Hannah's Happy World

Major Events of the Last 6 Months

2011-06-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

I think it is official that I fail at blogging. It has been close to 6 months since I last posted. I often forget that I actually have a blog.

Thankfully the major things that have happened in my life since my last adventure-full post fit on a short list.

1. I turned 21!

I brought my friend Michelle home with me for the weekend to help me celebrate my birthday. We went to a rock'n boy band concert. I am pretty sure we were the oldest people there who did not have children with them. I was pretty fun and a little girl in front of us offered to share some of her candy with us. But…I wish I picked a different band to go see for my fist concert. This is us making goofy faces.

On my actually birthday, me and my roommates went to Chilies and ordered some Margaritas, Pina coladas and Strawberry dackeries. It was awesome! I recommend that everyone younger than me do it for their 21^st birthday. The best part was that the waiter was really confused that we were all ordering virgin drinks on our 21^st birthdays. :D Every time he came to check on us he would mention how stupid it was.

2. Two of my cousins got married

My first cousin to get married was dear old Jo-Jo. Diane, Allison, Granny, Mandy and I all drove up to SLC to be there for Jordyn’s wedding. Boy was that a long car ride. We got there just in time for the wild and crazy bachelorette party. We got lots of weird looks from the old men in the bowling alley cause we were making so much noise. This is Jordyn and I in the stellar limo Mandy got for us.

And the next cousin of mine to tie the not was Birttny. She got married on April 6^th. Even though it was a Wednesday she was really excited to get married on such an important day in church history. Her dress was so beautiful! And she was probably the most passive bride I have ever seen. She had an outside wedding reception and it rained almost all nigh but she didn’t seem to care one bit.

I didn’t get a picture with me and the bride but this is a pretty good alternative. This is Me, Afton, and Jeni at the themple in our bride’s maids dresses.

3. I left Flagstaff and moved to Utah.

At last my time in Flagstaff has come to an end. I have moved out of my apartment and I am never going to be a part of Flagstaff University 2nd ward ever again. I can’t tell you why I decided to move up to Utah for the summer but the important thing is that I am here. My original plan was to get a job and pay off some of my debt. But getting a job wasn’t as easy as I had hoped. So I gave up looking. Now I sit around at home all day reading books and watching TV. Utah is beautiful though and I am very happy I am not in that awful AZ heat (I laugh at all my family stuck in AZ right now. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)!

Life is an Adventure

2010-11-25T12:48:00.001-08:00

This past weekend was vary adventure-full for me. :D It was crazy busy but I had a blast!

Thursday: HARRY POTTER ADVENTURE!
My roommates and I went to go see Harry Potter 7 at midnight on Thursday night. We drank hot chocolate while we waited in line, and I summarized the entire Harry Potter series up to book 7 for them. And we took a whole bunch of random crazy pictures waiting for the movie to start. :P

This picture is a good example when your roommate says"Ok everyone make your Harry Potter face!" Yeah...we are just that awesome.

Friday: CANDY LAND ADVENTURE!
On Friday Flagstaff had their girl ask guy winter formal and it was a blast! My roommates and our dates went ice skating, went to Peter Piper Pizza and played the arcade games and then danced the night away at the institute. It is so fun to have an excuse to put a pretty dress on and forget about everything you have to do.

Look! His tie matched my shoes!

Saturday: WEDDING ADVENTURE!

Saturday was Cherise's wedding! I woke up at 5:30 and drove down to the valley so I could be at the temple when Cherise came of of the temple with her new husband. Then we had a family luncheon where there was A LOT of singing and preforming (I'm not complaining, the talent was really good, but sometimes I would just like to eat my food and not worry about focusing on anything else). Then I hurry quick and took a nap and got all pretty and magically transformed into a brides maid. The reception was so much fun and my sisters has a new last name.Look at these cute kids! Way to go Raisors!

I caught the bouquet and Dallin in caught the garder. Good thing we are siblings other wise I would be in trouble.

Can I just say that I love my sisters?

Sunday: EVERY DAY ADVENTURE!
My little baby cousin Jacob was blessed on Sunday. We had another luncheon but this time there was not singing, only good food. Then I finished my day in pure relaxation...until I got in my car to go home. Mom had me get out and give her a good bye hung and with out thinking I left my car running and locked all the doors! YAY! One hour, a dented door, and a broken window later we finally got the door open!!!!! And we didn't even to have to call a lock smith. Thank goodness for Hans', Larry's, screw drivers, and very long pols. Then I went and had dinner with my daddy. It was much fun to catch up with him. Then I was back on the road to Flagstaff and I am so happy I didn't die on the snow covered roads. I almost lost control there for a second and swerved into a semi but I was able to not to. :D

YAY for a life full of ADVENTURE(!) with out it life would be just to boring.

I Heart My Family!

2010-10-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

I would just like to say that I really really love my family! They make me really happy. I was just looking at old pictures today and realized how much I miss them. I will be sad to leave my new (awesome) roommates but I can't wait till I am back in the valley to be with them again! I got my student teaching placement the other day and I will be teaching at Marcos de Niza next semester! YAY! And then I get to be back in the valley with my family! :D

These are some pictures from my summer adventures with my family. :D

Julia is so awesome! Mom asked her to cut green onions so she went to her room and put her goggles on so the onions wouldn't make her eye water. :D She is so clever and cute!

My brother and sister are just awesome! Hans likes to randoml y pick up my phone or my camera and take goofy pictures of himself. :D Elise makes some pretty silly faces every time I ask her to take a picture with me.

This is me and cute Abram at the beach in California. The whole family went on a beach trip for the fourth of July. It was lots of fun!

This is me and Brittny with Fred the turtle. After going to go see a movie at the dollar theater we walked outside and there was a turtle just begging for us to take a picture with it. So of course we took many and they were all pretty goofy. :D

I LOVE MY FAMILY!

