Funny!

I was just talking to Jenn about this today and I cannot get it out of my head... I was asking her if she thought her b/f would like to go white water rafting. (Tim and I might go for our anny) Anyway Jenn said no he doesn't like the outdoors. But he does like games he is very competitive, so I told her we could turn it into a weekend long Survivor. They they would have to build a fire and catch fish with there bare hands... there are all kinds of things I could come up with. Then I told her that we (her and I) would be wearing coconut bras and cheering out men on. LOL! It would be super fun.

Holiday Card.

Here is our Holiday card for those of you who didn't get to see it. All of the pictures were taken by Lisa a friend of mine. I think she did a great job and if anyone is interested I would be glad to give you her info... I know she does weddings and family photos.

The Great Gift Exchange!

Ok so I don't know about you guys but for Tim and I this year money is tight... I came across a great site that I think will help all of my family to save money this holiday season and still have a lot of fun. I am partaking in a online book club gift exchange and they are using a site called elfster. Pretty much it is an online way to set up a gift exchange. I am hoping over Thanksgiving to talk my family into doing this. I feel like I would much rather spend $50 or $60 on one really nice gift for some one then try and spend $10 on impersonal gifts for every person. I have been looking at the site and it is pretty easy to use... you set up your own guide lines for the gift exchange like : Gift exchange date, spending limit, theme (if you want one). The person who sets up the exchange enters every one's e-mail address and then the elfster will send out an e-mail to each person telling them who they are to buy for. Each person has there own account and can put in there shipping address (for people out of town) and notes about what they do or don't like. There is also a wish list where you can mention things that you would like to receive. Another cool thing about this site is you can ask your person questions through elfster if you need a better idea of what to get them. I am really hoping that everyone goes for this idea this year. I think it will be a lot of fun and save us all a lot of money.

Here is the site if anyone wants to check it out!

www.elfster.com

Wonderful Pumpkin Weekend

The Hanson family had a wonderful weekend of carving pumpkins. Tim's dad Rob came up for a visit. Friday he spent the day with Shannon seeing the sights in Washington Dc... from what they said they had a wonderful time. Saturday Tim and his dad went to play around of golf with Jon and George. They rain did hold out for a bit but I think they only got 14 or 15 holes in. But they still had a great time. Lily and I didn't do to much on Sat while the guys were golfing... Saturday evening was nice. After Tim and his dad returned home soaking wet from there golf game Shannon came down. We had a nice family dinner and after that we all cleared the table and carved pumpkins. I put Lily in her Halloween outfit, thinking that I would be able to get some cute pictures but no luck she wasn't really in to the pumpkins this year. She didn't like the feel of the pumpkin guts lol. All the pumpkins did turn out really well. Oh also I made my first but surely not my last pumpkin pie this year. We ended the night playing cards and eating pie. It was really nice to have a family night with Rob and Shannon. Sunday Rob treated use all for lunch before he headed back down the road to Florida.

We don't have a whole lot going on this week but are looking forward to Saturday. Lily is going to a toddler Halloween party that one of the parents from our daycare is having. Tim and I really enjoy watching Lily play and interact with other kids her age.

OK so it had been FOREVER

I know it has been like 5 months almost 1/2 a year since a last wrote... what can I say I have been busy... not really I have been lazy when it comes to blogging. I wish I would have kept up with it better.

Life is good all is well. Tim and I are doing wonderful and Lily continues to grow and enrich our lives every day. She just turned a year old on Oct 4th. Tim and I hosted a Picnic in the Park themed birthday party for her. It was a lot of fun, the weather was great and lots of her friends from the daycare showed up. We all really enjoyed watching Lily play with her friends. She is not only walking but running now. She talks a lot but doesn't say many words. She does say Dadada da all the time and also out side. haha Lily and Bristol are great friends and share many meals together lol.

Life is good!

Where does time go?

Ok so I know it has been a month since the last time I wrote on here. I just don't seem to have much to say anymore. I could write all about Lily but even that get old after a while. I think I am in a new mom slump. There have been lots of new things going on.

Lily is 7 months old today... and so far we are both still alive so Tim and I must be doing something right lol. She is growing right along. She weighs about 17 lbs and has recently taken up LOW CRAWLING. Yeah she does the best Army low crawl I have ever seen. I think soon she will be getting up on her Knees. Tim and I find ourselves running around picking up all of the dogs toys. Those seem to be her favorite things to play with. I don't know if any of you have seen Bristol's chew toys but they are not exactly the cleanest lol.

