Okay, so it's really more like a party of 14 but who's counting...

♥Officially a Party of 5 ♥

2010-02-27T15:32:00.000-08:00

Our sweet baby is finally here!

(and I'm finally blogging about it)

He came a day early so he didn't get the cool birthday I picked for him (01-10-10), I guess he wanted to pick his own day. :)

My water broke Saturday afternoon so I had to hurry to the hospital before my placenta ruptured.

I was on the phone with my amazing friend Lisa when it happened so she hurried over to take me to the hospital. Rick was on his way to the airport to pick up my mom, so I called him to tell him what was going on. Imagine my mom's surprise when she got in the car "a day early" and he told her they were going to pick up the kids and head straight to the hospital!

They all got there in plenty of time.

When I got to the hospital, they took me right into triage to make sure my water had actually broken. It was such a tiny bit that I wasn't positive that was what had happened (and I was still holding out hope that the baby would wait one more day). The nurses were afraid to do anything that might disturb my placenta so we had to wait for my doctor to check me.

I always wanted to marry a Dr.
Just Kidding!! Used car salesman was at the TOP of my list. :)

Going through a little labor before my c-section

My placenta ruptured just a few minutes before I moved onto the operating table. It was pretty scary but everything turned out just fine.

After a difficult time of getting him out and the cord wrapped around his neck 3 times, our screaming baby boy arrived. :)

Justin Kent Hansen

Born 1-9-2010 at 4:19 pm

7 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long

Grandma Margie

Grandma and Grandpa Hansen

With Daddy and super excited Michelle and Brandon. Michelle called dibs on being the first one to hold him when we came out of the operating room. :)

Swaddled in the blanket Michelle made for him the Monday before he was born.

It was quite the ordeal picking a name for this little guy. There were a few we crossed off as soon as we saw his face. We had been talking about using my dad's name as a middle name and when he was born with two features that were distinctly my dad, it was settled. But we discovered there aren't many names that go well with Kent. All of the one syllable names were out. Blake was one of our favorites but Brandon said Blake Kent sounded like Blanket. And with the whole Michael Jackson thing... :)

We himmmed and hawwed for 3 days

We were torn between Jordan and Justin. Justin wasn't even on our original list but we added it when we saw him.

The kids liked Jordan,

Rick and I liked Justin,

the birth certificate lady came around,

Rick had the paper in his hand,
and Baby Boy Hansen became

Justin Kent Hansen.

His folded over ear and cleft chin.

Just like my dad. ♥

Welcome to our family baby J.

We have waited for you for so long. ♥

Oh Dad...

2009-10-18T05:27:00.000-07:00

I just had the best dream.

I was sitting in a padded chair in the corner of a room wearing this funny flapper dress costume and a pink-orange jacket.You, Mom and Michelle were there and we were all talking. Mom left the room and I was thinking about movies I had rented that I wanted to watch. I started to sing, "Why do birds suddenly appear, every time, you are near?" You joined in with me, "Just like me, they want to be, close to you." You stood up and started to dance with Michelle and suddenly the room was our kitchen, right in front of the railing to go downstairs. You and I sang the whole song together. Each verse lasting forever as you and Michelle danced on the cracked linoleum of the kitchen floor. I could hear your smooth dark voice so clearly, like you really were right there singing to me, like so many times...
I kept thinking, "I've GOT to go get my video camera! When I thought he was gone the thing I regretted the most was not having a recording or a video of him singing. I don't want to make that mistake again."
Toward the end of the song, I stopped singing and Michelle joined in with you. You were still dancing. At the end you were standing behind her, helping her do silly actions, until she took over. She stepped forward and belted out, "Just like meeeeee" (arm movements and spinning) "They want to beeeeeee" (Stop. Arm actions Dum, Dum, Dum, dmmmm!) "Close to yoooooOoooouuuu!!!" (Arms in the air for a final pose)
You were grinning, we were both applauding wildly. I yelled, "Bravo! Take it on the road!"
I thought, "If they do it again for a video, I hope it will be just as cute the second time." I got up to get the camera and that's when I woke up, grinning from ear to ear with my heart so full of love. Your voice still lingering where I could almost hear it, and the image of you looking so proudly at Michelle, loving every second of this little moment in time.
Laying there with my eyes open I slowly realized, you really are gone. I can't go get a video and I'll never be able to see, or hear, a replay of our duet and Michelle's finale.

But I could write it down.

