Long time!

Well, it has been a while since I have been able to post. Basically that has been because if I am not in class, then I am working or at church. I have been working 25 to 36 hours on top of school full time, and it has sucked. Good news is that I am changing jobs. I got a job at Old Navy so that hopefully will take care of the over hours. I am loving my classes though. I was late in registering so my classes are mostly electives.
I am taking a Writing 222 class which is an argumentative essay class. I love this class. My lastest master piece is an essay on why Horatio Caine is the most annoying TV character ever! If you need proof simply youtube "horatio caine one liners" and watch.
Other classes are Anthropology 110 which is my least favorite, Sociology 205, which I like a lot and finally Art 310 which is a drawing classes. I love it. I am getting better :) I will have to take some pictures of my art work and post.
Ben is also going full time but lucky guys isn't working right now. He is taking a health and human sciences, history, econ and statisitics. He really likes his history class, the others he is more or less doing to get out of the way.
Well, that is it for now.
Hopefully I will find some time to post more soon!
Hannah

Home Made Sushi

I was browsing the good old Albany Heritage Mall the other day and wandered into the Walden Book Store. They had a clearance shelf of all cook books and I LOVE cook books so I got pretty excited. Then I saw that they were by two get one free and I knew that I had to get some. I ended up getting a Sushi making kit as one of my buys and was stoked at the idea of making my own sushi. We have made friends with a guy that lives in our apartments and his girlfriend and they mentioned that they too have wanted to try making sushi. This is our result :) I have to say that I think we did a good job! Ben took the pictures so they are just of me and our neighbor. Tip #1 make sure the layer of rice is very thin. Ben was the 1st to go and his is too thick with rice. You will see his end product at the end of the post.

We had two types of sushi. The one I made here has cream cheese, smoked salmon and avocado.

The other was a California roll with fake crab, cucumber and avocado. Yum Yum!

Here is my roll! I was one of the last to go, so I got to see what worked and didn't work so mine turned out pretty good.

These are Ben's. Like I said earlier, he used a little too much rice. It still tasted wonderful!

This is Caleb and his sticky hands. It gets pretty messy.

Huggle

My three year old niece Miriam has always said huggle in place of snuggle and it is so dang cute we haven't ever corrected her. So the other night I fell asleep with my lamp on and woke up to turn it off only to have this image in my face. Ory is the greatest huggling dog ever. When Ben was in the Army he would have to go to the field on many occasions for days at a time. This left me home alone at night. So to help me feel safe I let Ory sleep with me and taught her how to huggle up. So now she sneaks her way in between Ben and I at night and this is what we get.

Hike to the top of Table Rock

Ben, and I decided to take Ory and go hiking on one of his days off. It was going to be a sunny day outside and was too beautiful to waste sitting inside. Ben had wanted to go on this hike for a little while and the timing was perfect. It wasn't too big of a hike. It was four miles to the top so eight mile round trip and we climbed just over 1000 feet in elevation. The view from the top was pretty amazing. There were a few sketchy areas, but overall it was a very nice trail.

We will hike to the top of this cliff you can see here. Ory has on her back pack! Everyone carries their own lunch in our family :)

At the top! It was quite a steep hike but it was beautiful. If you want to see a crazy hike, then you should check out my friends Kenna and Jason's blog. They recently hike to the top of the German Alps. Their blog is linked on mine, Awesomeblog 5000 I believe it is called. Crazy stuff!

One more step and I literally would walk right off the cliff. I was making Ben just a little nervous here.

Ory had so much fun! They say that for every mile we hike, dogs hike four. I believe it. Ory would always be running ahead and then come back to check on us only to take off again. She had so much fun. She really loves the outdoors.

Wedding Season

This summer has been filled with weddings! I have really enjoyed it. I love being there to see couples start their lives together. It reminds me how it was only 4 1/2 years ago that Ben and I started our marriage and I have loved every moment do far. He is so sweet and the best husband I could ask for. I just wanted to give him a little thanks for all that he is and does and how much he loves me.
Thank you!

Quick Update

Hey! I know that it has been a while and even though I have nothing too interesting to write about, I thought the few that check in every once and a while might like an update.
Ben and I moved into our new place. We are happy to have our stuff accessible. Ben is working and registered for the fall at OSU. I am waiting to hear back about a part time job at Macy's and then I will register for school as well.
More to come!

Katelyn's 16th birthday cake

The family was going to be in Utah for Kaite's birthday (which is today, Happy Birthday Katie!) and I really wanted to make her a birthday cake, so we decided to do a little celebration while we were at the park for the 4th of July. This is the cake I made! The bottom tier was roads on a green background.

The top tier was clouds on a blue sky with traffic signals placed randomly.

I made a few stop signs and some little cars to go on the cake.

The topper was this sun that had the number 16 on it.

