Maturity goes a long ways...

So another day continues in the boring lives of the odd little college family
as the guys come over (as per usual) to be fed and sleep and eat more food...

and to feed us cereal...

"Open wide Cacia!"
*Aaaaaaah!*

Taylor couldn't get very many due to hurting his knee while longboarding.
Oh, we are also their first aid station as well.
"Dive for it Taylor! Oh wait...you can't."

"I was the first!" Cacia was trying to teach Rachel how to put a spoon on her nose,
yes I realize we are young adults and very mature. We throw our cereal on the floor and play with our spoons.....what? You say we sound like babies? Nonsense, we are much more intelligent than that...

See? Rachel learned eventually!

So you may be wondering "what is that?" and "why is it on the ceiling?"
Well that kind ma'am or sir, is whipped cream.
Why yes we tried to eat it.....however...we missed our mouths...

Like I said, we are quite mature, obviously.

We upgraded it from trying to get it in our own mouths (since we obviously weren't too good at that), to each others mouths!
Say "AAAAAAAH!"
Dang it....the airplane hit some turbulence and is now all over your clothes....my bad...

Keely managed to get MOST of it to her mouth
"No, I wasn't playing with my food, why do you ask?"

One of the best pictures of the night. Rachel (far left): Hey it's still on my hand!
Brent (White): Where is it? Where is it?
Keely (Hat): "I think it's on top of the fridge"
Taylor (Far right): "C'mon bring it! I'm ready for it!"

"I know! Let's all chase after the same one!"

"What? I have something on my face? Nonsense!"

And then we got to be even more brilliant and decided to try to flip it to the right of us, while catching the one coming from the left!

Keely completely missed it and is still waiting
Taylor's is on the floor
Brent's went the other way
And Rachel....well she didn't really know which way she was going...

The aftermath of trying to catch and throw cereal to each other

And of course, MORE eating, and YES we did use our spoons! No we didn't stick them on our noses again! Geez what kind of loonies do you think we are? Sheesh!

(This WAS a giant cookie with ice cream and chocolate syrup on top. It last all of 30 seconds.)

So the lesson learned is we ARE mature and to have fun, you should revert back to your childhood ways because, let's face it. Kids know how to have fun!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toy R Us kid!"
Meg

Take your shoes off and just dance!

So this week I have learned the importance of music! Music changes everything, your mood and view of everything. I have gotten into a habit of listening to music when I walk places and the next thing I know, I have an extra hop in my step and and want to dance like life is one big musical! Ah if I could only dance around without people staring at me. Sadly I doubt my roommates would dance with me out in public....but maybe I should ask....=]

Well I guess I should catch you up from last weekend. Not much happened except Alisa's Birthday Party! SO here it goes, quick overview because I am LAZY today due to it being Friday afternoon.

So I got home around 4:30 from class and BAKED for several hours. Alisa asked for a confetti cake with cream cheese icing so I made the confetti cake, to find out her mom sent here German Chocolate cake mix and some weird nutty icing...however we only have one cake pan so we made the German Chocolate mix into cupcakes (which only the guys ate). So I made the cake and homemade cream cheese icing, and may I add, it was the most heavenly thing ever besides Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! I nearly just ate the icing by itself but alas the cake was barren and needed this heavenly creation. So Keely spead it on and then took dye and wrote Happy Birthday in purple and yellow! Happy colors =] Keely tried to take the cake out before we iced it, so we could make the other one...but it didn't work and broke in half, but she flipped it back and covered it up well. Couldn't tell until we cut it, and it fell apart...yeah

So we had cake and presents and we played "Do you love your neighbor?" I was only in the center once. Then we played musical chairs on our porch/balcony due to our apartment being hot from so much baking. It was pretty awesome and we got neighbors from all around to play with us. After that we went to Cajun Bob's which is just a dance place for Mormon kids but it was kinda lame so we went to Jamba Juice and drew pictures. After that some people were tired so they went home. But the rest of us (there were 8 I think) hoped into 2 cars and drove out into the middle of nowhere and went stargazing for hours and drew with light =] It was much fun!

