Boy or Girl??

As everyone may know... I am not a professional when it comes to blogging... and I can't figure out how to rotate this picture... but I am sure you can figure out what it means.

Baby Hanson will be joining our family sometime in January! And next month we will find out whether it will be a boy or a girl. You are welcome to start making guesses. Considering both of our families are boy dominant families I think it will be a boy... but we shall see! I can't even explain how excited we are! It seems so unreal at times. I feel so calm about everything one moment and the next moment it feels so surreal... so many emotions! I haven't had any real symptoms. I feel bad for those who have bad morning sickness... but what I had was anxiety! I thought there must be something wrong with me. I was nervous to tell anyone because I thought there must be something wrong since everything was going so smoothly. After 12 long weeks we finally heard the little heartbeat and the little kicks and at that point I calmed down and finally believed everything was okay. Now I am safely out of the 1st trimester and ready for the next fun milestone of finding out the gender.

Adding on to the excitement we just moved into a bigger apartment and I guess now it is no secret why! We have a nice 2 bedroom apartment and we are so grateful we found it. I love having a pantry and extra space! We had some great help too making it easy on me. My dad and brothers came and did all the manly work and had all the stuff moved in nothing flat! Then my mom and grandma brought their master cleaning skills and we have both apartments sparkling! I couldn't have done it without them. I will admit pregnancy has made me pretty tired and just the thought of doing all that made me want to take a long nap. And with all of the expert help we had it didn't seem too bad. Thank you everyone!!

Our 1 year anniversary is this Sunday and I am still in awe at the kindness and generosity of our loved ones and neighbors. Everyone was so kind to help and I look back on that special day with just awe. It was the best day ever! Now here we are 1 year later and Dustin has me wrapped around his finger. :) I sincerely love him with all my heart and it has been the best year I could have imagined. Everyone told me when we got married about how our love for each other would grow over the years and that still sounds great to me! Dustin is perfect for me and treats me so sweetly that I honestly couldn't ask for anything more. **Happy Anniversary Dustin!!** I am excited for our new little one to join us and for us to learn even more together as we start our family.

We love you all. :) Have a wonderful weekend!!

Wonderful Summer

This has been such a fun month. The 4th of July and Christmas are my favorite holidays. Which is good because they are almost 6 months apart. :) This 4th of July was just super too! We went to the Stadium of Fire with my family and had a perfect shady seat. David Archuleta and Brad Paisley were both really fun to listen too AND we had some tasty kettle corn and snow cones. What else could have been better? Nothing. Well, actually my Dad has some pretty amazing driving skills and got us home in like 10 minutes... that was the coolest part of the night I think!

We finally got to bed at about 1AM and 4 short hours later we jumped in the car and headed to Idaho! We made it with 15 minutes to spare which was enough time for me to change into my dress and for Dustin to tie his tie! yay! Baby Kenzie is just precious and we are so glad we were able to be there for her special day. It was so good to see all of the Hanson family. The grandkids are so much fun to be around... the weekend just flew by too fast! We enjoyed the fireworks in Idaho Falls and of course had to stop at Mr. Pizza before we headed home and that topped off the trip!

All is well at the Senior Center... I can't believe how fast the summer is going by. I will only be there another 6 weeks! Ugh... and then school starts again. I have been trying to mentally prepare myself for school start since we got out in April and I am still not too enthused to go back... I feel like I am back in grade school again! haha... I am however excited for Dustin to get going in the Accounting Program because I know how wonderful he is going to do! And really, I am beyond excited about being a senior so it is going to be a good year!

Our 1 year anniversary is 17 short days away! The other exciting part of that week is Dustin will be finished with his night sales job! We are excited for August so we can spend lots of time together and go on our fun family trip to San Diego!

Yay for summer! I wish everyone reading a wonderful summer too!