Season's changing...

I saw proof this weekend that the season's are changing again...soon! Saturday, Jaxon and I spent some time outside...bike races, baseball, stick searching, and side walk chalk. We walked around our yard and looked in our flower beds to see if anything was poking through yet... and we found some! Yes! Proof that spring is on it's way... Jaxon would get so excited each time we found some tulips starting to come up through the wet soil (and still frozen in some spots!). We found tulips, hostas, and 1 of our trees budding! What a fun time to watch the start of new life growing! I can not wait for my yard to be full of shades of greens, purples, yellows, reds, and pinks soon!! I can not wait to hear Jaxon playing and yelling and laughing in our back yard again! Change is good!

We've also got some season's of life changes coming up... This spring Dave will train a new person (Eric Blanchard, GREAT guy with a GREAT wife, Ashley!) to take over his position at Orchard Hill Church. Dave has been doing some heart searching the last couple years about where God wants him to be and Dave is really feeling called to come work for DTI (where I work part time). It is totally different then what he's been doing at church...and Dave is excited about that. Dave has worked at 2 different churches doing pretty much the same thing at both places for eleven years! He was starting to feel like it was time to move ahead into something else and is really looking forward to what he's going into now. DTI will be a different pace for him and our family. No weekend hours, no heavy lifting/physical work, and more time to serve in the ministries he's become so passionate about in the last few years. Working at the church didn't leave him much time to serve in these areas. Funny how that works, huh? He (and we) will be so sad to leave such an awesome staff and family of co-workers. He seriously LOVED his staff at church and will miss that the most. However, life takes us through different seasons and now is his time to move into a new season for all of us. Dave is leaving on great terms and we will continue to be very involved at Orchard with our family and are committed to raising our boys (and any future kids someday) in this church family. We're looking forward to being a part of the DTI team together and serving our community in a whole new way :)

So...we're just full of change at the Hansen house these days... new baby, new job, new seasons :) Life is good and we're excited for the changes coming up and going on around us! Here's a few pictures of our ever so quickly changing boys!

Two happy brothers! Just hanging out :)

Mom is actually in a picture! Thanks Jaxon for snapping these!

Austin is smiling more and more!

Jaxon has gotten pretty good at snow-boarding on his sled, thanks to uncle Aaron's lessons! This was one of the last days before all the snow melted in our backyard to form a small lake :-)