8 Years and Counting

Happy Anniversary to us!

Then...

Now...

Do we look older? I just wanted to do a quick post for our anniversary. I can't believe it has been eight years! I am so lucky because I truly am married to my best friend. The past months of May and June after Andy graduated but hadn't started residency yet were so fun! (beside all the packing/unpacking/moving). For those months Andy and I were together with the kids all day and I never got sick of him- we did lot's of fun things together. It was hard for me when he started residency in July because I missed having my best friend with me all day. Now that he has started residency he has been very busy and I am amazed by his hard work and dedication to his family. Here is a picture of his anniversary gift to me.....

I really wanted a storage system like this from Pottery Barn Kids for our playroom but they are over a thousand dollars! Andy worked on making these shelves every day after work and every Saturday for the past 3 weeks. I helped him paint them a couple days ago and and here is the finished product. I am so impressed! And the little boy sitting on the shelves is pretty cute too. I love you Andy!

The first few weeks in our new house

I still feel like pinching myself every day when I wake up in our house. We've lived in appartments for our entire 7 years of marriage- so pardon my over excitement.

I meshed together four little video clips of fun times during first couple of weeks here.

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The last clip of Ty riding down the stairs was not my idea. When I heard something fall down the stairs I came running in to see if everything was okay. I saw the box at my feet and yelled up the stairs for Tyler to not throw boxes down- but to my suprise Tyler answered from INSIDE the box and then crawled out laughing. He thought it was so fun he finally convinced me to let him do it again and again and wanted me to film it.

"Mom there is a snake behind you" Tyler said. I thought he was joking and then realized he was right. This picture is deceiving, it was just a little tiny snake about the size of a pencil. Andy bravely grabed it and put him back outside. Our neighbors assure us it is not a regular occurance. I see lizards scurry away when I open the door and there are all kinds of weird looking beetles outside too. I'm definately not in Wisconsin anymore.

Tyler's Pirate Birthday Party

Tyler had a party on his birthday and it was really fun. We don't know a lot of kids around here yet so we thought it would be a good way for him to get to know his primary class and a few other kids in our ward. Tyler loved the party and he loves being 5 years old! On his birthday when he woke up and I told him he is now 5 he was soooo suprised. Then he wanted to go try on his clothes to see if they still fit. He is such a cutie and we love him so much!

The invitation (I blurred out the address and phone # since this is a public blog)

Andy made two pirate ships out of our plethera of moving boxes. The kids made their own pirate flags to put on the back.

The cannonball fight- the cannonballs are just crumpled up newspaper wrapped in black tape

Looking through homemade telescopes for pirate treasure

"Walking the plank"

They had to search through this goo to find the captain's lost eyeball

Then they followed a series of clues to find the treasure (a pinata, candy braclets, ring pops and chocolate coins)

Tyler hitting his treasure pinata

The birthday cake (I got the idea from family fun magazine)

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Finally done!

I am so proud of Andy for all his hard work the past four years. He graduated with Honors in Research and now he is Dr. Hansen! It was so fun to have Andy's parents and my parents in town for the graduation. They have all helped us in so many ways to get through four years of med school. We love you guys!


Getting his diploma

The proud family. It is impossible to get my kids to look at the camara!

Best friends: Andy, Josh Hunter, Marc Crosby, and Jackson Lever.
It was fun for Andy to have these guys around the past four years, who else would stay up with him until 2:00 a.m. playing Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, and nintendo Wii?


The Dads: Rawl Crosby, Gary Hansen, Gordon Lambert

The Mom's: Nancy Dockendorf, Tricia Crosby, Carol Crosby, Marilyn Hansen, Me, Jackie Lambert.

Sam and Kate Crosby playing with Ty in front of the Medical College.

Lizzy is getting so big, don't you just love her curly hair!

Our camara battery died so I didn't take very many pictures, so if any of you out there (Hunters, Crosbys, Levers, Hansens, Lamberts) want to send me coppies of your pictures I'll take 'em. Then I'll post more later.

It's a ....

There HE is! A picture of our little guy. We are so excited to have another boy. Lately Ty Ty has been saying: "I wish I had a little brother" and now he will! We have no idea what to name him yet, any ideas?

San Antonio here we come!

Andy's "Match Day" was yesterday. All 200 members of the graduating class and their families piled into a big room and one by one got called up to receive their envelopes. When Andy got his, we opened it up and it said University of Texas, San Antonio! The Riverwalk, the Alamo, Sea World, Pottary barn furniture outlet, and no more subzero temperatures-I'm excited. It will be a fun place for visitors to come too, (hint hint).

12 weeks along!

Here is a little pic from my early ultrasound. The ultrasound determined I am due August 29th! We are so excited. Poor Lizzy might have to share her birthday (hers is Aug 26th). I am so behind on blogging so stay tuned for major catch up posts.