An Update

So in my last post I said that we were going private. I seriously had every intention of doing so but I may have jumped the gun. I talked to the mom of the nuggets I watch and she said that she wasn't worried about it, so I guess I shouldn't be either. So thanks to everyone who emailed, texted, or the one person (thanks Dash! haha) who commented here for your email addresses but it looks like I won't be needing them after all. Anywho... Here is what has been going on.

I seriously suck at blogging ever since I started teaching because it is so draining. I wouldn't trade it for anything and I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have but I have a few issues with the school that I am at so it takes WAY more time than it should, even though teachers spend tons of extra time doing things but that will be another rant for another day. But honestly I leave for work at 6:50 in the morning, get home about 5:30 and then I usually spend at least 2-3 hours a night doing school stuff at home and it is kind of kicking my trash. i. cannot. wait. for. spring break.

I mentioned before that we were going to add to the fam and we really did it. We have had little miss Millie for almost a month and oh heavens how I love that sweet puppy! She seriously is my favorite. Her cute little face just melts my heart and she has the sweetest personality. And do I dare say it and possibly jinx us? She is like 98% potty trained. She is just barely 10 weeks old and it has been over 2 weeks since we have had an accident (knock on wood!). And she is a really good sleeper. She rarely wakes up more than once a night to go potty and she goes right back to sleep if she does. She has been so much fun and I think the hubs and I agree that it might have been the best decision we have ever made getting her.

Next thing, we bought a house. If I think like I am busy now I feel like a have a whole other coming once we actually move in and have to get settled and figure out how to decorate the place and what not. We close next Wednesday and we are pretty jazzed about it. Cross your fingers for us that everything goes as planned or else we will be homeless because we told our landlors that there will be no more of us after the 31st. Oh and PS, our landlords don't like that we have a puppy... Our super classy neighbor ratted us out and said that she is out of control and runs around like crazy all day, but she is gone all day so I don't really get it. But I think he is a major D-bag because thanks to him we had to pay extra for Millie plus another deposit. Awesome.

But really things are going great. I will put up pictures of the house and of Millie boo the second I get a chance!

Our blog is changing!

Well folks, our blog is changing. The name of it, and the fact that it is public. Here are the reasons for both...

Why is the name changing? Well, I am no longer Morgan Harper, and Michael is a part of this as well. So we shall have a new name for our blog. I have yet to think of what it will be though. The hubs and I shall discuss and get back to you on that.
Why are we going private? Well, truthfully I have always contemplated about going private but I thought that we really had no reason to because I really don't put anything on here that I am not okay with the general public seeing, because duh, it's a blog! I thought that maybe I would change when we had kids because they would be so frequently documented but I would cross that bridge when it came to it. Well then I thought about my nuggets that I watch now. They aren't on our blog a ton, but they do make it on occasionally and when they do I try to use their nicknames for them. Sometimes I would slip and use their real names but I really wasn't super concerned.
But then I looked and you know how you can see what people put in their search box that leads them to your blog? Well quite a few people were looking up young girls, and even specific ages and they would get to my blog! There are absolutely no inappropriate picture of anything on our blog (especially of kids!) but it still made me wonder what these creeps were doing with the pictures. So therefore, we are going private. I know that a ton of people don't look at our blog but if you want to be able to look at, just send me your email so I can add you. There have been a few peoples blogs that I "blog-stalk" (I swear not in a creeper way) that I either went to high school with, or I found it through a friend and I think their blog is interesting or funny or whatever and then they go private and I don't send my email because I feel like a total weirdo! But seriously, if you are one of those people just let me know and I wouldn't have a problem with you looking at our blog and I would be happy to add you!

Mrs. Hanson

That is the name that I am going to start hearing roughly 100 times a day. I just got offered a job to teach kindergarten at Quail Run Primary School in Pleasant Grove. I'm not super stoked about the location, or that it is a charter school. However, the charter might turn out to be amazing, it's just new to me. But I am really jazzed about the fact that it is kindergarten. To some people this might be their worst nightmare, but I think it is pretty awesome. I am way bummed to leave my job now though. They have been such a great company to work for. They have treated me really well while I have been here and even when I told them about my new job they were so excited for me and wanted to know all about it. They are truly amazing and I am going to miss it. But luckily I just have to miss it until the end of the school year and then they are going to let me come back and work over the summer! Seriously that makes me so excited! I will basically get to work whenever works for me. It's my ultimate dream summer job. I can have as many lazy days as I want while also not feeling like I have nothing to do. Then when summer comes to an end I will get to go back and meet my new kindergarten class. I am really looking forward to this! :)

These days....

