#10

Happy #10 - rice krispie treats. 

toothpaste

so maybe i'm particular with certain things. one of them is my toothpaste containers. and today's happy is definitely this:

cutting open the tube to get the laaaaast bit out :)

Happy # 8

hi this is a sideways picture of a letter from Boyd K Packer, one of my idols. 

I painted this picture of him in the air force, june of 2013. and i sent it to him, with a letter, a couple weeks ago. and yesterday he wrote back, thanking me and wishing me happiness and i am grateful.

and just for fun, this is my favorite painting of his; because he used to tend peacocks as a boy!! and who can say that?! very few. He's great. 

Weasel kind of looks like me

Today after we got home from church, were just about to eat dinner when Jenae pointed out that she and i were wearing dresses of a similar style. and that our hair looked similar. i go to church several hours before them, so we don't get ready at the same time, so this was incidental. i said that i guess we kind of look alike. and she gasped and said she wanted to take awkward pictures showcasing our likeness. obviously i agreed. and we even roped mom into tromping out to the field with us. it was good fun, actually. and, Jenae's a babe.

 please note that in the picture above, my legs are indeed paler than the dead weeds behind me.

trying really hard not to laugh:

also please note that earlier, while reading i rubbed the mascara off of one of my eyes. so my right eye looks bigger than my left in all of these photos. oh well. 

attacking mom:

I like that we look similar, but still very different. i have pale skin with dark hair, dark eyes and darker lips. 

She has a more color, and tans more easily, and has light hair, light eyes and lighter lips.

the next seven are a progression chart of me trying unsuccessfully not to laugh:

I have an oval face and she has a more heart shaped face. 

i have a more pronounced brow, chin and shoulders, while her features are softer.

 but i'm also taller ;) by juuust a hair. 

I have my dad's nose and mouth, but my mom's kind of eyes and cheeks.

Jenae has my dad's kind of eyes and cheeks, but my mom's nose and mouth.

this is my new favorite picture of her ever:

PUT DIS EN DA YEARBOOK, JUHNAY

but seriously, she's gorgeous:

I love weasel. 

even though she wakes me up every morning because she doesn't know how to whisper.

Happy #7 - the LDS Fresno, CA Temple

I get to see it every week. sometimes more, and today the sky behind it was SO blue! 

our little temple is beautiful, and i'm grateful for it.

Hoar Frost

I WISH THIS PICTURE WOULD SHOW UP BIGGER. 

 Happy #6 - seeing this picture on the front page of my school website. 

this is my second favorite city, Rexburg, ID.

I miss the Hoar Frost and the snow. 

also,

dear teenage heart,

I warned you. and i triiiiied to keep you far away from this situation. 

hoping this doesn't end badly.

- your brain.

Valentines Day

I set a "romantic" table for my parent's dinner tonight, complete with a bubbly waitress (yours truly) and some good ol' Frank as mood music in the background. I love seeing my parents be mushy. ha. and i love hearing them laugh together. 

I am so lucky that I have these two as my parents.

I love their love story, and i'm honored to be a part of it. 

Happy #5

Mom an Pop on Valentine's Day Evening

If i could have a Gerald N Lund kind of romance, that'd be greeeeeat.

first of all, my happy for today:

The Work and the Glory series. i just finished the fourth book (i started it literally in September, but then went away to school. then, i came home at Christmas and continued but then the kindest, nicest character was brutally murdered and i HATED THE WORLD BECAUSE OF IT. so i stopped reading it. until Monday. and i finished it this morning. and uglyface happy tears were had. how does Gerald write such PERFECTLY FLAWED COUPLES OVER AND OVER AGAIN?! seriously. Ben and Mary = perfect. Nathan and Lydia = perfect, Joshua and Jessica = tragic then happy, Joshua and Caroline = perfect, Melissa and Carl = wonderful then bitter then sweet, Derek and Rebecca = PERFECT, MATTHEW AND JENNY = PERFECT AND WONDERFUL and all that is good in the world is in them. okay, i'm done, i promise.)

and hi, my name is melissa hansen and i've never had an actual valentine. which is normal cause i'm a baby.

anyway, if around this time of year i had any kind of a boy who i thought maybe liked me, 

i'd probably give him this:

also, if my old lady brain could tell my pubescent heart to shut up, that'd be great. 

and if BYU-Idaho could NOT make me move every 3 1/2 months, i'd be okay with that. 

literally the ONLY thing i don't like about my school is the track system. reason #231? relationships are real hard to get rollin when I'm CONSTANTLY moving. and away. and gone. and leaving. or going. or whatever. 

i have a crush on you, you person, you. 

but TRUUUUST me my old lady brain is trying everything it can to convince my teenage twitterpated self that this is not a good idea. 

i kind of feel like i'm reading "The Monster at the End of this Book". to myself. and i'm begging me not to turn the pages BUT I KEEP TURNING THEM.

LISTEN TO ME SELF, 

LISTEN GOOD

this is not a bad idea

but it's not a good one. 

and this boy is good

but this timing is bad.

and you're just getting ahead of yourself....again.

SO STOP.

*ignores self*

I can HEAR my mother rolling her eyes some time in the next 24 hours when she reads this post. 

i can literally hear her eyes rolling in my mind's ear. 

ha. 

and i can hear myself shouting from down the hall, "LOVE ME, MOM. HE'S DREAMY AND KIND."