If anyone

If anyone is planning on applying and going to medical school, let me give you some preparations.

• Prepare to save thousands of dollars.
• MCAT PREP COURSE 1800
• MCAT 230
• MCAT RESCHEDULE 40
• APPLICATION FEES 1650
• 2nd APPLICATION FEES (unknown amount, but probably in the hundreds)
• INTERVIEWING AT ALL THE SCHOOLS (unknown amount but probably in the thousands)

• Prepare to have high levels of stress
• Prepare to have high levels of fatigue
• Prepare to re-write all the application essays (4 times)
• Prepare to ask several people for letters of recommendation
• Prepare for those people not to turn them in on time causing more levels of stress
• Prepare for at least 45 hours filling out applications
• Prepare for the individual applying to medical school to lose countless hours of sleep due to stress and fatigue
• Prepare for anxiety
• MCAT
• Waiting for scores
• Waiting for application results
• Waiting for interviews

• Prepare for Eating Disorders due to the above
• Prepare for all sorts of emotions at any time from the spouse or applicant due to the stress and fatigue
• Prepare for all your prayers to include the following words:
• MCAT
• Application
• Medical school
• Please get in
• Please help us

Hopefully if you were considering applying, you have an idea of what you are going to go through.
Now that everything is completed, it just still doesn't feel normal in my household. It feels....musty.
Like I'm not sure what is going to be happening so I want to be happy and I am, but it feels like the happiness has this lurkiness to it. Like it is going to be crushed at any moment. Or, don't be happy you don't know what is about to happen to your life.

Now I have completed teaching school, I have completed my week of classes after the school, and now I am trying to revive the potted plant that a student gave me because I forgot it in my classroom with no windows, light or water for 7 days.

When she gave it to me, it had 7 or 8 snails of all shapes and sizes in it. Quite exciting.
Many of you may know it is Brad's birthday on Sunday.
I tried to have a party for him today, but nobody can come, so its just going to be a bbq with me him and two of our friends. He tried to cancel the party, but I said NO! We are having a party for you!!!!

 Let me give you our past life in a few seconds via pictures and a few words.

Chelsea got married and had an open house before the wedding, here is Brad's brother Mike, wife Janeen, (who just graduated from medical school-both of them!) And me and Brad of course.

 

 Here is me right after that open house, making Chels' bouquet.

 Here is Chels after being married.

 They are very happy, and now in Africa. www.spencerventure.blogspot.com

Read all about their African Humanitarian trip and wish she was here with me like I am doing. That made no sense.

Shad graduated from high school!!! We traveled there and back in one night in a rainstorm.

 Here is his graduating class.

 All my siblings made it to the graduation!!!!!

 This is Hannah's fourth baby!! Hazel. Brad and I just need to practice for our family pictures that's all this was!!

 It was this little friend's birthday. She turned one. We had the party in the home ec room right after the graduation.

 She is too cute. I gave her that top when she was born! Crazy!!!! Time flies!

 This is Brad holding Amanda and Tanner's newest (Emmett). He looks like Ian right here.....he is making a 'get me outta here' face.

 Here is my siblings. Except Ethan, he was not coming to the picture for some reason.....

 Now here is all of us, with Ethan, without Shad....it was a rough night.

 Of course there is always a girls picture...Why I am the shortest I'll never know...I was blessed in other ways I guess.

 I pinched Summer's bum.

 It wasn't even Faith's birthday, and she stole the thunder from Jemma... Such a dilemma.

 Jemma knows how to party.

 Grandma and Grampy made an appearance, Daven is a cousin in the background :)

 Amanda said this was there first family picture! I feel honored. They are so cute.

 We know how to party!!

Oh and my Kindergarten friends graduated from K, so I made them all a very simple scrapbook page with two sides.

 I may miss these little friends!

 Last day of school was hardest ever!

That's a wrap!

