Alright, I wrote most of this at the end of April, and was wanting to post pictures so I procrastinated posting it. But now, finally, I shall update you on our lives for the past few months. Let's start with this older post:
Hello! Happy end-of-April! Ok, life is so crazy and great things are happening right now! Let me prove this point by sharing a few arguments as to why this is the case:
Exhibit A. Allie Barrett got called to Nicaragua!!!!! WOO!! Congrats! I love all these sister missionaries lately! Another Aly friend of mine is going to Dominican Republic. Hoorah for Sister Aly/Allie's!
Exhibit B. Autumn is having a baby! Holy cow, my best little friend since before we could cross the road by ourselves is having a little baby of her own. She's a blue eyed blond freckle face, and her husband is hispanic-that baby is destined to be adorable. Congrats Autumn. :) Heather Paulsen is also having a baby! Babies everywhere! She is due in October, and is one of the first few from my close friends in high school to have a baby. I'm so excited!
Exhibit C. Winter Semester is OVER! OH MY HEAVENS! Fall and Winter Semester were the most difficult semesters of school in my life. Fall didn't go so well, but Winter...3.96 baby. All A's and one A- (which I totally don't understand, but I'm not gonna go fight a teacher on an A vs. an A-, I'm content with the little minus sitting there next to my A). I have NEVER done that well at BYU. I had 18 credits, 10 classes, I worked 18 hours a week, and it was my last semester before students teaching and awfully difficult (in my opinion). I am quite proud to boast about my 3.96. I think it's due to the fact that I discovered the power in doing what you don't really want to do first-so it can just be done and you will have plenty of time in case it takes longer than planned- and then you can do the things you want to without the guilty feeling of homework hanging over your head. I wish I could have learned that back in Jr. high...I've always been a procrastinator. In the words of my friend Megan, "You just do it and then, WOAH! It's DONE!" said with a tone implying "and now you can do whatever you want since your done with what you HAD to do". Well, it worked well this semester, we'll see if I can keep it up.
Exhibit D. Kyle left for Mississippi a few weeks ago! He's heading down there for the summer to sell security systems with the guys he sold with before his mission. We were able to go to the Timp temple before he left since we'd never gone together before. It's funny, I forgot that two people our age together at the temple on a Friday morning makes everything think we are getting married, or we are married. As we were walking down some stairs quite a few of the temple workers were giving us these huge grins and you knew they were thinking we just got hitched. We're twins, but we don't look alike enough for people to assume we're siblings, they just always assume we're married. It's happened quite a few times since he got back from his mission actually. Anyway, he's awesome, and he'll do great in the humid, fried-food, spanish speaking south.
Exhibit E. Steve is still my husband. And I still like him. We just celebrated our Octo-versary last month! Ok, well I celebrated our Octo-versary, Steve kinda rolled his eyes at the fact that I came up with the word "octoversary". But I ate some ice cream for it, so that was celebration enough for me. :) And soon, well like tomorrow, is our Nonaversary (9 months!). Anyway, we've been living in the same little cave/shire/bombshelter-like basement that is the Hansen home together as the Hansen family for a whole eight months. How cute is that? I am a wife, so I get to remember things like octoversaries. And Steve is wonderful and remembers things like EASTER when I don't! I woke up sick on Easter and Steve had gotten me an Easter basket complete with candy and the Father of the Bride Duo set. And I, I had failed to think of doing anything for Easter for him. I'm awful. Our family never really did Easter baskets or anything, so I didn't put much thought to it. He got me a basket, was super nice to me while I was sick, and we went and ate dinner with him family-it was great. So, now I need to find an obscure holiday and do something cool for him for it so that he can feel like I really do care about him. Just kidding kind of, since he is golden hearted and wasn't expecting anything in return-but seriously, I still want to do something. Or I guess Father's day? Eh, we'll see. I'll come up with something great.
Exhibit F. MCAT Mania is happening at our house. Steve has been studying his brains out for a long time. He is taking it May 20th, which is just a few weeks away and has been spending every waking moment studying. He's covered pretty much every scientific subject you can imagine. He even posted a whole bunch of formulas that look like Greek alphabet soup up in our shower.
Exhibit G. I love this quote.
Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. -Margaret Nadauld
I have ALWAYS had a huge admiration for Margaret Nadauld. She was a wonderful YW General President when I was in Young Womens, and I've always wanted to be like her.
So it's summertime now right? That means I've been able to let the craftiness inside me finally be free! I just want to paint things, and decorate things, and clean things.
I made a cool birthday calendar! So now I won't forget so many birthdays.
I made some picture board squares to spice up our bedroom a little.
I have a whole list of other things I'm hoping to get to. I love summer time. It's so much more relaxed. AND I get to wear sandals. I. LOVE. sandals.
Exhibit A. Allie Barrett got called to Nicaragua!!!!! WOO!! Congrats! I love all these sister missionaries lately! Another Aly friend of mine is going to Dominican Republic. Hoorah for Sister Aly/Allie's!
Exhibit B. Autumn is having a baby! Holy cow, my best little friend since before we could cross the road by ourselves is having a little baby of her own. She's a blue eyed blond freckle face, and her husband is hispanic-that baby is destined to be adorable. Congrats Autumn. :) Heather Paulsen is also having a baby! Babies everywhere! She is due in October, and is one of the first few from my close friends in high school to have a baby. I'm so excited!
