Love Week!

Per my cousin Andrea and her friend Denae, I am taking on the Love Week challenge and posting about something I love everyday.  I love these dumb little puzzles.  Curse you Japanese Mathematicians!  I don't know what it is about them that makes me so addicted, but I Love to play them and I love it even more when I solve them.  It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  

And in other related news...
He is so pretty.  No I don't love him like I love my husband, but this is a long relationship dating back to my tween years.  There is a history there.  I think I love his craft more than anything. His characters make me think and I like that.  I have never been one for main stream or normal and he fits the bill perfectly in that area.  Plus he is pretty.  Did I mention that?

Try not to laugh.

I dare you.  

I Won...Again!

My faith has officially been restored in "the system".   I enter contests all the time, but I never win. I just won  for THE SECOND time from this fun foodie website Gourmet Mom on the Go. The best part is both of the things I have won are boxes of Chocolate!  The first was all things Hershey.  This one, that I just got in the mail today, was from English Toffee Anytime.  YUM!  I gave it to my sweetheart as an early Valentines Day gift.  Ok technically I got second place in this contest, but hey a 1/2 pound box is better than none right?  

THANK YOU Mandy!  and THANK YOU English Toffee Anytime!

Tempermental Connection

I recently succumbed to the faltering economy and gave up my Super Fast and Reliable yet some what pricey Internet company for another Fast and Spotty but super cheap one.  Although it seems to also be Fast on the upload it is not quite as great on the download (apparently they are different band widths?) and the connection is not go great.  I can be on the Internet doing the blog thing or the surfing thing and go to open a new page and get this. 

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://fillinyourweb.addresshere.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Here are some suggestions:

• Reload this web page later

So I of course click refresh and wait and low and behold it will work or it won't but eventually it does.  

Why does this happen?  Can anyone explain to me why it has little "brown outs" in connection on one page and be fine on others.  It is really sporadic and not choosy about which pages it will or will not load at any given time.  It is almost like a power spike.  I know very little about band width or connection speeds.    I guess what I am asking for here is a little explanation in the most understandable terms possible.  Can anyone dumb it down for me so I can understand it?  I think I would be less frustrated by it if I understood why it happens.  

10 for Tuesday--Everything Emma

Everything Emma Version

Preschool Picture from 2007

E--Emma World.  Emma loves to play and create her own world within her imagination.  She often gets "Lost" in there and has to be physically touched to pull her back to the real world.  When she was in preschool her teacher called it "Emma World" and it stuck.

 Patty Cake Preschool Lamar, CO

When "Emma World" was born

M--Merry little girl.  She is super happy most of the time and smiles often.  Friends are drawn to her fun loving personality.

She got super excited when she saw Ariel's Grotto Restaurant.  

(they didn't know we already had reservations for the next day)

M--Make believe.  Emma loves to dress up and pretend she is someone else.  When she is in character she won't answer to her own name but insists on being referred to as the name she chooses for that day.  

Playing super heroes with Q and Ally

A--Ariel's Best Friend.  When we met Ariel at Disneyland, Emma was a little hesitant to talk to her.

This is her timid side

Then breakfast ended and she realized Ariel had not signed her autograph book.  The waitress said we could come back for lunch to get the signature.  A few hours later when we came back, Emma knew it was her last chance to really talk to her so she made the most of it. Here is a sample of the conversation:  

Emma "I am your biggest fan!"  

Ariel  "I am YOUR biggest fan!  We should be best friends!" 

Emma "Ok!  Did you hear that mom?"  (huge hug!)  

So that is how Emma became Ariel's best friend.  Oh and she reminds us all the time. 

 Her BFF!

H--Helpful little girl.  Emma always wants to help me no matter what I am doing.  Cooking, cleaning, changing Clark, etc.  She is super excited to be doing whatever it is I am involved with.  

With Great Grandma Smith

A--All ready to read.  Emma is learning to read quite quickly, but her perfectionism is blocking her way.  She thinks she has to know every word for her to be "reading" so when we tell her to read a book she will still say she doesn't know how to read.  In reality she knows all but 3 or 4 words in the book.  

