Life as a Hancey

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I got married this year! To the man beyond my dreams.
It was beautiful and better than I could have imagined.
It was crazy and busy and absolutely exhausting and I wouldn't have changed it for anything.
Everything went perfect on that day. I couldn't wait to marry my man, and to marry him for eternity.
I look back on that day, and I am so lucky and blessed for family and friends that helped make that day the best day of my life.

 

 

 

 

 

We got a puppy!!

Todd Wayne is the newest member of the Hancey Clan.

He is a Pomeranian, Mini Pin mix.

He hides his bones around the house.

He puts his favorite things in piles.

He sneezes at least 6 times a day.

He hates stuff on his nose.

He loves people.

He looks like a fox.

And we love him.

Meet Todd.

Left-When he was 9 weeks old.
Right-When he was 5 months old.

 

 

 

I've taken up a love for Yoga this year. At one point, when I had more time, I was doing two classes a day. I love how I can challenge my body to do things I didn't think I could ever do. I love it.

Right-Me and Lindsey (Best friend, yogi buddy, and favorite DI shopper)

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It has been an amazing year full of blessings.
It has also been a hard year full of challenges.
This year has been the best year of my life, cause I got to spend it with the people I love most.
This year has showed me everything I am so very grateful for.
This year I got to do so many things and share them with my husband.
This year isn't over yet, and I'm ready for more!

Signed,
The girl loving the Hancey life

September 13th.

I went to work on a Saturday morning and Tyler told me we were going out to dinner with some friends after we both got off work. Work came and went and I got ready for going out for dinner. Tyler came and got me and drove to a restaurant I had never heard of (Well I come to find out later on that night that restaurant hasn't been in business for years). He drove to first dam instead and said that he wanted to show me something first. We got out of the car and walked to the water. There was a wooden sign that had a tiki torch by it. One arrow pointed to the bridge and it said "I <3 U." That's where Tyler told me he loved me for the first time. Another arrow pointed to a different part of the water and it had a symbol of a fish. That is where me and Ty went fishing and I caught my first fish. Another arrow said "Danced." It pointed to the pier where we would dance at night. The last arrow on the wooden sign had a "?" and it pointed ahead of us. There was a row boat on the shore next to us and we got in it. Ty rowed us across the water to a bench on the other side with tiki torches on both sides to light the bench. We got out of the row boat and walked to the bench. He grabbed me and kissed me. He got down on one knee and said "Shanna Larae Cappel, Will you marry me?" I have never been happier! I said yes! He's adorable. I pulled him up off his knee and hugged him and cried. We sat on the bench together and then all of sudden fireworks went off in the sky.

September 13th, to most people is just an ordinary day, but to me is a day I will never forget. I love this life of mine and I am so blessed to have this amazing man in my life.
I'M ENGAGED. When did I get this old?

Signed,
On Cloud Nine

The Person I Want to Be

This summer I got the opportunity to be an EFY (Especially For Youth) counselor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This literally has been the best experience I have ever had in my entire life. I have grown so much and love the person that I have become.
When I was a youth I went to EFY and it was the best week of every year I went. It changed my life as a youth and showed me what was really important. Back then was when I said I wanted to be an EFY counselor when I grew up...

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First day on the job! (Provo 1B) All the counselors from Georgia on the right!

I'm not grown up just yet, but I sure got to fulfill and check off what I think is one of the best and most important thing on my bucket list. I still can't believe that I got that opportunity and everyday I was at EFY I thanked the lord for that amazing blessing. I caught myself looking around and saying to myself, "I'm really an EFY counselor...how did this happen!?" and probably way too many times!

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These kids have taught me so much and they have each individually blessed my life more than they will ever know. I wish I could go back and be with those amazing kids and around that spirit all the time. This summer has been amazing and has truly strengthened my testimony.
I know that my Savior loves me and knows me. I am so blessed that I had this opportunity.
I will never forget the feelings that I felt and the miracles that I saw.

Provo 9A. Never laughed so hard in my entire life this week!!

Such an amazing speaker Brad Wilcox! This picture is hanging up
in one of the main buildings at BYU. Just sporting EFY!
Too bad I go to USU! 

