Countdown to My Birthday: Memories #2

Here I will share with you five more! :)


Memory #6: I remember my first few years of my life being a ballet dancer and tap dancer. I used to think I was the most beautiful princess in the world: my hair all up in a bun, my fluffy pink tutu, and for the first time in my life, my mom put makeup on me! I always used to feel so grown up and beautiful. I dreamed about growing up and finding my prince and us living together in a pretty pink castle. I dreamed about me riding on my white horse throughout a field, expecting my prince to jump out and save me in any kind of horrible situation. I dreamed of me growing up a having my own little daughter and dancing with her. I read my princess books and would always dream about becoming some kind of gorgeous princess.


Memory #7: I can clearly remember watching all of the Shirley Temple movies! I always envied her and I tried to learn her dances. So one day, while driving home with my grandmother, I asked her about Shirley Temple and she said that she used to work with her! I asked her if Shirley was still alive, and she said yes, she lives in the White House. So I asked if I could write her a letter and my grandmother gave me an address. I can't remember what the letter said, but all I know is I didn't receive a letter back! LOL


Memory #8: One time I was out riding a horse that we were renting. I was always so scared to ride, because I was afraid that the horse was gonna take off with me on it! I don't ever remember intentionally going beyond a trot, but I do remember my horse unexpextantly breaking into a gallop! It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life, besides the time the horse decided to chase me across the field, haha.


Memory #9: There was a point in my life where I constantly tossed my cookies several times a week. I think it was around 6th grade. I have always thought it was out of nervousness. But the doctors decided to take me in to test me to see if I had any serious illnesses. I'll tell you this right now: I hated hospitals with all of my heart and soul...I couldn't even look at one! I honestly don't know why, but that's just the way it was. So when we arrived at the hospital for some blood tests, I announced that I felt very, very sick and needed to use the restroom. So I went in the bathroom and sat down on the toilet to pee, and guess what happened? I started to see red stuff int toilet! I could not believe and could not understand why there was blood pouring out of my bottom. It honestly scared me because I heard about people who lost a lot of blood and then died. So I just sat there and cried until somebody came after me. When the doctors figured out what happened, they did a specific test on me (I can't remember what it was) but all I know now is that I never figured out why the blood incident happened!


Memory # 10: One time when I was about 8 or 9, I confessed I was going to run away from home. My parents made me so mad and I decided I was done dealing with it. So I got my little school backpack, gathered some food, water, and a change of clothes and told everyone I would be leaving. I walked out the door and went to the end of the driveway, then suddenly remembered all the little kids who get kidnapped all the time when they're by themselves. So I turned and ran back! LOL


More to come again :)
Hannah

Singing Randomness

Hey everybody! So I've discovered a new love: music. Now your probably rolling your eyes, like thats totally been my love for all of my life, but I'm talking about "creating" music. I recently wrote several songs and then played them on the piano and sang. I am just now getting the hang of opening the back of my throte and using my diaphram to make really nice-sounding sounds with my voice. Soon I will share with you'll some of my songs that I've written, but first I need to make a few finishing touches. Also, I'm learning guitar, and as soon as I get good, I'll post a video of me performing the songs while singing them and playing guitar. Here are the songs I think my voice would be best suited for:


Love Story - Taylor Swift
Love the Way You Lie - Eminem ft Rihanna
Somebody to Love - Justin Bieber
Holy is the Lord - Chris Tomlin
Airplanes - B.o.B.
Pyramid - Charise ft iyaz 
Pray - Justin Bieber
Innocent - Taylor Swift
Baby - Justin Bieber
I Will Follow - Chris Tomlin
This is Me - Demi Lovato
So Small - Carrie Underwood


These are also my favorite songs, and I love switching them around and adding my own tune!


Hannah

Countdown to My Birthday: Memories

Hey everyone! There has been yet another tag going around where you share some of your favorite memories with your readers. Since I am going to be 15, I'll do 15 memories. I realize that I haven't posted in a while, and normally, I would start these memories on the day that marks 15 days till my birthday, but I haven't been able to get online. So today I will share with you five of my favorite memories of my life, and for the next 10 days I'll share the rest.


