Elmo, Train and a Balloon

Saturday, Grandma Debby and Grandpa Steve took Coly, Audi and I to see "When Elmo Grows Up." Colin and Audra both had a good time, Coly would be so disappointed when Elmo would go away, but was super excited that Cookie Monster was there too. It was cute with a lot of singing and dancing.

After, we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Coly saw a model train of grandpa's and wanted to play with it. Grandma got out a larger train. It took 3 adults and Colin to put this train track together because he was in such a hurry to get it done. Unfortunately, the train didn't work. He would say "Grandpa, fix." He even got down to "help." During the this time, Colin's Elmo balloon from everyone and got caught in the ceiling fan. So, we had to get a ladder to get the balloon down because it was a $10 balloon. Can you believe that? But Bri was patient and got the balloon untangled and freed from Grandma's and Grandpa's fan. Colin crashed so hard that night, he had a great day.

Little Red Car

This little red car has caused Brian and I so much grief. How, you wonder. Let me tell you. This little red car was given to Colin, by Grandma Debby. It is a foam car, nothing to special just a companies marketing technique. Well, this car is Coly's second security blanket. He gets sooo mad if he can't find his car when he wants it. He cries at night if he doesn't have it to go to bed with and will not stay in bed until he has his car. He has even lost the car in the middle of the night sleeping and come into our room crying saying "car, car." Who knew a little red car, could cause so much grief.

An Evening with Santa

Yesterday, was a great day. My mom had all 3 of us girls over to paint our nativities that we ordered from Super Saturday that did not get done. It was so much fun to laugh and talk with my mom and sisters. We had Christmas music on, a fire in the fireplace and it was snowing, it felt like Christmas time. I love it.

Last night, was Brian's family Christmas party and it was delightful. We had dinner, then we had a White Elephant gift exchange. It was so funny to watch the dynamics. Brian got a Santa Potato Head for the kids, and I got nice hair products. YAY! Just as we finished up with the White Elephant, Santa and Mrs. Claus came to the house. The kids loved it. Santa brought each child a small gift. Coly got a Thomas tractor and Audi got a fuzzy pink cell phone. After, all the kids had gifts, Mrs. Claus read "The Night Before Christmas." Then Mr. and Mrs. Claus passes out Jingle bells and sang Christmas songs with everyone. I absolutely LOVED it. It was almost like the Christmas parties you see on movies. The kids loved it too. Mr. and Mrs. Claus had to go, so then we played games and had dessert. Thanks to Rupe and Diane for hosting a FABULOUS Christmas party.

Mrs. Claus reading

Santa and Mrs. Claus leading the singing

Santa Picture Day

Thursday, I took all 3 kids up to Kaysville, to my FAVORITE photographers, Little Angels Photography. It was picture day with Santa. So, here are the darling photos.

A Big Day

Today, was a big day in both kids worlds. Audra, has not been able to start solid foods due to Colin's allergies. The doctor wanted to test her before we start, which I am grateful for, because I don't want to have the scare like we did with Coly. So, today we saw Dr. Broadbent and she tested Audi for Eggs, Dairy, and Soy. They all came back negative, YAY!! However, sometimes when the child is so young she gets false negatives, so we will have to go back when Audi reaches her 1st birthday. So, after the appointment Audi got her very first solid food, which was sweet potatoes (the allergist doesn't like starting allergy families on cereal because people have reactions to it) and she loved them. So, finally I will be able to let daddy feed the baby, YAY!!!

Tonight, we decided to watch a potty training video. Coly has Elmo Potty Time, but this has not been helpful to get him to go potty. Brian's aunt Diane, gave us a Pull-ups training video and we watched that one. Coly said "potty." So, I asked if he wanted to sit on the potty and he said yes. Then he actually did go potty and 2 more times. YAY!!! We are super excited. He is also now wearing big boy underwear.

So, it was a very big day in the Hansen house today.

Much to be grateful for

Last night we went to the grocery store, Brian made a comment that has stuck and I want to share. He said "I can't believe how many people are shopping with a scowl on their faces. Smile people you can afford to buy food."
Even though things get tight, we can afford to buy food, keep a roof over our heads and have a healthy family. So we do have much to be grateful for. It is very important that we remember that this time of year, but really all year long.

The making of a new tradition, maybe

On Sunday, I asked Bri if we could take the kids down to Temple Square on Monday night. He thought that was a good idea. On Monday, we rode Trax down to Temple Square and walked around. It was so cute, as soon as we entered the gate and Coly saw the light he started running "yights, yights." He was so excited. He wanted to go here and he wanted to go there. Then he saw the Temple and pointed "castle" I tried to correct him, but there was no telling him that it was a Temple, because in his mind it was a "castle." As we walked to the plaza and he saw the water he got even more excited, if that is possible. He wanted to play in the water. After we made our rounds, we caught Trax and then had dinner at Cafe Silvestre. It was such a good night, that I told Bri we need to make this a tradition, he said "maybe?" It was truly a great way to start the Christmas season.

This nativity set, is one that Brian worked on when he worked at Modern Display. I just had to have a picture, of Brian's famous work.