Guest Post From Hansen Love

Today, I asked April from Hansen Love to guest! She asked me to guest post a few weeks ago. You can find that article here. April has been my best fresty since 6th grade. I love her! But since we both got married and she moved away, we don't see each other much.  I miss her. :) we stay in touch though.  She's great and is my blogging inspiration.  

Ladies and Gentlemen... I give you...  April: Star of Hansen Love

Hello all!!! I am April Hansen, I am the founder, writer, and star of Hansen Love. Okay. I don't know about star, but it sounded cool right?? It is a lifestyle blog about my husband, Jake, and I. And our little adventures as newlyweds. Yeah yeah, I know. Another newlywed blog. But you have to admit you always get stuck reading them! ;)

Kayla asked me to guest post on her blog today and I am so excited. At first I couldn't think what in the world I could have to offer you that would be of worth. And then it finally hit me this weekend.

For Christmas, I gave Jake tickets to see George Straits concert. It is his last tour, and my dear sweet husband has been the biggest fan of George his whole life. Just a little background story, Jake is a farmer through and through. Going back through the line there are farmers as far as you can see. 

In fact his Grandpa Hansen (Gramps for short) owned a John Deere Dealership way back when. So yeah. Lots of farming. Jake grew up listening to George while herding cows with Gramps and his cousin Logan. He listened to George when he was out hunting with his Dad. He sang George to me when I was sick and we were dating. George is his hero. When he thinks of George, he thinks of all the good things that came when listening to him.

So... I took Jake to see his hero. His reaction was unbelievable ... 

He was so happy. And I was happy I got his reaction. :) haha

So If you hadn't caught on, I wanted to talk about my hero. And how she has changed my life.

This ladies and gentlemen, Is my Momma :)

Cliche' I know. But I wanted to share, along with Kayla about how my mom is my hero. 

This lady is the strongest woman I know. 

This is my family. And we sure have raised a lot of hell. My mom, and dad, put up with all of us kids. 

My  mom was diagnosed with Hepatitis C when I was young. really young. She had got it way back before she met my dad in a doctors office by accidentally pricking her finger. This changed our life and hers forever. 

Everything started catching up with her when I was in 6th or 7th grade. It started effecting her and she decided to go to the doctor and get treated for this. 

Tons of different kinds of medicines, many trips to Salt Lake, and a lot of prayers later she was down to one last medicine that was going to help her. 

I remember the night before she went to be tested to see if this last medicine worked. There I was in my bed. A little 12 year old, praying as hard as I could that this medicine would work. That I could have my mom there when I went to my first dance. That she would go prom dress shopping with me. That she would be there to kiss my cheek on my wedding day. 

The next day, we found out that this medicine was working. Great news right!?!?! yes.  It was much like going through cancer treatments. She had chemo, radiation, and also gave herself a shot every day. 

It was hard to see her lose weight and hair but still be able to go to work everyday and come home and cook for us. I learned a lot from my mom in the year that she was on that medicine. She is so very strong, and an amazing example to me. 

After a while of being on the medicine she decided that she would stay off of it for a while so she could live a normal happy life. Now that she is thinking of going back on it, it breaks my heart to know what it can put her through. 

But I know that she can do anything and that I will learn even more from her. 

My mom is a super mom. My hero. 

** I don't want to make this depressing or leave you feeling sad. So heres a little video to make you smile.

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So great, I love April and her mom is pretty awesome!!!  This Kid President rocks!!! Right?

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Guest Post!

In case you weren't aware, April asked me to guest post on her blog Hansen love yesterday!.  Please feel free to check it out here!  :)  Happy Friday!

P.S. I'm going ice skating tonight, I'll let you know how that turns out!!

I'm Dreaming Of a White Christmas!

Okay first of all, I need to thank someone... As all of you know, I am awful at blogging routinely, so my LL April Hansen who has a very, very cute blog. (find it here http://aprilh1692.blogspot.com/ really though, check it out!) texted me last night, and reminded me, so I have her to thank for keeping me on track!  Thanks A! (you may have to text me routinely so I can keep up on things) ;)

It's true, I really am dreaming of a white, beautiful, majestic Christmas.... However, the possibility of that happening are looking quite dreary.  It did snow this weekend, we woke up to about a quarter of an inch on Saturday. But by the end of the day, it was all melted.  Today, it is about 50 degrees.  I seriously had to take my jacket off driving to work.  IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER!

