Sunhine, Daisies, Buttermellows....

Turn this stupid fat rat yellow.

Just kidding.

But that boy is now currently in Liz's room. Thanks Sam. xP

It is a life size cardboard cut out of Ron Weasley.

Which scares the dickens out of us daily. 

Oh so creepy cardboard man, hiding in the bathroom with the lights off ready to attack at any moment. 

Cardboard is very dangerous.

Anywho, there are no daisies or buttermellows here (whatever those are), but it is sunny!

I think it might even be above 40 degrees!!!

Woohoo! 

Can you say light jacket???? =D =D 

I took advantage of this lovely weather and went to the temple this morning with my roommate Vanessa.

For those who are not of the LDS faith you can read more about what we do there at my brothers blog here.

So needless to say, I started off my day quite nicely, went visiting teaching, bonded with roommates, had lunch with Garett and life is gooooood!

Tomorrow Garett and I are having a date night! Yay! 

Cocoa Bean and a comedy show, I cannot wait!

*insert desperate attempt to not add lots of mushy gushy lovey stuff about Garett here*

Whew! That was close. I am sure y'all are sick of hearing about him.

But that sucks for you because he is NOT leaving!

Buahahahahaha!

Alright thaaaaat's enough sugar for me.....

Have a great weekend y'all!

Enjoy whatever warmer weather you are having than me, and if not, I am sorry.

My room is still yellow

and happy

and in-love-y

Meg

BEST. DAY. EVER.

Before I get too caught up...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Now on to the best date and day ever! 

After work Garett and I went on a triple date. We went with our friends and roommates Weston and Melissa (his girlfriend), Sam and Liz. (Weston & Sam are Garett's roommates and Liz is one of my roommates).

We headed off around 1pm to the ice caves. The drive was long and as my reached the entrance to the dirt road we realized we would not make it in Weston's car. Garett and Weston seemingly deceived by their poor memories believed the road to only be a mile and suggested we walk. Without knowing better we agreed. About 10-15 minutes into the walk a suburban comes by and offers us a ride. We gladly accept. 

A bit down the road we got stuck, but luckily we had 6 guys to push the car out of the snow. For the last half Sam, Garett and another kid decided to ride holding on to the back of the car.

TO give you an idea of the road conditions....only people with 4-Wheel drive can ever make it down the road, not including the foot of snow, rocks and an overall East coast feel of being VERY hilly, but on a smaller bumpier scale. Needless to say they had a little too much fun riding and bouncing along on the back of the car.

Once we reached the mouth of the cave it was a slightly too compacted travel of snow with lots of rocks. Inside the cave it was ice and about half of it was done crawling on your hands and knees. The ice had little trails worn down into snake-like ditches that ran through each section of ice. There was one part where you laid on your back, head first and crawled through on your back with you feet pushing against the rock above you to move along. There was another part with a rope where you put your back against a HUGE slab of ice, with your feet against the rock and semi-slide down on your back holding the rope. 

Once you reached the back of the cave there were 2 places worn down into slides and off to the right were stepping spots to climb up. Before we went sliding we had to bust out the glow sticks. We sprayed each other and the area around us about 20 feet in diameter. We turned off all the lights and we could see almost perfectly. There really is something awesome about sliding around in an ice cave spotted with glow juice. It's as if there were slip n' slides in the heavens with stars all around. Sounds epic huh? It was!

After much sliding in the cave we headed back out and back along the crazy bumpy road, praying around every turn and hill that we would not get stuck. We didn't and made it to our cars safely. We joked with the people we road with that they pretended to be nice and give us a ride (which they really were quite nice for doing so). They joked that they just wanted our weight and man power when they got stuck. Somehow the whole ride back with filled with much laughter with a car full of strangers. 

We decided that after a long day of being cold and with wet knees and bottoms we would head to Cocoa Bean to enjoy hot chocolate and cupcakes. We ended our date, a date none of us will EVER forget. 

So see ya around! bet you wish you were be now.

Sorry.

I guess Rexburg can be pretty awesome.

-Meg

More adventures of the big little kids...

Sorry it has been awhile since I last wrote, so I will try to cover everything if I can remember it all...it's been a bit of a blur.

