EaStEr!!

Okay so really quickly before I talk about Easter I thought I would put some pics of Corey's B-day party. For Corey's birthday I made dinner for mine and Corey's family, then we did dessert and invited some of our closest friends and our extended family members over to our house!! It was so much fun, we had a great time and are so grateful for our friends and family that came. What would we do without all of you?? We love you all so much!! xoxoxoxo

some of the party gang!!

Me and the birthday boy!! I just love him so much!

Me and my fabulous sister-in law! Melynne is pregnant!! yeah! She is having a boy and is due in August! We are so freaking excited! Every time I see her I have to go and touch her belly, I love it! She is seriously the cutest little pregnant woman ever!! Love you "lynneee"

Me and my best friend Shaylee Pulley! Me and Shay have been friends since Jr. High. We have seriously done pretty much everything together and have had way to many fun, crazy, and funny times/experiences! She is dating one of Corey's good friends Ryley Johnson and we are secretly hoping and praying that they get married!! We love them both so much!!

Me and 2 of my 3 sisters!! We miss you so much Bree and love you so much! Your the greatest!

Corey with his mom and papa!!



Corey opening his present from his parents!

present opening continued

Birthday Boy! Happy 23rd birthday babe! Love you!

Plowing out the candles

The birthday cake! So I made this better than "anything" cake basically so Corey could blow out some candles. But for Corey's real dessert I (with the help of my amazing mom) made Peach cobbler. Corey isn't a huge dessert or sweets kind of guy. He does however love peach cobbler, therefore that is what I made him!


Now onto .....

Easter!!

Okay so the Barron family has a lot of traditions and I absolutely love it. All growing up we always colored eggs, then the easter bunny would hide the eggs, and first thing Easter morning we would wake up and do a big Easter egg hunt. Well because half of us kids are grown up and married now, and it was Conference weekend we did things a little different. Now when I say different I am saying that instead of doing the easter egg hunt first thing in the morning we did it in between conference sessions. This year might have been one of the biggest Easter egg hunts ever done by the Bryan Barron family. We had a total of 54 eggs to find! :0 It was so much fun! All morning Corey had been talking trash that he was going to win, so my goal in this hunt was to make sure I beat Corey. And of course......we tied!! We both found 10 eggs! haha! So because we found 10 eggs (each) the Corey and Brittnee Hansen family took 1st place!! We won the Easter egg hunt! :) Corey was so Proud!! It was such a great Easter/Conference weekend. Conference weekend is by far one of my favorite weekends and time of the year. It just happened to be a bonus that it also got to be Easter weekend as well.

Our Easter basket from my mom and dad! Thanks mom and dad!! We love you guys so much! :)


Stretching before the big hunt!

My favorite and most incredible big brother Brigg a.k.a. "jose" stretching the "hamstrings" before the big hunt.

impressive stretching!

stretching continued

Pregnant Melynne stretching or atleast trying to haha


Me on the hunt



The end of the hunt! We are lined up in order of place taken in the race. 1st (winners) on the right (which is why me and Corey are standing there :)) and last (losers) going down to the left!! Don't worry guys you'll have next year!! :) Love you all!

Because Corey had the priesthood session on Saturday night Corey, me and my good friend Jenna colored Easter eggs on Friday night! Jenna is attending SUU right now and she was up for the weekend so she came out to see our house and then of course we had her stay to do Easter eggs with us!! We had a blast and we absolutely love Jenna and were so glad that she stayed and joined us!! Love ya girl!

Givin Core a kiss!

Holding up our eggs!

Me and Jen! Wanna kiss our "lucky eggs".......... :) Jenna is one of my bestest friends ever. We have now eachother since forever, we grew up in the same ward and have been neighbors our whole lives. I absolutely love her!

Our egg dye!

Corey dipping his egg

Me and Jen with our eggs!


All of our eggs!

