I love HIM!

I love this man! Ryan is the best husband any woman could want. He knows me so well. He loves me, takes care of me, provides for me. He is my best friend. I am so thankful that God saw fit to give me such a man.

Happy Valentines Day to my love, my friend!

Song of Solomon 2:16 "My beloved is mine, and I am his:..."

Bridgerland Applied Technology College

This is Lenard.. He is one of Ryan's teachers at Bridgerland. Yesterday we went to a job expo at Bridgerland. They had all different exhibits set up for you to look at. This was one of the demonstrations for the electronics department(Ryan's department). This does not sound that loud, but I tell you.. It made you jump! What they are doing is blowing up a capacitors by giving way more electricity than is needed. Thus the explosion.. Just before we started to record he yelled.. FIRE IN THE HOLE! After we seen this we went up front to where they had their beauty class set up. I had a wonderful hand and arm massage. Jurney received a scalp massage. Ryan and Jaden headed back to the diesel department and ate cookies and enjoyed a coke. We had my friend Stacey watch Joshua and Josiah so that we could have an outing with the older ones.. All in all it was a fun and very interesting time.

2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

9 Months today!

My baby is 9 months today.. he is Ryan Jr. for sure.. looks and all! My mom scrap blogged this picture that I took.. He is such a cute little guy! He almost has one tooth (on the bottom). He pulls himself up to things.. He is very close to crawling.. I know.. this really is a good thing to have him not totally mobile yet, but they are so cute when they start crawling! Well, who can believe it has been 9 months already.. NOT me!

Proverbs 23:25 "Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice."

Resolutions one month later!

I had announced that our whole family was going to be making some big changes and when we had all the kinks worked out I would let you all know what we are up to! Well, it has been one month since we all sat down as a family and decided that we wanted to be a healthy family! So, we now get up and exercise together everyday for 30 minutes. We eat proper portions and best of all we eat healthy foods. What a difference this has made.. Praise God for the discipline He has given to us to see this through!

Progress:

Ryan- lost 12 lbs.!

Me- lost 24 lbs. and 12 1/2 inches gone!

Jurney- lost 3 lbs. and 4 inches gone!

Jaden- working on a six pack

Joshua- well let's face it.. he never quits running.. He is a workout! :)

Josiah- working on crawling and cutting his first teeth!

1Timothy 4:8 "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."

Brrr.. It's cold

Man has it been cold.. Our furnace has been on the blitz lately.. We have it running all day long and as soon as we go to bed.. It shuts off! So when we get up it is around 54 degrees in the house..Brrrr... We finally get it going in the morning.. So this is how we have the baby dressed to keep him warm.. Layers.. and then more layers.. Joshua now thinks that when you go to bed, you have to put on two pairs of pants.. Well, we are praising God it ran all night last night! We are also thankful for space heaters and warm clothes. Ryan thinks that it is the thermocouple.. What ever that is.. He is going to fix it this weekend!

Proverbs 17:3 "The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts."

Moving up...OR.. should I say down?

It is time.. Josiah has started to pull himself up to the sides of his crib.. To avoid injury, we are moving the crib mattress down... Ryan and Jaden had this done in no time at all. Josiah has nor real interest in crawling.. He could if he wanted to.. he leans over... gets on his knees.. sits back up.. sometimes he falls onto his belly.. a few moments of this and he starts to cry, pick me up.. I do not want to learn how to crawl.. What can you do.. When he wants to go, I am sure he will!

Proverbs 3:23 "Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble."

R.I.P.

Our pet rat Templeton died yesterday afternoon.

He has been very sick the last couple of weeks.

Jaden is getting ready to go out back and bury him. He lived with us for almost 3 years. He was given to us by my dad. He had bought him to feed to his pet snakes, but the rat put up a good fight and the snakes would not eat him.. So my dad called us up one day and said do you want this rat? Either you take it or I am going to flush it down the toilet.. Well, needless to say we took him.

Genesis 2:19 "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof."

They SHARE it all!!

Joshua and Josiah share it all. As you can see they are sharing the Binky here.. Yes, you are seeing correctly Joshua has 2 in his mouth.. Josiah does not like Binky's at all and as soon as I was done taking this picture he spit it out.. Joshua on the other hand thought this was fun for a minute or two! When I said above that "THEY SHARE IT ALL" I meant it.. They both have strep throat again.. Poor babies! They are always sick with something.. it seems like anyways.

James 5:15 "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

Back to WORK!

Well after a long and well needed break.. it is back to work.. Well school work that is! It was a rough start today, but now that I have gotten started it is alright. Schedules are great... they keep things moving! We had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. Our family has made a very big New Years resolution... Once we get all the kinks worked out we will share it with all of you! Hope your return to normal is a good one!

Psalms 90:17 "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it."

Happy Anniversary!

I praise God for a man like my Ryan. He is so good to me. I love him more today than the day I married him. I love you Mr. Hansen and I am so glad that God gave me to you!

Song of Solomon 1:15 "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes."