Hansen Family: Happy Thanksgiving

Last week we had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We went over to my grandma and grandpa's house along with my sister and her family and my parents. Other family (aunts, uncles, and cousins) stopped by later in the evening for a visit. My kids were off school that entire week so we got to hang out with our cousins (ages 5 & 7) who were visiting from Chicago. We went to Atlantis Play Center in Garden Grove. This park brought back a lot of memories from my childhood. I use to love this park and my kids had never been, so I thought it would be fun to take all the kids. This is an older park, but it is all enclosed and the kids can run around and play on the equipment and structures. They all seemed to have a blast. Blake can't wait to go back again so you know it was a hit. The coolest part is the old dragon slide. If you bring wax paper you go even faster down it, but the kids were doing a pretty good job flying down the slide without any extra help. That night Blake got to spend the night at my grandma's house with the boys and my grandpa took them to Dave and Busters. My kids are very blessed to be able to have a set of great- grandparents alive that can still drive, are very active, and healthy. My great grandpa even works as as substitute teacher in the Santa Ana School District almost daily. He likes to work and will probably do it until he physically can't. Anyways, we all had a great week last week and Bryan and I even did an all nighter on Thursday night to Friday afternoon shopping with all of the other crazy people out there. It was fun and we got a lot of good deals and saved a lot of money!

The first family picture was with my parents and this one is with my grandparents.

Amanda catching Emily and Lauren as they go down the Dragon slide. You can't tell from the picture but it is a lot taller and wraps around a couple times.