New Beginnings: 2009

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

It's December Already!!???

Where did the time go? We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with both of our families here in Bakersfield at my parent's house. Mom and Dad Hansen outdid themselves with the baking. They brought 7 (yes 7!) pies and homemade caramel chews and we had rolls made from scratch with our Thanksgiving dinner and cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Friday morning and lattes every morning and afternoon! They totally spoiled us!! That was in addition to all the goodies my mom made and Sherry Burns sent a lot of yummy breads and Southern dressing (stuffing) along with her boys since the three of them were here with us as well. We tried to squeeze in some exercise along with all the eating and played some disc golf, football, horseshoes, darts, and football of course! I took absolutely NO pictures the entire weekend so hopefully the photographer in the family took a few that will be put up on their blog. I finished Fall quarter of school the Wednesday before Thanksgiving so I am now on winter break, which basically just means I get to work full time instead of part time which works out good since I'm going to be doing lots of shopping!! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Thinking about Fall...

Saw these on a blog I like...I think I'm going to attempt to make them soon!! Apple Dumplings!!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pioneer Day Parade 2009

This past weekend the Grant Family celebrated 127 years of Paso Robles, California living. My aunts did an amazing job decorating our float and sewing all of our costumes. They did so much research into the history of the Grant Family and all of my grandpa's relatives that he doesn't get to see that often showed up at the Paso Robles park for a family reunion after the parade.

The Independent Scotch Company was the name of the wagon train that the Grants came west with.

Getting ready for the parade.

Mom holding the California and Scottish flags

Interesting conversation

Loren with Kirsten and new baby Juliet, he was the photographer for the rest of the day so this is pretty much the only picture of him!!

My beautiful sister

Ella and I enjoying the park after the parade

A 1912 Indian motorcycle

Uncle Bruce driving the old Chevy

One of the other entries in the parade

The parade featured a lot of old machinery, amazing that it still runs!

Ella in the old time bath tub...our float theme was Bath time at the Grant Ranch...complete with bubbles!

Mom and my grandpa's cousin Leslie

My lil cousin Andrew

My brother Cody, sister Anya, and cousin Ryan

Juliet Edith Lark Morris!!!

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Im an Auntie again!!

These Lil Munchkins have a new little sister as of 6:25 pm!! Cannot wait to see her and her full head of black hair, looks like there will be three witches this Halloween!! (just for clarification my cousin Kirsten and I are doubly related so we're pretty much sisters which is why I can claim Auntie status!)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Fair time!!! Ferris Wheel Fun!

Cody & Ryan...silly grins

Mom & Dad

Sisters!!

Cody, Whitney, & Ryan...in motion...

View of the rides...a bit crowded...

Cody, Whit, & Ryan ready to get on the Ferris Wheel

So I forgot to charge my camera so pretty much all I got pictures of was the 15 minute time frame when we were on the Ferris Wheel. We actually did much much more...we walked all over the fairgrounds, ate deep pit sandwichs and corndogs, checked out all the displays, arts and crafts in five! buildings, watched the hypnotist show, a motorcycle in a cage show, a lynnrd skynnrd cover band played, walked through the animal barns, saw a dairy cow in labor...and so much more!! I LOVE THE FAIR!! it always brings back great memories! looking forward to the rodeo this weekend!!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Pictures of the Weekend

So Loren, Cody, Jason tackled some pretty tough terrain. Somehow they got off the "bike" path and onto the "hiking" trail....Not sooo great..

They were soooo relieved to make it to the top!

The SUMMIT!!!

Almost there Cody

This is more like it...jet skis!! Loren waving goodbye to me

Ready to rock!

Whitney, Cody, & Anya

My awesome bro and sis!!

Whitney and the beach cruisers!

Beautiful Pacific Beach

Tower 23, where we ate breakfast

Sea World from the water

Watching the fireworks out on the boat

Can never have too much pizza!

Anya, Loren, Cody, Westin, & Ryan at Coronado Beach

Cousins!

The written word...

So I'm not posting any pictures this post...hopefully ya'll aren't bored out of your minds! We went to San Diego this weekend to visit Cody and play in the annual Coronado Beach Volleyball Tournament hosted by some of the friends. We had an absolute blast and Anya, our cousin Ryan, and friend Jason ended winning the tournament! Woohoo! Loren, Cody, and I also made it to the semi-finals but ended up losing a nail-biter to Bob, Deanna, and Bronzon..boo hoo. Cody just moved into a new house in Pacific Beach with two of his friends and we had the pleasure of staying with them. It's a 3 bdrm, but is definitely pretty cozy! It's only about 1/2 mile from Mission Bay so we took the beach cruiser bicycles down and around the bay to P.B., had some awesome frozen yogurt at Yogurt on the Rocks, took a pontoon(sp?) boat out into the bay to watch the fireworks from Seaworld out on the water (awesomeness!), took the jetskis out..went for a mountain bike ride, had breakfast overlooking the ocean..and just had an all around great weekend with family and friends! can't wait to go back! thats it for now!