Copy Cat!!

So Zac, Jessica, and Amy all did this so I am doing it to.
1name: Hilary
2favorite food: Raspberries
3favorite color: red
4nickname: Hil
5favorite drink: Pepsi
6celebrity crush: Grey's Anatomy
7dream vacation: Hawaii (well some where warm and sandy)
8one word to describe you: Silly
9what you love most in life: Zac
10favorite song of all time: What hurts the Most by Rascall Flatts (really any thing by them)
11current location: Lethbridge
12what you want to be when you grow up:a Mom!!

Thanksgiving Weekend

This past weekend was Thanksgiving Day. Zac and I spent the weekend out in Raymond at his parents house. On Saturday night we went to my moms house and had dinner with her, Del, my cousin Heather, and my brother Tim. My mom cooked up a ham and all of the fixings. It was really good food, and also a good visit with my mom and Heather. My mom was a way of 2 weeks so it was the first time that i had visited with her since she got back. My cousin Heather thinks that i fell of the edge of the world since i got married, so i havent visited with her in a while!! Actually I think that she fell of the edge because she moved to Arrowwood!!! ha!
On Sunday we went to Grandpa and Grandma Dudleys house and had an awesome dinner there with Scott and Susie's family, and also Kevin and Monette's family. It is always fun to hang out with all of the cousins. After dinner I went to work and while I was gone Zac and some others decided that we should have a contest to see who can lose the most weight between now and Christmas. We all had to weigh in, and then an the 21st of December we are all going to weigh in again!! You have to pay $20 to be in the contest, but if you win then you get the money!!
Any way back to the dinner on Sunday...Payton decided that it would be a good idea if we all went around the room and said something that we were thankful for. Thanks Payton!! Just jokes!! It was actually a good idea!! One of Grandpa Dudley's friend was there and when we got to him he said something really fun. He said " That he was thankful for all the beautiful faces in the room, and that we were all here because Brian loved Diane." We all had a chuckle over that, and thought that we should make a sign that said ".....Because Brian loved Diane"!!
Well while I am on a roll i am going to make a quick list of the things that I am thankful for!!
1. I am so thankful for Zac!! I love him so much!! He makes me so happy!! I am so glad that I am able to spend my life with a man who makes me laugh everyday...even if it is at myself!!
2. I am thankful for families!! Both Zac's and mine!!
3. I am thankful that Zac's family live close to us!! All of my family lives so far away, so that has made me more appreciative to have Zac's family close!
4. I am thankful for the gospel.
5. I am thankful for temples.
6. I am thankful for the country that I live in. For the rights and freedoms that we have.
7. I am thankful for the opportunity that i have to go to school, and pursue something that i love!!
8. I am thankful for both Zac's and my health.
9. and so many, many more!!

I am sorry that this is a long blog, and that there aren't any pictures, but i dont have any!! :( I need to start taking the camera places or robbing some from Susie!!

I am not very good at updating.....

September has been a pretty crazy month with school and work. It is crazy that by the end of summer you want to get back to school so bad and then a month in you want it to be summer again!! Zac is having a really hard time adjusting. He got a new calling as an early morning seminary teacher, and is finding that having to get up at 6ish each morning is a drag. A normal day for Zac is seminary from 7-8, and then he comes home, changes and then takes off to school until 1 or 4 depending on the day. Then he is also working still at Home Depot. Some days he is gone literally all day. Which sucks for me! I sure do appreciate Zac and everything that he does for our family!! He is such a great husband and one day he is going to make such an awesome father. He is so patient and loving, and some days I definately dont deserve it!!

As for me, I am pretty busy with school and work. This year I am doing my community practicum for nursing, which means that I am at the Lethbridge Homeless Shelter two days a week. It is pretty different there. It still makes me a little nervous to go there, but every day it is getting easier. The people there sure lead much different lives and have much different priorities than me! I am really glad that I am doing my practicum here in Lethbridge at the shelter, and not in Calgary. That would be 10x more scary. I am really excited to finish up with this semester and move on to something different. I dont think that community nursing is for me.

Any who....at the beginning of September before Jessica went down to Boise, and Amy went back to Edmonton, we took some family photos. They were funny. Here are a couple that Susie emailed us.


I am getting so excited for Christmas. I know that it is still a couple months away, but I don't care. I am excited for all of the smells, sounds and especially family that it brings. This Christmas will actually be my second Christmas with Zac and his family. Last year was really awkward because we had not been dating that long, and I was really intimidated by his family. This year will hopefully go much better. : ) I have already started my shopping, and come November we will be putting up the tree!! I know that there are still a couple holidays to celebrate before Christmas, but the count down in our house is on!!

So i know that this is a really random blog, but i figured i better post something so these are just all the random thoughts of the day!!