Here she is at 12. Haley has always been a beautiful girl. We are very proud of her. She wanted to go to Rodizio Grill. I chose not to have any meat. But all the kids thought it was so cool to get all those different kinds of meat. Everybody had a wonderful time. Haley looked so beautiful. I wanted to hit myself for not having my camera. Allysa made her the Angel food cake for her birthday. We all went back to her house to have a piece and meet her boyfriend. He's a very cute guy - Just got home from Indiana where he missioned. He is now a diver at that mexican place down on 106th. They ran off to their FHE. We all had a good time. I have to quit now, because my computer has changed (I think because of this awful Chrome Google thing and it doesn't let me do it properly. (Bad Excuse) But, Happy Birthday, Haley!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALEY!!

Today is Haley's birthday. What a beautiful child at 5 years.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIM!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIM who is 26 years old today. He was the cutest little toddler with a happy smile and light blond hair. We have so enjoyed him through the years. Tim, we are proud that you belong to the third generation. Have a wonderful year and make lots of money. Love you . . . Nana & Bumpa

To Cheer or Not?

Here is the scene:

A girls team played a sports game.

After the game, both teams go out on the field and do a little cheer for each other.

One girl on one of the teams does not like cheering. She walks off the field. Will not contribute with her team.

Is that unsportsmanship?

Is that personality?

Is that ok?

Is it not that big of a deal and who cares?

Personally, I felt that it was kind of showing unsportsman like conduct. I think she should suck it up, do the cheer and be done. But I am a girl, so maybe I am over thinking this.

The mother just sent out an e-mail explaining her daughter's actions and begging people NOT to make comments! I agree with that. She is not our daughter, her raising is not up to us.

Just curious, what do you think?

This would NEVER happen on a boys team. Girls have feelings you know.

Congratulations to Adam

Congratulations to Adam for graduating. We are very proud of you.

Congratulations to our Graduates.

Congratulations to Allysa for graduating 2 June, 2010.And being accepted at BYU. Yeah!!!

Sophia, born 2nd June, 2000!!!

We are nine days late for Sophies' birthday. June 2nd was a most busy day for the Hansen family. Lysa was graduating! No one got Sophie's pic up on the Blog. But now it is here. She is a most beautiful child, not only on the outside, but inside, as well. Please give her a "Happy Birthday"!!

Hope's Birthday!!!

Hope, We would like to know the date of your birthday???

Happy Birthday!

Today is Julie's birthday! 

She makes yummy food, runs like a maniac, and sometimes calls Steven's phone without meaning to. (it's true! Its happened twice since we've been married.  Steven will answer and say, 'hello? HELLO?! All we hear is someone who sounds suspiciously like our mother singing along with Michael Jackson...) But the best thing of all is that she's always happy!

We hope that you enjoy your special day! 

In The Princess Bride, They Refer To A Vomitous Mass...

Written by: Julie

I write a letter to Chase every Sunday night. This is part of my letter. I thought you may enjoy the story and enjoy that it didn't happen to you.There are no pictures but I tried to write in such a way that all you need is your imagination. If you need to, just skim through till you get to the good parts...

We have arrived at church. All is well. Kylie and Griffin are sitting quietly beside me. Griffin begins reading one of his books; asks me every now and then what a word is.

The Bishop then gets up to start the testimony part of the service. Griffin begins to whisper to me that he doesn’t feel good. Griffin tells me he doesn’t feel good when we do homework, when it is time to get dressed for school, when I wake him up, whenever there is something to do that is not considered fun. I just told him he was fine. “Feel my head”, he asked. Ok. So, I did; he felt fine and I told him so. He is now lollying on me; asks for a hug, which I give him. I am wishing he would find some entertainment in his bag. I look at him and his face is scrunched up. He says his stomach feels bad. I ask him if he needs to go potty. He has been known to not go potty at all in the morning before church; my stomach would hurt too! “No”, he says. The Bishop ends his “talk” and encouraged many people to come up and bear their testimony. As soon as he is done, about 5 people hopped up to do just that. I was amazed; never seen so many people make a mad dash to the microphone.

