Happy 3rd Birthday Hailey Lorraine!!

Happy 3rd birthday to my sweet Hailey!! I cant believe that she is 3!! I love this little girl soo much! She is 3 going on 15 she already yells at me gets mad storms off to her room and slams the door!

Our sweet Hailey was born October 11, 2008 at 8:22 a.m. She was 6 lbs. 7 oz, 19. inches long.. she was our littlest baby..I remember when she was born the dr put her on my belly and all i could say was OMG she is soo tiny, when i held her for the first time, she had eyelashes for days and this tiny button nose and i was INSTANTLY in LOVE!!!

Hailey has THE cutest face, you can be mad at her she gives you this little sad face and you just melt! I feel soo blessed to have her as my little Hay- Hay!!

Here are some of her pics from the last 3 years.. I CANNOT believe how much she and Kens look alike.. I have LOVED the last 3 years and cant wait for the rest.. I am so blessed and love this little lady she is my favorite 3 year old.. :)

THiS BaBy Is aLmOsT 1... YEP OnE!!!!!!!

September 24 2010.. was such an amazing day! We welcomed our sweet Kensley Elizabeth into the world after being in labor for 10.5 hours! She weighed 6lbs. 13 oz. 19 inches long and a HEAD full of hair.



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I loved this little girl from the moment I looked in her sweet eyes, we were instantly bonded!











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6 months......

Her 1 Year OLD BIRTHDAY PICS...














I am soo Blessed to have this little girl in my life..she has the cutest personality EVER!! Kens loves her older brother and sisters soo much, she laughs at pretty much EVERYTHING that they do!

Kensley's fun milestones...

She started rolling over at 4 months.
sat up at 5 months
ate real baby food at 6 months HATED it!
Started LOVING baby food at 9 months
her favorite is apples and cinnoman with rice cereal
She learned to stand with help at 9 months,
learned to pull herself up to toys at 9 months.
learned to army crawl at 9.5/10 months,
all in 1 week she went from army crawling to sitting herself up to crawling!
She has been saying LOTS of words since 7/8 months , things like daddy, momma, she waves and screams bye bye, says "YAY" and claps and throws her arms above her head, she says no, no, stop it (bop it), etc.
She LOVES her voice always screaming!
She took her real first steps SEPT. 9 walked from my dad to my little sis..
Started sleeping in her own room Sept 8.. LOL ( I am a wimp and couldnt let go)LOL
AND lets face it a HUGE MOMMA'S GIRL!!!

I have completely enjoyed watching this little lady bug go from my newborn to this amazing toddler! I loved this past year and I am Looking forward to the next YEARS to come!!!! :)

As of lately....

Life with 4 kids.. how do I explain it let see.. AHHHHHHHHHH.. Ok now that I have that out of my system its actually not that bad! Its at times overwhelming and stressful yet SERIOUSLY rewarding!! I love being a stay at home mom I love being able to raise my children at home! They have touched and blessed my life in soo many ways!

OK.. so A FEW highlights from this year...

In January Chad's brother Kevin SUPRISED us when he told us he was getting bapzited! HOLY cow we were soo excited! Kevin is chads ONLY full blood sibling he has, he is 26has 3 of the cutest boys and 1 SWEET angel baby Kooper Roy.. For those of you that dont know in december 2009 My sweet sister in law was pregnant and at 25-26 weeks lost her little boy.. It was so hard to watch them go through what they did.. BUT knowing what I know about eternal families I felt comfort to know that we WILL see him again, and prayed MANY MANY times that they would one day feel the same.. WELL NOW that Kevin is baptized they are working to go through the temple to be sealed to their boys!! I cannot express how AMAZING it is to know that they will be sealed to eachother and that they will have the opportunity to seal Kooper to them!! The experience of watching Chad Baptize his brother was so amazing the spirit was so strong I can only imagine what it will be like to see their family sealed!! I love them so much and very proud of the AMAZING choices they are making!!