So for some reason I left out going to Yellowstone the weekend of the 25th of September. That happened between Alisa's birthday party and throwing cereal.

But yes, Keely came home friday afternoon from class and said "So I was sitting in class and decided we're going to Yellowstone tomorrow!" And so we did. Rachel, Cacia, Keely and I hopped in Keely's car and drove two hours to Yellowstone!

Now don't get my wrong, Old Faithful is faithful but awfully stinky and boring. The real fun is playing in ice cold water, skipping rocks and throwing rocks when all else fails. In the end, a big splash and watching the sun set over the Tetons, overlooking a beautiful lake with your roommates is as good as it gets. =]

Keely can water bend with the power of an SLR camera!

My roommates and I! Yes I played in the freezing cold water =]

I turned around and Cacia was like "I want to throw this huge rock!"
So I said "DO IT!!!!!!!!"
She did.

This was the view over the lake, amazing huh?

We throw big rocks!

Us and the Tetons!

So two weekends ago (Oct 1st) Albert and I made the very long, cramped ride down to Provo to see MY SISTER and JESSE!!!!! =D And General Conference!

THE AWESOMEST BROTHER-IN-LAW EVER!!!!!

So the story behind this ice cream is amazing! My sister took me to this place called "Sub Zero Ice Cream" There you pick your base (yogurt, cream, etc) Then you pick flavors! The 1st amazing thing was they had MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVOR!!! Yeah go ahead and guess what kind I had! Wrong! Not just Mountain Dew, but strawberry too! (Oh geez that rhymed...) Then you get a mix in for free! (I got chicklets, b/c they are cool! But NOT in ice cream just fyi....) So they mix all of that up and THEN.....!!!!!! They freeze it with CO2!!!!! And it's all smokey or something and the smoke stuff rolls alllll over the counter and it is THE COOLEST thing next to photography!!!! And that is SAYING SOMETHING! (Can you tell how cool this place is?) It was AWESOME!
So yeah ice cream with my sister, best thing ever!

We quickly realized that Albert, Catherine and I ALL have our mother's crooked middle finger. Now if only we could have her awesome cooking skills, kindness and cuteness!

I love my sister! She's just so darn cute! (She has my mother's cuteness for sure!)

And for Halloween she's dressing up as a doll! (She is also the craftiest person I know! Seriously I am BEYOND jealous of her mad skills!)

And sadly I had to go back to Rexburg, where my dear sister does not live =[

But on the bright side, it rained twice this past week! (Mostly because I love the smell of rain!) And there were double rainbows TWICE in one week!

See? The second one is kind of faint but how pretty! God's promise to never flood the earth again. =]

Wednesday I went on a group date with our guy friends. Bill, Brent, Taylor, Mikey and Peter. I went with Taylor, Mikey went with Nicole, Brent went with my friend Megan and the other 2 picked some girls from their ward I think...

We went to a place called "The Craze" where we played a round of mini golf (We FAIL at mini golf) Then we played two rounds of Lazer Tag, pretended to play in the arcade (because we didn't feel like wasting money on dumb games just to get tootsiepops) And it was much fun! I fail at lazertag too because there were a bunch of 8 year old pros that kicked our butts. Sad day! So then we were gonna go play with whipped cream! But ended up going to the swing and stargazing while Brent played his guitar and we sang along quite poorly and joking around. And it was much fun, the end. =]

Friday Cacia and I did P90X which my roommates have been doing all week. It's a work out video set. We worked out from around 11pm until 1:30am. We worked on abs a little, arms and legs. Ah it felt SO good! I am still a little sore but it was a blast!

Saturday I got bored and found some glow-in-the-dark stars I had drilled holes in from girls camp last summer sooo....I strung them across the room so "every night is a starry one" (not that that is hard in Idaho....) If you can name the quote about starry nights you get 50 bonus points!
Then Rachel and I decided to change our room around!

Now our room is awesome! Not sure why, but we like it this way. And my alarm is across the room now.