So here I am. And there you are, your voice still ringing in my ears and images of you fresh in my my mind. My eyes and cheeks wet and my heart so full.
I miss you so much. ♥

Last day of summer, First day of school

2009-08-12T14:12:00.000-07:00

For the last day of summer, Michelle really wanted to do something fun. I was all shopped out (not to mention out of money) and all the Jr. High pools were closed to get ready for the first day of school.
Not wanting to go anywhere too crowded or too far from home, I decided to call my friend Susan and see if we could come to her house to swim. Of course she said yes, so we called some friends and headed over.

Brandon, being the good big brother he is, didn't want to let any of the kids down the big slide.
Luckily there were enough kids to overthrow his totalitarian dictatorship.

The rope swing is always fun, if you can get a turn.

The teens

Sydney and Brandon

The kids who still know how to have fun. :)

Trenton, Kapono, Cody, Michelle, Noelani and Bailey

Thanks for a fun last day of summer Susan!

Now for the big day!

After painted nails, neckline hair trims, showers and straightening hair. Father's blessings, laying out clothes and going to bed early.

The day has finally arrived.

LAST first day of elementary for one, first day of HIGH SCHOOL for the other!

For Brandon this year

it was all about the cool jeans.

For Michelle, as always,

the focus was on accessories.

Michelle and Maddy. All dolled up and ready to take on 6th grade.

They even got a new ride...

...wth A/C and everything! :)

Yes, I know...

2009-08-12T12:29:00.000-07:00

I know I skipped past the first 7 months of the year. Maybe now that the kids are in school, and I'm feeling a little better, I'll try to fill in some of the blanks.

:)

Oh yeah, my blog...

2009-06-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

I had a dream I updated it last night.

Maybe it's a sign...

Thanks Michelley!!

2009-02-09T20:32:00.000-08:00

My cutie Michelle changed my blog for me! She even added music and picked out songs she thought I would like.

Thanks Michelley, you're the best. ♥

Making Peace Before I Get There

2009-01-29T15:00:00.000-08:00

I know, I know, it's been forever.
Well, we're going to visit the Passeys tomorrow and since Krista's the one that forced me to have this blog [:)], I figured I'd better try to update it before we get there. That way I won't have to experience her wrath and we can just get to the having fun part.

The next few posts are updates on what went on around here since my last post back in Nov.
"Hello!" to new friends that have found me. Sorry I've been such a slacker, I'll try to do better. :)

(November- check, December- check, Christmas- working on it, January- thinking about it)

December in a Flurry

2009-01-29T13:42:00.001-08:00

We kicked off December with our annual trip to see the National Rodeo Finals in Vegas with our friends. Every year I get stressed as we smush it into an already too busy December and swear that it's our last year. Then we get there and have so much fun that I can't wait until next year.

Here we are on the strip, sticking our heads out the sunroof stopped at a red light.

With our friends, Douger and Terina Eaves, inside the arena.
Outside the arena, before the event, they had a mechanical bull in the parking lot. Of course Douger and I were the only ones brave enought to ride. ;)

In September, Michelle started a musical singing group that she just loves. We got home from Vegas just in time to see her first recital.Here she is with her teacher Miss Jenee.

We went with some friends to a charity dinner at the Christmas Idea House. They decorate an enormus house with a bazzilion decorations that are all for sale.

Conveniently, Rick left his wallet in the car.
I got to go with Michelle's class on their field trip to a flight center.

Here we are in a helicopter simulator. It was really cool. All of the controls actually did the functions they do in a real helicopter.

Here's Michelle in the airplane simulator.

After two years and two months Rick finally got his braces off!!

The crazy thing is, no one noticed! He went to work the next day and finally had to tell everyone (at 3:00) that he got them off. Our friend Katherine Cook (the one in the red at the charity dinner) is the only person who ever noticed and asked him about it. Yes, yes, I know they were clear but still...

Before

After
Man, he's hot!! :)

Our Birthday Girl

Michelle turned 11 on the 17th. :(

At her party, she wanted doughnuts instead of a cake. You can read more about her party on her blog. :)

In the morning she opened presents (which I obviously didn't get any good pictures of), and that night, she and I went to a cooking class at Shar's and learned how to make lots of yummy Christmas cookies.

My friend Lisa put this bow in her hair and she wore it all night. :)

Christmas with the Hansens

Every year we go to Utah for Christmas, so Rick's family always has a party before we leave.

Here are all the cousins, waiting to open presents (except for Rick's older brother's 6 kids. Their family didn't come).

After presents we had a talent show this year.

