R.I.P MARTHA.....

I'm kinda late posting this but tragically one of our chickens were murdered! one night dean and i were late getting home from softball and as we were walking out to the barn to close the door on the chickens we came upon feathers everywhere!! and all i could say was "oh no!!" the other ones were safe in the coop but dean found martha the next morning and her head was bit off. We have heard that minks and skunks do that cuz they like brain! i was so sad! i got so attached especially to martha but i guess that is just part of the circle of life... so i hope martha is in heaven with endless bugs, food, and dirt to dig up.

so, Dean and I have been really lake hungry. all we want to do is go boating so we did the next best thing and went on some wave runners. It is so much fun when you two ppl on one. Dean and I went over this huge boat wave and flew off of the machine. my family was watching from the shore and they said it looked so neat. too bad no one grabbed a pic i guess it happened too fast and i just love this pic of my 'baby sister' maxee she was so funny....we are really excited to go on saturday with dean's sister and her family cuz we just LOVE BOATING!! (we are excited if you can't tell kirsten!!)

We had a good fourth of july, we just did whatever we felt like in the moment. we went fishing then we went to Lewiston parade, rodeo, horse races, softball games, then we took a nap and went to my parents and shot off fireworks which was great cuz my crazy older brother bought some illegal ones that was just as good or better than Logan's fireworks! it shot up but a couple of them kind of went up and back down so they looked like a golden shower was falling on us! it was so intense!!!! We hope that everyone else enjoyed their holiday and remembered the true meaning of it and the gratitude and pride we need to show!

Our four new family members....:)

So, Dean and I have adopted four Rhode Island Reds....aka chickens!! We are havin so much fun playing little house on the praire! Dean decided one day that we should get some chickens I thought 'um ok but where are we gonna put them?' So dean one day had a brillant idea to fix a little part of our barn and hooked up some wire to keep the critters out and then Dean's mom found someone where we could get chickens from and we brought them to our country home. So now we are the proud owners of Martha, Ruth, Nellie, and Ester!! In the pics we are cradling Martha (she is the most outgoing one). I've never been around chickens before so i'm kind of uncordinated at holding them but I've been practicing and Im getting better.

On saturday Dean was fixing our dryer so he needed some nylons and as he was about to go downstairs to the laundry room he asked me if i had ever put them on my head i hadnt so we tried it and I think that is the funniest thing ever!! The things we do to entertain us!!! (I never knew how much eyebrow hair i had until doing this, and Dean looks like something from Narnia:)) And the other pic is of our well growing garden. It is a lot of work!! but I can't wait until we have some veggies blooming!! Well, that's the latest news from the Hansens....until our next adventure...

CaMpIng FuN!!!!!!!

So i have to hurry but i wanted to hurry and put up some pics of this past weekend of Dean and I. This was the first time camping since we have been married we went with Dean's old mish comp and his wife, matt and amanda. We had so much fun! we didn't go to far, we went up to Cub River, it was so beautiful and green! i just love summer time so much!!! i seriously could live somewhere where there is no winter and i would be so happy! anyway here are some pics, I wrecked once on my motorcylce but im so glad it isnt a big bike so i was ok just got a bruise.

The day before we went camping I got myself a new ride!!! I have been wanting a bike for so long and Dean was so good to let me get a pretty nice one. It is so cute and im excited to use it for school this fall when i will be having to drive to the hospital 3 days a week so hopefully we will save on gas money. This weekend was so fun and I just love spending time with my husband and my family. Im so blessed to be married for eternity with my best friend!!!

mom's suprise 50th bday party.....

So my sister's and I this week had fun planning my mom's suprise 50th bday party. it was way hard since my mom is in charge of everything and we were afraid she would find out somehow but we got her! The funny thing is, was that day my dad had 8 pounds of beef out and she saw it and called my sister saying,"dad has 8 pounds of beef thawing so i made a potatoe salad." we laughed over that. And thanks to my wonderful sister-in-law she made this great ice cream cake so I didnt have to worry about making one.

so here are a couple of pics of Dean and I on 'dawn patrol' (that's what hawaiians say when they go out super early to go surfing) but instead of surfing we went fishing and i caught my first fish in a while. I look like a little kid catching their first fish and squeezing it to death so that it won't flap away! Dean laughed when i caught it cuz he told me before we went that when you feel a bite yank back on the pole then reel it in, When i caught my fish i yanked and yanked and Dean said "well, reel it in!" it was so funny but i still caught it! Dean is a great teacher and we have so much fun together!