We had such a great weekend! It is always great to spend time with both families and our good friends! And of course to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I am so grateful for my savior and for his great sacrifice! And for the knowledge that I have because of it and him!! I hope that you all enjoyed this fabulous conference and Easter weekend. Much Love to you all!! XOXOXXOXO

Happy Birthday to 2 AmAzInGs!!

This is going to be a really quick post because I don't have much time, I will do a better update and entry on Wednesday. However I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my older and incredible sister Breeann and also my amazing husband (who share the same birthday)!! Breeann is the most amazing person that you will ever meet in your life. All growing up I wanted to be just like my older sister. I have always looked up to her and continue to look up to her today. Bree is married and lives in Florida while my brother in law is in law school. She has two of the most precious and gorgeous babies in the world, Sophie and M.J. I absolutely miss them like crazy and love them so much! I love you Bree, thank you so much for everything that you have done for me!! I am so proud of you and wish that I could be half the person you are. I love you so much and wish you were here!! Happy Birthday Sis!! I love you! xoxoxxo

Now, it also happens to be my husbands birthday today!! Corey is turning 23!!! Corey is my absolute everything. He is my #1, my biggest fan, my prince charming, and my knight in shining armor. Without him I am totally and completely lost. I am truly the luckiest girl and wife in the entire world. I still don't know how I got so lucky to have such an amazing husband and best friend. I can honestly say that I fell in love with Corey the first time that he kissed me, which just happened to be on our 3rd date. I knew that night when he kissed me that I was going to marry Corey Jacob Hansen, I wanted to spend eternity with him, I wanted to be Mrs. Hansen. Luckily that happened and our journey of dating to marriage and now being married almost a year has been absolutely incredible. I wouldn't change one second of our lives together. Corey is my rock, he is the person I go to for absolutely everything. He knows how to keep me calm and how to comfort me, he also knows just what to do to push all of my buttons and thinks he is so funny when he does. Unfortunately even when he does push the buttons I seriously cannot be mad at him, he thinks that is funny as well. Corey is the hardest worker that you will ever meet, he has the strongest testimony of the gospel and is an absolute rock in it. He is my #1 and HeRo!!. I don't know where I would be if I didn't have Corey and to be honest I don't even want to know. Life is so much better with him, it is better than I ever thought or could even imagine life would be. So HaPpY BiRtHdAy babe!! I love you so much!! Thank you for everything and for letting me be your wife. Thank you for always being patient with me and loving me unconditionally!! I love you more than you will ever know!! I love you!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxxo

St. Geezie and Vegas!!

This past weekend Corey and I went down to St. George for Brons (my little bros) baseball tournament. We drove down Friday right after work, watched 2 of games that night, and we didn't get back to where we were staying until 1:30 am ya it was a long day. We did however have quite the adventure on our way down to St. Geezie (as our family calls it.) We were just out side of Cedar City and it was dark when all of a sudden we saw a huge puddle of blood in our lane on the road and before we could do anything or switch lanes we ran right over the top of an already dead deer. It was quite the jump that the good old saturn made. We couldn't believe it. The deer had obviously been hit maybe an hour or so before we decided to run over it again. So when we got to St. George we examined the car to see the damages. What we found was blood on the left side of the car and deer meat and hair all underneath the car. Ya not gonna lie it kind of grossed me out a little, beside that no other damages, which is to be expected with the Saturn she is a gem of a car! :) On Saturday me, Corey, and our good friend Austin Miller drove down and spent to day in Vegas. We did what most LDS people do and can do which is um......walk the strip!!haha. It was a ton of fun. Me and Corey rode the New York New York rollercoater. My dear friend Austin didn't accompany us on that one due to motion sickness but he was there is spirit ahah love you Austy!! Our main purpose for going down to Vegas however was because if you know my husband he is an absolutely HuGe BuFfEt fan. And who has better buffets than Vegas. So for part of my amazing hubby's birthday gift (which is actually next week the 29th) I decided that I would take him the Rio's buffet. Corey and I have been married for almost a year now so I know how much he can eat, however I can honestly say I have never in my life ever seen someone who ate as much as him. He just kept coming back with more and more food with every plate, truly impressive. I think the final count of plates eaten by Corey Jacob Hansen was atleast 8. Yeah he is pretty much a bottomless pit. I pray everyday that I don't have a ton of boys because we will be poverty stricken just by trying to feed and keep them full haha. On Sunday before we drove home we went with my family and visited the historical church site, the home of Jacob Hamblin. It was actually really interesting and fun. All growing up my dad always wanted to stop and see historical sites because he is a huge history buff. Well all of us kids would always vote against stopping to see the sites, saying that they were all the same. Even though this frustrated my dad most of the time us kids would win and we could just press forward and go home. I think that now there are only 3 kids left at home now, my dad doesn't really give them a choice and they don't really have a say in what sites they do and don't want see. I truly am so sorry Brae, Kell, and Brons!! :)......just for my sibilings I'm going to say one spot that always seemed to be or wanted to be visited by our incredible father....COVEFORT!!! It was such a fun weekend and a nice little getaway for me and Corey and to also spend some time with my family. It was also fun to get to see and spend time with our friend Austin. Austin will actually be graduating this December from Dixie, with his associates degree and his RN license! We are so proud of you Austin and are so grateful for the friendship that we have, love ya!! Thank you to my family for letting us come down and join you! Good job pitching Beyons your the best!! (3-1) Getting ready to head back home!

