So, tomarrow is my first day of second semester of college. Tomarrow I start with psychology then art then ceramics. Also I think I am gonna go to a institute class. Full day I know. But it should be really fun! Exciting stuff. Valentines Day is comming up! Horray! Also David's birthday. Mimi's birthday is today and we are going over to her house to celebrate, even if she is real sick. Owen is over at our house right now and he is pretending to be a kitten. Only problem is that he is an attack kitten and keeps attacking me! But he is EATING!!! He lost a lot of weight cause he wouldnt eat for a while. Like 6 weeks. He was on an all liquid diet. But now he is eating alot! Hooray! Man, that kid is huge. He is not fat, but tall and stocky. Lifting him is now like a workout. My room is a mess, life is a little... crazy. but I think it is my fault. I dont really remember things very well anymore, I have youth alztimers I think. Also I sleep alot. It is really getting better though. Now I get up at like 11:00 instead of 2:00. ;) Okay I think this blog is really boring cause I dont have anything juicy to say. But I guess one post is better than no post at all. Somebody talk to me on this blog so that I can respond to something. Love all of you out there who read this blog. Even the ones who dont, I still love ya! Mary Hannah

Okay, I am bacccckkkkk!!!! Dont know if anyone reads my blog anymore but I figured I would update a little. Havent posted in a long time so I am not sure what you dont already know... Oh well, hear it again! Life is really good. Yep, that is a true statement. I will start my second semester in college in about a week and a half, majoring in art. Yes, art. I have always loved to draw and appreciate other people's geinus. I am not very good though, It is just really fun. But I have a really big problem... One of my classes is called "life drawing" and I just found out that it means the human body. But the only thing i am worried about is that I might have to draw naked people!!! Ewe... I am not too sure what I will do if i am going to stay in the class but I might have to hire someone to cover my eyes during class. ;) The other classes are pretty standard, psych 100 and pe and another art class, should be fun. I miss my family. They are all scattered to the winds again after the holidays. I miss all of the rest of my neice and nephews. No fair, why does america have to be so big. But I will see them again hopefully sooner rather than later. I still live at home, yes, and it is a very hard thing to do. I think harder than living out on your own. I dunno, ask me when I have tried both. I am exactly 5'1 still and havent moved an inch since about sixth grade. But, I still hold hope for the future. I saw a really cute movie called 27 dresses today, just fyi. I really dont have anything more to say, wierd cause I normally cant stop talking. Okay to everyone who reads this, I love you and probably think about you all the time. I dunno, depends on the person. I heard a saying today that I really like. "I love your guts". graphic, but effective. Bye bye

Okay, well I am gonna post cause i have some newsie stuff to share. Currently I am in florida helping Sara and matt with the kids and stuff. I get home on monday and two hrs after i get there i start my first college class. Communications. but my brother daniel is in there with me so it is nice that i will get to see and friendly face. then I get to do dance, sign language, child psych, and something else i cant really remember. So yeah, I think that life is just about to start for me. Hopefully anyways. I am gonna go to the singles ward and to institute, and clean my grandma's house and take care of her. I love that lady. She is funny. So I am pretty sure that i havent slept in my own bed for about 2 months. Yeah, I kinda miss that bed, spent many a night there, you know, sleeping. Good dreams and all that too. I have to say that my favorite dream is the one where you get to fly. Only problem is I cant stay up as long as i want and all that. You'd think that you'd have controll over your own flight in your dreams, but, not me. random i know, but still interesting. to me at least. So I am hoping that my life stays intact when i get home, I'd really appreciate that. Okay, well much love to anyone out there who still reads this blog. love, Mary Hannah

Okay, Amy i am glad i am not the only one who is still blogging. But it really makes me sad cause it is just the two. Dont get me wrong, luv ya amy, i just miss the rest of the gang. Nothing going on here... Life is kinda boring. But i am graduating from seminary, school, and getting my Young Women's medallion!!! Hooray for me! This time last year i would never have thought i would get this far. I really hated being a juvenile delinquent. ;)

Okay, is no one out there in blog land anymore? hmmph. Okay then, i quit! ;)

