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

A Year In Review

I know this is slightly late, but hey at least it is not February yet.

I decided to take a look back over 2011 to see what I have learned and experienced.

I spent my first off track semester in NC where I got to spend time with old friends.

Start a work out habit.

Enjoyed a RIDICULOUSLY warm winter.

Ate some new food, invested in warm clothes.

Stocked up on important things like magnets and mugs.

Did TONS of puzzles with my dear mother.

Jumped in puddles and watched Aaron get his braces off.

Also on my off track I got a new phone.

Tried having bangs for a little while.

Spent quality time with some adorable boys.

Ate WAY too many doughnuts.

Learned a little about Japanese characters.

Ate more food and discovered cupcake piggy banks. 

(Please say that 10 times fast!)

I finished off my off track after working as a smoothie make/cashier at the YMCA

and headed to Utah for a week.

During that time I had many discoveries.

I learned of AMAZING Mexican food (Cafe Rio) and amazing Thai food!

I discovered Cheerwine Popsicles, Just Dance for Wii and that playing in colored powder was truly as awesome as I dreamed it would be. 

There is nothing like sneezing purple for 3 days and watching Koolaid colored water cover the tub from washing your hair.

I learned I hate living alone for a week

and enjoyed General Conference with my siblings.

Spring semester was an unknown blessing.

I met one of my best friends Nikki and played dress up with her. 

I learned to sew.

My mother enjoyed sending me Easter stuff.

I moved to the 3rd floor of my complex.

We enjoyed Sunday Night Desserts and I had some awesome roommates.

I got addicted to cheese 

and saw the tallest stack of mountain dew cans I have EVER seen.

I learned that peeps are meant to be burned to death.

That blankets and water balloons make for great adventures.

NEVER do the cinnamon challenge

or the whipped cream game in doors. 

Supported my semi-apartment volleyball team

and met some awesome people.

Finishing up my spring semester:

I met some fairies,

cut my hair off,

wore a giant diaper,

was a model for a day,

ripped my favorite jeans,

met a cute puppy named Moose,

climbed a building,

painted myself,

conducted a surprise party

and took lots of walks.

While at home I played and enjoyed a little TOO much the summer rain 

and learned to spray paint

In the summer I said goodbye for now to my best friends in NC,

said goodbye to my hometown

and ate MORE Krispy Kream.

Back to school I played Glow-In-The-Dark Hide-N-Go-Seek.

Learned you CAN freeze eggs, 

saw the best fireworks show of my entire life

and spent quality time with my best friend Rachel.

On a side note, through out the year I started doing photo shoots for friends and clients.

I got to work with some amazing young men and women and for various reasons.

I have to say my work is improving constantly.

And to wrap up my year,

I learned to be gansta (Thanks Jaide!)

I began enjoying the privilege of having my family 3 1/2 hours away.

I got to watch my sister grow her first baby boy,

went to my first BMX contest,

had the BEST roommates of all time,

ate some treats, partied with friends

and began my personal scripture counter.

Not to mention I began learning to cook (and I actually like to!)

And of course met my best friend and boyfriend Garett Bonds.

All in all this has been a wonderful year.

A year of firsts and experiences I hope never to forget.

I know there was probably much more learning spiritually and mentally but I shall save that for another post on another day.

If you actually read this whole thing my hat is off to you.

Speaking of which I am craving old movies and pickles.

Hope you had a wonderful year and maybe now you will reflect back on the adventures you had.

My love goes out to all of you.

Thanks to many of you for sharing these adventures with me.

TTFN Ta Ta For Now

-Meg

Picture Overdose

We went to the Festival of Color =D

Though it kind of looks like we were beaten up....

I promise we weren't.

We "lovingly rubbed powder on each other".

Later on in the week we went to Cafe Rio.

And ate the largest burrito I have ever seen!

It was heavenly,

as Rachel convinced me to use a super long straw as well,

So she wouldn't feel silly alone. That straw is pushed as far down as it will go.

Thursday we made Pizookie with Kelsey.

Yes that is mint chocolate chip ice cream, chocolate syrup and caramel, aka a heart attack.

And we ate it all!

No worries, her roommates helped us eat it too.