FEb-MAY pretty much a blurr.. Spent most of it raising 4 kids on my own while Chad worked out of town in Louisiana! BLAH is all I have to say.. it was SOME of the hardest days i have had as a mother.. sick babies, sick mommy, sick babies!!! Ashlynn gradutated from preschool.. that was exciting!! She is going into kindergarten now that no so exciting.. sad she is old enough for real school.. I will cry like i did for Riley I am sure! :)

June Chad and i celebrated our 8th WEDDING anniversary!! YEP 8 Years.. I have always loved Chad but my love for him grows more and more.. I love every minute we have together and this September we will be celebrating our 2 year TEMPLE sealing anniversary and to me that is MUCH MORE important! I am so blessed to be sealed to Chad and my AMZINGLY beautiful babies! :)

JULY... It has been a VERY fun July so far..
JULY 2nd we went to the north shore pool and celebrated My sweet neice Gracie's 6th birthday...It was so fun WE (mostly chad) got Fried...He is still peeling LOL! Hopefully next time he will listen when we say SUNBLOCK.. LOL

July 4th .. SO SO FUN Our sweet Ashlynn was in the Cherry Days Parade.. She was on a dance float and did so good.. she loved it!!


Our sweert friends Jake and Alicia and their 3 sweet babes, and Our bro and sis in law kevin and Melissa and their sweet babes came and hung out at the parade.. JAKE AND CHAD are like 2 large 6 year olds.. seriously.. they are so funny!! The rest of the day we hung out the Kevin and Melissa had GREAT dinner and went to the Clearfield fireworks.. Our kids Jammies all kinda matched and for the 4th so we took pics it was hilarious people were looking at us like we have never been in public taking all the kids pics before we had 3 cell phones and a camera in their faces!!

(the people in the background were thinking we are NUTS)

There are a ton more pics but the computer was being slow.. BOo..

ANywhoo.. A little bit of whats going on with each of us

Chad... will be starting a new job on Base the end of this month and I canNOT be more happier.. ALL I know is its about time he gets better then what he has now!!
Riley... is getting so big it makes me sad he will be in 2nd grade this year and IS SOO excited! He will be playin soccer for the 3rd year this fall! Riley is or little helper and i couldnt be more blessed to have him as my ONLY SON!! He is so gentle with his sisters and very tender hearted!! I ABSOLUTELY love him!!
Ashlynn... she is my DIVA.. she is going into Kindergaten this fall and is so excited! She is already reading so she will be ready for that!! She will be starting her 2nd year of dance, I LOVE watching her dance she is so good and Its fun to see her experience it!! Ash is our little helper and I LOVE it! :)
Hailey... Where to begin with this one.. she is SOOO full of life my mom says pay back for how i was(i think I wasnt as bad as she says) LOL.. Hailey is SOO funny she lights up the room with her personality and BEAUTIFUL little face! She is MORE of a helper then I need so independent its killing me... and ruining my carpet(3 bottles of NEW fingernail polish ALL over the floor) still trying to figure out how to remove it!! :)
Kensley... She is almost 1 and I cant get enough of this babe!! I am starting to wonder tho.. if she is a little dependant on everyone to hold her she doesnt want to crawl.. notta! She is gradually learning she now army crawls then rolls to whatever it is she wants apparently that is MUCH faster!! I really am ok with it tho.. she is my last so if she wants to take her time growing up thats ok!!I LOVE LOVE this girl..

hopefully I can update this a little more often then 1 time a year.. we'll see!!! :)

23 weeks... and counting!!

I feel HUGE already and have about 14-16 more weeks to go! I am getting to the fun part of being pregnant..I LOVE feeling our little girl wiggle around in my belly! It is so fun for my kids to be able to see that I am pregnant and feel their baby sister! I cant wait for fall to get here so I can meet this little girl and see what she looks like!! BUT i know I need enjoy her and every minute of this pregnancy because she will be our last baby! We went to the dr's about 2 weeks ago and our little Kensley is getting so big.. she is about 9 inches long and almost a pound! She was all squished in there bent completely in half SILLY GIRL!! We will be having our 3d appointment July 1st so I will post those as soon as we can!! I cant wait to see her little face!! Well I am sure there will be more pics to come... we are in the middle of decorating the babies room I will post pics of that when we are all done!!

(this is actually 21 weeks)

New Baby Comments

This fall we are going to be welcoming our 4th and last baby.. and it looks like we are going to be having GIRL #3!! WOW.. how am I going to raise 3 daughters.. all the hair, nails, dance classes, proms, WEDDINGS!! WAY to many hormones in 1 home.. poor Chad and Riley!! BUT.. we are SOOO excited to welcome little KENSLEY ELIZABETH to complete our little potter family!!.. I will be posting more pics as things go!!

We are still alive!!

I know I am way way behind on my blogging.. It has been a crazy past couple of months!! Here's whats been going on..

October...

