Snow!

I didn't do much this past week, and I was feeling pretty sick Thursday and Friday. Not any actual sickness or anything, I just had a several-day-long headache and felt pretty "blah" in general. Anyway, I'm pretty much over that, although now that I mention it I do have a subtle headache! Ugh...I think it must be a migraine. Besides that, things are fine! It snowed a bit this morning, so Rae and I went on a three mile walk to the river that's near our house and back. It was really fun, actually! Although it was FREEZING, it was really pretty outside and quite nice to get out of the house (I had been bumming around for a few days due to not feeling great).

We were cold! =)

Besides that, Rae and I are heading home for Thanksgiving Tuesday afternoon! I am so excited to be going home! Since it snowed quite a bit today, the two mountain passes we have to go through on the way home aren't looking too good. We're just hoping they'll be cleared up a bit more by Tuesday! Pray for our safe travels!!! =)

"Thanksgiving" on the Farm

This weekend, I got to go to my family's farm in Conrad, MT. It was so fun! My cousin Anna and her husband Andy are going to be at his family's house for Thanksgiving this year, so they were at her parents' this weekend celebrating Thanksgiving. Rae had to work Saturday, so we couldn't head over there until about 6:30 Saturday evening. We arrived at the farm at 9:30, which I'm told is very impressive. I'm also told it's because I drive like a Green. Who knew? Anyway, we were welcomed with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and all things Thanksgiving! It was spectacular! We chatted for awhile, then headed out to the hot tub. It was a perfect hot tubbing night---completely clear! And of course it's so dark out at the farm, and you can see forever (big sky country and all), so I'm pretty sure I saw stars I didn't know existed! It was a whopping 15 degrees outside (apparently that's "nothing." HA!), so our hair turned to icicles. Rae and I were pretty entertained by that! When our ears felt like they would freeze off, we headed inside. Then we just hung out and watched TV until 2:00 am! Oh, and ate more pumpkin pie... =).

Sunday morning, I woke up at 8:00 because I don't like to sleep in! I was the first "young person" awake, so I got the privilege of watching "U.S. Farm Report" and drinking coffee with my Uncle Dan. He said he has to get up reaaally early Sunday mornings because all of his favorite shows are on then. I guess U.S. Farm Report is one of your favorite shows when you run a farm! I just thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. My cousin Jeremiah arrived at around 8:30, followed by my cousin Joe. My aunt and uncle don't have any kids left living at the farm, but Jer and Joe don't live too far away! They were running around all over the place because it was the last day of hunting season. Jer and Uncle Dan were trying to shoot something, and Joe apparently tries to save the deer. It was quite funny to observe! Shortly after they got there, everyone else woke up. My Aunt Nancy made homemade cinnamon rolls and frosting for breakfast, which were FANTASTIC! Then Rae, Anna, Andy, and I all went for a walk down to the "neighbors'" house, which is about 3/4 mile away. It was a beautiful morning! After our walk, we all sat down for a game of Trivial Pursuit. Rae and I won! I was shocked, because I'm usually horrible at that game! It was really fun though. Then, we had lasagna, garlic bread, and salad for lunch before going outside for the annual "Thanksgiving" football game! The team I was on won...I think? It was pretty messy all around, but really fun! Then we had Nancy's huckleberry pie (YUM) with ice cream. At that point it was about 2:30 and Rae and I had to head home. We wanted to drive home during daylight, since it had been dark on the way there and the scenery is great. And it was great! Of course I forgot to take pictures the whole time we were there, but I took some on the way home so I will just post some of those!

This is from our walk around the farm.


Pretty mountains!


Love this!


Sun setting over the Rockies. I'm kicking myself for having auto-flash on and not just having the flash on; this would've looked so much cooler! Oh well...

Anyway, I had a great weekend and was really glad to spend time with family! This coming week holds absolutely nothing exciting...but I'm heading home for Thanksgiving a week from tomorrow! Woohoo!

Disney, Wedding, LIFE!

Okay so I am officially, really, honestly the worst blogger of all time. I just have so much going on, physically and emotionally, that when I finally have free time I couldn't care less about blogging! Haha...anyway, I'll just start my life updates at Disneyland because otherwise I won't remember what's gone on!