Memory #1: I’m a scardy cat, to say the least, and always have been. When I was younger we lived in a two-story house and all the bedrooms were on the second floor, but the kitchen was on the first. At night, I would often be too scared to walk downstairs alone to get a glass of water, so I would beg my Mom to get out of bed and go with me. 

Once I was about 12, she told me I was old enough to go downstairs alone. I did not believe her. But, I tried to be a “big girl” and go alone (Mind you, I was 12! That’s definitely old enough to go downstairs alone to grab a glass of water!). I came to the conclusion that I should carry a “weapon” with me in case someone was lurking in the dark corners of our first floor. Carrying artillery gave me peace of mind and I got in the habit of bringing my “ammo” with me every night I made the journey down to the dark kitchen.

About six weeks into my late night expeditions, I was walking down the stairs when I heard footsteps in the kitchen. Of course, the first thing that came to mind was the only logical explanation I could think of… KIDNAPPER! I drew my weapons and pounced around the corner ready to fight off my attacker. My mom was standing over the sink with a plate in one hand and a sponge in the other, completely unfazed by my randomly aggressive entrance. What? I was an imaginative child! Then, my Mom looks at me and starts cracking up. After a few moments, she catches her breath and says, “What is that going to protect you from?” I realized she was mocking my weapon choices…

I looked down and surveyed my ammo: a slipper and a pen. Right, like that was going to keep me safe. In response to my Mom’s question, 12 year-old me responded “I can wack ‘em in the head with a slipper and stab ‘em with a pen!” From then on it’s been an ongoing joke in my family to protect oneself with a slipper and a pen.

Memory #2: I was obsessed with the kid's show Barney until age 12! Pretty much all of my siblings have been crazy about the show except for my sister, Jessie, who absolutely loves Dora and Elmo. But I remember dreaming about being on the show. I was pretty jealous of the kids on there who got to do the dances and singing and arts and crafts. So I decided to do the next best thing from being on the show: I learned all the dances and songs! I would put on preformances of me doing the dances, and I remember I just loved it so much! I would imagine that that was me on the show, that all the little kids would be watching me. It was so much fun and I can still do the dances! :)

Memory #3: When I was about 12, (haha, 12 is a common number in this blog. It was such a big year for me!) I truly, 100% believed that I was going to be a famous country singer. I practiced everyday. My friend also wanted to be a singer, so we made a little band together. Her sister eventually joined, and we would have "band practice" (our band consisting of just a guitar and our voices) and we recorded a couple of songs, including "Amazing Grace." Now, every time I hear that song, I start laughing. We really thought we were going to get somewhere with that! My friend also had a relative that produced music and he was going to schedule us a tour date...no joke! We wrote our own music and everything. It was pretty sweet. It brings tears to my eyes to remember these things! But, unfortunately, my friend and I got into a little fight, and our band broke up :( But overall, it was an awesome experience!

Memory #4: Here's a memory that I will probably never, ever forget. I was around four or five years old, and that year our neighborhood got flooded. I had a best friend, his name was Dylan, and we always played together everyday. So one day, we were wondering around the neighborhood, when we came to a place where it was totally flooded. It was at least 3 feet deep of water! Since it was a fairly hot day, we both decided it might be nice to take a little bit of a swim. So what did we do? We stripped our clothes off! Don't ask me why we do this, but every time we remind eachother  of it, we just start cracking up. But that afternoon we "swam" in our undies that little pond and had a great time. (Not to mention the punishment we recieved from our parents, lol) 

Memory #5: This one is a bit of a sad memory. For years I had this dog, half German Shepherd, half something else, but his name was Jack. Guys, this dog was the absolutely best dog that I ever had. He always went to me for everything, I was always the person to play with him, he protected me, we wanted me to feed him, and everything else you could think of. He really was the best dog ever, but except for one thing. He was over protective. He would always attack any men that came close to our house, and eventually, we had to give him away to a farmer. I remember, out of anger, throwing my fists at the wall, and for weeks they were extreamly sore, lol.

More to come! Hope you enjoyed! :)

Hannah