Rachel and I went to go see The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

And found this:

A 3D model of the tower from Tangled!
It was quite impressive.

Albert at General Conference in SLC.

Very big, very pretty.

=D

And we went to get Thai after the first session.
This is my lunch, sadly I didn't care for it, but Jesse was nice enough to trade with me. =D

I found out I LOVE green curry!

Rewinding time, my sister made a fabulous dinner one of the first nights I was in Provo.

Cheese, ham, and apple on bread. With a mixed salad with dressing.

It was delicious!!!

Fast forwarding time:

Catherine and I got Sub Zero, Mountain Dew Ice Cream: YUM!!

And Cocoa Bean!

This was peanut butter icing, chocolate chips on a peanut butter banana cupcake.

It was to die for.

I also got another cupcake (because I was SUPER hungry) but Albert ended up eating it.

We also played Just Dance 2.

And got quite a work out from it.

I had a blast watching them dance, it was funny.

Jesse taught Albert what to do.

And the had fun, dancing like Russians.

See? Russian.

Now you just have to look at these next few in sync, to see how it works.

Catherine was happy that we were playing Just Dance =D

And enjoyed it =]

Beasts!

Tron anyone?

Family time is fun time =]

Just Dance
Dance
Dance
Meg

I laughed so hard I think I have a 6 pack

Basically I had a wonderful weekend =]

Rachel White (Elizabeth Moss's cousin) came up from Provo Thursday night. (She couldn't find a Friday ride surprisingly). Plus she got here an hour and a half early! She hadn't eaten anything on the way up therefore, we decided to make some dinner. Rachel is a great deal like my friend Kris, in the sense she experiments with food. We ended up making angel hair noodles with cream of chicken, garlic powder, salt, pepper and corn. It was DELICIOUS!!! Then Brent came over to make cookies but it was more like Rachel and I were making them/having a flour fight and Brent just put some of them on the cookie tray.

It reminded me of "Uptown Girls" where they make cookies and they tell Molly to put them in the oven and while she is doing that the friends ask "Are you sure she can handle this?" and her best friend says "Don't worry girls, it's just cookie mix, how badly could she screw it up?" (The next scene is of the oven with flames coming out of it and everyone is screaming) But don't worry, we didn't burn the cookies at all =D But we were both tired after that and stayed in and watched some chick flicks.

Friday Rachel came with me to my Book of Mormon class. Her and Clarissa (one of the girls I sit next to and also my "companion" when we go teach lessons for class) got along quite well. Our assignment for the next two classes is to reread the talks we read at the beginning of the semester and then discuss them in our group of 5 people. (It sounds like my teacher won't be here which will be interesting...)

Then we decided we wanted to make dinner, this AWESOME salsa stuff but we needed avocado, tomato and green onion. So we walked to Albertson's. And that is a BIT of a walk! But it was lots of good exercise and we had fun especially the random people that yell hey to you from their cars as you walk by. We came back and made this:

Homemade salsa! It is kidney beans, tomato, onion, avocado, green beans (we didn't have corn), lime juice (we didn't have lemon), cilantro, salt, pepper and garlic pepper. It was DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See how yummy it looks?

Then we walked again but this time to The Cocoa Bean and we got an Irish Caminilla Frappe.
YUMMY!

See?

And a Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcake!!!
You know you want this! But too bad!

And my mommy sent my lots of sharpies so Rachel and I had a sharpie party! We drew lots and lots of pictures! I was in such a giddy mood from this! I think the sharpies got to us because we died laughing and I was too giddu for my own good, I was nearly bouncing off the walls!

AND RACHEL BROUGHT CHEERWINE!!!!!
This is exactly what it looks like =D

We did origami! And taught each other different things

She taught me this nifty thing and also one with 6 sheets and it makes a box!

Saturday we went to the gardens to take some pictures and we did though it was quite cold, we ran back to get my gloves and my remote for my camera. While looking around for a place to take pictures......I am not sure who instigated it......but I think we both looked at each other, read each others minds and instantaneously grabbed some snow off the table, patted it together and threw it! We spent about 20 minutes running around getting snow everywhere and making ourselves even colder! But finally we settled down and took some pictures.

