A Preview ;)

This is a short (but epic!) preview to the slideshow I am going to make about our travels to Europe this summer. I can't wait to finish the video, but fitting 10 cities into an under 20min video is proving to be difficult... especially because of the amount of pictures I took (i think I ended with over a 1000). But it will get done!!! I hope you enjoy :)

A Girls Weekend.

Because my life has been COMPLETELY CRAZY as of late, I decided to travel with my mom to a weekend in Cedar Rapids for some much needed R&R. I finished my show Saturday night, had time to Halloween party it up, then left for the airport early Sunday morning. Since then I have done nothing but bake goodies, eat goodies, hang out with family, and antique shop (in that order!!). I don't think I could have chosen a better way to spend these last couple of days.

Happy Monday everyone!! :)

Yo Soy Yo.

#2: I stay up way to late. I'm a complete night owl.

A Rushed Weekend.

I found myself at something i thought I would never, ever, be at this weekend. As we were rushed around from event to event I couldn't help but ask myself I was in the right place... I am sad to say even now I still don't know.

I am talking about Rush for Greek Life here on Campus. For four days you go through this system of "mutual selection" in order to find your house. It went kinda like this:

Day one: All six houses, 30 min. each.
Day two: Called back to four houses, 45 min. each.
Day three: Called back to two, one hour each.
Bid Day: Get an invitation to a chapter!

I had NO prior knowledge about sororities or Greek life at all. If fact the closest I came was working at a Greek restaurant. Haha.

Anywho, I went through with an original 18 girls in my Rho Gamma group (only to end with 7), and became a pledge for Chi Omega. At first ChiO was my third choice, but it quickly became my number one!! I am so happy to spend time with these girls. It seems that this organization shares my core beliefs and morals, and therefore I just made about a hundred friends that share them too!

The moral of the story is this; I might not know for sure that I want to be Greek, but I am happy to be a Chi Omega Pledge. What a crazy weekend it was to decide that. Phew.

A Tour of Our Dorm :)

Welcome to our b-e-a-utiful dorm room!! Tori and I have been thinking about and planning our room for a looong time. Probably longer than I would like to admit (We bought our comforters over a year ago...haha). I love our room and I wouldn't change anything about it!! We are lucky and have one of the only air-conditioned halls in the whole university. Plus! we get our own bathroom instead of the grody community bathrooms... I think we got pretty spoiled.

So we start the tour with the bathroom:

It is British themed!! Tori painted our lovely shower curtain, and I provided the trash can and towels :)

We tried to stay as organized as possible with all of the toiletry junk we have... it can only be so organized :/ haha. We tried!!

This is the assortment of the whole right side of the room.... from closet space to above Tori's desk! (Look at the cool tree decal she made by painting on contact paper and sticking it to the wall!!) 

Just some of my favorite elements of ze room!! ( The clock might be my favorite... even if it does keep me up all night.)

Just some over all views of the room.

It is amazing how much space you end up having when you set your room up like this! Our hall mates must be jealous ;) I couldn't be more pleased now we finally have all of the finally pieces moved in. I am happy that we have gotten to spend a whole month in this little place, I'm loving every moment :)

Lefse with the Fam.

For those of you that don't know what lefse is... You are missing out!! It is a warm bready, buttery, sugary concoction of deliciousness :))

So this weekend when we had all the family over for the wedding (seriously we had 12 people sleeping in the house! Only 6 beds too mind you!) we decided to make some lefse. It seems like whenever we get the Hansen side together this has to happen... And I'm not complaining!!

Lefse is a Norwegian type of tortilla that you make out of mashed potatoes (I know it keeps getting better... Butter, sugar, mashed potatoes...yum).

Lefse how to:

1: make mashed potatoes without putting a bunch of salt or anything in them.

2: add flour until is becomes like a dough.

3: separate them into biscuit sized balls and role them out in flat circles.

4: just set the biggest griddle/flat pan you have and cook them until they are browned on either side. (like tortillas)

P.s. You should definitely fold it as shown in the picture... It is the only way to insure that none of you sugar escapes you!!

5: butter them up, sprinkle sugar on top, and eat up!!

A September Wedding!

Though it looks like it came out of a magazine, I promise you this was just my cousin's wedding. I guess I don't mean "just"... a wedding is a big deal and all :P

I spent the morning by helping setting up the backyard where the reception would be. It was oodles of fun!! Really, most people might be stressing about time and things that won't get done, but it always works out in the end. Make sure you have your bride and your groom... And you can fake the rest ;)

Anywho, their reception was BEAUTIFUL!! And I'm not just saying that because I helped set it up. The backyard backs up to a lake, the space was huge, and the lights made it magical. I hope someday my wedding can look as great as that one did. I really wouldn't change a lot about it; from the outdoors to the rope lights it was truly breath taking.