Hello! I am back!! It is the tail end of winter and isnt that sad? I think it is. Anyhoo, Nothing really going on here, three of my four sisters are pregnant. All are due about a month apart! Yeah, i dont think we are equipt to handle three pregnant ladies. Just kidding, they are all nice, for the most part ;) Cant wait to see these little neicies or nephews, they will all be insainly adorable, cause, well, they ARE Powells!!! I am back at school for all five classes again. Mostly electives so it isnt that bad. But I do have a major complaint! Theater class stinks!!! I really hate it. You'd think i would do good cause i am such a drama queen, but it is really more about how much bs you can put on paper. Dont get me wrong, I can do it, It is just REAL boring. My puppy is huge, and is a big dummie, I love her. She runs head on into things on accident, then shakes it off and keeps moving. She is a dumb. So, one of the teachers at school today told me that i stink, like really smell bad. They said i needed to use soap more often, and the other kids are laughing cause they know it is true. Really mean huh? I cry alone, in the dark about it all the time. ;) Yeah, but i suppose i dish out the verbal jousting, it just kinda hurts when i try and take it. (P.S. if anyone says the phrase "verbal jousting" to me, well... I would just suggest that you dont!) I am in denial sometimes. So I've watched every DVD in my house worth watching this last week. It was kinda fun... But i kept getting sore from laying down on my side watching the little dvd player. So i would take a little rest from resting. If that makes any sense at all. I was really sick. But the perk to being sick is that you lose alot of weight. HORRAY! I guess. My mom is telling me that i am going to have to quit piano lessons cause i am not serious about it. Humpf! It just seems to annoy people really bad when i practice. And it doesnt sound good with the soft pedal. Dang. I might not go to lessons, but i really hope i dont stop playing cause it makes me really happy. (at the expense of others?) ;) I think that this should do for a while as my most recent blog. Love all ya'll!

Yep, I am home at blogger again. I hope everyone had a great christmas! I really didnt... I got my wisdom teeth pulled, got a touch of bronchitis, and an infection in my gums cause the dressing stayed in to long and was... well you get the idea! We got a real cute puppy for christmas. Her name is emma and she is really naughty, but i love her. she reminds me of me, except for the whole dog factor. School is great, and i just got the best gift ever! My grandma and sister painted my room! It looks so good! plus new bedding! red sheets, it is really cool, believe me! Plus my brother in law and my dad moved all the unnecessary furniture out of my room, how cool is that! So it looks fantastic! I really owe those guys! Much ado about nothing, great movie, trust me, watch it. I think i am inactive in church and it makes me real sad. I really should get back to that. Plus i havent been to seminary in like, a few months. So i really should get back to that. my family is really funny. nough said. ;) My brother and brother in law ship out really soon here. Their wives are real sad and I am too. I dont like siblings to be gone from huntington for that long. Oh, and if anyone has a complaint about my answering machine message, please say so here. I dont like the hostile voices i keep hearing on my voice mail. ;) Me and my mom are sort of at odds... It is hard to explain cause we fight and get really mad at eachother, then i forget why i was mad and we are on good terms again. Oh, that is another problem, my memory is about the level of an ant. Sometimes it is good, keeps the peace. My sister and my other sister are both pregnant!!!! Horray!!! I cant wait to see their cute pregnancy bellies! And more neices or nephews, i am pretty much extatic. So life is pretty good. Cant wait to graduate! I'll blog again soon! love, me

Okay, I am welcoming myself back to blogger after a long absence due to grounding. Life has been pretty general around here, chores, homework, being cinderella, the usual. ;) Christmas is comming!!! Hooray! I love christmas, eggnog, christmas trees, mistle toe, presents, decorating, but my favorite thing is yet to come... Fires! Lots and lots of fires in the fireplace, with a really good smell and everyone being cozy. Not that i am a piro or anything. I just like fire, that's all. It is all cold outside and you have a great thick jacket to protect you from these harsh southern california winters. ;) So I now have a new favorite movie, it's pride and predjudice. I really like it. I've been sick for like a month, but what else is new?! I dont look so hot. I miss my sister rebecca alot. I think she should be comming home, now! But i dont really get a say in the matter. I am really excited to get a dog this christmas! Nobody could replace my last dog, but it'll be fun to have a puppy around again. Cleo is okay, she is just more like a cat than anything, and i am not really keen on cats. I am now eighteen and i still have no rights. Bummer, but it is true. Well i no longer have anything to write about. If anyone has any tips about hamlet please leave a comment. Okay, all you guys out there who check this blog, i am not dead. That was the point. Happy Christmas! (I know it is merry christmas, but i like the brittish version better. no complaints please.)

Okay, so today we moved Sara and Matt and hallie into their new apartment! It is really cute and hallie gets her own room...aka the closet. I hope she likes it in there. So i think i am going paintballing on the 14th with my dad and alot of other people. I just hope i am not the only girl! That would make me like public enemy number one, A huge target for all! So that should be fun, getting shot at and all, you know, bruises galore and whatnot. I like all this blogger stuff! It is nice, everyone gets the same info without like half an hour of phone calls ect. Not that i dont like to talk, cause i do, but, seems like i am running out of time latley to do the things that i want to get done. My sister's wedding is on the 28th, and my birthday is on the tenth. Eighteen, hooray! So i think i'm gonna get a new cute dress for the wedding with my birthday money. Hallie stayed the night with us last night and she is really cute! Poor thing is sick though. Ummm... I dont really have much in the way of new news. Sorry. But i am really excited to turn eighteen. Even though it gets me no rights except voting, It just seems like one of thoes milestone ages like 8 or 16. I like it! Okay well i have nothing else to say, but if more people would leave me comments that would be nice. I like it. Love, Me

So i've gotten a few complaints about the devil picture but i have to say that i really like it so if you dont, just scroll faster! Just kidding, after more people see it i will take it down, but it is really funny. HAHAHA see that is me laughing.

