January 2009

January 3, 2009

Dallin's B-day Party

While the Hansen's were here to visit over Christmas break, we celebrated Dallin's B-day. We met at Chuck E Cheese and the kids had a blast.



January 10, 2009

Brinlee Ears Pierced

When you turn 8 at our house you get to have your ears pierced, Brinlee has been waiting for years. She was so excited. Me and her had a date to the mall two whole days before her birthday. She got a little nervous right before it happened but she didn't move at all while they were doing it. She was so brave. She just beamed teh rest of the day.




January 12, 2009

Brinlee turns 8

I can't believe eight years ago Brinlee came into our family. She is a delight to be around and is so talented. She is the definite Drama Queen at our house. Her birthday was kind of crazy because so many of the girls had dance, but we got together for dinner at One Man Band (amazing breakfast food). And then home for presents.



January 17, 2009

Dancing with Thayne

Thayne Jasperson taught a master class at the dance studio and Kelsie and Rachel got to take the class. He is one of their favorite contestants from "So You Think You Can Dance". He is from Utah and has taught the girls before he was on the show. So it was fun to be in his class again. Brinlee wasn't old enough to take the class, but the director asked me to come take photos so she came to watch. So of course we had to get her picture with him too.





January 18, 2008

Brinlee's Family B-day Party

One of the things Brinlee wanted for her birthday was to have her b-day party at the new house. We were almost ready to move in, but not quite. But the day before our couches had been delivered, so Dad gave the go ahead to have it there. We ate dinner at Grandma's then came to the new house for the party. She was so excited. Before dinner we hung out at the new house for awhile and we got these awesome pictures of the kids in our fake trees in the playroom. They had so much fun climbing in the trees (they now have leaves in them and we can't climb them like this anymore). Climbing the trees wore Kyle out and he fell asleep on the couch. So cute.












January 23, 2009

First Night at New House

This is the first night the whole family slept at the new house. We used our girl power to get the mattresses in the truck (with a little help from Jason he hurt his back earlier so it was mostly just us girls). Then my dad, brother and some friends helped us load them in the new house. We were all really excited to be in the new house finally!!





(Kelsie got home later and I forgot to get a pic of her in her room, oops)

January 24, 2009

Breakfast at the New House



Bubble Wrap!!

The new tv came wrapped in tons of bubble wrap. Kelsie put it down in the entry way and started dancing. Soon everybody was dancing on it. They had a blast. Kyle wasn't sure about the loud noise at first. But we gave him time to dance by himself and then he was having so much fun and he let everyone join in again. Who knew you can get such cheap entertainment.








January 30, 2009

Rachel's Science Fair

Rachel participated in the Deerfield Elementary Science Fair, she did her project about testing pool water. Her dad found her a sample of yucky pool water and she used different combinations of chemicals and a paper towel filter to see what would clean it the best. She got an award for the most creative project at school, and moved on to the next level. She won an award at the district fair as well and moved on to the state competition. When Jason went to set up her project at the state competition she got disqualified because we had not bought the algae sample. Weird huh? Where do you buy algae anyway? Oh well, she did a great job and had fun doing it with her daddy.



January 31, 2009

Brinlee's Baptism

Brinlee made the choice to officially become a member of our church. We are so proud of her for making this decision. Her daddy baptised her. She looked so beautiful in her white dress. Our new stake center shares the parking lot with the Temple and she had been planning for weeks to have her picture taken at the temple. It was a great day. Everyone came back to the house afterwards for pizza and we visited for a long time. That night Brinlee got to go on a date with Jason and I, she picked Olive Garden to eat. Then we went and did a little shopping for the Super Bowl Party the next day.