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Hansen Christmas--The Sequel

Happy Christmas to us! Look you can buy a fireplace and plug it in. Hooray for electricity and automatic ambiance. Just in case you are wondering it has a space heater inside that makes the room warm as well.

Ode to the tree.

Here is the last part of our Christmas (pst it's a couch). We didn't spend much on presents for each other, but it was nice to get some things for the house.

Merry Christmas YW

I thought you might enjoy some shots from the 11th Ward Young Women Christmas party. We enjoyed fabulous treats and thrilling white elephant gifts. I think the highlight was a sheep that poops jellybeans. What a party!?!

Here are the girls:
Jerrica and Lynda love the camera.

Jamie and Brittany, smiling sweetly, but secretly they gave me a lot of grief over one picture.

Sadie and Katie. This is Katie's "I'm scared of the look you are making" face.

Lovely Aspen, Celeste, and Casey.

Here is Sarah (the Young Women President) protesting having her picture taken.

Here's Jerrica's modeling her cool new white elephant. She got a MP3 speaker that acutally works!

Double Digits

So way back on November 10th Spencer celebrated his golden birthday and turned 10 years old. What does every 10 year old boy want (besides a Wii)? Answer: A skateboard--so far he hasn't broken any bones!!
Here's Spencer's cute mug with the soccer ball he got and Devin over cheesing it with a game. I wonder if he is practicing to be a Barker's Beauty.

Happy, Happy Birthday Spencer dear!

I Want Candy-My Ode to Halloween

So I was reading Mandy's post on Halloween and she mentioned how late she was getting the post up and here I thought I was doing so great to get the post up within a week. Anyway, despite my contiual tardiness here is my Ode to Halloween. Michelle and Pierce as my favorite nerds.

This is Shawn and Andrea's baby, James, getting all dressed up for the Halloween adventures. I can't believe how big he is getting.

James is so cute, even as a scary ghost. I love his grin and he doesn't even have any candy yet.

Look at the size of that hair. I think those side burns could put someone's eye out.

Peace out.

Jen and Jonathan.

Andrea gets the award for the most authentic witch. She has both green hair and striped socks. Whoa!

Shaun as a mummy. Notice how the couple that has been married the longest is the hardest to get in the same picture.

Nothin' says lovin' like two Halloween Hippees. We enjoyed another great party at the Browns and survived another round of Brown Family Bingo (don't ask about the prizes). Happy Halloween!

*Editor's note: Due to operator error the picture of the coolest trucker with real side burns (Krys) and the sweetest flower child (Julianne) was blurred beyond posting quality. Sorry you all missed out, wish you were there!

Bump, Set, Spike it, That's the Way We Like it

Matt really loves volleyball and fortunately for us Layton City has recreation program that includes volleyball. They have about three "seasons" a year. Here are the warm up shots prior to the game.
Gotta love the live action shot.

Justin, Matt and Brett bumping the ball around.

Here's Matt getting ready to set and Jamie on the other side of the net hoping for a good dig. This season Matt's team survived the first round of the tournament, but went down to defeat in the second round. Go Hitters!

Young Women Scrapbook Night

My current church calling is in the Young Women. Something this ward does that I haven't experienced before is to put each girl in charge of a month of activities. She gets to pick with some guidance and assistance to get all the materials etc., but she chooses and conducts. One of Brittany's activities was scrapbooking which was hit. Here are a few shots of the occasion.
Brittany busy working away.

Ewww I have glue on my hands! How did that get there? Oh wait I did that.

Sister Phillips (originally from England) loves it when I take her picture.

Hi Jamie and Jerrica.

Brittany, Sadie, and Katie working with Sister Nelson looking very entertained.

Part of the crowd busy at work.

Finally, last but not least, here is one of the girl's pages with everyone together--Katie, Sadie, Brittany, Jamie, the Totem Pole, Jerrica, and Shayley.

P.S. These pictures we scrapbooked were from girls camp where we each had to build a piece of a totem pole, hence Big Red.