Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Great Salt Lake

KC, Hank and I drove into Salt Lake on our Anniversary (August 18th) this summer. We had a great time taking Hank around Temple Square and downtown. We also went up Immigration Canyon to eat at Ruth's. We also were lucky enough to stay with our friends, the Hatchs and go out to eat for an anniversary dinner with them in Heber. Heber is so relaxed and low key- a fun change.

Hank and the Conference Center waterfall

 

Classic temple pose

Hank seeing my Grandpa Eddington's portrait of Christ for the 1st time

Ruth's diner

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Get togethers

Yesterday, August 1st marked my parents 40th wedding anniversary! Forty years is a long time and as my Grandpa Christensen would say, "Not even a drop in the bucket." They look so awesome in these pictures and everything seems so vintage or 70s fantastic. Like my Dad's hair which is where all of his kids get so much hair! My mom even has long hair. Also I love my mom's dress and the intricately decorated cake with the platforms.

 Parent's wedding reception in the Lion House, Salt Lake City, UT

 This seems like a picture right before they were married. 

Here we are at a stake activity at the church for Pioneer day. There was food, face painting and stick pull type games. Hank screamed his head off when the stick pull started. He thought the people battling were in pain.


Martha was in town visiting Shane so we got together for lunch at Val's in Hayward and the Abotts came too! Tim Abott and Shane both work at the Temple together. That has got to be a great place to work.
 
 Me, Martha and Margo- all M's

 Hank has been good at saying cheese when I hold up my phone or camera

The other day I walked into the kitchen and thought Hank looked like a pre-teen for a second. I caught a glimpse of him and seriously thought I had a flash forward of what he would look like when he is 14 or something. 


Hank is dressed in all cougar things. He will walk around the house saying Daddy's hat and make sure it stays on while he goes down the slide in front of our house. 



Sunday, July 1, 2012

Monkey on your back

So it has been a while again since I have posted, I didn't take a picture for almost a whole month and a half. Woops. So since the last post Hank has started talking a lot, and is very attached at the moment. He really notices when one of us is leaving and loves it when both his parents are around. He seems to be a little of a daddy's boy. Here are a few pictures of Hank enjoying his playground, feeding his dinosaur pasta and wearing his monkey backpack. (We don't use the backpack walking harness like it is intended, but hank likes to put it on.) We also finally got to take Hank to a pool, there aren't that many around here we can use. We got Hank dressed and then KC walked him into the chilly water and must have dunked him under too fast or he swallowed water causing him to death grip KC neck and whine for 20 minutes before he decided to get back in the hot tub with his feet. Deathly afraid. Hopefully Hank will come around, this week we are going camping for the 4th. Should be a good time.









Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Fairyland

KC and I took Hank to this park in Oakland called Fairyland, which is actually the park that inspired Disneyland. They had fun rides, themed areas, animals and Hank's favorite the choo choo train. I also went down to LA to help with a double baby shower for my sisters Josie and Anne. I need to get some pictures from them, but they hardly let us take them so it might be hard to get permission to post them. 



I think Hank lost his glasses right here. Haven't seen em since.



