coupon clipper!

i have decided i want to clip coupons...only because through my friend jodell i have found some AWESOME websites/blogs that have done all the work for you. they find the deals and you just look at them, print the coupons and go! i have some of the blogs/websites listed on here. i don't know what it is, maybe i get it from my mom, but i love me a good deal. the better the deal the better i feel. why get 1 $50 shirt when you can get 5 $10 shirts!! so... on that note i printed some coupons and just saved my first dollar at target when buying some toothpaste. i figure, i was going to get it anyway, why not save a dollar. maybe i will put all the money in a saving account and see how much i can save.

what do you think? do you use coupons? do you have websites/blogs you go to?

did you grow last night?

do you feel like your kids literally grow at night while they are sleeping? you put them to bed and then just the next morning they seem taller, just plain bigger? i do. this just happened with mallory. she is getting so big i just can't believe it. she is almost walking. she will take tons of steps and walks between things but has yet to WALK all the time. mallory is going to be our daredevil. she is fearless and will try to do everything olivia does and then even go further. she hasn't starting talking yet but knows EXACTLY what she wants to "yells" at us to get it for her.
here are the sweet sisters. it is funny to look back and remember how surprised and scared we were to have mallory...now, i don't know what we would do without her!

our own room!

after a whole year of having mallory in our walk in closet, yes, that's right, our walk in closet we finally decided to move the girls into their own room....together!! first picture is our room before the move.... the girls room now.
looks a little different! we tried to have mallory and olivia in the same room, they did great with not waking up when the other one was crying. but, the real problem was mallory getting up at 5 AM because it isn't total darkness like in here closet. if papa (my dad) was here, that would be no problem, but it's only me and brett and 5 AM is a little bit early for me.... so we moved her back into the closet and olivia stayed out in the room. brett and i still have our own room and are enjoying the many freedoms we forgot about...like talking to eachother before bed, watching movies in our room and some others! i am trying to get all the decorations i want for both the rooms together, the walls look pretty bare, ok, totally bare. i will post some updates when we get it all together.

sweet sundays

here are the girls a couple of sundays ago. aren't they cute. i love having 2 girls to dress up! especially on sunday!! what fun. we, meaning olivia and i, found this dress at target for $8.98! holy cow. pretty dressed are always fun, but when they are only $9, it is even better!! she LOVED it, she loves anything pink, with flowers and if it is a dress. she could hardly wait for church and nursey to wear the dress. liv is so cute and getting to be so smart. everyday she says something new and i know she is "getting" more and more of what brett and i say. i guess we better start being a little more careful!!

sisters?

what do you think? are these two related? they are both right around 14 months. i can't believe how alike they still look. i guess my girls are going to take after the phil sandberg sisters. olivia 11/15/06 mallory 4/16/08

experimental starfish

well, on one of our random shopping trips to michaels craft store i found a "plastic" starfish that claimed to get 600% larger just by putting it is water. i tolk olivia all about it and her and daddy put it in the tub in some water. that was tuesday night. i didn't think liv would even remember it but boy was i wrong. she wants to go look at the starfish every 5 minutes. it is really cute how interested she is. it is getting bigger, but they instructions say it could take up to a week to get that big. a week it an ETERNITY for a 2 year old. here are some pics of the girls looking at "the starfish". it really is getting bigger and i will keep you all posted on any further developements!

lions and tigers and bears!

the girls and i went to the minnesota zoo with some friends. it was so much fun. since it's spring the zoo has a special "farm babies" thing you can go to and see all the babies. we had a really good day weather wise, it was a little windy, but it was nice and warm. we got to take off our sweatshirts it got so nice! what makes the trip even better is that i used the pass from the library here and it was FREE! yeah. here are adam and olivia holding hands! aren't they cute. we had to help them be able to hold eachothers hand. they haven't mastered that skill yet!
livy was very brave and fed the goats. she was a little worried at first but i ended up spending alittle money on the goats! mallory even did it too. she loves to do everything that sister does.
i know you can't really tell but the black things behind the fence are the cutest little baby lambs! we loved them. liv, mal and adam all got to pet them.
that face says it all! cows are HUGE! i don't know when the last time i was that close to a cow! they are pretty big. liv and adam tried to feed the cows too.
**this is a little pig statue. no animals were harmed in the taking of this picture**
mallory climbing on another pig statue.

us posing with the super cool tractor.

both liv and mal were out before we even got out of the parking lot. i really tuckered them out. livy actually did really good and walked the whole time. she is a trooper.

i was so excited that we got to go outside that i forgot to take any sunscreen as you can tell by mallory face! i also have a really neat tan line!

HANSEN NEWS

no mom, no babies coming.... but brett joseph hansen is offically a college student. horray!! he will be starting at our local community college in aug. he is trying to decide between business admin. and marketing/sales. we are so excited for him and so proud of him. the girls and i had a little party to tell him the good news when he got home from work. streamer, a sign colored by the girls and then a little "going to college" present.

outside!!

there have been several nice days amid the blizzards the past couple weeks. we have tried to take advantage of all of them by going on family walks (dad, are you so proud!) and going to the park. brett helped olivia make her first snow angel and we had a family snowball fight. it was so fun.

this was a really nice day when we didn't even have to wear big coats. we went to the park just around the corner and played with a friend from nursery, tommy. i think we stayed out for a whole hour. a record time this year so far.

children's museum

here is olivia doing some grocery shopping. they had a store and a restaurant at the museum. she could've played there for hours. she put just about everything she could get her hands on into the cart. it was so cute. she is momma's good helper when we are at walmart too. mallory and olivia are now rockstars! the girls were on that stage and there was a camera taking video of them. it looked like they were in a music video. it was so funny. brett can live his dream through them!!
olivia being a doctor. i am trying to start the brainwashing so she can support me and brett in our old age.
here olivia and mallory are playing in the dirt. liv even has little gloves on. then, i turned my back for one second and ...
mallory had eaten some dirt!! i guess the old saying is true, like mother, like daughter. i loved dirt when i was young.

we had a great time and even decided to get some passes to go for the year. they change the exhibits and right now it is sesame street. so it will be fun to go atleast every month.