Halloween!

So I realize that my last few posts, and this one are a bit late, and I know I'm a slacker, so we will all have to accept that! lol

So here it is, Halloween!

For some reason I got it in my head that I wanted to be a flapper. And this picture is really horrid, but honestly it looked better in real life, Conly must not take pictures well.

Some of our neighbor kids, I'm really not sure what any of them were supposed to be.

Here are our pumpkins, this was the first time that we have carved pumpkins in about five years.

This was the best pumpkin by far! Can you guess who carved it? haha!

October 20th! Mom's Birthday!

This post is dedicated to my lovely mom. She turned 46 this year (even though she thought she was turning 46 last year). So this year we all took the day off work and chilled out around the house. That was the one thing she said she wanted, but we still had to buy her presents anyway! lol. I made her a german chocolate cake (her favorite), and we had dinner and cake. It was pretty fun day hanging out with the family.

Pete IV

So every year we end up with a cat face spider somewhere on our house. My mom named the first one Pete, so now every time we find one we say "It's a Pete!!" This year I found Pete late in the year, he had a very good hiding spot, too. He chose the rain gutter in our backyard, right by a light. I don't like spiders, but I'm ok with this one.

Rodeo!

So I went to the USU rodeo to watch my friend Ryan calf rope, sad thing is, he didn't make it to the finals so I didn't get to see him ride. The good thing is that he got to come sit by his wife and me and have some fun with our friends that just happened to show up. We also found a massive bug on our way home.

For Marci...

My family thought I was crazy for making them pull over and take this picture when we entered the beach at Bear Lake.


I meant to post this clear back in July but here it is...



In memory of Parisi's Document Design class. To the man with purple hair, the man who was teaching a design class but didn't know how to turn on a computer, the man who wouldn't let his students design anything in color (I don't think he'd realized it was invented yet), the man whom Marci vented in many a blog, the man who made us redesign the same annoying pamphlet everyday for 12 weeks and then gave us B's, to the man who required us to buy a design book from 1980, this picture is for you.



















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stop, drop, and roll

Today was a some what monumental day for the community of Tremonton... well not that monumental, but that is the word that is getting used today. The senior citizen building was burned down today. Gasp! There is no need to gasp as it was a controlled burn by not just one but four fire departments. I was not able to be at the burning, as I was stuck in the wonderful world of Walmart all day (blah!).

A little history on the building:

Name: Senior Citizen Center- its real name is Mckinley School aka "the old Mckinley" (as opposed to "the new Mckinley"- I went to elementary school at the new Mckinley)

Age: Really old

Date of Death: September 26, 2008 Rest in peace yellow building.

Events that happened in this building:

-Voting
-Concerts (the student city council attempted to make this the "cool" thing to do- for some
reason the country folk never really caught on to this, could have something to do with it being
right next to the police department... hmmm...)
-My grandma JoAnn was named mother of the year there
-I took singing classes from Jan Rawlinson there (even though we all know I can't sing.)
-The food pantry lived there
-In elementary school we walked there to visit the museum every year, which was actually
pretty cool. There was a room that was set up like the classroom in Anne of Green Gables,
also one that was set up kinda western, I think it had a jail cell in it, not sure about that
though. So it had a lot of old things that were donated by the town. Bad thing about it was it
was never really open to the community so not many people knew about it.
-My dad went to elementary school there (he was born in 1960, and was the last 5th
grade class to go to school there, it was a really old building!).
-I broke my arm on a slide behind the building when I was 4.

At the moment that is all that happened there, oh the old people kinda hung out there, hence the "senior" center.

OH, The coolest fact about this building is that my Dad, the fireman and member of the last 5th grade class, was the only person that got to light the building on fire. Talk about a student's dream coming true (who cares if it was some 30 or 40 years late!)

Second coolest fact: I was one of the few people allowed passed the police tape to take pictures. (My dad is pretty cool)

So in honor of such a building here is a slide show of the aftermath:


in honor of something really old

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Give a hoot!

So we found an owl in my neighbor's tree... he didn't really enjoy the fact that I was trying to take a picture of him... I actually took several, but he slept through the majority of them, and then he decided to glare at me. (it could be a she...)

CAKES!

