Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A little announcement

For those of you who may not know, we are pregnant! We are 22 weeks and 3 days and found out we are having another boy! I had my ultrasound yesterday. It was so cool, this Dr. does 3-d and 4-D ultra sound. We got to see his face. One picture looks like Fisher and the other looks like Tucker so he may be a good mix! I will try and scan in the utlra sound so you all can see. Our official due date is August 4, 2010- August 8 2010.
We are excited to have another little one. I am the only girl in the house..including our dog!
That is okay we love our little boys!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Long time no posts...explanation

I have not posted for about 4 months...I will explain! My hard drive on my desktop is full and I can no longer upload any photos; to add to that I think our desktop got a virus.
I will try to blog on other computers when I get the chance.
A few updates....
We had a good, but small Christmas..no one missed out on anything, but due to the economy and other factors we scaled back a lot in 2009.
We are pregnant. As of today we are about 22 weeks pregnant with another boy! He is due August 4, 2010. We are still considering a few names. We would like to stick with tradition and have an e-r name, but have to find one we both like.
Steve is going to be doing a bit of a different thing for his employment. He still has Riverside Electric Systems the residential division, but will not be doing much of the day to day stuff with that. He has joined forces with Dave Forsberg of Riverside Electric and will sell, install and maintain security systems for mostly commerical oufits.
He is liking the change but has a lot of learning and training to do along with it.

In January, I was called to be the 2nd counselor in the Young Women's presidenceyof the Morgan County Special Needs Mutual. It is a great calling! I have met and interacted with some great children of our Heavenly Father. There is something special about anyone with special needs. They are so loving and honest. The other women I work with are wonderful as well!

Our boys are getting big. Fisher is now 6 and in Kindergarten at Utah School for the Deaf. He is progressing well and getting so smart!
Tucker is 4 1/2 and goes to preschool 4 days a week at Utah school for the Deaf as a tuition student. Because he has a deaf family member,he can go there. He is a funny little boy and is awesome at ASL! Many of the extended family members call him the "little interpreter".
I am busy being a mom, wife and teacher and love it. I am lucky to have a great family and a job I love that allows me to spend a lot time with them while still working part time.

We celebrated St. Patrick's day Hanson style. I bought Lucky Charms for breakfast and everyone dressed in green...me included! We had a fun day and I made corned beef and cabbage for dinner then we watched "Darby O'Gill and the Little People".
This is only the 2nd year my kids have seen it and love it.
Thanks mom for teaching us fun traditions!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Cinnamon, the ultimate defense!

Today I was making Amish bread and had to add cinnamon. Tucker asked me what it was; I said Cinnamon. He asked, does scripture power keep us safe from that?
it took a second for me to understand what he was getting at..sin!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Halloween Costume award!






okay, I am so proud! Today the student body president of Morgan High School came into my room to present me with an award (a court jester's hat) for the funniest faculty costume on Halloween! If you cannot tell I am a true "billy bob hick" ! Do you see my teeth? You may have to click on the actual picures to get the close up look you need!


Here are the rest of our costumes. Steve's costume scared a lot of the little kids they wouldn't come get candy from him.
Tucker is a ghost and Fisher is Spiderman!



We had a fun Halloween!









Monday, November 2, 2009

suppport ASL as a candidate for Sterling Scholar

I got this email from a fellow ASL teacher. Read and if you agree, please write a letter!
Dear ASL Friends,

We are ASL teachers in Granite School District who have a potential candidate for the Deseret News Sterling Scholar Program this year. The student applied for the Foreign Language Sterling Scholar and was denied because the Sterling Scholar Program does not recognize American Sign Language as a foreign language. Many of you have probably had similar problems so we feel like we need to come together to address this issue so ALL of our ASL students, now and in the future, can rightfully qualify to become the recipient of the scholarship available through the Sterling Scholar Program. Our own ASL students have put together a petition that we are going to send directly to KSL and the Deseret News to encourage them to change their position regarding ASL as a foreign language. If you are comfortable, we encourage you to join us by printing off the attached petition and having your students, and any other individuals who would like to support us in this cause, sign the petition and then mail it back to us at Skyline High School c/o Teresa Owino at 3251 East 3760 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84109. This can be done through regular post or through interoffice mail. If any of you would like to take further action regarding this situation, please feel free to do whatever you deem necessary. Also, if you know others who might be interested, please feel free to forward this email onto them.If we all work together, we really can show the Deseret News and KSL that there is a strong ASL community here in Utah and that our students have the right to compete with other foreign languages.Thanks for your support and we look forward to making a change for our students!!Teresa Owino & Jody Lynn Tolley Skyline High SchoolASL Teachers

I couldn't get it to attach so if you want to join us in this fight write a short note explaining what you are doing and start a petition then send it to Skyline High School or the Sterling Scholoar program.
Thanks!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Tucker's funny prayer.



Tucker said the dinner prayer Wednesday (10/7) night. It was so honest and sincere I have to share it. It went like this:
"Heavenly Father, thank you for the food. Please let Jesus come if there are monsters in my room.." and right in the middle of the prayer he burped. Without skipping a beat he said "...excuse me if I burp or fart or have to change my underwear, name of Jesus Christ amen". I had to bite my lip so i wouldn't laugh out loud! At least he learned to talk to our Father in Heaven like a friend!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

I need to take more pictures!

I really need to take more pictures! My Grandpa Hanson died last month, and I was looking through my pictures to find some of him...I didn't find many!
My problem is I either bring my camera places and forget to take pictures or forget to bring them. New goal: take more pictures!!

Some of my favs