October 24 - October 29

The past week has been pretty crazy... I kept meaning to post another blog and then forgetting to or I was just to lazy to. So this is what has happened in my life the past week....

I have been taking lots and lots of this... 

Using literally what seems to be a ton of these...

I look like this.. (the little boy not the little girl)

I have pretty much caught everything that has been going around (except the swine flu) one right after another. I think I have been sick enough the past week to last me all through winter and spring. 

Right when I was starting to feel better I woke up to this.... 

We did decide to have some fun in it.... 

We tried to build a snowman with a pumpkin head but it didn't work. 

For those of you who know me well you know that I absolutely HATE snow and I HATE being cold. So the past 2 days have not been the best days for me. 

Finally... I had told my little brother that we could carve pumpkins sometime last week and it never happened but the other night we finally did it and this is how they turned out.... 

I carved 2 and Taft carved 1...

Mine... 

  

Taft's... 

 

That has been my life for the past week. Well at least some of the bigger things that have happened in my life... I am sure the rest of the week will turn out to be just as crazy as the beginning. 

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

My sister entered my ADORABLE niece into a casting call to be one of the next GAP MODELS! And we need your votes! All you have to do is register to vote and then you can vote for her EVERYDAY until November 17. So PLEASE vote again and again.

Here are some more picture to show you how gorgeous she is and convince you to vote for her!

I hope I have convinced you to vote!
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Step into my Office

I wish I could say I had a cool place like this to sit and do my homework...

Maybe if I did I would actually do my homework more often. BUT instead I have this...

This is "my office" I sit here for the majority of the day with every space possible covered in papers and books. My mom has recently nicknamed this couch "our office" because we are both constantly sitting here with papers galore. At least in my office I have the "essentials"... All the books, paper, and pencils I need along with water, the TV remote (of course), the home phone (to answer all those stupid calls for Farmington Drug, for those of you who don't know Farmington Drug is no longer in business. When my family moved we somehow got their old number. It is ridiculous the number of calls we get), of course the cell phone, there are a few essentials missing, but for the time I was there it was enough. 

So for about 2 more months this will be "my office" then I will have a few weeks away from the "office" then go back to work (school) in January :(

My Life... And The People In It

I know.. two blog posts in one night? Something must be wrong with me. I decided to blog about something that I have been thinking about for a while now. It's been on the back of my mind pretty much all month and a few weeks ago I wrote in my journal about it and I decided to share it with the world. So what is it that I have been thinking about? Well I have been thinking about the people in my life and why they are there. A few weeks ago me and my mom were having a little "make fun of dad" night and my dad always gets his "feelings" hurt when we make fun of him and jokingly I told him, "Thanks for providing all these opportunities for us to make fun of you and providing us with entertainment." That oddly enough is what sparked this thought of mine. So here are a few people in my life that have made a HUGE difference in my life and mean ALOT to me.... 

My family, ha ha gotta love them. This picture was on christmas morning last year, we are missing a few people that have since been added to the family, Jessie (Brent's wife), Carter(my nephew) and Taytum who I believe was still asleep. I love my family just for this reason. Who else would put on fake mustaches and take pictures (okay maybe some people). We are always doing something silly, whether it is wearing fake mustaches, or making fun of each other, or playing cards. Whenever everyone is together you are always guaranteed a laugh. 

My Grandma and Grandpa. They are the GREATEST grandparents a girl could ask for. I know I don't visit them as often as I probably should but I know that they still love me (even if it is only sometimes). They are such a good example to everyone in my family and everyone they come in contact with. I remember one FHE activity we had earlier this year, Me and a few other people from the branch had the opportunity to ask my grandparents a few questions about their life, and their thoughts, etc. It was so neat to get to sit and hear them tell stories about how they met and their life together. It makes me very proud to call them my grandparents!

My cousin Steph. Me and Steph have been best friends ever since we were little. It might be considered cheating to be best friends with your cousin BUT she is still my best friend. And I look forward to the day when we both get married and start our own families. So our daughters can be best friends!

You might think I am silly to say that these three boys have made a difference in my life BUT they have. Yes, they are not the best behaved boys ever BUT I love them to death! I would do absolutely anything they needed me to. I am sure they would do the same for me!