By now, Bro. Sotis is bearing his testimony, which I am really enjoying. He is talking about praying and listening to what the Lord wants him to do, not necessarily just what he wants to do himself. He has a New Jersey accent which I really enjoy too and I begin to remember that he and his wife knew each other when they were younger; in love, but lost each other (I can’t remember why), married other people; many years later their spouses die, they FIND each other again and get married, are so happy…sweet story.

Griffin seems kind of uncomfortable so I lean over to Zak who is sitting closest to the aisle and tell him that I need him to take Griffin out to the potty, maybe that will help him feel better. I lean over to tell Griffin my plan and he makes the physical motions of the beginnings of throwing up!! I am aghast! I really do not know what to do. I move my primary bag with all my music away from the possible splash. I have no blanket or towel or anything to have him throw up on or in and it is too late for him to walk out. I scoot over a bit and tell him it’s ok, just let it come right here on the bench. (It's an upholstered bench.) Really, what else could I do?? He threw up on the bench, on my skirt, on his pants. It wasn’t so loud, but loud enough. Apparently the old couple sitting behind us got up and moved to the back row. Jane Colton, sitting in front of us quickly emptied out a bag of colored pencils and gave that to me so Griffin could throw up in that; which he did. Finally he got done. The person giving the testimony just kept right on speaking. The Jensen’s, sitting behind me, passed up some diaper wipes to use in the clean-up. Quinn and Kylie went out to get loads of paper towels and some wet paper towels. Jane Colton saw Lana Christensen out in the foyer and she happened to have a wash cloth, Jane brought that to me to use too. As I was cleaning, a friend sitting on the same bench, but down a bit from Griffin whispered over, “the bag is leaking!” The bag with the throw up was dripping on the bench. Oh my. I quickly wrapped paper towels around it and asked for a volunteer to carry it out to the trash. I think Kylie did it.

I cleaned up Griffin as much as was ok for him to walk out to the car and not cause a chain-reaction throw up by observing audience members. He was very sad, sick and crying. I kissed him, told him it was ok, Zak would help him to the car. I told Zak to make sure that if he threw up again to have him do it out side! Zak sweetly held his hand (which he washed vigorously later) and helped him out to the car. I continued to clean up the seat as best I could I had several loads of paper towels brought to me. When the seat and my skirt were cleaned enough, I took Quinn out to the car with me so he could be Griffin’s nurse at home. Zak had to stay at church to advertise his up coming Eagle Project/Blood drive. We got Griffin home, changed and situated on the couch. Quinn got good nursing instructions. I changed my clothes, washed my hands, got more cleaning materials to clean the bench up at church and drove back to church.

All were clearing out by the time I got back. Dad came down off the stand and asked Zak and Kylie what happened down here. Where is Mom and what is that wet spot? He had NO idea!! He was cleaning up and I joined in to help with my upholstery cleaner and rags. We got it clean and smelling just fine…I smelled it up close.

By the time we came back home from church I was sure Griffin would be just fine. He wasn’t! Quinn said he had thrown up about 6 times! He did not feel well. He continued throwing up all day. So far no one else has been sick; let’s hope it stays that way.

In all my years (26) of mothering, I have never had anyone throw up during sacrament meeting. Angie Jensen told me later she was proud of how I handled it all. I have washed my hands about 300 times.

Laguna Hills Half Marathon

Yesterday I ran a half marathon in Laguna Hills to begin our Memorial Day Holiday. We (me, Gil, Tanner, Teo) all drove down Sun. night and stayed with some friends who were also running the race. The week before I was very nervous because all of my runs that week were AWFUL. I did not have any energy and felt icky after each run. So I was very relieved that on race day, by mile 3, I knew it was going to be a good race. I had a goal to finish in 2 hours, which means for me I have to push myself and run hard the whole way. I was so relieved when I crossed the finish line and it read "1:57" I was very happy. It was great to have my family there and feel of their support. Maybe one day I can run a full marathon, but for now, at least, I get to stand in the "half marathon group" in heaven!

For Those Who Like To Know Stuff!

• I have read some FABULOUS books lately!

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Secrets in Eden by Chris Bohjalian
Whiter than Snow by Sandra Dallas

More information on the Books blog!!