Pretty Rachel!

I can fly! Shhhh it's a secret.

Besties! =D

And I went in the library for the first time!!! (Normally I just go upstairs just to mount prints but not IN the library part) Rachel was trying to do homework but the computer didn't have the program she needed.

Instead we made Arizona Skillet Dinner and it tasted SOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!! =D =D =D =D
Then I took her to Sammy's and we had a Mint Oreo Pie Shake and listened to the band and I saw a kid from my Book of Mormon class.

We went home and decided to make pizookie but we knew we couldn't eat it all so we invited Clarissa over. We had a little TOO much fun making the cookie dough, and making a practice test (because the altitude does weird stuff to food here). The cookie was HUGE! I wish I had a picture. We of course smothered it in ice cream and chocolate syrup. But we only ate around a third of it (not being hungry after Arizona Skillet and Sammy's). But we decided to sign the door
while making fun of some really dumb chick flicks such as "Dear John" "500 Days of Summer" and "Charlie St.Cloud"

Thanks to mom for sending me ALLLL those pretty colored sharpies! We had to keep the door open to write, so we froze, plus being hyped up on sugar and then working with sharpies sent us into a rage of laughter where I don't think we breathed for a good 30 minutes, if only barely.
If I don't have some amazing abs after this weekend I will be quite upset.

After all the laughter we settled down to introduce Clarissa to the show "Chuck" and watched 17 Again until Clarissa had to leave and I fell asleep on the couch.

Today we all had cold showers because "Luke Warm" took the place of "warm" today. =[ Anyway we had church but it was snowing really hard when we left so 6 of us packed in Nicole's TINY car then we couldn't find parking so we had to drive to the other side of campus but we took the long way plus the window kept fogging up. It was QUITE the adventure but we ended up parking by the girl dorms. Church was good and we came back and hung out and watched Psych until Rachel had to leave.

FUN WEEKEND! THE END!

"Oh and he died too"

Meg

Weekend

Sorry it's taken me so long, CRAZY busy this week, not so much homework but just so much to be done. On the bright side I did get laundry done Monday! And I made Arizona Skillet dinner tonight =D It wasn't AS good as mom's but still pretty good, everyone liked it. (We made it because we're out of meat...) Plus I've been DYING to have it!

But I'll let the pictures do the talking for this weekend =D

This weekend I got to see some AMAZING people!

Catherine and I went to the Cocoa Bean and got the most amazing cupcakes ever!
Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake & Better Than Whatever

Got got yummy Frappes!

My cute sister!

We painted our toes crazy colors!

And watched Confessions of a Shopoholic

Catherine curled her hair since I brought her straightener to her.
Then I went to go see Rachel White =D

She had Cheerwine, I hugged it for at least 5 minutes! Sadly we forgot to drink it =[

We wanted to make cookies, Rachel is short so she had to climb to get the sugar =]

Rachel and Kelsey! And the most amazing Double Chocolate Chip Peppermint Drop Cookiedough! It was better than the cookie! So we ate it!

But it kinda looked like poop....

But we still ate it because it was the yummiest nasty looking stuff ever!

Dinglehopper!
(If you don't know what movie that's from....you make me SAD!)

We made pazookie =D

And Jared and his friends came to visit and eat pazookie! =D

Then I went back to Catherine and Jesse's apartment and we carved pumpkins!!!!

Jesse carved leaves, I carved a sun! and Catherine carved rain drops!

Then we made Lava Baby Cakes!
(Chocolate cupcakes with creamy fudge inside, with strawberries and powdered sugar)

Another look because they just looked like pure heaven!

And my sister is SOOOOO crafty that she makes bowls out of magazines!

And pictures out of buttons and paper!

Not sure what this is, but it looks cool!

She stitches too!

Crazy awesome!

More basket things!

Cute huh?

Stricklan <3>

It looks like a flower =D

All her CRAZY homemade awesome jewelry! And the little bowl thing is the cutest!!!!

Little stars! She made me some for my apartment! Some of them got knotted though =[

And magnets! She made me some too! =D

So yeah my sister is pretty much amazing and this weekend was fun! =D =D =D

Get of town!
Meg