whatever you are, be a good one.--abraham lincoln

congratulations andie! since my little sister graduated and she came to my graduation, i did the decent thing and endured a 5 hour layover in the denver airport and arrived 1am the morning of her graduation. i love airports! they have chairs...

anyways, she looked gorge the day before i arrived at the commencement ceremony and it's a good thing she got some pics because it was stormy the day of her school's graduation.

a cap and gown has never looked better!

after the ceremony we got our shop on and our eat on and mom got pretty artsy with the flowers at temple square. watch out dave! momdoesmarigolds.com is coming soon.

cheers! $12 pomegranate lemonade. worth it. tasted like sour patch kids.
perfect timing.
sisters by chance. friends by choice.

p.s. congrats on grad school. now you need to find a grad school hottie.

loves it.

i love this skirt so much. i do not love the price. please find me a perfect smell alike. xoxo

kate spade

happy easter!

we hope everyone had an eggcelent easter. we were sad we weren't able to celebrate with our families, but it okay. the easter bunny sent us the best easter basket ever! it was full of all of our favorite chocolates and black licorice treats. tyler also sent us some awesome pistachio? fudge. i'm not sure if it is fudge or fancy soap, but it's the thought that counts. thanks for buying 2lbs of it! this picture is us with our basket. hansen tradition to pose with your goodies. also, check out my new pillows! i got so bored with my old ones i made some new ones.

if you look closely in the mirror you can see general conference. it was a bonus easter this year. general conference and easter sunday, i prefer regular church on easter sunday. i wish that the church would move conference to the christmases that happen to fall on sunday! christmas church is the worst, especially when it's in the morning! also we had to work in the family history center library on conference easter. bogus! but i did find out i'm 1/4 irish. who would have guessed?

worst spring break ever!

david had spring break a few weeks ago and he got to spend it by going back to california with me for my grandma's funeral. it was sad, but it was nice seeing all of my cousins on my dad's side and spending time with my family. my mom is like the family picture queen and made everyone take pictures that no one wanted to take, but it ended up turning out pretty cool.

this picture is all of my cousins on my dad's side in order from youngest to oldest. the youngest is 12 and the oldest is 30something. i tried to pin down the exact age, but brett was elusive.

this is all of the cousins plus some spouses and some of the 2nd cousins.

please notice andie, front and center here. who else strikes a pose like that at a funeral. hahaha. i'm not surprised that we had so many laughs throughout the day with this family.

(i still have not unpacked... i am the worst at that. maybe today is the day!)

1ooth post!

so tyler and my mom came to visit for president's day weekend and was so fun!

tyler thought it would be a good idea to play in the snow in shorts and a t-shirt.

go thome?

he always forgets how cold it is. hahaha.
and then we mostly shopped and ate.

heart shaped valentine's day breakfast pancakes!
6th jimmy johns of the weekend.
valentine themed crispy cremes.
then tyler thought he was a unicorn.
at mr. b's. so delicious!
group shot!
tyler and his crab legs. he prefers outback butter.
we also went to the outlets and the mall and tyler when iceskating and we went to an awesome chinese new year party at the yans! i'm going to need to run for the next week straight to burn the calories... but knowing me, i'll probably just eat some more. thanks for coming you guys!

i didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings

i guess these girls felt left out of my blog, so here's a special post for some of my favorite girls.

amazing, magical, beautiful, yesful, relaxed

awesome, delightful, daring, interesting, silly, outstanding, naughty

i miss you ladies. come visit soon! or meet me in california some time.

things i've learned this week...

1. we are not inside dog people and our house was way too small for a large inside dog

(blair walruff is now living with a new family with a puppy sister... i think she's happier, i'm still depressed about it though)

2. i love steam cleaning things... i just got the haan and it is just another reason why i love korean engineering. romi haan is a genius!

3. winter is definitely not over! we were tricked with a week of upper thirties and forties and we are back into the single digits (negative degree windchill)

4. the best homemade brownie recipe ever! as soon as it's light enough to take a picture i will share the recipe

5. how to make some super cute new bows. my nieces are going to be getting some pretty cute valentines this year

6. i still hate the week before test week! yikes!

in other news, i'm doing pretty good on my new years resolutions. i'm proud of myself.