Mud Caves!

2010-06-09T17:21:00.000-07:00

If you ever have the urge to go roll around in the mud go visit the Pepper Sauce caves. It is a good excuse for adults to get a little dirty. Oh, and make sure you bring Jeni so she can throw mud at you so you can be exceptionally dirty.

I'm Just a Kid and Life is a Nightmare

2010-05-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Why is it that everything falls apart right before finals? This past week has felt like an eternity. On Monday of last week my roommates declared that they couldn't pay for May rent and wanted to know if you could get out of our month to month lease with only a 5 days notice. I doubted it but they still made me call up the realty office and find out. What do you know you have to give a months notice in order to get out of you lease, big shocker there! So now my roommates had to figure out how they were going to pay for May cause they couldn't get out of the lease. And I kinda got chewed out by my landlord for not having all the residents on the lease (I know not good but I have learned my lesson) and told me that my roommates needed to get on the lease ASAP. But then my roommates had a thought..."Why pay for May and go through the hassle of getting on the lease if I am not not legally bound? I will just pack up and leave as fast as I can and leave my two unsuspecting roommates to deal with rent on their own! What a good idea." And all these thoughts were being encouraged by their parents. Nice to know what type of people are out there raising kids.

So on Tuesday I was gone all day at class/work and when I got home at 9 two of my roommates were packing up and moving out! Well that's not good. One said I am still going to pay for my part of May and the other one said F*** you, I don't have any F***'n money and you guys are terrible people for expecting my to pay.

Then on Wednesday, most of there stuff was gone but they still had to come back and get the big stuff. So me an the one roommate who didn't decide it was OK to turn tail and run from her responsibilities were watching a movie with a friend and they com back over to get their stuff and bring help. We are watching a movie and they are deserting us so we don't ask if we can help and just let them be. As they were finishing we asked for them to turn in their key and pay the $8 for the APRIL utility bill. Apparently this was really rude and 5 mins later one of the before mentioned roommates' cousins (who we have never seen before in our lives) comes back to give us a piece of her mind. If this would have been recorded it would be rated R, she must have said the F word 10 time. It went something like this..."I brought your keys back but before I give them to you have to listen to me. You guys are being so rude to my cousin. I don't want you any where near her. Do not talk to her do not ever try to contact her ever again. You guys are not the good little Mormon girls you think you are. How dare you try to swindle my cousin out of her money." My roommate didn't like this and threatened to call the cops on her if she didn't get out. And all this happened with our movie playing and our gust sitting on the couch listening to us get cussed out. OK lady we have never met who needs to wash her mouth out with soap, the cousin you are defending shirking her responsibilities and as a result making us pay an extra $300 for rent and all we are asking for is $8. And if we are canceling our lease then the land lord is going to ask us for all the keys back cause what home owner is going to be fine with the face that some random person they don't know has a key to their house?!?!? Maybe you should think before you speak.

The on Thursday the third roommate packed up and left too. But she did it with so much more class! She apologized for not being able to pay, scrubbed the bathtub till it gleamed, and said that we did not deserve what the others had said/done to us. She even thought about taking a dramatic picture of her leaving the key :D It is a wonder that the only roommate who did not act like we were in the wrong was the only one who is not affiliated with the church in any way. Just goes to show that people aren't always what they say they are.

Everything is fine now. Our land lord didn't seem to care as long as he got his money. And we signed the termination of our lease and have to be out by May 31st but that doesn't even matter because I am leaving on Saturday anyways. I payed $465 to live in Flagstaff for a week.

So in this past week me and the one roommate of mine who did not turn out to be a "money grubbing whore" or a scumbag watched a lot of movies to get our mind of things and ate lots of comfort food. We also picked two theme songs that describe our mood perfectly.
1) I'm Just a Kid and Life is an Nightmare
2) Pray for You by Jarom and the Long Road to Love.

Graduation?

2010-04-25T21:23:00.001-07:00

My friend Michelle Harden graduated form institute today. Yesterday she was venting to me about how her roommate wasn't going to go to her graduation and that it made her really sad. So I decided I would be a good friend and go to support her. When I got there they handed me a program and glanced at it and didn't pay much attention to it till Michelle turned to me and said "Look your on the program!" So tonight I went to institute graduation to support a friend and ended up getting a certificate for completing 2 years of institute credits. That is like saying, "Surprise! Here is you Associates Degree!"(well not really, but I was still pleasantly surprised)Yay me! :P

Happy Birthday Me!

2010-02-13T16:54:00.000-08:00

Monday was my birthday and it was AWESOME! Thanks to all my wonderful family. :D On Friday I got to go play with Maddy and the boys I was a nanny for. Then on Saturday Jeni and I went rock climbing in Scottsdale. It was so much fun and I got a pretty awesome bruise on my knee from banging it up against the wall. The when I got out to Queen Creek we had pizza, went to the temple, and then had an ice cream party. Then on Sunday we had a huge party with LOTS of family! And Sunday night Dallas and Natalie saved me from boardom on my birthday and took me to home with them. If they hadn't brought me back to Flagstaff I would have spent my birthday by myself! Anyway... we had a midnight waffle party and they blew up their new air mattress for me.

Then on Monday, my 20th birthday, we made a cake and used a candy cane stick for a makeshift candle. Then we went hiking. It was the perfect level of hard...right when I was about to give up there was the summit! Next we went to the Cheese Cake factory cause I had never been there before. It was really good and the cheese cake was delicious. Then we went out to Anthem outlets and met up with Katie and her kids. I didn't buy anything but it was fun to watch Katie's kids play. Then we were on out way to Flagstaff. When we got back to my apartment we red-boxed Julie and Julia then Dallas and Natalie headed back around 10:30. I had so much fun...and it was way better than last years birthday! :D

I am not going to even try to catch up on everything I have missed in the last 3 or 4 months but you can trust that I went on living and had a good time doing it.

