Happy Birthday to Camille!

Our little Camille is turning 13! She is a great addition to our family. She has a good sense of humor and is kind and loving. She is highly motivated by chocolate and computer time. She loves being with her cousins and nieces and nephews. She also enjoys friends but COVID has made that pretty rare. At school she is enjoying her classes: science, choir, college and careers, and reading skills. She doesn't love her home school math class quite as much but she's been working hard on it. She enjoys the home school history and English more. We're glad she is still with us and we hope she has a great year!

Blessing day, July 2008

Post-kidney transplant, June 2011

Fall, 2011

With her cousin Mika

With her cousin Frances

Camping at Yellowstone, one of my favorite pictures

With her kidney donor, two years after transplant

With her good friend from preschool

With two more cousins

One of many pairs of glasses that Camille hasn't worn...

Getting baptized

Learning to ride a bike the first time

With her kidney donor at Nauvoo, 2018

Getting her feeding tube out

With Mika's "pet" dog

Nauvoo 2019

Starting 7th grade, 2020

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Do Dots Family System

The original post was written in January of 2015. I wrote an update at the bottom of this post in March 2021. A few months ago, a friend of mine told me about something she was doing in her family to help her family function better. Her teenage autistic son had been struggling a lot so they had been working with behavior therapists to help him and this "Do Dots Family System" had been recommended. As she described it, I was greatly intrigued since it sounded like something I wanted to implement at my own house. I looked into it and decided to purchase it right after Thanksgiving. Here is my review of how it has worked for us over the last six weeks or so. The basic idea of the chart is that children need to take care of their responsibilities before they get any privileges. It strongly reinforces the concept of "Work Before Play" . The chart helps children see in a very visual way that, until they have completed their responsibilities, they are on Le...

Hansen Family Reunion 2024, Thursday afternoon

For lunch on Thursday, Lauren and Kurt made Cafe Rio which was delicious. On Thursday afternoon, we had free time at the lake. Heidi and Aaron rented a pontoon boat and took people out for rides. This was very popular. Some of us went on the kayaks and/or swimming or just hung out on the beach.

2024 Hansen Family Reunion, Wednesday

Recently we had another Hansen Family Reunion at Bear Lake. We've been having these destination reunions since 2008. There were about 70 of us in attendance. Bruce and Michelle organized the activities and did a good job. I enjoyed myself! Hopefully lots of other people did too. We showed up on Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed a taco salad dinner, served by Neil and Kristie's family. We also worked on two mixer games: a word search with the names of all 100 Hansen family members as well as a Bingo card that involved finding people with different attributes like recent high school graduation, birthdays in certain months, etc. The word search was definitely the most popular. Also popular was playing Nine-Square and Sandy Pickle (a cross between pickle ball and badminton). Thys and Katrina might have won! After dinner, we had an FHE activity/lesson. Liz had made a book with stories of the first ancestors to join the church. She had selected different stories for us to act out in g...

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