Hansen Family

So canning season is here.  I have already done my applesauce and now I’m going to move on to my peaches and pears.  I mother and father were very gracious to pick me peaches and pears at an orchard near Boise since I am all the way over in Jackson and couldn’t get over there.  Thank you mom and dad!!  Then my cousin drove them to Rexburg on his way back to school for me.  Well, I have waited a week for these things to get ripe and they are almost there.  So I think I’m going to try a batch of peaches today and see how it goes but I might have to wait another day.  Here is a picture of all my fruit to can.  Ilove the aroma that I smell from these.  They smell delicious!

I’m hoping to get two years worth of pears and a years worth of peach canned.  I did two years worth of peaches last year so I have one year left.  So my reasoning for this is because if something happens in June, July, August right before canning season and I can’t can that year I still have a years worth of fruit canned.  Smart thinking I would say!

Sunday we decided to do a little craft to take up some time.  I went online and found some color, cut, and glue projects that would be fun.  We decided that Kaden really does not like to color.  He would rather have someone else color or just watch us color ours.  He does like to cut and glue though.  So once we finally got him to finish coloring, which was a chore, he cut and glued.  These are our finished products.  It was fun!

This last weekend we went to Bear Lake with Blake’s extended family for our annual boating trip. Blake and Kaden had a ton of fun. I on the other hand was stuck with a headache and awful tooth ache the whole time. We were out on the lake from 10am to 7pm straight. Kaden played a ton on the sand and water with his cousins and we also put him on the tube behind the boat. He loved it. Here are some pictures.

Well, for anyone who does not know yet… I’m pregnant! I am almost 2 1/2 months along and am due at the end of March around my birthday. Yes, another March baby. That will make five in March. My mom, dad, brother, me and this one. Crazy huh?!
Kaden is continuing to grow. He spent two weeks with grandma in Boise. He was able to take turns visiting both Great Grandma Grow and Grandma giving mom a break. It started with them taking him while I went to girls camp. Then I convinced them to take him for another week so I could relax. This pregnancy is making me so tired. I just want to sleep all day. So it was so nice to have the house to myself for a week without Kaden. It has been nice to have him back though.
Blake continues to work and work and work. He is trying to figure out how to less his load because it is too much to where Kaden said the other day, “Daddy doesn’t want to stay home, he just wants to go to work.” So something has to change, we’ll see if he can do it.
Last night was a nice enjoyable evening with Kaden. Blake was working late at the Counseling Center until after 8:00pm so Kaden and I went for a walk, came home played with sidewalk chalk drawing pictures of kittys and suns, and grass. Then we laid in the hammock and looked and the different colors around us and read some books until dad came home.