Snowboarding in April

At the Lodge
haha, I'm such an amatuer. This is only my 4th time going.
in another pick all of my weight is on my back legs (such a wakeboarder!!) its hard for me to get this whole snowboarding thing figured out!

Still smiling, this wasn't a bad crash, just a little cold

this it Kalle our niece. She is 2 and can ski like a champ. She kept telling our other brother-in-law who was just learning to ski like her. "watch Kalle, turn like Kalle". She always refers to herself in the 3rd person. its hilarious

Ok, This snow stuff has got to go! But I guess as long as its here, we'll make the best of it. We went snowboarding on the 5th and had a blast (other than my chest crushing, breath taking, head over heels crash). We went up to Sweitzer in Sandpoint Idaho and just boarded all day with some friends and family. We should be wakeboarding by now, but I guess we will have to wait a few weeks.

Blair was soo good and patient with me. I'm just learning so he went on the runs that I wanted to go on most of the time. Good husband!

Happy Birthday Blair!

some of our friends that joined us that night.

yes, he actually stuck his finger in the cake

Cake #1- Red velvet with cream cheese frosting

Emmy and Elyse helping uncle Blair

This is Elyse and Blair on his actual birthday (sunday)
Cake #2- Texas Sheet cake

Blair's birthday was April 6th and he turned 25!! Craziness. Anyway, I wanted to suprise him this year. so I threw a suprise party for him on saturday. I told him that he needed to go to the store for me and get some things for sunday. while he was gone I called his brother and asked him to call me and ask him to come over for something. So Chad called Blair and said that his family was sick and they needed some gatorade. Chad stalled him just long enough for everyone to arrive at our house. it was really fun! Blair got new waterski gloves, a bag for his wakeboard, a new white hurly hat, some shorts, and about 100 golf balls. It all turned out great!

New Additions to Our Family!

Benjamin
Willard and Freeman

A car full of Blondies

Willard and Freeman are twins and just had a birthday. Their younger brother is Benjamin. They are now part of the Hodgson family and are sweethearts. We haven't met them yet but are excited to! Mom just sent me pictures from Veronica and I wanted to share them all with you. Now they have 4 Blondies!!! Our family just gets bigger!!! I love it!

AZ

We went to Arizona this last week for spring break and it was a blast. It was warm and we just hung out by the pool and shopped all week. can you believe I didn't take one picture the whole time we were there? well believe it, cause I didn't!!! Today we got up and I looked out side, and it was a blizzard. So it was a great welcome back for us!!! We were in 80 degree weather all week and come back to snow!!! ridiculous!
Two of my sisters-in-law are having babies and they both just found out they are having boys! can you believe it!? its boy season!!! Its great that Jared's wife is having another boy, someone needs to carry on the Hanson name!

indulging brooke

10 yrs ago: I was just 11, almost 12. I was in good old challis living at my grandparents because we were still building our house. I had all sorts a little buddies becky armbruster and I were pretty tight then, (I had just gotten to challis). I was friends with becky, amanda, brooke, kim, jamie and I hadn't really gotten tight yet I don't think. roger, michael, tyler, abe, brian, and tj were all my great guy buddies. Its funny because I stayed pretty close with almost all of them throughout highschool.
Things on my list of things to do today: nursing clinical at 6am, school project 3pm, pick out some furniture with Blair 5pm, and maybe make dinner, maybe!
3 of my bad habits: stressing is definetly #1, I always stress first and think later(sometimes good), it takes me days to fold the dang laundry! I let my mind race at night sometimes and tell Blair everything I have to do until he says sweetheart its going to be ok.(I guess that goes along with the stressing part)
Places I have lived: San Bernardino CA, good ole' Yankee Fork/Sunbeam ID, Challis ID, Stanley ID, Running Springs CA, Provo UT, and now I reside in Spokane WA (south hill)
Things most people don't know about me: I love to paint, I make cookies with my husband every week, I have 7 aggressive fish, I love shopping but can hardly ever get myself to buy something until I have wanted it and looked at it for a least a month, I love camping... there are probably a lot of other things, but that's a good list.

I want abby to do this!

White Bread Recipe

2 packages of yeast (or 1 1/2 Tbsp)
1/2 c warm water
1 Tbsp sugar
mix these and let them stand

in a mixing bowl mix: w/ a dough hook
1 3/4 c hot tap water
1 Tbsp salt
2 Tbsp honey (generous)
2 Tbsp oil
3 c Flour

then add yeast mixture and 3-3 1/2 more cups of more flour (add one cup at a time until the dough starts to pull away from the sides, that's when you know you have added enough)

knead the dough in the mixing bowl with the dough hook for 5 minutes on low
cover & let rise for 45minutes
Turn mixer back on, on low and beat the dough down again, just a few seconds
let rise again for 20 minutes
oil a board, knead, and divide the dough in half, shape it into 2 loaves and put into 2 greased loaf pans.
cover and let it rise again for 30-45 minutes (in the pans)

Bake @ 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
I know you have to let it rise a bunch, but its totally worth it! Its sooo good! enjoy!

Valentine's present!

When Blair was a sophomore in high school his mom had a CTR ring made for him by Margie (who later did our wedding rings), Anyway Blair knew that I always really liked his CTR and that I didn't have one so he had Margie make me a ring similar to his. Blair tried to wait to give it to me on Valentine's day, but he couldn't, so I got it 2 days early.
here's Blair's

And here we are together. The present might seem cheesy, but I thought it was really thoughtful and sweet. I had no idea... the funny thing is, when he gave it to me he said I didn't have to get him a present because he was winning "his present" online, which I was completely unaware of. So I pretty much got off scott free for Valentine's day!