This is Jeni and I right after rock climbing.
Dallas and I on the summit of the little mountain in Phoenix
The beautiful view from the top of the mountain, with out Dallas and I blocking it.
Dallin's chior came up yesterday for the Jazz/Mad festival. I got to eat lunch with him and I supplied the nose and the buttons for their snowman
These are two random pictures from our crazy storm three weeks ago. I could not believe how much snow there was everywhere!

<3 :D :P !!!

2009-11-14T20:34:00.000-08:00

First of all, I heart Jordyn! I am so happy we decided to live together this semester. It is amazing how many times are minds have just "melshed." We say the same things, and sing the same songs, it is just great! And yesterday Jordyn and I bonded even more and I will post pictures to prove it! :D Second, last night was the girl ask guy institute formal...SO MUCH FUN! They have a dance once a semester and I didn't go to either of them last year and I missed out! It was a blast. So pretty much, my Friday the 13th was awesome!

All I have to say is that we had so much fun being really goofy, and outrageous. We clean up nicely, and I think we both looked very good last night! :D

This is me and my date Adam. Once again, so much fun! :P
We had lots of fun taking pictures with the decorations! Adam wanted to do the Titanic pose but at the last second we decided Adam should be the one who was flying! :D

My Frightening Halloween

2009-11-01T19:50:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was Halloween and probably the most eventful Halloween I have ever had and will ever have. For those family and friends who I did not call personally and tell you this story I am sorry. I have already told this story 5 times today, and heard it told 5 times by each of my roommates. I am kinda tired of telling it :P.

So last night my roommates and I didn't to much of anything. We just had a few people come over and hang out like they always do. The last of our friends, Remy and his sister Brittany, were about to leave at 2:00am but as they were walking out of our apartment they saw a drunk man trying to get into the apt across from us. So they decided not to go and give him a few more mins to walk into his apt. A few mins later they open the door again and he is throwing up over the railing. GROSS! So our friends decide to stay a little longer. Then out of no where the drunk man opens to door to our apartment and tries to start going up our stairs!!!! Luckily for us Remy has had a few jobs in bars and knew how to handle drunks. So first he tried to talk to him and convince him to get out of our apartment. The dress man, that is what we are calling him because he was still in his Halloween costume which was a low cut, pink floral dress (he even stuffed his shirt with a beanie) Anyway, the dress man was insisting that he was in his apartment. When Remy realized that the dress man was not going to go anywhere on his own free will he started pushing him out the door. Dress man was about 6'2'' and was not skinny by any means. He was built big and I wouldn't be surprised if he played football. Remy is about 5'10'' and is not very bulky...Remy almost got him out and closed the door but dress man had his foot in the doorway. Remy stopped trying when he realized he couldn't not over power him. So he let go of the door and the dress man fell face first onto our floor. He was not very happy after that. Then he started saying something about how his girlfriend just lived two doors down and that is where he was trying to go. So he walked through our apartment and went onto our balcony. As soon as he was outside we locked the door behind him and called the cops.

While he was locked out side we got the our roommate out of her bedroom cause the dress man was trying to get back into the house through her bedroom window!!! We all got upstairs with Brittany as our protector and waited for the cops. When dress man saw the cops coming he jumped off our balcony and ran away!!! We weren't sure at first if he jumped off or if he went into the apt that shares out balcony but the cops found two foot prints in the rocks just below our balcony. They also found, on out balcony one of the beanies dress man used to stuff his shirt. So the cops took it and are gong to use it to help them catch him. But to our knowledge, the cops never found him.

After he ran away, one of the officers came back and had us all fill out statements. I have never filled out a statement before and I am still not sure if I did a good enough job. It took me about 15mins and Remy and his sister 45mins. But as the statements were being filled out the officer, officer Newberger, cracked jokes and made us all laugh. I am very thankful for law enforcement and I am also very thankful that Remy and Brittany were over. I don't know what we would have done if they hadn't have been there to protect us. Other than Remy hurting his had while trying to push dress man out of the apartment we are all safe.

The cops didn't leave our apartment till 3:30am and after that no one really could go to sleep. So we decided that we were NOT going to fast today and made hot chocolate and waffles. Then we watched While You Were Sleeping. Sleep didn't catch up to us till 6:30am. I slept in the living room that night cause being alone in my room did not sound like much fun to me. Then we all woke up around 8, got ready and went to church at 9. We stayed for sacrament meeting and then went back home catch up on sleep. Surprisingly enough no one slept past 1. So our whole apartment was functioning on 3 1/2 hours of sleep today.

Even in spite of it all, I still find it rather comical that the man was wearing a dress. Also, one more thing to laugh about that came from the whole situation is that we had one roommate who slept through EVERYTHING! She had gone to bet around midnight and sleeps with earplugs and she hardly even stirred. For a few mins all 6 of us girls were inches away from her trying to stay out of reach of the dress man. There was even a time where there were 7 medics and 3 cops in out apartment and she didn't even wake up! Then today, we told the story a million different time and I just got tired of saying the same thing over and over again. So once again, sorry family and friends who didn't get a phone call.

Don't worry too much, our door will now be locked 24-7!

This is the view of the footprints in the rocks from the balcony and how high it would look if someone was ever contemplating jumping off.

This is a close up of the foot prints in the rocks below our balcony

This is how high our balcony is and how far the dress man jumped!