The End.

Yeah, I know, not my best story but hey I'm tired! In other news I took a nap today! =] First time as of yet and I loved it! I also developed some film, which was nice. And I am slowly getting to know people in all my classes. My Book of Mormon reading is going well, I am constantly learning and I wouldn't trade this experience for the world. As for my other classes, they are quite dull but I don't mind.

I think my roommates want to go have crazy adventures this weekend. I am not sure as to what we will do since one roommate is going home and 2 of our guy friends are going home as well. Leaving 5 of us and Mikey and Taylor. So we shall see.

Oh! Wednesday night we had the guys over, just playing games and chatting and it was pretty fun =]

Other than that, it has been a slow, dull week. The weather is lovely and I am hoping to get more pictures in before it gets colder.

Maybe it is time for another nap.....=] I get to sleep in tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always hungry!
-Meg

A lesson learned...

Monday we (being all my roommates) decided to have a movie night. SO we went to Redbox and agreed upon "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "The Fourth Kind"......man did we make the biggest mistake ever. The two lamest, dumbest, just overall crappy movies I have ever seen. I wasted four hours of my life that I will never get back....but oh well. So the lesson here? We should always have our guy friends over because when we try to watch movies, we will kill our brains with stupidity whereas having guy friends over, we laugh and burn calories and actually enjoy life.

Yeah we learned our lesson; Bill and Brent come over pretty much daily even if it's only for an hour. Lucky for them, their dorms are pretty close so they can run back in time for curfew.

In other news Alisa turned 18 YESTERDAY!!! SO we made a crazy poster for her, and got 3 helium balloons! And we're having the party for her Friday night, with confetti cake and cream cheese icing and lots of guys...we don't really have any girl friends outside our own apartment....oh except this girl Nicole in our ward. She's pretty cool. And Katie came over and heart-attacked Alisa's room. For those that don't know, that means putting hearts everywhere! She also attacked the hallway, living room closet and front door...to leave a trail of course.

To add to the news, we changed out living room around (pictures up later). The long couch is in front of the closet because we don't really use it except to store stuff we won't touch until December. The table is where the long couch is and the little couch is in the corner where the table was. We got a red clock for our living room and Rachel found a red stand-up lamp for $3 at walmart and that is behind the little couch. We also got an Anberlin poster and a poster of Puss in Boots looking OH SO CUTE! So yeah our living room rocks now! and we got some fake flowers in a plastic vase for out kitchen table, to add a little color to it.

Oh and I made Pizza Chicken for dinner last night and it turned out great! Considering I was guessing on temperature and time, it was perfect and devoured by all, along with steamed broccoli and shell noodles. =]

Today has been pretty dull so far, I overslept and woke up at 10am. I missed German but I am not too worried. We have yet to do anything big and today was the last day to change classes so we probably got more/less people. Photography was a nice review of F-stop and shutter speeds. And I started craving medium format because my teacher was comparing it to 35mm film...but that's okay, I still love photography.

I also started listening to my Ipod when I walk and love having a soundtrack to my life. Though sadly it makes me want to dance, but alas I can't without having people stare at me and for those who know me, I don't like to be the center of attention in crowds of people that I don't know...but yes music is awesome and gives me a little hop to my step, whether going to a class I like (which is all of them except American Foundations) or coming home from a slow class.

Mostly I am excited for my photography lab tomorrow, though we are only going over the camera and loading film I love hearing about it and knowing at least one other person can also speak my language of photography. That and shooting film is fun, it is a bit slower paced than digital and makes you think about what you are shooting. Sorry I am beginning to ramble...I could spend days in my own language and world but I will not bore you with things you don't understand.

I think I shall go make dinner now and maybe unload the dishes if they aren't already.

