And the Newest Member of our Family is....

So I'm sitting at home tonight waiting for Lantz and Jace to get home from Jace's football practice. When they got home Lantz came in and then Jace came in with what is now the newest member of the Hansen family...

This is Maximus...the new addition to our family

Maximus is a 7 1/2 week old beagle who belonged to Lantz's sister Tarahne. She was nice and sweet enough to let us have him. We are so excited to have him. He is the cutest thing. The boys have been wanting a dog for so long and so have I. Dane was to the point that he was willing to give up all and any Christmas just to have a puppy. It has been a fun night playing with him and getting him accustom to our house. So now the fun of obedience and potty training gets to start and during the day that job gets to be up to Daddy. One thing is for sure this puppy will not be attention deprived. Thank you Tarahne for allowing us to be a family for Maximus.

Thank You Food Network...

So a few nights before Halloween we were all watching the Food Network (we love that channel). They were having a pumpkin carving contest. It was very very cool. They had three different categories and these pumpkin carvers were awesome. Well in Elementary the kids get a voucher for a free pumpkin at Winegars. So I took Dane to get his pumpkin because he wanted to do one that was like the cool ones on t.v. Well for those of you who don't know Lantz's dad is an artist (a very very good one). Well Dane called Grandpa while we were watching the show and they decided they would do one together like the guys on the show. Lantz took Dane over to his dads house on Halloween and for an hour and a half they sculpted and carved Dane's pumpkin. It turned out really good. Dane was very very happy with it, and doing it with Grandpa made it even better.

It's a Dog!!

Ok so we don't use candles we use flashlights...

Dane looks so tired in that picture because we had been at Lagoon all night. This year instead of going trick-or-treating we took the kids to Lagoon. It was great because we didn't ever have to wait in a line. We also had my sister Shelby and her BFF Kari come with us too. It was nice to have them there with us. Neither of the kids are really fond of roller coasters but we have been trying to get them to so that we can eventually go to Six Flags or something. So I told them that they had to go on either the white roller coaster or the Colossus (I know mean huh). Well they decided to go on the white roller coaster. That was an experience. Dane held onto my so tight I thought my arm was going to fall off and I think I may be deaf from the screaming. Jace...well he got really sick. Sick enough that he didn't go on any other rides all night long. I felt really bad. So Shelby finally got Dane to go on the Spider (which I was really surprised that he agreed) and he LOVED it!!! He went with Shelby probably five times. Lantz tried all night long to get Shelby to go on either wicked or colossus but she hates those kinds of rides. So what does Lantz do?? Picks her up and drags her all the way almost in tears on the colossus. The whole time all I was thinking is 'oh great, she will never want to come with us again' Well she actually did really good and would probably go on it again now all by herself. Good job Shelby!! I think this may become a new Halloween ritual instead of trick-or-treating (until we have a little one to take around!) It was a really good Halloween this year!

Field Trip Day...

So last week I had the privilege of going with Dane on his field trip to Kennecott Copper Mine. I have lived in Utah my whole life and have never been there (I know not very Utahan). When Dane brought home the paper for the field trip he asked if I could get off work to come with them. Then the next question was "can Grandma and Aunt Alyssa come too?" (For those of you who don't know Alyssa is my sister and this Grandma was my mom). So just like a good Grandma she arranged her schedule to go with us. Alyssa who goes to college at Utah State drove home to go with us on the field trip (such a good Aunt). When I told Dane that they were both coming he was so excited he told everyone. So we met early in the morning and followed the bus all the way out to Kennecott...or we were supposed to follow the bus. K so I am a very impatient person and didn't want to follow the bus the whole way down (why do 65 mph on the freeway when you can easily go 80 without getting caught?) So I followed another group of mom's cause they knew how to get there and I didn't. So when we got down to 90th south we pulled off the side of the road and waited for the bus...or so we thought we were waiting for the bus. We waited for about 10-15 min and no bus. So we drove up to the gate and the 'friendly' gate man told us that the bus was already there (next time I will learn patience and follow the bus!) So when we got the visitor center the kids were in a movie so we waited until the movie was over and the kids came out. The first thing Dane said was "so you finally made it?" Well come to find out the bus driver knew a short cut to the mine. So after that we got to spend time in the gift shop, visitor center, and looking at the mine.


It was really dusty that day so we had a hard time seeing the bottom

Dane and Alyssa

Me and Dane

Me, Dane, and Grandma (next time we won't let Alyssa take the pictures!) This is the big tires that they put on the giant dumptrucks. They are huge!

It was a really fun fieldtrip. Thank you Mom and Alyssa for coming with us.

Finally A Blogger!!

So i have finally joined the club. I am officially a Blogger (K that sounds funny). Lantz and the boys have been telling me to do it for a while (guess it's more of a lazy thing!). So I came home the other night from work and Lantz said "I have started a blog for ya..." so here it is. I have had the blog for about a week but I am a retard and had to have Amy come help me figure it out (I am not very computer literate) and she did so here we go.
I don't really know where to start...I don't think I will go back through everything that has happened this year maybe a couple of highlights.
This wasn't really a highlight, but I had miscarriage in May. Definitely the hardest thing that I have ever gone through. Thank heavens for a WONDERFUL family and Awesome friends.
In June Lantz and I got sealed in the Logan Temple. It was the best day of my life! Don't get me wrong I loved my wedding day but now I have him FOREVER and that takes all!!!
We went to Yellowstone with my family in July. We love to go to Yellowstone...it's pretty much going to be an annual thing.
In August we went deer hunting for the bow hunt. It was way fun! We always have a good time going. This year had its good things (we borrowed my parents tent trailer, no sleeping on the ground this year!) and it's bad things....no Amy, and Lantz missed his big deer (he wasn't the only one that missed the same one).
Since August our whole lives have pretty much revolved around football for the boys. They both had practice every day and a game every Saturday. Both of their teams took first place in their groups and went to the playoffs. They both lost in the playoffs but we are still very very proud of them. Jace's team is playing in Boarder Wars in Salt Lake the next couple of weekends. We hope they do great. So football is almost over and we can get back to a semi normal life.
Well that's about where we are at to this point....I guess you all will be caught up from this point forward. I will try my hardest to be a good blogger and not disappoint!