"Life is to be enjoyed not just endured"

So my finals are over for spring semester and Dean will be done next week, so life (like always) has been busy and stressful. I start summer semester next week and I'm going to take my P.T. exam to be a limited xray tech, so hopefully I can get paid to take pics. At the hospital I'm starting to do the operating room exams and fluoro exams by myself! So I'm trying to cram in all the info. but it is coming along. I was helping with an ERCP exam (gallstone removal) and the doctor patted me on the back and told me that I did a good job. it was great to hear that, cuz it really motivates me to do work harder. I'm so blessed and grateful I got into this xray program it has taught me alot about myself and how hard I can push myself.
Dean has been doing awesome on his exams! He works more than part time and goes to school full time and is always positive. He is a great example to me! I'm so lucky!!
These are the times when I think of Pres. Hinckley saying, "Life is to be enjoyed not just endured"
Enought typing here are some pics to show what we've been up to....


Our last weekend with Shalese. We hung around the Hansen's house then went up and shot skeet! I love shooting skeet!!! I don't know why but it is so much fun! I can't wait until I get my hunters ed so I can go hunting.

I watched the monkeys for an afternoon. Annie and Dillon's kids Parker and Wyatt. I'm told that Wyatt, on the right, looks like Dean when he was little. so who knows maybe my boys, if i have any, will look similar to Wyatt. I would like that!

Dean makes fun of me but I love ducks!!! Really I love all animals but ducks are so cute and this pic reminds me of the disney show, Aristocats, when the geese say " Bottoms Up!"



Dean and I spending the first warm sunny day of spring at willow park. I just love spending time with my companion!!


Shalese after she was set a part to be a sister missionary! We are gonna miss her and her contagious laugh. I look sick in this picture cuz the night before I had a weird reaction to peanut butter and was spewing all night! My favorite food is now my enemy!!

My manly hunter:) Dean is an excellent shooter!

We had a little scare a couple of weeks ago. I went to a dermatologist to see these funny spots on my body and he didnt' know what they were he gave me two options of what they could be and one of them was cancer so he had 2 biopsies done and thankfully they came back negative but they did come back with something. syringomas:an accumulation of glands. it's very rare and it won't hurt me unless they go nuts like a weird mole or freckle does when it turns to cancer.This is doctor Dean taking out my stitches!

I think I'm really starting to like sewing. I made this all by myself at my mom's. It's a tablerunner.

This is Easter weekend with my family. Both my grandmas are holding the newest members of our family! Bodie is on the left with Gma Carpenter and who is 3 weeks older than Jacob on the right held by Gma Smith. so adorable!!

Dean and I played some fun games at my friend Tiffani's place. This is me trying to get a cookie from my forehead to my mouth without touching it or moving too much. I had to use all my face muscles. it was hilarious!!

VDAY, BDAY, and BODIE!!!!

Hey it has been too long but here are a few pics and words....

so my big sis had her baby boy on the 5th they named him Bodie Taylor Blake. he is the cutest newborn i have ever seen! And i am so glad he is in our family, i just love spoiling my nieces and nephews!!! Bodie's sister, my niece, Sadee, asked me when i went to their hospital room if i was having my baby tomorrow?! ok either i've been gaining a little weight or she just figures i have to have one cuz her mom had one. It was so funny! (mindy dont kill me for putting this pic on my blog)

I Love Bodie!!!!

Dean shocked me with this amazing handmade shelf he made me for my 22nd birthday! Dean isn't very good at keeping things from me and suprising me but he did amazing for my bday and valentines day! I have to give him credit! i can't wait to paint it and hang it up!!

For valentine's day Dean sent flowers to me at the hospital while i was working and I was totally suprised! it was so fun and I'm just so thankful for him!

Wii Love Christmas and Family

sledding at the Bear Lake cabin

What santa brought dean-a gun safe

the whole Hansen family together. this will be the last time until 2013 cuz Dean's sister will being going on a mish and so will his brother a year later...:(

the kids all bundled up for sledding-they are the toughest kids and love to do anything!

Dean snowmobiling-he got stuck

Shalese is going on a mission!!! yahooooo!! to ROmAnIa!!! way to go future sister hansen!

Cross country skiing with good ole rusty

my dad with a very good impersonation of santa!!

hey!! Christmas break was great for us. We had so much fun cross country skiing, snowmobiling, ice hockey, and much more. Dean worked alot! and I was a stay at home wife making yummy dinners and crafts (i always made fun of my mom making crafts, now look at me), it was nice to have time to do some of those things since school takes up so much of our time. Another thing that takes up our spare time is the wii system my parents gave us. it is so much fun! and its a great way for us to let our competitiveness get out :) anyway here are some pics..

the tv stand my parents got us--we were using crates before so this is a nice upgrade


and they got us the wii tooo!!!!

1st YeAr AnNiVeRsAry!!!!! one down eternity to go:)

Loved you yesterday, Love you still, Always have, Always Will....