Stay tuned for exciting Summer adventures ;)

Time flies

My day consists of waking up at seven, going to school at 7:30 teaching from 8:40-11:50, then eating lunch while getting ready for the day, the PM kids come at 12:10. Then I re do what I just did.

Then I stay at the school usually till about 5 getting ready for the next day. Then I may go to the gym, go home and go to the park, or just go home and crash.

Now I only have 9 days left of that. After 160 days of it. I am almost done. And I am tired. So I'm so tired that I applied for a summer teaching job, at a different school, teaching the PRE K that aren't quite where they need to be to start Kindergarten, and teaching the K that aren't quite ready for first grade.
But it doesn't start until July 18th and it goes only until August 11th.

Also Brad and I booked our trip for our 2nd Wedding Anniversary.
Bet you can't guess?
Where is it?
Cancun?
Australia?
Budapest?
NO!!
All wrong!!
We are going to Vegas again.
Sorry to build up your hope of seeing beautiful and foreign pictures..instead you will be looking at the same boring pictures that we had from Honeymoon, and year one. We just feel its a tradition and we really want to stay in a five star hotel (we stayed in 4 1/2 for our one year) so we Priceline Negotiated, and said we wanted a five star hotel on the strip for 80 bucks a night.

Where did we land?
Vdara.
Click right on that word, and go visit the deluxe room (lowest available room is still a sweet suite) (don't cha love how sweet and suite sound the same but are spelled different and mean different things!)

Last year we tried priceline 100 times and tried five star hotels from 80-120 bucks a night and could never score one!! That room we scored is about 239-199 depending on the night you go of course. So we are going for 4 nights, 80/night!! I would say we are excited.

Vdara is a new hotel and I am excited to leave a google review on that place. (I am excited for other thigns as well)

Also, I guess the main reason I made this post was to catch up but for all of you friends and family who read, and who made it to this part obviously care enough about me to read clear down here. Come on I haven't posted for a month, and you may be bored, but you do care enough to read to this point.

So I am asking you as friends and family, to say a little prayer for Bradley as he takes the MCAT in 6 days. I almost began to cry as I typed that. You see, his score will determine our lives for the next 10 years. I couldn't say that about any of my tests, except probably Marriage Development...Jk. But honestly we are both terrified, and I get butterflies every time I think about it. I have booked that day completely for myself so I have no chance to think about him in that 5 hour test. He has prepared significantly and I know with the prayers and help of friends and family he will do well.

Thank you for reading to the bottom of my heart/post, and I will keep you better posted on my life once five and six year olds don't consume and control it.

Look at how adorable...

I picked up this in Texas while I was there....how cute is it!!! Oh my gosh I love it, I keep looking down at it and loving it.

Don't worry, I didn't pay my first paycheck for it :) I also went to Last Chance with Hannah in my 3 hour lay over in Phoenix. I'll show you what I got there Later!!!
Is anyone else excited for General Conference? Lounging and listening for 2 days! I love it. SO relaxing and rejuvenating. Too bad Brad has to take an MCAT practice test Saturday during the morning session :)

Took a break

Sometimes life gets super hard. And fast. It goes fast and you realize its March and your husbands baby sister gets married and you are in Texas visiting the 2 year old triplets who are six and then you realize they aren't babies anymore and its sad.

And the dog Emma isn't 3 anymore. She is 7, and in dog years that is 49. She is old and has hip problems!! WHat? What happened to my rambunctious friend that would jump up in my arms!?!?!

And since when did they play Wii? Where are the diapers? Man, time flies, and I thought oh goodness I need to savor life more. I need to go on walks, I need to get a dog, I need to call people more talk about old times, and what's happening now. I have this problem...I always look to the future, what is coming next. Now I just need to slow down and look at right now.

And Right now I am watching 3 6 year olds jump over rolling logs and they act as if they are really doing it. We were in the car driving today and they said, "We are Jewish." I said, " No you go to a Jewish school but you aren't Jewish."
Bryce: Oh, we are Mexican.
Me: No. You are American and Canadian.
Reid: What are you?
Me: I'm American
Trevor: I don't even know what Jewish means.
Me: It is a religion, like Catholic, Mormons, Methodist, it means you believe in God.
Bryce: Ya we believe in God and Jesus.
Reid: Yes, I believe in God, Jesus, and Santa.

