LDS Mommy: The Year of the Hansen's

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
WHEN ALL THROUGH THE HOUSE,
NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING.....
EXCEPT FOR MY SPOUSE.

THIS WAY IT HAD BEEN THE ENTIRE YEAR THROUGH
EVER SINCE JANUARY HAD STARTED ANEW.
THE CHILDREN WERE NESTLED ALL DOWN WITH SWINE FLU,
WHILE MOM WAS TRYING DESPERATELY TO NOT SPEW.

MAMA PEED ON A STICK TO CONFIRM OUR SUSPICION,
OF HER VERY OBVIOUS NINE MONTH CONDITION.
WHEN MOMMY AND DADDY HAD A CRAZY IDEA.
THAT DADDY WOULD SPRING INTO A NEW FILM CAREER!

AWAY TO THE INTERNET HE FLEW WITH A FLASH,
TO RESEARCH HOW FILM WOULD MAKE THE MOST CASH.

SO DADDY WAS PREPPING, AND READY TO GO,
WHEN MOMMY HAD PROBLEMS BEGINNING TO SHOW.
THIS BABY THAT WAS QUIETLY GROWING INSIDE HER,
WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS THAT WOULD PUT HIM IN DANGER.

WITH A GREAT TEAM OF DOCTORS SO SMART AND SO QUICK,
THE BABY WAS SAVED AND HE STARTED TO KICK.

MORE RAPID THAN EAGLES,
THE TRIALS THEY CAME.
SO QUICKLY WE'LL STATE THEM
ACCORDING TO NAME:

NOW JORDAN WAS BUSY
AND CONSTANTLY WORKING,

'CUZ STEPH WAS ON BEDREST
AND SURE WASN'T PERKY.

AND KOURTNEY WAS LEARNING
AND QUITE ON THE BALL!

BUT KLOEY WAS SICK
WITHIN HOSPITAL WALLS.

AS MOMMY WAS GROWING AND GETTING QUITE HUGE,

THE GIRLS, THEY KEPT LEARNING! AND JORDAN DID TOO!

KOURTNEY WAS DANCING AND LEARNING TO SING,
WHILE KLO WAS TAKING STEPS AND TRYING NEW THINGS.

AND THEN IN A TWINKLING OF JUST 3 SHORT HOURS,
CAME SWEET LITTLE JOSEPH AND THEN LOTS OF FLOWERS.

THE GIRLS FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS NEW BABY BROTHER,
AND 100 TIMES THE HEART GREW IN THEIR MOTHER.

BUT GOD HAD SOME MORE FOR THIS QUAINT LITTLE FAMILY.
SO THEY HELD ON REAL TIGHT AD ENDURED MERRILY.

THE BABY WAS SICK AND TEARS FLOWED FROM HIS EYES,
WHILE LITTLE KLO'S NECK STARTED GROWING IN SIZE.

A COUPLE OF SURGERIES WERE HAD ON THE NECK,
AND 3 WEEKS OF INFUSIONS...
THEN KLOEY HAD STREP!

BUT KOURTNEY'S EYES HOW THEY TWINKLED! KLO'S SMILE HOW MERRY!
JOSEPH'S CHEEKS WERE LIKE ROSES, HIS NOSE LIKE A CHERRY!

HE HAS A CHUBBY FACE AND A ROUND LITTLE BELLY.
KOURTNEY LOVES GIVING HIM KISSES,
BUT NOT WHEN HE'S SMELLY.

WITH ONE MORE SURGERY LEFT FOR THIS YEAR,
KLOEY WILL BE HEALTHY
AND SO WILL HER EARS.

KOURTNEY NOW READS AND WRITES HER OWN STORIES,
AND TELLS MOM AND DAD OF ALL SORTS OF HER WORRIES.

MOMMY AND DADDY ARE BLESSED BEYOND REASON,
WE'RE FILLED WITH THANKSGIVING AND JOY IN THIS SEASON.

WITH SMILES AND LAUGHS WE'LL GREET EACH NEW DAY.
DESPITE THE PEE, SNOT, AND SALIVA
THAT WILL COME OUR WAY.

SO IF YOU SEE US LOOKING ALL HAGARD AND HAZY,
DO NOT ASSUME WE ARE JUST BEING LAZY.

FOR WITH TRIALS COME BLESSINGS,
AND WITH BLESSINGS COME TRIALS.
AND OUR'S SEEM TO HAVE BEEN STRETCHED FOR MILES AND MILES.