We enjoyed a FUN vacation in Las Vegas and Disneyland. Chad Started a new job in September which requires him to go out of town and so the day after we got back from our vacation Chad headed to Arkansas for 2 weeks!! YUCK.. So it was me and the kids all 3 KIDS by myself.. How I made it through.. well lets just say we had A LOT of Pajamma days!! :) We had a fun Halloween I took the kids trick or treating by myself Riley was a Star Wars guy, Ashlynn was Tinkerbell, and Hailey was a Bumble Bee! We went and spent Halloween with my family at my grandparents house!! It was so fun I look forward to spending the time with my sweet grandparents my grandma ALWAYS goes out of her way and makes a lot of yummy chili and other yummy things!! It was GREAT!!

November...

Nothing to exciting this month.. Riley turned 6.. YES 6 MY "little" man is 6!! Makes me feel super old!! We had a fun birthday party for him!

The night before his party the "girls" which consisted of me,Janese,sister in law Kristi, sis in law Melissa, and Mary Clinton's "friend" went and saw NEW MOON... WE LOVED IT!! It was so fun for the girls to get out and go.. Poor Janese she was due in 1 week and was SOOOO ready to pop!! Poor thing!! Thanksgiving.. it started out great than Ashlynn came down with a fever of 103.5 and so we ate and headed home.. so pretty much we spent thanksgiving at home!! BLAH!! The next morning me, chad, Mary , and my mom went BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING.. It was a blast we started at 2:00 in the morning!! BLAST!! We ended November with 2 girls with CROUP!! YES just what i wanted... the girls room had 2 humidifiers going and they were covered in Vics vapor rub!! Poor things!! :(

December...

What can I say about December.. I was THE GRINCH this year!! I LOVE LOVE CHRISTMAS but this year (2009) I just couldnt do it!! My dad and I usually fight about how I decorate to soon.. have my lights and tree up BEFORE thanksgiving but this year I was a slacker!! December started off great with my SWEET sister Jansese welcoming her 4th child (2nd baby).. Sweet ANNA KAYE!!! I LOVE LOVE HER.. I got to be there when Janese successfully had a VBAC.. I am so so proud of Janese she is such a strong woman I look up to her so much (even though I am 5'9 Janese is a whole 5'4..something like that) Little anna weighted a WHOPPING 9 lbs. 4 oz.. yes that BIG baby came out of my TINY SISTER!! Janese what a champ!!





Decemeber was a "FAITH TESTER & BUILDER" for Chad and I.. This part is probably the funniest part of the whole month.. We needed a new car battery so Chad went to put the battery in and and was hooking it all up and the car STARTED ON FIRE!!! LOL.. yes FIRE!! He had put the battery in backwards and blew up our alternator!! So.. our car was now undriveable...LOL... It really was ammusing!! So 2 days later Chad put a new alternator into our car! The following Monday it was snowimg like CRAZY.. I was driving Riley to school and my car wouldnt stop i would push on my breaks and nothing..and slid right through an intersestion!! SCARY!!! So come to find out my Master Cylinder went out so.. off to the Les Schwab to fix my car for the 3rd time in 4 days!! OMG I thought what else could go wrong and yep at a time where everything seems to be going wrong YOU NEVER SAY those words.. it just gets worse!!


After the first part of December my brother Clinton who was serving a mission in Tacoma, Washington had found a lump right above his groin that the Dr's thought could be cancer so he was sent home in order to have surgery and have it tested!! It was hard to have him home because I missed him so much being gone that I wanted him to stay knowing that he needed to go back! He had his surgery and everything came back great and we said goodbye to Elder Hansen On Wednesday December 30th.. He returned to his mission!! SO PROUD OF HIM!!! :)

Ok... on the positive side of December.. we had a very fun Harper Christmas Party, at my grandparents house!! It was so fun and the Kids enjoyed seeing Santa!