I am addicted

2009-10-11T16:32:00.001-07:00

Last Thursday was a fateful day. At first it just seemed like a normal average day. I went to class, read my scriptures, did my HW (haha jk Hannah doesn't ever do her HW). It didn't start until after work. I had just spent the last 4.5 hours slaving away taking peoples orders and getting fruit smoothies splashed all over me. I was sitting on the stool with Jordyn next to me and all of a sudden, out of thin air, my roommate Brittiny says "I am going to walk down to Hastings and rent the first season of Heros." Inside my soul gave out a cry of anguish (actually I was very verbal about it) "NO!!! I can't start watching another TV show!!! Once I start I won't be able to get back to my life until I have seen them all." Sure enough that is EXACTLY what happened. I stayed up till one that night, the next night (Friday) I was up till 12 and then Saturday I would not let myself rest until 2:30--finishing the first season of course. If only it had ended at that, the same roommate who drug me into this obsession, bought all three seasons and we continued to waist our life away in front of the TV. To our credit, we exhibited great self control and waited till Thursday night to unleash the DVDs sitting innocently on the shelf. By last night at midnight my roommates and I had made our way through all the existing seasons of Heros. Now our plan is to watch the new episodes each week as they come out. Since that fateful Thursday my roommates and I have watched 45.5hours of Sylar, Mohinder and Claire. We now have pictures of Heros characters dotting our walls and Sylar pictures as our desktop backgrounds. Needless to Say...I AM ADDICTED!!!!!!!! :D

Argh!!!!!!

2009-09-17T15:03:00.000-07:00

I am so frustrated!!! I just found out today that the mail man has not been giving me my mail! I am soo upset. I had had a suspicion cause it has been 2 weeks since anything with my name on it has come out of our mail box. But this morning I looked online to see why my textbooks hadn't come yet and that is when I found out that the Postal Service has no clue that I reside in my own apartment. The text books I bought 2 weeks ago were sent to back to the sellers because the mail man just decided not to put the mail in the little box the packages told him to put it in! I am so frustrated!!!!!!!!!! Cause now I have to contact all the sellers, see if they will send it back to me, and some how make sure that I start getting my mail again. It wouldn't be so bad if I knew how to fix it all, but I don't know how to make it better. I did however write a little note to the mail man in hopes that he will start giving me my mail again and knows that still live in the same place! I guess life wouldn't be interesting if we didn't have problems.

First Week of School

2009-08-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

I LOVE FLAGSTAFF! It is the best place in the world. The weather is just wonderful right now. I am getting along great with my roommates and I have money! I got $2,600 from FAFSA this semester, $300 was spent on stupid NAU fees, then I spent about $200 on books and $100 on other things like school supplies and food. But I have about $2,ooo left to do with as I please!!!!! So I bout my self a camera! :D I also took a day off of work. The plan is to save it all for emergencies but we will see how that goes :P

This semester there are 6 of us living in once tiny apartment. So far so good, no one has been killed yet so things are going pretty good. I get my own room this semester but you can hardly call it a room. The roof slants so one of my walls is about 2ft high but I am not complaining cause I have my own little space.

For the most part my classes seem like they are going to be pretty easy. I have a statistics class, a computer programing class, two education classes and then a Math class of pure agony! MAT 320W-Foundations of math. Not only is it my junior level writing requirement but it is a proof class. I know 4 people in my class who are taking it again this semester cause the dropped out last semester. My goal for these next 3 months is to pass this class! We are going to have 20pt quizzes every Wednesday and the first week of school was no exception. We only had one day of class before he was testing us!!!! INSANE! The very first day the professor redefined the meaning of a sentence. In case you were wondering a sentence is either true or false. There is no room for opinions in the language of mathematics.

I also am going to be an SI this semester. I am not sure all the details yet but I will go to a MAT 114 class (Quantitative Reasoning) and get to know the material. Then I will hold a session where all the little freshman (who are only a year younger than me) will come and get me to help them on their math HW. Sounds like fun! It will actually be something I can put on my resume so that when I am trying to get a job as a teacher, in 2 years, I can have more to put then "I worked at Jamba Juice!!!"

Oh and how pathetic am I? It is my first real weekend in Flag, my first Friday NOT at work, and I am sitting at home alone. :(

Below is my lovely half room. Notice how the far wall in only a few feet high. I also have my very own TV and DVD player so I can watch movies whenever I want (I doubt that will ever happen but it is there just in case). I also keep my bathroom stuff on my dresser cause there are four of us sharing one bathroom!

This is my beautiful new camera that I bought with my awesome government money. It is water proof and ironically is the same camera Joseph bought this summer before he left. I liked it so much I bought myself one! The best part is that the green one was $10 cheaper than the black one and $15 cheaper than hot pink! :D

My beautiful new hair style, a box die from Walmart and an amazing cut from Mindy :P I have had SO many complements on it. MINDY IS THE BEST!

Doodles

2009-08-07T21:54:00.000-07:00

So these are my amazing doodles, the only semi exciting biproduct of my summer school classI know I am really weird! But at least this all gave me an escape from that awful professors voice

You would not believe how much pencil I got all over my hand doing these two. The best is when I would come back from class with pencil all over my forehead!Just in case you ever wondering, all those circles are on the front page of the packet our professor passed out for us to take notes on...I erased the little notes I did have :D

This one is one of my favorites! I like all the hearts.

This one I actually started up in Flag right before finals and then just finished it in my boring summer school!

:D

2009-08-05T17:14:00.000-07:00

I just finished my last day of summer school and thought it a momentous occasion worth mentioning on my pathetically neglected blog. It was a rotten boring class, that was way too easy to merit my full attention. I studied for about a 1/2 an hour before every test and never got below a 95%. I am just happy it was in the summer and was only 5 weeks instead of the average 3 1/2 months...although it didn't feel accelerated. I did however manage to cover many pieces of paper with pointless designs. I should scan them and put them up before I throw them away. That way I can look back and remember what I learned this summer; Colleges don't have your best interests in mind, all they really want is your money! As long as you put up with their fake smiles, jump through the hopes in their hands and pay to do it, you can get a degree! And in my case after I get that degree I can be the one that holds a hoop in my hand bearing a cheesy smile watching those little High School kids jump as high as they can, making their quest for success just as painful as mine was! :D

Summer!

