High Five for Friday!

Another fun, busy summer week complete. I swear it was just June! I cannot believe that in a little over a month, I'm moving out. So much to do, so little time!

1. I saw this video and really loved it. Such a great way of getting across a very important message.

2. My family and I went on a hike to Devils Head. The view was simply indescribable. Also, I still can't believe our little dog was able to do the whole hike. I would have thought with 3-inch legs it would have been a little more difficult, but nope!

3. I've been doing a lot of babysitting this week. I've watched these two a few of those times and they crack me up! They sure weren't afraid of all those geese and ducks!

4. Bella took her first trip to Sonic and of course, loved it.

5. I've been missing XC with these pretty ladies so darn much.

xo
Hannah

2014

Happy New Year!!! I cannot believe it's 2014. This year is going to be a big one for me, probably the biggest yet. I graduate high school (whhhhaaaattttt) and will be going to college in the fall. When did I get old enough for all of this?! There's so much to do, so many decisions to be made, but it's all so exciting and through it all, I want to love it and find the joy in it. With all the amazing memories that 2013 brought, I cannot wait to see what 2014 brings.

This year, I rang in the New Year with Mackenzie and three babies. Yep, it was a party! Back in October, my third grade teacher, one of my most favorite people in the world, asked me to babysit her sweet little daughter on NYE as she would be getting married! To make matters more exciting, she would get me (and a friend!) a room at the hotel in Downtown Denver where the wedding was at so we could spend the night with her baby and avoid the drunk drivers. Oh yeah, and her 2 month old nephew would need to be babysat too! If there's one thing Mackenzie and I love, it's babies! So this could not be more perfect for us. Plus we got to go to the wedding, an added bonus!

During the day though, Mackenzie, Jessica, and I explored Downtown Denver. We had lunch at Chili's and went shopping, while taking in the city air. It was a ton of fun!

Mack and I then went to the hotel to get ready and begin our babysitting. Riley and Sierra were going to be going to the wedding so we got to see them too which was pretty awesome. We got the little girl, McKenna, ready and then went down to the ceremony. It was beautiful:) Afterwards, we picked up the second baby, Caden, and Mackenzie and I began our night of teen motherhood. Earlier, someone actually thought McKenna was one of ours so there's that.  I wish I had a picture of us all dressed up, pushing these big old strollers! It was too funny. Once we got to the room, we put on our PJs and got the babies ready for bed. That itself was quite the adventure. We spent a lot of time sitting in the bathroom with Caden while the McKenna was going to sleep in the room. After we got him asleep (haha in his stroller, in the dark bathroom), we went to eat the Chinese food we ordered for dinner. We had to eat the food with baby spoons because the restaurant forgot to give us forks. #momlife Sierra's little sister came and slept in our room once she fell asleep at the wedding. So Mackenz and I sat in our pitch black room, watching "New Year's Eve" until midnight. We drank water out of champagne glasses and watched the fireworks that were right out our window! We were exhausted though. By 1:30am, Caden and Avery had been picked up and we could finally go to bed. Oh but only until 6am, when McKenna woke up. Luckily she went back to sleep at 7am until 9am. I would have died if she stayed awake! After she was picked up at 10:45, Mack and I (who are now rich because of the job) went and grabbed some breakfast at Corner Bakery. It's pretty funny how dead downtown is New Year's Day. I came home and watched movies all day and slept;) It was a great New Year's!

Here's a little video of our New Year's!

ugh so cute

fact: babies will chew on ANYTHING

do you see the chub on this kid?!

oh sweet baby love. this is what heaven looks like friends.

#turnt #teenmoms

 I can't wait to share my word for 2014 and some resolutions!!

xo
Hannah

High Six for Friday!

The last week of summer is here. And that makes me soooo sad:((( So since it's the last week, I'm going rogue and doing high six for Friday.

1. Picnics with my soul sister are the greatest.

2. We got to see and meet Miranda Sings!! (look her up on YouTube!)

3. Swimming + Ice Cream = Best Nanny Ever

4. Some senior pictures! Yay! Thank you Alpine Photographics!

5. Birthday love from me and Amanda!

6. I miss Girls Camp sooo much! 

xo
Hannah

High Five for Friday!

TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL EUROPE!!!

