Lyfe Updates

Ok wow has this blog become my emotion commotion journal this past month. Love that I get it all out, but also want you all to know I am truly not that dense of a person all the time. So time for a fun, life update post.

First and foremost, an ode to summer. Man do I miss it.

We had a very fun Girls Night (at my grandparents house lol) where we talked, ate lots of dessert, and played Cards Against Humanity (which I proudly won).

My family had fall break so they came to a pumpkin patch near Boulder, so I was able to meet them and escape school responsibilities for the afternoon.

We had a lot of fun at the petting zoo area  

I went home last weekend and it was absolute heaven. It felt so good to just be home and hanging out with my family. The first thing I did was drive straight to my nanny fam's house so I could see the kiddos. I got to spend some quality time with Josie and Luke while we waited for Syd to come home from school. I just love those kiddos. Later that night, we went to Olivia's last football game of the season. My mom and I spent Saturday redecorating the basement to make it more warm and homey. Sunday, we had some great family pics taken. 

He is getting SO big!

Love my little Jo

Then came "Halloweek". Wednesday night, I went to a YoungLife party and had a rocking good time tearing up the dance floor. YL parties are basically insane dance parties and I love them so much! Thursday night, Mack and I went with Jordan and Christine to their friend's house in Golden for a small party, where we danced and sucked at water pong (turnt college students, am I right?). Christine and Jordan dressed up as The Blue Man Group and were hilariously terrifying. Then Christine put on a Batman mask and it was just too good.

On Saturday night, we went to another YL party to again, tear up the dance floor.

Emma, Mackenz, and I were Phoebe, Monica, and Rachel from Friends. Not the most obvious of costumes, but easy and fun. Gotta love 90s style.

Fitbits for lyfe

Nailed it

Sophomore year has kept me busy and contemplative for sure. But I'm loving it! and even more, I'm loving that today is the start of THE CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!! You best believe I've been listening to holiday music all morning and planning how I'm going to decorate my room! Oh man, I am loving life.

xo
Hannah

Halloween

Halloween at college is something else. Especially when you go to a school widely known for it's partying. This whole week was just a ton an anticipation leading to the weekend. I began celebrating on Wednesday (wild, I know) and have truly enjoyed observing how insane these kids go.

Wednesday night was the night of the Young Life Halloween Party. It was at the Young Life House, which is on a beautiful piece of land. There was dancing, food, a bonfire, and pumpkin smashing. My costumes this year were extremely basic, but that's what happens when you go to college. I will certainly be more prepared next year and have a whole slew of costumes ready to go. I was Waldo, simple and easy. It was a ton of fun, especially getting down on the dance floor. Dances are one of the things I miss most about high school so I was so happy to be back in my element.

Mack the lumberjack, Steph the Greek goddess, and Waldo

10/10 would recommend axing pumpkins

 Thursday night was crazy on campus. That's when most people kicked off Halloweekend. Thirsty Thursday brings out crazy so the excitement of Halloween made things even more crazy. At about 10:30, Mackenzie, Mary, John, and I went on a driving adventure. Getting the keys to John's car was quite the ordeal and we were very close to not being able to drive anywhere but things took a change for the better and we were soon driving through the country. I always forget how there's a lot of farm land in Boulder. We settled on going to get some late night breakfast. We listened to music, which was so amazing because singing in the car is on my top five things I miss about home. Plus, Mary and John share the same taste in music as me and Mack so we were all very happy. The first IHOP we went to was closed, despite it saying on Google it was open 24/7. We decided to go to Village Inn. Surprise, that was also closed. Luckily, we found another IHOP close by that was for sure open 24/7. We got food and then drove back to Boulder, listening to Christmas music. By the time we got back, it was about 2am. Let's all just take a second to acknowledge how late I was out on a school night! I didn't end up falling asleep up 3, and had to be up at 7 because I had an 8am. That's college for ya!

This was a very popular tweet Friday morning. I could not agree more after Thursday's crazy night. Also I bet no one knows what movie this is from. MERMAIDS, one the best movies of all time.

Friday was a crazy, crazy day. I had three classes and saw all sorts of costumes. Two of my professors dismissed us from class 20 minutes early so that was quite the plus. After a much needed nap, Mackenzie came over (holler for having my roommate go home this weekend!) and we got ready. For our first festivity, I was a lumberjack and Mackenzie was a robber. We went trick or treating around my residence hall with EB, Steph, and Melissa. Afterwards, Mackenzie and I met up with John, Mary, and Mary's sister. It was then Mack decided to change costumes and be Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. We went a party on the Hill and it was so much fun! The Hill is quite the place to be on Halloween, or any weekend honestly. It gets very busy and crazy and you see people from all walks of life. We left the party pretty late and came back to my room to hang out. Mackenzie and I ate candy and then finally crashed. It was a great first college Halloween!

Shannon wins most creative costume! She's a pot brownie hahaha! CU Boulder for ya

I sure do love Shannon and Melissa

Crazy crazy

They're my favorites!

This describes our friendship perfectly.

John as Snape, Mack as Deb, and Mary as Michelle Duggar (HAHA!)

I'm sure that Halloweekend will continue on Saturday, but I will be hanging out with girls from my floor making caramel apples and watching Christmas movies. We've had our fair share of partying;)

xo
Hannah

Halloween

Being in bed with ice around my head is not really that fun. Unluckily, I feel sluggish, disgusting, and my mouth keeps bleeding. Luckily, I haven't gotten very swollen, I've watched 31 episodes of The Office (correction, 41 episodes), I've taken some nice little naps, and my mom has made me a ton of mashed sweet potatoes and homemade applesauce (my favorite!) I also have had a ton time to think and blog, so here is my second blog for the day (I feel like such an overachiever)

Halloween was great. It started off with a dash of anesthesia, 4 teeth removed, and bloody gauze in my mouth. Throughout the day, I took some infinity naps, ate about two bites of a milkshake, was visited during 6th off, and watched The Office. Then came the evening festivities.

Sometime around 6 (I really don't actually know when, I was out of it) the hoodlums came over.

mack with big babe liv

they're good fill-in big sisters

some dry ice and me sans wisdom teeth

aren't we adorable?

scooby doo crew

scooby doo crew: college years

adorable

love triangle

so presh

The evening consisted of pictures, laughter, and me being really, really drugged. I was white as a ghost as the result of barely eating and being loaded up on Vicodin, so I ate some sweet potatoes (or as Riley thought 'some nasty, disgusting baby food' and Jessica thought 'smashed pumpkin'), saw some trick-or-treaters, and went to bed by 9. It was my craziest Halloween yet... jk. Let the countdown begin until I can eat all the candy I stole from siblings!

xo
Hannah