The Rio.......BUFFET any one??

Me and our friend Austin! (Austins last name is Miller)

A kiss on the cheek before we enjoy the buffet

Corey and Austin

Okay so the reason for this picture! My family will laugh and now exactly what I'm talking about. So when my family was younger we would go down to Mesquite with our neighbors and good friends the Millers. Of course we would always go to the Oasis buffet, which unfortunately doens't exist anymore. So as were would walk in the casino to get to the buffet us kids would always see and hear people walking around saying "Keno" We were all confused so we asked my dad. "dad who is Keno" Well my dad made up this huge story about this little boy who was lost and so they would walk around saying his name so that they might be able to find him. Of course we all believed that story, so the next time we went we were all confused and wondering why "Keno" was still gone and missing and if we should try to help find "Keno"


Me and Corey in front of a fountain.

This guy was so cool. He was on the strip in Vegas and he seriously looked like he was a statue. In front of this guy he had a bucket that said "show the bucket some love" were people would put there money in. So Austin decided he would throw some change in to see what would happen. As soon as Austin threw the change in the guy like came to life and started moving all robotic. It was really cool to watch him, he was really good!

Me and my hubby again!

xoxo

Corey loves the dill pickled sunflower seeds, obviously. Yes that is a Sobe bottle filled with Corey's sunflower seed shells. All of this was accumulated just on our drive home.

corey with his bottle of seed shells

The Jacob Hamblin Home

The fam!

Me by the wagon

Ice Fishing!!

It is true, I..Brittnee Hansen went IcE fIsHiNg for the 1st time ever. It was quite the experience and to be completely honest it was a lot of fun. I was really excited to go, but to be honest I think that Corey might have been a little bit (or a ton) more excited. He honestly was so pumped for me to go ice fishing for the first time. Corey loves watching me do and try new things, it makes him so happy, which is absolutely great! And lets just say ice fishing is definitely a new thing for me. Me and Corey are complete opposites, Corey grew up hunting, fishing, camping, go kart racing, etc. I grew up dancing, cheering, playing tennis, and vacationing to warm spots/disneyland, camping "Barron" style, (meaning hotels). Totally different from the Hansen way of life. So for me to go out in the freezing cold weather and stand on a frozen lake to hope and pray that a fish bites at my pole is truly and accomplishment, and I loved every minute of it. My clothing apparel went as follows, capri garment bottoms (corey calls them grandma garments), two pairs of socks, sweats, Coreys gray snowboarding pants, a long sleeved shirt, sweatshirt, big coat, gloves, and a pair of papas boots (which were a little big but all is well.) Super Sexy, I know! Now I will say I don't think my husband has every told me how hot, and what an amazing wife I am as many times as he did that day haha. Oh ya and did I mention that I was the only girl who was going on the ice fishing trip to Scoffield?? Um ya I was, I would be accompanied by my hot husband, papa, my brother in law Shad, Corey's cousin Clint and his 2 boys Austin, and Nate! So as we are leaving my in-laws house to go on our adventure, my sweet charming husband comes up and says "You ready Britton." Ya Corey is a bit of a smart A! haha. He did make up for it however when he ran in to Macey's to get some drinks and came out with a bag of Cadbury eggs for me, asking "does this make up for calling you Britton??" Well of course it did and we were off to our destination! So I'm not gonna lie that is was a little bit scary walking across a frozen lake. I kept picturing myself falling through the ice and getting hypothermia, ya a tragedy, luckily nothing like that happened. As soon as we got set up with our holes dug and our poles ready a blizzard came!! It was snowing like crazy and windy and freezing!! It took the entire drive home for my hands and feet to unthaw. Even though it was cold and we didn't catch a single fish, this trip was so fun and so so worth it!! A great first (and possibly last) time ice fishing haha!