Reading!

N-- Naughty nature.  Emma has quite the naughty streak!  She spends a lot of time by herself because she enjoys the alone time.  When it gets quiet is a signal that she is getting into something she should not be.  Most of the time it is harmless and would have been fine if she had asked first, but for some reason she hasn't quite gotten that concept down and still tries to be sneaky.  

Getting into some mischief with Ila

S-- Silly and sweet!  Count on Emma to be the life of the party, as long as there are no strangers in the mix.  When she is in her comfort zone she is super silly and fun to be around.  She says some of the funniest things I have ever heard come out of a kids mouth too.  I love my sweet little Em!

At Disneyland it was taking too long for us to get to the rides and she had no patience for it!

E-- Excitement!  No matter what is going on. Emma is excited about it!  Dance day--Hooray!  Grocery store--Oh boy!  Play with friends--Try to contain the joy!  She gets overly enthused about EVERYTHING!  I love it! It always adds a bright spot to our day.  

Playing outside

N--Never a dull moment when Emma is around.  She is our quiet little one who shrinks in crowds and disappears when you least expect it, but she brings life to the most random moments and I love having her in our family.  She is a little ray of sunshine in my day and I love spending time with her.  

On the airplane

Yup.  10.  I named my children well.  

10 for Tuesday-Weekly wrap up

1- I am really tired right now and would rather be sleeping, so to keep myself awake I am going to work on this weekly post.  

2- We have a new president.  Half the country is happy.  Half the country is mad.  Half the country is scared and stock piling stuff at the grocery store.  When I went last weekend (the 19th) EVERYTHING you buy in large quantities, ie. powdered milk, sugar, flour, TP, detergent, bulk quantities of meat, etc. was gone off the shelves.  The place was so packed I could barely get through the aisles.  It was madness.  I have never seen it so packed.  I left Ally at the end of the produce section with Clark and the cart so I could even move in and out of the fruits and vegges.  At least people were trying to be healthy right?  

3- Clark is not getting better, well he was for a couple days but now he is all snotty, fevery and staying up all night again.  The antibiotic has a few more days so I will try to be patient.  If not, I will be back in there before Friday.  

4- I found out this week that Emma has been taking lengthy trips to the restroom causing the teacher's aid to have to go find her when she doesn't return after 10 minutes.  She is cleaning the sinks off.   They ought to pay her for that.

5- Luke will actually wear his hat these days.  Who knew all I had to do was take away all his hair to get him to put it on.

6- It was -18 degrees when we woke up this morning.  Our high for the day is 0.  The sliding doors on my van were frozen shut.  I had to put Clark in through my door and go up and over my seat.  2 door vans.  Not a great idea.

7- I spent a considerable amount of time on the computer the other night trying to catch up on CBS Television shows that we no longer get.  Dish network is unable to broadcast it because of some contract ending and the renewal price being extremely inflated, blah blah blah it is stupid.  They better figure it out before Survivor begins.  

8- I normally enjoy winter, but today I wished I lived in Arizona.  I  know, right?

9- Time to do our taxes.  I have already spent the return 5 times over in my head.  I have a wish list.

10- My name is Lisha Hansen and I am addicted to Carbs.  

Bad Decision.

Tell me I am not the only one who makes these. Luke's hair has been driving me crazy lately. It is getting too long. No amount of gel or hair spray can contain it any longer. Ry shaved his head so he is now bald and he never goes to the barber anymore; therefore Luke never goes with him and never gets his hair cut anymore. See where I am going with this? It has been since before Christmas that he got his hair cut and that is a LONG time in boy hair standards. Now he looks a lot more like Dad!



Long story short (literally), we used Ryan's electric razor and shaved his head to a "1". Yeah. He is bald. It is my fault. It is freezing cold outside. And let's just get it out there, I am not the smartest mom on the block. He hates it. He cried the whole time. My brother in law helped Ry finish up the cut because he has real clippers and we don't and it was hurting his head. Justin told him he looks like a basketball player and that made it better.