{Giving Thanks} Friendship All Over

I am thankful for friendship in many places. College has really shown me the beauty of friendship in many places. I have friends at home, still in high school working their way to rich futures; friends all over the country and state, from Denver to Fort Collins to Illinois to Idaho; and I have friends right here in Boulder, who are new but it feels like we have been friends for ages.

This past week, I have gotten to be with friends from all over.

On Wednesday, the high school choir came up and Mackenzie and I got to see Evan. Evan has always been a great friend to us, which is why we loovvveee him as Riley's boyfriend!

On Thursday night, I was in my room, snapchatting Sierra. She had just gotten a card I sent and I was going to call her to catch up. Before I could pick up the phone to call her, it was already ringing, as she was calling me! She was headed home for the weekend and was wondering if she could pay a visit to good ol' CU! Of course I said yes! So on Friday night, Sierra came here to Boulder and we were able to catch up and show her a bit of our stomping ground. It started to rain so we didn't get to stay out too late, so we resorted back to my dorm and watched Pitch Perfect while catching up on life. It was so, so wonderful to see her!

Saturday, I made caramel apples with some of the girls from floor. We did a lot of white girl dancing and had a ton of laughs- they are the best floor mates a girl could ask for. I feel so lucky to have made such wonderful friends here!

And of course, I am always thankful for the five minute away friendship of Mack. What would I do without her?

New favorite picture.

I know that wherever I go, friendship will be there. It is a cornerstone for us as humans, and a wonderful one at that.

xo
Hannah

An Adult

As of January 6th, one of my very best friends is an adult. On that fantastic first day back to school after Christmas break, Sierra turned 18! So as I finally catch up with some blogging, I'd like to share with you some fun facts about the one and only Sierra!

• Sierra has ichthyophobia (look it up;))
• Sierra has a serious addiction to Flaming Hot Cheetos
• She looooovvvvvveeeessss to Snapchat, and her water bottle :)
• Sierra is known for all the places she has peed (Jessica's car and Mackenzie's basement to name a few)
• Sierra loves the color purple
• Sierra is a three sport athlete this year... cross country, swim, and track!

These are just the basics of Sierra. She is one of the funniest, fastest, happiest people you will ever meet and I am so lucky to call her my friend! What would I do without my APES and Calc partner?!

So for Sierra's birthday, while she was at swim practice, Riley, Mackenzie, and I decided to give her a surprise. We bought her some of her favorite things - Hot cheetos, caramel apple pops, skittles, sour patch kids, and men's deodrant (because doesn't everyone love that?). We blew up 18 balloons and wrote little notes on each one. Then the three of us went and hid in her closet until she got home. As soon as she came up, we jumped out and surprised her, it was great. We hung out with our favorite birthday girl and then all had to go home to do homework. It was so much fun to surprise her, it's one of my favorite things to do:)

riley loves balloons

 a glimpse into the future??

oh how i love them

 HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY SIERRA, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

xo
Hannah

Giving Thanks 16/30

November 16// Today I am thankful for high school football games. Emphasis on the high school. You see, I actually really don't understand football. I just cheer when everyone else does or someone from my school has the ball;) Haha but in all honesty, I've gotten a lot better at understanding the game, but some of it still confuses the heck out of me.

Our high school is pretty darn amazing at football, at least in my modest opinion. We've only lost one game this year (to a private school that recruits, lame) and now we are on to the semifinals! Today's game was about 30 minutes away, so Sierra, Mackenzie, and I all drove out together. I've decided I love long drives with my friends. There's always lots of talking, singing, and it's a grand time. We got to the game at the start of the second quarter and we were down 0-3. It's never fun losing. And then we scored a touchdown so we were no longer losing:) The game went on and it was the final quarter. We were up 13-9. All of a sudden, there's two minutes left in the game and the other team has the ball. Stress was HIGH. They had the chance to score a touchdown twice but with only 43 seconds left on the clock, we got the ball and won the game. Holy shoot it was great!!! I am so proud to be a Grizzly. I didn't get any pictures from the game but let me set the picture for you... Sierra, Mackenzie, and I bundled up wearing white shirts as the wind was blowing like crazy and it was cold and none of us had hats or gloves, freezing our heads off but screaming and shouting as loud as we could.