At the Hanson home we pretty much spend our free time watching football, basketball, and One Tree Hill, which coincidentally is about basketball. Unless you are living under a rock you might have heard how AWESOME THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS ARE DOING. Yeah, we heart them in our house. I must admit I didn't have a fave NFL team but then he put a ring on it and he loves them so I would watch with him and I fell in love with them too. The game last Saturday against the New Orleans Saints was pretty intense and I must admit that Michael having to stand up and pace during a super intense time spread to me and I couldn't sit down because the last few minutes were so intense and I may or may not have been sweating because of it. Well they won. Here is a little recap in case you missed it. So now we have one more game against the NY Giants and if we win we are going to the super bowl!! So exciting! And this is my true girl coming out, I really need them to go to the super bowl bowl because hubby promised me months ago that if they made it he would buy me a 49ers sweat suit from Victoria's Secret and by golly I want me a sweat suit!

Now our dear friends the Jazz on the other hand, also KILLING IT! We really like the Jazz and have a good time watching the games together and on occasion with friends. We are hoping that they keep up the good work and continue to play hard because we are loving every second of them this year! I am really liking Enes Kanter, that rookie has some skills! And of course the beloved Paul Millsap. I seriously can't get enough of him. Michael makes fun of me because every time he does something good I jump/cheer/dance. I just love him. And Michael really likes him too. So much that we are adding a new addition to our family and her name is Mille. Nope, no human baby here. Just a canine baby. Yep, we are getting a puppy!
Millie is a black lab and was born January 10, 2012 and we couldn't be more excited to get her! We need to give her some more time with her mommy but we are looking forward to the day when we get to bring her home. Wish us (and the niners and Jazz) luck!!

Jazz home opener

I put some Jazz tickets in Michael Troy's stocking this year for the first home game of the year. They were decent seats, but nothing to write home about. We went and got cafe rio before the game because I had been craving it so bad! Then when we got there Michael talked to a few of the scalpers there to try and trade in our tickets. We ended up getting 10th row for nearly the same price as our original tickets. We were so stoked! We were both so happy to be so close and we were even more happy when they won! It was such a great day and we were happy to be able to go on a much needed date with just the two of us. Now we are just hoping that this won't be their only win this year....



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Our First Married Christmas

This was our first Christmas as a married couple and we were crazy busy and we loved it!! We had the Brown Christmas party, the Jensen family Christmas bonanza, the Rainey family party, and Christmas eve dinner at granny and grandpas.
Those were just the family parties, in addition to those we had a friend party at our house where I accidentally didn't cook the chicken long enough and everyone cut into it and it was raw. So we ate everything else while our chicken continued to cook. Then we had a little gift exchange where baby mama was by far the most coveted gift of the night. Cassity's and Morrison's left early because poor Dasha wasn't feeling well but everyone else stayed until the wee hours of the morning. We also had my cute girls dance recital where they did so awesome! I am so proud of them both an they worked really hard this year on their dances. I really love that they love dance and I hope to have a girly-girl one day who also loves it.
For Christmas eve we went to granny and grandpa's for dinner, then we went to my mom's and ate again (we couldn't turn down prime rib) and did our Christmas traditions with my family and then went home about midnight. We loved spending the night alone at our apartment instead of staying at one of our parents houses. We woke up early on Christmas morning so we could open up presents together before going to Michael's parents. We spoiled each other rotten but the main things were Michael got an autographed football from Alex Smith & Frank Gore and the new green jazz shorts, and I got a coat from Nordy's and tickets to lady antebellum.
Then we went to Hanson's and spent a few hours there, we went to granny and grandpa's, went to my mom's, went to my dad's, then back to Hanson's for dinner. It was such a busy day and we were totally spent by 8:00. Regardless of being tired though, we loved it! We had a great Christmas and hope that you did too!!