1. Taylor Swift=best concert ever. I loved EVERY SECOND of it.

2. Only my friends would decide to cut each others hair for fun.

3. New rain coat for Europe + my new favorite H&M leggings= happy Hannah

please ignore my face, selfies just aren't my thing.

4. Our neighbor got the most brutal TPing I've ever seen. And he's out of town, and we're in charge of taking care of their yard, so guess who was outside cleaning up 100 rolls of TP at midnight? ME!

this wasn't even half of it.

5. My favorite girls in the whole wide world graduated kindergarten. :( Before they move this July, I may just have to steal them. I love them to pieces.

xo
Hannah

Babysitting in the Numbers

sums up the night

 4 kids

1 dog

6 movie choices

1 wrestling match to decide which movie when I wasn't in the room

2 boys covered in chalk pain

4 hungry kids

1 pizza

1 bowl of Apple Jacks

4 bananas

2 apples

3 juicebags

7 gumballs

4 bowls of chocolate pudding

3 kids helping with the dishes

1 twin always crying

4 inches of water on the bathroom floor after a bath

1 bottle of soap squeezed in the bath to create

4,000 bubbles all over the place

15 minutes of bath time

2 types of detangler used

0 tears when brushing hair

2 pairs of pajamas

2 good older brothers hanging out downstairs

1 twin making 

1 dog go crazy with a ball

1 twin sobbing because the ball had to be put away for bed time

1 twin laughing at her sister crying for

20 minutes straight

1 happy twin climbing on the edge of the bunk bed

1 then not so happy twin split her lip

2 twins now crying

1 bleeding all over

1 realizing the emergency and wisely deciding her tears were for no good reason

3 blood stains

1 red wash cloth with an ice cube

1 judgement call if the split lip needed stiches

2 soothed girls ready for bed after 

30 minutes past their bedtime

3 stories told

2 water bottles brought up

6 hugs

1 light switch turned off

2 boys downstairs watching Tanked

1 friend of the lady sitting with them

2 rooms to quickly clean

30 dollars

2.5 quick hours

1 exhausted babysitter

xo

Hannah

Blessed

Happy Easter! Christos Anesti, He has risen indeed!

This past week was a reminder of all the good things in my life that I so often forget when busy and stressed....

Birthday surprises

and celebrations

Watching great movies all day with my mom that leave old songs in our heads

Movie days after sledding

The best pictures from a BF5ever

Exploring downtown Denver

and ending the day with lots of laughter at the Old Spaghetti Factory

Shopping/running errands with my mom all day...and laughing from pure exhaustion trying on pajamas on top of her clothes at Target

Another day just with my momma, my favorite- ending it with Wahoo's

Cleaning my closet and reorganizing all my clothes in OCD fashion

Purple loving little sister

Reading a great book in less than a day (you better believe I've got a lot to say about it too!)

Watching one of the strangest movies ever

Babysitting my favorite littles

Pictures for me from my cousin (btw, she made only me one! and told me I was her favorite! This is monumental!)

I was going to make use of my break and catch up on blogging- I've got a list of things to record. But I just let things roll, and made the best of each day, getting up by 9 and not going to bed until 12 because I was spending time with some of my favorite people. Life is really about enjoying the small things.

xo
Hannah

High Five for Friday!

I am so unexplicably happy that today is Friday. I plan on going to be before 10, and sleeping until 11. Time to play catch up on sleep... and AP Euro.

 1. My new diet- Starbucks cream cheese brownie and green tea- either sweetened with peach or classic syrup. Tennis makes me a very hungry girl.

2. This Caroline G. Shop beauty came this week and I could not be more excited!

 

3. First tennis match of the season and we won 8-0! Love my French foreign exchange student partner, she is seriously the funniest person you will ever meet!

 4. I go to the bathroom for less than a minute and I come back to find them playing with arrows, that have a nice sharp tip. So help me lord. They are the definition of double trouble!

5. Love me some Jedi. <3

xo

Hannah

For Ri

Life has been awfully busy lately. I haven't had a moment to catch my breath since we started back to school! I've got lots to blog about, and will catch up this weekend (because it's a FOUR day weekend! Oh yes!) So for now, here's my quick little update, as per request of a friend who's name starts with R and ends with iley.

