Halloween #3

Okay we should all be celebrating right now! These pictures are from last night, so for once I am blogging within a reasonable amount of time! =D (applause applause)
In case you were wondering the title is meaning it is Garett and I's 3rd Halloween together.
It was the first holiday we ever celebrated together so I kind of love it.

Last year we were in California enjoying beautiful weather and sunshine for Halloween.
This year it was freezing cold and sleeting.

Doesn't seem right does it?

But it's okay because are other other halves Katy and Sam came over and carved pumpkins with us!

See? We do have friends, I just never remember to take pictures of them.

Below is my jack-o-lantern. His name is Sheldon. In person he looks so happy that he's going to cry.
I hope you can kind of tell from the picture.

Garett decided to go for an evil Voldemort-ish feeling jack-o-lantern. 

And Katy's was cutely evil.
Like a cute, evil, snowman-jack-o-lantern.

Glowing!

Mine literally was a lantern in and of itself. He GLOWS!

Katy's was too. =]

3 little Jack-o-lanterns all in a row!
(Anyone else remember that rhyme from elementary school?)

If you're wondering where Sam's jack-o-lantern went, I didn't get his pictured.
He did spiderman, but it was the kind the you don't carve out chunks, instead you graze the outside layer to make it thin enough to be transparent, but his had some trouble glowing brightly.
So maybe I'll try to get a picture of it later.
It was tons of fun, with lots of laughing, singing "Blue" By Eiffel 65 and burning and reburning candles.
In the end our apartment smelled heavily of vanilla, pumpkin and apple spice. 

Happy Tuesday/Wednesday

I finally had some time to myself and decided to go on a youtube rampage and came across some music that I can only describe as: SUNSHINE music.

So here are two songs that I really love.

The first is "Brave" by Sara Bareilles.

Though to be honest I love the video just as much.

I hope you dance along with it.

The second is "Brighter Than the Sun" by Colbie Caillat.

Which really is just sunshine.

Hope you enjoyed those songs.

Happy Tuesday/Wednesday!

Megan B. 

Posting for Posting's Sake

I don't particularly have much to say. I PROBABLY could show you pictures but I am being lazy. Plus all the fun ones are on my phone. One of these days I will post them. Probably around Christmas time so don't hold your breathe.

Currently I am sitting in the I-Center on campus in between classes. I would have been done at noon but I have another class at 3 pm. =/ On the bright side I killed my Medieval art history test! Take that Late Christian/Early Byzantine Style! Not to mention studying Codex from different gospels. So I am happy.

Now I just have Studio Lighting left in which we will review our last assignment and then my teacher will monologue for the next 2 hours about nothing in particular. You see his wife is teaching our class for these next 3 weeks so we are doing her assignments. The assignment we are reviewing today is the last one from him for awhile, but I don't know what else he has to say since he's not giving the assignments for a few weeks. But regardless he will monologue the whole class period, despite it supposedly being "lab time" which should be optional....not that I am bitter or anything.

I really am in a good mood though, despite my lack of sleep from studying for my test. Mostly I was anxious for that test so now all is good. I am going to try to get my online homework done here in a few minutes though so I can pack tonight.

Tomorrow we are going to pick up the AMAZING Haley and then head down to Utah to keep my dad company and see my little brother! Extremely jealous of you mom! In case you were wondering she is in Michigan with my sister, her husband and Nikolai! REALLY REALLY jealous mom! But it is okay because we're going to see our most favorite author of all time Brandon Sanderson on Saturday! I hope I can play it cool though, because honestly I just want to flip out, but I don't want to come off as some insane fan girl. Though I really am...anyway definitely looking forward to that and some open road car time with Garett.

I feel bad, this week I've probably gotten to talk to Garett no more than 5 minutes at a time. It's been one of those weeks where I'm running constantly for about 14-16 hours a day non-stop. Let us hope next week is a little slower. Bless his soul, he has been extremely patient with me. I am the luckiest girl to have such an easy going, sweet husband. I am definitely the anxious, stressed out crazy one in our relationship. Garett's just crazy in good ways, though no one ever sees it but me. That man, he comes off so quiet and sweet. Don't be fooled, he's actually a very hyper child. I mean that in the sweetest sense possible. He's hilarious and makes me laugh all the time and it is wonderful. Honestly I need his goofiness all the time.

Anyway sorry for the off topic rant. He really is awesome. I hope all of you get to meet him one day. And for those who have met him, I hope one day you get to see his goofy side because it's hilarious and so much fun. For our friends who have seen his goofiness...you understand. =]

I guess I'll end this. Sorry it's so long, but if you have read this far, good job. I owe you a hug.
Keep laughing y'all.
It really is the best medicine!
-Megan B.

Julugust

So this is a mix of stuff I just forgot to post all together so I apologize.

Below is my first aluminum plate from lithography.
Remember all my complaining?
It was over this!
So was drawn with just a basic grease crayon, which later becomes an image from talc, gum arabic, acetone, lithotine and asphaltum. I won't bore you with the obnoxious details. Later we fill the image with ink thanks to the acetone and asphaltum which holds it in place. But before before having to let it sit over night twice.



And it produces this!

My 2nd project was this. It was done with grease crayon, xerox transfer and there was a wash but it didn't work out, probably for the better. A wash is toner, water and soap. A xerox transfer is a toner printed image and winter green to make it stick to the aluminum. 

And my last project was a 2 run project (each color is a different plate) used on photo plates, meaning you paint/draw on Mylar and then expose the painted image on the Mylar over the plate for a few minutes. 

Oh and Garett and I celebrated our one year anniversary with Jimmy Johns and a picnic! Though now we're more like 14 months. 

He's too cute!

During the 7 week break we went to the sand dunes with some of our good friends, the men went sand hill jumping and then we all played Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Best game ever even though we were freezing. 

And our dearest friends Katy and Sam got married!!!
We also got to see lots of Garett's old companions like Troy (his "son").

I also had the opportunity to shoot my sister's brother-in-law Tim's reception here in Rexburg.

I was kind of obsessed with the lanterns in case you were wondering.

Anyway that's all for now.
I'm sure I have more stuff documented on my phone which I will hopefully get around to in the near future!
Until then SMILE!

Meg B.

Yellowstone Part 3

And finally Part 3!

Behold Old Faithful

And more and more elk!

And playing in some freezing, beautiful lake water!

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Skipping rocks

He's very good at it!

And some waterfalls!

Chipmunk!

And Garett and dad decided to play around

And of course the beautiful Tetons <3 p="">

It was an AMAZING break which was greatly needed.
Garett and I were able to kick back with my awesome parents and we had a wonderful time!
Thanks mom and dad! <3 p="">

Meg B.