas dress!"...Christmas dress?! I don't know why he thought it was a dress.

"helping" Peyton open her christmas jammies.

I even got Wayne some Christmas jammies this year. Everyone ended up with monkey jammies...it was not planned either.

Tracking santa. he was getting close to us so Matt was excited to get to bed.

I think santa came!

Christmas morning!

Chuck the Talking Tonka Truck From Grandma and Grandpa Hansen

A musical choo choo from Grandma & Grandpa Hansen

Rescue Heroes Firetruck from Grandma & Grandpa Potter....he loves shooting the "water" cannons across the room!

A Doll house from Grandma & Grandpa Potter

She had to have her doll house opened right away!!

We tried a new french toast casserole this year, it is made with cinnamon rolls and has pecans in it...so yummy!

Christmas Best

2010-12-21T10:25:00.003-05:00

In there Sunday Christmas clothes. Matt was excited to wear his Christmas church clothes...he thought that meant it was Christmas day. But he was still excited for nursery. Peyton who normally loves her dresses and if she see's one shell bring it over to have you put it on her, threw the biggest fit when I put her in her new dress. I think part was the tights, she's not used to those and the biggest part was it was nap time. Our church is at 2 and nap time is 1:30. But once it was on and some christmas music was going she noticed that when she danced and spun around her dress would twirl...she now loves her dress.
And I tried a new hair style on her. I didn't know if all her hair would be long enough because most of the length is on the sides of her head. But for the most part it all stayed in place, to bad all of her curls are at the bottom of her hair. Her pig tails just hung straight and we didn't have time to try and curl them..but it still looked cute.

Going to see Santa!

2010-12-21T10:18:00.002-05:00

Last week we took the kids to see Santa. We decided to not even try to put Peyton on his lap, she was already tired and when we got up there she started to cling to Wayne and whine. We werent sure how Matt would do, he was so excited to see Santa last year and then screamed when he was up there. But this year he sat on Santa's lap and told him all about his day.He told him all about the movie he had watched that morning and what he had for breakfast that he forgot to tell him what he wanted for christmas!
So our santa picture turned out much better this year.

Getting ready to go see santa.

2010

2009

"Nothing Much Happens"

2010-12-15T21:17:00.007-05:00

Nothing much has been going on lately. I had a nice trip home and was glad to see my family for Thanksgiving, my grandpas funeral turned out nice. He had a military funeral, he was in the Army Air force. He was 91 years young.

It was good to come home to the kids though, they missed me..we'll Matt did, they were staying the night at a baby sitter's since I didn't land until 11:30. Matt cried the whole night, I felt bad for the sitter because she is already tired with her newborn. So they were dropped off to me at 2 am Peyton saw me, hugged me and started calling out dadda and went running around the house looking for him. He was out in the field for the night doing Land Nav...land navigation.
Since then we haven't done a whole lot until this last weekend. We took the kids to see Santa, Matt was SO excited and was telling santa all about his day and forgot to tell him what toy he wanted. We got home and he was sad because he "needed" to go back to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas, I told him we would make sure to leave out a small note to Santa on Christmas eve. Matt helped me decorate the tree...we pretty much have to redecorate everyday due to Peyton pulling everything off the tree

We had our ward Christmas party. Peyton would sing along to the hymns, it was so cute. Everytime we would start to sing she would sing and during the pauses she would stop and would always clap and say yeah at the end.
This next Saturday we are going to take the kids to the zoo, they have lights displayed throughout the zoo and we are going to see if we can get to the DC temple to see the lights up there too, there supposed to be amazing.
Matt is getting excited for Christmas, 3 is when it seems to click as to what the Santa part of Christmas is about. I had a book called "who was born this special night?" that got ruined a couple years back. I'm hoping I can find it so we can fit in some more of the real reason of Christmas. He knows but like most kids he's just to excited for the "fun" part of it.
Baby update...baby is doing good. We are at 16 weeks and I had a dr appointment yesterday. I'm measuring 15 weeks and I guess i need to eat more because i'm a bit underweight....I just never feel like eating with this pregnancy. I'm sure that will change oh so soon.

A little bit of lately before I go

2010-11-23T08:05:00.007-05:00

A little bit of what we have been up to lately before I head off to UT later today. I'm heading home for a funeral and leaving my babies home with Wayne. I'm so sad to leave them.
Anyway here are a few pictures of what we have been up to...which isn't a whole lot.

Eating some Salsa Con Queso dip with mom.

Watching a movie and eating pop corn in Mom's bed while sissy naps. (on daddy's side of the bed!)

Trying on some antler ears at Target.

Running around the benches at the Dojo

Putting our sunglasses on all by ourself!

Pulling Petyon's hair up into a bun for the first time.

Sitting in the train table...which is now broken from Matt sitting in it.

