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16 years later, we finally started talking. 11.30.13 we became Mr. & Mrs.Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-52519057895242461302015-02-22T20:27:00.000-07:002015-02-22T20:33:14.723-07:00February Happenings + Mardi Gras<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February has flown by! Between my birthday (woot woot 24!), Valentines Day, starting a new job and Mardi Gras (which is really a month long party) I feel like I haven't stopped running! Which is great because January dragged on forever over here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We decided to keep my birthday low key this year, nothing too crazy. Scott took my out to dinner to the Cheesecake Factory and then we did some shopping and I bought a fantastic purse that I'm completely in love with, thanks to mom and dad! Plus Scott bought me the most beautiful bouquet of roses I've ever seen and a little tripod for my phone I've been wanting. He's seriously the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Valentines we wanted to tackle live lobster ourselves. Oh yeah. Steamed those babies up and dipped them in buttah. We came to the conclusion that all though it's extremely easy to steam lobster, it's really hard to steam them to a perfectly cooked state. And by the time you get all the meat out of the claws, it's not hot anymore. There was a lot of clean up involved and some nasty cleaning of the insides when you cut the tail off from the main body as well. It was completely fun and definitely an adventure but I think next time we're going to just opt for the more expensive restaurant lobster that's cooked to perfection!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now Mardi Gras. I don't even know where to start with that celebration! You really step into a different world out here during Mardi Gras. And I'm completely serious about the month long party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a very small background from my limited knowledge of this holiday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-It always falls on Fat Tuesday. This year that day was February 17th.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-It's basically a last hurrah before Lent. (Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die...)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-There were over 60 parades this year that started as early as January 6th.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Most of the parades are family friendly. Unless of course you wander into the French Quarter at night. But really, you're just asking for it if you do that during Mardi Gras.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Kids get out of school for the entire week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Most businesses take Mardi Gras off as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You're supposed to eat lots and lots of King Cake. King cake is cinnamon-filled dough that's baked in the shape of a hollow circle. Sometimes they are filled with cream cheese or jellies. There are way too many sprinkles on the top and sometimes inside the cake that are the colors of Mardi Gras: green, purple, and gold. There's also a plastic baby Jesus hidden inside the cake. (Do you get it now, "King" cake... baby Jesus.) Whoever gets the baby Jesus gets luck or something, and then has the buy the next king cake. Vicious cycle. People rave about king cake. It's AMAZING. Scott and I never quite got the loving relationship with it that everyone else seems to have going. We'll see if something changes next year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-You may start off at the parade not caring about cheap plastic beads that are getting thrown at your face, but by the end of the parade you will have been taken over by an alter ego version of yourself who NEEDS the beads and NEEDS the blinking headband and NEEDS the plastic cup and NEEDS the stuffed flower wand thing. Oh yeah, it's like a disease. People go crazy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Also, see that ladder box behind me in the picture of the right? You put kids up there so they're higher up and they get thrown loads of stuff. It's the popular place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Valentine's gets completely walked over out here. People go crazy with Mardi Gras decorations. I mean, check out this wreath?! It practically smacks you on the face as you walk by the door. And the more gaudy, the better. I've never seen so many tacky wreaths in all my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-At the bigger parades these guys on horses pass out doubloons. They're a big deal. You WANT doubloons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-Everyone on a float is required to wear a mask by law. Don't ask me why, but it just adds to the mystery of everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scott and I went to 4 parades this year. A decent number for a rookie beginner. We went to Mandevilles' Krewe of Eve parade one night, and then the Friday night before Mardi Gras we went down to Uptown New Orleans and saw 3 parades. There's a main parade route down there and you can literally camp out there in one spot all day and watch around 5 parades throughout the day on the weekends. The fun thing about some of the bigger parades down in New Orleans is that they have customized beads and throws. Their beads will have the krewe's symbol on it and they'll have specialized items that go with their theme. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had no idea what to do with all the beads we caught so we decided to make a joke of the elk antlers, showing off it's "rack" for some beads! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry for the long post. Mardi Gras really should have had it's own post but I'm too lazy to go back now and make another one. But all in all, I had a blast with Mardi Gras. It's so much fun and there's no way I can adequately describe it to make you understand. You honestly have to experience it in person. So start making plans for next year! Mardi Gras is February 9th!</span></div>
Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-62164819502378769422015-01-31T14:34:00.001-07:002015-01-31T14:48:15.610-07:00Snow shoeing and New Years<div style="text-align: center;">
This is a late catch-up blog from Christmas and New Years! Scott and I were able to go home for a good week and a half over Christmas and New Years. We had some lovely snow storms! Perfect snow for snowshoeing, which is exactly what we did.</div>
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You feel like you're in another world when you're up in the mountains, trees heavy with snow surrounding you on all sides.</div>
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Some of the trees were getting pulled down with the weight of the snow.</div>
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Christmas Eve was spent with the Greenhalgh clan for their traditional Christmas Eve dinner and family time. Maybe I'll post about the amazing family crest that Michelle painted for Scott and I later. We definitely had fun putting together a New Orleans package as our gift.<br />
Christmas morning we hid from Santa with the Croslands. My niece Evelyn, who is almost 3 now, was just dying as she watched Santa deliver the gifts. She really wanted to get out from under her hiding spot and say "hi" to Santa.<br />
