Luke Richard Hansen!

He's here!!! Luke arrived on Monday, February 16 at 11:40 PM. He was 9 days late but so worth the wait. He weighed 8 lbs 11 oz. and was 21 3/4 inches tall... big boy! He is such a good boy, his life consists of eating, sleeping, dirty diapers, and being doted on constantly by mommy, daddy and all of the guests that have been coming to see him. So far the adjustment with Luke in the house has been really easy. Mike is an amazing daddy and takes over whenever he can. We sleep a lot more than I thought we would and we have no problem being holed up in our house all day and night just playing with him and staring at him. He is perfect, we love him soooo much!

Luke looks just like daddy!

This is the face I usually am looking at, sleeping Luke

5 days left!

Still no baby! I don’t know why I am being so impatient when really we have 5 more days until his due date. It’s just that we are so excited to see him and I am getting huge! We went to the doctor today, she said I am still 1cm dilated and the heads “a little bit” lower. She also spent some time trying to measure our baby from the outside and she said “Well he feels like a little baby…” I asked “How much do you think he weighs?” She said “My best guess would probably be around 7lbs 14 oz.” I was shocked! I said that that does not sound little! She said she mostly delivers 9lb babies so it felt little to her. Seeing that I was born 7lbs 6 oz and Mike was around the same I always just figured that’s how big Luke would be. But if we continue down this road of not having baby yet, I may just have one of those 9 pounders…ouch! She did tell us a few things we can do to move this in the right direction a little quicker. We already tried one…eating the Skipolinis Prego Pizza. This is pretty much just a pizza with every topping imaginable on it.

Here's the pizza, full of meat and veggies and GREASE!!

Mostly our Skipolini's outing was an excuse to hang out with these girls and their boys. I <3 them! Notice Luke already trying to sit on TJ's lap.



Well, still no baby after eating it. But it was successful in making me feel a little nauseous, all that grease. Well, off to one of Mike’s games. Maybe it will be a close one and the adrenaline will get it going!! (Its my mom’s bday tomorrow, I know a grandson would be the best present…come on Lukie!!)
PS Two weeks from now when I still haven’t had the baby, I will be laughing at this post

A Baptism... and maybe a birth coming soon!?

Mike and I are so honored to be Ayla May Allocco's Godparents. It was such a wonderful day. Ayla was so good during the ceremony and she looked ADORABLE, as usual. Alix and Mike had us all over after the ceremony and put out a wonderful spread. Even my grandparents from New Jersey were able to come out for the event. Here are some pictures to document the day.

Ayla's Baptism cake...mmmm

The parents, godparents, and great grandparents with Ayla

Parents, godparents, Ayla and the priest. He was awesome!

I love this picture, as soon as the baptismal candle was lit, Ayla couldn't keep her eyes off it, good thing she is not old enough to blow it out.

Ayla and Grandpa!

Ayla and Grandma!

And now for the second half of this blogs title...I am officially due in 12 days! I kind of want to go earlier but at the same time don't want to go through labor. However last night at around 3am I came to the realization that there is a human being inside me and there is no possible way that he can stay in there forever and some how, some way he is coming out very soon! Scary! I went to the doctor today, of course she couldn't tell me when this is all going to happen but she did say that I am 1 cm. dialated which is good because she said lots of first time moms don't even start dialating until after the due date. Mike took a picture of me for my "pregnancy album" for 9 mos. Thought those of you who don't see me a lot (mainly NJ people) might find it interesting to see how huge I am!

(Yes I know it's the middle of January, but this is the only dressy dress I have that fits! Thanks Kimmy!)

Busy, Busy, Busy!

I haven’t blogged in a really long time, Julie brought this to my attention. I guess I have just been busy. Here is a list of just some of the things I have been up to:

1. Preparing my students/classroom/sub for being out for a couple months
2. Teaching!
3. Weekly doctor visits
4. Basketball season- going to all of Mike’s DV games and trying to hit some DLS games.
5. Walking everyday (at least I try)
6. Making dinner almost every night because Mike is on a strict diet, while I just keep getting bigger and bigger.
7. Keeping up the house
8. Getting ready for baby!!!

There has been more, but I think those are some good excuses, right!? I can't believe someday soon I am going to have to be doing all of that in addition to taking care of Luke, is that even possible? I should ask my mom or Julie or Alix. They've got experience! Although, even with those 8 things, somehow I still have time to watch the tivo’d “View” almost every night, plus The Bachelor, 90210, and occasionally a Friends rerun (priorities right!?)

I wanted to share some pics too and the only thing I could think of to share about is Baby Luke’s room! I love how it turned out. It’s so cozy and cute. My two favorite compliments so far are from my mom and Mike. My mom said, “It’s just such a happy room!” Mike said, “Hey, this place could be in a catalog!” I am sure Mike was exaggerating a bit, but oh well, I’ll pretend it’s true :)

Notice the stripes on top of the wall, my mom and I did that ourselves! Very custom huh? :)


I put this pic up so you can see the rug, one of my favorite parts of the room.


This is Luke's bedding. It's little orange, white and brown monkeys on a blue background. They say "Monkey See Monkey Do" on them, so cute!

Another view with curtains and rocking chair.