I thought to myself, oh great, when you realize Santa isn't really are you going to think God and Jesus aren't real......? We will find out I guess!

I'll enjoy 85 degrees while Utah enjoys random bursts of snow, wind and rain.

Sick is a verb. Action verb.

You see one time in church at my family ward, Ian...my little brother who is 9 know but he was 7 at the time was sitting next to me, the speaker said, "Faith is a verb." Then I heard Ian mutter under his breath...."Action verb". Like he was annoyed the speaker didn't say that. Now Ian is a breed of his own. For instance check out my you tube channel with Ian's nine hour lego videos that Brad recorded. Well that's a story on its own. You see I recorded Ian and lost the video...then Ian busted into tears and needed a two day recoop to re set up. It was tragic. Not to mention every time I went home he would say..."Can you video me today?" Like 18 times a day.
Anyway brittanyhhansen youtube channel.
So back to the point of my story. Sick is a state of being...I am sick. So it can be a noun or an adjective. But I believe currently it is an action verb. To me. I am sicking all the time. Its always on the weekend. I'm getting to the point where for breakfast I swallow a whole garlic section. A trick my friend taught me.
Clove...not section. Wow the medicine makes me feel weird. Brad does research where they dissect pregnant mice and it has to be at midnight for some odd reason...so he gets back home at 2 AM.
I would like to see what he does.
ANyway I'm done being sick

This morning began with tears..

I went outside to my Passat. Backed it out of the garage, and was going perfectly straight, my mirror was far away from the other car, the new tenants downstairs. Then I heard it, a small crunch. I began to shake. My stomach was in my mouth. My heart sank to my feet. I felt totally frozen. I got out of the car, ran inside and had my hands over my mouth. Brad saw my face and said, "Whatever you did, its okay honey."

That should have helped...but it didn't. I just began to cry and he grabbed me and held my head in his shoulders.
"What happened?"
"I hit their car."

"It's okay Brit, its okay, you are okay that is what matters."

"No its really bad, and I feel so stupid"
He looked at it, and said, "Oh babe! That's nothing, you are fine, I'll leave a note, call insurance everything, you just go to work."

See their car was parked on a small angle, so when I looked I didn't see their back end over their line. Me thinking I was going perfectly straight...I was, and scooted across their car a little bit with my car.
My car has zero damage, theirs has a small dent and black smudge, since their car is white.

I was too scared to finish backing out. Brad did that for me.
It ruined my day, I felt like I couldn't even teach. I couldn't even talk. I teared up all day long.

How could I be so stupid. I tried to think of stupid things other people had done to make me feel better.
All I could come up with are things that I did that were stupid. Like when I backed up a car into a pole, garbage can, and got the truck stuck in 3 feet of snow in a borrow pit.

I couldn't think of one stupid thing Brad has done. Proving that I am therefore the only idiot on this planet. To make things even better, when I got home I had this brilliant idea of making them cookies for backing into their car. I went to the store bought some supplies and a heart cookie cutter. Their door is down a long set of stairs right below my door. I dropped my bag of supplies and they tumbled down the stairs, the cookie cutter sliding right under the gap of their door. Great!!!!!! I just need to stay inside today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So then I began the panic phase. I knew they weren't home, but I had no idea when they would be home so I got right to work, I picked up all the stuff, then I went into my house and got two rulers and taped them together and to top it off I taped a sharpie to the end of that. I then went down to the bottom of their stairs and smashed my face against the tile and slid my contraption under their door trying to reach the cookie cutter.

Awesome, if I can't reach it they will come home and think what the heck is this cookie cutter doing? Then I will give them cookies and they will put it all together. I am just a true and blue spaz, thats what they will think of me if they don't already.

