Jax turns 5!

If you haven't noticed, I haven't been blogging much ;) I don't have the time or energy to focus on it, so I'm basically just using it as a way to keep track of important events in our family. If you're reading this, thanks for sticking around!
Jax turned 5 on June 3rd, and we had a small cake and ice cream party with family and a few friends. Jax is obsessed with Ninja Turtles so all the plates, cups, etc were Ninja Turtles as were almost all of his gifts. We didn't do a big thing because we had something bigger already planned! 

For his big birthday present, we took him (without Lexi!) to Disneyland! My parents did the same thing with my brother and I when we each turned 5 and we plan on continuing the tradition with all of our kiddos. 

We went with our buddies that also turned 5 in June... and we had SO much fun! When we first got there, we checked into our hotel then headed to Downtown Disney. We went to the Lego store, which Jax was just as excited about as actual Disneyland, and then headed to Rainforest Cafe for a special birthday dinner. 

The next day we went to California Adventure. We went straight to Cars Land since that gets so busy, so fast. I couldn't ride some of the rides, but used that time to relax a bit. 

The boys all had tons of fun. 

We spent the whole day wandering around, riding rides, having snacks and treats, then had a birthday dinner at Ariel's Grotto. 

After dinner we rode a few more things, then headed over to watch World of Color. By this point, everyone was exhausted and Jax just kept asking to go back to the hotel. We've seen World of Color and few times and won't be hanging around to see it again any time soon. It's just too late after such a long day!
The next day we went to Disneyland. 

We rode a few rides then headed to Jedi Training. Jax has reentry starting loving Star Wars so he was super excited about this. He learned how to fight, then got to fight Darth Vadar! Afterward, he got a Jedi Training Certificate. He loved the whole thing!

The rest of the day was spent riding more rides and eating more yummy snacks. Jax got to ride the Matterhorn and Thunder Mountain for the first time and he loved both! We were pretty bummed when we found out that Space Mountain was closed for maintenance. He's already talking about riding it the next time we go :)

We had a great day, ate some dinner, then headed back to the hotel to swim and watch the fireworks from our balcony. We weren't about to wait around for fireworks at the park just to have the boys be too tired and want to leave. Heading back to the hotel to watch them there was the perfect solution!
The trip was great and Jax is still talking about it a month later. I loved making memories and having alone time with the boy who made me a mama. It was a great way to celebrate him before his baby brother comes in a few weeks!

Belly updates! (Baby #3)

I've sailed past the halfway mark and am on the downhill slope now! I'm so ready for this sweet boy to be here and wishing that my due date was closer than it is! I've had so many friends have their babies over the past few weeks and I wish it could be me too. BUT, I know he needs lots more time to cook, so I'm okay with him staying in for awhile.  Here are my belly pictures from the past few weeks. I'm pretty proud of myself for doing a good job about taking them. I'm missing a few weeks here and there, but overall I've been able to keep up!

Easter fun!

We had a fun Easter with lots of different festivities over quite a few days. 

Jax's preschool had an Easter egg hunt on the last day before spring break (a week before Easter).

 We dyed Easter eggs over spring break. I feel like I should have bought more than a dozen eggs because it took about 2 seconds to dye them, but what use do we have for more than a dozen hard boiled eggs??

On Easter eve, we planted "magic" jelly beans which turned into lollipops on Easter morning! We've done this for the last few years and Jax always loves waking up to check outside on Easter morning. 

We went to church that morning, then drove to my grandparents house an hour away for another Easter egg hunt and dinner.

This was the best picture we could get. Jax is making a ridiculous face and Lexi isn't even looking at the camera. Oh well, we did the best we could!

We got a picture with my little family, plus my brother and my parents. I love it!

I know it's been a few week, but I hope you guys had a wonderful Easter and are enjoying some beautiful spring weather! It's been almost 100* here (yuck!!) so we pretty much skipped spring and went straight to summer. I'm hoping for some cooler temps so that I don't have to be huge pregnant and burning up for the next 3 months! Ha!

Baby #3 is a....

BOY!

Ryker Thomas will be joining our family at the end of August!
If you follow me on Instagram, this isn't new news... we found out about a month ago that another boy would be joining our family.  I spend much more time over on Instagram these days than I do on this little blog of mine, so come follow me there @jennahansen. I just don't have the time to keep up with blogging much!! 
We are so excited about having another boy, and Jax is over-the-moon about it! 
I also haven't been great about taking weekly pictures. I remember to take them, but then I have no one around to do it! So here are the two recent ones I have... 

The belly is definitely growing!
Have a great week!

Weeks 12, 13, and 14 (Baby #3!)

Things are going well so far with my third pregnancy! I'm feeling pretty good overall, although there are times when I feel very blah... like all I want to do is sit on the couch because I just don't feel "normal". But I really can't complain. I have had 3 very easy pregnancies so far, so I'm ok with a little  bit of feeling blah :)
I'm 14 weeks now! Happy to be comfortably in my second trimester... and SO anxious to know what we are having! I'm going to ask my doctor to do a gender ultrasound at my 16 weeks appointment. Pray that she says yes!! If she doesn't want to, we are getting a 3d ultrasound done the next day. I have ZERO patience. I always said that if we had one of each gender, that we would wait to be surprised with the third child... yeah, not so much. I wanna know asap!
Here are my belly pictures from the last few weeks. I'm definitely starting to show!

I hope you have a great week!  Ryan is off for most of the week, so I'm looking forward to some quality family time for us!

DIY Valentine plus a FREE printable!

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and we have finally gotten Jax's preschool valentine's all ready to go! If you were reading along last year, I did these fun Valentine's... one for his classmates and one for each of his teachers.

This year, I searched Pinterest (again) for another cute DIY idea. And I came up with this...

One for the girls and one for the boys... I think it turned out pretty cute!
If you are looking for a last minute idea for your child's class, feel free to copy mine! I've included the link to the printable below. 
ENJOY!
Click HERE to download and print!

And then there were FIVE!

Hello friends! How have you been? I took a little blogging break, but now I'm back!  I probably won't be blogging as consistently as I used to.  I just don't have the time.  And since this little blog of mine isn't a source of income, it has taken a backseat to other things recently. 
If you follow me on Instagram (come find me @jennahansen), then this isn't news to you but...
 we're having another baby!!!
Come the end of August, we will be a family of FIVE!  We're very excited to be adding a little brother or sister to our family.  Jax is really hoping for a baby brother, so I'm hoping that we can give that to him! 
I thought it was about time to play catch up with pregnancy pictures, so here we go!

Here is how we told our families that we were expecting again!

Here are my weekly update pictures...

 And here is little baby Hansen #3!

I hope you all are doing well!