Oh one more bit of news! So my Book of Mormon teacher is challenging us tomorrow to read the Book of Mormon in two weeks. Now lift your jaw from the floor and before you say or think "Are you crazy?" Though yes I am, that is not the reason and does not relate to why I am doing this. But I figure, I was able to read 100 pages a night of The Fountainhead, Whethering Heights and other books, then why can't I do this with the scriptures? You say it is packed full of information and of course it is, but it too is a story and when we spread out the scriptures, sometimes it is hard to see the big picture. So I am really excited to try this, I know I can do it and can't wait to dive into the story head first. So I hope that gives you some clarity into my thoughts. And that will start tomorrow and I couldn't ask for a better challenge to help me grow.

Okay so forreal this time, I am off to make dinner, I am SOOOOO hungry!

Dance to your own beat,
create your own style,
be yourself.
Meg

College so far...

There is only one word I can think of to describe college so far, and that is:
SUPERFREAKINAMAZINGTASTICLYWONDERFULLYAWESOMENESS!!!

Yeah I just did that!

But seriously, I love college and everything about it.
The freedom
The AMAZING roommates
The cute boys
The spirit of everyone
The weather (mostly)
The parties
Dinner fun
Movie nights
The teachers
The adventures
EVERYTHING

So just to recap from my last blog...

Friday I went to class, and my Book of Mormon class is freakin sweet! The teacher is amazing and the Spirit was felt so strongly. We watched a video and I hope all that read this will watch it too! It was inspiring and I want to find the actual talk so I can keep it w/ me at all times.

I wish I could say the same for my math class. Both will be lots of work, however I rather study the scriptures all day than do the gazillions of assignments for math. My teacher is pretty dull but I think I miiight.....learn something.....we'll see. Worse comes to worse, it'll be an easy A.

But on to the fun parts of my weekend. So Friday evening came around and Rachel, Alisa, Cacia and I had no plans! HOW SAD!!! So Keely and Nicole were nice enough to invite us to a party they were going to. So we were SOOOO excited, we got dressed up 3 hours beforehand....

Here are a few of the products from our night...

In order left to right (back row: Cacia, Nicole, Alisa, Me. Front Row: Rachel and Keely) Keely is licking her finger because she smacked it on the ceiling when we were doing jumping pictures.

Yeah too excited...

To finish the story....we walked up and down this street trying to find the party. So we saw some HUGE speakers in a window, so we guessed that was it and we were right. It was a blast and we ended up being there for a little over an hour. We met a guy name Simba, yeah pretty cool right?

So when we were walking home, 3 guys and a girl were walking the other way. And suddenly two of them laid down in the middle of the sidewalk....we still don't know what on earth they were doing...but afterward the other guy friend started laughing really hard.....so anyway we came back to the apartment and watched 17 Again with Aaron, Jameson, Trevor and Jake and maybe more guys....I can't remember...

So Saturday Alisa, Cacia, Rachel and I went shopping and got some groceries and a welcome mat that says "Got dirt?" and a cute little rainbow striped rub for our living room. It is quite cute! And brightens up our home. =] We did homework and then decided to go to Jamba Juice and we wanted to go stargazing....but in 30 minutes, the temperature dropped 20 degrees....so we went to the Temple and took pictures! These 3 are for you Aaron:

And of course friend pictures...

Poor Rachel didn't have a jacket...=[

The second this picture was done, we booked it to Rachel's car and headed home and watched ELF with all our roommates and Brent, Mikey and Bill. And played the "HAHA" game. Well, watched some people play. It is where you put your head on someones' stomach until you make a circle. Then you go in a circle saying "HA" without laughing, the next person adding another HA until someone laughs....it always failed at Keely's turn.

So today we went to interviews with the bishopric so they that can give us callings next week. Then we came home and watch Errand of Angels. We went to church and come to find out, Simba is in our ward! How cool is that?? Yeah, so we came home and Bill and Brent came over to make us dinner.