In other news, it is ALMOST Christmas. Only 7 (okay technically 8, but I'm optimistic) days left!

All of our hard work doing Christmas lights and outdoor decorations has been all for not.  I didn't even get a successful picture before our landlord hired someone to fix our soffit and fascia and build us a porch.  In order for the people to build, they took down our Christmas Lights.... sad. But hopefully, they will be done today, so we can fix them and turn them on again so Santa can find our house.

In other adventures, I heard that the world is suppose to end this week... When I was in third grade someone told me it was suppose to end in 2012, and I thought, man, its a good thing I will be like 100 then.. Surprise little tiny 9 year-old Kayla.  You are only 19. :)  My hypothesis, the world is not going to end.  But if it does. Know I love you all.  (But I promise I will be alive on December 22.)

I found this widget online, its pretty popular

So now you can all keep an accurate countdown.

This whole end of the world stuff is crazy, and people are literally going insane about it.

Jill and I decided to have a baking night on Saturday, we decided to make fudge, but before we decided that, we were looking for a recipe.  Keith was sitting in our recliner, and Mazee was being obnoxious and kept going behind the chair, Keith went to pick her up, and he FOUND A MOUSE!!! It was dead, and in my house!!! It was awful.  I put bags over my hand, and a towel over my face.  and I, the brave Kayla scooped it up, and threw it away!

Me gathering the evil mouse and throwing him away

Finally Blogging!

Okay, I've been meaning to do this for SO long! (blogging) and I am FINALLY getting around to it!

1 of many Engagement Pictures

I'm getting married in less than 2 WEEKS! soo crazy! its seriously freaking my mind out! I feel like it was just yesterday started high school! and now suddenly I'm being thrust into Adulthood. Couldn't be happier or more excited!

I'm getting my dress this afternoon! its going to be mine, and I can put it on and wear it, and look AMAZING! (seriously though, its AMAZING) my mom's cousin Jody made it for me after a dress I tried on.  Its better than I could have ever imagined! its SPECTACULAR!

So we're down to crunch time, We have this week and next to put it all together and get me married off! :)

Jill's Ring! (my new SIL)

Speaking of weddings in the Colby family! Kayden and Jill are engaged! so cute! This >>
is Jill's GORGEOUS ring! She's going to be my sister! We love her and couldn't be more happy for them! :)

Its crazy! I went from having no sisters and now, I'm going to have 2 sisters! (Keith's little sister Maria)

There has been much excitement this week! The Engagement and then I had 2 Bridal Showers! they were so fun!

My Best Fresty April threw me a spectacular bridal bash on Wednesday, with my friends.  It was so fun, I got a lot of panties, that I'll probably never wear.  (thanks, but I'll stick to my cotton hanes ;) )

One of the butt floss thongs Deanna gave me

My face in the picture is like... What do I do with this??

Yeah, I can see the resemblance!

It was so much fun, we played this outrageous game called the "Cake Box Game"  and I got to see how flexible my friends really were, some of them were REALLY flexible! 

Quite obviously, Lauren won!

Me, losing at the trivia

This was no big deal for Lauren, she conquered all.  I didn't know humans could bend like this, Hello GUMBY!


Then yesterday, Kellie threw me a Family bridal shower, it was a HOOT! So many people came, who knew that many people loved me!!


We played a trivia game about Keith, and apparently, I know NOTHING about him, cause by the end of the game I got 6 out of 10 questions wrong! I asked him about it later and he said, well I thought I'd switch it up... good time to decide that baby!

All it all it was a very good time and I got a LOT of very useful stuff.  and I got to see a lot of the people I love the most!

Carol made me the most amazing cross stitch, I just have to share..

not the best quality picture, but you can see how amazing it is!

 P.s. We get to move into our house this week!  (I'll post pics later) and we have to paint the living room/ kitchen/ Bedroom... any suggestions on what colors?

So anyway, I think thats all I have to blog about today so... Keep checkin back?

No that sounds dumb! I'm tryin to work on a tag line... any suggestions?


See ya!

Kayla