Happy Easter!

This past weekend started early and was filled with a busy but fun sequence of events!

This past Thursday night, we had the Momentum Easter Service (pictures to come!)

Friday, Dad, Mom, Jer, Rach and myself went to Taylor Road Baptist Church for the simulcast of Secret Church with David Platt (AMAZING!)

Saturday was the church Easter egg hunt, and Sunday was the Easter service!

It was so nice to be home for longer than a day, and I loved every minute I had with my family!

I am so blessed and so thankful to be a part of such a wonderful family!

Dad, me, and Mom!

My beautiful parents!

Twins?! I wish...Rach and I

Dad and I!

Annie and Mom! Love her :)

Jeremy and I

I just noticed I didn't get any pics with my sweet Maw Maw! This time last year, maw maw had been diagnosed with melanoma, and received surgery to have it removed just weeks before Easter Sunday. By the Lords grace the doctors got it all, and she is doing better than ever!

Maw Maw,

I am so thankful for you, and am so blessed to be your granddaughter! What an amazing YOUNG (yes I said young!) woman you are. It is incredible to hear and see all the Lord has done in your life over the last twenty years! I could not have asked for a more perfect grandmother, and thank God every day for putting you in my life!!

I'm looking forward to spending some good time with you this summer while I'm home!! I love you!

I hope you all had a wonderful, Christ filled Easter weekend!

HE IS RISEN!!!

In awe of His unending love,

Hannah

"It's a photo Shoot!" Formal 2011

Saturday, April 9th 2011 Chi Omega had Formal in downtown Montgomery at the Alley Bar.

Before we took of towards montgomery, Candace Nelson was so sweet and offered to take pictures of us girls! Such a fun day, and I am so blessed to know these young women! You girls have changed my life! So thankful to know all of you!!

Candace, thank you so much for taking these pics! What a sweet way to always remember our college days! You are such a talented photographer, not to mention an amazing mother who I admire so much ! LOVE YOU

To say this formal was amazing is an understatement! Catered by Moe's Southwest Grill, Brusters Ice Cream and to top it off, we danced the night away on a rooftop!!

Definitely a night I will always remember!

With love,

Hannah

A Dessert worth sharing...and SUPER easy!

Blueberry Cobbler!

It is Delicious and Oh so very easy!

Here are the ingredients you need and some pics of the steps along the way:

2 cans...

1 box...

Dump 2 cans of blueberry filling into the pan

Sprinkle the cake mix on top of the filling (yes, all of it!)

Cut and place 1 1/2 sticks of butter on top

Bake for about 1 hour at 350 degrees...

Allow it to cool...

And if you're like me and love hot and cold together, add some vanilla ice cream!

It's so good we could have eaten it with these!!

So good and very easy! I will warn you though, it's VERY addicting and may make you want to work out after!

Which brings me to my next picture... I have never been much of a runner, but within the last year or so I am learning that I may be a fan after all...

I decided to run in my first 5k this past saturday, and completed it in just under 35 minutes! I wasn't trying to win, just was proud to run it without passing out! Thank you Lord for a healthy body and the ability to run! He is good!

Sadly I forgot to take pics at the race but I did take some myself...don't think i'm vein, I just wanted to capture this moment! haha

Hope you all have had a wonderful weekend!

-Han

Starting with the basics!

Since having moved off campus and into a place of my own I have been cooking, and baking a lot more! Nothing out of the norm, but you have to start somewhere right?!

Here are some pics...

Fruit Tray...Clearly not much was called for, but presentation is fun too! :)

Mixed Salad inspired from Plutos in Roseville, CA...I literally had one of these almost every week while living in California this past summer! DELICIOUS!!

(Spinach, chicken, corn, red peppers, kidney beans, black beans, pecans, green peas, and walnut raspberry vinaigrette!)

Garlic Potatoes ...Yummy!!

And for the last picture (although it looks like I cheated) they were so very scrumptious!

Whole, Grain, Blueberry muffins!

...The beginning

Waiting...

So worth the wait...

Like I said, it's no gourmet meal, but i'll get there! One step at a time!

P.s. Check out this blog for some great recipes...

www.tastykitchen.com

With love,

Hannah

Auburn!

Samford Hall @ Auburn... What a beautiful campus!

