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!

33 weeks and husbandless:(

Today I am 33 weeks and next week I have an ultra sound with my specialist! I'm so excited to see my sweet little boy again but sad that Matt has to miss out. I don't know if everyone knows this yet but Matt had to go on a TDY(kind of like a mini deployment) as soon as we got back from Montana. He is in California at Edwards AFB. They keep having some set backs and are a week behind schedule. He hopes things will get better so that way he doesn't have to catch a last minute plane home to come meet his new little boy! If all goes well he should be home in the middle of Sept so keep us in your prayers!! For now I'm just trying to keep myself busy and make this baby hold off until daddy gets home! We love and miss you all very much! Hope everyone is doing much better!!

Stress Reliever

We dressed up for all of 20 minutes to celebrate Pioneer Day. But the girls thought it was fun. We took Mom to the zoo and found a new place where we could feed the Lorakeets. The girls thought it was fun and wanted to hold them like the baby chickens at Peters brothers house. The birds thought Moms hair was the perfect perch. Marie kept reaching for all the birds in the tree but never saw the ones a foot away from her. Thanks for coming to help and entertain us Mom. I love you. Peter is about the same as he was when we left Missouri. He is going to physical therapy 3 times a week and will see a neurosurgeon soon. So hopefully things will start to improve more quickly.

Easton's Blessing

Sherry found James' blessing outfit for Easton to wear.  It fits him really well, it's just funny for our fourth son to get the outfit instead of the first.  We sure are glad to pass it on though.  James, Grandpa Bird, Uncle Isaac, President Turner, and a friend Bro. Nichols were in the circle.  It was a very special blessing.
This makes me think of the song "Fathers Are So Special . . . with a very special love."

Easton is our biggest baby which is probably a good thing.  With his crazy, rowdy, older siblings he will have to hold his own.  It's neat to see how similar each baby is and yet how different.  Each spirit is so special and individual, but as far as looks, they've all got MCKAY stamped in their genes.

It is such an amazing blessing to have a family.  Knowing we are sealed for eternity makes every day more full of joy.  We love you! 

A CAST!!

Those stinking monkeybars!!  We must have forgotten to feed Addie her banana because she wasn't very monkey like.  She fell on her wrist on Sat.  It wasn't feeling any better on Tues. so we took her in.  It was a small crunched area on the outside of her wrist.  That was 2 weeks ago.  All they had was white casts, a little disappointing for Addie.  So her artist mother used it like a canvas.  She loves it and is excited to show it to everyone.  She let her family and some of her friends sign the back.  Today she went to get it checked with James and came home with just a little brace.  The doc said it was healed enough to let her swim and that way she wouldn't miss out on too much summer.  I think that was the easiest and shortest cast and am thankful for a healthy happy family.  She said "Now she has something fun for show and tell next school year."

Hospital Peter

You can get a photo play-by-play of the water baseball game on Peter's sister Katie's blog at http://deargoodness.blogspot.com She got a shot of Peter on the ground just after the fall. These pictures were taken after the first couple days. You can see how much Lily had been missing and worried about her Daddy. You can just see the facial slackness and eye problems in these pics.
His blood thinness is finally in the correct range. It just needs to stay there and he will be able to be released. I can't wait to get back to my own house, but I am so glad this happened by his family instead of in Kentucky.

We made it back from vacation in colorado. We had a great time. The highlight was floating down the Arkansas River. We found a rafting company that would take Bowen even though he is only 4 (they said the youngest age was 5), but since he wasn't scared of water and fit in the life jacket they took us. We did a 14 mile float over a lot of rapids. At one point Bowen - who was dressed as a giant banana in his yellow wet suit- said "Now this is what I call white water rafting, let's get this show on the road!". He said this as we were going through the 'shark tooth' rapids, it was so rough our paddles would not reach the water! Brendan and Brice had a blast too. Brice had a wet suit on too and looked like a skinny little walking stick - he was funny.

We had lots of fun and are now dreading going back to work.