Day 1

So I decided to steal something from my little sister Stef, that I think is totally fun. So for 30 days I get to document things about me. (Since no one reads this anyway, and eventually I will turn this into a book working for my journal)

Day 1:A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.

I HATE pictures of myself
since the best most recent picture I have of me is below I will forgo the picture on this one.

Fifteen Facts:

1. I come from a family of 10 kids. I love it and feel bad for people who don't have very many siblings.

2. I have over 100 first cousins!  Wish I could keep in touch with them all...well most of them.  Just Kidding!

3. I have run 1 marathon in my life and hoping I can soon say that I have ran 2!

4. I don't like change.

5. I don't handle taking medicine very well, it makes me really crazy! (See my first post from January 2011)  I
do and say things that I would not normally do.

6.  When I was a teenager I wanted to start a school for Bums...I thought it would be a great source of income.  My plan was to teach them how to be a good bum and then charge them 10% of their income for a month.

7. I LOVE working with teenagers.   I think they could be the greatest group of people in the world.

8. I am not domestic in any way.  I can't cook, sew, make cute crafty projects or bake. But I know people who do, and I am not afraid to call them for help.

9. I believe in fairy tales coming true and happily ever after.

10. I believe that anything worth having is worth working for.  Things that come to us easily are usually not fully appreciated.

11. When I grow up I want to be a Mom

12. When I was little I used to pretend among many other things that I was Reba, and I was married to George Strait.

13. I wish that I could be described as a charitable person.

14.  I often have the best of intentions, but rarely follow through.  I like to celebrate when I do!

15. I love Music. Most often my thoughts in my head or my communications are through a song.

Hope you are doing well.

Rustin...

In case you didn't already know...I am one lucky lady. One of the reasons I am so lucky is because I have sweet nephews and nieces.  In February I was privileged to go to my sweet nephew Rusty's baptism.  He is such a sweet little kid (most of the time).  I always feel so honored to be part of these sweet kids life.

Jeremy's Family

Flashing our signature "I LOVE YOU" Sign...Specifically for Aunt Kristin today

Grandpa and Grandma with a few of the best kids in the world...I was so happy to see Colton there

Grandma & Grandpa with Rustin 

There are not many things that warm my heart like seeing these kids. It brought tears to my eyes as we pulled up to Jer's house and my sweet little Colton came running out of the house to welcome me.  I sure do miss these kids and wish I had more opportunities to spend time with them.

RJL - I am so proud of the choice that you made to get baptized.  I know that Heavenly Father is also very proud of you.  Keep doing what you are supposed to and you will continue to be blessed.

Lisa Mahan… The Great!

My Friend Lisa Mahan, who is absolutely wonderful asked me to help her with her wedding. It was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed it. It isn’t the easiest planning a wedding for a girl who hates wedding dresses and who doesn’t have her wedding planned out in every detail, but I had a blast! Thanks for letting me help Lisa.

I also helped with her bridal shower, which was basically just a big party. They trusted me enough to make Cafe Rio Salads, (Thanks Amy for the help and the vote of confidence).  Thanks Stacy, Kristi & Holly for helping me.

(Becca, Stacy, LISA, Coral, & Rylie)

Her wedding reception was a lot of fun. We found a cute reception center where the woman in charge was an absolutely wonderful lady. It was fun to work with her, and she made the event perfect!

The Square Cupcakes, made by Carissa from Carissa's Cakes.  They were so yummy and darling! And Carissa is so great to work with.   

Lisa always joked and said she wanted a tie-dye wedding dress… Well WE couldn’t find one so we decided to make her a tie-dye garter instead.

PS… This could be my new hobby. It was actually really fun, and not to messy. If you want instructions on how to do it let me know, it was super super easy.

I feel so very blessed to be part of Lisa & Hondo’s life. They are wonderful people who are great examples to me. I am so happy for them.

Here is a fun pics from after the reception... I am kind of bummed, I got some with Lisa and Hondo in them, but my eyes are closed in all of them.  Typical for me.  

Coral & her little Nib... That's Me.  She requested that I stand next to her during the reception because I made her feel tall.  

Proof that I am short.

Coral, the Niblet, Rylie & My good buddy Wes

Love you guys!  

