bubble bubble toilet trouble

so yesterday, my phone fell in the toilet. plop. i suppose that's the danger of keeping (and forgetting) it in your back pocket. luckily the water was clean...

it was a sad, sad day for amy hansen.

christmas and firearms.

so christmas was pretty awesome this year. oh christmas eve we did our usual thing and ate mexican food, watched a christmas movie, and opened ONE christmas present. although we almost had a mutiny on our hands when megan and peter lobbied hard to open all the presents in one go. kids these days...anyway, justice prevailed and they lost.

christmas morning dawned bright and early (orrrrr at 9:30 when mom finally came in to wake us up) and while megan and peter complained about the lack of coffee we herded into the living room to see the spoils. this year santa favored mom and dad, since they had to open 3 presents for every one of ours. my mom kept saying, "oh my goodness, how did this happen?" ha! like she didn't know...

christmas dinner: prime rib roast, baked yams, roast vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes, spinach salad...my brother is pretty much an expert chef. he can do things with spices that i didn't even know existed. it was fantastic. and then we watched planet earth. which is also fantastic and strangely addictive. all in all, it was a great day.

the next day, we journeyed to the desert to try out the boys' new christmas presents. gavin got a beebee (?) gun, although he calls it his "baby gun." jeremy tried to teach him how to shoot it.

jeremy: "ok gav, do you know how to hold your gun?"
gavin: "yeah!" (and proceeds to put the butt of his gun right on his nose. i see great things for his future as a gunman...)

i shot a pistol, a 40, and a 22. and i got 7 bulls eyes. because i am awesome.

this is what american families are all about.

mon rêve

so...this is what i want my life to be like. let's make that happen.



by the way i'm kind of on a french kick right now.
actually no, that's a lie. i'm just trying to brainwash you all so you'll like it too. LIKE IT!

love her, hate her, say what you want about her...

so i love britney spears. blame it on my 90's upbringing. i don't necessarily love her as a person, because she's a crazy, but man she peddles some good tunes. i've been pining after her new cd ever since it came out and today (oh glorious day!) my roommate heather brought it home. i shouted with glee, "it's a christmas miracle!"
ok so i didn't really, but i wanted to.
"circus" is just the thing to get me through finals with a smile on my face and a spring in my step.

happy birthday mommy!

so today is the glorious day of my mom's birth. since i'm at school and can't really be there to do anything special for her, i thought i'd record the special musical number courtney and i played in church today so she could hear it too! the sound quality isn't fantastic (because contrary to popular opinion, we are not in fact professionals), but you get the idea.



anyway, happy birthday mom. i love you so much!

une explosion

i just sat in the same chair in the same room for 6 and a half hours. 9-3:30 of fundamentals of teaching, teaching techniques, lesson plans, syllabus, grade tracking programs...holy hannah. i think my head is going to explode. i'm already overwhelmed. but STOKED.

maybe i should go study for finals now. or go into a coma. maybe both.

tea for two

so when i was blog stalking my friend holli who's currently studying abroad in london, i saw that she had a tea party at a tea house there. and then inspiration struck, and whitney and i decided to have a tea party. here's how the conversation pretty much went:

amy: "i want to have a tea party."
whitney: "ok. who should we invite?"
amy: "we don't have friends."

(ok, so we do have friends. but most of them were working or concerting or doing something legitimately social.)

the point is: we had a tea party, and we liked it. you can mock all you want, but i know deep down inside you're thinking, "man...i want to have a tea party too."

the party.
(ok so we used hot chocolate instead of tea. because we like the word of wisdom.)

the partyers.

the partying.

wedding bells and turkey lurkey.

ok so i'm getting a little behind in my blogging duties...i can't really think of why though. it's not like i'm going to school or anything. oh wait...nevermind. anyway, stop your cryin' and feast your eyes on the brief recap of the past 3 weeks or so.

first, our (former) roommate hilary's wedding reception. this was a big deal. she had a countdown going from the beginning of the semester.as you can see, we rather enjoyed ourselves. we came, we ate, we sat anti-socially on the stairs and had a mini-photoshoot, we molested the wedding cake, said hi to mrs. oldroyd, and left. it was a good show.

fast forward to thanksgiving break. i made two pies. let me introduce you to my friends pumpkin and pecan:look how much fun i'm having.

and then we had thanksgiving with all the fixins. it was mmm mmmm good, and this was the first year i didn't go into a five hour food coma after the meal. it was a big moment for me.

thus ends the brief recap of my life.