Friday Night Lights Begin!

Tonight was the first Friday Night Football Game! Lees Summit West played Ray-Pec - a team they had never beat. Well, tonight ... that ended! The Titans won 21-13. It was a good game!

Dayne and one of her besties, Lauren, joined us at the game and spent the evening running around the place and hanging out with her friends! She has a great time --- she actually looks forward to Friday night football games!

Haley wore Hunter's "away" jersey to the game tonight - too cute!

Let the Football Season Begin!

Tomorrow night is the first football game of the 2010 season! Hunter has been practicing with the Varsity Team so hopefully he will get some field time tomorrow! This season he is playing Center!

The Football Mom's decorate each boys' locker with a personalized poster (above) as a way to kick off the season with some excitement. As much as I liked mine, some of the posters were really, really impressive! I was challenged with what to add to it, yet having it remain 'manly' -- certainly couldn't doll it up too much!

Hunter's girlfriend, Haley, will be joining us at the football game tomorrow (sure she won't sit with us since there is a "student" section) but it will be nice to spend a few minutes with her.

Speaking of Haley ... we went over and met her parents tonight - Pauline and Rob. They live just two doors down (yipes!) and have only lived here a few months -- they moved from Webb City, MO (where Graden's family is from!). They seem really nice!

Aswegans Visit the Hansens!

Our good friends, Chris and Jennifer Aswegan, are the proud new owners of a Ranger Bass Boat … so it gave them a good reason to come to Kansas City – to pick up their boat!

They arrived Saturday morning about 9:00 (meaning they left just after 3am!) and the girls enjoyed homemade blueberry pancakes (chocolate chip for Dayne!) while Chris went on to Cabela’s to get the boat and get all the details settled (Graden was at Hunter’s football game that had been canceled the night before due to the rain).

After eating a nomtastic breakfast Jennifer and I chatted and watched a little bit of TV … waiting until it was late enough to go to the pool – where we planned to spend most of our afternoon!

We went to the pool a little after 10:30 and hung out until about 1:30 … chatting, swimming, chatting, snacking, chatting, reading, swimming … you get the picture! Great times! A little before 2:00 we headed home for some sandwiches … then headed back to the pool until about 3:30. Jennifer and I came home and watched a movie for a while (“Riding In Cars With Boys”) then Jennifer and Chris – who had since picked up Graden and they went to take the boat for a test drive – headed to their hotel (Chris is allergic to dogs so they can’t stay with us :) to get showered and ready for our big night on the town!

About 6:30 we all left for our night out: dinner and then to the KC Power & Light District (a very now-a-day place!) to watch a friend’s husband play in his Jazz band and then to People Watch (an official sport for us!) while enjoying adult beverages.

We went to Bass Pro Shops for dinner (yes, seriously!) and had a great dinner! After dinner we headed downtown to the Marquee Restaurant and then to the P&L!

A little after midnight we decided it was best to leave the P&L events to the ‘under 30’ crowd and headed home! It was a fun night out … sure wish the Aswegans (who are about 6 weeks pregnant!) lived closer so we could spend more time together!

Looking forward to the next time they can visit us!

Friday Night .... Not One of the Best for The Hansen Family!

Hunter had a football jamboree on Friday night in Blue Springs (about 20 minutes from our house). About 10 minutes after the game started, it started thunderstorming so the game was put on hold ... thinking that the storm would pass “soon” and the game could resume. After almost an hour of waiting in the rain (torrential at times!) we decided – after looking at the radar map – that the storm was not going anywhere anytime soon and we should head home.

As we were merging onto highway 470 (off 70, by the Independence Center for you local readers!) Graden started to accelerate to blend in with the traffic. Since we were in the middle of a monsoon the road was very slick ... which promptly caused the tires to spin which promptly caused the entire truck to spin. There was a guard rail in our path and we collided with it – taking out six of the posts. The other side of the guard rail is a rather steep hill … so we are very thankful for the well-placed guard rail!

The accident happened about 8:30 and we weren’t able to leave the scene until close to 10:00. All the while … it is raining and thundering to beat H-E-double hockey sticks!

Not sure if the tuck will be a total loss or if it will be repairable – will just have to see what the Ford service department has to say!

At the end of the day … The Hansen Family was served a good reminder of how fortunate we are and very happy that no one was injured.