MinK CriCk

So we have finally moved into our 'summer' home. After some stress of unpacking and things like that we got settled in and absolutely love it up in the country of mink crick (haha no one says 'creek' if you are country). Things that Dean and I have been able to do here so far have been fishing, hiking, roasting marshmallows and riding his dirt bike. The enviornment in Mink Crick is exactly what Dean and I want when we raise a family. I was talking with Annie, my sister inlaw, when they came up to visit and we both have decided that having the mountains as your back yard is a great childhood memory that we hope we can give our kids someday. I hope someday after Dean and I are done with school we can settle in an area similar to Mink Crick or Badger Crick (where I had a summer job by the teton mtns). There is just something special about nature that I think sometimes I take it for granted. And I always think of the hymn, How Great Thou Art. Dean and I feel blessed to live where we do even if it is for a short time, we know that this is where we are meant to be.
Well to explain some of the other pics....the one with the lady playing native american flutes through her nose, I had to take a couple of kids in my class on a field trip and we couldn't stop laughing after I took this picture this lady was so serious and passionate about it. The pic with me chasing our new children:) Dean's mom bought a couple cows, so now we are taking care of them. And then there are a couple of pics of Dean and I playin on our co-ed softball team we are doing pretty good and I just love to see Dean get competitive and mad when he doesn't do something just right:) Well, I think I'm pretty much up to date.....until next time I get to a computer with internet:)

SpRiNg Fun & StAyInG BusY bUsY BuSy........

Spring is slowly but surely getting here!!!! Dean and I have been so excited after he gets home from work we eat dinner and then go out to the park that's across the street and we either throw a frisbee, softball, or a football anything to get us out. I decided to post some pics of us jumpin on the tramp at my moms house, Dean is just so talented with all his flips and turns, me I like to land on my back and bounce back up that is basically my talent on the tramp:)
So, Dean is finally done with his finals! yahoo!! and we are excited because he finished with some pretty good grades. now that he has a job, he works so long and now I'm working more hours for one of the sped teachers because she is recovering from surgery. I've just finished coaching fastpitch softball, it was way fun but very time consuming. I know I will miss all those fun girls. But we are thankful that we even have jobs especially now days, so we are not complaining we are just busy busy busy! We get so excited at the end of the day when we can be together and relax! This warmer weather makes things more bearable and now that we have another exciting adventure coming up next week-we are moving to Mink Creek, ID-we have fun things to look forward to: gardening, motorcycle riding, camping, fishing, and much more!
Until next time:)

A DaY of GoOd NeWs!!!!!!!

Ok, so first of all the Grand News......I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE RADIOGRAPHY PROGRAM AT WEBER!!! so now I can get finished with school and do what I wanna do and that is to take xrays! (for those who dont know much about that career-its pretty exciting) anyway, and the next good news is that Dean found a job, and a short term job translating Samoan for little kids! im so excited for him cuz he has wanted something like this to keep his language fluent. We have had such a great day and all we keep saying is how blessed we are and our Heavenly Father DOES answer prayers!!!!

So...the day before Easter my mom gave us a basket of candy. It was kinda late when we got home but we forgot to buy some egg dye so we ran to the store and they were all out of the fun egg dyes that you can do different stuff with, so we settled with food coloring but I had to buy some crayons so we could write stuff on our eggs. so we got home and was exhausted so we said, "can it we will do it tomorfow." So after church we painted our eggs (and i'm the kind of person who is sentimental and loves holidays, pictures, etc.) so I got all cutesy with the writing on my eggs putting 'D loves L' 'Love' and I look over at Deans and it says 'Dean's egg'. I just started to laugh cuz I didnt expect him to get all frilly but I didn't ever think about writing that...it made us laugh for some darn reason probably cuz we laugh at anything and everything. So after our egg dying we went to my parents and ate then went to Little Mtn. (this is tradition) and threw all our eggs down the mtn and my dad also brought his shot gun so we decided to have some target practice. How Redneck! and I LOVed it!!!

Easter is my favorite time of year. I love how instead of focusing on his birth it is of his crucifixion and the atonement. How grateful dean and I are to be Latter day Saints especially in this day and age!