Dear Simon

I miss you already! Keep on being awesome no matter what. I like the idea of you blogging everyday too btw. Ill keep you updated. btw did you get your phone yet?

well guys! It is now officially my last day in Hinckley. :/
I am flying out at a ridiculously early hour thursday.

To Late night IHOP runs

One late and brilliant night Jessica and I went to IHOP.
We wrote out a rough list of our top 20 movies and our top read (not necessary 20 reads). Thought I would post this so I can throw away the scraps of paper they were written on.

Jessica's top movies:
only possibly in a particular order
1.Phantom of the Opera
2. Captain courageous
3.My Fair Lady
4.Murder by Death
5.Princess bride
6.Zoolander
7. 500 Days of Summer
8. Blues Brothers
9.Anastasia
10.Pineapple Express
11.Bronyx Tale
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's
13.Father Goose
14.Walk to Remember
15.10 Things I hate About You
16.The Patriot
17.Double Jeopardy
18.Bourne trilogy
19.While You Were Sleeping
20. Pretty Woman

Hanna's top movies:
In No particular order
1. Lord of the Rings trilogy
2.27 Dresses
3.BBC Pride and Prejudice
4. Zoolander
5.Pirates of the Caribbean
6.One Night With the King
7.How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
8. Devil Wears Prada
9.The Wedding Date
10.Mean Girls
11.Unsinkable Molly Brown
12.Remember the Titans
13.10 Things I Hate About You
14.The Dark Night
15.The Proposal
16.The Incredibles
17.Sense and Sensibility
18. Flushed Away
19. Walace and Gromit
20.Roman Holiday
( I couldn't think of 20)

Jessica's Top 12 Reads
1.Gone With the Wind
2.To Kill a Mockingbird
3.Captivating
4.And the Bride Wore White
5.Stuff White People Like
6.Post Secret
7.Pride and Prejudice
8/Sense and Sensibility
9.History of the Romanovs
10.The Syndicate
11.Boy Meets Girl
12.Childrens Folklor3es

Hanna's Top 12 Reads
1. Journey of Desire
2.Wild at Heart
3.P.S. I Love You
4.Pirate!
5.Pride and Prejudice
6.Lord of the Rings
7. The Hobbit
8.13 Little Blue Envelopes
9.Captivating
10.Hadassah
11.Boy Meets Girl
12. Hind's Feet on High Places

3- stringed ukulele

Who will buy this wonderful morning?
Such a sky you never did see!
Who will tie it up with a ribbon,
And put it in a box for me?

They'll never be a day so sunny,
It could not happen twice.
Where is the man with all the money?
It's cheap at half the price!

Who will buy this wonderful feeling?
I'm so high I swear I could fly.
Me, oh my! I don't want to lose it
So what am I to do
To keep a sky so blue?
There must be someone who will buy..


-Oliver - Who will buy?

500 Days of summer soundtrack; why must you be so addicting? I don't think I have listened to much of anything else lately.

Vacation Postcard

This may be the all time best pic ever.
Today was a fabulous day. Just what I needed for a vacation from packing.


Frozen Yogurt with the girls.




top left: Amber's
Top right: Mine
Bottom:Han's








Cute Yogurt place. Pic try number 7 maybe

Dear Forever Yogurt, You are the best place. Please lower your prices!
Love ,Hanna














Wheaton Starbucks :]




Dear Amber a.k.a. my Simon,
Please go see the Weepies while they are touring.
You are the greatest sort of person. Keep me posted on the latest brilliant thing you read, and please get skype.
Yours truly, Hanna a.k.a Garfunkel















Wheaton Park....

Dear Wheaton,
You're beautiful. Please save some inexpensive apartments, and good paying jobs open from Amber and I.
-Your future tenant, Hanna














Wishing fountain footbath.....


Dear Josh B of Wheaton,
Let's please be friends forever,
You bring so much joy and blessing to my life. Come visit me in Idaho at least once.
Sincerly, Hanna










Beautiful Barefoot journey!!!!

"An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional, very contrary to my purposes."
-Jesus in "The Shack".




So very true. I hate that it is true though. I hate the thought of people being deceived. I want everyone to know Jesus and how amazing He is but when people are getting fed so many lies in the name of religion and even Jesus it just serves to confuse people.

Good thing I am going to Idaho a week before classes start. I have to get a scooter/ motorcycle license along with registration and licensing for a scooter, and insurance. BRING IT ON!!!
A bit less than 3 weeks till I will be there.
I miss everyone here already.

I should be laughing and smiling

Packing maddness!

So much to do.
Got my official acceptance letter today, and housing is now set. :]
Bring it on!

packing up my room. I don't even know what to do with half of my stuff. I won't be here long enough to sell my stuff so idk what to do with it.
Well I guess I should go get boxes out of the garage.

Talked to Jennifer Boyd today (mission medic director) and it looks like things are coming together. I will be moving to Idaho in like 4 weeks. :]
I'm excited. I'm sad to think that there are friends that I prob won't see before I leave and the sad part is that it isn't my choice not to see them but theirs because they are just to busy. I may not be coming back the area after I leave. (I'll get into that later if it becomes necessary)
Night

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
~Jane Howard~

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb

"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer."
-- Amanda Grier

Have you ever noticed how many different types of friends you can have?
Really?

There are the friends you have that are just acquaintances, like they are nice people and you get along when you are together, but you wouldn't call them to go see a movie or invite them over to hang out or the sort.


it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then there are the friends who you hang out with and really love. The sort that you go to have coffee with for an hour and end up spending hours with. The kind that you would wish only the best to, but lets face it, if you are watching The Office and you missed a call from them you probably wouldn't return the phone call until at least that episode is over, or maybe a few more episodes.


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry



Then there are the friends who really the only way to describe them is to say that they truly touch your soul. They are the friends that you find yourself wondering at times why they aren't magically sitting there with you. Why they don't just live in your house with you. Or you wish you could bottle their essence for those tough times when you just need a bit of them there. The friends that you can go awhile without seeing and yet when you see them it seems as though no time has passed, but rather an enormous amount of things have just happened in a short time. Yet you can see them everyday for a long stretch of time and never run out of things to say or do together. The ones that you feel your heart breaking over the thought of not seeing them for a while.



The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown

Please tell me you know what I am saying.....
My mom and I were talking about this just a bit ago. One of those late night front porch talks. Oddly enough the mosquitoes weren't biting too badly.
I mentioned that I was really sad at the thought of someone falling out of my life again and how it really hurts. Then we started talking about how it feels different depending on the friend. Some friends you are sad to see leave yet you know it was ok, the friendship was great but meant for just a season. Then there are those ones that break your heart when you don't see them. It feels as if they cease to exist after you part ways.


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley


Then I started thinking about the friends I have made over the last few years. The friends that I don't really talk to anymore but at the time of our friendship it was way amazing. Then I thought about all the friends that I will be leaving this fall when I move to Boise. Which one of those friends will I miss the most? Which ones will I find myself asking "why is this person not here right now" about, and which ones will I see pics of and say "wow that was a fun time, I bet they are doing great."?


Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps

I really think the reason this almost "level of friendship" exists because of how our spirits recognizing each other.
This must seem absurd to a person that doesn't believe in a spiritual realm, but it makes perfect sense to me.
Our spirits recognize what sort of role that person will play in our lives, and what traits that person has that can help us grow into the person we are meant to be.
Now I'm sad thinking about all those people I will deeply miss. Yet, I am excited to see where everyone's lives take them, whether I am a part of it or not.
I wonder what sort of friend I am to the different people in my life?



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle