Static archive of a family blog, 2008–2017. This blog is no longer active.
family blog, 2008–2017
The last week has been hard for me. Not for any particular reason but a combination of a few things here and there; mostly just life. Anyways, I was thinking how I could help pick myself backup. I thought about visiting my friend Danyale and…
Chad has a co-worker that has seemingly everything. Him and his wife bought a very nice house 5 minutes away from both sets of parents. And yada yada yada.... From my point of view they have the easy life. 6 months ago they had their…
July is a fun month in the Hansen home. Starting with Jessie's birthday on the 1st and ending with David's on the 31st. Mine and lots of extended family falls in between. Trying to catch her cute smile at 2 months but the camera always…
We took the camper, which is really a moterhome but it's more fun saying camper, on its maiden voyage. We went to the George and Ruth (Chad's grandparents) Hansen reunion right on the Idaho/Montana border. We enjoyed ourselves, well most of us. Jessie started getting…
We went to Colorado for Kyle's wedding a whole month after Olive was born. We drove all night (which was sad because I couldn't see beautiful Colorado) and got to Woodland Park Thursday morning (where I got to see my beautiful family which is better…
We met with the specialist yesterday and had another ultrasound for Olive's kidneys. Her kidney looks normal now which is a good thing. But they aren't going to test the reflux until she is a year old again. She'll stay on the antibiotics for now.…
Olive has stage 5 hydronephrosis on her left kidney caused by reflux. In other words, her bladder is leaking back up the ureteral into her kidney and stage 5 is the worst it can be categorize on a scale of 1 to 5. From my…
All of us are joyful for our new baby girl! (Haha, get it?) I finally made it to an induction. It made a very neat birthday. All 3 of our girls have a birthday on the first and a holiday. It was very weird being…
My baby girl is 5 and preparing for kindergarten. I'm pretty wiped this year so we spent the day as a family. We drove up to Park City to visit an art exhibit that was all made of legos. It was pretty cool but very…
My mom would stand by the counter pulling chicken off the bone and cutting it into smaller pieces for later meals. I would stand next to her sneaking some. I watched her hands, always dry and usually cracked. She'd tell me how she had beautiful…