Another BIG event--Evan graduated!!

It's true, he's all done, and I am so excited for and proud of him!! Evan has worked very hard to graduate a semester early and now he is done. He graduated with his Bachelor's in Business Administration with a Finance emphasis and is now looking for a "big-kid" job. But this is something that was important to us both, and now my hubby is a college graduate!!!
CONGRATULATIONS babe, I love you so much!!

Here Evan is, walking in the door after his last final, EVER!! (I'm happy, but jealous too ;) hehe)

My cheesy little signs, I'm not crafty but it'll do...plus his graduation present, a new bow!!

He's really excited to do more bow hunting this fall with his new toy

The mighty hunter...but isn't he cute!! ;)

The handsome hubby and very happy wife--Love you dear!!

Christmas Catch-up :D

ALRIGHTY!! So, I've been catching a deservedly huge amount of grief lately for not updating my blog. I will try to do better, and as for now will do LOTS of pictures, etc. to catch everyone up. I thought we would start where we left off...Christmas!!! We had so much fun during Christmas break. We spent the first little bit up in Driggs with the Hansen clan. Always so much fun to see everyone and let the cousins play! After that, we went to Idaho Falls to the Gardner house. My brother and his wife flew in from Kentucky and my sister and her family came from Missouri. It was so good to see them, it's been quite a while!!!!! It was awesome to have everyone home and celebrate the birth of our Savior. I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME!! Unfortunately, my camera battery died when the kids all went sledding, but they had a great time with Uncle Evan! He was so cute and pulled them all around my parent's place behind the snowmobile. Anywho, it was a great time, and here are some pictures...

Here are the boys playing MarioKart on the Wii with Uncle Judd and Hailey riding the "horsey"

(SO FUN, I really want a Wii now!!)

Pure concentration...

The Christmas Snowstorm--SWEET!

My cute little niece Allison and her new bath towel

Evan with his new rifle rest...it was on his list, but frankly I don't know what you use it for ;)
This is my brother's wife Jen and her little present--"Bean" aka Ethan will be joining the madness in June and I'm SOOOOO excited!!!

Here's me, opening the beautiful pearl earrings Evan bought me. The story of why I'm laughing is that I showed him the earring ad in the paper with the "hint, hint" and he said he already bought me some jewelry and wasn't getting those. But he already had them, what a guy! ;)
This is Evan's ornament for this year...a moose in hunter orange with a rifle! LOL It was priceless!! We'll take a picture of them with the real moose when we pick it up in August.

This is my sister, playing with the super cute puppets she made for her daughter, along with a puppet theatre to hang in her doorway. It was darling!!

My mom, being brought into the world of digital photography...I'm so proud (sniff)

My dad, showing the kids how it's done with the Nerf gun :D

I love this girl! This is my niece we call "Moe," demonstrating what we affectionately call the Crazy Moe Hair, accompanied by the Crazy Moe Dance...she was slightly excited ;)

Apparently baton-twirling is a big deal in the south, and Katelyn was SO excited to finally have her own baton!! She's our little performer so maybe she can come take the place of the baton girl in the ISU marching band--Go baton girl!!! hehe

I turn around and this is what I see, Evan coming around the corner...
to shoot Trey with the nerf gun! He's so good with the kids though, it's pretty cute. The question is can you find Trey hiding in the picture? Where's Waldo??

Here Evan is at the Hansen family Christmas

We finally got an air mattress from his sister's family, and can now officially offer people more than the floor when they come to visit us at our apartment! Saweet!! Thanks Felicity & Matt!

All the Hansen cousins--arent' they CUTE!! Such hams for the camera!

Garrett riding the Tigger-horsey! ;)

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been an awesome holiday so far and we just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!!
So far we've enjoyed lots of time with family, and right now can smell the fabulous deliciousness of the Christmas turkey, ham, stuffing, etc. YUM!! We are also LOVING the snow and hopefully will get in lots of sledding in the next day or so.
Anywho, love to you all. I've been going insane taking pictures, so those will be coming soon...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

New Camera

I'm feeling really spoiled, on Black Friday Evan and I went to Farr's in Idaho Falls and purchased my Nikon D40. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is officially my graduation present, but we figured since they were having a deal with a zoom lens and a camera bag and we could get 6 extra months of use out of it, we would get it now. I'm lovin it!!!!!!!!! I got a few cute pictures of my nephews in Driggs while we were there last weekend so hopefully I'll get some awesome pictures to post soon. :D

Evan's Moose

Evan finally got his moose! I'm way excited for him, and he seems pretty pleased with it. The antler span was about 42 inches, which is really nice for this area. Sorry I've been so slow to post it, so without further ado...

hehe Sorry for the red stuff in the background, his brother Aaron was taking the pictures and prolly didn't realize it was there. :) Anywho, YAY! for the mighty hunter!!!! and Yay that hunting season is done. :D

He made up for his time away from home though and took one for the team. He took me to see "Twilight" and was a great sport about it. I know, I know, I've had several guys tell me that was just too horrible for any man to endure, but there were plenty of other guys in the theater so I don't think he was too traumatized. I quite liked the movie, but Evan was completely lost at some parts. So, I spent the drive home giving him the Twilight rundown. lol Poor guy, he looked at me like I was crazy, but oh well! I love those books! Anywho, hope you enjoy the pics and here's wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Husband Tag

WHAT IS YOUR HUSBAND'S NAME? Evan Scott Hansen

HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN MARRIED? 3 years in March

HOW LONG DID YOU DATE? Almost 4 months, then engaged for 4 more

HOW OLD IS HE? 24, he'll be the big 25 in January

WHO IS TALLER? Definently him, which I LOVE! He's 6'3'', I'm only 5'8''. Actualy, my dad's nickname for Evan is "Long and Tall".

WHO CAN SING BEST? Probably me, I'm the choir nerd in the family ;), but I still love it when he sings, it's super cute. It never ceases to amaze me how many song lyrics he knows.

WHO IS SMARTER? Depends what it is- he's the math mind, I do the english papers ;)

WHO DOES LAUNDRY? Mostly me, but he's always good to help out.

WHO PAYS BILLS? I do...oh joy, oh bliss

WHO SLEEPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED? Looking at the bed, I'm on the right

WHO MOWS THE LAWN? No one yet, but I have a plan for when we have one :D

WHO COOKS DINNER? I do, but Evan really is an awesome cook. I'm more plain jane stuff, he's more apt to experiment.

WHO'S THE FIRST TO ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG? Me again, Evan always teases me that I'm way too apologetic. I have a guilt complex.

WHO KISSED WHO FIRST? I got a sucker-kiss first time around, but he quickly followed up with a real one before my self-esteem bubble was completely gone.

WHO WEARS THE PANTS? hehe What a loaded question! Umm...I'll say he does. I don't like being in charge of most things. If I end up being in charge, that's totally not my fault ;)

I tag Mindy, Heidi, Lindsey, Aleisha, Erin, and Janelle

Where have all the moosen gone? :0)

WELL, as some of you know, Evan drew on a moose tag this fall and has gone hunting over, and over, and over....alas, no moose. I'm not quite sure what he plans to do with the monstrosity after he gets one, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it I suppose. I'm excited for him to get a big one, it's been a dream of his for a long time. So, hopefully after this weekend we'll have a picture of a great big critter to share with everyone...and his wife will be a lot happier too. :D

Until then, I'll just have to enjoy part of Brian Regan's standup routine..."The moose, the moosen in the woodsen!!"