Last weekend I stopped nursing Lily. It was a hard decision to make but I felt it was time. I have been sharing my body for the last 15 months or so it is time to take it back. I am hoping now that I have stopped nursing that I will be able to shed a few pounds. While nursing I was hungry all the time. This first week went ok, I got really sick with a sinus infection so I didn't have much time or energy to think about nursing. Lily doesn't seem to notice that we have stopped nursing. She will still continue to get brestmilk for another week or two because I had such a great freezer stash. We have already started mixing in some formula with her bottles so when we change over it will not be a drastic change.

Tim and I are planning a trip to Vegas in early Sept. We are going for his 30th birthday. That is right Tim is going to be 30 years old this year. Again how time flies. I meant Tim 6 days before my 21st birthday and I will be 28 this year. Also this month is our 4 yr anniversary. It doesn't seem like we have been married for 4 years already but I guess that is a good thing. Well that is about it for me.

I will try harder to do more on my blog, sorry guys.

Motivation

I have no motivation! I really want to lose weight because I am just tired of the way my body looks. I know that I will never have the same body I had before I had Lily and I am ok with that. I thought breastfeeding was going to help me lose weight but I am hungry all the time. I mean ALL the time. Lily will be 6 months on Sat so I am thinking of weaning her but I feel like the only reason I want to do that is so I can start to diet.


HELP!

List

Ok so I saw that Erin make a list on her blog so I am going to make one.

List of things I miss about my life before baby.

Shopping ( yes I still shop but it isn't the same)
Pre-baby body
Staying up late and sleeping in
Seeing my friends all of the time
Spending lazy afternoons sleeping
Getting up only 15 minutes before I have to leave the house for work.
Not having to plan every thing.

Update....

Well I find my self pretty busy with day to day life and I have forgotten to blog... So sorry. Lets see what is new with me? Well not a whole lot I guess, Tim and I are doing well we are planing a trip to Vegas in late Aug or Sept. Tim will be 30 this year. Oh how time flys, and we are coming up on our 4 yr anniversary in May. It is hard to believe we have been married 4 yrs already. We just got a copy of our wedding video in the mail the other day from my Uncle Paul. (Thanks for all of your hard work.) Tim and I look so young and silly in our video but it was fun to watch. I forgot just how much dancing we did... lol.

Work is going well for Tim and I both we are lucky that way with some many people losing there jobs. I really feel for all of the families out there.

Lily is wonderful as always. She will be 6 months old in just about a week or so. It seems just like yesterday that Tim and I were wondering if she was ever going to come out lol. When Lily was born I set a goal to breastfeed for 6 months and I am so close to making it and I am really proud of my self. I really think that this has been one of the hardest things I have had to do. There has been lots of ups and downs but with lots of support from Tim, family and friends I have been able to successfully nurse. I am not sure when I will be done nursing, I thought when the 6 month mark hit I would be ready but now that it is just about her and things are going pretty well for us I am thinking about continuing for a few more months. I don't know if I will be able to make it a whole year but we will see.

Here are some of the new things Lily can do.
Roll over front to back and back to front.
Sit up by her self for a few minutes.
laugh (it melts your heart)
Reach for things.
Has 2 teeth and is getting a third.

I am sure I am forgetting lots of things.


The other kids (Tina and Bristol) are doing well. They are still really a big part of our family and Tim and I try to make sure that we give them plenty of attention. Tina really loves Lily and Lily loves Tina's bark and her tail. Bristol just loves Lily's toys haha he things they should all be his. Now that Lily is starting to eat some foods the dogs are starting to pay more attention to her. Bristol just turned 3 in Jan and Tina will be 6 this year...

Oh so now I am totally into face book I love how easy it is to put pictures up so that is why I haven't been putting as many up here. I have been trying to talk Jenn in to getting a face book but she doesn't see the need. So I think we should all commit on her blog telling her to get a face book account.

Weight Loss Site

Hey check out this free weight loss site it is a lot like Weight Watchers only it is free... So far I like it.

www.sparkpeople.com

How Does That Feel?