I kind of sucked at taking pictures, but here are a couple from or festivities.





Michael Troy playing santa at the Brown family party.




The girls and I at their recital




Michael holding Samuel at the Rainey family party. I kind of really love this picture of him...




My sweet nephew Noah playing with some presents from Grandma Ros




Christmas morning




And just for good measure, our Christmas tree skirt that I made for us. I am kind of proud of it.
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My first time sewing ever

I decided that I want to attempt to be crafty, so I bought a sewing machine about a month ago. When it first came I was so excited but it ended up just sitting in our spare bedroom because a) it intimidated the crap out of me and b) I had no idea what I was going to make. So as Christmas came nearer I decided I would make our stockings. My mom had homemade stockings for us growing up that all matched except of course they had different names on them and then they each had a different design embroidered on them. I couldn't imagine not having homemade stockings after always having one. I figured these would be our starter stockings and one day when we have a nugget or two, I'll make us a family set.



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Update of Our Month

We have had such a busy month! It has gone by so fast, and truthfully I don't remember a lot of the things we did. But here is what I do remember...

We put together a charity poker tournamnet/auction for our friend Alisa who has leukemia. I am not going to lie, it was A TON OF WORK which led to many sleepless nights, but it was so worth every single bit of it. Tons of people donated stuff for us to auction off and then people just kept giving us money that night. Seeing how generous people are always makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside. We spent hours making the food for people to eat that night along with some orange almond rolls to be auctioned (delish if I do say so myself and they sold for $45, not to shabby eh), ran a bazillion errands to get stuff, and got the place decorated just in the knick (sp?) of time.
We are so grateful to all of the people who helped us and for everyone who donated and showed up that night. We were able to raise about $7500 for that cute girl. I just know that she is going to win this battle. She is so strong and has such an amazing attitude and outlook. She was actually super sick the night that all of this was going down and she still showed up with a smile on her face and was so grateful for all of it. I have never seen so many tears flow down one persons cheeks in one day before. But hers were constant and filled with happiness and gratitude which made everything so worth it!

We have also attended or watched on the telly many football games. They mainly consist of the utes and the 49ers. I can't help but smile when I see Michael watching football. It is seriously so funny. The things he says and his little dance he does when they get a touch down crack me up. Sometimes I will watch a movie in our room when he is watching the 49ers and I still know everything that is happening because that boy is so loud and he dances/runs back and forth between the kitchen and the living room because he can't sit still. I love it!

One thing that I feel like we have not done lately is see our friends. Life has gotten so busy lately that we don't see them a ton and I don't like it one bit. I am going to make a valiant effort to change that though.  Michael's basketball season just started and so I will at least get to see Dasha every Monday and maybe we can squeeze in some sort of activity before or after the game every now and then?

Thanksgiving was good/hard. We went with Michael's family which was great and I love them oh so much and they totally make me feel so welcome and comfortable but it just isn't the same as being with my family. And I don't think I would have cared so much if my family had stayed here, but they were in St. George and it was the first time they have gone down there and it was my mom's first Thanksgiving since getting divorced so I wanted to go so bad and be with her, but it all turned out fine and there will always be another time.

Then of course after the festivities ended I went shopping! I love me some black friday!!! I went with Kirstin who is my favorite shopping p.i.c and we went to Park City to hit up the outlets for a few hours and got some amaze-balls deals, then headed to Target which seriously was insane. We didn't really pay attention to the line because we were so focused on getting what we needed but by the time we actually got in line it was about a 3 hour wait to check out! So we got on my trusty iPhone and looked up the stuff we had in our arms on target.com and they had all of it for the same price plus free shipping! So needless to say, we just put our stuff down and hurried and ordered our stuff so we didn't have to wait in that insane line. Then we were starving. It was almost 3 a.m. and it had been over 12 hours since our delicious dinners so we hit up the only place we could find open... Rancheritos. And let me tell you it was surprisingly delicious! We are both fairly picky eaters and we loved it! Maybe because we were about to starve to death? But I am just going to go with that it was amazing regardless. Then we made our final stop at Macy's and made out like bandits! I am DONE yes done (besides Michael, which won't be hard) Christmas shopping. And it didn't even break the bank. I heart black Friday. :)

Now let the other holiday festivities begin!!!