Installment #2

Jack and I have many adventures lately. We have been into, well mostly Jack, mountain biking. One Saturday morning we got up and went for a ride. I particularly enjoyed the way back down, but I am sure it will get better.

There is a trail that leads up the canyon next to the river and the road. Up the canyon there are 2 dams in a row so we went up to the second one. We watched someone illegally encourage their dog to swim after some dogs. Then we rode back down.

As some know, I am again working with special ed children. One little buddy got a hold of me last week. This is a bite. No I will not tell you who did it. I just want you to admire my toughness.
This is for perspective. I want to pat my back a little more and let you know the bruise is about half an inch around the red mark.
This is from the pinching and the scratching. The poor buddy was not happy. No this is not an every day occurrence, but I do expect some comments of how cool you all think I am now.
This was us playing with my camera on father's day. It was taken from VERY far away and with a timer and I had one second to spare to sit down. Jack enjoyed watching me run back and forth to even get the shot. I was annoyed that I couldn't get it to STOP focusing on the branch that's kinda in front of us.
Jack went camping this weekend and took some awesome pictures. I am going to encourage him to tell about them on the blog. We will see how it goes.

Highlights of the last week part one

I have every intention of describing things that are vital in our lives, but first a brief word from "things you find in life"

This is what I witnessed at the park on Father's Day. ( the two pics are in the wrong order)

I think she was trying to give the kid a wedgie and was failing, so the boy came a long and showed her how it was done. Why didn't I save the kid you might say. Well, I was using my large zoom lens and wasn't anywhere near. Besides, I watched the whole thing through the lens and the kid didn't even try to get away, he was asking for it.



On to more important topics
Last week my sister-in-law Katie married a man named Slane that we all love and adore. Slane just joined the church and the two of them were married in Weiser. They asked me to do their pictures and while I don't fall short of instinctively taking a lot of pictures (which you want on your wedding day) I do lack experience in the whole photographer resposibility aspect. I did my best and am just beginning to edit.



I have a lot to learn. But I am going to pat myself on the back a little because I have never experienced a civil wedding where I was old enough to snap photos of my own. I can imagine myself in areas where the space it's self is somewhat photogenic doing particularly well. So for my first wedding to have nothing to do with being outside at all, I think I did ok. No worries, I did convince them to go outside really fast for a few shots. Slane's foot was broken so I really mean a few. HOWEVER, I am proud of a few of those and I wouldn't be ashamed at all to have them be on their wall.

It was a fun day full of surprises. My alarm didn't go off so I was late getting to the house to do Katies hair, which turned into all three bridesmaids, two little sisters and Katie's hair in three hours. I used hot rollers. I am again going to chalk one up for coolness in my behalf for that. I was accidentally equipted to handle such a job.

Jack enjoyed himself, and was quite the brother dancing and shmoosing with all the people that attended. I was proud to call him my husband. Which is why I will end this post with a picture of him. Jacob and Esau have a great father on their hands, and will probably inherit his good looks.

Temple night

Jack and I just got back from a quick, well quite long, trip to the temple. We went with our buds Kyle and Contessa who are getting married a week from today! We planned on hitting the 7 session but it was full so we had to wait. Then there were a few malfunctions so we did a lot of quiet reflection this evening.

We later went to Village Inn which has worked hard at becoming quite trendy. I would recommend the improvement to anyone willing to go check it out. It's really that fancy! They went with a 60-70's theme but a recent twist. cute.

Jack's sister is getting married this weekend-which will be a fun adventure!

Oh and last weekend I got to go to Provo for some events by myself. I loved it! I had some wonderful conversations and I have a renewed love for the friends that I have down there.

On a personal note since I lost the twins I have been up and down. I am generally happy, I have found a lot of peace in my situation. There are a lot of things I still am surprised I can't handle. For instance a set of twins were blessed on Sunday in my ward and I lost it. Mostly when I am caught off guard I have a hard time. If I am a part of a pregnancy conversation I find I do fine. But if I happen to notice something like that going on I find I can't control my emotions. I let myself cry at home.

I am not worried about getting pregnant again, and I know I will. I know it's ok to cry.I have heard all the encouraging assumptions I can take. Frankly, the nicest things people have said or done for me are just simple "I was thinking about you." or just taking an insterest in my story. I love to talk about what happened. I try really hard to be forward and tell people as it comes up that I like to talk about it. But I understand it's awkward.

My visiting teachers have been wonderful. I have really been watched over and I love that they call and check up on me. Take me out to the movies and bring me cookies. I think it's neat that people I didn't know so well were willing to make sure I had the friendship I needed. I was pretty lonely, and sometimes still feel very lonely.

I am also lucky because I have a few old friends that have really gotten to know me enough to know what I need. I live so far away from Provo now that my time with them is so limited. Really awesome friends are hard to come by, and I have mine just a text away.

We never named the boys, but we call them Jacob and Esau because one came out all big and red. I think about them every day. Every day I can think of something my experience with them has taught me/comforted me/inspired me etc.

Today Jacob and Esau inspired me to prepare to be a better mother. I had a wonderful time at the temple, enough said.

Memorial Day

This Memorial Day was particularly special for the Hansen side of my family. The headstone for my Grandpa's grave had been put in place and we went and spent some time admiring it's beauty and enjoying each other.





I believe this is the whole crew minus Heidi. My grandma went with my mother and uncle Ren and hand picked the rock. The back has their children's names on it. Also, there are no roses or deer as per request. :)

This is how it all turned out...

If you will notice, there are some sun glasses on his little (not so little) head. The faculty was trying to be really strict with the way everyone looked. I believe Deric was the only one that got away with something so CRAZY!





It was real and if you look to the background, Jack was real excited for him. Fruitland High School doesn't have a big enough gym, nor do they have any sort of auditorium. So where did this all take place? Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa Idaho. Even still there were people standing in the isles.