GHOST TOWN

OK... so for those of you still interested --my bowels are STILL going crazy !!! SO much so that I dragged them to the doc again and I am having a CT scan on them this week and a colonoscopy on them next week. really not looking forward to the latter. when i was chatting with my doc and she suggested that we do a colonoscopy scenes of ghost town started playing in my head, and I am a little worried that i am going to wake up from it and start seeing dead people. hopefully it doesnt happen, but ya never know. i will keep you updated !! for a good laugh !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i4M9q_22d8 PS-- My bowels arent twisting or anything--no pain-- just being a little overactive ..TMI? sorry

Bless this bunny

Alright I am not patient enough to move these pics around to the right words so i will just give ya a little highlight explaining some of them. more explination follows!!! ENJOY One of the many faces of Grace

She is going to roll over any second and i think she wants her bunny ears off

Isnt that just the cutest bunny??

ME & GRACE she loves to hang her head down like that when she lays on your lap

Grace in her blessing dress-which was my blessing dress PRETTY OLD DRESS (23yrs)

Jack, Holden, Grace, Addisyn

Addi is such a sweet cousin to grace everytime she calls me on the phone that is her first concern she always asks "wheres gracie" it is so so cute !!!

Jack has his hand on Grace's head and it was funny because nobody told him to do it he just went and sat down and plopped his hand on her head. slowly her head started sagging a bit and we had to rearrange the kids but it was his cute way of him showing us how he takes care of the baby !!

SO it has once again been a long time since i have blogged!! we have been really busy around our house. I started work again in March and I have been loving it, things are slowly but surely coming back to me. I love that i get to go to work and still not miss my little girl growing up. Also we blessed grace this last sunday and it was fabulous !! The whole week before i kept bugging brock asking him what he was going to bless her with and didnt he think he needed to practice and things like that and he just kept telling me that the spirit would guide him. (its a good thing he blessed her and not me or it would have been all written out and not inspired) the whole time brock was so calm and not worried about a thing. finally the big day got here and i noticed a tiny hint of nervousness. and then right before his legs were shakey and i had to tell him that the bishop had announced it was time to bless grace. I have got to say brock did such a good job listening to the spirit. our baby was blessed with everything that she could possibly need. Being the mom i never thought that i would be anxious or emotional about the whole process but i was. there is just something about motherhood that has changed me for the better even if i do get teary eyed a little bit more. Grace was beautiful in her dress . we had family and GREAT friends that traveled for hours to be with us on this special day and I am so so so greatful to all of you for being so kind and generous towards us. WE LOVE YOU!!!

Also in spirit of easter Grace and i did a little photo shoot. Now I am by no means a photographer but we stuck up a background and this is what hapened. I giggle everytime i look at these pictures.

Another thing that grace has been doing lately is rolling over. She started rolling a little bit before she was 2 months but we werent for sure if it was by accident or if she really ment to. especially because she really only does it when she wants to. which is usually about 50 or so times in a row and then she is done for a day or 2

Lots of pics

Well we have been just hanging out taking pictures So here ya go. I go back to work on March 13 and i am going to miss this little girl, but i am very greatful that i get to work nights so i dont miss anything !!

Grace in her swing--- we dont really know what she is doing with her hands but we tried to put them down and she just picked them up and did this all over again..

I know that this picture makes me look like a terrible mom but i was doing laundry and grace started to fuss a bit so i put her in the basket to carry her upstairs and she immediatly stopped and put her hands up and LOVED it i dont know if it was the warm clothes or what --so this was not child abuse !!

Grace and Granny

Grace & Grandpa VO

Grace and Daddy

Grace is 1 month old and time has just flown. I love being a mom more then anything and she is such a sweet girl. She is now what i would call sleeping through the night "mostly" we put her to be around 10 and she wakes up about 5. MOSTLY some night she has a random wake up at 2 and then sleep until 8 sort of a thing but she is only waking up 1 time a night.

She LOVES her swing !! we will put her in it and turn on just the sounds--- not the music, it just doesnt play the right tunes for her. Our dear Grace has bieber fever.... and is in love with garth--- garth brooks !! Sometimes when she cries brock will put on a little "baby baby baby" and grace will stop and follow the phone around.

RSV-Pertusis

Call me paranoid.........