Brandon and Michelle did their infamous "Cecilia" routine

Brandon played a couple of songs for us on Jenny's new piano.

We decided to take a picture with all of the girls wearing the headbands Rick's mom had given us for Christmas. The problem was, there wasn't one for Rick's mom.

So we made one for her.

John's wife Tasha, Randy's wife Danae

Rick's sister Jenny, his mom Chris and me.

This is us being "sexy"

When we shouted out "Charlie's Angels," Rick's mom didn't know what we meant.

She figured it out but then shot herself in the head with her "gun."

Hahahahahaha! We were all laughing hysterically :)

By the end of the night, all the kids were pooped.

We all missed Rick's youngest brother Jake who is on a mission. Hopefully next Christmas we'll be in Chile picking him up and seeing the beautiful places he talks about in his letters.

November in Pictures

2009-01-29T12:09:00.000-08:00

Twinners

Have you ever had one of those experiences when you show up wearing the same thing as someone else? Well in early November, Rick came out to breakfast first. Then Brandon came out. They looked at each other and laughed. Then came Michelle. They all laughed. They came to get me (I was still in my PJ's of course) to show me how funny it all was...

Because I wasn't dressed yet, Michelle asked if she could pick out my shirt. Here's what she got for me.

It was the closest thing I had. :)

So then a couple of weeks later, we went out with a bunch of friends. We met Blaine and Lisa Aurich at Tia Rosa's and Rick and Blaine laughed because they were both wearing black striped shirts (Rick's was black on black, Blaine's was black with skinny white stripes). Then came Kristian, Robin and David who were all wearing either black on black or black with white. Last to show up was Sean. Of course we were all gawking out the window to see what he was wearing...

White with black. I guess he didn't get the memo.

My mom came to stay with us while she went to her High School reunion for Arcadia High in Scottsdale.

My baby turned 18 months old. :( He's almost as big as his momma now.

Penny went into heat the same week it got really cold outside. I didn't want to leave her out so I found some diapers, cut a hole in the back for her tail and strapped it on with duct tape. She was SO funny when she first started walking around, she didn't know what to think. :)

Yes it's true, our party is now down to 12.

Back in October Michelle's little mouse Peanut's back legs stopped working. She stayed quite healthy for several weeks but Nov 24th, Michelle went into her room after school and came out crying. We had a little service for her and buried her beneath Michelle's window. At first, little Pepper seemed to be doing fine without her friend. But after two weeks, her legs too stopped working. Unlike Peanut who still exercised her front legs in the wheel and pulled herself around for food and water, Pepper just gave up. A few days later, she was gone.

Michelle with Pepper

We buried her next to Peanut.

We're just waiting for the little red fern to begin to grow.

The weather is beautiful and I've been able to do a lot of riding. This is a picture of our shadow as we loped through the desert.

I joined a drill team mid-Nov and have had a lot of fun. It's good for my mare to have to do something structured and not just have fun all the time. :)

(I'm in the foreground in red)

Thanksgiving
Michelle and I did the Turkey Trot at her school.

Thanksgiving Day, Michelle got up early to make a sign and taped it to the front door. We took it with us to Grandma's house.

We spent the morning playing games and cooking. Michelley helped me make 6 pies and cheesecakes, Orange Rolls and candied yams. Yum.Rick's family.

The day after Thanksgiving, My sister came to visit me. We went to see the animals and went to one of my favorite Mexican places for dinner.

Yay! One month down, two more to go!!

Fun Run

2008-11-24T08:20:00.000-08:00

Saturday our church held a "Fun Run." Why they feel those two words go together is beyond me. Michelle has a friend in her class at school who really wanted her to come to the run. "But, she says I can come to her house when it's over," Michelle plead, after I whined about having any "fun" at a run (yes, yes, I know I'm a boob). Waking up early on a Saturday to exercise?? Bleeeckk.

So anyway, she did convince me to go.
At first I was thinking of taking our bikes. Then I remembered the gas station air thingy and the pumping up of flat tires that would be required.
Then, watching Penny running around and acting super cute that morning, I decided it would be fun to take dogs with us. Since Michelle and I were the only ones going (Rick was at work and Brandon was at gym, the story of both their lives), we could only take two dogs. I wanted to take Penny because she would have the most fun, and I decided Bosco was the best choice for #2 because I thought he could handle it best. Bandit is getting so deaf that he's a little hard to handle in a crowd and Tony's so little, sometimes he doesn't even finish when I take them for walks at night. When he's done, he'll just wait in the middle of the road until I turn around and head back home.