For those of you wondering, although I am a Troy Trojan, and have absolutely loved my time at Troy, Auburn will always hold a very special place in my heart. Since I can remember Dad taught Rach and I to say War Eagle, and I would often switch between wearing my minnie mouse costume and Auburn cheerleader outfit to Preschool and Kindergarten. P.s. Just a side note, I have the most amazing mother, she never fought me on it, but would allow me to wear either as long as they were clean! My solution, rotate every other day! Thank you mom for your patience with me! Needless to say, I now love variety in my clothes :)

I'm noticing I blog most on what's been happening on the weekends, so that is where I will begin. This past weekend I went to Auburn to go stay with my friend Courtney. Courtney and I met in 7th grade when we cheered together, and have been best friends ever since. To top it off, one of my other best friends, Josie who I have known since Kindergarten also came and we cooked dinner and hung out! I am so blessed to have these two young ladies in my life! Thank you Lord for such great friendships!

As mentioned above...We made dinner...4 cheese pasta (Yummy!!)

To continue the cooking theme, we made homemade pizza on saturday night...

Before

After...

Needless to say...It was DELICOUS!

It was so good to go spend time with some of my best friends! Looking forward to more weekends spent together soon!

With love,

Han

Girls Night!

This past friday night was declared Girls night! Mom, Rach, and I went to dinner at Zoes Kitchen, then went back to the house where we painted, watched a movie, and just caught up! I am so blessed to have such Godly women in my life! They are such a blessing and I do not know where I would be without either of them. Your guidance, discernment, and unconditional love has meant so much and I cannot thank God enough for making me part of such a wonderful family!

Rach surprised me earlier that night and gave me this for my bathroom....She is so talented!

As you can see, it was the perfect finishing touch! :)

Although the goal was for us to all paint, we decided Rach was so good, we put her to work and entertained while we watched! here is the finishing product! She really has a gift for this and I am trying to talk her into doing this on the side (Encourage her!!) I really think she could do well!

And Finally, Thanks to my wonderful sister, my room is now complete! Love you!

P.s. And as promised, I took a picture just to prove how entertaining my music class is...

That's right, we got to play the xylophones! MawMaw, in case you are reading this, I immediately thought of you! I didn't realize this until recently, but my grandmother used to play the xylophone in her high school band! Pretty cool!

Hope you all are having a wonderful week, will be back soon!

Until then, I will leave you the cry of my heart...

"The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The Statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple."

-Psalm 19:7 (NIV, bold emphasis, my own )

Recap of the week!

This past weekend/week has been full of many adventures...To begin, My best friend Janie and I got to go lead a group of girls for Disciple now at Summerville Baptist Church in Phenix City, Alabama. The weekend was so much fun, and as wonderful as it was to lead the girls, I found myself being refreshed and renewed in a whole new way! God is so good! I can't say it enough!!

Here are some pics from the weekend...

Some of my sweet Sr. High girls :)

Janie and her group of Jr. High Girls

Brandi, One of the biggest highlights to my whole weekend! Such a joy to be around!

Janie and I! So glad we were able to lead together!

It really was such a great weekend to get to know the youth at Summerville and encourage them as some began to investigate and others fall more and more in love with Jesus!

As the weekend came to a close, Janie and I headed back to Troy where we hit the ground running with school work. For those of you who don't know I am an Elementary Education major, and am beginning to feel it more this semester than ever!

These are the classes I am taking this semester:

Language and Literacy, Integrating Physical Education, Integrating Music, Integrating Art, and Children's Literature.

Wait...I know what you're thinking, they sound easy, and they are so much fun, but they all require a lot of effort and work. Of all my classes, Music is by far the most entertaining! So far we have made home made instruments, ( I made a guitar and tambourine) we are learning to play the recorder, and the most recent assignment...Making puppets! Not only did we have to bring our new friends to class, but we had to lead the class in song, using them! haha oh how i have really gone back to my childhood memories! Who could complain though?! I get to sing with puppets for a grade!

Meet Marvin the Monkey and Priscilla the Parrot...

I'll definitely be sure to keep you posted on my adventures to becoming an Elementary Ed teacher! I have a feeling, many more projects are ahead!

On another note, I have been cooking!! Sadly, I have been forgetting to take pictures, but I did manage to get a few tonight!

Simple but oh so Tasty!

Chicken and Pepper pasta, with Caesar Salad

Chocolate Chip Muffins for the leadership team :)

From a weekend of discipleship, fun classes, and great fellowship it has been a wonderful week! Looking forward to this weekend! Mom, Rachel, and I are having girls night! Can't wait!

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Blessings,

Han