So since I am currently the daughter of the relief society president in my ward, I "get" to partake in every activity that happens in the ward. My new favorite, though, is our new cake decorating class. It's only going to be once a month, but I'm practicing like crazy. And anyone who knows me knows that I never go half-in to things, yes I am currently purchasing anything that is related to cakes, and surfing the internet for more! You could say that I'm crazed... Well here is the first cake that I have done, I think its pretty ok for the first try.

New Love

Yesterday my beautiful, new, amazing camera came. I pretty much ran to the store to pick it up, and then got so distracted playing with it, that I was late for meeting my friend in SLC for the Sawyer Brown concert. Oops, but no worries, he saw my excitement and seemed to understand. If any one has seen me in my picture taking mode, they'd understand my love for this new machine. Here are a few pictures I took yesterday:

Winter/Spring Shots

Here are some shots from me just playing around with my camera.

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Objects in the mirror are redder than they appear

For some unknown reason I've always had a fasination with auburn hair. I don't know if it's because auburn rhymes with Hepburn and I really love Audrey, amazing woman. Or that I'm not so secretly jealous of my younger cousin's auburn hair and his really cute freckles. Either way, it doesn't look good on me. I of course have a talent for forgetting that it doesn't look good on me and always turns out lighter than the box for some reason. This is all true for the most recent attempt, although I must say that the color itself is really quite amazing, it just doesn't look good on me. So at 8:45 May 28, 2008 I will be going to the store to purchase a dark chocolatey brown color to cover up the red. Next time I get this wild idea to dye my entire head red (highlights of red actually turn out beautifully) someone please remind me to listen to my mom when she says, "Now are you sure you want to do this? You have such pretty brown hair, just let it be brown."

Letter from me

So five years ago I was probably a junior in high school. I do know that five years ago I was in Mrs. Gephart's psychology class, I'm not sure what this has to do with psychology, but she made us write a letter to ourselves that she would mail to us five years later, at the time I thought it was silly. Reading it now, I think it's funny, and kinda sad too. Here it is. And yes all smiley faces really occurred in the real letter. My comments on letter are in text...


Dear Meg (in five years) <----Yes I'm a dork April 28, 2003
This is my letter to you (me) that I wrote (am writing) for psychology, my (your) junior year. I am hoping that you (I) am doing well. Like how I clarify the tenses?Hopefully you (I) have found a very good looking return missionary and have settled down. :) Nope, sorry! I know Mom was probably VERY keen on him being good looking. :) Gotta love Mom. She is great. She is great, an also determined to have cute grand kids that live in the same town as her... meaning I can't leave!

College is/was probably great. I hope you have settled on a career. I wonder what you (I) have chosen. Landscaping? Physical therapy? Dentistry? Whatever it is I hope you (I) love it. I don't remember wanting to be a dentist... maybe it was a random career that day...

So this hopeful mate- or any guy you (I) am dating- is he everything we dreamed of? Does he make you laugh everyday? Is he kind? Does he honor his priesthood? Can he/did he take you to the temple? Does he love kids? Does he respect your (my) dreams? Let's hope he isn't a geek- Mom would have to kill us! :) If only, If only... I love how much I know at such a young age what my mother expected from me...

So how is the family? Did you (I) go to the same college as Conly? Yes. Were we there at the same time?Yes. I bet some nice girl has him wrapped around her finger. He always falls hard for those silly girls. :) He does, but no luck yet, still too shy. I bet Dad is still fighting fires and Mom is still showing dogs.Yep. I wonder if she will ever get down to two. :) Nope.They probably still live in the same house and Mom probably got sick of your purple room. She painted it green about a year ago... you actually consented, although you wouldn't have if you knew that it would later look like baby poop green in certain lights...

Did you (I) ever figure out how to be organized? Kinda. Mom really thinks I am a mess. There is just no time to be clean and tidy, and anyway, it is my nature to be messy! :) Disclaimer: I'm a clean person, just not super tidy and organized. Look at how I'm justifying things. I probably still do that and you (I) probably over analyze things still. It's the bane of my existence to this day, even had an issue of that today! Stupid over analyzing.

