there is always a bright side.

yum. mexicones.the bueno fresa coco please?!? best place ever.
my cute ryan and my cute camelot.

me, ben, and ryan getting ready to play some hard core basketball.

what?!? we are both smiling normal!?

go aggies! they actually won! wooooo! it's the first full utah state football game i have been to. i only went to the whole thing because of Ryan. he LOOOVVVEES his sports.

me and ry= bad to the bone.

me and ryan "growling" at eachother.

hello! i hope everyone is having a busy, beautiful fall. i am keeping busy! i just got a 2nd job! i am going to nanny 2 days a week and then every other saturday night. it will be good to have some extra money. my goal is to save it for school,camera equipment, traveling, and actually having a savings account..... usually i spend my extra money on clothes and sushi.. oops. we will see how it goes. haha. i bet my mom and dad laughed out loud reading that. :) saving money + sami jo=oxymoron. i am trying to be a grown up though! haha. anyways.. life is good. it's crazy and i like it! here is some pics from the last week. me and ryan finally have a normal picture together where we are both smiling! it's a miracle. we are quite the weirdos and seem to bring out the weirdness in eachother even more when we are together. haha. anyways. i hope everything is going great for everybody. keep up the good work with the blogs. i love looking at all of them!

extra! extra! read all about it!

me and ryan getting ready to play some hardcore football.


me happy to be at the park with katlin and kase. ( they came up to slc a couple weekends ago! best time ever)

me and ryan after playing in a waterfall. crazy children.

ryan being a weirdo creep. we get a long very well. haha.

hiking to bells to jump in the lake. everyone thought it was cold but me.

it's the wyoming girl in me. :) haha

me and my besty cousin. she came to aunt rauna's while me and katie were staying there.

kase took this!!!

me and my burnt rice. hahahahaha. oh wow.

I am a horrible blogger! SOOO much has happened since my last blog so the few people that actually look at my blog I will update you. :) So I was planning on moving to SLC in the fall to finish school but ended up getting a job sooner than I thought! I ended up moving the first week in July and started my new job at a group home with people with disabilities the very day I moved. Most of you that know me know that I HATE big cities. I was dreading leaving Logan and moving to somewhere I knew I wasn't fond of. Luckily Ryan lived in Draper for the summer so he helped me adjust and enjoy the rest of my summer in "the big city." It was hard when he moved back to logan for school and I knew all of my friends were together in Logan having a good time without me. Luckily I am taking 15 credits and work 59 hours a week so now I don't have much time to think about missing Logan. haha. I have prayed for strength to have a good attitude about Salt Lake and enjoy the time I am here and grow from it. I really like my ward and Luckily I am starting to "like" Salt Lake and I'm adjusting better than I thought. I get to see my friends every week still because I go see Ryan once a week and he is here a lot of the weekends so life is good! I have a couple more semesters here in SLC with my photo program and then I will move back to Logan in May. So along with school and work taking up a lot of my time I have also been training for my half marathon which I ran last weekend! http://shotu.smugmug.com/UTAH-EVENTS/Suncrest-Mountain-Race/Suncrest-Mountain-Race3/9608670_qCVHc#647310755_Vin6a haha such a funny pic... by the way Mandi sent me that shirt and waterbottle in the mail! What a sweetie. I am now training for the full marathon in December which will be in Las Vegas. :) So between school, work, boyfriend, running, church, and friends life is busy and good! :) HAPPY FALL! oh and by the way..I am also trying to be a better cook... It's not working. *see burnt rice picture* haha. The other pictures I added are a random mix the past couple weeks. :)

the beauty in every inch

hello cyber world. summer is great isn't it?! it's been great with my birthday activities, weekends, 4th of july, and all of the summery goodness. ohh and can you believe the tom hanks cake ashley got me for my birthday? best cousin/friend ever. here's some recent pics of summer fun.

family party! best weekend ever.

pic above: me with smokey. oh it was so fun horseback riding! thanks dad.
yay! we finally got to the top! we only tripped a couple times.
i love hanging out with mand. she's always up for an adventure!




yay! we found shawnee falls. how cute is jj in this photo?






me and jj being hard core on the 4-wheeler





yes! first cast of the day. the fish looked bigger in real life ;)





mom and kai ready to head up the canyon.

hey heyyy! so dudes. best weekend ever. hansen family time is the best. you missed out!

more pictures to come but here is the first batch.

send all my lovin to you.

hello swimming pool. we all got burnt and loved it. :)

flour fight. haha. tyron dumped a whole bag in my hair.

on our way to dave's cabin. lately i take chocolate soy milk with me everywhere. yum!

happy summer!

hello summer! will you marry me??

me and camelot at farmer's market. 

dog party! you missed out!

thanks to camelot for letting us use "old greg" for shelter 

and warmth for the night.

ben being ben. :)

goodnight janna. haha. she was a schleepy girl. 

happy campers.

good morning! i forgot a brush so i grabbed old greg's 

snow brush. awesome trees in the background btw. 

hahaha. i'm happy ben and adam still want to be our friends after seeing

our morning van hair.

cami stroking jake's stache. 

dusting in the wind.

laura's goodbye bonfire/sleepover. she's going to chile to study abroad.

i shall miss her.

happy summer everybody. me and my buds are having a grand time welcoming the summer season. :) BBQ's, bonfires, sleepovers, farmer's markets, and van camping keep us merry and bright. 

i feel alive!

hello bloggy bloggg bloggers. life is swell. here is some pics of some good times with my peeps. we've just been living it up doing strange random things. "we feel alive!" i'm sure no one checks up on this anymore but if you do enjoy. peace.love.xoxo.

sami jami jo.