I Look So Good (Without You) by Jessie James

Okay, this is my favorite song right now....if you haven't heard it, then listen to it RIGHT NOW! If you have, well download it on iTunes so you can listen to it over and over like I am right now. :) I just love it and it has definitely given me confidence and motivation recently. Even though the words might not match completley with how I am thinking, it will help me make them that way! But seriously, Love It. Listen to It. It will change your life! HAHA okay, maybe not change your life, but it should make some sort of effect on it. :) That is all.

You THOUGHT You Knew Me...

I love learning more about my friends, their deepest thoughts and feelings, interesting facts about them, and how they like to spend their time. :) So if you want to learn a little more about me, here you go!

* I really REALLY wish I could be a really good photographer. Every time I am on my computer I look at different photographer's galleries to get ideas and what kind of style I would do. This is my favorite one right now...http://julieparkerphotography.blogspot.com/

* I cannot wait to be able to have my own house and decorate it how I want. I am definitely going to have to have my sister Bethany help me decorate cause she is just so good at that stuff and I am not, but I can't wait! It will be so much fun! :)

* I want to take a year and just TRAVEL! I would need someone I love to go with me, but I want to travel all over the country, especially NYC and Church History sites, go to Italy and London, but also Hawaii and a great cruise!

* I LOVE music. I spend a lot of my time listening to music, downloading music, and making CD's or updating my iPod. iTunes has probably gotten most of their business from me, but I would much rather spend my money on music than clothes. Yes, weird I know. :) I can't even remember the last time I bought myself clothes!

* I crave Cafe Rio like everyday.

* I love the outdoors. Camping, hiking, boating, four wheelers, all of it. I love the feeling of being out in the open, away from the craziness of city stuff, and smelling the sweet smell of nature. :)

* I wish I didn't HAVE to work. I really don't enjoy it. People say that you would get bored if you never worked, but I am POSITIVE that would not happen with me. I am very good at finding things to do with my time. I really enjoy learning than working. Now, if I could get paid to go to school then that would be AWESOME! :)

* One of my FAVORITE things to do is put on some sweats, get a bowl of ice cream, and cuddle up to a good movie. It's the best way to spend an evening! :) I know, I am such a Party Animal! :)

* I have been on my own and taken care of myself for so many years, that it's difficult for me to think about needing to adjust to joint checking accounts, feeding someone else, including another person in my decisions, answering to someone about what I spend my money on, and make sure I meet all their needs. But don't worry, when that time comes I am sure it's going to be the most wonderful thing ever, I just fear that I won't do a good enough job at it!

* I want to be a Marriage and Family Therapist. I want to be a School Psychologist. I also want to be a photographer, go to Cosomotology School, learn to be a Dental Hygienist, own a cupcake/cookie shop, do Speech Pathology, and be an ice cream taste tester......oh the list goes on and on...:)

* I secretly like Miley Cyrus. Okay, secrets out! I love her music! And I am gonna be seeing her new movie with my girls next week! Yay! :)

* Just like Beth, my number one weakness is chocolate. :) I have to have it EVERYDAY!

* I really like Chandler from "Friends". He is so funny! Whenever I need some cheering up, I put in one of my Friends DVD's and he never lets me down!

* I love riding on motorcycles. It scares the heck out of me to go really fast, but the rush is great!

* I want to go horseback riding so badly! I miss our horses so much!

* One of my favorite classes I took at BYU was Tap. I took it with Beth and Sarah and it was the best! I even take out my tap shoes every now and then just to see what I can remember. :)

* My name is Megan and I am addicted to Cherry Coke. I know I shouldn't like it so much, but I do. I have tried to make myself quit, but it's too hard! So I try to just consume it every now and then.

* Is it weird that sometimes I wish that I could be in some kind of accident so I can stay the night in the hospital? I have never had to go to the hospital for anything so I guess I just want to know what it's like! Hmmmm I think I am a little sick in the head...but that's a different kind of hospital. ugh

* I took Sign Language at BYU. I loved learning it! My teacher was so funny and the friends I made in it were awesome! I just wish I knew it more.

* I think Sandra Bullock is one of the most talented and beautiful actresses out there! I have loved all of her movies! I loved The Proposal and can't wait to see All About Steve.

* Whenever I go to the dentist and have to get my mouth numbed for something, I am always afraid that I am going to bite off my tongue because I am not able to feel it! SCARY!

* Foot massages are my favorite things EVER!

* My favorite perfume is Lucky.