2009-07-16T20:51:00.000-07:00

First off I know, long time no blog. So there is no way humanly possible that I could catch up on everything so I am just going to put up some of the pictures I have taken this summer. That is all I can think of as a fast and easy update.

Lindsey, her kids and I all took a walk to Good Will (you know while they still lived at Dads house). Anne looks so cute walking all by herself with out a care in the world. :D

Lindsey was checking out and I was really board of shopping so I took Rachel to the hats and we took lots of pictures with different goofy hats! :D It was lots of fun!!!!

Emma looked too cute up on the fire place holding the puppy so I just HAD to take a picture.

And this, of course, is me and Joseph. We were at the Marcos Graduation and it just so happened to be raining! Weird that that would happen two years in a row when the norm is 100 for last Aug. Silly Joseph got really really cold and we couldn't stay to say hi to all our friends on the field cause he was almost convulsing cause he was so cold! :D

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-04-22T12:44:00.000-07:00

I GOT A 99% ON MY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS TEST!!!!!!!!!! I MIGHT ACTUALLY PASS THE CLASS!!!!!! :D

Almost there...

2009-04-19T10:57:00.000-07:00

I am almost done with classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even believe it. I have two more weeks of classes and then three days of finals and then I am headed back to the valley where I will have to find a job QUICK so I can make enough money to pay for my two summer classes. I am not sure where I will be living but I have 3 weeks to figure it out. Hopefully I will be able to pass all of my classes...it would not be fun at all if I had to retake Differential Equations or Modern geometry. Every other class I won't fail, it is just math that is giving me a hard time. Funny, not something extremely common for a math major....
In other news, for those of you who don't know, Karl Andersen left for his mission on Wednesday. I am sad that he lives so far away, I didn't get to see him before he left :(
Spring Break was so much fun and well needed. I stayed with Dallas and Natalie for a day, I got to go to the beach with Dad and Lindsey, I went spelunking with Mom, and I even got to spend the night with Afton and Mindy. But when we went to the beach I stepped on tar. And when we were in the cave I broke my camera!! Not cool!

Easter was ok. I think this is the first Easter my whole life where I haven't gone to see the Easter pageant!!!! Sad, so sad. The best part is that the whole family went with out me. I was not very happy about that :/ Oh! and I didn't even get candy! LAME!!!!!!
I made surprise cupcakes for my roommate Lanae for he birthday this past week. Everyone loved them and it made me feel special.
On Thursday I will be teaching again, but this time I will be teaching math to 7th graders at the Jr. High and then 20 mins later be at the Elementary teaching a chemistry lesson to the 5th graders. It is going to be a crazy day! I hope it doesn't make me too stressed. But that is the last crazy thing I have to do before finals.

I think that is all the random tid bits I can think of right now. Time for pictures!

Lindsey had a lot of fun playing in the sand with her girls. Rachel couldn't have been happier but Anne was deathly afraid of the ocean! This was the closest I could get her to the water. I asked her to but a feather in the sand castle, that was too much for her! She spent the rest of the day with Dad a safe distance away from the scary water. I love the concerned look on her face in this picture! It is so cute!

Precious Anne, safely far away from the water.

These are really...tender. I love the one of dad giving the cookie to Anne and all you can see is her little hand! SO CUTE!

Beautiful Hans on his 14th birthday. We found a hollow tree and it was just to much fun! I think they are happy mostly because at this point we had found our way out. I didn't even count how many times we turned around in that cave.
Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE MY FAMILY!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! :D

My Calling in Life

2009-03-05T19:38:00.001-08:00

Today I taught again! And again it was so much fun. This time I taught 5th grade science. We had them make ice cream in plastic bags and then taught them about the three different phases of matter. I was a little nervous at first but that only lasted 5 mins into the lesson. I loved being around the kids, having them ask me questions and actually knowing the answers! One student asked me if I could spell some words for him...that put me on the spot! Luckily all he asked was liquid and chocolate, I think I got those two down. It is such a neat experience to have children look up to you in that way. I don't think I have ever been in a situation like that where children have so much respect for me. Anyways, it was so wonderful to see my hard work come together into a beautiful, well carried out lesson where the students actually learned something and had a good time doing it!! AND I WAS THEIR TEACHER! It was really weird being called Miss Turley but I would do it again in a heart beat...and I am going to!
The next lesson I will be teaching will be to the 7th graders and we will be talking about Volume. The next time I teach the 5th graders we are going to be taking about Force and Motion.

This is all made possible by the NAUTeach program up here at NAU. This program started in Texas (as UTeach) and is now starting to wriggle its way into the rest of the United States. This program is amazing! The first two classes get you into the class room so that you can know right away if teaching is right for you, and they even give you a stipend for taking the class. So at the end of this semester I will get $250 for taking a class I love. Our teacher was telling us the other day that tons and tons of schools applied to have the program come to their Universities...they only picked 12! So out of all the Universities country wide the one that was chosen just so happened to be in Arizona so I could still get my tuition waver and be close to home. I am so excited to be going to school to be a teacher!
Oh and a little side note for Diane(and anyone else who was wondering)...The job I had an interview for was a Summer Enrichment Program. If I get it I will be a TA for a science class. There will be three one week sessions were kids will come up and take the class. The best part is that at the end of each week I get to go on a field trip with the students. I am really excited for it but I don't know if I will get it or not. They told me as I was walking out of the interview that they would get back to me by the end of the week. That was a week ago! I am really worried that I won't get it but I am holding on to the hope that they are just behind and haven't gotten around to calling me back. :/
OH! Did I mention that I LOVE TEACHING!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :D

