memorial day!

We had a fun filled memorial day!  The kids were so excited to go to Parker's 

grave.  The cemetery was SO beautiful.  I can't ever describe the beauty of the cemetery on 

Memorial day, but it is unbelievable.  Flowers are everywhere, and so many people visiting

their loved ones.  It's just beautiful.  

My kids run right up to his grave and were so excited to give him flowers and a pinwheel.

they are so angelic about their brother, they think of him all the time and 

always ask if they can say a prayer.  They are so lucky to have him as 

their guardian angel.  what a blesssing to know that we are an 

Eternal family.  

they wanted a picture of the "Triplets"... this pulls at my heartstrings!

then the boys went golfing at Alpine Country Club and we went swimming with our cousins. 

they had a huge BBQ going so we all ate a yummy lunch with some ice cream cones!

Ivy swam the whole time we were there in the deep end{without her floatie.}   

she is swimming so good.  

She decided she was brave enough for the diving board now.

Then later that afternoon we headed over to the Taylor's for some more BBQ-ing and playing with 

the Taylor cousins.  Papa had his dune buggy out and Brigham and Boston were driving
 everyone all over the place.  {they secretly love this job}

as if we needed one more thing to do, the kids suggested "Hang Time" to end the night!  

luckily no body was their and they got plenty of Dodgeball time in.  I love watching Brigham and 

Boston do tricks  they are ridiculously coordinated!!

then we had to hit up Krispy Kreme.  I think the day was successful!

press play on this video of Boston and Briggs...

memorial day...

we had a fabulous day of beautiful weather! we started off the day with the Ultimate crossfit 

workout "Lumberjack 20" of course to honor the fallen soldiers. 

 so intense but so awesome!

when we got home the kids had all written cute cards and notes for parker's grave.

it was a day full of love and peace as we prepared to visit their sweet brothers gravesite.

I'm always amazed at the beauty of the cemetery on Memorial Day.  

It is literally so breathtaking!

We ate lunch at "Sammy's" with the carson's and then cory and I headed out for some 

biking with my sister mindy for her very first Mtn. bike ride! whoop whoop!

I'm not to sure she liked it. haha

we ended with a delicious bbq and our cousins playing!  Boston headed to a movie with 

his cousins to see Men in black 3.  we ate s'mores and then passed out late at night.

2 more sleeps til summer break!!!

memorial day...

"It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."

~ alfred lord tennyson

seriously cemetery's are so beautiful on memorial day.

 filled with so many flowers and visitors, and plenty of love!

my kids love picking out balloons and flowers for their brother parker. 

 they always like to let them go into heaven. ;)

then love to ask a gazillion questions which cory is so wonderful at answering. 

we love the fact that these kids always include their brother, in prayers in
the question of "how many kids are in your family" and in all things family!
he is never forgotten.

we are so blessed as a family and like always miss our little boy and brother.

"SIX" years old today!

Happy Birthday to my angels!  

 these two keep me smiling, help me to love stronger and definitely pull at my heartstrings.

they're our babies. 

 We have babied them since birth, and they still try to grow up. {wink}

my darling friend katie from "peekaboo" took these pictures.  

{more coming soon}

these two have been counting down the sleeps until Today, 

they even made their own chain link advent calendar to their birthday.  They love kindergarten,

 have so many fun friends and are each others best friend.  

We feel so blessed to have them healthy and with us here today, they are true little miracles! 

Six years ago I made many promises to their brother parker, and i hope 

i'm holding up my end of the bargain. 

~we miss him dearly.

Some of Livi's favorites...

playing with friends {she loves friends}

dancing

riding bikes & scooters 

math {she's doing 1st grade math!}

reading~she is always sounding out stuff 

my favorite thing about Olivia is she is always trying to make us happy, 

she loves to come help me in the kitchen with cleaning or cooking. You can give her a chore and she will ALWAYS be the first one to get right to it and finish her job. No complaining. 

 She brightens her dad's day with her laugh.  He melts for those giggles.

He is such a softy when it comes to his princess.  

she's such a fun daughter, always smiling and still so so sweet.

 some of Hayes' favorites...

loves playing his DS

xbox with boston

wrestling with his buddies

football

riding bikes

hanging out at home {total home body}

he loves his pretend stories at night from dad! i love hearing the giggling 

when cory tells him a bedtime story.

he still loves little figurines & can play for hours with tiny things, he is so imaginitive! This boy is hilarious.  he always keeps us laughing and he and boston have become such cute little buddies.  

Hayes is crazy, fun, hyper & also very sensitive.  He gives the best hugs to momma!

he loves loves loves his baby sister ivy.  

happy birthday my loves, i cannot imagine life without you...

xxoo, mom

A Very wet Memorial Holiday...

We had our Hansen Memorial Day Party ! It was so much fun with LOTS of cousins and Games and yummy BBQ! We had to go with a back up plan and bring the games Inside, since it was Raining with Thunderstorms all night. The kids Played on a Blow up Obstacle Course, Basketball, Cake Walk, Jump Rope and Ring toss. It was alot of fun regardless of Bad Weather!

After all the fun activites with the Hansen Cousins, We all went to the cemetery to place flowers and flags by Parkers Grave. The kids all had Balloons to give to him and let them go into heaven. It was so Gorgeous with all the flowers everywhere for everyone and a little bit of rain started coming down. I Love talking about him to Hayes & Olivia, they say the cutest things, and all day long they were wondering when we could go see Parker in heaven. They were a little disappointed when we were at the Cemetery.
So Sweet...

Then we all went to Sonic to get Slushies and watched "National Treasure 2" {SO GOOD}
It was a Wonderful memorial Holiday...

I love this Kid!

I looked through Boston's Backpack today, Because we have NO School (yippee)! I found a little Booklet that he was making in his Class about Families! He is so adorable I just had to Post the Page of his Family! It's so cute how much he loves his Brother Parker! He always includes him Still, every time we talk about how many people are in our family!

I am reminded of what is really important to us and to keep our Eternal Perspective very clear!

(I will have to ask him why our Faces our all red..I am sure he was in a hurry to go to Recess ;))