We took Grace for her 2 week check up and the doctor told us that he had sent a couple of kids to the ER just that week for RSV and told us to keep grace at home or just basically away from people. SO if we are socially absent this is why. We love this little girl SO SO SO much and are so proud of her and can't wait to get her out there and share her with everybody BUT..... The last thing i want is this little girl to get sick and end up in the hospital getting poked and suffering because we are excited to show her to everybody!!! so in the mean time i am going to just show her off in pictures. Please please please help us keep our little grace safe. If you have had a cough and it has lasted longer then the common cold you could possibly have pertusis--- this will put babies in the hospital.... so if you have been sick or feel even a tickle in your throat just hold off a little while and observe from the blog !!! Thank you so much ! once again call me paranoid but if my little angel got sick it would be my fault because i am supposed to keep her safe. It would break my heart if she got sick. So call me paranoid.......

Grace Evelyn Hansen

OUr sweet little baby Grace made her first appearance on January 19, 2011. We went to the hospital on tuesday and came home with a new addition to the family on Thursday . The birth went great!! My water broke at 3:45 AM and i contracted about every minute from then until she was born. I got my epidural after feeling about 5-6 contractions (that was enough for me!!)Grace was born at 5:28PM weighing 7 pounds 12 oz. and was 20.5 inches long! we were so suprised by how big she was and one of the nurses thought that she was going to be bald BUT she came out with some hair. She has got the cutest scream on her (im sure our neighbors dont think so) it is high pitched and girly. she is also such a cute sweet baby she doesnt really cry and she even tries to sleep through the night but we wake her up to feed her. last night she went from about midnight to 7:30. Grace got a clean bill of health from the pediatrician at the hospital and has her first appointment on monday!! she passed her hearing test and her bilirubin was at a good level (no jaundice). We have been so blessed with this sweet little angel as soon as the doctor saw that all was well with her after her delivery he called her the miracle baby. and to us she is !!
Grace is named after her 2 grandmothers... grace is my mom's middle name and evelyn is brocks mothers name.. it also happens that both my mom and brocks mom were named after their grandmothers. These women are some of the best this world has seen, and there is no better people to name my daughter after. I have been so blessed with the mom that i have she has taught me so much and shown me a great example of how to be a mother, wife and friend. When i married brock i loved him so so much and of course i liked his family but.. I absolutely love jill.. I couldnt have asked for a better mother in law. she raised a great son and is an amazing person!!
we have had the best helpers this week helping us get her taken care of. We also have had so much help from friends, family, and neighbors. THANK YOU all so much!!!

Wow it has been a LONG time since I have updated so I thought it would be a good idea to make a post.
First of all we have been super super super busy!! We bought a duplex and have been painting, carpeting, cleaning, sanding etc. Right now we currently dont have the internet at our house or even TV !! so really every spare minute is spent cleaning and trying to get it ready for our baby. Currently the whole upstairs is sanitized and ready to go. I cannot tell you how nice it is to be able to walk around without shoes on !! I LOVE IT !!! but as soon as i even think about going downstairs the shoes are back on. the people that lived there before us had some pets and pet hair was everywhere. So pet owners for your landlords sake please be clean with your pets!

We did find some time to go see the lights with some friends and it was nice to get a little break in the routine. it was great! Christmas is one of my favorite holidays. I love the smells- pine, cider, fresh wrapping paper, hot cocoa, fire. and all the beautiful christmas lights that are put up, christmas trees, stockings-- the whole bit. I am ashamed to say that because of the state of our house we were only able to get a teeny tiny tree-- no lights- no stockings nothing !! so our house is a christmas let down BUT NEXT YEAR watch out neighborhood !!

Grace is doing great!!! and she has developed quite the personality Brock calls me crazy but i think i am right.. when i went to get my Non stress test one week she was sleeping so they needed to wake her up to make her heart rate accelerate. so they bring this buzzer thing in that kinda vibrates and makes noise and they stick it around her head. well most kids jump and their heart rate immediatly goes up. well our dear grace just kicks at the thing and rolls over. ok maybe it was a coincidence the first time But she did it 3 MORE TIMES. the only explination i can think of is that she get so used to my bowels bugging her that, that little buzzer thing wasnt going to wake her up. So from now on I always eat a little bit of candy before i go just to keep her awake. I am so excited for her to get here! I talked my Dr. into inducing me on Jan 11, 2011.. he wouldnt do it any sooner or it would have been then. but i thought that 1-11-11 would be a pretty cool birthday.

thats a quick update! I hope everybody enjoys their holidays and is safe. Enjoy spending time with your loved ones and family!! every moment is important !! let your loved ones know that you love them. I know that more now then ever.