Now you ask why this guy? Funny looking I know. And as much as I tell people he drives me CRAZY (which sometimes he does) he has a special place in my heart, I guess you could say. He is one person that I have wondered the most about. Why is he in my life? Well let me tell you what I think. Me and Ben (this crazy guy in the picture above) met about three years ago at church, we started dating and pretty much became best friends for the summer that he was here in Farmington. Ever since then our friendship has continued to grow. To make a long story short, he came back to Farmington 2 more times for internships and now he lives here. Ben and I now have sort of a brother/sister relationship now. He is always willing to give me his un-bias opinion about whatever it is I am struggling with, he is always there for me when I just need a hug,  and he keeps me on track. Even though he gets on my nerves and drives me nuts, he still has a place in my heart. (that was kinda cheesy)

Last BUT not least... 

This goofy guy is my BEST friend in the whole world! Jared. Me and Jared met when I was a sophomore in high school and I guess you could say we were sort of high school sweethearts. He has always been there for me, no matter what. I know that whenever I am having a bad day or am just grumpy about something he is always a phone call away. I know that me and Jared will always be very very good friends for a very very long time!

Well those are just some of the people in my life. I haven't quiet figured out WHY they are all in my life but I am working on it. Not many people take the time to stop and think about why someone is in their life, or why heavenly father sent them to be YOUR friend. But I have found that it is a very good thing to think about. In a way it makes you more appreciative of the friends that you have and helps you to focus more on not taking them for granted. I hope I didn't bore you to death with my mushy gushy cheesy stuff, but I just felt like I should write it down.

Wordle

So this past week my mom went to a teacher training thing and when she came back she showed me this site. I will admit that I didn't really care when she showed me because I was trying to work on homework and she was interrupting me. Anyways.. I have been playing with it a lot today and can now say that it is pretty cool. I am still trying to figure out how to save it and add pictures. But it is WAY cool! I think it would be AMAZING for scrapbooking! Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to post what I have done on here, so you'll just have to go check it out for yourself! 
http://www.wordle.net/
All you have to do is put in a bunch of words, the words you want to make the biggest you put more than once and every other word you can just put once. For example, if you want to do you name you just put your name like so... Hillarie Hillarie Hillarie Hansen Hansen Hansen.. and those words will be the biggest. The more you put the words the bigger they will get. So just play with it and enjoy the AWESOMENESS!

Sidewalk Chalk

About 2 months ago me and my cousin Steph were bored like always and we went to Target to get some inspiration for something to do. We would normally end up doing crafty things or puzzles when we are bored, so we figured Target was a good place to go late at night to find something crafty to keep us entertained. Well this is what we came up with...

As you can tell we decided to go to the park in between our houses and draw on the sidewalk. Yes it sounds pretty lame but it was actually pretty fun. We even got my little brother to join in the fun. You also probably noticed that I can't spell birthday, I can, I just didn't notice that I spelt it wrong at the time. All-in-all it was a pretty fun night!

Smore's Indoors

A few weeks ago my sister-in-law came down from Arizona with my nephew, her sister and her sister 2 kids. While they were here we all went up to Mancos and went "camping". Just so you know my family doesn't camp. We go stay at a family cabin in Mancos and call it camping.  We had a blast. We went fishing, and played cards and just relaxed for the weekend it was great. Well one night we roasted marshmallows, and had smores. I think those were the BEST smores I have ever had. I don't know why I thought they tasted to good but they were DELICIOUS! So for the past couple weeks I have been craving smores. So today I was bored so I figured what the heck. I got out the marshmallows, the chocolate and the graham crackers. The marshmallow bag had a recipe for smores indoors but you just put everything in the microwave and I thought whats the fun in that. So I got out the BBQ skewers and roasted my marshmallows on the stove, you know to get the nice and golden look. So long story short(ish) I made my smores. They weren't as good as the ones I made when we were camping but they were still good. 

P.S if you decide to make smores indoors, I don't recommend putting them in the microwave it makes the marshmallows chewy and nasty. 

Blog Blog Blog

Blog Blog Blog... I have been thinking about starting a blog for a while. I thought I don't have anything to blog about. But I figured what the heck. I am on the computer pretty much all day everyday and I have a lot of down time. So... I started a blog... Stay tuned for more blogging fun!