Meet the Newest Hansen

For all those people that were thinking the holidays were good to Steph's waistline or Steph must have loved that cruise food...there's a little bit of truth to that, but I do have another excuse! We are expecting our first little bundle of joy this summer. The official due date is July 3rd. While we were in Utah for Christmas Christian's uncle, Flint, did our first ultrasound. He thinks it is a boy, but it is still a bit early to tell. Here is our little guy's first photo shoot:

As soon as we started the ultrasound he started sucking his thumb and he had the hiccups so he was bouncing all over the place.

Sleigh Bells

The day after Christmas we went up to Deer Valley for a sleigh ride and dinner. I don't think any of us realized how cold it gets just sitting outside in the snow, but it was still really fun. We bundled up the best we could and Christian played Christmas music on his phone as we trotted along. Afterwards we had reservations at Glitretind at the Stein Eriksen Lodge, but there was an hour wait. Once we figured out that we could order the same food at their other restaurant and all we'd be missing out on was the fancy table cloths, we were all over it.

White Christmas

We spent Christmas in Park City, Utah this year with my family. It was the first time any of us had ever had a white Christmas. It snowed about 50 in. the few days before we arrived so there was not only great skiing, but it was beautiful. Christmas morning Christian & I made breakfast and we opened presents. Then Christian, Corbin, and I went skiing at Park City. When we returned home Mom cooked her yummy Chrismas ham dinner. I attempted to make our favorite raspberry ribbon pie on Christmas Eve, but I over whipped the cream and ruined it. Since no stores were open we improvised with the ingredients we had at the house and it actually turned out pretty good! We have all loved being here during the holidays...I think we might make this a new tradition!

Family photo op.

We arrived on Dec. 23rd so we decorated a little decorative tree already at the place. It did the job!

Goodbye flip phone. Christian got me my first smart phone! I still can't believe what I've been missing out on!!

7 for all mankind maternity jeans from my mom! It actually made me a little excited for when I need to wear these!!

I gave Corbin a lottery scratch ticket. Unknown to him and everyone else it was a FAKE ticket. I about died laughing watching him react to "winning" $10,000.

Corbin gave me my first "baby" outfit. He obviously hasn't been around many babies because the t-shirt was a 4T...in 4 years I'm sure the baby is going to love it!

Park City! I wanted to take it easy so I rented skis instead of snowboarding. It was the 2nd time I've skied since Jr. High.

Corbin wiping out on a jump.

I was just trying to make it down alive. Can you tell it has been a while?

Land Legs

We sailed our final cruise and we are officially land based now! It's definitely a little bitter sweet...no more traveling, unlimited food & room service, and most importantly there's no one to make our bed and clean our bathroom everyday. Nevertheless, we are excited to finally have family & friends nearby, unlimited access to cell phones and internet, cars, and much more! We moved back to Christian's hometown Los Altos, CA (about 40 min. south of San Francisco) and Christian already started a job at a property management company named Robert Wheatly Properties. It hasn't really set in that we aren't going back to ships yet, but we are really enjoying this more "normal" life!

Cruise Update

We just finished a 5 week stint on a ship in the Western Caribbean! After being rerouted nearly every week due to hurricanes we were so ready to get off and be on vacation. We spent our first week on land at Walt Disney World followed by a cruise with Christian's family. There was 30 Hansens in the group. We sailed on the Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas and visited Cocoa Cay, Bahamas, St. Thomas & St. Maarten. Here are some highlights from my first cruise as a passenger! In St. Thomas we rented scooters and toured around the island. After over 2 years of cruising around the Caribbean this was one of the only islands we never visited! I'm still not quite sure how we all made it back in one piece between driving on the other side of the road and the sun going down. St. Maarten! After visiting old friends we went to the beach and Christian, Doug & Stan went scuba diving! Soccer champions. The "H-Factor" won gold at the soccer tournament. I'm not sure if it's really fair since 3/6 played college soccer, but we'll take it.

Tyler, Lauren, & Mackenzie!
Christian, Doug & Stan were obsessed with the Flow Rider. Every single morning they woke up for the 8am "Advanced Surf Session". Stan actually rented the entire Flow Rider 2 nights for extra practice sessions. They were 3 of the 4 people invited to the Grand Finale Surf Competition and Doug took the top prize!

Clearly I needed a little more practice.