Catching up

2009-03-02T17:35:00.000-08:00

I guess I am over due for a post, it has almost been a month. Life right now is just peachy. I am only taking 11 credits so I have a lot of time on my hands. I did have 14 but last week I withdrew from my Elementary Number Theory class. It was a nightmare and I am sad to say I was not quite ready for it. So I will take it again in a year and hopefully by then I will have enough math background for everything to make sense. So with my new found free time I cook more, I am typing my journal, I started reading the third Eragon book, and I don't do my HW! :)
My goal for tomorrow is to actually get out of bed at 6:30 (or 7) and go running. I miss being able to sleep well and the solution to that problem it to exhaust myself and I have full confidence that getting up early and running will do just that.
This past week was amazing! I taught my first math lesson to REAL Jr High kids, I had my first job interview, and I planed out the classes I need to take for the next three semesters and now I know for sure that I will be able to get my teaching degree in three years! If everything works out the way I have planed I will graduate in May of 2011! :D That makes me really happy
I cannot wait for spring break and I am so excited to go home and see my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that is about it...

SNOW!!!!

2009-02-09T19:24:00.001-08:00

I was told I needed to post more so I am going to try but I am not making any promises. Today is snowed and snowed and snowed!!!!! It was crazy! We are all hoping for a snow day tomorrow which would not be too beneficial to me cause I only have one class. :( I have decided that there is nothing more beautiful than untouched snow! It is so beautiful, it reminds me why I decided to move up here. My roommates and I went sledding today, it was cold and hot and wonderful all at the same time. I don't think I have ever been so hot and so cold at the same time. We all got home and were covered in snow and all ready to go to bed. But we are still up watching movies eating popcorn, like we do every night!!!!

SOOO MUCH SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not believe how much show was on me beanie by the time I got home! It was completely covered in snow and ice!

Grapefruit Diet

2009-01-15T09:33:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we found out that we might be getting another roommate!!! We are all so excited to have a new friend and have less rent to pay! :) That was the highlight of my day yesterday, except we still don't know for sure. I am so tight on money right now, books are killing me and until my first paycheck comes in I am not going to have much money for anything. My budget breakfast had become home made granola and Grapefruit. :) Mom sent me up with a whole box of grapefruit and so did Lindsey. I just hope my roommates and I can eat them before they all go bad! :D

Oh and this is really funny I just thought I would share it with everyone. I took a whole bunch of picture one night right before I went home for winter break. I was just sitting on the couch looking through them and Anne was very interested in what I was doing. She was sitting next to me and when I got to this picture of Jerah she tried to do the same pose. It was so darn cute! Then later Rachel wanted to join in the fun so I got one of her too. Once again those girls are way to cute....I hope that won't get them into trouble when they are old enough to start breaking hearts. :P

Winter Wonder Land

2009-01-13T11:14:00.000-08:00

OH MY GOODNESS! There is so much snow in Flagstaff! I can't even believe it! there are piles and piles of snow on the side of every rode and sidewalk. I was so shocked when mom brought me up here on Friday. The weirdest part about it thought is that during the day it is warm. I question my sanity when I sit down in my smoldering classes wearing long selves. You think with the snow it would be colder but you thought wrong!

It makes me laugh that so many things are just buried in the snow! There is something else buried right next to the picnic table and Jerah and I can not figure out what it is! I guess we will just have to wait till spring to find out! And I laugh at who ever owns this car. Poor poor things. :) I took that picture on Sunday and it is still like that. I guess they decided it just wasn't worth the trouble.

In other news... I started classes yesterday. 3 Math classes(Modern Geometry, Differential Equations and Elementary Number Theory), 2 Education classes and a Liberal Studies. I really hope I will be able to survive the next 4 months. It has recently been reaffirmed to me that an education is expensive. It is ridiculous that I have to pay for the classes and then pay for the textbooks. How is anyone supposed to be able to pay for all that on their own?!?!? It is a conspiracy!

This is Jerah and I on the first day of classes at the bus stop on our way to our 9:1o classes

I also didn't write anything about Christmas or New Years, just like everyone else.
Christmas was great fun and it even lasted for a week. The highlight of my New Years was the party with Lindsey and her kids. We all got sparkly hats, masks and horns, we drank sparkling cider and tooted our horns at 7:00! :D Those girls are so adorable!
The most adorable picture ever!!!! I just love that Annie has food all over her face, it really adds something to it.

Gifts and Mountian Dew

2008-12-08T19:38:00.000-08:00

This week one of my roommates left and to go down to the valley so we had a Secret Santa exchange and...a wild drinking party! :D I will explain.

This is my beautiful present I got from Whitney. Everyone else got/gave small presents like candy and socks, but Whitney gave me a set of pots and pans! It was pretty awesome. I didn't complain! :)

So this was my first experience with Mountain Dew. Jerah got the bright idea of taking shots of Mountain Dew and then it just evolved from there. We ended up playing Kings cup. My roommates were so shocked that I had never had Mountain Dew that they tried as hard as they could to make me get to drink more! And ironically by the end instead of bouncing off the walls I was ready crash.

To roommates and highly caffeinated drinks (in place of alcohol)...Cheers!

MORE PICTURES!

2008-12-01T20:55:00.000-08:00

K...This picture is super cute! I couldn't pass up posting this one. Every single one of them are makings the most adorable faces!!! :D

These next ones are just a little glimpse into my C-R-A-Z-Y college life! :) Except I was home when I took all these.....

All the rest are pictures taken during the incredibly boring Lillywhite reunion. Elise, Julia, and I went snap happy and just took a whole bunch of pictures! It was really fun :) But Grandma's couch was not a very good back ground though! :D

SO, I have jsut decided that Julia is the cutiest little girl ever. She is going to be a heart breaker!

