Crazy, Lazy Notes

Good morning fellows...wow I shoulda been in bed a long time ago...but we wont talk about that now.

Recently life has been...a wee bit crazy...but also a lot bit lazy. I'm a lazy person, just in case you haven't caught on to that by now.

Confession time...I stay up late and get up late. I think "Ohh...you'll drag your butt outa bed at a decent time in the morning..." yeah. right. Like, when has that ever happened?! Fo real...most of the time I don't get up before 10am. It feels so nice and cozy when I'm laying there...but I just feel worser and worser every time I do it. (Yeah...I just said worser. What can I say? I was raised by hicks and homeschooled;) So tonight I honestly commit to working on this and getting out of this baad habit.

Note. My young, beefy cat just attacked my old, fat cat. Respect, young one, respect.

Anyway...

Recently it's come to my attention that God really listens to your prayers. He listens to your not even prayers but rather your heart crying for an answer kinda things too. He knows you better than anyone. He loves you more than anyone. He cares about your well being so much He sent His Son to die for you.

.what an amazing God to have.

One night I was laying in bed thinking about a lot of things...I was looking for a verse about protection but wasn't exactly finding one. Flipping through my Bible I ended up in Psalms. I was reading one page and suddenly decided to skip to the one beside it. There it read that my Creator, my Protector knows each and every star by name and that because of His power and His might not one of them will be lost. Think how much more valuable you are to Him than stars. For real...what kind of amazing God is He?!

Oh wow...just drink it in. Be filled with all that loving kindness. Be filled right to your tippy top and then let it gush over into other peoples' lives. Now that's what life's about. Being so fulfilled by your Creator that you cannot help but let it flow out of you. Beautiful.

Good n...morning lovelies. Have a wonderful Monday.

Love,

hannah dorothy

Cozy Iowan Saturdays:)

Afternoon, ladies and gents from my corner in cold, rainy Iowa to yours. 

I'm sorry I haven't written in so long, but hey, sometimes life gets in the way of blog life;)

Thanksgiving was two days ago! Gosh...I love Thanksgiving. My family celebrates by having my mama's side of the family over and eating until all we can do is sit and stare at each other in silence. Psh! Who am I kidding? Holidays are never quiet around here! It's a lot of fun. Everyone brings waay too much food and then everyone eats waay too much food and we talk waay too much and laugh waay too much. It's pretty great and if you can get along with some crazy hicks you'll fit right in.

I've never participated in Black Friday...haha I couldn't handle it. Crowded stores are not my thing. But this year Abi (my sister) and I decided to check it out. So we got up at 1am and headed to town...ahahaha! JUST KIDDING. Nothing you can buy at the store is worth getting up that early...I don't think.

Although I would welcome that adventure one of these years.

Anyway....

Abi and I did drag our sorry bums outa bed in time to meet the oldest sister, Lizz, for lunch on her break. The chick just started at Wally World. That's right. I know, be jealous. My sister works at my favorite store. We also got our hair cut. My cutter (what do you call her?!) was nice enough to inform me that I have a cowlick. Day = made. The mall was our next stop abut we weren't too impressed with any of the sales the stores were running so we ended up at Wally World again. I did buy a red cardigan, which kind of made me super excited for the three Christmas get togethers we have coming up. It was a fun day and the perfect way to end it was...

Breaking out the Christmas decorations!

Yeeesss! I LOVE Christmas...the lights of the tree have always just been magical. So as my sisters, mama and I sang the Christmas tree up with the same music we've been listening to on that same day for years...I realized this joy and togetherness will sometime end...one day my sisters will be married with their own trees to put up and this old farm house will be lonely without our warm laughter. The moral of this story...cherish the time you have with loved ones now. You will miss it one day, I promise.

Later that night the girls {Note...I will refer to my sisters as "the girls" all the time in this blog. Don't ask why that's just what we call them {Note numero dos...we usually means my family and I}) best friend came over. Stephanie became sister number three years ago and is moving to another state for college soon:( Boo.

We all four smashed on the couch (a usual occurrence) and used two laptops to look at Pinterest. Fo real ya'll...Pinterest is a drug. We spent at least and hour and a half on it. Don't judge.

After staying up til about 1am it was difficult for me to get outa bed this morning but I finally did. My mama, sisters and I went out to my Uncle's farm to package a pig they're giving us. Granted, they cut it up for us before we put it in the bags;) I showered when we got home, had lunch with the family and now am sitting on the floor in my living room. Wind is howling outside. I'm warm and cozy inside. That's how it's supposed to be. Now that I've given you a play by play of my last few days...let's move on to more interesting subjects, yes? Yes.

I've started a prayer journal/blessings journal and I'm really enjoying it. It's a place to let all my fears go right into the hands of my Savior, right where they're supposed to be. It also helps me realize how incredibly blessed I am. No, my family isn't rich and yes we struggle with money, but I have so much. For real...at the end of a day just think about all you have that many people can't even imagine having.

My sisters have showed up on my lists at least twice already. It really makes you think.

I would also like to mention the fact that I bought a purse the other day for $7 marked down from $20. Boosh.

The Lord also dropped into my lap a $4 sweater from Hollister. BA. OOSH.

I'll sign out for now...I'm on Pinterest and watching 27 Dresses...very important matters, ya'll.

