A homemade Christmas

Here are our exchange names.  A couple of us wanted to have our kids exchange with each other.  We might start that next year.  This year I'd encourage the kids to be involved in the homemade projects.  Have lots of fun!!  Remember when we used to do secret stockings.  That was so great!!

Mike's family has Johnny's family 

Jackson's has Katie's

Johnny's has Matt's

Katie's has Amy's

Matt's has Isaac

Amy's has Jackson's

Isaac has Mike's

;0) Funny how that worked out, all of us in a row sort of.  

Christmas xchange?

Christmas is Coming!!
So what should we do for gifts this year? Does anyone have any fun new ideas? Or would you all just like to draw names again, rotate? Any themes or price limits?

I think we should do a name draw and then give home made gifts.

What are your ideas. Time is getting close. Lets get this settled. Love you.

Adelein's Baptism 10-16-10

      Addie was double dunked!  The first try her hand  wasn't completely immersed.   Daddy baptized and confirmed her, Mom and Grandma Bird gave talks, her brothers sang "When I am Baptized" (Rainbows) with her.  Then we enjoyed the beautiful Fall day with a picnic lunch.  Since then she has been busily recording everything in her baptism journal.  Everything was so special, we wish you all could have been there.  She even wore the dress I wore for my baptism.  I love it when my kids make good choices!!  

Check out the licorice sword fight.

Look what we can do!

The girls have been getting much more adventurous the last few weeks. Lily and Maren have learned to climb the little tree in the back yard. I am scared of having more broken arms but I and not stopping their progress. Lily was very proud of herself tonight writing her name all alone. She called me in and said "Mom you're gonna love this" She must be practicing a lot when I am not around because when I ask her to write letters they look nothing like this. The last picture shows true life every day for us...Cute as can be and equally ornery.

picture update

Cousins are awesome!!

When do we get to play again?

We miss all of you!!!

Our Bird Story

Hello Bird Family.  We have started a blog for the Jackson & Rachel Bird family.  You can link to the blog site by several ways.  Either you can click on the link in the contributor column on this blog under Rachel - Arkansas or you can visit http://www.birdsatheart.blogspot.com/ and check us out.  I recently uploaded pictures from Jackson's recent elk hunt.  We want to do a better job keeping everyone updated on our lives and let you see pictures of our cute and growing family.  We love you all.

Hansen Happenings

Marie loves to smile for the camera.

She was so happy to have everyone so focused on her. She didn't like the hat much but the girls wouldn't let her take it off. So she tolerated it here.


Almost a month ago now Marie had her first birthday. What a fast year that was. The cake was delicious, of course chocolate. I love choosing everyone's treat flavors. Marie loved eating it and loved spearing it around to make the mess even more. We celebrated with friends at the Zoo and water park on her birthday and then Sunday had more friends to eat cake with us. Fun times.
We just got home from this years Stake Fall Festival. Peter felt good enough he manned our ward ball toss booth while the girls and I played for 3 hours. We played in the Scooby Dooo jumping booth, watched kids get dunked in the dunk tank, went Velcro fishing, played the cupcake walk and got faces painted. Lily was so happy to have a beautiful butterfly face. Maren liked getting her face painted but just kept wanting more so they gave her a ring and faked several other places on her face until she was satisfied. Funny girls. I am totally pooped!