Prentice Press: 12.2007

Sunday, December 30, 2007

It's funny

that I look at my blog on a daily basis wanting there to be a new post. Like it's just going to appear straight from my head onto the page for all to see. I guess it doesn't happen like that because everytime I look, I'm disapointed.
This Christmas season has been so fun. I really enjoyed this years holiday. Kip and I had a very laid back time. I actually got quite a bit of time off from work, and I am currently enjoying my last 4 day weekend before the new year starts up again. It's going to be hard to readjust to working 5 days a week.
I can't wait to post pictures of our holiday so you can see all the fun things that happened. We spent Christmas eve with the Phillip's family (That's my mom's side of the family) and then we spend Christmas morning at home alone with the pups, and then went to my parents' house for the rest of the day. We also saw National Treasure on Christmas day and that was very exciting. It's a great movie if there is anyone out there debating whether or not to go, DEFINATELY GO!
On a side note...I like to sleep in frigid temperatures. While Kip would enjoy sleeping everynight without sheets and have the house at eighty degrees. So on occasion (yes tonight is one of those occasions), I will "treat" myself to sleeping in the guest room. I slide the window all the way open and bundle up in my most cozy sweats, put all the down comforters we have on top of me and sleep like a little baby. Sounds blissful doesn't it? I know Kip is missing out. He's in our room sleeping warmly with the heat and the puppies. He's definately from Arizona. And maybe I'm crazy...but DreaDale gets me!
Please if anyone else has a website to share we'd love to keep in touch that way. I love posting on ours and showing everyone whats going on in our life! So hopefully if any of you have one, or are making one, please share the link with us so that we may enjoy your site as well!
Have a great New Year!!

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Waffle anyone?

kate and mom in the hotel on our trip to Salem for shopping!! (mom you have something on your shirt! but I won't tell)

This was the belgian waffle bar! Mom was so excited that they had belgian waffles. This to me was a great dissapointment to the waffles we were expecting. And I laughed everytime we walked passed them. Sorry mom, no belgian chef to create our waffles this weekend.
Here I am standing next to the "C" block to represent my name at the best outlet mall! It was the Woodburn outlets! It was great fun!
This is the huge tree that lights up, purple YES! Green, red, blue, you name it, it turns that color. (And it's coordinated to the music even)

We enjoyed our trip to Salem. It was a fun weekend! I think that we got worn our by all the shopping, but it was definatley worth it. The weather was bad but we survived the blues! And hopefully when it's spring we'll get to go back.
Waffle anyone?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Tis the Season

As you've been watching I've been posting a lot of pictures. Hopefully they can kind of express what our life has been like this season. We shared our first and most fabulous anniversary in November, we went to Tucson for a family reunion for Thanksgiving, and since then we have just been decorating and enjoying the Christmas season.
Something that has been going on is a lot (and I mean a LOT of elfing). So I thought that I would pass on to everyone out there all the elfing that has really been going on. These are very funny to watch and hopefully you'll get some enjoyment out of them. Be patient sometimes they take awhile to load. But they are definately worth the wait. Especially if you know the people in them!
Type in your browser bar: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=
then you're going to type the number that corresponds with the elfing you want to watch to the end and go.
Hailey and Kiersten with Hauna: 1148947318
Drea, Kyle, Kip & Christie: 1148947590
Ryan, Laura, & Baby: 1130067075
Jenna & Will: 1129299754
The Prentice Men: 1164584847
The Golf Group: 1149641613
If you have any problems figuring out the site just email me! Otherwise enjoy all the elfing!!

Kip and my plans for the holidays include nothing. We are just going to hang out at home, and with family and enjoy the time together. Last year the season was somewhat sprang upon us because we got married in November and we were still recovering from the honeymoon, and the next thing you know it's Christmas. So we are excited to spend the season together and enjoy what feels like our first Christmas together. We even put lights on the HUGE tree in our house, and Kip and Kyle were nice enough to cover the outside in lights as well! Those of you who are able, shoudl drive by! It's a beautiful sight and I'm blessed to be the one that gets to live there!
The baby pictures you have been seeing are of Charles Jovan Hansen. He was born on our anniversary which is November 4th. We were so blessed to know that our family was revieving such a beautiful gift on our special day. Now our anniversary holds even more wonderful memories. Jovan is still in the NICO downtown but is thriving and doing very well. I was so fortunate to get to see him last week and hold him. He's just a little bitty! But beautiful and so cute! I've never seen what his mother and he share first hand. She talks to him and he just responds like nothing you've seen, even if he's sleeping his head turns towards her. It's wonderful to watch, and we are honored to share a small part in this journey with them. Congratulations to daddy Chad who graduated this month! We are so proud of you and hope that this is the start to many more wonderful things! (For those of you who don't know, Chad is my first cousin, and his wife Kica, my cousin by marriage, are Jovan's parents. So now I have a second cousin in Jovan)
Well here's to the Holiday Season. We hope that you all spend it with the people you love. The people we can't be with this season we greatly miss and can't wait to spend time together soon!
Thanks for checking in with our blog!!
Christie