A Colorful site to see!

Watching in Awe.... Addie saw these.......

drifting right over her!


This one was in honor of Tyler's Dad.....

Smile and have a Coke!

(I'm pretty sure i saw that on a t-shirt!!!!)

Indianola Hot Air Ballon Festival

So many fun Ballons to see! Addie has asked me

everyday since we went to go see the ballons again

to bad she will have to wait until next year.

Lovin life to it's fullest!

This little guy is always so happy!

Daddy and Addie watching the ballons launch.

And a Fireworks show to top off the night!

Addie even got to watch them while sitting on top of the van....

very exciting in her little world!

Waiting for the show to begin!

(Trey fell asleep right before they started)

I wanted to spend one of Ty's last "stress free" saturdays doing

something or going somewhere fun with our little family as

Daddy will start into school full swing this week with tests and all.

We love you Daddy and loved spending our weekend with you!

The Sweetest thing

Good things come to those who wait......

I had my eye on some sergers at walmart that they

were clearencing out but they kept dropping the price so

i kept waiting. To my disappointment they were all

gone the next time I had gone to check on them...DARN

I waited to long! I had mentioned this bummer deal to a good friend

of mine on a friday night when we were hanging out

and didn't think anymore about it. Saturday morning

I got a phone call from this sweet friend (who is a garage

sale queen) and like music to my ears she said,

"I found a Serger for only $35 at a garage sale

do you want me to get it for you?"

And my response.......

YES! YES! YES!

Thanks Rach you made my day!

( Side note: I wasn't home when Rach dropped it off so the sweet awesome husband that i have took the time while watching both kids to get the serger out, thread it for me, and have it all ready to go so when i got home it would be ready for me to try out! Gotta love that man!)

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St. George Part II

Heres a snapshot of some things we did at the Hansen Reunion in Duck Creek!

Following a fun filled days playing in the pool we headed over to Tyler's house for the last leg of our trip. We had fun at the slpash pad with all of Addie's cousins and spent way too long finding and buying that new camera!

It happened to be Ty's family reunion and so we headed up inot the mountains to Duck Creek. We had a blast playing oin the 4 - wheelers, doinng crafts, paintballing and just hanging out with the family. We all felt just like Addie when she said first thing upon getting out of the van "I love the mountains!"

We had a blast visting family and was able to see al of my brothers and sisters just before we left for the long haul home. Driving through the night is so much harder when you know you are going back to normal life and another year of Medical School for Ty.

WE LOVE OUR FAMILY!!!!

Surprise visit to St. George Part 1

Yeah for Surprises...I guess Tyler and I are just

full of surprises, sadly enough i think our streak of

surprises will simmer down a bit. We decided to

surprise all our family and make the 19 hour drive

to St. George. We drove through the night which was great

but so exhausting. When we arrived in st.george

we stopped first at Ty's parents house for the "big surprise"

then continued on to some of Ty's siblings that live near by.

After that we ventured over to my parents house where

we then surprised them and stayed for the first

part of our trip.

Grandma Rosie and Grandpa Dave have a pool so

we did a lot of swimming while we where there.

Tyler also got in on the Pickleball action

on the new court my parents just put in in another part

of their back yard.

Addie doing the pool surf

Trey loved being in the pool.

And then we bought this. And because we

bought this its going to take me a little bit

to figure out how to get the pictures from the rest of our

trip on the blog.

A milestone for Trey

On wednesday July 22nd Trey rolled over all by himself for the first time and has been doing it ever since. He's loving his new found ability but doesn't seem to enjoy to consequence of it...(being on his belly for too long). Now he's just go to figure our how to get back over! Sorry no pics to prove it they will come sooner than later...hopefully.

Fun in Pella

While my parents were here for Treys blessing

we ventured over to Pella, Iowa. It is such a cute

little town and we really had a fun time enjoying pastries,

learning about and touring the windmill, and shopping

in the cute little dutch shops that line the brick streets

of down town Pella!

Grandma Rosie and Addie
Addie was absolutely enthralled with this
clock that chimed and played music every
other hour along with figurines that would
come out and dance to the tune. I have never
seen her sit so still for so long so i took lots
of pictures of addie still.




And of course Trey boy was just a little happy
camper the whole time!


Some good stuff in this place
we kept going back for more!


Just a cute water mill
and Addie and I.

Dutch Shoes

Grandpa Dave doing what he does best....

sharing "sweets" with the grand kids!

The pastries were really good.

My Favorite candid shot during the trip!

This is actually a functioning Windmill

they grind flour in it everyday except Tuesdays...

the day we just happened to be there. But it was still

fun to go up to the top and see the grinding mill and

learn about the unique qualities of a windmill.

If you have a saturday or any day with nothing to do

i recommend heading out to Pella it is only an

hour away and well worth it!