Sweet Surprises!

I love when I come home from a long day of work and walk in the door to find BeAuTiFuL rOsEs on my kitchen table, with a sweet note from the most incredible husband in the world (mine :) ) Last week I came home to this surprise. Corey has been working up in fruitland for the past 2 weeks and he has been getting home late unfortunately. Well last Thursday he was supposed to got up to Fruitland again, but ended up not having too. So he got off work early and decided to surprise me with roses, it was so great to first of all see my husband before 9:30 at night but second of all to come home to such a great and meaningful gift.It is these kind of sweet surprises that make everything that I personally, and that we go through in life so worth it. I read somewhere once a saying that said, "don't forget the small things in life, because you might look back one day and realize that they were the BIG things!" I love this saying, it is so true and I think a lot of time we look over the small things hoping for the big things. Then by doing this we miss out on so many things that are so important and will one day mean the most. I am so grateful for my husband and for the man that he is! I love him so much, he is my anchor and I don't know where I would be without him. Thank you so much babe you are the greatest! I love you!! You're the BEST!!! :)

UpDaTe!

Yes we are alive!! Just cause its been a couple of months since I last updated doesn't mean anything...right??...wow seriously I know I am terrible. We have had a lot of things happen in the family the past couple of months and all I can say is that I am so grateful for the gospel and for the testimony that I have. I also am so grateful for the incredible husband that I have. He is my absolute everything and I could not have asked for a better husband. I honestly don't know what I would do with out him, I would be completely lost. He is my come to person, whether its to cry, laugh, tell him about my good and bad days, let out my frustrations (my venting sessions, probably happen more than they should haha), and just to have him hold me. He some how always knows what is the matter and what is bugging me and how to put a smile on my face, he knows when I need chocolate and a big "Diet". He truly is so amazing and I love him more than anything. Okay now for the update......lets see..... oh ya Christmas!! Corey and I moved into our new home in Saratoga Springs on Christmas Eve. Some might think that, that would be extremely stressful, well I'm here to tell you that it DEFINITELY is. Honestly if I never moved again it would be too soon. I can say however that it was definitely so worth it. We got to spend our first Christmas in our new home and with the people that we love the most our families!! We also go to talk to Corey's brother Ryan who is serving a mission in England (London south Mission) Ry is doing great he has been out for almost 9 months now. I love Christmas time because that means we get to go to temple square! So of course Corey and I went with our friends Shaylee and Ryley. It was a ton of fun and absolutely freezing cold. I honestly don't know if I have ever been that cold before, but it was well worth it. We also got to go and see "The Forgotten Carols" I absolutely love the forgotten carols, and it was great going with Corey, Shaylee, and Ryley!