Yeah!! we have been married one year!!! it has gone by way too fast! Dean was so cute and suprised me with a night stay at anniversary inn in salt lake city-we stayed in the mysteries of egypt! our room was so cool! the shower head was a snake and their were egyptian paintings on the wall! then saturday morning we went and did a session at the salt lake temple-where we were married-it was so wonderful!! i love the temple so much! and i am so grateful that Dean could take me there and we are going to be companions for eternity!! our first year has been the best ever (so far) we have learned and grown so much together and i know without a doubt that i made the right choice by marrying him! Dean and I promised each other that we will act like we are newlyweds for the rest of our lives! I'll let the pics do the rest of the talking...

updates......living life to it's fullest!!!

4-point buck!


the hunter with his kill-got him with one shot
in the spine

our freezin home sweet home

at my friend kylie's baby shower

gettin ready to ride my bike to the hospital

so much has happened since i last posted...dean's bday, school stuff, and my first deer hunt with my rugged hunter:) Dean's bday was in sept. he turned the big 23! I suprised him with a cameo hunting pack and an elk caller. i had it waiting for him in the bathroom cuz that's where he first goes after class. School is good for both of us, I think I have seen almost everything doing my clinical hours at the hospital but I love it so much!!! And a week ago Dean took me hunting. we spent a night out and woke up early and hiked up a mountain, i spotted a deer but it went over the ridge and so Dean chased after it and shot a buck that just ran right out in front of him! I'll let the pics do all the talking....

Life is full of unexpected things.....

my oh my!!! it's been forever since i've updated this thing. I'll make it quick and short....first of all around the 2nd week of Aug. (12 days after my ovarian cyst thing), Dean and I decided to take a fun little trip to Oakland Cali to see my ole roommate get married. well we had one fun day with my roommate and her fiance and then it was cut short cuz i was having a really high fever, my abdomen was big and in pain. So Dean, being the great husband he is, drove us all the way back straight to Logan Ut-13 hours nonstop- so I could go to the hospital. After a couple hours of tests the doctor came in and said " Well we are going to have to do surgery, your appendix has been ruptured for quite awhile." I got scared for a little bit then I just got kind of worried not because of my ruptured appendix but because school was starting a week later and I knew I couldn't miss or get behind. (I'm so dumb!) We had only a few mins so Dean gave me a blessing and we kissed goodbye as they took me to the operating room-that was by far the most scary and terrible moment of it all cuz I felt so alone. A normal appendectomy usually lasts a half hour to an hour, my procedure took 4 1/2 hours!!! My appendix ended up bursting, fusing it self to the intestines and capsulated itself and was trying to heal. So the surgeon had to remove a chunk of my colon! My scar is Awesome!!! I was in the hospital for 4 days and it was a tough recovery, after experiencing this I appreciate walking, running, eating, sleeping a full night sleep, everything! I'm so blessed to not only have recovered quickly but to be ALiVe!! Dean was my companion sleeping on the hospital floor for 3 days and waiting on me hand and foot for a week later. I'm so thankful for him and for my father in Heaven blessing me with my life. I've now started xray school and I absolutely LOVE it!!! I've never been so happy to go to school:) and we have moved to Logan and we ride our bikes to work and school-so fun!! I know I've had that trial for a reason and I've already realized what it is I needed to learn. Thanks to all my family and friends who visited me and helped and supported me! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Here are the pics to tell the story....

Hospital Run...

So to make this long story short (cuz i feel like i have told this story a million times to 3 different doctors) On monday at like 2 am i woke up in so much pain I felt like it was my appendix so i asked dean to give me a blessing. i fell a sleep for a little longer then i felt it again and i just said "dean we have to go to the hospital" my first thought was if my appendix explodes then i will only have minutes. but i felt like we could make it to logan so we went there and i was put in a room and the nurses came in asking questions then the doctor and so they had me take a urine test and the funny thing is i could barely walk and that's what they made me do and as i was walking back from the bathroom i say dean in the room and said"Im going to pass out im going to fall" and thankfully dean caught me and put me on the bed. After that the best part happened they gave me pain meds and dean was sitting right next to the bed, he said i was fast asleep with my mouth open and my left eye was part way open and i woke up once and told him "i feel so good!" i laughed later about that. then i had an ultrasound done and they finally figured out what was wrong..i had some ovarian cysts that had burst in the middle of the night. the fluid surrounding my uterus was causing the sharp pains. And all they can do for that is to make sure that my ovaries are normal and my uterus and give me pain meds and send me home, so it is now wed. and i feel a lot better I'm just really weak and tired. I'm just so thankful that Dean is a worthy priesthood holder and i know that the blessing helped me get the courage to go see a doctor. I am so thankful for my wonderful husband and for putting up with a big baby like me:) I dont know if i am the only one that feels this but i feel like when i am in the most pain is when i realize what is important and that isnt how i look or the things i have it is my family and my savior. And Im so grateful for the eternal covenants we make so that no matter what families are forever!!!!