They are both freshmen and have pretty much never cooked a day in their lives...but it's okay, Alisa and Nicole supervised. They made us chicken enchiladas! And they ended up tasting really good!!!

They were actually edible!

See? we ate it!

Our awesome dinner party! (from left to right: Bill, Alisa, Cacia, Rachel, Nicole, Keely, Brent and Mikey) And we ate it ALL gone! Then we made brownies and ate it with ice cream. And Brent, Keely and Nicole showed us some of their clogging moves. (Oh yeah, so Keely and Nicole know these guys from their clogging team back home). So yeah that's it so far! Been awesome!

chicken enchiladaaaaas!!!
HA HA HAHAHAHAHA!
Meg

Short and Sweet, Basically this is where it's at!

Sooo......I'm way tired from walking around campus in the freezing rain today so short and sweet tonight.

SO basically we've had guys over every day this week! Monday was Matt & Dustin. Tuesday was Jake. Wednesday was Trevor, Aaron and Jameson and tonight was Harry, Nick, Chris and 2 other guys that I can't remember their names. But all of um are pretty crazy awesome! So yeah fun week.

Tonight we had an apartment night with just us 6 girls. Keely, Nicole, Rachel, Alisa, Cacia and I =] We made brownies, went to Little Caesar's in our pjs in Keely's little car (with AWESOME subs though) jamming to music and goofing off. Then watched Jurassic Park.

Oh and while those 5 guys were over and another girl, our Bishopric all showed up, so we had 16 people in our little living room, but it was fun.

So time for bed, no classes until 2pm tomorrow. =]

"Did you know if you shake your head hard enough, you can feel your brain move?"-Rachel

Dance dance in your pjs, and wave at all the passersby,
Meg

No Pictures, but good stories

So today we embarked on some crazy adventures, some would dare say BOLD, RIDICULOUS and downright SILLY. But all the same it was quite fun. So we (being Cacia, Rachel, Alisa and I) started out our day with pancakes. Cacia made them and though we had to eat them in about 30 seconds, they were quite delicious. Wonderful breakfast to begin a day of adventure!

We went to Get Connected which is pretty much EFY for freshmen college students. Get Connected is decently cool. We played lots of games, bonded and all that great stuff. Actually we did have a wonderful devotional; by President Clark today about living the standards. So we had our physical boost and out spiritual boost for the day before playing silly games and eating hamburgers. (Aka Cookout, NOT BBQ! Crazy Westerners! JK love um anyway). So after HOURS of games we were allowed to go home. We hung out and started a movie. I am not quite sure if it was due to my roommates lack of confidence in my persistence or boldness but I took the initiative! And told Jake to come over to give us a tour of the campus. =]

(Just to back up for a moment so the rest of the story doesn't get TOO confusing...) So my family flew to Utah, Saturday morning, but we had a layover in Texas. Now being up for 12 hours, running on 5 hours of poor sleep and sitting in a noisy plane for 3 hours makes you just a TINSY bit tired...so sitting in the airport, waiting on our flight, we met 2 RM's (Return Missionaries), fresh from out of the field. Now my family had talked and gotten to know the first one decently, and he was cool, but when the 2nd one came along, I was too tired to notice much except to smile and wave when I heard my name mentioned. So one flight later, getting off, the 2nd Elder was 2 seats on front of my family and as we were getting off. he turned around and handed my mom a piece of paper (meant for me) that says "If you (aka ME) need any help, os someone to show you around. You can call my parents house and they will pass your message......JLH P.S. Or to have fun as well. Up to you. Good luck. JLH"

So I held on to the paper, not really knowing what to expect, so I let it go Saturday and Sunday and finally Monday I decided to facebook stalk him and added him that way, because calling would be too awkward. Could you imagine that conversation? "Uh hello? Yeah so this is Megan, I met your son in the Dallas airport, and he offered to help me around campus..." Yeah not weird at all.....Thank goodness for Facebook.

