Hansen Family Update

Well I took another break from blogging because man, we have been busy!! Jeremy's parents and grandpa came to visit last weekend. We had so much fun with them - seriously I hit the jackpot when it comes to in-laws! We went to the zoo, went swimming at their hotel, had a BBQ at our house and they went golfing on Monday while I was at work. We hated to see them leave, but since I will NOT be having any babies this year, it's nice to know that we can travel to see them soon.

This weekend has also been exciting. We spent Friday night watching Michigan State win to make it to the elite 8 of the NCAA basketball tournament. Honestly, if you would have told me 10 years ago that an exciting Friday night would be watching a march madness tournament game, I would have looked at you like you had three heads, but here we are and it's one of my favorite times of the year. We also felt a small earthquake, which was fairly exciting. Saturday night Jeremy and I actually had a date!! Our friend Alexis is a professional singer and put on a show so we took advantage of Aunt Susu and Uncle Mike - babysitter extroidnaires - and we went to dinner first with NO KIDS! Before we left for dinner, Kathy and I went to a blow out bar to get our hair done for Kathy's birthday and if you have never done this, do it now! It was soo nice just relaxing and having someone else take care of making my hair look nice! We met up with our friends and best neighbors ever at the show. It was amazing - Alexis looked gorgeous and blew us all away with her voice. We felt like real adults but were exhausted all day Sunday haha.

ROAR!!

Ok, well getting one blog post per week hasn't been quite as easy as I had hoped. However, as most of you know, my Grandpa passed away last week, which has kind of disrupted my little schedule around here. I will definitely write about him and my favorite memories with him, but am not quite ready for that yet. So in the meantime I thought that I would write about our trip to the Zoo last weekend. Living in San Diego, we have access to an amazing zoo as well as the Wild Animal Park, but Molly hasn't really been old enough to get into it until now. We had such a great time with Suzi and Mike and can't wait to go back! Get ready for a little picture overload...

 

She might have peed through her diaper onto Jeremy's shirt shortly after this pic...oops!!

I love this picture because Molly is so into it and poor Jeremy look miserable because there were SO MANY people in this exhibit...

This picture was taken at the polar bear exhibit in a play igloo. Molly had so much fun - she was squealing at the top of her lungs and my sweet sister got all the way in there with her! 

Her first time on my shoulders! She kept saying "up high"!

These are my favorite pictures from that day. Gracie could not have cared less that we were at the zoo, but she sure had fun with her Aunt Susu! 

Not much else has been going on around here, just a lot of trips to Manhattan Beach to start settling everything for my Grandparents. We are however getting VERY excited for Jeremy's parents to visit next week and will definitely have a lot more pictures after their trip. Until then...

Welcome Back and Valentine's Day

Ok, here I am again! One of my New Year's Resolutions was to start blogging again and it's now the middle of February and I've just started. True to form for me really... Anyway, I've gone back and forth on what to do with this blog, but realistically I've settled on making this a place to post about our little life to update our family and friends. And seriously, my kids are too dang cute to not have a site dedicated to bragging about them!
There is just way too much to update since my last post, so lets just start with the first of the year. I went back to work the second week of January and was transferred to our clinic in Ramona. I really miss my staff in San Marcos, but have actually enjoyed working in a little country town. I also can still keep my eye on everyone in San Marcos because Jeremy took over there when I went on Maternity leave. Otherwise, we are still adjusting to a family of FOUR! Our little Gracie is such a sweet, happy little girl and Molly has become the sweetest big sister - she loves to give Gracie kisses! This weekend we decided to try some rice cereal with Gracie. She has had some little health problems - she's always been super congested, she has eczema and gets rashes at the drop of a hat and recently had a little stomach bug. So, I think the sooner she gets something in her little stomach other than milk, the better. I think she liked it...

We also tried putting Molly in the booster seat as her highchair was being occupied, I think it's still a little early for this!

Also, Friday was Valentine's Day and because I had to work late (and because we have two small kiddos) we just had a quiet evening at home with some take-out from Cheesecake Factory - not too shabby! Happy Valentines from the Hansen's!!