The Hansgen Family

Joshua's First Birthday

2009-03-13T10:09:00.001-07:00

Joshua's 1st Birthday was on Thursday March 5, 2009. It's crazy that he is now 1. He has been walking for about a month and a half. He says mama and uhoh. He loves his brothers and mom, but especially his daddy! For his birthday, we had Aunt Emily and Aunt Amy come over from Cedar City. Uncle John, Aunt Lindsay and Joseph, and the Borrowmans were all there to celebrate his birthday. Grandma and Grandpa Humphries came the Sunday before because Aunt Kristi was going to have her twins and they had to be there to help with that.

Joshua also loves phones and remotes. He will get a phone and put it to his ear like he is talking on it. He also loves to hang out his tongue. He waves goodbye and points to things he wants. He is doing good being weaned from mom. He likes his bottle though, so we might be trading one battle for another. We love our Joshua so much! He is so much fun and just as crazy as his brothers.

Joshua loves birthday cake

Baby in a Box

2009-01-09T15:24:00.000-08:00

One night I was sitting in my bedroom in the rocking chair and along comes Joshua. He loves to crawl on boxes so of course he climbs on top the box an falls in. He was our cute little bug in a box.

He was pretty proud of himself.

Merry Christmas

2009-01-09T14:30:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful Christmas. We spent the 9 days in Enterprise. We were going to go up to Pleasant Grove on Christmas Eve, but the weather was too bad. Melissa and Mike showed up on the door step on Christmas Eve. I was the only one that knew that they were coming so it was a great surprise for everyone!

As an early Christmas present we got parakeets for the kids. Davin named them Saphera and Nick. They are lots of fun! The kids love them!

The kids performed the nativity story as Grandpa read it. Melissa and Emily made great impromptu costumes. It was lots of fun. Then we got pj's from Grandma and Grandpa and opened their present from them. They gave the grand kids a picture of them that says always remember that we love you and then they also gave each family a book that had pictures and their story in it. It was awesome!

After the nativity program each child got to decorate a special cookie for Santa. I think that there was more eating of the decorating treats than there was of decorating cookies but it was lots of fun!

Even though we were away from home Santa still found us. Joshua wasn't quite sure what was going on but once the presents were unwrapped he loved playing with the toys.

Bridger got a big boy bike and cowboy boots which he loved! James got a airplane track which was a big hit with all the kids and Davin finally got hi Heeley Shoes and an "adult camera" as he puts it. He was our picture taker and he took over 200 pictures on Christmas day alone. Needless to say he ran out of juice in his batteries.

Our Ohio Trip

2008-10-19T14:10:00.000-07:00

We've been in Ohio for the past week and have had lots of fun hanging out with the Monday family. The only problem was is that we all have had the stomach flu, all of us but Davin. We arrived on the evening of the 13th in Detriot and Warren Monday, Michael's dad treated us to pizza because he was watching Melissa's kids while she came and picked us up from the airport. That night Hyrum threw up in Melissa's bed and then the next day Bridger threw up and had the runs. Then the day after that James was sick, then on Thursday Melissa and I were sick. We thought that we were going to have a break of sickness, and we went to the Air Force Museum in Dayton on Friday, which was really cool, but Doug's stomach was starting to cramp up and by the time we got back to Lima, he was feeling pretty sick. He only had a mild case of it and was better by Saturday. On Saturday morning, Alden woke up throwing up. He did his best to say he wasn't sick so he could go and play with his cousins. That morning we went to a parade at a local college in Ada and then we went over to the college and they had a bunch of free booths for the kids. They got to decorate cookies, eat free ice cream, Davin got his face painted, got free little polar bears, and balloon swords & hats. Then on Saturday afternoon we went to a corn maze. It was lots of fun. It took us about 2 hours to get thorough it. The maze had stamps and clues along the way that we had to find and if you got your entire card filled out, you got a prize, which was a sticker or a sucker, and one shot with the corn gun. We were suppposed to go on a hay ride and pick out a pumpkin, but we got out of the corn maze too late. It was really fun! It was also pretty cold, but the kids didn't seem to mind the cold. They loved it. There was also rubber duck races that they could do and we took some fun pictures by some wooden mules. They made apple cider there that was so very delicious. Sunday morning, we got up and Michael was sick along with Thobe. Church was very nice in Lima. They have one ward that meets in the chapel. Everyone was very nice and friendly. Melissa had to run Alden home because he wasn't feeling so well. On our way home from church Melissa gave us a tour of Lima. It seems like a nice town.
It's been so nice to come and visit. Bridger seems to know just how to push Thobe's buttons. One night Thobe started crying and of course Bridger was behind the crying. The problem was that Thobe wanted the basement door open and Bridger was shutting it. Thobe gave up and went crying to his mom and Bridger opened the basement door and said "Why you crying Thobe? Don't be sad Thobe. Come and play with me." Thobe stopped crying and said ok and they went down stairs and played. It was pretty funny.