My side! =]

Saturday night we got bored and decided to play sardines in the gardens. Now the gardens aren't THAT big but man, in the dark it is HARD! None of us could find Nicole so she just came out. Then Peter hid and 5 of us found him but, but he is not patient so he made us leave and he switched spots. Then he would text one of us where he was hiding next. We ended up laying in some bushes a few times....yeah fun right? And he left again and we all ended up laying in the middle of a field goofing off until we got so cold that we went home.
The guys asked us to feed them on Sunday (since they live in the dorms and the cafeteria isn't open on Sundays, and we're just that nice)

We planned this HUGE dinner for 6 (fairly large guys, Taylor, Brent and Bill are all like 6'2" to give you an idea of size). We spent an hour and a half, making homemade mashed potatoes, peeling, cutting up and mixing them. We made TONS of chicken (Thanks mom for buying me that HUGE bag, we used about half of it) and we warmed up some corn and made rolls, lemonade and punch! (See below, that was after we dug in ourselves)

And they showed up an hour and a half late...
Oh well, but we were quite proud. (I hope mom reads this and smiles because this is totally a mother sized dinner! And it took 6 of us to do this, mom you are AMAZING)

Sunday was pretty dull except Sunday night a few of us went stadium singing, then went to the gardens and chilled while Brent and Peter played songs on their guitars, and stargazed (It still blows my mind how many there are and how pretty they be!) It was alright, just cold.

Oh random news from yesterday! I took a walk with a friend and found out there are some trees behind some apartments a block over that are the same as some back home! (I hope you could keep up with that vague sentence) The line of trees in my back yard by where the blue car is parked. They have some here in Idaho! And i got soooooooooooooooooo excited because they remind me of home and they change colors and drop their leaves and it is wonderful =] =] =] =]

Also yesterday, I went to my Book of Mormon class as per usual and my teacher came up to me and said "Hey I trust you! Can you do me a favor? I need to go pick up my wife so could you start class? (He let me pick the hymn) Just sing this song, go through prayer and testimonies and I hope to be back for the discussion". It went pretty smoothly and come to find out, he had asked one other person to start the discussion in case he didn't get back in time (which he didn't) but he came shortly after. Between the two of us, everything went smoothly. =] It was pretty cool that he trusted me with that and it ended up being a wonderful class as always =]

Finally up to last night! Once again, quite bored so Keely, Nicole and I went and got cookie dough and ice cream! And baked it! (This time we made sure NOT to tell the guys...)

Look how heavenly!

Yeah that lasted all of 3 minutes....maybe!
Grab your spoons and dig in!

Heavenly! Rachel and I ate around a quarter of that because that was our dinner...=]

ALL GONE!
Then we watched "Sweet Home Alabama" and were going to go to bed BEFORE midnight....
But the guys showed up at 11 =/
But I still went to bed a few minutes after midnight! I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!!!!
I was actually fully awake for German! It rocked!

But as for today, nothing big has happened. Went to class, did some homework and now I am catching you up on my life.

Oh and while typing this, Alisa made the toilet overflow and it leaked onto the floor below us. I am not sure what all happened but I heard some screaming, some more screaming. then some deep voice of a plumber or something and lots of racing to get towels. I think it is fixed since there is no more screaming. But to show how lazy I am, I never left my room to find out.

SO I think that is everything thus far, I hope I didn't miss anything.

(Okay ONE LAST STORY) Last night while I was waiting for the guys to leave, I decided to go check my phone, I hopped up and went to my room and I had a missed call from my dear sister and since she rarely calls me, I knew I must call her back immediately! I called her and that dear sister of mine started out "Soooo......Jesse is going away next weekend and I am going to be ALLLLLLLL ALOOOOOONE" She did not have to say another word. I replied "Would you like me to come visit you?" I heard a quick "Yessssssssss!" And so today I made arrangements to go down there next weekend =] (Cacia is going too, to see some friends of her's from back home)
And I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITEDD!!!!!!!!!!! I know I only saw my sister a few weeks ago but she is AMAZING and I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah, um that's it, forreal this time! =]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA
best video ever!
(We've been quoting this all week, oh and we covered our front door with brown packing paper and we write quotes on it, pictures up later)

"So what are we gonna do tonight you guys?"
Meg