An crazy, unexpected mini blizzard on Friday

A frozen Saturday

Being a fill-in mama for this little one

Icees after NHS even if it's 5 degrees out

And my new favorite songs...

 Florence + The Machine--Cosmic Love

Feist--My Moon, My Man

Lenka--Everything's Okay

xo

Hannah

A Midnight Concert in Bed

Every Friday, when I'm at school, I think I'm just going to go home and tackle as much homework as I can. Then, I get home... and once my shoes are kicked off and I sit down, I realize there's a low probability of any homework happening. 

Friday night, I was exhausted. I came home after a trip to the grocery store for doughnuts (that Brandon and Olivia convinced me they needed) and put on my big, fantastic, comfy tennis sweats. Oh those babies are the best. I lit my Christmas candle, and about fell asleep, but was interrupted by Brandon begging me to take him to meet his friends in Town Center. After that quick trip, I came home and read my blogs, pinned a bit, and watched this week's Grey's. I got dinner from Noodles & Company and packed my babysitting bag. I babysat until 11:30 and changed into my pajamas and brushed my teeth in record time. I was on Facebook right before I was going to fall asleep, but then I saw a post by Mindy Gledhill, one of my absolute favorite singers, saying we could watch her live performance at a shop in Japan on a said link, in thirty minutes. 

I managed to keep my eyes open for half an hour more, and was then entranced by the raw voice of Mindy Gledhill, as she sang some of my favorites. She played six songs, and ended with my favorite- just as I was hoping for. I was over the moon.

Crazy Love--Mindy Gledhill

So basically, I got to go to a Mindy Gledhill concert, in my PJs, in my warm bed. When she was in Japan and I was in Colorado. 

Life is awesome.

Capturing the moment

xo
Hannah

Why I Love My Brits

My favorite family I babysit for is without a doubt the E's. They are fantastic. For several reasons, but one primarily being they are from England. So they all speak in accents, and have their British living habits (such as calling dinner "tea" and calling the TV the "tele"). 

They are truly the best. Let me give you a better idea why.

They make lemon meringue pies for dessert, after tea. So good!

They have so many (good) books.

Shelves for traveling, reference books, classics, cooking, animals, nature, you name it!

They drink Squash, the most delicious drink.

It's like a citrusy water-based beverage that I could drink constantly.

This is the inside of their refrigerator. 

Healthy, yummy food galore!

Oh, and when you ask the kids what they want for a snack they say fruits, yogurt, or veggies. I LOVE THEM.

They also have a mini refrigerator just for drinks. 

I love all the options!

 

They wear house shoes (aka slippers) all the time.

They taught me how to make cinnamon popcorn, the best popcorn.

 

They scrape off my car when they get home, after it snows outside.

They have some pretty cool things around their house. 

I adore this oven mitt.

Their kids get into bed, with no arguments, whatsoever.

They are great little chefs.

We made candy cane sugar cookies last night-- recipe to come.

They leave sweet notes to their parents.

I also adore their children. J is very polite, and smart. We always make something in the kitchen (most recently, applesauce) and when I was tucking him in, I asked what he would like to make next time. He thought about it for awhile, and finally said that he would like it very much if I could show him how to cook a nice lunch for his birthday, in March. He was planning about four months ahead;) And he's reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Gosh I just love that! 

And there's sweet G. She is an angel. It was 9:30pm and I had just come downstairs from tucking them in. I was loading dishes in the dishwasher and thought I heard a noise, but thought I was being paranoid since I have been since I watched "Paranormal Activity 3". I turned around though, and there was G, just standing there! Man alive, the girl scared me to death! As soon as I saw her, she just broke down, and started sobbing. She said she didn't want me to leave (prior to tucking her in, she had told me that 'she just loved when I came to babysit'). Bless her soul! She just wanted to be hugged, and coaxed. We watched the "tele" as she was nestled up as close as can be to me. Afterwards, we went and I read to her, again, as she cuddled closely to me. I love her to pieces. 

They make me feel oh so appreciated, which is something that means so much to me. Last night, they gave me a precious Christmas gift. J painted the trinket box and G wrapped it up, and said she thought I would the store the gift card too. 

 The card was too darn cute.

I am so lucky to babysit for such a great family. They know how to make my day! I love them bunches!

xo

Hannah