Christmas 2012

 Every year we always go to temple square to see the lights.  It was City Creek's first Christmas this year and it was decorated beautifully as well.

We spent this Christmas up the canyon from Cedar City in a cabin in Duck Creek Village. It was awesome to have all my extended family there.

For Christmas this year our family's big gift was a trip to Disneyland.  The girls got puzzle pieces that they had to put together to figure out the gift.  

There was tons of snow but we still tried to play on the swing set outside the cabin.

The snow was so deep that Ava jumped off the swing and got stuck in snow up to her waist.

 These santa pictures are a little out of order. Every year Santa comes to the Hansen family party the Saturday before Christmas.  He gives presents to all the kids and the girls look forward to it every year.

We went to church in Afton, Utah the sunday before Christmas.  This sacrament set was on display in their building.  I thought it was pretty cool to see what the pioneers here used to use for the sacrament.

While at the cabin we really enjoyed doing lots of puzzles.  Luke and I helped work on this stamp puzzle for lots of hours and helped finish it.

The ice on the cabin went from the room to the the ground.  The kids thought it was awesome and would break off chunks of ice and use it as swords.

Driving home from the cabin was slow going because we were in a snowstorm.  I took these pictures as Luke drove.  It was one of the most beautiful drives I've ever been on.

2012 Christmas Card

Blog Update

I've got a lot of pictures to post to update this blog.  Now that I'm primary president I've been using a lot of my free time figuring out my new calling.  But here's an update with photos of what we've been up to lately.

Ava won the photography award in her division in the Reflections contest at school.  She got that trophy, certificate and a necklace.  She was super happy!

 Now that it's December, Blinky our Elf is out and about, getting into mischief while we sleep.  He took a barbie out on a date the other night.

These pictures below are from Cornbelly's.  That was way back in October but I forgot to post them.  We always have fun going every year.

Luke took the girls shopping around Halloween time at Costco.  They both wanted to wear their witch hats and they were mesmorized by watching The Avengers on the super nice TV's there.

Luke and I dressed up for Halloween in inflatable clown and baby costumes.  We only wore them for about 20 minutes but they were a big hit at the Ferrin's Halloween party.

From Halloween straight to Christmas.  We walked through the Lights at Temple square the day after Thanksgiving.  It's a nice way to kick off the holiday season.

 Walking through City Creek was one of my favorite things.  It's gorgeous!  I love how they've decorated and lit the whole area.  It's an experience just walking through.

Back to Halloween.  We carved our pumpkins together for family night.  The pumpkins are in order.  Luke's is the scary one below.  Then Ava's pumpkin (she chose the design) and Tess's pumpkin (she wanted hers to be smiling and happy.)

On Thanksgiving Day Luke and I went and saw the new Bond movie Skyfall.  It was awesome to go out to a movie date!

This is the first time I voted and here's what the line looked like.  Luckily it was a beautiful day outside.

We've had a really warm and beautiful Fall this year.  Really only one snowstorm and Luke took this picture of it in the parking lot at work one night.