I slid the cookie cutter every which way, and after about 5 minutes of pure sweating I got it, ran upstairs and shut my door and locked it, hoping they wouldn't venture in and begin yelling and swearing at me for hitting their car.

I made cookies, they were hard....of course nothing can go right for me in this day its already bad luckified.

I put them at their door, and prayed they wouldn't hate me, and that maybe they wouldn't try the hard cookies and just accept the gesture as kind. My panic attacks inside of me have eased a little, but I still feel like a moron, idiot and moron as I texted Brad 19 times today.

I'm going to bed early hoping tomorrow will be one of those days where its like "How can so many good things happen to me in one day" kinda day.

Brad reminded me of why I married him today, he doesn't freak out and get mad. He is just chill and its okay...even when in my mind, its not! It is the end of the world!

He said, "Its just a possession, you are alive, that is the most important thing."
And then I thought....is he human?

Life as I knew it.

As time flies by, I still think about blogging. I think about what I could say. So I am going to give you a small piece of my mind right now. I have an attractive husband. Pardon my bragging.

I have stinkin cute nieces. 

She really can't get cuter.

Tanning is awesome, makes me look like I have clear skin. 

Its deceiving and I love it.

I love birthdays.

Ian, Brooke, and Sophie.

All at once.

That's what we do in my family combine birthdays. If they are all in the month, that counts. Done, have a party. Pick a date in the middle of all of them, and its a party.

Ian liked the present I got him. He is nine.

Here is his email to me.

Subject: 

when are you geting my present?

Email:

Brit,

my party is Saturday & you still haven't got my present yet.you  should have it by now.get it  now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Demanding, and somewhat cute....

Sorry Tiera, this picture doesn't really do it for you.

But Faith, I love the way you talk, I love the way you call all dogs 'you lil rascal!' And I love the way you say, "Hey hey hey Brit, I gotta tell ya somethin." 

"You know yesterday? Well, yesterday Rosie had puppies."

Me: Faith that was like three months ago.

Faith: "Huh, I know I tricked ya!"

So cute. I love skyping with her. 

This is our friend who currently lives with my parents...long story why, but he is a sweetheart. My mom says he will just wake up in the night and wash all the dishes by hand. That's 11 people's dishes he is washing. That's a lot. Sweet heart.

This is Shad, my little brother, notice he has grown since I was home. His shoe size is size hugeo.

But he is pretty nice.

You just listened to what I was thinking.

Now I'm thinking I need to do my report cards. But I feel like eating spring rolls from Costco and laying on the lovesac with Brad while he watches the new office....

Who knows what I will choose...????

What's that you say?

Ya, I am a four weeker. I haven't posted for four weeks. But in my world, if I miss something I just move on. So I am moving on. You see, I haven't been very photogenic lately....I am a leper, and I haven't wanted to talk about anything because I haven't jumped at the idea of being a leper and talking about it, but I think I have come to terms, and I am okay with it, maybe because I found a temp cure, meaning I don't know if it will work forever but it is working for now.
Christmas went well, that's all you really need to know... like I said, I'm moving on from the past.

 This is what my students got me............perfume, Lightning McQueen, Kleenex, socks, gift cards, and presents galore. 

 Christmas Eve, I spent with Brad's family...we spent it shopping, visiting the PIE in Salt Lake, and visiting Temple Square.

 Here we are, eating away at the PIE. 

And for our long Martin Luther weekend we decided to travel with friends to Vegas....we saw this show.

 Actually we just saw our husbands....and that was close enough to what we would have gotten at Chippendales anyway.

We visited the most famous Pawn Stars store....no they were not there.

But we were.

We ate at the Rio buffet...more than any of us could handle.

 But this was my favorite plate, out of the six plates I got.

 Brad still hasn't eaten since.

And there is my fifteen second catch up.

Oh yes, my short term remedy for my spots.

Tanning.

It helps them and it makes me tan. Great combo.