Have a wonderful, rainy, cozy Saturday,

Hannah Dorothy:)

Favorites and Failures.

Today is Thursday. Which means tomorrow is Friday. Ha...that has nothing to do with anything but I just thought I'd share=) Is anyone else like SUPER excited about Thanksgiving?! Cause I sure am! Ok..gotta admit a LOT of it is the pie baking day I've got planned with my sister {possibly even both sisters:)} or maybe it's the much loved time I get to spend with my family:) Following will be a list of Favorites and Failures of the week.

1. I thought my mama was going to kill the guy at the cellular store trying to help us get our new phones. Poor Jeremy.

2. God stepping in and having Jeremy be super sweet and understanding.

3. Jeremy, the U.S. Cellular man, told me that people actually put their phones in the microwave/oven to dry it out after dropping it in water...America is seriously starting to scare me.

4. I dropped my phone in the tiolet.

5. Pinterest and all the yummy ideas for fun Christmas food:)

6. Pies...I love making pies and I can't wait to make some for Thanksgiving.

7. Having lunch with my sisters and papa:) It consisted of ramen noodles and pop and a lot of laughs:)

8. Snuggling with my kitty cat.

9. I just like Jesus and He makes a lot of stuff bettter.

10. The song It's All About Us by He Is We featuring Owl City...:) <3

Love,

hannah dorothy

{Break}away

Whew....this has been a long weekend! But a GREAT one! Where to begin...hmmm....perhaps at the...beginning? Yes, I think so.

On Friday a mixture of high schoolers from my church, my youth group, and the town youth group (small town people...community youth group happens) loaded up and headed out in pursuit of Breakaway 2011. Breakaway is a high school conference where you compete with other church groups in a bunch of competitions. Basketball, volleyball, ping-pong, fine arts, drama and music are just a few. Our group totalled thirteen. Ten kids and three "sponsers" (leaders). The leaders were the couple with the little blonde kiddos I've talked about before? (Is that creepy that I talk about other's children on my blog? Hmmm.....) and my sister, Lizz. My other sister, Abi, and I were the two homeschoolers of the group, but everyone was so super sweet and accepting. We stopped for supper at KFC and were in and out in about ten minutes (we ate in the car). Boosh. Abi and I had been to this Taco Bell/KFC before with her best friend Steph and Steph's little brother, Andrew (He's a teenager just for the record). It'd been a long day at the Nationwide race and after driving into the ghetto looking for a food place Abi wanted to get our food, eat and get on the road but we were failing at deciding between KFC or T. Bell. As we were sitting in the drive-through not making decisions Abi knew we needed to hurry up. In an exasperated voice she said "Ok, chicken or poopy?". Oh Abi....how we love you.

Anywho...

We loaded back up and hit the road. I either read, "napped" or looked out the window. First we had to go to the high school where it was all goin' down. Registration, signing in Abi's and my photography, 3-point shots, and dodglball followed. One of the guys in our group won the guy 3-pointers and one of the girls in our group either won the girl 3-pointers or girl free throws and I just don't remember which it was:P After all that went down dodgeball was the last thing (leaders vs. kids) and then we headed to the hotel. The leaders had a meeting, we had our first "sessio" with the speaker. He was fantastic! We hung out a little, made t-shirts (yeeeees!) and went to bed around 2am after the session. For the record...I. was. free. ZING. during the night...always take sweats for overnights in November, people....always.

The next day after breakfast we went to the high school to start out the day with boys basketball three-on-three. We didn't make it very far but it was fun! One of the girls brought a cow bell...yep. It kinda made my day. Abi and I did good on our pictures, she got second on one (BOOSH!) and I got third on one of mine. After much sweet encouragement and poking from everyone I decided to play girls basketball with the other other girls with us (well...Abi didn't play, so there were five girls in all...but uh, anyway). It was a super fun day. People on our team competed in volleyball, ping-pong, backgammon, chess, free throws, basketball, photography and...I think that's it. But we watched friends compete in drama and "badle of the bands" and anything else we happened to notice them doing. It was a bunch of fun. Our team got to the championship game of volleyball so we were the last church there other than the other church playing. When we got back to the hotel we got ready for the awards banquet.

Hold up, wait a minute put a little LOVE in it!

Sorry...all I really wanted to say was hold up but that song was playing today so I thought I'd just finish it=) Anyway, my hold up is I have a major craving for french silk pie right now. Like for real...I cannot wait for Thanksgiving.

The banquet was fun, afterwards we had another session. It was amazing...the Holy Spirit was totally moving, at least in our group He was. After the session we talked for a while and the leaders gave a chance for the teens in our group to pray and give their lives to Jesus and to recommit. Everyone prayed something and a lot of us were crying. And Jesus...well...He was working. <3

 We got up off our knees and hung out while some of the groups went to get the pizza we orderd. We ate and drank (Don't worry, it was pop;) and it was fun. Today we had breakfast, moved out of our rooms and went to session numero tres. The worship was great! A guy from our town was actually leading it with his band! The style was super cool, rock. Mhm. Rocking for Jesus.

We left around...I don't know when:P But stopped soon after for lunch and then hit the road. The van with the girls in it wasn't very lively since we all slept, save for the driver of course;)

So here I is. it was a totally fun weekend and I hope I'll blog more in depth about the sessions later on.

Thanks for reading:)

Love,

Hannah Dorothy