Hmmm... well i havent posted in while and sis wilson told me i needed to update my blog so of course i am obeying. So life is good. I really am happier than i have been in a long time. I think it is because winter is comming and that is my favorite season, in california. (which is like fall anywhere else, so i guess i like fall?...) (i am confused...) i just love the cold, we'll put it that way. School is in session and i really like it! School is great! I think i am getting a cold, darn it! oh well life goes on! Roses are blooming! How pretty are they? I just love them, but only when i dont have to get stuck with thoes sharp things on the stem. Piano has started back up. Horray! and i am teaching now, which is totally fun. My student is so cute and really patient with me cause this is my first time teaching. So no word on any job openings yet. But i am working for my grandma tomarrow and so i can start to make payments to my mom for my accident last year, when i wrecked the car. That curb jumped out of nowhere i swear! Okay i guess i have rambled enough! much love to all the fam out there who read this stuff! this picture is the one matt doctered to make me look like a devil. I dont really like to look at it, but maybe someone out there will find this funny.

Okay so these are the glamor shots that sara took of me. I like them. By the way, the one where i look unusually tan and have really white teeth is the one that matt photoshopped. But the rest are real me. I think i should probably write more in my blog. But unfortunatley i dont really have that much to say. Nothing interesting anyway. But here is an idea. Lara is getting married! Here is the other news: My birthday is on october tenth, I will be eighteen! Holy mackrel! Now i can smoke! Just kidding, i can but i wont. And lara is getting hitched on october 28th. My favoritist thing ever is sleeping, kinda random but i feel really tired! I suddenly have the urge to watch my favortie move, (for thoes of you who dont know it is Calamity Jane with Doris Day) and i really want to watch 1776. We watched that movie in English and i just love the songs! "He plays the violin..." HAHAHa yeah, i am lame, but in the happy sort of way. So you are probably really bored reading this cause it is just a list of my random thoughts. But, i have one question for you, Why are you still reading? Okay, here's a joke, Why is the ocean so friendly? Give up? Because it waves!! Okay i guess that is all

Yeah so this is me. I'm real cute huh? But i really like the Ronald McDonald look with all of the stripes. But this is how i am now a days too. Constantly sleeping. Who knows why but i really like to sleep and dream. Mostly cause you dont get to pick what you dream about. It is like a movie while you sleep! How awsome is that! Okay I know it is lame but that is how i really feel about it. And I also have a hard time keeping my eyes open most of the time. Oh well... Some people just need sleep. Just a random thought.

Well... I am 17 years old, (almost 18) kinda short, blonde, forgetful, and, oh yeah, really really extremely good looking! (I am not being vain, it is from zoolander, sheese!) I come from a fairly large family and we are all very involved in eachother's lives. We don't always get along, but I really like all of my siblings, parents and all other family members. (And I love them always;) I have the cutest neice and nephew that anyone has ever seen! They are both adorable and talkative, even if you can't understand what they are saying you can tell that it is something deep. My interests are in the piano, movies, art and I really like talking to people. Humm.. I guess that my life isn't all that crazy but hey, I think that we are unique. This year I am going back to regular high school, part time at least. Hooray!! I love kids, probably more than adults or teenagers. Maybe cause they don't really care if you are a dork. ;) As a family we are taking up playing tennis. By the way, we are all really bad at it! No joke I think we spend more time chasing the ball then actucally hitting it. But hey it is good excercise and we get to hang out as a partial family. I say partial cause we are not all together. I have siblings out of state with their spouses and we don't get to see them very often. By the way, my brothers in law and sister in law are fantastic! Really they fit in to our family so well and and we are all very attached. Especially my sister in law, cause we spent alot of time together with my other sisters, bonding and causing havoc. We had alot of fun that summer. My sisters are very important to me. I always ask their advice and go to them first with good news. They are my best friends. But I do have friends outside of the family... I am not a looser! I love going to church and seeing everyone I have grown up with. They have all put up with my talkativeness and made me a better person in the process. Me and my mom are really close. I tell her pretty much everything, except the stuff she doesnt want to know. ;) And I tell her on a daily basis how lucky she is to have me. Seriously! I say, "Mom, you are so lucky!" and she says, with a grin, "Yep I sure am". And I can't really tell if she is kidding. I have wonderful grandparents and the one whom I am named after really has a effect on my life. She isnt afriad to tell me that I am being retarded. Also she isnt afraid to run away from the police. (It's a good story, ask me about it later!) My dad is cool and tells reallllly corny jokes. But hey, we love him anyway! My dog is a ginormous chihuhahua that is black and really cuddly. She burrows under my pillow at night and i have to kick her out when I discover that I am uncomfortable. But she is cute and keeps the possums off the back fence. (She thinks she is a big, intimidating dog, ha) I am really bad at remembering to take care of my pets. I think I have killed a few goldfish, waterdog, bird and some others that I forgot. I think I could be in trouble for neglect. Okay well I gotta go swimming! I'll post later.