* I miss my new nephew Ryder SO MUCH! I can't wait to see him again so I can just sit there and look at him all day. :)

* I hate slow drivers. Especially when I am in a hurry! haha

Michael Scott: If I were joking you would be laughing. Do you look like you're laughing?
Dwight Schrute: Impossible to say, I can't see myself.
Michael Scott: You're not.

Sarah's Graduation!!

This past Thursday I got to drive down to Provo for Sarah's graduation! It was a very quick trip, I went down Thursday afternoon and came back Friday evening, but it was still very worth it and lots of fun. When I got down there we went and met her parents at Pier 49 for some delicious pizza and reminiscing. It was fun to see Laura after not seeing her in a couple years and to also get to know Sarah's boyfriend Ryan better too. After pizza we spent the rest of the evening at her parent's hotel room chatting and getting our clothes ironed for the next day (yes, we are party animals I know! :). It felt good to get a way for a bit and be with friends to help me not think about the hard week I had had. The graduation day was great. We got up and got all dressed up. We got Sarah ready and over to get in line with the other graduates and then found some seats in the Marriott Center. Davey and his new wife Tracey was there too! That was fun to see them too! Well, Sarah got to do her walk without any kind of tripping or falling on her face and now she is a BYU graduate! Well, technically she isn't quite done. She finishes her internship in December, but they don't have a ceremony in December, and so that's why she walked at this ceremony. But Yay for Sarah! What a great accomplishment. I am so proud of her! She will make a great Social Worker. After the ceremony we got pictures taken and then had a celebration lunch at Olive Garden. Mmmm :) Love that place! Her parents were so nice to feed all of us so many times. I always love being around her family. It's like I am one of them. :) I then headed back to Idaho Falls soon after we got done with lunch. The weather wasn't looking too good and I wanted to get back before dark so I wouldn't get home too late. It's always a good time when I go to Provo!

Ryan and I waiting for the ceremony to start

Sarah is in there somewhere....

About to go walk across the stage and get her diploma!

2 BYU Alumni!

Michael Scott: Show of hands, anybody want to intern at Dunder Mifflin. We do not offer college credit, we can not give you any sort of pay, but it is a really fun work environment. Anybody? Show of hands? Dang- it. Ok. I'm gonna wrap it up here. Thank you, for your time. And drive safe!

Idaho Falls Duck Races

Just as an intro, everything that I am going to tell you in this post is true. I am not making it up at all. I don't think I could if I tried. :) Every year, Idaho Falls has what's called "Duck Races." Anyone in the community who wants to, buys a little yellow rubber ducky for $7. Then we all go to the Snake River. They set up a crane, and attach a huge dumpster thing with all the ducks in it. They then pour all the ducks into the river at one time and we watch this huge mass of yellow float down the river, anticipating which duck will decide to get ahead of all the rest and fall down the water falls first. I know, people pretty much have anxiety attacks over this. The person connected with the duck that went down first wins a car. A CAR! For buying a $7 child bath toy! WOW.

The huge mass of rubber ducks floating down the river Anyway, they have a whole bunch of other activities and happenings go on all day long around the river that lead up to the releasing of the ducks that I got to help out a lot with. We watched speed boat races. We had a tug-a-war across the river. That's right, across the whole river. I got to be the person who stood on the bridge in the middle and blow the air horn to let the teams know when to start. So the first round, I blow the horn and two seconds after, the rope broke. HAHA So we got it all fixed and tied again, so I blew the horn and the two teams sat there tugging at the rope forever. Nobody slid down the grass into the river. Nobody let go of the rope all of a sudden making the other team fall on their bums. Nobody even got too tired and let the other team win. They just pulled forever and we called it off and declared a winner. It was pretty much the lamest tug-a-war I have ever seen. :) But it was still fun to help out. Another awesome thing they do is have a helicoptor fly over and drop a whole lot of ping pong balls down and all the kids rush and grab a ball. If they get a red one they get a toy, and if they get a white ball, they get a cookie. So I helped hand out all the prizes and such to the kids. We were definitely bombarded by the kids. There were even some crazy parents who wanted to make sure their kid got the red ball and not a white one! Also lined up by the river were a bunch of old cars that people brought to show off. My branch president owns a whole barn full of old cars. That's his hobby and he has some really nice ones. We have a lot of branch activities down at his car barn where we get to look at them as we BBQ or watch a movie or go four wheeling. So at the end of the day I got to help drive one of the cars back to his garage and it was so awesome! I didn't get a picture of me in it, but this is a picture that I took of Jared while we were at the car barn one time, and the car I drove is the one on the right. :)

It was definitely a very eventful day and lots of fun. And who can complain when they get to eat a huge bag of kettle corn while watching a bunch of rubber duckies float down the river? I definitely can't. :) I can't wait for next years! HAHA

Me and a huge blow up of what the mini rubber ducks looked like. :)

Dwight Schrute: Once I brought in a duck to prepare for lunch, and people got upset. Apparently they got attached to the duck and didn't want to see it killed.