So what's become of your (my) friends from high school? They all got married... And is Jesse Munns still a friend of Conly and the family? I hope he is. Your (my) cute guy is probably a lot cuter than him. Can you tell I had a crush on Jesse and wanted to marry him, but he was too stupid to notice, that's okay now, I grew out of the Jesse liking phase pretty fast! Well, I can't think of anything else. Bye. Have a good life. ?

Sincerely,
Meg :) (Holy lots of smileys!!!!!)

P.S. Are you still friends with Ryan Silvester? No crush on this boy, he was just my best friend and was sitting next to me at the time, he wanted me to add that...

And she is gradumacated

Holy Crap... I graduated. I am now a college graduate. What the crap do I do now? I'm finding it to be a strange feeling, I have so much uncertainty of what I should do now. I know that I should really look for a real job now, I'm ready to be done with Walmart, but I really like using it as a security blanket at the moment. This is just one of those big steps that I'm feel so inept upon taking.
Graduating was really great, Conly and I got to graduate/walk at the same ceremony. I loved looking down at my mom as she took pictures of me crossing the stage. I did really well with the water works too, until they had us stand up and thank our parents forsupporting us by round of applause. I found my mom in the crowd, and once again the waterworks that she so willingly passed down to me started up! I have the greatest parents and brother, they are always there for me no matter what I do. From ballet recitals (which were pretty sad since I always turned the opposite direction of all the other ballerinas) to coaching softball teams, my parents were always there, and for this I am very thankful. It sounds very cliche, but I really couldn't have done it without them.
So with that, here are the lovely pictures from graduation!



The Graduates

The Family

Me, Grandma, Con

Before graduation I couldn't have told you that she was the head of the English department, but I got to shake her hand as I crossed the stage (then I promptly had to ask someone who she was when I sat down- still couldn't tell ya her name.)

Jeremy and I showing off the "covers" that our diplomas will go in once they are sent to us, cross your fingers that we actually pass!

Hot topic should have an age limit...

So I have come to the conclusion that people should not be able to shop at hot topic once they reach the age of 30. It would be a very nice thing to go with that eventful birthday. People will now be asked to present ID when entering this store. All because of one woman at the Jimmy Eat World concert I attended in Idaho this weekend... besides the massive amount of emo kids, there was the one woman that stood out to everyone. Imagine a 38 year old wearing a denim skirt that was more the size of a belt than a skirt, a white spaghetti strapped shirt, bleach blonde hair, black and white striped where's waldo tights along with matching gloves that had no fingers, and 4" black stiletto hooker boots, this is exhibit A of why there should be an age restriction. Exhibit B was her 6 year old daughter that was dressed the exact same way! After they plopped down in the seats in front of us, the mother turned to her friends and said "I'm going to get Maddy a t-shirt!" They come back several minutes later with the daughter wearing a new paramore t-shirt, the mother then turns to the daughter and says, "I'm so glad that we got you that t-shirt, I didn't like you running around in that tank top." ... Can I tell her that I didn't like her running around in her tank top?

So all in all the concert was really good, practically amazing, all except for I tried my hardest to watch Paramore, but the crazy where's waldo lady was "dancing" all over the place so I didn't get to see any of it. But I did get to see all of the wonderful band that I went to see, Jimmy Eat World was pure genious.

Don't quit your day job...

To the girl with the phone upstairs,

Hello, I know that you are a very nice person and all, but I was just wondering if you are nocturnal. You see my room is directly below yours, and I hear your conversations every night, you know, the ones that last until 3 a.m. every night. Have you been introduced to sleep? If not, sleep is my friend I could make you an acquaintance. I guess the phone is better than the concert/clapping fest you have at least once a week. Is your boyfriend taking lessons? He might want a refund. Don't get me wrong I LOVE music, but not so much at 3 a.m. and not from a guy that can't sing a life performance worth beans...It's not so much fun then. Nada. If you need help getting to sleep Walmart does have some wonderful sleep aids.

Thank you, and goodnight, I'm going to find my earplugs.

Model?

So I got this email today on my myspace from a lady, a talent scout, that saw my picture and me to work with her agency... How weird is that? I'm not sure what I think of the idea, I think it would be a lot of fun. It's one of those secret fantasies of mine that I never really thought could happen, but what if it could? I know nothing big would come of it, but it could be kinda fun to be a model for something, maybe a small commercial or something, just to say I'd done it. It makes me wonder just how crazy these people could be.