Fall Season

Luckily I can gaze out my office window and view Sardine Canyon. This time of year the hillside is covered in the wonderful fall colors. It's amazing to me to see the orange, yellows and the greens mix so nicely with the reds. It's a site you never tire of and then.......augh!.....
the box elder bugs come. It's frightening to see the gorgeous view blocked by this wiggling mass of black bugs. My visitors don't dare come to the front door. Last year they were soooo bad that the vacuum stayed on for days (okay maybe not the whole day by most of it) we sucked and sucked up the annoying pests that always end up in the house. We do hope this year it won't be as bad. Funny how you give up one annoyance for another. In Syracuse it was the jets and the golfers. Life has its way of reminding us that the rose always has the thorn. Well guess I better go suck up some box elder bugs. Think of me in your bug free worlds.

Kids and teeth

Would it be wonderful to have your children with beautiful permanent teeth right from the beginning. It's amazing how much money goes into taking care of teeth. I guess our Adam is going to need braces. The funny thing about this is he is anxious to get them. I'm sure that will change fast. So now we will be looking into getting that going. It was wild to watch Adam at the dentist, I did two shifts with my kids; first it was Katee and Riley on Mon. and then Adam and Aubree on Tues. Aubree had to have a tooth pulled. Well Adam decided to watch. (which I could never do, I was gagging at the fact they were getting cleaned I do not have a strong stomach) The dentist had to cut the tooth in half to extract it. Adam watched the whole thing. Then we left 10 min. later. As we were walking out into the lobby Adam said, "I'm not feeling well." He went nice and white. We sat him down, he couldn't even hold on to the phone that was in his hand. He kept complaining about still needed to recline, so he laid on the floor (thank heavens no one else was in the lobby) I kept telling him to breath through his nose. Well after he laid there for a minute we got up to leave. The second we got in the elevator he slumped down in a pale mess again. I decided to go and ask the dentist what he thought, I mean he had a cavity fixed but didn't have any laughing gas or anything to relax him. The dentist said it was probably from watching Aubree. He said the blood pressure drops and makes one weak and faint. SO that's what we figured. He inherited that from his mother. I remember when Katee was eighteen months old and she stuck her finger in the weight machine as I was using it. It snapped off her fingernail. Just seeing the blood made me gag, I ran outside and yelled for my neighbor. SHe had to take us to the emergency room to get stitches.

warning from Danette

Okay so my spelling sucks, its just like when I text I forget to double check if the gammar and all the tech. stuff is right. I will try to do better, I have gotten lazy with spell check in the computer. So bare with me if it's wrong, but I've also read those proof paragraphs where the brain reads it right. So you might have to rely on that when your are reading my blog. I don't intentionally try to look absent-minded. My intentions are good, I'm just slow at checking the important stuff, I get to excited to be blogging, and writing and texting. Silly me.

fun playing family

Hope you are still having fun playing games! (Adam, Aubree, and Katee playing Phase 10 when camping)

It's only been a day and look people have commented, Hurrah!

Here's some low-down on the family. We are now doing the school thing, which is good so we call all get back into a schedule. In the morning we have to shifts, the early morning shift and the morning shift. First Aubree gets up, if she's not in the kitchen by 6:20 we know we have to search her down. She's out the door by 6:40 Then Adam is in the shower at 6:20 (it use to be his father showering first but he has snuck in. A funny: the other day Adam went to bed at 11pm on a Sat. then at 12am as I was lying in bed I heard the shower. I went down stairs to see who it was and it was Adam. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "my alarm went off." He is that automatic. The power went off and he didn't reset his alarm. I laughed and told him to get back in bed.) Adam has been walking a 1/2mile down the hill at 6:50 to catch the bus that Aubree was on. He then sits on the bus for an hour before he gets to school. We have one bus that goes to the middle school that starts at 7:20 then it goes to the high school that starts at 7:40 and its final stop is at the junior high for school to start at 8:00. Once he is out the door I have an hour before Katee and Riley are woken up. They leave at 8:35.
Then my day starts, as long as I don't get on the computer revising before getting exercised and ready for the day, if I get in that trap of revising then the day is already gone.
Gary's job is going well. We definitely jumped ship at the right time. The building industry sucks right now, we still have a house for sell that we are trying to get rid of. We've had three contracts fall threw. As for me I stumped, I'm wondering if I should get a part time job, or go back to school and take some courses on gammer. I only wished my books would be accepted at a publishing house. I have one sitting at Cedar Fort right now with my fingers crossed. So I have written three novels, and three children's books. Only one is really polished (at least with my limited knowledge) So my dying wish will be to break into print. The sad thing is there are two more stories sitting in my head that need to get one paper. The one that is pressing is a sequel to Abish. So you see that is a lot going on in the Hansen home.

Finally I'm doing it.

Well I thought I would join the world and do the blog thing.