the rain in spain stays mainly in the plane

As a little girl, I remember sitting in my car-seat tracing with my fingers the rain drops that ran down the window hitting other drops along the way. I absolutely hated mom listening to radio talk shows because it would muffle the sound of rain hitting the roof of the car. And I remember being jealous when my little brother got a new pair of rain boots, as I still wore the hand me down boots. For my 16th birthday I got rain boots and an umbrella, and to continue the theme for my 17th birthday, I received the 60th anniversary edition of Singin' in the Rain. I guess you could say, some things just never change.

One of my favorite things now, is driving in the rain at night. Even if it means going 5 under to stay safe. The pitter-patter on my roof, the lamp lights blaring into the street puddles, the wipers dancing across the windshield, the fresh smell wafting through the air vents... These are the moments that make time stop. These are the moments right around the corner.

Autumn in the pacific northwest is the best. I'm so excited.

happy halloween!

Today marks 12 years of me living in Gig Harbor. Through these years (on Halloween) Mom has passed out stickers, oranges, lollipops with crickets, MY CANDY (when all else has failed), honey, (and yes, there has been talk about doing chicken broth!) ...No wonder kids don't trick or treat here; I wouldn't even trick or treat here! :) Happy halloween you little sugar infested goobers.

Oh yes, and happy bestfrieniversary to Olivia. I don't know what I'm going to do without you next year. :(

the season of pumpkin

The way to a mans heart is through his stomach; the way to Hannah's heart is through breakfast.

(And this time I think I met the standard kitchen health code by wearing pants... you're welcome!)

Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

1 1/2 cups milk

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 egg

2 Tbsp. vegetable oil

2 Tbsp. vinegar

2 cups all-purpose flour

3 Tbsp. brown sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. basking soda

1 tsp. ground allspice

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp. ground ginger

Directions

1. In a bowl, mix together the milk, pumpkin, egg, oil and

vinegar. Combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder,

baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, ginger and salt in a separate 

bowl. Stir into the pumpkin mixture just enough to combine.

2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium 

high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle using 

approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides

and serve hot.

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GOBBLE 'TIL YOU WOBBLE

Finally here!! The day where I can eat as MuCh as I want and no one can stop me because everyone else is doing exactly the same thing! Motto: 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Yesterday, day 3 in Park City, I got to go tubing for the first time with my familia. It was AWESOME. Ryan even said it's probably one of the best hills he's been down! We raced on our tummys, and spun in groups, laughed and screamed, it was absolutely delightful! Too bad we didn't get any pictures ): cause between riding up the conveyor belt, waiting in line, then taking a lift up to the tippy top of the hill, we had ZERO time to grab the camera and take pictures! We had 2 hours there and only got 5-6 rides. But it was memorable!

This would be my family... Too picky for turkey. So we're having some type of other meat like steak or something. Not to worry, mom is buying me turkey of some sort... But seriously, they claim it's always "too dry" PSHHHH. Girl please. 

This morning, instead of being in my hometown and running the 10k turkey trot which I had been practicing for, I'm sitting in front of a TV watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade eating yummy chocolate chip bread, and it was hilarious watching Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter) dancing around cause I guess he's in some musical now... Then there was a depressing/guilt-trippy commercial which i can't find now, but it had Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams, Morgan Freeman and Luis Fonsi on a childrens cancer research hospital about how all kids want for Christmas are to get better... Makes you feel kinda REALLY greedy.... AND OH MY GOSH, SANTA IS ABOUT TO COME DOWN 34TH STREET IN MANHATTAN! My youngest brother, Spencer, claims that it's just a "fake" Santa Clause... Whatever. You know I sat on Santa's lap this year already! He gave me a lollipop and denied my wish of a snowy Christmas... But now I'm just rambling...

So anyway, have a thankful Thanksgiving, eat lots, and be happy! (:

This is the only picture up on the internet so far of Santa Clause from the parade. BEST Santa I've EVER seen! And Mrs. Clause was there too! She's never done one of the parades before! Seriously though, they were adorable! He even KISSED her! Oh gosh. I want to meet him.

hAlLoWeEn 2011!

For Halloween, I made this lovely tutu as part of my costume of being a fairy... The whole point of this was to be able to have a cheeper costume and still be able to have fun with it.... Yeah, never think like that. You always find one more thing you need to add to make your costume perfect, and well, it just adds up!

 

I successfully did my own hair to be some sort of messy something or rather which i thought turned out splendidly! From far away it looked pro, and people kept asking me who did it! ...My sisters would be proud.

 

I agreed to pass out candy for the little children in my town with my best friend... So we had a lovely time together getting ready.

The finished results, heading to the harbor (: 

Something important to note is that today marks the 11th year Olivia and I met and became best friends, which is also the same day I moved into my house. So this is always a fun way to celebrate our friendship anniversaries! 

Last minute pumpkin carvings are in order. If I was asked to make one face to represent all of the faces of my siblings... This would be the face that describes us best. Pathetic?

This picture would be perfect if I had my wings, but I accidently left them at a friends house! Oops! (:

After freezing our toes off in the crisp Autumn air, Olivia bought us dinner, and we laughed so hard we were crying, well, I was crying, because of the lovely game "1-2-3 BE UGLY!" I always win this game... and I refuse to put up the picture where i win.... So this one is where Olivia won!

This was a few days back, I improved my hair since then, instead of that awkward part down the middle, but we had to get the family pics before our party we needed to attend.

It all boils down to... 

1.) I enjoy Halloween, and going all out for it!

2.) I love my home and hometown

3.)I love my best friend! Pals for life!

4.) I do love dance parties by myself to Thriller and Monster Mash.

5.) I felt odd being behind the bowl giving instead of receiving the cavity prone candies that rot my mouth... yet somehow I probably ate just as much candy as usual!

6.) Pumpkin Waffles. De-lish!

7.) My favorite costume tonight, was a 12ish year old boy dressed up something like this: 

Chick Magnet! Get it?! (:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Grub.

My life is a series of unfortunate events.

One example of this is how last night in my delicious cooked cauliflower, I found not 1, but 2: 

shriveled-cooked-dead ...GRUBS. First time in my LIFE I've lost my appetite and wanted to throw up.

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Definitely uglier than The Lion King made them out to be.

Otherwise, this foggy morning has been lovely.  42 degrees out and it's looking like Autumn. After seminary, my mom cheered me up with a trip to Starbucks to ease the stress of a study filled day. Upon getting my carmel apple spice and pumpkin muffin, I looked past the drive-thru window to see a lady waving her hand at me... Odd. But it was my next-door-neighbor/best friends mommy. So I ran to the parking lot and said good morning to my best friend. (: 

Good start to the day. 

Now, it's time to buckle down and study. Ugh.