~Then and Now~

       Heyy! So this 'then and now' post is about Samuel Lyndon Michael Azcuna. Although he is just {in sep} two, I thought that I should do one about him. Well, it will be a nice in and small post lol :)
      SO Sam is now walking and talking! He loves popsicles! :) When he was a baby he liked when I sang 'my faith still clings to thee'. I don't know why, but the boys in our family just loved being sang to! :) Hahaha, so I love him so much! And I can't wait for his birthday which is 9/9/09! :D

      As for me. MY ROOMS PACKED! Yes. It is. :) The whole upstairs is now packed. It's so much fun. Anywhoo, I figured out something terrible. We aren't taking my piano. THE piano that I have played on my whole life. I love it. Even though it really is falling apart. Still, I'm going to miss it. Call me weird, but it's the one thing that I am not very happy about. I still love it though, and I will very much look forward to coming back and playing on it. xD


     Well I hope your days awesome~
~Hannah

~moving updates~

     Okay! So. Today I thought I would give some moving updates. Well, we have our trailer {that should be a big yellow truck} and it's already getting packed! We've been moving box's from the garage into the trailer, and box's from the house into the garage. :) It's a lot of box lifting and this year, the Azcuna's are flying Solo-AKA we're not getting help xD Yep, so that means Hannah get's to move lot's of box's. Today and Tomorrow are PACKING DAYS! Saturday and Sunday are cleaning days so is Monday. And Tuesday is the day. THE ACTUAL DAY! ugh. Yep. Tuesday is officially the sad day. Yes, I am leaving Illinois {permanently} for the first time in...eight years? Yep, pretty long time. It's very very sad. BUT I am still a happy mover. :) Many doors open up when others are closed. I'm starting to scout out my options. :D
     SO. The next days are busy. We have to work work work. :) It's not so much of a bad thing, but seeing this house empty is gonna be plain WEIRD. Andddd, we actually can't move into our house till Sep. 10 WHICH MEANS we shall be living with our grandparents for ten days. How fun :) It's actually exciting. Now why are we moving early? Because of me. Yep. Simple truth, people :) I have a band starting on Sep 2. <im so nervous>  I don't know anything about this band. Its exciting and scary lol.
   Well, anywhoo, I just wanted to give you moving updates. LOL :)
       Here are some pics!

{All of Donna's box's say this. YEP.}

{There is Papa, thinking that he will win the bet. [we have a bet that we can fit everything in one trip. Like all the box's and small furniture. I don't think so. Be we'll see]}

{SEE. I'm so going to win xD No just kidding, just watch, he'll win right after I say I will. I'd say it's 50/50 xD}

{Yes. That is 'our big yellow truck'}

{Yes. That is a full back seat of a 12 passenger van. How come I'm not surprised? Seen this many times before :}

Alrighty! Well you have a good view on our progress!!! Keep ya posted!

I hope your day is awesome!
~Hannah

~Volleyball~

  Yay for volleyball :) I love volleyball! Hopefully some time I'll be able to play on a real team :) But I'm going to play volleyball for the last time for my going away party~ I.CAN'T.WAIT :) So, because I have such a busy day today and I have to blog in the morning, I blogged about volleyball. I have so many fond memories of Volleyball!!! :) I'm prayin' for good weather today :) Hope your day is awesome!!!

{This was a fun rainy memory. The vball court had huge puddles everywhere! :) For the first time I actually laid down in a puddle. :) This was so much fun!}

{One of the many memories :) Did this many times :)}

{And this the last one, was many years ago, when we started playing volleyball. It was really cold that day. I was just kind of there on the court, but that was the beginning :)}

~Hannah

~The little hummingbird~

   Well I have nothing to post about today. So I just chose something random. With the little time I have, I shall keep blogging! :) I will only allow myself to fall behind for school reasons. NOTHING ELSE :) 
  So I like to go through my pictures and see what I might blog about. Today I found this :)

{photo credit createdbydonnablog.com}

                                         And here's a nice half poem to go with it :)
"The insect birds that suck nectareous juice
From straightest tubes of curly-petaled flowers,
Or catch the honey-dew that falls profuse
Through the soft air, distill'd in viewless showers,
Whose colours seem the very souls of gems,
Or parting rays of fading diadems..." Hartley Coleridge

                           There's more to the poem, but I didn't want to post the whole thing :) But I want to say that Humming birds are very beautiful colorful little things. :) That is one of them, sitting on my hand! We were in Colorado, in a secluded mountain house and there were DOZENS of them. Seriously, they were like mosquitoes. They just flocked around the feeders!! The funny thing is that they weren't scared of us! Humming birds are so very shy. Whenever I'm at my grandma's I see maybe one, and whenever we come outside to just watch them, they fly away! BUT, here they didn't. We ate dinner on the porch of some friends house and they just came and went as if we weren't even there. The people said that the hummingbirds would come sit on our fingers if we sat there and stood still. It took a long while for them to actually come, but when they started coming it was so much fun. It tickled so MUCH! :) I was soooooooooooo happy! I mean what bird that is not trained would come and sit on your finger?? And what's more, they did it while Donna big black camera was pointing straight at them! I was so happy. We got a picture to prove that that little critter came and sat right on my finger. It was awesome! I hope next year I can see them again!