Exhibit C. Winter Semester is OVER! OH MY HEAVENS! Fall and Winter Semester were the most difficult semesters of school in my life. Fall didn't go so well, but Winter...3.96 baby. All A's and one A- (which I totally don't understand, but I'm not gonna go fight a teacher on an A vs. an A-, I'm content with the little minus sitting there next to my A). I have NEVER done that well at BYU. I had 18 credits, 10 classes, I worked 18 hours a week, and it was my last semester before students teaching and awfully difficult (in my opinion). I am quite proud to boast about my 3.96. I think it's due to the fact that I discovered the power in doing what you don't really want to do first-so it can just be done and you will have plenty of time in case it takes longer than planned- and then you can do the things you want to without the guilty feeling of homework hanging over your head. I wish I could have learned that back in Jr. high...I've always been a procrastinator. In the words of my friend Megan, "You just do it and then, WOAH! It's DONE!" said with a tone implying "and now you can do whatever you want since your done with what you HAD to do". Well, it worked well this semester, we'll see if I can keep it up.
Exhibit D. Kyle left for Mississippi a few weeks ago! He's heading down there for the summer to sell security systems with the guys he sold with before his mission. We were able to go to the Timp temple before he left since we'd never gone together before. It's funny, I forgot that two people our age together at the temple on a Friday morning makes everything think we are getting married, or we are married. As we were walking down some stairs quite a few of the temple workers were giving us these huge grins and you knew they were thinking we just got hitched. We're twins, but we don't look alike enough for people to assume we're siblings, they just always assume we're married. It's happened quite a few times since he got back from his mission actually. Anyway, he's awesome, and he'll do great in the humid, fried-food, spanish speaking south.
Exhibit E. Steve is still my husband. And I still like him. We just celebrated our Octo-versary last month! Ok, well I celebrated our Octo-versary, Steve kinda rolled his eyes at the fact that I came up with the word "octoversary". But I ate some ice cream for it, so that was celebration enough for me. :) And soon, well like tomorrow, is our Nonaversary (9 months!). Anyway, we've been living in the same little cave/shire/bombshelter-like basement that is the Hansen home together as the Hansen family for a whole eight months. How cute is that? I am a wife, so I get to remember things like octoversaries. And Steve is wonderful and remembers things like EASTER when I don't! I woke up sick on Easter and Steve had gotten me an Easter basket complete with candy and the Father of the Bride Duo set. And I, I had failed to think of doing anything for Easter for him. I'm awful. Our family never really did Easter baskets or anything, so I didn't put much thought to it. He got me a basket, was super nice to me while I was sick, and we went and ate dinner with him family-it was great. So, now I need to find an obscure holiday and do something cool for him for it so that he can feel like I really do care about him. Just kidding kind of, since he is golden hearted and wasn't expecting anything in return-but seriously, I still want to do something. Or I guess Father's day? Eh, we'll see. I'll come up with something great.
Exhibit F. MCAT Mania is happening at our house. Steve has been studying his brains out for a long time. He is taking it May 20th, which is just a few weeks away and has been spending every waking moment studying. He's covered pretty much every scientific subject you can imagine. He even posted a whole bunch of formulas that look like Greek alphabet soup up in our shower.
Exhibit G. I love this quote.
Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity. -Margaret Nadauld
I have ALWAYS had a huge admiration for Margaret Nadauld. She was a wonderful YW General President when I was in Young Womens, and I've always wanted to be like her.
So it's summertime now right? That means I've been able to let the craftiness inside me finally be free! I just want to paint things, and decorate things, and clean things.
I made a cool birthday calendar! So now I won't forget so many birthdays.
I made some picture board squares to spice up our bedroom a little.
I have a whole list of other things I'm hoping to get to. I love summer time. It's so much more relaxed. AND I get to wear sandals. I. LOVE. sandals.
OK, Fast forward a long time to Today! May 26th!
So we headed out to California last week!
It was an interesting trip. Our plan was to leave wednesday, stay the night in vegas, drive to California on Thursday, Steve takes the MCAT and we go to the beach and party on Friday, then go to our good friends wedding all day Saturday. Then we would drive home Sunday.
Well our car died in fillmore on the way down. An hour and a half into it our stinkin car dies! I had just gotten it all checked out and the oil changed and everything preparing for our trip. So, this nice guy named Joe towed us in, and luckily they had a rental car place in Fillmore so we got to drive a 2011 Altima for the weekend (SUCH a nice car!). They were gonna fix our car and then we'd pick it up on the way back. So we get to vegas and I was feeling sick, and Steve was stressed about his test, and our car was pooped out. Not quite as planned.
Well they called the next day and apparantly there was no compression in the pistons and our car was just dead. Boo. So we're currently on the search for a new car-which really is kinda fun, getting our first car together. :) We got to California the next day and went to Rattler's BBQ. Steve's whole family raves about it like crazy, but I thought they were all just overreacting. They were not. It's incredible. Every stinking thing. Their rolls, and their steaks, and their onion ring things. Wow. So good. Steve took the MCAT successfully the next morning and we'll find out his score mid June. David and Jess's wedding was absolutely wonderful! It was so happy and so pretty and I maybe cried even just a little cause weddings are the sweetest thing ever. I'll post some pics of it all. Overall it was a pretty good trip. It was nice to just be with steve for four days straight since we barely see each other with our random work schedules. AND I did absolutely no homework, so I guess that counts as a vacation to me! I hope you're all enjoying your summers!