• DID YOU KNOW:

Candice ran her 2nd 1/2 marathon!!
She cut 13 minutes off her 1st time.
Amazing!
She ran 13.1 miles in 1 hour 57 minutes!

3 Cheers for Candice!

• Chase comes home from his mission on Tues, July 13th.
• Chase will speak in church the following Sunday, July 18th
• ok, now I have to shower...maybe that's too much information

Happy Birthday to Jessica, then Dawney last week. Too manyh things happened - me, in yard doing flowers endlessly. Didn't even know I had missed any birthdays. but, anyway, I hope you both had wonderful birthdays. I love you both.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HEATHER!

Here is Heather. Today is her birthday. I wish her a most happy one. I remember when I first met Heather . . she walked into my house and said, "Oh, you have a piano.". She walked over to it, sat down, and played a little diddy. She spoke to me. We talked as if we had known each other for years. And now I will have years to get to know her. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEATHER. WE LOVE YOU!!

Week of the Stars!

This week Tanner had to do a performance in class for choir. You could do any sort of talent - sing, skit, dance, whatever. I encouraged Tanner to sing this song that he and Daniel love, and to my surprise, he did! He got two of his friends to do the song with him. They had never heard the song before. This video is of them after 1 hour of practice. It is a medley of songs that pay tribute to John Williams and his many compositions. Enjoy!

Race Results are In!!

You can go over to the Cole Family Blog to see the results!

The BIG Race is Saturday!

Zak and I are racing tomorrow.....

Swimming 1 mile in a city pool.

I have done it several time.
Zak has never swam a mile before.

Kylie will be our offical time and lap keeper.

WHO do you think will win??

Cruise Photos

Here's the link for Gil's photos of the cruise. Enjoy.

http://www.revdesign.com/Pics/MexicoCruise_May2010/index.html

Cruise....Confessions

We had a fabulous time on our Mexican Cruise!!

I personally enjoyed ALL aspects and every moment. I enjoyed them so much that I hardly took any pictures, but I will share what I have.
I will also share 2 shocking confessions!
#1 - Today is Wednesday....the last shower I took was on the cruise! I just can't find the time!
#2 - I proudly and excitedly got on the scale to see IF I had gained any weight on the cruise, which I doubted, or at least maybe only one pound. As it turned out....I gained 7 pounds!! Our room was on floor #2. We ate on floor #11 and ran the track on floor #12. I hardly ever used the elevator; I was always climbing the stairs. That, plus running about 28 miles on the ship, I thought I would have equaled the value of how much food I ate. Well, I guess that showed just HOW much food I ate. I wouldn't change a thing!! How often can you go to a restaurant and order 3 main dishes and 4 desserts and eat a plate full of bread?? This morning I weighed myself and I have now lost ALL my 7 pounds of cruise weight. I do hope to shower later today.

Ok this might be Monday nights dinner. On the way, we ran into these Scottish men! Nana asked them to show us what they wore under their skirts. I turned my head away. That same night at our dinner table.

This is where we ate every night. (Ate, and ate and ate.)

Candice and Gil

Kerry and Julie

Nana and Bumpa

Really, the first non-asked for smile on the cruise. He was so happy to have accomplished this "hard" thing! We were waiting here for the wheelchair guy to come and escort us off the boat.

Dawney & Mark

Sunday afternoon at my house. Resting.

The lovely Tatia.

I tried to move this picture up with the others, but it would not move. It wants to finish off this post!

Bracket Time!

We did this last year, I think with smashing results. I probably should have posted this a few days ago, but it's better late than never.

If you want to play online just follow the directions below, it's the same thing as last year (ESPN). Let me know if you have any questions.

The group is called "Payne Family Brackets"

The game is called Tournament Challenge at espn.com. Here is a link.

Just go there and click on "create entry" and then after you do that you'll want to join our group. Click on "My Groups" at the top and then "Create or Join a Group". Type in "Payne Family Brackets" and join!

It will ask you for a password which is Nana's first and "middle" name, lower case, all one word.

Hopefully that's clear, if not just email me and I'll give you the password in an email, or just send you an invitation to the group.

Jenna won last year, who will win this year?