So Bosco and Penny it was.

On your marks,

Bosco and Michelle, with her friend Noelani at her side.

Penny dragging me along. She kept me running for the first half, then I switched dogs with Michelle so I could dawdle behind Bossy as he sniffed every bush for a little bit. It wasn't long before Penny wore Michelle out and traded me back though.

Michelle with some of her friends in her class: Claire (and her little sister Sophie), Noelani and Ashleigh

Headed back to Noe's house on her cool golf cart.

Okay, okay. So it WAS a fun run.

Who knew?

35 and still HOT! :)

2008-11-03T17:02:00.001-08:00

Rick's birthday fell on Sunday so Lisa Aurich and I decided to get our families together, like we used to do, and make him our big yummy breakfast.

The spread

Orange Cinnamon french toast with buttermilk syrup, Strawberry Cheesecake crepes with fresh strawberries, powdered sugar and Redi-whip, Lisa's famous hash browns and Regan's yummy fruit smoothies. Yummmmm

Ben licking the beater from the cream cheese filling
Brandon, cutie-pie Jacob, Michelle, Colton and Regan

Rick, Blaine, Lisa, Ben and Lexi

Rick getting Elmo hugs and kisses from Ben :)

This is the face Ben makes when you tell him to smile. Ha!

After breakfast, I went home and put dinner in the oven to take over to the Aurich's later. We went to the late session of Stake Conference with our old ward, then headed back to stuff ourselves some more.

What a fun day, full of good food and good friends. It was just like the good old days, except we didn't sleep over. :)

At home that night to open presents. Happy Birthday Ricky!

(Don't miss the Halloween post below!)

Halloween Night

2008-11-03T13:17:00.000-08:00

Halloween was a little bit stressful, but only because of my signature procrastination. I spent the morning researching GPS units for Rick's birthday (on Sunday) then headed to the school at lunchtime for Michelle's class Halloween party. At school, Michelle told me she really wanted to decorate our car for the trunk-or-treat. This whole trunk-or-treat thing is new to me. In our old ward we just had a fall festival, no dressing up or decorating required. So now it's 2 pm and I don't have one piece of candy to give out and I'm trying to think of some way to decorate our car. I decided to make our car a hospital for sick pumpkins so I headed to Costco for candy and scrubs. Lots of candy, no scrubs. I went home to pick up Michelle and she reminded me she still didn't have a binki for her costume. She stayed home to clean her mouse cage and I headed to Wal-mart for scrubs, a binki and pumpkins. Got scrubs for me, none in Rick's size, and a binki. No pumpkins. So now I'm running out of time and wondering what the heck I'm doing anyway. Stopped at Fry's. No pumpkins. Went to Albertson's, got 3 pumpkins. Now I have to carve the stinking things! I called Rick and had him stop by our friend Ryan's to get some scrubs for himself and got to work on the sick Jack-o-lanterns and the car. Sometime in the middle of pumpkin carving, I remembered I was supposed to bring cornbread. Ooops. Needless to say, we were late. It was still fun though. I realized that nobody does any funny decorating, it's just halloween decorations.

Next year will be much easier. :)

Michelle was a baby. Here she is with her friends Brooklyn and Whitney the pirates, Andi the hula girl and Claire the fairy.

The hospital

Cute friends' kids at the Peterson's for doughnut night

Everyone had fun on the teeter totter

Even Rick and Kristian! Ha!

Thanks Peterson's for fun as usual!

2008-10-28T01:40:00.000-07:00

For family night tonight we carved pumpkins. It never seems like they last very long once they're carved so we'll see if they make it to Halloween.

Jack-o-lantern

While Michelle was carving she said, "I think this is the first time I've been able to carve all by myself." I think she's right. Last year we didn't do them because I was in Utah with my Kitty who had been hit by a car (see post about summer) and the year before, I don't think we did them. How does the time fly by so quickly?

Rick was all about the pumpkin power tool. Sadly, a double A battery doesn't last long.

I think Brandon would rather be doing homework.

By Friday I'm sure my Kitty's whiskers will be wilted, Rick's Wolf will look more like a rat and Michelle and Brandon's will look more like Grandma and Grandpa with their dentures out.

Happy Halloween!