xo
Hannah

Up All Night, the Sierra and Hannah Version

Last night was the big One Direction concert, and basically every preteen and teenage girl in suburban Colorado was there. Every teenage girl except for Sierra and I, that is. So while everyone else was screaming their heads off for five guys, we were screaming our heads off singing this song, drinking Icees, chia water, and lots of other much more fun things!

The night began at King Soopers, buying Sierra's favorite food, dry ramen noodles, and chia seeds. Because those two things most definitely go together;) We added some chia seeds to our water to create the most interesting concoction, chia seed water. Chia seeds have tons of health benefits. They are full of protein, iron, calcium, and tons of other minerals. The best part is they're flavorless, but they do have a gel-like texture when added to water. Sierra and I gagged at that for a while.

i thought they looked like tadpole eggs, sierra thought they looked like embryos

We forged on to 7/11 for snacks and slurpees. In my opinion, gas stations are the mecca of teenagehood (like my made up word?). You can get cheap food and cheap slurpees/soda so it's all good. Plus there's always interesting employees who are slightly frightening, but humorous because of how strange they are. (S/O to Patrick at Circle K) We then played the "passenger closes their eyes and has to figure out where we are" game, and Sierra was wonderful at.

For the next hour, we drove like creepers through neighborhoods, trying to figure out how to get from one main road to the other main road on the opposite side of the neighborhood. We were not as successful as we could have hoped for:(

Afterwards, we found a park and went to the playgroud. To be honest, it was scary as heck. There was no lights on and I'm fairly positive that something/someone was in a log on the playground. We sat on the coolest swing thing ever and had our own private One Direction concert. But then we went back to the car because it was creeping me out. The sound of the swings blowing in the wind reminded me too much of The Conjuring so it was time to peace out.

Because food is always good, we went to a fabulous restaurant that serves a global cuisine. It was very classy, and we were the only people there so we were treated like royalty. I must say, pancakes are just divine at 10:30pm. We're so lucky to have such a cultured restaurant that stays open late. ;)

Sierra and I then listened to music in my car for about an hour, and talked about boys, because you might as well when you're 17. We sang and talked a lot, it was just good. I love time with my lovely Sierra <3 We finally left and went home around midnight. It was quite the adventurous night, and we both agreed there's no way any concert could be as fun!

Thanks for a fun night of adventure Sierra! xoxoxoxo

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

The Adventurous Adventures of Riley, Jess, and Sierra

Today, we have one of my favorite things ever, a guest post. I love guest posts because 1) they give this blog some different character and 2) I don't have to spend the time writing the post hahaha. But I don have to format it all so that kinda sucks. Oh well, so be it. Today we have a Jess, who has contributed here before. Here's her past post- here (I feel like she did another but maybe I'm dreaming)! Thank you Jess!

Hello readers of Hannah’s blog you were probably expecting some deep and insightful post but that’s not what this is. BUT DON’T PANIC!!! Hannah will be back posting faster than you can say “Man Alive!”
My name’s Jessica/Jessie/Jess but you can call me Jess. You’ve probably seen me make a few appearances on Hannah’s blog. I’m the one that looks like I’m on drugs half the time….

Example 1:

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Ok you get the idea. Anyways… I’m here to tell you about a magical journey that Riley, Sierra and I went on.  Prepare to get mentally blown!

It all started on the night of March 21st. School had just ended for spring break, and I was really really bored. Then I got a call from Sierra and Riley asking if I wanted to go on an adventure, and I said yes and I went to pick them up!


After I picked them up, we went to the park to walk through the tunnels. It was pretty much the coolest thing ever. Riley couldn’t possibly hold on to me any tighter, and I was too short to see out of the storm drain, but it was still awesome! I can’t wait to go again (when it’s warmer and I’m wearing better shoes) and walk the whole thing!
 