Me and Corey at Temple Square (freezing) The 4 of us : Me, Core, Ryley, and Shaylee

Christmase Eve
Ya he's hot and yep he is mine :)


christmas morning opening up gifts

Corey checking out his new binoculars,
his wife must really love him :)

January:

Now onto New Years!! I love the beginning of a new year, that means more goals hopefully that I accomplish ( I will accomplish.) We welcomed the new year in with my awesome family and our good friends Shaylee and Ryley and of course with a KiSs from my hubby muah xoxoxo! In January we got to celebrate Shad (corey's brother) job promotion. He is no the Co-Manager at 5 guys!! Congrats Shad we love you and are proud of you! We also got to celebrate my incredible grandmas 86th birthday! My grandma is so wonderful, she is the strongest woman that I have ever met or known in my life. If I could be half the woman, mom, and grandma that she is I would consider myself pretty close to perfect. I look up to my grandma so much, she has gone through so much in her life and I have never seen her be negative in any situation. She is truly such an incredible example to me, so Thank You Grandma!! Thank you for raising such an incredible son who I now get to have as and call my dad. I love you so much Grandma!

my incredible grandma!

Grandma and her 3 kids

My dad, grandma, aunt Verdalee, and uncle Bryce The Barron Clan :)

New Years Eve,
Kiss me at midnight, oh we are so in love :)

February:

The first of this month my dear sweet husband Corey decided to pull and stretch all of the ligaments in his left ankle. So I am at work and I get this call from Corey. The first words out of his mouth were "hey babe can you bring home an ace wrap from work?" I work at a drs office so that is no big deal. So I tell him ya and ask what he did, his answer "well i stepped out of the truck and ya well my ankle is pretty messed up." Of course it is because that is just the Hansen luck. So I asked him if he could walk on it, and he says ya sort of. Does my husband stop working????.... heavens no he finishes his last couple of jobs at work. Oh and don't think he is going to stay home the next day even though he can barley walk and put any pressure on it not to mention his shoe will barely go on. Why is it my husband has to be so stubborn?? It drives me crazy and yet I love him more than anything. Needless to say it was quite the experience for both of us and his ankle is finally almost normal looking. Corey absolutely hated it and of course thought and thinks that he knows more than the DR.s. Luckily Corey has a wife who is in the medical field and who really loves him and nursed him back to health. You are so welcome babe :). Corey and I had an absolutely incredible Valentines day, actually I should say had an incredible Valentines day weekend! It was so great to actually just get to spend time with eachother. We also got to spend time with our families. We did a Hansen Valentines dinner on the 13th and then did a Barron Family Valentines dinner. It is tradition in my family that every Valentines day my mom does a huge delicious dinner. The menu being, lobster, shrimp, steak, prime rib, twice baked potatoes, brocoli, cauliflower, corn, salmen, baked pineapple, red lobster rolls, and regular rolls. It was absolutely incredible and we are so grateful for both of our families. Life gets so crazy and busy that it isn't very often that Corey and I get to spend good quality time together, so i absolutely loved Valentines, even just for the fact that it was just us two! By far my favorite and greatest Valentines day EvEr! Last week we got to celebrate my beautiful sister in law Sha's 17th birthday! I love Sha as if she was my blood sister. She is so much fun and beautiful and well just all around amazing! I am so blessed to have her as my little sister and I (we) love her so much! Love you Sha and Happy Birthday!!

Bet you can't guess which one is injured

I took these picture after it had been iced for a couple of hours, the sad thing is this look really good compared to the next day. I looked absolutely disgusting on the 2nd day. My poor husband.



Oh my how could I forget about the Super Bowl!! I love the super bowl but I was so sad that the Colts lost. I am not going to lie I love Peyton Manning, I'm pretty much a big fan! My family is really big into sports, that's pretty much what we all did our entire lives and we always had the best coach, my dad! So when the Super Bowl comes around it's a huge event and party for the Barron fam!! And don't worry Manning there is always next year! :)

My nephew M.J. in his football jersey, ready for the big game!

M.J. and my little bro. Bronson! I absolutely love this picture :)

I hope that you all enjoyed the Holidays as much as we did, and hope that the beginning of this year has treated you all well and may continue to do so.