Ok, I know that I am not a small person and really for the most part I am ok with that... But Monday I went in to my OBGYN for one of my checks ups and the nurse that called me back is new there and I have had her once before and she got my chart mixed up with some one else so I already didn't care for her too much. Well I go to the bathroom, get my BP taken and then I have to get on the scale. This is the same thing I have to do every time I go in, no big deal. Well after I get off the scale this nurse is saying my weight out loud as she is writing it down in my chart and really I am ok with that but she says it 3 times and then looks as me and says "How does that feel?" There are like 2 or 3 other nurses standing around in this area. I said "How does what feel?" She said "How does it feel to weight ###?" Is it just me or was she way out of line? Am I so big that she cannot even imagine what it must feel like to weight that much to the point where she just has to ask? I told her" It feels great now that you have announced to everyone in the area several times!" I mean really what was she expecting me to say. Oh it feels great to be as big as a house thanks for pointing it out. I mean this girl works with pg women all day long is she that rude to all of the peoples charts she pulls or did I just get lucky.

From Cindy's Blog

This is called a Google image meme - and I tag anyone reading this blog to do it too! The rules are, answer each question, plug your answer into Google image search and pick a picture from the first page of your search results. No cheating!

Age on your next birthday

A place you'd like to visit

Your favorite place

Your favorite object

Your favorite food

Your favorite animal

Your favorite color

Town you were born

Town where you live now

Name of past pet

Name of past love

Name of best friends

Your screen name

Your first name

Your middle name

Your last name

Bad habit of yours

Your first job


Your grandmothers name

Your current love

Addicted To eBay

Here are some of the things I have won on eBay...

Glider with Ottoman in black

I got this for 150.00 with Shipping and in the stores they are like 250.00 so I saved 100.00. It should be here any day...

Pottery Barn Purple Grace Floral Fitted Crib Sheet

I got this for like $7.00, it is the one on the very bottom on the right side.

Ivory EGYPTIAN 1200TC Cotton SHEET SET

I got these for Jenn as a gift for getting a new better roommate... with shipping and everything they were under $50.00, this was a great great deal.

Things are Changing

Well, things are changing at the Hanson house. My sister-in-law will be moving this weekend. She found a really nice newly remodeled apartment for her and Pearl. Well will have a busy weekend helping her move and getting her settled in. I know she is really looking forward to having her own place. Also my father-in-law Rob will be up to help with the move. It will be nice to see him. I think that last time we saw him was last May at Shannon's graduation. I know Tim misses his dad and really looks forward to seeing him. So everyone please wish Shannon good luck in her new apartment. I will have to see if she will be up for having a house warming party, maybe some time in May.

Also Tim is going to start painting some of the rooms in our house. We plan to start transforming the office into baby Hanson's bedroom. I am still not sure what colors I want to do in there. I think we are going to try and paint the guess bedroom, guess bathroom and the soon to be nursery. Tim makes it sound so easy but to me it seems like a big task. haha But Tim is really good at fixing things around the house, painting and hanging pictures. That is one of the things I love about him.

Guess Bedroom
I am thinking about doing a slat blue in the guess bedroom, it has white carpet...which if I ever pick out carpet for a house I will never have white again. What a pain. I will see if I can find some pictures to put up like Erin did of the colors I like. I will have to accent with white but what other color should I accent with. I don't want to much white in there b/c I don't want people who stay in there to feel uncomfortable. You know what I mean.

Guess Bathroom
I would like to do a coco/rich sand color ( I am making up the color names haha) on the walls and maybe accent with a rust color, here again any ideals will be great.

Nursery
If we go ahead and paint the walls a tan color we can go back and do a boarder of pale lavender for a girl or a soft ocean blue/green for a boy. Maybe get dark wood for the crib. Thses are just some of the ideas I have. I would love to hear every one's ideas.

Thanks

P.S. For some of you who haven't seen me in a while my belly is starting to stick out... I feel like it is way noticeable but I am sure most people just think I have been eating to much haha which could be part of it lol. Oh I also think that I am starting to fell the baby move which is really crazy. I am not 100% sure that is what it is but there is something going on in there.

Spring!!!

I hope everyone is looking forward to the Spring as much as I am.