These one were a few hours later and the reunion was STILL going on. Jeni and I were tired of being around so many people we didn't know and couldn't stand the nasty enchiladas, so we took Brittny and Karl with us and snuck away to McDonald's. We all had hot fudge Sundays and we played on the play place...and they didn't even kick up out!!!!!!!!!!! :P

All I have to say about these is that Jeni is SOOOO Pretty and the Brittny turned out so much cooler than Myrna but, that is not to hard to do! (I know I'm a horrible person)

PICTURES!!!

2008-12-01T16:48:00.000-08:00

Since I got back to Flag last night it seems like all I have done is look at the 300 some odd pictures I took while I was home. I am so excited...I am just starting to figure out the best way to edit photos. So I decided that this post should be all about pictures. :D

It was soooooo weird to watch Afton get married. But she is happy and they are a really cute couple; what else can you ask for?

I was very surprised at how calm Afton was the whole day. She was just like, "yep I want to spend the rest of eternity with Sean" :D

Oh! Look how cute we are!!! ;)

Yes Daddy...I caught the bouquet! Don't worry, I don't think it really means anything. But.....

....who know, Maybe this will be me in a few YEARS! :D

I have a few more but I need to go to FHE soon so I will get around to those later!

The Good Things in Life

2008-11-18T22:00:00.000-08:00

First of all I am really really excited for my first college semester to be over! Second...I have had a really good week this past week. When I got back from the valley everyone was really happy to see me! That made me feel special. :) On Friday there was a formal dance but I had to work...and it was girl ask guy and I didn't really want to ask anyone out. So after work my roommate Brittany and I just sat on the couch and watched movies. On Sunday I got a new calling, I am now on the Family Home Evening Committee. I am actually really excited for this one. I will really be able to get to know everyone in my family.
Also on Sunday we had a mini Thanksgiving dinner. One of the guys in the boys apartment had a Turkey so we pulled all of our stuff together and had a fancy dinner. It was really fun! It was just like eat food and hang out time. And then after we were done there was ice cream and we watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It was happy! :D
Last night us roommates had our first "fight." It was more like roommate council. We didn't get to bed till 2 or 3 but we got tons of things off our chests. It was good and now everything is peachy keen and now we are all a little bit closer.

And I was just thinking and I decided to write down the things in life that make everything worth it.

The Best Things in Life:

Friends who are willing to put up with all the silly thing you do and say
Family who love you no matter what
The Scriptures and every part of our Religion that gives us all hope (like conference talks that are modern day scriptures meant just for us)
The apartment of Boys who are worthy priesthood holders and good friends that live a stones throw away
Pictures that bring a smile to your face every time you look at them. (Like the ones of my Lindsey's girls and Mindy's pictures on her blog that make me goo and ga every time I look at them)
Late nights with roommates eating ice cream and having in depth girl talk (can't have one with out the other) :D
Having you grandma save up some money for a few months to help you with groceries and ends up giving you $25 :) and then getting out the photo albums and telling stories about when my mom was younger.
Reading letters from you brother on his mission and every week having him tell you wa story and share another little part of his testimony with you. :P
The look of a parent when they are really proud of what you have become and how you are living you life
And most of all.....the little tiny things that just make you smile, like remembering good times with friends and family or watching someone passionately tell a funny story :D

This is Halloween...This is Halloween...

2008-11-03T19:57:00.001-08:00

So, not much has happened around here except Halloween, late night parties and the consumption of large amounts of chocolate! No...late night parties are not really a common occurrence in our house but on weekends it is really hard to get the boys to leave our apartment at a decent hour. last night they didn't leave till midnight and I am feeling it today. I guess we are just too popular for our own good! :D So this Halloween was AWESOME! Believe it or not this is the first Halloween I have not gone around begging random strangers for candy. Instead, my roommates and I dressed up and went to the institute dance. Our costumes were top notch (if I do say so my self).

Yeah that's right we were a polygamist family! :D We got the dress at Good Will we were going to buy huge bolder sized rings but we never got around to it. And our hair...oh my gosh I was so proud of the way it turned out! Everyone at the dance thought we were hilarious...except we found out later that one girl who got offended and left. Oh well, that is her problem not ours, some one at the dance dressed up like Osama Bin-ladin, if she was choosing to be offended she should have chosen to be offended by that! My Favorite was when we all stood in a circle during a show dance and all sang "The smile on you face lets [us] know that you need [us]" :D It was classic. I have a feeling it was a legend in the making :D

Anyways...after the dance the boys got it into their head that it would be a good idea to watch a scary movie. Who ever that was should be shot. My roommates "boyfriend" has keys to all the auditoriums on campus so at like midnight he let us all in and set up the projector and we watched "What Lies Beneath" It was cool but I was scared out of my wits, I had to hold Jerah's hand to stop myself from hyperventilating. We were so exhausted by the time the movie was over but all in all I would have to say it was one of the best Halloweens I have ever had!!!

This was after the dance and before the move. We just went a little snap happy! :)

This is Me and Whitney while we were waiting for the boys to set up the projector. After this semester she is going down to the valey to do her student teaching. :( We are going to miss her. We just might get a fish and name it Whitney.

On Sunday Jerah and I just walked around campus and took fun pictures in the fall leaves. It was so much fun. I officially decided that Jerah is the cutest girl ever! :)

We were on our way home and it started to rain so we ran as fast as we could back to the apartment. We thought it was kinda funny that it made us so...uncute, so we took a picture so that our uncuteness could be remembered forever! :D

Collge (voluntary torture!)

2008-10-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

Life is going great except for...life is kinda getting in the way! I have not done any crazy partying lately (except of course that I just made banana bread... it is always a party when I cook) but I have done more studying and more working. You know it is crazy because it has actually paid off, my paychecks are a little bit bigger and my grades are getting higher. The last 3 tests I took I did really well on (100% on my Discrete test,100% on my Anthropology midterm and 96% on a Geology test) :D I just took another math test today, I feel pretty good about it but I have learned never to rely on that!

