Happiness

Our trip to Los Angeles was a blast. We stayed at Brandi and John's and lounged around for a week, it was fabulous. While the boys went rock climbing, wake boarding and mountain biking, us girls went to our favorite LA haunt, the Grove, hung out with Owen, and just enjoyed sister time. I miss them all already!

Playing cards with the fam in LA

Lounging in Brandi's beautiful backyard

John and Doug rock climbing

Typical dinner at Tokyo Wako

Pregnant and Gorgeous

John wakeboarding

Doug wakeboarding

Owen at the fair with his Mama

Love

Spring

Recently when people ask me what we've been up to, I can never think of anything, and the generic response has become "nothing really," hence the lack of posting. But looking back at some pictures of mine and some that my wonderful sister-in-law took, I realized we Hansens do do stuff...and this is what it is...

Fixing cars (so handy having a handyman in the fam)

Surfing...Classic (Doug and Christian)

Thanks Steph for the photos!

Mountain Biking....Strike a pose there's nothing to it!

Doug and Chris mountain biking

Weekending it with the Girls in SF

Love these ladies

And smiling from all the goodies (opening our easter baskets from in-laws)

Great seats at the Giants game thanks to the Fields!

And our favorite recent activity, sleepovers with Rochelle

Pie anyone?

Last night I was awoken in the middle of the night by yet again a sleep talking Doug saying "hey, hey, heeeeey!" When I finally turned around and asked him "what?" He sleepily held out his hands as a plate and asked "do you want a piece of pie?" and then went back to sleep as quickly as it happened. I, however, lied there laughing to myself thinking: amongst the many sword fighting, gun slinging, and spider squishing dreams of Doug's that have woken me up in the middle of the night...it was really nice to wake up to sweet sleep talking Doug for once.

Eastern Caribbean Cruise

We just came back from a 5 day cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. After getting my passport last minute we were finally ready for my first trip out of the country! We went to Grand Turk, Nassau Bahamas (and supposed to go to Half Moon Cay but it was cancelled due to bad weather). It was so much fun, the islands were beautiful, the boat was a blast and our friends were great. It all culminated in an all too short of a vacation!

Our wonderful windowless cabin - we could seriously sleep all day (wish we could black out our room like this)

Doug rubbing lotion and aloe on his sunburn from the first day - at least I could say "I told you so!"

Doug's loot from winning 'Diving for Dollars' -he found $62 and won $100. Hey we made money on this cruise!! $162!

Wealing and Dealing with the atlantis guy to get a deal on tickets

Our waiting crew performing for us :)

Enjoying California

The girls after rider our cruiser bikes to capitola

Our bikes

Doug and Brett decided to ride a kayak out to the waves during the Mavericks Surf Competition....

Where the waves were this big....nonetheless they had fun, only flipped over once, and survived;)

Where have we been?

Hello to all! I know it has been forever and a day since I last blogged, but it is a new year so I've decided it was about time I updated my blog. For my friends who blog, you know the feeling you get when it has been a while since you last updated your blog and then you realize you just have more and more pictures to add and then so many pictures turn into a slideshow and you still have to edit all the picture ahh!! and one little blog then turns into a nightmare! well at least thats what happened to me I have mastered the art of postponement and this is where it leads me...an extremely long blog update. So where have we been since October?

Basically we have been on the road-a road trip cross country to be more specific. From D.C., where Doug was working to Pennsylvania where we saw the liberty bell and independence hall, and of course the Rocky statue. Then to New York to visit my brother (where I also got ran over by a biker on the Brooklyn Bridge - and I'm sorry to say we have no pictures of that incident), cruisin on over to Boston to see Plymouth Plantation and the Mayflower. After Boston we said goodbye to my dear brother and rendezvoused on over to Niagara Falls. It was too beautiful for words, and it was the closest I'd ever been to another country (Canada!) so I was excited, I felt very international. On to Hill City, SD, probably my favorite part of the road trip. We stopped there and stayed in a quaint little cabin in a mile long city to see Mt. Rushmore. It was breathtaking and seemed completely unreal.

We went straight from South Dakota to Utah where we had the pleasure of babysitting our 5 adorable nieces and nephews and loved every moment of it, to LA where we stayed with my sister and her husband for a week rock climbing and recovering from the flu :(. Then off to Las Vegas where we stayed in the most amazing pirate styled getaway with Doug's company. We had so much fun there from the water slides to seeing shows like Excalibur and "O" by Circ Du Solei. It was my first time to Vegas and it didn't disappoint, but my favorite part by far were our fellow vacationers!

Ever since we parked our car back in Northern California we have just been enjoying time with our families. We have been to movies, concerts, plays, ice skating, Doug got back in the water for a alumni waterpolo tournament, and we got to spend Christmas with a puppy! There is so much more and we love being back here. There is so much more to tell about each of the places and people we have seen but maybe I'll save that for later posts since I've promised myself I am going to become a better blogger in 2010 ;)