And here it is! It turned out pretty cute! The only things that bothers me is that i didn't bring frosting to cover up the cake board between the tiers. Oh well, it still turned out cute.

us singing happy birthday and it all lit up.

Miriam could not wait to "eat one of the cars." She had her eye on them as soon as she knew they were edible.

After we ate some of the cake we reassembled the half eaten cars to make a car wreck scene, with the added touches of flames from the sun. It is pretty funny.

Wedding cake post 2

Here I am! Getting ready to make a wedding cake in my cute apron! I had to show it off because I love it. I am a sucker for cute aprons. I wish I could buy them all!

This is the fondant that I had to roll out. It is quite a workout! The other two pictures are of the layers wrapped and ready for transport.

This is the finished product. Similar to the pictures posted in the last post. There were a few more roses added to the top where you can see it needed some on the bottom right.

These are the roses I made out of gum paste. I tried to make some red ones but red is a hard color to get and it kept coming out in this rust red instead of a rose red. The white ones looked really great though.

Wedding cake!

Well I have seemed to have misplaced the cord that goes from my new camera to the computer. Oops! I will find it soon I hope, but in the meantime I have had a lot of people asking me to post some pictures of the wedding cake. So here are some that my sister took. It was a lot of fun doing this cake and everyone who got to try it said it was Delicious! The red flowers are real flowers and the white ones are gum paste flowers that I made myself! Its a chocolate cake with marionberry cream filling and white fondant frosting. I hope to post more pictures of the whole process as soon as I can.

Happy Mothers Day

I just wanted to let all you beautiful, amazing and inspirational mothers how much I love you all! Thank you for all you do!

These are just some of the cards I made for a few of the mothers in my life.

Cake Class

Isaac and Johnna asked me if I would make their wedding cake, and while I am super excited at the opportunity! I am also very scared that I will mess it all up. So in order to get some practice I signed up for a cake decorating class. It has been so much fun!!!! Thankfully the last half of the class we slow down on the cakes themselves and are just working with decoration. A cake every week is a little much!

I wanted to post my progress and to be honest, show off a little cause I am so excited and proud of how far I've come! So this is the flowers that I made out of frosting. I love them I think it turned out beautiful.

The other cake pictures are on my phone so I will have to upload them and then share them.

Going on Bear Hunt

Ben wanted to share his hunting story with the family and the blog was the easiest way to do that. I am pretty excited that he decided to join in on the blogging fun! Maybe I can get him to do it more often on things other than killing animals!

Going on a Bear Hunt

Recently I (Ben the one on the right) went Bear hunting with Ben Miller (left) we were obviously very succesful and pleased. Ben Miller acted as the guide and I was the shooter for this paticular hunt. We spotted him at about 630 pm on the 30th April and decided he was a good bear and worth making a stalk on. We stalked within 50 yards and I made a clean shot through his chest. The bear weighs and estimated 200 lbs. and is about 3 years old. Has a very rubbed spring coat but some good characteristics (scars) on his muzzle that I am sure could tell a good story.





Now lets talk about the Charcoal Black Bear. My father Rich was able to come out on friday just in time to see that Ben and I had finished packing out the my bear. Luckily for my father before spotting my bear we had spotted a bear prior to mine in a drainage or two over feeding in the bottom of a bowl like drainage. The bear Ben and myself saw was a good bear, but he was too deep and on the wrong side of an already bad ridge so we decided to make our way back to camp. A few days later Dad and decided to hike in after the bear Ben and I saw cause we weren't having succes anywhere else.Dad shot his bear on the 4th of May, we spotted the bear heading up canyon and watched him head into a thicket for cover. Dad and I made our move on the bear and closed a 300 yard shot to a 75 yard shot. After we caught our breath we decided it was getting too late for us to wait the bear out and so throwing rocks into the bottom of the canyon seemed pretty reasonable. The bear slowly came out to see what the comotion was and Dad got him. This is obviously a much bigger and older bear, I think that Dad's bear make mine look like a puppy. ODFW estimated his weight at 325 but they didn't pack the animal out, Dad and I put the bear at a solid 350. Although that may be a bias opinion. He has a gray muzzle, some missing teeth, and a white triangle on his chest. From snout to tail he is easily over 6 foot in length and has an amazing coat for a spring bear. ODFW said that he was at least 6 years old possibly 7 but we won't know for sure till we get the results back from the teeth. We would love to tell everyone where we were, but giving away secrets isn't like a hunter, general location, we were in the Hell's Canyon Recreation area, it's steep, it's rocky but if you are willing to put forth some effort trophies can be found.


Dad and I are both very pleased with how this hunt turned out, aside from the two bear, we saw a cougar at about 30 yards but he was quick to not allow a shot. We caught countless crappie and bass out of the Snake River and tried our luck at some Turkey hunting but the birds just weren't cooperating this year. It was a great trip with some really good memories.