Lake Tahoe

You don't have to say it....I already know. I suck at blogging. It's been a whole month, and there have definitely been some awesome happenings in my life these past 4 weeks that I want to share. I just don't have pictures for those adventures and so that is what has been keeping me from posting anything. But I definitely want to post about my awesome family reunion I went to last weekend! I drove down to Provo and met Doug and Bethany there and then we all drove to Lake Tahoe together. There were about 46 of us there and we had a blast together. I got to see so many of my cousins and aunts and uncles. I got to see my brother who I hadn't seen in many years. I finally got to meet my great neice (my neice's daughter who is already 16 months!). We got to stay in a really nice, big cabin. Friday night we had a big BBQ and just chatted and caught up with everybody. Saturday we spent the day at the lake. Laying out in the sun, playing sand volleyball, Doug and I went kayaking in the lake, and then we got to go out in Sherine's boat and go tubing! Heather and I went in the tube together, and Rob drove the boat so fast and crazy we got thrown around like rag dolls. :) We were so sore the next day it was out of control. After the lake we went to the city pool and hung out and had a great BBQ there. Sunday we got to go rafting down the river! It was so much fun! It was a very popular day for people to float the river. We even saw some people going down on air mattresses! :) haha At the bottom of the river they have this really cool patio restaurant where we ate. The rest of the day was spent hanging out, playing games, eating pizza, and having an awesome dance party. My family is so fun and awesome! It was so good to see them and be able to get away and have fun together. I really hope that we will be able to make this a tradition. Thanks Sherine for all the work you put into it and making it happen! Thank you Beth and Doug for letting me bum a ride off of you. It was a great trip!

















Me and Heather tubing

Me and Doug about to raft

Me and Mom

Hanging at the lake

Getting a little camera happy

Rafting Traffic

Heather and my boat hair

Michael Scott: You know a lot of these people, this is the only family they have. So, as far as I'm concerned [picks up 'World's Best Boss' mug] this says World's Best Dad.

Baby Ryder

I was able to go down to Provo this past week to see my new nephew be born! It was such an amazing experience, it's kind of hard to put it in words. I drove down early Thursday morning since Beth was going to go in to get induced that day. I left Idaho Falls at 5:30am, stopped at the Salt Lake airport to pick up my mom who was flying in from Sacramento, and then headed to the Orem hospital! Once we arrived there, Beth had just gotten her epidural and was feeling great! We hung out in their room, talked, took pictures, and anticipated the birth. At 10:30am the nurse checked her and she was at 4.5cm. We were hoping it wouldn't take that much longer. Well, the nurse surprised us when she came back at 12pm and told us she was at 10cm!! It really didn't take long at all! So she called the doctor to get him over to the hospital so Beth could start pushing! Seriously, Beth only pushed like 6 times and Ryder was out! It was so cool to see him born. It really is a miraculous experience. The doctor pulled him out and got him him breathing, Doug cut the umbilical cord and got blood squirted all over him :), and then I watched the nurses clean him all up before they handed him over to Bethany.

He was 6 pounds 3 ounces, 19 inches long! The rest of the day we spent holding him, looking at him, and loving him. Beth did such a great job through the whole thing and we were so grateful there were no complications. He is the cutest and best behaved baby ever (well, until my babies are born that is...:) It has been so much fun playing with a new baby, being with my family, and getting to just relax the whole weekend. Bethany and Doug are going to make WONDERFUL parents and I am so excited to watch Ryder grow up.

He already has some cool tricks! :)Going home from the hospital!

Michael Scott: It does not matter to me at all whether this baby is biologically mine. I’m going to love it. It’s like when the dog nurses the tiger cub. Have you seen that video? It is so bizarre and unnatural, but, it... it happens.

I really really want to write about the awesome white water rafting trip I went on last week, but I don't want to do it without pictures!! I am trying to find someone who took pictures and get them from them so I can! So if you went on the trip and you have pictures from it, let me know! :) I am sorry to make you all wait, but it will be so much better with pictures.