So during the week of October 18-25, I went to Disneyland with the Hall family. I had such a blast! It was great to get out of snowy, cold Montana and spend a week in the heat of Southern California. And getting to spend that week with my wonderful in-laws (and future husband, of course) made it that much better! I won't go into too many daily details, since this blog is going to be super long as it is, but here's a quick recap:
Sunday: Arrival (minus Kyle).
Monday: Disneyland/California Adventure.

Bryan & I at the entrance to Disneyland on Monday

Tuesday: Relaxing day!
Wednesday: Kyle arrived! Disneyland/California Adventure.

The whole family in Disneyland on Wednesday

The (current & future) Hall girls...women?...in California Adventure on Wednesday

Thursday: Disneyland/California Adventure.
Friday: Universal Studios.

All of the (once again, current & future) Hall kids at Universal Studios on Friday

Saturday: Another relaxing day!
Sunday: We left... =(

The Monday after I got back to Montana, I had a (fateful) advising appointment for school. As it turns out, I have some classes that are required for the University here that I wasn't aware of. I had finished all of the general education requirements at OSU, but Montana has a few different ones that I didn't realize. Essentially, the result of that meeting was that I could not apply for pharmacy school until NEXT January (2011). This depressed me slightly, since I was already frustrated to be in Montana but at least had a purpose. In the end, I have decided to move back to Oregon in December because pharmacy school is no longer worth so many years of school and living far away from everyone (aka Bryan) for so long! I don't really know yet WHAT I'm going to do, which stresses me out a bit, but I suppose I'll figure it out! I'm just excited to be going home!

Well, let's see what happened that week; Halloween! I really didn't do anything that weekend. On Halloween Raechel and I watched a movie and handed out candy to little kids. And on Sunday I sat around and ate all of the leftover candy! That's basically the whole weekend in a nutshell.

On Wednesday, November 4th, Tanner turned 17! That wasn't what I was going to say, but I figured I'd throw it in there. Anyway, on that day I flew home for my sister's wedding, which was on the 7th. I was home from the 4th until the 8th, but it hardly felt like any time at all! I was super busy every day, pulling together last-minute wedding details. Then every night was spent setting up/decorating, rehearsing, etc. The wedding actually ended up going very well, which surprised me due to the short-term planning! (I think it was all planned in two months, give or take a week or so.) It was pretty fun, although exhausting! Sunday, the day I left, came all too soon, but I was glad Bryan and Sue took me to the airport since I had hardly gotten to actually hang out with them since being home! I spent a lot of time WITH Bryan...setting up and cleaning up. But not actually talking! So that was fun. I of course made a scene at the airport, being all weepy and everything, but I'm a girl so I figure it's fine. Whatever--I'm moving home in a little over a month! =)

(I don't have many good pictures of the wedding. I was too busy doing other things to take pictures! I will have to post more when the professional ones come back!)

Rachel's dress

Me; photo courtesy of Jonny


Bryan & I! Our height difference is so severe that it's difficult to get all of both of us in one picture HA. The worst part is that I was wearing heels! Sigh...we can just hope that our kids get his genes!

AND for the last bit of exciting news, we have FINALLY set a wedding date! Yay!!!!! It is March 19th, 2011. It's forever away, which is sad, but I'm just glad to actually have a concrete date to plan for! It will be perfect because Bryan will actually be done with school then. (I don't mean actually in a snide way, but in a finite way. He wants to be done with school before we get married, and we can be sure he'll be done by then!) I will still be in school, but the 19th is the Saturday before spring break, so I will be able to have a week off for our honeymoon! We are so excited!

I'm hoping to be able to go to my family's farm in Conrad, MT this coming weekend. I have nothing going on, and my cousin Anna (who is my age) and her husband are going to be visiting there from Billings, MT this weekend, so it would be nice to coordinate visits! I want to take Raechel because she NEEDS to experience that part of Montana, but she is scheduled to work. So as long as she can get a few shifts covered, we can go! I'm crossing my fingers!!