Sept 2009

Not much happened in September this year and I took very few pictures. These pictures of Celeste are of her fire ant bites which actually happened at the end of August. You can see them on her forehead and right under her eye. She also had one on her lip.

You can see a bunch between her thumb and finger and one by her knuckle. Plus one more bite on her foot. This is what we think happened to her. We stopped at a gas station to let the kids go potty on our way home from Mississippi. Celeste had been eating goldfish and we think when we got her out of her car seat one goldfish must have fallen out onto the ground next to the van. There was an area next to the van that had wood chips and maybe remnants of flowers. We all went inside the gas station for maybe 15-20 minutes. I came out with all the kids while Shawn was still inside. I left Celeste in the wood chips while I opened the back to get out some cookies. All of a sudden I hear screaming from Celeste and run over to her to see ants on her face and chewed up goldfish in her mouth. We are assuming that she found the fallen goldfish (along with some fire ants) and put it in her mouth. Poor baby she has been bitten by fire ants numerous times this summer and she is one tough cookie. I got my first fire ant bite and it hurt.
On Labor Day we were invited by the Hunters to go swimming at a lake. We had no plans for Labor Day and so we jumped at the chance to go. We almost didn't get to go because we didn't know you have to pay and luckily between the Hunters spare change and ours we barely had enough. The kids had a blast!! The boys could touch until about half way out and they are pretty comfortable in the water when they can touch. Celeste loves the water and had so much fun! We'll definitely have to go back again (hopefully we can find it again).

August in Review

Since I'm so behind, I'm going to post by month. We started the month with more swimming lessons (Aug. 3-13). Treyton turned 6 since the last lessons so he moved up to the next level. Wade did pretty much the same things as in May.

Treyton learned so many more things this time around. He was actually learning swimming strokes and did so well in his class. He swam mostly without the teacher's help.
Shawn's birthday was next and we surprised him at work on his birthday. I had to do some sneaky preparation because of the security they have. But with the help of a couple other people we were able to pull it off without any problems.

Shawn with his one birthday gift--an electic toothbrush!!

School started on Aug. 24. Here's Treyton all ready for 1st grade!

Grandma and Grandpa Hammond came the weekend before school started on their way to Mississippi. This is what Wade and Celeste got to do while Treyton was at school.

Treyton walking to school on his first day. It's just over 1 mile.

Treyton sitting at his desk on the first day.

On Aug. 26, Wade started preschool, here he is with his school provided tote bag.

Wade has to put his lunch away and hang his bag all by himself everyday.

Aug. 28, Celeste home alone (well, at least without brothers) and already getting into trouble.

Aug. 29-31 We actually left on the 28th to travel to a tiny town in Mississippi for our niece's baptism. Here are the cousins watching a movie.

Shawn with the 7 cousins.

Shawn's sister, Michelle, and her family the day of Kennedy's baptism.

Ending the month with my birthday. Beautiful flowers and an electronic toothbrush.

Hansen Family Reunion

July 23-July 25

Craft day, the boys made these swords (light sabers usually)

and marshmellow gun (Wade's got left there).
Games, we had to put on a rolled up frozed t-shirt first. My was frozen solid.

Now the kids turn.

The boys got them undone with the help of hot water from the bathroom.

The kids got to go fishing for prizes. That's Wade.

This is the Hansen family. My mom is the top middle.

We had a talent show and here are 2 of my cousins singing and playing guitar while Celeste got up and danced to the music.

Here's our attempt at a family picture.

Fun Times with Harston Cousins

July 21-23

We took the kids to the Bean Museum and they had little quizzes they could do while they looked around. Here's Treyton, Luke and Ethan working on theirs.

A cub scout troop was getting a reptile show and they let us join too. That's Wade touching one of the reptiles.
After the kids finished their quizzes they got their hands stamped, they are showing off their stamps.

Celeste is not too happy that Lindsey is in the stroller.

Now she is pushing my brother's puppy-Snoopy.

Can you tell she likes strollers? Finally Emmett gets a turn.

We had tons and tons of fun at this place that had tons of bounce houses and huge slides. This is Wade

Treyton and Wesly

Khalani was so good with Celeste, she helped her climb up and slide back down.

This was a gigantic slide and Celeste climbed up all by herself;

And she went down by herself. I took Celeste up and down this slide 3-4 times and I was tired, but she wanted to keep going so she did it by herself.

After all that hard work playing, she was very tired.

Here's all the grandkids from Becky's side of the family. Boy did we all have fun.

Utah Trip-St.George July 17-July 20

On our way to Utah for my family reunion we stopped in St. George for a few days. Here are the boys being goofy!

Celeste playing nintendo ds.
With Shawn's brother Kory and his wife Sheena.

Grandma holding Celeste at the pool, which she LOVED!

Shawn and Wade swimming.

All my boys. Treyton is practicing his back float.

Shawn taking Celeste down the water slide. She absolutely LOVED this slide. Shawn took her down again and again and again.

The boys really enjoyed this slide too.