Playing with his marble maze kit.

Peyton playing with her own marble kit after ripping apart and throwing across the room Matt's maze.

Karate Kid

2010-11-23T07:50:00.004-05:00

Matt's been doing karate classes for about a month now. He is doing really well for his age they say....I guess rolling around on the floor and running circles around the class with all four instructors chasing you is doing well?! I guess I don't want to know what not doing well is. For the most part he will listen and do what he is told but he has his days where he just does what he wants and they have to pull him aside and talk to him and he will end up getting held after class and then he has days where he will stand patently in line and wait his turn. He is the youngest in his class I think most of the other kids are about 5 and he is also the shortest. But he is doing well and Likes going to "karate kid class", so he can "be like Jackie Chan"

My little karate boy.

Learning his stance

Practicing his axe kick.

Ok, so this is of Matt practicing his axe kick, he is in the center row.

New Orders to Our Next Duty Station

2010-11-10T09:12:00.004-05:00

Well Wayne finally got the news on his orders. We are heading off to......HAWAII!!!! We were supposed to be here in VA for 3 years. We guessed we would be here for four because why would the Marine Corps move us for just one year? Anyway we have been a military family for 6 years. We are fortunate enough to have never had to do a deployment but unfortunately we know that won't last forever. Well in September Wayne finally got promoted to Sgt...well being a career Marine and no deployments they said were sending you to a new station so you can be deployed. It will look better for his career. Lucky me 3 kids on an island with no family to help out while he is deployed!! Oh well I can handle it...I hope.
So we were hoping to move a few months before the baby gets here....well that's not going to happen either! Baby is due around the end of May 1st of June, yeah we have to be in Hawaii no earlier than June 1st and no Later than July 1st. So we will be having this baby and a week or two later head to UT, bless the baby, have a B-day party for the kids/ goodbye party and then head off to Hawaii! It's going to be a crazy 1st month for this next baby!
We are excited to be going someplace new again, although I think we were a little sad we didn't get Cali. Now I have NEVER like the idea of living in Cali but we could have come home for Holidays and birthday and family events. Oh well...I have a feeling we will have more visitors while we are in Hawaii than we ever got in NC or VA combined!!

Making the Switch

2010-11-01T11:19:00.010-04:00

So we decided to switch Peyton to cloth diapers. We are trying them out on here before the new baby comes. That and Matt wears pull ups at night and Peyton will go into pull ups not long before or after the new baby get's here....that's a LOT of pull up and diapers to be buying. This will save us a ton of money!
After looking at ALL the different brands out there and reading review after review we decided to go with GDiapers.
They have three pieces to them but are really easy to use. There not as bad as people make them out to be and are really easy to clean....before you go to bed you just through them in the wash and then the dryer and your done.
There arent bulky as some that i've seen, and they velcro in the back which is good for when you hit that stage that they learn how to take there diaper off! Peyton isn't like the velcro in the back...she can't get her diaper off now!

The diaper cover doesn't get wet or dirty unless you don't have the diaper on right so the cover can get used the whole day you just change out the liner and insert.

So you have the cloth insert the snap in liner and the diaper.

Take the cloth insert and put it in the plastic liner

snap the plastic liner in the diaper and diaper your babe...it's easy as that.

I was telling Wayne look at that buddha belly....
So Matt said look at my buddha belly mom!

See can't even tell she has a cloth diaper on.

Halloween

2010-11-01T10:53:00.008-04:00

So this year I decide to make both the kids costumes.....ya I think this will be the last time I do that. They werent hard...i was just lazy about getting them done and then trying to rush all
Friday night and Saturday afternoon trying to get them done in time. But there were so many Buzz and Jessie's out there that if Matt hadn't had a homemade one he would have gotten lost in
all those little Buzz lightyear's!
The kids had fun trick or treating this year. We went out with our neighbor and his two kids. Matt was very goo to say "trick or treat please" and "thank you, have a happy halloween!"
Peyton stayed in the stroller most of the time but we finally let her out to walk with the big kids. She LOVED going up to the houses and grabing handfulls of candy...she didn't like it
when mom would make her put all of it back but one piece. We started at 5:30 and were pretty much done at 7 but walked around until 8 just to tire out the kids.
Matt was so tired when we got home he fell asleep eating his spaghetti O's and was asking to go to bed. So they had fun and we had fun taking them around.
Wayne's camera has better pics on it of Matt going around to the houses so once he gets those onto the computer I will post those.

I had a sister in my ward help me sew these costumes together. I didn't like the way she cut out the first chest piece.

I didn't have room for all the buttons and patches that go on it. So I cut out a new pice.

We decided that we had enough material left over from Matt's costume to go ahead and make Peyton's shirt instead of buying one.

Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger and Vampire?!

Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl

This was the best I could do to get them both in the same picture.
Trick or Treating with there friends Landin and Gigi

Most people ran out of candy at about 6...trick or treating started at 5:30. One sign at about 6 said they were all out of there 4lbs of candy!

New Haircut & The Pumpkin Patch

2010-10-16T21:09:00.029-04:00

Matt hasn't had a haircut since I took him home to UT back July. I told him he they wouldn't let him on the plane unless he got his haircut so he sat still and didn't kick, scream or cry for the first time.
We decided today would be a good day to take the kids up to the pumpkin patch. So I told Matt they wouldn't let him into the patch unless he got a hair cut...he fell for it and sat very still and let the lady shave all his hair off! Yes we gave him his first high and tight. We did it a bit shorter than normal instead of a 2 on the sides and 3 on top we did a 1 and a 2! This way we shouldn't have to get it cut again until about February.
ANYWAY....we took the kids up to Alexandria to a place called Nalls. They have an area set up of pumpkins just for the kids to climb on and then a little maze of tunnels underneath. The kids had a blast running around in the maze and climbing on all those pumpkins! We lost our little camera so Wayne stopped at his work and got his good camera, so we have some really good pics!
We came home with two very large pumpkins! One was 20 lbs and the other was 17! Then we got a blue pumpkin and Matt picked out a little one for himself. To be honest I had never seen a blue pumpkin before so I had to get one, Peyton helped me pick it out. I let her touch them all and then she tried to pick one up...so that is the one we bought.

Peyton and her blue pumpkin.

I love this picture...even if it is blurry.

My favorite pic of Matt

Matt and his pumpkin he picked out.

Not sure but I'm guessing this is his "cheese" face.

Matt trying to pull the wagon.

playing in the tunnels.

awww such a cutie, love my baby girl.

Trying to push someone else's wagon!

She finally decided it was to heavy and headed back to the tunnels.

She decided this one was a good one to rest one.

Trying to steal another wagon!

Matt's new friend, they played tag for awhile.

Taking a break.

trying to pull the wagon...she didn't get very far.

She picked out her big pumpkin she wanted!

I think she was checking out that corn.

She tried to walk off with that pumpkin!

He was so proud of himself when he reached the top of the pumpkin mountain.

Randomness

2010-10-13T08:55:00.004-04:00

I was looking through our pictures the other day seeing what needs to be added to the ol blog. I found quite a few videos that I just haven't gotten around to posting.
So here are a few of them.

I LOVE my UGG's, so when I was shoe shopping for Matt the other day I found some cute UGG's for Peyton. I bought them 2 sizes to big. she has learned how to run in her to big of shoes. They will be nice and warm for winter.

She found Matt's pudding that he left on the table and decided to finish it off...needless to say her brother wasn't very happy with her.

Having fruitsnacks and milk while watching a movie together.

Dr's, Dentist and a Few Other Updates of Late

2010-09-23T09:04:00.007-04:00

So last Wednesday Peyton went to the Dr for her 15th month check up. We were a bit late getting her in seeing as she's almost 17 months. But we missed her appointment due to being in UT....anyway!
I lost the paper that had her stats. So all I can say is she went up in weight from being in the 25 percentile to the 30th. She is still short and her head is still in the 75th percentile. She had to get two shots in her leg and we had to stop between the two because she wouldn't breath from crying to hard. It kinda scared me. I have never seen a kid hold there breath for so long from crying. Her whole face was purple and she did nothing when I blew in her face to get her to breath. Even the nurse started saying breath, please breath. Finally she took a breath and then the nurse stuck her again and well....we started all over again with the purple face and her not breathing. But as soon as I picked her up and kissed her and started getting her dressed she started to calm down. After that we went on a girls night with my friend shopping at the mall.

This last Wednesday both Matt and Peyton went to the dentist. And if any of you know me well you know how terrified I am of the dentist. I mean for the dentist's safety I have to be sedated :) I can barely get through a check up without a panic attack. I've had to many bad...horrible....no traumatizing experiences as a kid.
Anyway after Peyton's Dr.'s appointment and her crying when the Dr looked at her mouth I knew she would cry, but it was Matt we worried about. He can barely get a hair cut without kicking and screaming that I figured this would be impossible to get through. So the night before when we were getting ready for bed I told Matt that we were going to the dentist in the morning. I told him the dentist is going to ask to count your teeth like this. I told him to open his mouth really big and then I counted his teeth. I then told him the dentist will brush your teeth after that and you'll be done. So when he got in the chair and they put the bib on him he laid back and the dentist came in and asked if he could open really big so she could count his teeth. Matt did very well and she counted his teeth and said there were no cavities. She did say he is going to have to have his front tooth and the one next to extracted because the teeth have fused together. Though they came in separately they look like one tooth that has split right down the middle. So when his big teeth come in and only one is ready to fall out but the other isn't it will be a problem. After that they showed him the special tooth brush they would use and showed him how it would just tickle by putting it on his fingers. He laid back again got his teeth brush and laughed a bit because it tickled. After that he had a fluoride treatment and he was done!