Christmas Eve we went to my Grandma, and Grandpa Hansen's house like we have since i was a baby! We were there for about 45 minutes and sure enough... RILEY who had been complaing about his belly hurting for 4 days starts throwing up!! OMG.. another holiday cut short because of a sick child!! It was so sad .. Riley had wanted a PSP for christmas and we told him that he would have to remind Santa (who was coming to the party) that he wanted it riley was laying on the bathroom floor crying saying that he really wanted to sit on santa's lap to tell him what he wanted :( the emotional Mommy that I am I started to cry!! I felt so bad for him.. we told him that we would call Santa and remind him! My family all started thinking that Riley had appendicitis!! We left and headed to the hospital, on the way to the hospital I called Santa (my brother) and told him that riley was a good boy and that he really wanted a PSP!! I love how kids "BELIEVE" in santa!! LOVE IT!! As soon as we left he started acting ok.. no more throwing up so we decided to just wait it out through the night and see how it goes! we opened our PJ's and headed to bed! We woke up and Riley wasnt throwing up but didnt want to get out of bed to see what santa had brought.. we forced him to go out and he went through all he got opened everything and was DEEPLY dissapointed that there was NO PSP!! We went to my parents house like we do every year.. and out back was a gift in the fire wood that was from Santa it said.."Riley I found this in my sleigh on the way back to the North Pole sorry Merry Christmas love Santa!!" Riley opened it and it was his BLUE PSP he wanted with 2 games and all the extras that go along with it!! HE was soo excited he almost started crying!! :) I know we are mean!! He kept comlaining of a belly ache so we decided to head to the hospital.. Chad, Clinton, My dad, James my brother in law, and MY sweet Grandpa Harper gave riley a blessing and off we went!! Me chad and riley got to spend 5 hours in the E.R. christmas morning!! What a blast!! All the test came back and Riley was fine!! MAN!! I was glad that he was ok!!

I was glad to see December come and go!! I usually LOVE it but this one not so much! I had my Faith tested more and more good and bad!! WE MADE IT THROUGH!! :) I know that when we ALL have trials that are put before us.. to test our faith and to make us stronger I know that the many nights I kneeled on my knees in tears that I have a loving savior who listened and knows me.. he WILL never give me more than I can Handle!! I know that things will get better!! I KNOW IT!!!

2010.... PLEASE BE BETTER TO US!!! PLEEEASE!!! :)

My 2010 NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS!!! (not in any order)
1- Grow closer to my heavenly Father!
2- attend the temple at least 1 a month
3- Lose the rest of my baby weight.. alomst there!! :)
4- Love my children and pay attention to every detail about them and their days because they will not always be children and not always be here!
5- have more patience!! A LOT MORE!!
6- GO on more dates with my hubbin
7- be a better wife and mother!!
8- get out of DEBT
9- Cherish the moments with the ones i love most
10-be more forigiving!!!!
11-.... HAVE MORE ME TIME!!!!!!

Ok 2010.. bring it on!! :)

OuR TrIp to DiSnEyLaNd!!!! :)

on tuesday October 20th we loaded up 2 of the 3 kids and headed to Disneyland! We stopped in Las Vegas and stayed the night at the Statosphere.. it was so fun we went to the Rain Forest Cafe for dinner and took the kids to all the shows that are on the strip! We got up wednesday morning and headed to Anaheim.. it was the LONGEST drive ever!! We got into the hotel chad and the rest of the family took all the kids swimming, well about 2 hours after we settled in the hotel Kayden my nephew had to be taken to the ER because he stuck a pen lid in his ear and caused it to bleed like crazy, when they got it looked at he also had a bead in his ear.. poor guy!!

Thursday morning we got up and headed to Disneyland it was a blast!! The kids and Chad had soo much fun!! AShlynn was just tall enough for the big rides so it made things even funner!! Later that night we went to Mickey's Trick or treat party.. which was soo cool how everything was decorated for halloween. The kids got SOOO much candy it was crazy they would just hand out HANDFULS of it!! That night we took Riley on Tower of Terror which is my favorite ride ever.. he LOVED it, he made us go on it over and over again!! SO FUN!!!

Friday and Saturday were fun too we went on a lot of rides and the kids got to meet a bunch of characters. Saturday was our last day there so we went to this thing called A Princess Fantasy Faire.. its where you get to meet all the princesses!! it was the longest line EVER 2 hours we waited I figured since we were leaving why not wait... I couldnt leave with out Ashlynn meeting princesses!! While we were in line chad took the kids to get their faces painted, Riley a Dragon, Ashylnn just had some pretty fairy things around her eyes!! When we finally got in to meet the princesses 3had left so we only got to see Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Mulan!! When ash saw sleeping beauty she started screaming she was sooo excited!! Well worth the wait!! :)

Sunday we headed home we drove straight through and it SUCKED!!!! I missed my Hailey Girl sooo much I couldnt wait until I got to hold her!! Our trip was soo fun well worth it!!

Here are some of the pics. there were waaay to many to post!! Enjoy!! :)