Grandpa Hansen 1914 - 2011

Divett Hansen Glenwood, Utah Isaac Divett Hansen, 96, passed away February 18, 2011 in Salt Lake City. He was born June 18, 1914, Salt Lake City, to Isaac Stewart and Sophia Kristine Sorensen Hansen. He married his sweetheart, Madge Christiansen June 13, 1941 in the Manti LDS Temple. She died November 30, 2005. He lived his entire life in Glenwood and built his home just a few feet from the one in which he was raised. Divett was an active member of the LDS Church having served in many callings including Bishop, High Priest Group Leader, Elders Quorum President, Financial Clerk, scouting and was a faithful home teacher. He loved temple work and served several years in the extraction program. He loved to farm, fish, and hunt. He found much joy in caring for his beautiful yard and garden. He retired in 1979 after working for many years at Tri-State Lumber/ Valley Builders. He was also on the Glenwood Town Board for ten years. Divett is survived by his children: Rhea Dawn (Ron) Olcott, Hurricane; Peggy (Kent) Swallow, Flowell; Kenley (Ann) Hansen, Orem; Connie (Randy) Peterson, Blythe, CA; Loralee (Russ) Roberts, Lehi, 23 grandchildren, 89 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, sister Loree (Rulon) Thurston and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 26, 11:00 a.m. in the Glenwood Ward Chapel. Friends may call at the Magleby Mortuary Friday evening from 6:00- 8:00 p.m. and Saturday at the ward chapel from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Burial will be in the Glenwood City Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti.

After my baptism.

Grandpa Hansen baptized me and Grandpa Roberts confirmed me.

Grandpa Hansen came with us to the Copper Pit.

Grandpa with 7 of his 89 Great-GrandkidsGrandpa made each of his 17 granddaughters a Cedar Chest when they turned 16. This is something I will always treasure.

Grandpa and Lindsey4 Generations with Grant

I Love You Grandpa!

Valentine's Day

We had a Valentines Party at our house for our Ashby cousins. I forgot to take any pictures until the very end. I thought this picture of Taft and Julia was very cute.

Here are Cassidy & Whitney's Valentine boxes. . .

28 Day Sugar Rehab

Aaron and I are in a 28 day sugar rehabilitation program. We aren't going to eat sugary foods for the next 4 weeks in an attempt to break the bad habits. We just finished our first week, and so far so good. There were many temptations this week, but we survived. In primary today we talked about ways to avoid temptation. The first idea is to DECIDE before the temptation occurs that you aren't going to do it. Second is to PRAY for help to avoid temptation. Third is to LISTEN to the Holy Ghost. I realized how this is very much like the process that Aaron and I are going through. We decided that we wouldn't eat sugar (we even pinkie swore.) This made it easier when we were at my mom's and there were several yummy looking treats there. Since we had already decided we wouldn't, it was easier to not eat it. I have been praying for help to be more healthy and eat less sugar. Now I just have to make it through Valentine's Day!

One of our new healthy discoveries is Bountiful Baskets. This is a food co-op that we get fruits and vegetables from. I love this. We always have fresh veggies & fruit around the house to snack on. Below is a picture from Saturday's pickup of food. What is most amazing to me is that something like this exists and I had never heard of it. Standing in the gym of a elementary school with a couple of hundred people to pick up food and realizing that there are hundreds of sites all around doing the same thing leads me to wonder. . . . Why did no one ever tell me about this before?

To Infinity . . .

I had to take a picture of Grant when he got home from preschool Thursday. This astronaut outfit was too cute.

Chinese New Year Program

Grant's preschool had a Chinese New Year program. Dad got to go watch Grant sing some songs about the Chinese New Year. They also had a dragon parade.

Chef Whitney

Whitney has been begging me lately to let her cook something. She really wants to learn how to cook. Friday I let her make some cookies. The only recipe that I had all the ingredients for was Snickerdoodles. I supervised the process and put the cookies in and out of the oven. Everything else Whitney did all by herself. She did a great job. The cookies tasted perfect! Now she wants to move on to learning how to cook dinner.

Before & After

Whitney and I went and had our haircuts. I had about 6 inches cut off, Whitney had about 8 inches. Whitney was originally going to try and donate it to locks of love, but didn't want to go that short. This was good, because even at this length it was a bit of a shock for her. She has adjusted to it now and loves her hair. If you see her walking now she is swinging her hair back and forth as she goes.

Potty Training Day 325

I don't really know how long we have been potty training, but it has been a long time. It was a rough year for Grant. He was completely potty trained, and then we moved into my parent's house. Had a few rough days, but then we were back on track. Then we moved into an apartment. Still kept going, but we had lots of accidents. Then we moved again to our new house. The first week he did great, then every single time was an accident. I was so preoccupied trying to get our house settled, that we just went back to pull ups and then somehow he was completely back to not being potty trained. I knew he was having surgery in a short time, so I decided to just let it go until after so we didn't have to start again. Grant's New Year's Resolution was to get back to being potty trained. It is very frustrating, because he knows what to do, he just doesn't do it. As long as I am nagging him all day long to go to the bathroom, we are good. If I leave it up to him, it doesn't happen. I wish I knew how to get him to just do it on his own. We did the potty training chart. His reward for finishing the chart was a "big doughnut, without a hole."

Dinosaur Museum

Grant went to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum for a field trip. I didn't bring my camera with me. (Let's face it - I have so many pictures of my kids at the dinosaur museum that I could probably print a whole book from just Thanksgiving Point!) Grant saw all the other kids getting their pictures taken, so he really wanted to get his taken too. Thank goodness for the camera on my phone. Not the best quality, but it pacified him, so why not.

Cassidy

I have a bunch of pictures of Cassidy from her teacher. Her teacher, Mrs. Downs, posts all her pictures on Shutterfly so we can download them if we want.

Grandparents Read-a-thon Day. Grandma Roberts came to Cassidy's school and read with her and her friend Gaby. (Grandma is just going to love this picture!)

Cassidy had to do a report on an ancestor that migrated. We've always done ancestors on my side of the family, so I thought it would be good to get some info from Aaron's side of the family. Aaron's mom had to go back quite a ways to find an ancestor that migrated. Hans Heinrich Felder (10 great-grandfathers back) migrated from Switzerland to South Carolina in 1735.

Cassidy's class did a play called Aesop's Fables. They sang several songs with a brief story in between. Cassidy was one of the story tellers.