The Hansens: September 2008

Monday, September 29, 2008

My new grocery savers blog...

OK, Many of you know that I love a good deal at the grocery store. So, because of a few of you urging me to "get the good deals out there" I've started a new blog listing the deals that I am aware of. I hope this will be helpful, and I hope you will post the good deals that you find on my new blog. The address is www.grocerygirls.blogspot.com . Now realize that there isn't much on it yet, so it's not cool...yet. I just posted 2 good deals on it, and then my kindergartener came home and is STARVING to death, so I must go. If you think it's lame, check back every couple of days, and hopefully it will get better and more informative. Thanks!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Blog Tag

The rules are that you have to answer these questions with only a one-word answer. So since I got tagged by Val and by Kally I guess I better answer before someone else tags me.

1. Where is your cell phone? I am the OTHER only person in the world besides Val without one...
2. Your significant other? Travis, significantly so!
3. Your hair? Messy
4. Your mother? Headstands
5. Your father? Older (he just had a birthday, I'm not being a meaner, meaner)
6. Your favorite thing? babies
7. Your dream last night? I had a cell phone.
8 Your favorite drink? Ice water. Unless I just ate a pound of chocolate, then milk.
9. Your dream/goal? Debt-free & food storage full.
10. The room you’re in? Living
11. Your hobby? Gardening
12. Your fear? Spiders, the dark, dogs, creepy people.
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy & healthy
14. What you’re not? Quick
15. Muffins? Lemon Poppy Seed.
16. One of your wish list items? my house had another 1000 sq ft
17. Where you grew up? Idaho and Utah
18. The last thing you did? Told Mykal how to make cinnamon rolls with Pillsbury biscuit dough
19. What are you wearing? as Abbee would say, "Nuffin!" Just kidding, jeans and an old ModBe shirt that needs thrown out.
20. Favorite gadget? Computer
!21. Your pets? A lizard
22. Your computer? Wonderful
23.Your mood? Sleepy
24. Missing someone? Travis, he's still at school, but shoud be home 1n 15 minutes or so
25.Your car? To quote Oscar the Grouch, it's "Dirty and dingy and dusty! Ragged and Rotten and Rusty!"
26. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes
27. Favorite store? The one with a killer sale.
28. Like someone? SARAH PALIN! Yeah, me too, Deb and Val!
29. Your favorite color? all the shades of Purple and lots of blues and greens oh yeah, and pinks.
30. When is the last time you laughed? Today.when I asked "Who Stinks?" And my 16 month old Zoe patted her bum and said "Gross!"
31. Last time you cried? Today...teenagers...good thing they were once babies
Okay, I tag cousin Suzanne, Cousin Sondra, Karmen , Tiff (the pregnant one) and Karissa!

Friday, September 19, 2008

The POWER of...Obedience...

This is my cool nephew, Justin (Jennifer's boy). I came across a deal this week in Albertsons where you end up getting 6-32 oz. bottles of Powerade Zero for 14 cents plus tax. That's not 14 cents each, that's 6 bottles for 14 cents! So I emailed my family and told them how to do it, and told everyone to go stock up....and Justin was O! BE! DEE! ENT!!!!!

This is him with 150 cases of Powerade Zero. This is 2,250 bottles of powerade which would usually cost $3,577.50+tax, but he got for under $100.00. You curious? Here's how....Albertsons (in Utah, Idaho, and I think Nevada, don't know where else) should all have 32 oz. Powerade on sale for $0.69 a bottle. If you buy 6 Powerade ZERO's all at once and use your preferred card, then your total will come to $4.19 plus tax. Pay for it. After the cashier closes her drawer, then a $4 coupon will print off. Buy 6 more, use the coupon, and your total is right around $0.14 (it comes to about 39 cents, depending on your tax rate). Pay your whopping 39 cents, and buy 6 more, use your new coupon, and Viola! You've got cheaper than heck Powerade ZERO! You can use the $4 coupon to buy anything, it doesn't have to be for Powerade Zero only...So, buy 6 Powerade ZERO's at a time, and the sale ends on Tuesday, September 23rd. AND it HAS to be Powerade Zero...the coupon won't print out on regular Powerades. So go get your year's supply...

Thursday, September 11, 2008

I've been busy...

Just a quick post to let you know we ARE all alive and well, I've just been busy! (as I'm sure all of you aren't...) I only have one word to say....PEACHES!!!!! It's THAT time of the year! I have almost 200 lbs of peaches and have been busy trying to get them all canned before the fruit flys totally take over my house. They have invaded, but I have fought back by hanging fly ribbons around my kitchen. A few of them have succumbed to the temptation of a beautiful brown swirly sticky ribbon and are now stuck...but many are still resisting the sticky goo...I'd like to stay and post more, but...
MUST.........CAN........PEACHES!!!!!

Kidspeak

I've been excitedly saying, "Myk & Salise are gonna have a baby! I'm gonna be a grandma!" So yesterday I told Zoe (age 4), "Auntie Tiff had her baby!" Zoe started jumping up and down and yelled, "Yeah! I'm a grandma now!" (1-23-2012)

(Abbee) "Wow, Mom, you look like a grandma today!"
(2-27-2009)

(Zac )"Mom! Your eyes are so black!"
(Mom)"They are? No, I have blue eyes. Why do you think they are black?"
(Zac)"Because you are sooo evil!"
(Mom)"What? Why do you say that? I'm nice, I'm not evil!"
(Zac)"But your eyes are so black and your fingernails are so sharp because you are TURNING evil, but you are still nice for now!" (2/11/2009)

The Family: A Proclamation to the World

The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
We, the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.
All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.
In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize his or her divine destiny as an heir of eternal life. The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.
The first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife. We declare that God's commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the earth remains in force. We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife.
We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed. We affirm the sanctity of life and of its importance in God's eternal plan.
Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. "Children are an heritage of the Lord" (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.
The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. Disability, death, or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation. Extended families should lend support when needed.
We warn that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.

Middle-aged Mormon Man