Peyton did about how we thought she would. She sat on Wayne's lap and then they laid him back in the chair. As soon as she was laid back on him she started crying, I think she thought she was going to get shots. The Dr got into her mouth and went "Oh wow look at all the teeth! She has molars already, she's so young to already have four." Other than that her teeth were great no problems and no cavities.

Peyton in her new glasses she got at the dentist. Daddy helped pick them out.

Matt with his new train table we got used for $20 and you flip the boards and then it's a lego table. He was putting his toys down for a nap.
I went to get Peyton out of her crib the other morning and found her like this...no wonder she was screaming!

I usually don't buy things like pudding and we really never have candy in the house except for Halloween time and Christmas.
But I let Matt have pudding the other day and Peyton found a peanut M&M and luckily we already knew she wasn't allergic because I had forgotten and had given her something with peanuts in it when she was about 12 months.

Finally!! Sgt Hansen

2010-09-03T11:46:00.012-04:00

Finally Wayne was promoted to Sgt on Tuesday, after three LONG years and who knows how many times he had been up for promotion before. So it's about time, and he definitely deserves it! Congratulations babe I love you and I'm proud of you!
This time I got to pin him along with my cousin Greg who is a Major in the Marine Corps and stationed up at the Pentagon.

Off with the old
On with the new!

Ok, so I guess it's tradition to get hit..or punched right on the new insignias. There is no backing on the back of the pin, we just put the pin in and he puts the backings on later. So that is why he is getting hit.

8 Years!!

2010-09-03T10:19:00.005-04:00

This is a WAY late post i know.
August 8th Wayne and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary! It doesn't seem like it has been that long but I guess it has.
8 years and two kids later. We lived in NC for 3 1/3 years and are now in VA. Wayne has now been with the Marine Corps for 6 years in October. Looks like we will be moved sometime in the next 6-8 months so he can be put into a deployable Unit. We have been blessed to not have to go through a deployment yet. But I knew we could be lucky for so long.
We'll for our anniversary we dropped the kids off at the sitter's and went to the show. We saw Karate Kid which of course was a very good show....what Jackie Chan movie isn't good....can't think of any. After that we saw Eclipse again....it was my 4th time seeing it...I guess that enough times?! What we really wanted to do was go see Mary Poppins but I went home to UT for the month of July and forgot about it. We'll I got back and saw the commercial for it and started trying to see if we could get tickets last minuet. Well we, three days before the show! Wayne is not a fan of Mary Poppins, he likes the music but not Mary Poppins. I loved the movie growing up and still enjoy it. This was Wayne's first Broadway show and my 5th or 6th. Anyway the show was awesome and the dancing was...wow. It was a good show and we both really enjoyed it...yes even Wayne.
So in November we are going to go see Lion King and hopefully if were still here in April we will go see Beauty and the Beast.

A couple of our favorite songs from the show

Lately the kids have been watching these clips and are really liking the songs!

Reflect on base life

2010-08-31T15:08:00.003-04:00

I had to share this.This was posted by one of my friends on her FB page but I wanted to share it.
...reflect on base life.
.by Tina Mayo on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 10:30pm.

A sure sign that you are on a military base is...when the poster for the car wash fundraiser is tacked to a post with a KA-BAR. By the way, there always seems to be a car wash fundraiser on base these days. Fall is right around the corner, and so is the Marine Corps birthday ball. It's the social event of the year. Seriously! Where else can you eat cake that's been sliced with a sword?!

I was driving around on base today thinking about some of the things that are unique to base life. Sure. You see cars running around with "student driver" posted on them in the civilian world. It always makes me a bit nervous. On base, you can see the "student driver" posted on a passing 7-Ton! I stay clear of those guys. I also have no problem yielding to an AAV making its way to the beach. That said, I think my most interesting military driving experience has been following a howitzer up the hill on to base. I was really glad the hitch held!

Here are some more base life moments:

■You show your military ID before paying for groceries.
■15 MPH speed limits are common and enforced by military police. By the way, 15 MPH is also the top speed of "the world's fastest lawnmower."

■You take a number and wait to get called up to the pharmacy window only to be given a new number.
■The closest parking spots at the exchange (department store) are labeled and reserved for high ranking personnel.
■There is a civilian dress code for shoppers or patrons of services like the veterinarian clinic that covers way more than "no shirts, no shoes, no service."
■Make sure that you read all the signs posted at base recreational sights--especially the ones about what to do when you find an unexploded ordnance.

There is much, much more, but that's enough for now. 'Just another day in the military wife life!