Mrs. and Mr. Hallbeck

 The day started with lots of sugar per request of the bride!:)

 My man doing his thing:) He was the videographer.

All the Girlies! 

Friday couldn't have been any better! God blessed us with such a perfect day!

ERIKA!!!

 My big sissy Erika is getting married tomorrow!! We had a great bachelorette party for her earlier this month. With a dinner at Chino Latino and a fun slumber party we celebrated her bride-to-be-ness. I am so excited for her! Tomorrow is going to be such an amazing and special day!

 Erika and Dan in California earlier for his Marine boot camp graduation.

 Cutie love birds!! Dan will be wearing his dress blues at the wedding, I think it is going to look so good!!:)

Proud MOH!!!!

RE-Cap Summer Training

This summer I coached about 20 kids from my old high school for nordic skiing. It wasn't quite what I expected, it was even better! We got pretty good weather through out the 6 weeks only a couple thunderstorms and some pretty hot days, but the kids were troupers and toughed it out. We did numerous time trials and some great specific strength intervals. But most of all we did a lot of technique work, and it payed off. The kids worked through many falls and frustrations to become comfortable and efficient skiers, some have some more "tweeking", but over all I am pleased with how hard they worked and how much better they all look. It was so fun for me and such a good learning experience.

Back to it!:)

Today was my first day of class of my Junior year of college. It is so weird to think that college is more then half over. But I am finally into my major classes so the topics should be more marketing and communication based aka more up my alley. :) This week is super busy besides the start to my school year. It also has my first blood tests on Wednesday morning. So I will be getting started on the process of donating marrow here soon.

But best of all in my sissy's wedding is on FRIDAY!!! I am so excited! We have been waiting all summer for this week, most of the preparations are all set and ready. Dan is home and is spending ever waking second with his bride to be:) He will be off to more training after their mini moon in Minneapolis.

Well I hope you all have a great day!

<3 Hannah

God asks a lot from people who are blessed with a lot.

Today I was informed that I am bone marrow match for a 21 year old male. This past February some of you may of remember the MAZE presentation that I went to. It was a great magic show with some holy spirit mixed in. At the end we found out that the man that put on the show should have been dead 2 years earlier, but was saved by a young girl who gave him a bone marrow transplant. He gave us all the opportunity to sign up with the Be The Match Foundation. I gave a swab of my cheek to a lady and all my paper work, thinking that I was doing such a great thing by signing up.

Never did it cross my mind that God would give me the chance to save someone's life. I got a call today saying that I needed to get blood work done ASAP because I was a match to this young man. I would love to tell you all that I was full of joy for this opportunity, but honestly I burst into tears. As the lady read through the list of requirements for me for the next few months, my stomach dropped. All I could think of was the pain that I would have to go through, all the time I would put into this and how much of my fitness I was going to end up loosing. Thinking of my sports seasons and my D2 eligibility engulfed my whole mind fogging the face of the man I could help.

After many tears and a chat with my family, my mom reminded me of one thing, that sometimes the people that God blesses a lot, with families and talents and stability, sometimes he asks a lot of them. In my head at the moment this seemed huge ( in a negative "self pity" sort of way) but God wants me to think of it as a huge ( Love the Lord and serve him to your fullest sort of way.)

I am not sure about how far I will end up going in this process, but I know with the Lord by my side, I will go as far as my body allows. Please pray for this man that he will find the donor he needs, and if I am the one, I thank the Lord that he brought us together.