Handy Man Carl........

When we found out that Ethan was joining our family we had to try and figure out where to put the little guy. Caleb wasn't super excited about sharing his room with a newborn and we only had 3 bedrooms upstairs with a loft. So my super duper handy husband drew up some plans to convert our loft into a bedroom for Ethan and to add a new loft above the vaulted formal living room. Be prepared for TONS of pictures but I am pretty amazed and proud of the job that he did. It was hard living in a construction zone but he seriously did the whole project in about 2 months. He spent every weekend on it and often worked until midnight durring the week. I found out that kids can sleep through an air compressor going off, drill guns and lots of hammering and sawing.
Front room before

New ceiling in formal living room.

Hallway to the new loft area

Building Ethans closet

Ethans new room.

Picnic with the Family

Between sessions on Conference Sunday we took the kiddos for a picnic and a hike up by the river. It was a beautiful, sunny day here and our family in Utah was getting snowed on.

He is as tall as me now!

Go A's

Ashlee is the only one playing baseball this season since Caleb is on a traveling basketball team and Syd is doing tap. Her team this year is the A's. She is doing awesome.

basketball 2010-2011

Caleb made his 7th grade basketball team this year and also played on the City Rec team, so for about 4 months we had ALOT of basketball around here. He did really good and had a great season. He's 5'6" now with size 10.5 feet.

Ethans First Photo Shoot

Ethan had his first photo shoot when he was 5 days old. Once again my beautiful friends did an amazing job. He was such a good boy and they got some fantastic shots of him.

Ethan Charsley Hansen

My amazing friend Misty has shamed me. She seriously had her sweet baby boy last Tuesday and has already blogged the hospital photos of him. I am only 11 weeks behind which is about my speed these days. We are officially a family of "6" now. Ethan Charsley Hansen was born on January 30, 2011. He weighed 8 lbs 10.5 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. Keeping in the Hansen tradition this little guy wasn't due until February 17th and his scheduled c-section was on February 10. So he was pretty huge for being 2 1/2 weeks early.

Baby Shower

I have filled my life with amazing and talented friends and my baby shower was no exception. Tami and Melanie had a joint baby shower for Misty and I back in January. Tami seriously is not only an amazing photographer, she does hair and should really consider a party planning business. She does such a great job decorating and coming up with way cute ideas. Combined with Melanie's amazing baking ability the shower was awesome. I got some really great things for Ethan too. Having a 6 year gap between kids I pretty much got rid of all my baby stuff so I am extremely grateful for all the gifts and the wonderful friends that I have.



Nan was here for the shower, I am so lucky to have such an awesome mother in law.

Mel and Penny.

I sure do love these girls!! ( I delivered Ethan a week later so that is my defense for the ginormous belly)