Help for the compu-illiterate

2008-10-20T19:48:00.000-07:00

Hey, I want to change my background but I have no idea how to do it. Help? :)

If we sold our house, we could cruise once a month and just live in a shelter the other 3 weeks

2008-10-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

So, we celebrated our 15th anniversary this year and were hoping to be able to go on a cruise. With the economy the way it is, we weren't sure if we were going to be able to make it before the end of the year. Mid-September I googled "last minute cruises" and found some great deals. We decided to try to go in October when my mom would be here to watch the kids.
We've done two cruises by ourselves and really wanted to go with somebody this time. First, we tried to convince the Passey's to go with us. They had just moved and we were desperately missing them already. They gave us every excuse in the book and we gave them every solution in the book but, try as we might, we couldn't get them to come (It was pretty much a re-run of just before they moved. Maybe we should just take the hint ;)). So then we tried the Eaves'. They celebrated their 15th this year also and were dying to come, but it was just too last minute and they already had commitments. I even put it on my stinking Myspace and Facebook. Lots of interest but no bites. Again, too last minute.
So... when you can't find any friends to go with you on vacation what do you do? Take your kids! I know, I know, it sounds like a punch line to some joke, but we had an absolute ball!

We decided to go the week of October break so they wouldn't miss much school. They had to get some work done early because it was the end of the quarter but they didn't complain. Our port was in Orlando, Florida so we stayed the night before the cruise and the night after in a hotel near the beach.

So many people we talked to really want to go on a cruise. We're thinking of planning one with a big group of friends for next summer or Spring Break of 2010. Let us know if you want to be included and we'll start gathering input on time and place!!

Half My Life

2008-10-02T07:57:00.000-07:00

The other day Rick and I were talking about things we did when we were dating and how long we've been together. We figured out that the day we met had been just a few days more than half my life ago. HALF OF MY LIFE!

The better half ♥

(Senior ball 1993)

What a Ripp!!

2008-09-18T13:51:00.000-07:00

So, one of the stinky things about gymnastics is the constant blistering of the palms of your hands. Once you get a blister, the next time you go to gym, the skin on the top of the blister bubble usually rips off. The gymnasts "affectionately" call these ripps. Brandon gets them all the time. Usually they're about the size of a dime, a big one being the size of a nickel. Last week he got the ripp to put all other ripps to shame. This sucker was bigger than a half dollar. Even his coach felt bad for him and let him take it easy the rest of the night.

This picture really doesn't do it justice. Brandon's hands are as big as Rick's. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you can see normal size ripps, in all stages of healing, on his pinky and the rest of his hand.
The worst thing was, that same day he showed me a big ol' blister on his other hand. Two days later that one came off too, leaving a ripp bigger than a quarter. Yeeowzza. He said he was pretty much useless for the rest of the week on pommell, parallel bars and rings.

Slide Show- What a Pain in the Fanny

2008-09-10T11:11:00.000-07:00

So I spent a gazillion hours putting together this stinking slide show and then, try as I might, I couldn't get the dang, dong, stinking thing into my post. So today Krista suggested to try putting it in a new post and Voila! Here it is. It belongs way down the page but oh well.

Now if I can just get my posts to stop coming up in computer speak and back to english...

So here we are with the Passey's in Sedona

The Coolest Friends Ever!

2008-09-03T18:39:00.000-07:00

This is the Pansen Family-Aren't we cute?

Yes, they are wonderful friends and we miss them very much. We are dying to play poker and have Dairy Queen with some super fun people and they moved away to Montana. We are going to visit them soon though!!! :)

(Actually, this was posted by someone who phished my blog. Hmm...Krista??? :) )

Summer Fun

2008-09-02T22:33:00.000-07:00

Since Krista started this page for me, I have done basically zero with it. Now that she's gone *sniff,sniff* I guess I'd better make good use of it. So here's my first attempt. Maybe I'll even try to round myself up some friends afterward... if I can figure out how.

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Well, the summer is officially over so I thought I'd post some pictures of all the fun things we did.

First, my Jr High and High school friend, Amanda, came through town and brought her adorable girls with her. They had a ball with all the animals and Michelle was in heaven with two little girls around. They followed her like adoring fans (and went home with all her Barbie stuff. Yay!).

We were raising two baby chicks at the time and the girls were very funny with them. Here they are holding them on the front lawn. Tasmin (left) has Sophie (who is playing dead and whom we recently discovered is a boy) and Tarra is trying to carefully hold Shadow. By this time, Shadow has already nearly had her guts squeezed out at least twice. :)

Later that afternoon, we headed over to the ranch and the girls got to take turns on a miniature horse I take care of named Annie.