I can’t believe the baby is going to be here in 2 weeks. (or maybe sooner!) I cannot wait to meet this little one who has been keeping me up all night. I guess he’ll be doing that when he gets here too. I have dreams about him almost every night. Last night, I had a dream he was in his carrier in a stroller, and I was wheeling him around the Stoneridge Mall. But there was a blanket over his carrier so I couldn’t see him. It’s so strange, I have no idea what he is going to look like but I can’t wait find out!!

New Year's Eve 2009!!!

Well, 2009 is going to be a life changing year. We are going to be parents!!! Where better to celebrate the monumental occasion than HQ (headquarters ie. my brother's house). It's definitely interesting being completely sober on New Years, but I have to say it was still fun hanging out with everybody and really nice to feel great on New Year's day!! I didn't take as many pics as I wanted to but here are just a few to capture the essence of the evening

First off, the red personalized keg cups. My brother and Alix filled the keg with everyone's favorite:Bud Light. The kegs cups had a place on it where you can scratch on your name. This was my hubby's. He brought it home with us for some reason and I took the picture when we got home. The tally marks are for each time he had to refill his cup, he wanted to keep count. It say 7 1/2. I added the I heart above the Hansen..

Random pics from the night

Baby Shower and Week with Ayla

My sister's in law, Kim and Veronica, and cousin Laurie threw me my second baby shower last Saturday. It was so much fun. Luke got tons of new cute clothes, toys, books and more! People are WAY to generous when it comes to babies! Here are some pics from the festivities...

Mom and me

Baby Luke's cake! (mmm...I love cake right now!)

The little ones helped me open presents, which was actually really nice because it's getting hard for me to bend over.

Kim and Payton. (how cute is she!?)

The first few days of this week I watched Ayla for Mike and Alix. It was so fun. Everyone told me that this would be a chance to see what it would be like to have my own, great practice! It really was. Of course I had a little help, Julie and TJ helped me the first day, and Julie and Isabella came by the day after. The third day I did it on my own! Isabella loved playing with the baby. We even had a mini photo shoot with them. This is the only one we got with Ayla looking at camera.

Two of the cutest girls on the planet!

I thought we might get bored because really I thought babies just sleep, eat and cry. Who knew how much fun a 6 month old could be!? We walked Rancho, tried rice cereal (well, Julie did and Ayla did not like it), watched a baby DVD, played in the exersaucer, layed on the bed and she grabbed my face, played pigs in space, basically had a great time...can't wait for mine to be here!!!

O Christmas Tree

Mike and I finally got around to decorating our Christmas tree today. We actually got the tree last Sunday but have been too busy all week to decorate. For half the week it was lying on our front porch still wrapped up, then we brought it in I think on Thursday and put it on its stand. The tree, of course, fell after we thought it was in there good, and today was finally the day that we were both home and able to decorate, yay!

Mike’s team did a Christmas tree fundraiser this year for his program. They made lots of money and we of course felt like we should get our tree from them. Our family room is small and the smallest sizes they had were 5-6 foot trees. All of the trees were wrapped so we really couldn’t see it until we unwrapped it, but it actually turned out looking nice and fitting perfectly!
So, we put on some xmas tunes, (and a college game on mute) and decorated! Mike put up the lights first for us. He is convinced that the first strand of lights needs to wrap around the tree trunk all the way to the top so the light looks like it’s coming from the “inside of the tree”. I told him that’s a little ridiculous and a waste of the few light strands we have (who wants to make another trip down to longs?) Has anyone else heard of this? He does it every year and it does look nice, maybe that’s the way everyone does it and I have just never noticed…
As we were decorating, I was thinking about our ornaments. I have always wanted a beautiful and “classy” looking tree full of white lights, silver balls, and pretty ornaments. The kind you might see in a Pottery Barn catolog or something. Then I looked at our ornaments…no silver balls (Mike and I can’t help but laugh every time I say that), not too many lights (too lazy to go out and buy more) and all of our ornaments are either from when we were kids, from family, former players, friends, or students (sentimental). Then I realized that once Luke comes we’ll be putting up ornaments he has made and other sentimental ones and I probably won’t get that “beautiful” Christmas tree for another 20 years! Oh well, I guess that’s not the spirit of Christmas!!

Now, after way too much rambling, I would like to share a couple of our legendary ornaments.

Santa Claus aka ho ho- Pulling this little guy out of our decoration box was one of my favorite parts of decorating our tree when I was little. My mom made him when she was young and he has survived every Christmas ever since. He used to reside on the top of the tree in the Allocco household, but as a Hansen we got our Christmas angel from Mike's grandma so he had to be downgraded a bit. He is still as close to the top as I can get him. Please check out his arms and his legs. I love him.





Basketball ornaments- After decorating the tree this year, we decided that close to 80% of our ornaments have something to do with basketball. And I am not exaggerating. It's either Santa basketball player, or a hanging basketball or a reindeer holding a basketball...you get the picture. I decided to take a picture of the little boy with a basketball because he's so cute!


Soldiers- Always a favorite of my brother and I when we were young. We have soldiers in many colors. This one is injured, he is an amputee so I thought he deserved to be photographed and put on our blog for all his hard work through out the years.


Teacher/Coach ornaments- The other 20% of our ornaments pretty much can go in the gifts from students or players category. Here are a couple examples of those:

Well there you have it, our 2008 Christmas tree!