I will NEVER forget what EFY has taught me.
Anxiously Engaged 2014
D&C 58:27

Signed, A better person


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Only the Best Time of Year

Family traditions, hot chocolate, ice skating, gingerbread houses, cookies and milk, warm fuzzy socks, presents under the tree, kisses under the mistletoe, twinkling lights, and being with the people you love the most. Who doesn't love this time of year!? Gosh I love Christmas. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It's about love and caring, spreading that spirit around everywhere we go. We should do this all year round but unfortunately we only try around Christmas time. Even though its cold outside and snow is everywhere there is still a warmth that comes from the spirit of Christmas. 
This year has really felt like Christmas for me! Boy have I been blessed.
I went ice skating with some friends and let me just say we are all oh so very good at ice skating that we don't fall...ever. Haha

You can't forget about making gingerbread houses! Couldn't be Christmas time with out making a mess and getting frosting everywhere! We made a gingerbread house and a gingerbread train. It was messy and yummy and oh so very great!

Took a trip down to Temple Square in Salt Lake City! Gosh it was beautiful! The trees were all twinkling in any and every color you could think of. It was freezing and crowded in Temple Square but still in some way you felt warm inside. I love those lights and how they make you feel. I love the way you can see how beautiful the Temple is and how lit up it looks with all the twinkling lights around it. Such a fun night.

This time of year is wonderful and magical all at the same time. Keep in mind why we celebrate it and what's most important. Christ. The birth of a man who is perfect and our brother who loves us unconditionally. Merry Christmas everyone! I hope its full of people who you love dearly and the spirit of Christ.

Three Little Words

I have said before that I believe you can fall in love with bits and pieces of people in your life.  That everyone can have a little piece of your heart.  I have a lot of people in my life that I can point to and say that they have a part of my heart but never before have I had someone have so much of it.  Someone once before has been very close to having a huge part of my heart but nothing like this.  To be in love with someone is such an amazing feeling.  Its easy.  Everything is better.  Things don't upset you as much.  You smile more.  Days feel better even when they aren't in them, because you know that even though you didn't see them that day, they are still yours.
Love is a powerful word.
Some people are scared of it, other use it often.  Love to me should be around all the time.  Shown or by being said.  You never know when you're going to see someone again.  Wouldn't you always want them to know how you felt, just in case?  I'm totally in love and I am so unbelievably blessed.  It feels amazing to be loved and for someone to feel the same about me as I do them.  Every time I think about it, it makes me kind of chuckle to myself.  I think in my head the quote from Elf  when Will Ferrell says, "I'm in love, I'm in love and I don't care who knows it!"  I'm just so happy and content with life.  Don't take your family, friends, or any others that you love dearly for granted.  
Say "I love you" to those who have bits and pieces of your heart.  
Say it to the ones you really do love.

Signed, A Very Blessed Girl

Me and Tyler

Pieces of the Heart



Love changes you.  That tingling in your toes, butterflies in your stomach kind of love.  Everyone feels it in their life.  Sometimes you are lucky enough to feel it more than once in a lifetime.  That is a special kind of love.  There are different kinds of love.  Everyone affects you in some way and changes your life somehow. 
Falling in love with people is an easy thing to do.  I admit, it happened to me.  I have also fell in love with bits and pieces of people, like the quote above says.  Many people can steal little pieces of your heart, you just have to let them.





Only some of the people that have stolen a piece of my heart.
(The Crew up above.  Me and Kenzie on the left.  Me and Megan on the right)



The Last Thing

Life is a very precious thing.  You never know when your last day is and how much more time you have.  What will be the last thing you will say to the people you love?  Our Nation has been affected by the Elementary school shooting in Connecticut.  20 children and 6 teachers died from this awful tragedy.  It's so sad that we live in a world with such evil.  Children should never feel like they are unsafe or in harms way and especially in an Elementary school.  Our hearts and prayers go out to those children and their families who were affected by this awful tragedy.  Like I said before, Life is a precious thing.  Don't take it for granted.  Always tell the people that you love how you feel because you never know what the last thing they hear from you will be.