Hope your day is awesome!

~Hannah

~Summer walks~

 So yesterday I was taking a walk in Sycamore. It's actually funny, because I usually don't take walks; especially when it's hot out. But I thought, 'I'm not going to be here much longer, so why don't I take a nice walk?' It was a good idea. And I met Donna on her walk, so I wasn't alone the whole time :)
  Well I really like walks. Summer walks are so much fun, when you have a camera and when it's not blazing out. I took some nice pictures of some flowers. I don't know what kind they are, but they were beautiful!
  Being on walks let's you realize how beautiful God's creation is. :) We should all appreciate the beauty of his creation. Its amazing how one little flower can testify his love for us through his creation.

 I am looking forward to going to Colorado this year. There I will take pictures of many many things, but one of them will be flowers. :) We have pictures of beautiful flowers from last year. They really have awesome flowers up there.
 Anywhoo, I just wanted to share my flower pictures today. :) I'm so happy, because I took them with a cheaper camera and I edited them myself. I think they came out pretty good lol
  Well, hopefully, I'll be able to post a longer post tomorrow. The day's are getting SOOOO busy. The last EIGHT DAYS! Man, it's scary. :) We are like last minute planning and everything. Box's are starting to show up in our hallways and our garage is getting filled up to! We're getting a trailer today. It is a little disappointing that we don't get a truck this year, but I'll have to live with it :)                                                                        By the time we get to our new house it will almost be time for fall. Fall's the best time of the year. The weather is the BEST! Just getting cold, not to hot. Yes...I am looking forward to it. :) well yes. Here is the random post about nothing in particular. Just an update sort of LOL :D I hope your day is awesome!!!! ~Hannah

~Sophie~

     This blog post is in honor of Sophie Caroline Azcuna ;) Yesterday she turned Seven, but today we are celebrating. Can you believe it?? She's actually SEVEN! Wow...time flies. I remember when she was born. I believe that we slept over at my aunt and uncles house. My mom and Dad left early in the morning to go to the hospital and we spent the day with my aunt and uncle. I remember going to see her in the hospital. She was a tiny bundle of joy. :) ANOTHER baby GIRL! :)

{today we have been to the park and as you can see in the pictures  below, we went to panda express  and it happens to be where I got most of my pictures, lol}

{my lunch: Chow Mein, Rice, Orange chicken. There ain't nothin' better  :) }

 {These pictures are of Sophie! I lOvE this GiRl}

{this photo and the ones below belong to createdbydonnablog.com . Copyright 2011}

{I LOVE this picture! She looks so pretty yet so serious. She was in MI here. I LOVE her eyes  <3}

{Happy in Colorado}

{she does these funny faces that just makes all of us smile!}

     She is such a blessing. She loves to laugh and giggle. She's like a little me :) hahahaha. I love her so much. :) Well I just might post again tonight with more birthday pictures. I don't know yet, but now having a camera and being able to edit right away without having to make the pictures jpg, is so much easier. I might if I have time :) Rest of the day? Eat dinner, open presents, eat cake and ice cream, and Mulan 2! Sounds good to me!
     Hope your day is awesome! :)
~Hannah

~Summer is for memories~

{At the ravina waiting to listen to yo you ma :)}

SOOOOOOOOOOO....summer is for memories AND blogging. Yes yes it is :D I love blogging. And I can't believe that this summer I actually started!!! Man...I could have been blogging a long time ago. Too bad, :) Now, I have to regretfully inform you that during the school year, when I start school, I'll probably be a little lax on the blogging. I hate to admit it, but it's true. :) This fall I'm starting high school ;) That's the serious kind of school xD So I shall have a hard time blogging. AND my posts will probably come later in the day. BUT while summer is still here we don't really need to think about that. Summer has been quite fun this year!! I hate the heat, sadly, and I look forward to the colder days, but honestly this summer has been awesome. I have written a full book, that's not edited yet, but hopefully one day it can be published. I went to my first Broadway play with my cousins. I ate on top of the John Hancock building. And I rode on the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier. I also saw Yo Yo Ma play at Ravinia :) That was inspiring! So it is a summer full of memories. :) I am very thankful that my summer has been a great one. :) The beauty of it all is that it doesn't stop there! I'm doing high school which is exciting and scary at the same time, my cousins getting married in October, I am moving, AND my cousin from the Philippines and his wife should be coming too! AND CHRISTMAS! :D I would love hear about all of your summers! Even if you sat and wrote books, or you played sports! Summer is a time to build memories :) And it would be fun to hear about them!
  So yes. Summer is for memories. :) I hope your summer has been awesome!!! As well as your day!!! :D

{Ferris Wheel! You know actually it was scary. I have been on some of the scariest roller coasters, but this was just scary. I felt like any time it could break .It's like doing a roller coaster in slow motion. I'd do it again, but still........its freaky}

{We also did the swings}

{I love the colors!!}

{My beloved Evernote, YAY for book writing :D}

{Beauty and the Beast}

{Leaving for Broadway}

{BROADWAY}
{photo credits:Donna Azcuna. Visit website at createdbydonnablog.com}

~Hannah