Happy New Year!!

2014 is gone...

So much to be thankful for and good memories to remember for a lifetime.

2014:

I turned 22

Zoey turned 1

Moved homes

Justin turned 24

Justin got a new job on his BD

I quit my job

I started school back up

Zoey's favorite Aunt Dani and Uncle Jared moved away

Zoey became obsessed with anything Frozen and Olaf

I found out I was having another baby

Went to Vegas for a weekend with the Wenn's

Had fires and wii nights with friends during the summer
Zoey's new favorites, Zach and Whitney moved to Cedar

Moved the second time

Found out of baby is a boy

Zoey started to got o Nursery with her favorites, the Scotts

Bought a new car to fit our growing family

Flintstones for Halloween

Thanksgiving with the Jensen's

Christmas at home and at the Hansen's

Ended the year with new friends, a growing family, organizing my house from top to bottom, (no junk drawers or boxes...NONE-zero) and much appreciation for all the 2014 has brought us but we are excited to see what 2015 has in store.

Here is an update on us:: incase you are interested.

Justin works at Western Quality Foods here in town full time.  The dairy cartons you buy at the store, he runs the machine that presses, folds, fills and seals that product to be shipped to your local grocery store.  I guess what I should say is, "You're welcome." ;)

Justin is also still going to school full time but we are happy to announce that he will graduate at the end of this semester with his Bachelors in Exercise science and will take his GRE this spring as well and them he will start applying to Graduate Programs.  So far schools that have shown interest in him are schools in New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Washington.  We aren't super picky as to where we would like to live but ideally we'd like to move closer to our family somewhere in or around Utah County. We've been gone and missed a lot and so we'd like to be around a little more with more cousins for Zoey on both sides of the family.

After he graduates this spring he will take his last and final class over the summer and then while he apples and interviews, we will be in Cedar for another year to work and just get to have our daddy around more.

JU is currently in the Elders quorum presidency and luckily that doesn't take up not much of his "free" time but it gives us a whole lot of blessings and for that I'm grateful and that gives our family the strength we need during our hard times. 

I am just busy being a momma and I'm due the end of THIS month. JANUARY is here and our little boy is coming.  I am ready to not be pregnant, see my baby boy and have both my kids here in my arms and just love them.

While that is all happening, I'm also going to school full time.  I'm getting my online degree in Accounting and I will be done around the end of this year.  Can't wait but I'm so close to finishing! Happy thoughts, prayers of strength and patients and dedication will be much needed with a little one and Zoey at home with me.

I was just released as a Young Women counselor due to our baby almost being here and it's a bitter sweet.  I will greatly miss my girls, especially my past and current beehives, but having one less thing to plan, organize and juggle will help this month greatly.  Who knows what my calling will be next!

Zoey will be 2 in April which is crazy! She is chatty and will have a whole conversation with you as long as you stay to her favorite topics of the moon, her babies, the last "ouchie" she got or her love of turning the humidifier on and off each day for mom. She has a lot to say she does and I really love how well she can communicate with me because it's less of a guessing game with her now.  She loves playing with her play kitchen, taking bathes, Winnie the Pooh, outside, jumping, dancing, running in circles in the house and she LOVES "Shake It Off" by the one and only Taylor Swift.  She sure knows how to shake it.  She is all about love and compassion and playing with her friends and she has no idea that the "baby" in moms tummy will very soon be her brother and I pray that we all can adjust as well as possible given our situation.

This little guys name has been decided as Jett with two t's obviously ;)  So far, I think he will be way more mellow then my little miss is.  He doesn't move unless he has to, he kicks as many times as the doctors like babies to, to know that they are doing great and then he's done for the day.  We are so blessed and excited to have a son and of course we have packer gear for him already thanks to his dad.  Just like any mom, I just want him happy and healthy but we like to play the guessing game as to what he will look like in terms of hair/skin/eye color and if he'll look more like a Hansen since Zoey was clearly born looking everything like her Dad. ;)

To all my fellow moms out there with two kids and having a husband/father who will be absent a lot due to school/work/church responsibilities, do you have any advice?  Share you knowledge, quotes, anything that you think will be a great positive for me to hear in times of struggle when Daddy is not able to be home at the moment.

We love you all and are so glad to have amazing family and friends who love and support us.  We hope your 2015 can be nothing but the best for each of you. We have loved having you apart of our 2014 year! Stay with us for 2015, would ya?

Love,

Justin, Lindsey, Zoey & Jett