Hulllooo *WARNING* This is a boring update post

I was on here trying to find another blog I saw on good things utah but am having a hard time locating it. It's like it doesn't exist. Then I saw that you can change your template and I thought well I've never done that so let's have a go. Then I realized, I'm logged in, my daughter is asleep, and I should write something. I can't post new pictures, like ones of Hannah unless I'm on the laptop. I was just cruising around on the web and therefore I am on the dinosaur desktop(it was born in 2003!) It has minimal storage and operating space(60 gig i think, most ipods have more space than that!) so we put our pictures on the laptop now. I guess I'm saying I will post some pics when I log on to this again while on the laptop. And who knows it could be tomorrow or in 3 months or in 2 years! Well I'll try not to take that long(That's me and the mouse in my pocket). HANSEN is going to kindergarten in about 3 weeks and Hannah is 16 months old. We moved 3 times in the last year(yuck I reeeeeaaaalllly don't like moving) and we are in a stable place for the time being. I've been struggling to find myself again after realizing my encephalitis sickness of the way past is still causing me grief(weight-gain after effects that are still lingering and terrorizing.) Yes I want it to be over but these things take time. The kids are always a joy. Hans is loving his job-thank goodness because it would be rotten for him to have to spend so much time in a place he isn't loving. I got tricked into coaching Hansen's soccer team. I didn't really get tricked but when somebody asks me to do something even though I know I probably am not the right person for the job, I still say yes. It's a weakness.

We are going to Hans' little sister's wedding these next two weeks, and then we are taking off to Canada for a week(Just Hans and I, the kids will have a blast with their grandparents. Can you say "We love letting the kids have whatever they want whenever they want." Ah the love of grandparents, it's genuine and irreplaceable).

A short update, but an update none the less. Hope to blog with you in the near future.

Brooklyn Road

We live in the country. Hans is in the process of finding a job so his parents have graciously let us come to live with them. Thank goodness for that other wise we might be... somewhere not cool. We have lived here for about a month. It's nice to be near family during the holidays. Hansen is doing well and I'm doing well with the pregnancy. We are having a girl in march. Hans was making wreaths today. Maybe I will post some pictures when I get them on the computer.

it's just life

It's really not that difficult to write a few words here every once in a while, except when you take a trip off the face of the planet, which apparently I did for the last year. A lot has happened. Hans finally graduated from college and is doing page layout and design for Wasatch Woman magazine. It is part time so he is also looking for something full time. I work at the post office encoding center, boring. I type in addresses on pieces of mail, and am not allowed to talk while on the work floor, I can however listen to music and books on cd. Hansen is really growing up. We are working on potty training and the only thing that has worked so far is us telling him he can't go back to preschool unless he uses the toilet all the time. So every time he does use the toilet he says, "ok me go get on the bus now." We are still working on it. I noticed my writing did come to an abrupt halt when i started working. I guess sometimes my nap before work and my pre-lunch errands took precedence over this lovely blog. I'll try to do better in the future for the sake of myself and the small amount of you that i've tricked into reading my blog.

Memory Grove

Hansen and I walked to Memory Grove a while ago. In fact it was the night of the last Jazz-Laker's game. So whatever day that was...weeks go by and it seems like two days to me. I got some pretty cute pictures of Hansen running around with his blanket. He went through a phase when he wouldn't put it down. I like that park because the sun goes down sooner because it's in a ravine. Plus there are dogs there for Hansen to admire. On the way back I got some pictures of lamp posts. I really like pictures of lamp posts and one day I'm going to get a copy of the Montmartre's steps in Paris because it's one of my favorite photographs. It looks a lot like this but without the people, taken from the left side of the railing, and in black and white. I want a really big print of it. Here are the pics of Hansen at the Grove and also my attempts at lamp posts. Sorry the pictures are not in order or in the place where they make sense. I haven't mastered picture placement on my blog yet. Some day...like most things in my life that I want. But don't worry they will all happen...some day. I'll talk about those things another time.

I got, forgot

This is a strange little phrase I would say when I was little.  I remember I couldn't just say the word forgot unless I said, I got, first.  I thought of this because I was thinking of some of the things Hansen says.  For ball he says galldy gall.  When he says more he says ma-more.  All gone is gall gie(rhymes with pie).  And my favorites are still goggie(doggie) and ka(duck).  He does say some things the way they actually sound like hi, go, show, cow, moo, choo choo, and key(monkey). He hasn't started saying two words together, with the exception of all gone, so he has a speech therapist that comes to our house.  Today was actually the first day she came and she played with him and showed us how we can get him to say more words.  She taught him to say please by signing in the half hour that she was working with him.  So I continued asking him to say please throughout the day whenever he wanted something.  He signs it really well and I think the hope is that he will eventually say it.  It's amazing how receptive kids can be if you will just spend the time with them. I know that one day he would probably talk on his own but he gets really frustrated with us because we don't always know what he wants and that ends up in him having core meltdowns.  I am hoping that with the speech help we can start to limit these ever so popular occurrences.   Oh and on a somewhat related note, I linked the Gub Chronicles to my page.  It is Hans' blog that he was required to set up for a school assignment. He called it gub because that is what I used to call bugs.

Bologna or baloney?

When I think of the food and the weird way it is spelled I also think of when we say it as a way to tell someone they are full of it (or baloney).  I bought some bologna the other day because it's probably been over 10 years since I've had any.  It's not too bad and it makes a nice snack sandwich when you are just staring into the depths of the fridge wondering what in the world you want to eat and when in the world you might figure it out.  I think another reason I bought it is because it is spelled so funky like.  It looks like ba-log-nah.  It's fun to say it the way it is spelled. I've always wondered why it's spelled that way.  If anyone can fill me in that would be awesome.  I bet Trestin might have the answer. For some strange reason sometimes he knows things like that.  And another thing-What do you all think of bologna?  Gross, good, or shouldn't really be allowed on the shelves?  There is no wrong answer.

Platform 9 3/4

We all know about the mysterious platform nine and three quarters from Harry Potter. It's the number of the platform the students board the Hogwarts Express to get to the school. The non magical folk or "muggles" of course don't know it's there because the students have to run through a stone pillar in order to get to it. Hansen and I went for a walk the other day and I noticed these cool addresses on the doors in the mall. One can only imagine what's really hiding behind the stores that only us "muggles" can see. Perhaps a secret meeting place for witches and wizards or maybe a store full of magic doodads and magic candy. It's fun to wonder.