Then, Riley and Sierra made me drive their short-cut past “BDubbs” house. That was not my favorite part, but it made them happy so whatevs.

Then we went to Target to get toilet paper so we could teepee one of our friends. We ended up buying toilet paper, gummy bears, Zours, chocolate pomegranate things, a poster, glow sticks, a small set of silverware for babies, and a giant spoon. When we checked out, the lady couldn’t stop talking about the big spoon. I told her that our friend was scarred of spoons and we were going to hide the spoon in her bed. I have no idea where that came from. Then Sierra and Riley were talking about spooning with the spoon and the lady freaked out and said we shouldn’t know what that was even though she was only like 2 years older than us….
 
And in the Target parking lot I almost had a heart attack because my car wouldn’t start omg.
 
Speaking of heart attack, here were the songs of the night. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdlEGQk_8TE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHRkHFxD-xY
 
Mackenzie  was out of town and she was coming home late that night so we decided we should make her presents. So we went to the park and sat on the sidewalk and made a poster for her. P.S. if you swallow gummy bears whole it feels so cool going down your throat #justsayin
 
I don’t have a picture of the poster and I’m too lazy to find one but basically we are freaking hilarious and the whole poster was based on the theme of German spoons
 
Ohh also watch this because it basically summed up the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc8Amz5D8CU
(PS watch the Adventurous Adventures of One Direction by Mark Parsons if you’re into that stuff you’ll laugh very hard like HAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)
 
Then we went to Mackenzie’s and we did the most polite teepeeing ever. There was hardly a mess to clean up. You’re welcome. 

 

#coloradosaysrelax

When we’re famous and our fans have photoshop this picture is going to haunt Sierra forever…

Riley and Sierra wrapped as a mummy

Da mummy

 

Finished product

After that we realized Mackenzie wouldn’t be home for like an hour and a half so we needed a way to kill time. That’s where the glow sticks come in.

We drove around looking like we were on crack with toilet paper tied around our heads and glow sticks sticking out.

We went to Hannah’s house and we wrote “Baby you light up my world like nobody else” and left it on her doorstep with some glow sticks and some chocolate pomegranate things. We drove away, but then we went back and hung out at her house for a while. That was cool.

When we went to visit Hannah she told us about the fabulous Mountain Dew things at Taco Bell so we left immediately to go get some.

We ordered 3 Mountain Dew things, a nacho cheese Dorito taco, and a cool ranch Dorito taco. When we paid, I wrapped a gummy bear inside the money. The guy was like “is this for me?” and I was like “yeah you can have it” and he was like “thank you” ahahahahaha

P.S. the tacos were definitely not as good as they look on the commercials

But the Mountain Dew things were kick butt 9/10 would recommend

Then we went and sat outside Mack’s house waiting for her to get home. Except it took a lot longer than we thought. And while we were creepily sitting out in front of her neighbor’s house, her neighbor came out and scared the shizz out of us because it was just a dark figure starring at us. We knew we couldn’t just leave because that would look shady, so Sierra bravely ran to Mackenzie’s porch and pretended to drop something off so we wouldn’t look like creepers. Then we left and parked in front of an elementary school because that’s less weird.

Finally, Mackenzie came home! She was very excited to see her present. Or at least I thought she was. She could have just thought we were annoying white girls the world may never know.
 
Then I dropped off Riley and Sierra and went back home. Best night ever. Ok not ever but definitely in the top 5 I mean nothing can top the Ed Sheeran concert ya know.

Thanks for allowing to post on this blog sorry I’m not as good at Hannah and this was not very insightful but omg here I’ll write a quote to fill up your spiritual and emotional happiness.
“You may not be plastic, but you sure are fantastic” – L. W. Tomlinson

Peace 

xo
Hannah

My Clique

For an added effect to this post, please listen to this song in the background

Last night was the Winter Dance! There's not much to say, the pictures say it all.

xo
Hannah