Bunny Rabbits






train times


Monday, April 23, 2012

Hank is starting to learn and repeat a lot more words these days. The problem is that he won't say them on command when I have a camera in his face, so here are some of them that he says at a year and a half for me to remember:
  • Baba- milk bottle
  • Wawa- water, or a pool
  • Appool- apple or any fruit mostly
  • Mama 
  • Dada- he used to say papa 
  • Uh ew- Uh oh
  • Shuwz- shoes
  • Up- says this when going up or down each stair
  • Airpane- aiplane
  • Baaall
  • Boog- Bug
  • Bat
  • Hat
  • Hair
  • Moo
  • Neigh
  • Dodollycado- Cockadoodle doo
  • Bye Bye
  • Hi
  • Peekaboo
  • Gookie- any sweets, snacks or cookie
  • Moon- Goodnight Moon book 
  • Laers- Laters, when saying by to things
  • Cayoo- Caillou, one of his favorite shows
  • Baaa- Shawn the sheep, another favorite show
  • Elmo
  • Ew ew ah ah- Curious George or any monkey
  • Mou
  • Meow- cat
  • Woof woof- Dog
  • Debbie- a name he loves to say when he is excited about something
  • Emie- Emily his friend across the street
  • Emonade- Lemonade the name of his blah blah doll
  • Teethies- teeth
  • Woobez- woobie, or his blanket
  • Geez-Cheese before a picture
  • Caa- Car
  • Owoo- Owie
  • Amee- Amen after prayers
  • Hug
  • Two- he loves this number from when I count 1,2,3 before he hits a ball. He just never says the one or three before he winds up.
  • Book
  • NO 
This kid is growing up fast and he doesn't look like a little guy anymore. This Sunday he will be 18 months and he seems as tall as most 2 and a half year olds. Last Sunday we were walking in during the opening prayer to the overflow and Hank was standing in between KC and I. He was folding his arms but still staring at everyone. Then everyone started staring at him when he said really loud "Amee' at the end of the prayer to say amen. He is a good little prayer. He reminds me to do it half the time and even at lunch when it is just the two of us.

A little recap of the past few weeks
 

Hank with his cousins Ethan and Cohen in Pacific Grove (March)

For KC's birthday we went to the 6 o'clock game on Saturday which is important to note as this was the first year that we did not go to opening day. I was under the impression that it could be considered opening weekend, but KC in disappointment that he missed the fly by and actual opening day corrected me. Haha. We had like a 5 year streak going but this year we had to consider Hank's bedtime.


Hank playing in the kids toy area at the stadium, he did not want to sit still and watch the game


Hank's hat trick in his carseat

Martha and Shane came to visit us in Northern CA to go to a concert in Oakland and see about a job opportunity. We also were lucky enough to see our good friend Debbie Fife come out of the temple after being sealed. She had quite the crew there to see her come out and it was fun to have a reunion with her Merced friends and family. 

Oakland temple from a new view behind the Distribution center

Shane and Martha

Oh not a good look for me, but it was important to show the "before" shot of Hank's hair to justify his drastic haircut


Hank throwing rocks on our hike down toward the Golden Gate




Haircut 2.0

I started with scissors trimming all of his curls and then KC just suggested using clippers on an 8 to even it out. I am praying the curls come back cause he looks to old to me now. 


Hank helping me vacuum, yes he is wearing Hawaiian beads too.

Last week it got really hot here in San Leandro for about two days so my awesome neighbor Tawny decided to host a homemade water park. Hank was more interested in eating grapes at first, but then he warmed up to it. No pun intended. Oh yeah and he loves wearing those shades these days.

"Mom what is soaking me?"


Stealing not so ripe strawberries from Tawny's garden

Today Hank and I hit a few parks, one before his nap and one after

Peek a boo
 
Yes! Seahorse

LADYBUG




Thursday, April 12, 2012

Birthdays and Easter

I like having my birthday and KC's birthday close together, it is birthday season. A few years ago my birthday was on Easter and now this year it was on KC's. You just feel a little cooler when your birthday is on Easter I think.
 
 Hank after he touched the flame on my birthday waffle "woops"

 Still admiring the flame

KC and I went out to dinner for my birthday and ran back quick for our neighbors babysitting Hank. But we had a good time and realized the restaurant we ate at, Bridges, was in Mrs. Doubtfire. I also went down to Southern CA for my birthday to see Martha and my family while KC had a busy work week. We went to a sample sale in LA, stopped by Legoland, hung out with family and watched March Madness and General Conference. Somehow watching conference and Hank at the same time makes me feel like I need to re-watch it all.

 Easter/ KC's birthday gifts

 Hank noticing the candy and colorful eggs

 
 
 Hank decided while I left the kitchen to dye the floor instead of the eggs I had ready. Green feet for days.

 Wanting to escape the backyard while I am trying to take a picture

Lots of storms and April showers recently, but we did see this cool rainbow.