I am still alive

I had to take a bit of a break from blogging. Tim and I have had a rough few weeks but things are getting back to normal. I have been thinking about what I was going to write in the post for a few days now, b/c there has been so much going on and I wasn't sure if I wanted to share it with everyone. But I feel like I should that way I can talk openly about my feelings. I mean this is my blog so I should be able to write about anything I want right?

I know that I posted a few months ago that Tim and were not going to be trying to have a baby but that we were not going to be preventing it either. Well back on Oct 11Th Tim and I found out that I was pregnant. I had very mixed emotions about it b/c just the day before we learned that my sister was going to be having a baby in April. I was a bit upset when I found out that my sister was going to have a baby b/c she is so young but I also feel like it is really important to try and support her through this. So yeah I was a bit mixed about how I felt about being pregnant. Tim was over joyed with the news, he has been on the baby kick for a while now. We had a doctors appointment on the 18Th and it went well the doctor seemed to think that everything was fine even though I had some light spotting. That weekend Tim and I had the girls ( my two sisters) at the house and we had told then about me being pregnant. They both were pretty happy for me and I was starting to really come around to the idea my self. However on Sunday the 21st I started bleeding really bad and had to go to the ER. They took blood test and did an ultrasound. They didn't see anything and my HGC levels came back really low. They told me I was having a natural miscarriage and there wasn't anything they could do for me. They sent me home and a few hours later I passed a really large blood clot, I was only about 5 weeks a long. (I am sure this is TMI) After that I started feeling much better but Tim and I were every upset. But at the same time we are glad that we didn't share our pregnancy with a lot of people because it was pretty hard to tell the people we had told that we had loss the pregnancy. I know in my heart that everything happens for a reason and when it is met to be for Tim and I we will be and if anything we will be more grateful. I have been lucky to find a board that I can post on with other women that have had unsuccessful pregnancies and that has really helped. I also would like to thank the few people that knew what Tim and I were going through and supported us. I am sure that we would have had support from all of our family and friends, but we just were not ready to share the news. I hope all of you who we didn't tell will understand.

Wonderful Weekend.

Tim and I had a great weekend, we spent the weekend at E&J's. They went out of town for a wedding, Tim and I got to watch S&J. They were great. We really didn't have any tears all weekend. We also had Bristol with us. I think Bristol enjoyed the kids just as much as they enjoyed him. Over all it was a wonderful weekend.

Too Cute

Just when I didn't think she could get any cuter!!!!

Just a note

Sorry I haven't had much to write about, other then working my butt off at the gym only to turn about and find my butt still hanging on lol. Tim is home this week and I really enjoy having him around. Tim is thinking about changing jobs here pretty soon. He would be working like 10 minutes from where I work so we could car pool. I really hope he does take the job I think that he will be much happier there and it will be nice to not have him on the road all the time. Although I am not really sure if we will get sick of each other after a few weeks lol j/k. It will just be so nice to know that we can make plans and not have to worry weather or not Tim will be in town. Also he will not have to miss any more meeting with the trainer. We have one tonight. Yesterday I got up and felt good, you know I wasn't too sore. We went swimming last night for our cardio and when I got up this morning I could really feel it. So now I am really sore but I will be going back tonight. Oh and let me tell you I so need a new bathing suit. I was super glad that there wasn't to many people in the pool area when Tim and I were there because my bathing suit was way to small and it was old so it was really stretched out. By the time I would swim from one end to the other it looked like I was wearing a thong lol. I had Tim get out of the pool before me and bring my towel over to no one would see me when I got out of the pool. So I think I will have to get a new swimsuit before I plan on going back to the pool.

Working Out and Feeling Good

Ok I know that I am only a few days into my new work out program. But I feel great, a bit sore but great. I had kind of a hard day yesterday and I went to the gym and afterwards I felt much better. I have been eating better and I think that it will start paying off soon. Poor Tim is not having such a good time. He had to miss our first two sessions with the trainer because he is still in NY. Also he had to move to a new hotel and this one doesn't have a kitchen or even a small refrigerator. It is so hard to eat healthy when you have to eat every signal meal out. But he has been working out on his own and trying to make good choices. I think things will be easier for him when he gets back. Which we hope will be this weekend, but we don't know for sure. I guess they will tell him tomorrow or Friday if he will have to stay up there for another week. Oh I have to put pictures up of Tina and Bristol, when I was in NY last weekend I found some really cute pet Halloween costumes. So they are now ready for Halloween.