Tarra wasn't too sure.

Tasmin was rarin' to go, and wanted to go fast! Now it was Annie's turn not to be so sure.

We then headed over to see our other chickies that were being raised by a "foster mom." Ha! Classic Tasmin face. :)We got up early the next morning so the girls could ride my mare, Mari. She was so good. The girls each took a turn riding with me and then riding with Amanda.

Tasmin finally got to go "fast." :)

They finished the morning giving the baby (and everyone else) carrots.

An hour or so later, they continued on their way to California. It sure was fun to have them visit.

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Our first trip to Utah was a sad one. After 18 years of being my loving companion, it was time for my pretty Rikki kitty to go home. When I was 13 years old, I watched her mother give birth to her on my bed (I thought it was sweet that my kitty loved me and trusted me so much, my mom just thought it was gross and made me clean up the mess). Not knowing whether she was a boy or a girl, I gave her a name that would work for either, Rikki. She has been my faithful loving kitty ever since. After I got married and moved away, I became allergic to her and had to take allergy pills whenever I came home to visit. Of course I had to let her sleep with me! :)

Last year, she was my constant companion through the hardest times of my life. She snuggled with me through my tears as I suffered through the sudden death of my dad and then my only grandma 7 weeks later. She stayed near as I went through my dad's things and comforted me through my sleepless nights.

A few days before Halloween, my sister hit Rikki with her car in her haste to leave for home. I immediately flew to Utah to spend what I thought would be the last days of her 17 1/2 year life.

Three of her ribs and both bones in her arm were snapped in half, and her shoulder blade was shattered into several pieces. Amazingly, she recovered. All of her bones mended. After a few weeks though, her kidneys started to fail so my mom had to then give her fluids through an IV everyday for the rest of her life. At Christmastime her bones felt like rubble under her skin and she walked with a limp, but she was still happy and healthy and I was so thankful to still have her. This spring, she developed a tumor in her face. The vet gave her four weeks at most but she held on for 3 more months. Four weeks after her 18th birthday, Michelle and I went up to Utah to say goodbye. We buried her in the pet cemetery in Ogden near my childhood dog, Brandy girl.

Goodnight sweet Rikki kitty.

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So what do you do when you need a pick-me-up? You go camping with the Passey's in Sedona of course!
Yeee Hoooo! Need I say more. :)

My word, where do I start? So many pictures, so little time. Tonight at least. I'll post a few of my favorites and put up a slideshow of the rest.

Our considerably smaller family :)

Bart, Krista and 8 of their 10 (yes, I said ten) kids, 2 sons-in-law, two grandkids and one on the way.

On Friday, everyone but the little ones, and the one with a little one in her belly, jumped off at least one cliff at Grasshopper Point. The next day, we spent most of our time at Slide Rock where everyone had lots of fun. I think everyone slipped and landed on their fanny at least once. :)

Of course the mornings and the evenings and all the in between times were spent laughing and playing and enjoying the kids, and eachother's company.

We really need to do that again.

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I have no pictures of the 4th of July because the church we usually go to didn't have fireworks this year. We headed to the church across the street from that one to find that they weren't having a show this year either. We talked to a friend that said there's usually an awesome show in Fountain Hills. We turned the car around and headed for the Beeline Highway. Once we passed the buildings and neighborhoods and could see the landscape stretching before us to the north, it was obvious that a huge monsoon was heading in from that direction. So... we went to a movie.

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In early July we went to Indio, California with the Eaves'. A short trip of only 4 days but what a relaxing 4 days they were. Rick and Douger went golfing, Terina and I spent our time reading and driving aimlessly around "Little Mexico" looking for a grocery store (ha!) and the kids spent 4 straight days in the water. Our resort was awesome. We stayed in the 2800 square foot Presidential suite with 2 master bedrooms, Master showers you could fit an elephant in and, much to the kids delight, our own hottub out on the balcony.

Michelle, Bailey and Trenton luring ducks with Cheerios

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The Passey's are Moving!! :(

2008-08-17T22:02:00.000-07:00

This is me crying my eyes out cuz our very best friends are leaving us. What in the world are we going to do every night??? Yes, yes, I understand that somehow we lived without them up until Memorial Day of this year, but before then we had no idea what we are missing.

Man are we going to miss them.

Austin & Foxy

2008-06-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

This is Rick and Jenny off to a party dressed as Austin Powers and Foxy Cleopatra. You put the grrrr in Swinger, baby, yah!!! You guys look hot.....literally!