Still don't have time or creativity but I LOVED this

When I was in the YW presidency we had a darling lady come speak to us about being our best self.  She was so inspiring so I was in HEAVEN when I found her blog.  She is very creative and very inspirational.  Here is something that I took from her blog.  http://rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com

Please go check it out for yourself, you will love it!

Make the world better today... Go Ahead, YOU can do it.  I have faith in you!

A preview of what's to come

It has been a busy two months! Really busy!! I am not in school this semester, and in January I thought....This will be so nice to be able to relax. Well life has a great way of keeping you busy doesn't it.

I really planned on blogging tonight, but I am not feeling very creative so here is a preview of what's to come

Lisa's Bridal Shower

Rustin's Baptism
Sledding (Redneck Style)
Weekend with Ryann

Me attempting to be domestic and crafty

A possible new hobby

Lisa's Wedding

and the No Snow 5K indoor run while pushing kids in a stroller!
Hope you are all doing well! Please let me know if I can do anything for you.

One of my loves in life

Since I claim the ownership of this blog I get to choose what I write about … Right! 

Well today I want to brag about my cute little sister:

Hermana Penrod

(Don’t worry boys she will be home in November)

Kris is serving in Chile right now, and I is loving it..  It is such a highlight for me every week to hear how her testimony is growing.  I can honestly say I think she is going to come back as a spiritual giant. 

Last week I was reading in the Book of Mormon in Jacob 5 – And I came across this scripture that made me think of her:

71  And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to, and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; and if ye labor with your might with me ye shall have joy in the fruit which I shall lay up unto myself against the time which will soon come.

I am so very grateful for the blessings that are coming to my life because she is choosing to serve the Lord. She is such a good example to me and I love her so very much! 

Here is a part  from one of my favorite letters of hers:

Sunday was an amazing day but also a crazy day.  Why?  Because JAVIERA ALLENDE GOT BAPTIZED.  Her parents are less active of years and we found them one day not to long after we got to this sector and were out knocking doors looking for investigators.  Well the great news is the family is now active and Javiera is baptized but Sunday was a mess.  Her dads records were not here and it took the assistants to the president calling someone to get them here.  Well the family went out of town thursday night and were not coming back till saturday.  Friday Night the bishop called us looking for them because he had finally recieved the records for Jorge her father.  Well Saturday night came and he still was not interviewed so they told us that Elder Smith was going to be doing the baptism.  Sunday Morning Everything is all set and ready to go.  After the meetings we are out taking pictures with Javiera and Elder Smith all dressed in white when the ward mission leader walks up with Hermano Allende and says he is going to baptize her.  THe bishop had interviewed him during the last meeting and we were all set to go.  So Both he and elder smith changed clothes and then Elder Smith and the Ward Mission leader taught him the prayer and what he had to do in about ten minutes.  After this we went in and found out that the ward mission leader had lost the program we had given him for the baptism and decided to change everything well we were able to set a few things right but it was so confusing and disorganized.  Hermana Miguel kept saying I promise that every baptism is not like this one.  But all the confusion of who was gonna baptise the poor girl was worth it when you saw both of them enter the water and then hug each other after the baptism.  I think it was one of the happiest moments of my life it was amazing and so wonderful to see her come out of the water and know that she was clean and pure of everything.  Hermano Allende had to baptize her twice because he was afraid to do and her hand stayed out the first time.  And then of course after this Javeria decided to go swimming in the font.  Silly girl.  When she bore her testimony afterwards the spirit was so strong it was great and worth coming on a mission just for that.  THe whole family has changed so much since we first met them and started teaching them and to me this is proof that Heavenly Father knows us, knows where we are, and what we need.  He sends people to find us just at the right moment.

Keep up the good work Hannah!  

***** After I did this blog I got an e-mail from my Dad, which said that Kris was going to be working as a trainer, Training a new sister who is coming to the Mission.   The letter said She has been chosen because of her example of love, obedience, ability and personal commitment to missionary work.

Starting out on the left foot...

This morning I got lost.  Well actually I woke up lost.  In my house. I took some NyQuil last night before I went to bed to try and help me with a fever and flu bug I have been battling.  I forgot to lock my door to my room.  I go crazy when I take medication. Apparently I got up sometime during the night and went to another bedroom to sleep. Probably running away from the spiders that were trying to attack me in my dreams.  I don't remember.  I didn't know where I was when I woke up, and I screamed. Really loud.  Glad I am home by myself so no one could hear me.  Go Ahead and laugh.  It is funny now.