Let see...what else have I been up to....there was a few days there where almost everyone of us roommates were going through boy troubles. So for a few days we all consumed A LOT of ice cream! It is really cool we are starting to become best friends. We also have a few guys that piratically live here. They are over all the time, once we had a impromptu dance party, it was SO much fun! It could have lasted all night but our down stairs neighbor knocked on our door and told up he could see his roof bouncing up and down every time we jumped. That put an end to that one!
I have also decided that Flagstaff is one of the most beautiful places ever(Palmyra is prettier) Being a valley girl, I have only ever seen the winter season and the summer season because that it when we took trips to places that actually have seasons! So I am thoroughly enjoying watching the trees change color and drop their leaves. I enjoyed it soo much that I just had to take some pictures and i just have to share them with all my family who never gets to see this kind of stuff! :D

This is a tree right next to my apartment. It is so beautiful!

This one is a picture of the pine trees I get to walk through every day on my way to the library. The pine needles turn brown and fall off the tree so the whole sidewalk is covered in a blanket of pine needles, it is SO beautiful! I am so happy I get to watch all of this happen!

OH! and two more pictures that have nothing to do with the weather up here :)

This one is a snow man I made out of the ice one day at work when I was really board. I made him a girl friend too but my manager showed up so I didn't get a chance to take a picture

And this one is me in a box! :D

Without Sorrow There is no Joy :)

2008-09-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

These last two weeks have been...good. I got to go home and that was wonderful but that also gave me a chance to see my boys, bad idea! I just got way more confused and was not to happy about it. So I spent this past week trying to forget about them and I was doing pretty good until Friday when Paul got his mission call (he is going to the Baltic and will be speaking Lithuanian) he called to tell me about it and we talked for a good hour. There went that good plan I had that involved giving myself space and not talking to him for a while!! In other news, I got a 69 on my Geological Disasters test and a 78 on my Calculus test! That didn't improve my spirits too much. However I did have a whole lot of fun with friends. I didn't have to work much these past two weeks so the girls and I partied!

This is Elise and Nicole, they are our best friends! We do everything together. This was at our Mexican party I was talking about earlier. We all "dresses up" in Mexican costumes, watched Nacho Libre and ate & layer been dip! Elise and Nicole came with this mask and towels tied around their necks for capes :)

Mine and Jerah's costumes were a little...inventive :) Jerah's butt if you cannot tell says SenioRita and the two M's on my butt say Marcos Mexican. I also wore the brown pants and shirt along with the beanie and was....a beaner :) Kinda bad but I am allowed to because I went to Marcos!

What is a party with out food??? The been dip I made looked absolutely delicious (as you can see)

Yeah...the girls devoured it

It was completely gone in a matter of mins! I contribute it all to the amazing beans I made!

K well I will stop making comments about how good my cooking is and move on to the rest of my life. :) So on Friday we went to dodge ball....It was the first Friday Night Activity I have been to since I have been up here and it will probably be the last for a long while. Anyways...it was way fun! We had crazy outfits and were the main attraction :D

So these outfits of ours were CRAZY! We all had different colored T-shirts and different colored shorts and then in our hair we all had miss matching bandannas and to top it all off we had knee high tie dyed socks!! They were so cool everyone was envious of or socks :) Oh and that crazy guy in the back is John...we didn't want him in our picture but he jumped in behind us right as the flash went off.

After we were done playing dodge ball Elise and I went outside and took funny random pictures on things we found out side the whole church. It was way fun but some of them turned out to be black mail pictures and I am not going to post them on line!!!! Sufficed to say this picture was taken in the satellite dish!!!
OH!! and one more thing I must add, those unbelievably skanky shorts were not my idea!! I was forced to wear them by those girls that call them selves my friends, Jerah phrased it as "Breaking me out of my shell" And if any of you tell my mother......I don't know what I will do but is won't be pretty! :)

IM BACK!!!

2008-09-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

So I do have excuses for not posting for so long...and you are just going to have to sit there and listen to them! :) So for the first little while I didn't have my compute because it was getting fixed and then when I did get it the charger broke a few days later. Then when I finally got it to turn on again I had forgoten my password....but I got it all figured out now and I even took some pictures! :)

This is Jerah picking out fruit on our first shoping trip...with out our mothers! :) it was kinda funny because the whole time we were discussing loudly what we were going to buy seperatly and what we were going to split. We didn't think anything of it until this hippy women (super long dreadlocks and crazy clothes...the works!) stoped and commented about how cute we were! We were kinda funny! It was especially funny watching Jerah try to figure out how to pay with her debit card!

This is my beautiful kitchen with the beautiful garbage can Lindsey and Bill bought for me when they came up to visit two weeks ago! :)

This is my living room with the beautiful coffe table mom provided (that I always put my feet on...and there is nothing she can do about it! hehehehe) Oh and my roommate and her boyfriend who is ALWAYS over!

And...our big screen Tv! This tv is the reason we have weekly movie nights every Tuesday with the girls. This week we are going to make 7 layer been dip and watch a mexican movie...Nacho Libre!! :)

So this picture has a funny story behind it...one rainy night we all really had a craving for icecream so we got out our jackets and umprellas and walked down to Baskins Robins! It was lots of fun! Oh and this is Jerah (my roommate) and Elise (One of Jerahs friends who we have become really good friends with and ironicly I went to EFY with one summer)

Welcome to blogging!

2008-08-11T15:25:00.000-07:00

Yay for me I started a blog! Mindy made me do it so she can keep up with me when I leave for College next week Yikes! I'll be studying Math at NAU in Flagstaff I can't wait. So stay tuned for the amazing adventures sure to come in Hannah's happy world