So we chatted on there and I gave him my number for when he finally got his phone later that day. We chatted and agreed he could come up today to show me and my roommates around. So back to the adventure! So I guess my roommates didn't think I would actually invite him, and if you had went back a year ago....I probably wouldn't have. But what did I have to lose? To be shown around campus by a cute RM? Yeah like I was gonna pass that up...so I invited him over and about half way through our movie "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!!" He came in and sat down. We swapped names and all that fun stuff but ended up just getting into a long conversation for 2 hours (Alisa came in and out so she missed most of the conversation). It was fun and we all got along quite well. But he had to go run an errand but promised to come back in an hour and give us the tour. And so an hour and a Regina Spektor hair style, and Rachel's plans for her first date, later we went on the tour. (Yeah so my hair was curly and we mentioned Rachel had never been on a date before so he told her Friday she was going to have her first! How cute! And apparently I might be doubling with them, I dunno who I'm going with though...I think he has a friend or something he's bringing....we'll see...)

When he arrived the second time we had started to make dinner and our roommates started moving in. We were kinda rushed so we threw some chicken and spices in the crock-pot and veggies in the steamer. And Jake was so nice to help the 2 other girls bring all their stuff in while we worked on dinner. (We have SOOOOO MUCH FOOD!)

So the campus is small and cute and reminds me of NC in April right now. For all those who understand, it's 70 degrees with a GAZILLION flowers! GORGEOUS! SO yeah we walked around being our goofy selves. After finishing, Jake (That's his name FYI) offered to drive us around Rexburg to show us some stores and places we might want to check out.

He brought us back and we said our goodbyes until Friday. With heads spinning, and lack of space on the counter due to new roommates bringing TONS more food, we ate our little hobo dinner in Alisa and Cacia's room. With our plates and cups, we blessed our meal and ate it happily with our little family. (Oh and we didn't get much sleep last night due to bonding and lucky Jake left when we did) So half way through dinner, our sleepiness hit us and we all went loopy, laughing at EVERYTHING, literally! Oh the memories we are building....

So we rushed over to the talent show with our group. It was pretty sick! I won't go into details tonight but basically, amazing voices, beat boxing, rapping, remixing, single ladies and great classic songs.

Now we are home and...crap I was hoping to be out an hour ago.....oh well.....now off to rest and finish our Get Connected stuff.

So yeah, crazy day between touring campus, Rachel getting her first date with a cute RM, our first hobo hyper dinner and new roommates, it goes to show, you never know what will happen when you take the initiative and reach out! So don't be shy, if you get a cute guys number, call him! You might get a free tour and a date out of it!

Initiative, loving every minute of it!
Meg

Home Sweet Home!

As promised I am posting pictures of my new apartment and home for the next 4 months. I already love my roommates and can't wait to get to know them all better...after we find a good shower curtain. They were all sold out. =/ Anyway, here is our little home in Idaho.

Rachel and I's room, bet you can't guess which one is my bed...

And it looks crowded but trust me it was MUCH worse!

All Rachel's stuff, she thought of EVERYTHING, she is pretty much brilliant!

My side, looks pretty much like my room back home =]

Our closet with our gazillions of clothes! Yay for fashioneestas!

The more conservative ones, Cacia and Alisa. Not quite so insane but always so sweet.

Our mile long counter which we need, with 2 showers and 2 toilets, though we need a good shower curtain.

Our little living room, Rachel and I have not taken over it yet...=]

The view from the front door...

Yay for tv and movies!

Our kitchen! Which finally feels homely due to ALL the cabinets filled with food and having all the works when it comes to cooking tools. Out home teachers will love us. =]

Sadly our fridge is naked and has no decorations yet, but we will fix it. We are working on a way to brighten up the rooms.

Until next time!

Hot cocoa and cookies are the way to go,
Sweet dreams world,
Meg