Luke being a DJ

This was at the children's museum in the cities. Luke was commanding the board at the "dance." It's ruined by me yelling at him to share, but doing nothing about it because it was so funny and I wanted to record it. And Marie ruins it by whining. Still funny. He's so Chris.

Travis' Kindergarten books

Travis made about 100 of these books in Kindergarten. I figured since we have some friends getting married this weekend, this story may be humorous. Also, my brother, Adam, is sitting around this weekend NOT playing softball because an unsoftball was caught by his face and he broke his jaw and his mouth is wired shut for 6 weeks. So, I thought he could use some reading material.

"The Frankenstein Wedding" By Travis Hanson- age 5

"I want a girlfriend."

Oh no, there's a girl going to jail who is really sad, she'd be a great pick!

She's crying for someone to help her....

Silly guards, they left their post and Frankenstein dressed up like a policeman and grabbed the keys. Genius!

She's crying; no problem though because his cute little hand with the keys pops around the corner.

"Come on?" says Frankenstein. "Huh?" says the gal.

"Will you marry me?" Who needs match.com people? Just head down to the jail!

So sweet.

The saga continues...

"I cannot believe we are going to the hospital."

"Well, I have a present." So, as you can see, that's pregnant Mrs. Frankensteing laying on the bed with her IV poles and her big tummy. Travis is an experienced big brother.

"Ta-duh!" Travis will be a great husband some day if he has flowers ready to go in the car when they go to the hospital to have a baby.

There is Mrs. Frankenstein, all smiley and happy looking at the flowers with the baby getting lower on her body...

"It is coming out!" This is where I am very glad that he is not writing this book in the 2nd grade when we've told him many more details about how this happens.

First, Mr. Frankenstein had wished it was one boy. But then, as you can see by the scribbles, he changed the story a bit.

Mrs. Frankenstein did NOT want two boys.

Brazilian Blowout/ Storm

Here is our trampoline after the storm. You can also see what it did to our shed, and our poor, new little tree.

OK, so these are crappy, uncropped, unfixed pictures, but you get the idea. I had a Brazilian Blowout done by Tammi G/T at InBloom. Above- my hair wash and air dried before.....

My hair washed and air dried, and after a bike ride outside in high humidity.

Above- the back before- air dried.

The back- after- air dried. I still have a few waves. But, NO poof. My hair is not puffy at the moment...and it didn't take me 40 minutes to get it that way.

I was very happy to see one of the last baby toys go to Halle Buckhouse. Marie got one more good bounce out of it for you Halle!

Marie likes to dress herself, even if both legs go through one opening. Not that I'm much better at hair, but she did her own hair as well.

No, I didn't learn how to take good photos. Luckily, I have a neighbor girl, Allison, who is great at it! She took these pics of the kids.

Marie 20 months.

Eva 8.

Luke 3 1/2

Travis 6.

Lego-maniacs

I realized that other little lego-maniacs probably would like to look at things Travis has built. I will just keep adding to this post as he builds!

He got this "Road Rescue Dodge" (953 pieces) from Grandma Tree and Grandpa Gerry for his birthday. Took about 6 hours for him to put it together. I hope Luke likes Legos and will get out of my hair for 6 hours?

He got this Toy Story lego set from Uncle Adam and Auntie Sheena.

Travis 6th birthday

I don't often do pictures of cakes without a kid...but look at how awesome this is? The cake was $30, the lego candles $15!!!!! No, I did not make this...obvious to anyone that is aware of my cake decorating skills.
Travis in lego heaven. We had a girl scouts thing going on, so the party wasn't until 4pm. Otherwise, I like to have parties in the morning so I don't have to hear about it all day long. For example, the cake was delivered at 10am and Luke said for the next 6 hours "Mom, I'm reawwy hungwy. Hungwy foe Wego cake."

It was so nice and hot out that I told the kids they could take their shirts off if they were too hot. It was a "red neck" birthday party.

So red-neck that we didn't even bother to get out chairs for the kids. We just let them run around and stand at the table to eat.

Watch cute, little Marie....watching the cake so sweetly. Not touching it, not grabbing anything...

Until I turned my back!

Chris, (yes Chris Hanson that I'm married to) he says "I've never actually wanted to eat one of my children. But, I could just eat Marie up she's that cute and sweet." Agreed.

The Easter bunny brought her this stroller to push babies in. In case she wasn't cute enough.

And, not only does she have Chris and I wrapped around her finger, Marie's also got the older kids smitten. You've seen pictures of Luke's cars that he creates at the bottom of the stairs. This time he's reading books to Marie while they travel. Hopefully he's not driving?

Eva reading her books. Travis says he wants us to have more babies because they are just so cute! He asks quite often actually? He must have forgotten the part with me eating and puking that it takes to get these cute things?

Gerry-Buckhouse It

Ever wonder where we get the term "Gerry-Buckhouse It?" Just look at the toddler in the milk crate on the front of the 4 wheeler. RIDICULOUSLY safe, I'm sure. Watch out Sheena, he'll Gerry-Buckhouse Halle too! Ha! Marie loved it and was actually very safe since they were driving as slow as my jog. And then grandma Tree tells me that the "blanket" Marie is wrapped up in is actually a leftover piece of fabric from the dog house. GERRY-BUCKHOUSED to the max!

We also "Gerry-Buckhoused" some sausage. There are many Gerry-Buckhouse things that are actually quite great! Like making breakfast sausage from scratch.

Marie with pretend baby halle

Marie loves her babies. Might have been the first time I've ever been so weak to buy a kid whatever toy they wanted in the store. It was just too cute seeing her walk around Fleet Farm with this baby carrier.