Seasons Greetings!

Hola friends, countrymen, strangers!
This is Hannah! :)
Well here's a little story...on many occasions i come check out this lovely blog of ours to see if anyone has posted! And I keep getting sad because I haven't heard anything from anyone in quite some time! So...I decided....hmm maybe it's a sign that I should update this lovely blog of ours!
This semester I feel that I have had some really great experiences, opprotunities, and learned a ton! It has had it's ups and downs, highs and lows (wow that's like the same thing said in two different ways :O). But I guess I'm greatful for the good and the bad. The good, because it really makes me happy, and helps me to realize how blessed I am, and how great my life is! The bad, because there is always something to be learned from it. Something to help me in the future, something to teach me how to improve. So, even if there is bad...let's all have a good attitude and try and grow from it!!
Here's a little update since my last fort post! First of all...after approximately three amazing weeks, our fort had to come down due to a cleaning check! :( But hey, we had a great three weeks with it, and made some awesome memories involving the fort! :)
I apologize these pictures are out of chronological order!

Above is some cool cats...all of which are from Moses Lake!! :)
Meet Mike! I did! Infact...I'm "engaged" to him! :) After meeting him, he restrung my ukulele, then we (a group of us) went to BR for buy one get one free sunday Tuesday, came home, and proceeded to jam! On a side not, I'm in a guitar class with my roomie Carlie, and have been enjoying it so much! Lately though, playing guitar/ukulele has been temping me oh so much not to study as much as I should!

LASERTAG! It's one of my favorite games...in the WORLD! I don't even care that I am horrible, or the fact that the day we played this, I was in white under a black light, and competely visible from miles (OK feet) away! But hey, I played over Christmas break...got last place...this time...I got second to last place! What an improvement!

We have kind of started a Tuesday Tradition of going to ice cream...I've gone the past two weeks...but I should probably limit myself! But I do love ice cream!

Warning this story has a sad ending. So, this cute cake of Dynomite the Dinosaur, unfortunatly did not last long. I know what you're thinking...Hannah, you're just such a great cook everyone devoured it right away. Unfortunately that is not the case. I made it for my friend's birthday, and while carrying it over, I dropped it down some stairs...and it died :( I was just glad I ahd a picture of it!

I went to this AWESOME Harry Potter dance! You can't really tell but I was Crookshanks, and I took Chandler...he was the whoming willow! :) This is just some of us afterwards...as you can see my whiskers are falling off!

This would be me and my beautiful cousin! She came over and we jammed on our guitars, went to a BYU Basketball game (which we sadly lost), ate some creamery food, and watched a movie! Although I am sad being away from other family, I really do love being closer to my other family! I had a blast with Miranda, and hope we hang out more often! :)

Now, I know what you're thinking! Those look scruptions...where did they come from?!? And you should be surprised to hear that I made them!! I was VERY impressed with myself! These are my Grandma's recipie and they are YUMMY!

I had some visiters visit me! IT was so fun to see Kourtni, KaiLani, and Mikki! They are all great friends, and I had a total blast with them! They should come visit me more!

This is at Yogo! We took a picture with a goal of getting in their slideshow...I still need to try and figure out how to email it to them! But we are celebrating Marshall's mission call!!

Here is me and Lilly anticipating Marshall's mission call! Oreo's always help with the tension!

Here's going to North Carolina! Yay! Congrats! speaking of mission calls Chandler also has gotten his to San Jose, Cali! Congrats to him!

Well that's a little update! The semester is coming to an end...and I cannot even belive I'm nearly done with my freshman year of college. I have even signed my housing contract for next year and have found that soon I have to register for next falls classes....so crazy! I'm not going to lie...I've really enjoyed my freshman year and am kind of scared to not be a freshman anymore...It's so weird to think that are practically no boys the age of 20 attending BYU...So, next year it's just crazy to think that the boys we will be hanging out with will be R.M.'s. I'm really going to miss all of my new friends that I've made this year, as well as all the one's from Moses...but I guess it's for a good cause...right! ;) I'm also frightened that everyone will be all mature...that frightens me :S

Well have a great day, week, month, year, and life!

Love always,

Hannah

July the Fourth...AKA The Fourth of July

Well, to start out with, I just thought I'd say how greatful I am for this beautiful country we live in! I'm so thankful for all of the freedoms we are able to enjoy, and for the many people who have made sacrifices for our country and the many people who still do. One of the freedomes I am especially greatful for is the freedom of religion! Where would we all be without our awesome church, and prophet, and leaders?!? I love this picture, because it's at the Rexburg temple...in Rexburg, Idaho! Anyways here's how I spent my fourth of July celebrating our independence!

Althouh, we weren't all able to celebrate our beautiful country's independence together, Silly, Banana, and a few other friends [Marshall, Chandler, and Colebert] enjoyed a scrumptious BBQ at Banana's! Then we went out to Chandler's farm, where his cows had escaped, and we got his canoes, and headed back to town to watch the fireworks from the lake!The sunset was absolutely BEAUTIFUL I couldn't help but snap a quick photo!

Colbert liked to refer to himself as many different names that night. First, he was "Washington crossing the Deleware", and then I said he looked like Christopher Columbus arriving in "Asia" but really America! His ultimate favorite though was Capt'n Kirk!

I tried to get a pic of all of us in our canoes, but I'm not that skilled, so here's one of all but Banana! I just noticed our canoes are red and green...AKA Christmas colors!! Less than half a year!Here are a few pics of the fireworks! Our view was sooo AMAZING! We were right by where they launched the $17,000 worth of fireworks! Thankfully, none of them went sideways and made our canoes explode!The aftermath of the fireworks! We canoed right by it! The only thing I regret, was that we did not think to bring marshmallows, and roasting sticks!After the fireworks were over, we canoed back to shore, and went out to Chandler's! Silly and Marshall stopped at McDonald's on their way out. While we were waiting for them, Chandler climbed a tree..and Colbert wanted to, so he tried, and tried, and tried, and tried...and eventually got up...haha but then he couldn't get down, so he enjoyed his McChicken in the tree! As you can probably see, Colbert eventually made it down to partake of his coveted Cinnamon melt!

We did some of our own fireworks at Chandler's pond! We did some that made a loud noise, Roman Candles, Sparklers, some bottle rockets (which I did not realize you had to let go of), and a grand finale of some fountain which we thought was done...and then it kept going!
All in all, I think we all had a great night! Thanks to our awesome friends for being so fun! Thanks Chandler for letting us use your canoes, and going to your farm, we hope you found your cows!
I hope you all had an amazing independence day as well!

Here's a sweet vid. of us singing during the fireworks...I'm afraid due to the fact that I help the camera, my voice kind of overpowers the others a little...sorry...haha but the fireworks are awesome!