Presidents' Day weekend at the Hanson Cabin

My parents have a cabin in Oakley Utah, that they graciously let our family use together. Most major holidays are spent up there with them and the cousins!

Our boys especially love going to the cabin because they get to see Grandma and Grandpa, play with their cousins and ride Grandpa's snowmobiles.. they love those machines! We spent the whole Presidents' Day weekend up there having fun.

Cousin party!

All of the George cousins live in Morgan, and most of them live on our street. Faith, Riley and JD George all live next door. Faith and Fisher are only 4 months apart, Tucker and Riley are only 4 weeks apart and JD is a little ham! Our boys love to play with their cousins and invited them over for "cousin party" one night while Dave and Cami went out. We popped popcorn, played and watched a movie! They had a lot of fun and want to do it again with the rest fo the cousins.

My baby started school!

Today was Tucker's 1st day of preschool. Utah School for the Deaf started a program that allows the hearing siblings of the deaf preschoolers to attend the school in a different classroom. The hope is that they will both modle language from each other. Tucker will learn more sign and have lots of fun, while the deaf kids get to hear some more advanced spoken language. He was so excited to go to his preschool with teacher Lynell.

Here are some pictures when Steve dropped him off.

playing around

our boys just having fun with each other and playing around! This was Saturday January 31, 2009. Yep that is underwear on their heads! haha!

playing school

Steve has our camera so I cannot post any pictures, but here is what happened this morning:
I was e-mailing a picture to the primary when i heard some noises in the family room. Fisher and Tucker both had their snow boots on, backpacks and coats and the bar stools were lined up like a bus bench. "We're going to school!"
Tucker is super excited because he gets to start preschool Monday and Fisher already attends.
They walked down the hall to "class"
CUTE!

A pocketful of sunshine!

I had a great experience today! One of my students gave me "a pocketful of sunshine". She came up to me and asked (in ASL) how do you sign and fingerspelled favorite color? I showed her. She then came up to me and signed what is your favorite color? I told her and she quickly ran off. All of this was happening while my class was across the hall watching Channel one.
She later returned with a note made on my favorite color that said-
"You are such a great teacher! I have really learned so much ! Thank you for being not only a great teacher, but a great person as well! I am glad I have had the opportunity to learn ASL and have you as a teacher. You really do so much and are so amazing!"
That made my day!
Thank you !!! (you know who you are)
It was terrific validation for a first year teacher!

Fisher turned 5!

Fisher turned 5 on Friday, January 16, 2009 and boy did we celebrate! I didn't have school that day so we got to eat breakfast as a family and get ready at our own pace. Since Steve doesn't work on Fridays we had a whole day as a family! We took Fisher shopping for some presents and then to lunch at McDonalds with a play place. He and his brother Tucker had lots of fun!

That nignt Grandma and Grandpa Hanson brought him (ok the whole family too) dinner...Pizza and salad..one of Fisher's favorites! That night he had cupcakes then spoiled him with time and presents..stilts and a hippity hop!

we skipped saturday (celebrating) then had the Georges over on Sunday for more spoiling and cake!

We love you Fisher and cannot believe you are already 5!

Some of Fisher's presents