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This new year we spent with the Crosland side of the family. We have a tradition of playing games, eating wings, chips and dip, pineapple slush, playing Just Dance on the Wii and then lighting Chinese lanterns as the New Year rings in.</div>
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Well, resolutions have been made and some have already been left on the wayside. I tend to get a little carried away with list making. But I think I've figured out which ones are the actual important ones to me verses the excessive, "these sound like a good idea" ones.</div>
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It was gorgeous out there. Not a normal Utah fall mountains gorgeous but a Louisiana swamp gorgeous that can only really be appreciated in person. The only downside was the fact that we were doing a tour in November which meant that there were no really big gators out and about. When it gets cold they basically hibernate.<br />
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Gator on a log! He's trying to warm up, it was a chilly day.</div>
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The water was perfectly still and this tree had the most amazing Spanish moss.</div>
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We did see quite a number of birds on our little swamp tour. Isn't this guy so picturesque?</div>
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Behold, the gator! She was a little baby one.</div>
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Our tour guide was this awesome guy who knew everything and anything about the swamp. He actually lives in a swampy area called Lafitte that is south of New Orleans and he is Cajun. It was so interesting hearing about his life and how he was brought up speaking French and living in the swamp. </div>
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I chose to help out on a couple of the patient floors answering the phone, patient call lights, helping out where I can and also working on the comfort cart. Oh yeah. I take this cart around to every single patient and pass out coffee, tea, juices or water. It's actually really fun and people here in the south are the best. "No thank you sugar." "Thanks so much sweety!" "Oh thank you baby." They really do call everyone and anyone things like that. </div>
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I was also introduced to the radiology manager on my first day who told me to bring her my resume and she would look into things for me. There's a hiring freeze right now though at that hospital which is a bummer but she totally gave me a hug when I gave her my resume. That's how friendly people are here!</div>
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Now I should have realized this but for some reason it didn't cross my mind, but all of the volunteers are at least 70 years old. And then there's me, little young looking me who they all think is 18. The old volunteer men like to make the joke that I brought down the average age of the group to 50 now. I've had a couple doctors even do double takes at me, they have a confused look, "Wait, why isn't your hair grey?! Why are you volunteering? You're not 80!" They're normally really impressed actually when I tell them I'm keeping myself busy with volunteering until I can find a job. Just the other day I had a surgeon sitting by me and we went through the routine about why I was volunteering and how I'm a certified rad tech when suddenly he pulls out his prescription pad and writes me a "letter" of recommendation to take to another hospital! It blew me away! He also told me he was going to talk to the radiology manager again for me. I'm grateful for kind people like that in this world. </div>
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Scott got wind of a great river to fly fish in and he had to go. I think it's a safe bet to say that it's the closest place to go fly fishing around here. But it worked out perfectly.</div>
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Scott's friend from BYU who was also in the masters program with him lives in Oklahoma City now with his wife and little girl so they drove four hours and met us there for a couples camping/fishing trip. We were in an oak forest and it was so beautiful. I absolutely loved it. It was great feeling like you were up in higher elevation and stepping on solid ground with running rivers that aren't brown and stagnant and have potential gators in them.</div>
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We had quite the number of critters that visited us. First was a woodpecker. I have actually never seen a woodpecker in real life. Watching him made my face and neck hurt. He was going to town on that tree though and it made me think of the movie Fox and the Hound.</div>
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We got together with two other families in the ward and all carved pumpkins. It was so nice to be with friends and have a big group carving. That's how it always was for me at home so I'm glad this year Scott and I could get out and be with friends from the ward.</div>
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Scott's pumpkin. If you aren't familiar with hunting items, it's the Browning symbol.</div>
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This year I felt like going for a classic Halloween image.</div>
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Here's some of the other pumpkins carved. Don't you love the puking pumpkin and the pumpkin eating someone... haha classic.</div>
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I've had some spare time on my hands you might say and our apartment was seriously lacking in seasonal decorations. Granted it still is because my decor is tiny but I finally finished my last Halloween embroidery! </div>
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I love them. The witch silhouette is probably my favorite.</div>
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I kept seeing different leaf garland projects on pinterest so I combined aspects and wound up with this little guy. I like him too. </div>
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So yeah, they're small but it makes the apartment feel just a tiny bit more cozy and well, lived in I guess. </div>
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I knew I was going to miss the mountains when I moved, but I didn't realize quite how much. Especially when fall came around and my Instagram and Facebook feeds were full of the changing colors in the mountains.</div>
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This picture is from Scott's parent's back yard, those mountains have been the background of most of my life. They have always been that close.</div>
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The south has giant trees, everywhere. They are my distraction from how flat Covington is. But everything is still so green! I've seen one tiny little baby tree change colors so far. It's pathetic.</div>
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But Scott, being the perfect husband for me, knew that a quick trip home was needed. Not just for the fall leaves but to be around family. The honeymoon phase of moving to a new exciting place has worn off and it's been a little hard.</div>
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Also, dry air is the most wonderful thing.</div>
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But enough of my whining. I just want to look at my views through the canyon. </div>
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Don't worry guys. I'm happy. I have the best husband in the world for me. As long as he's here, I'm okay.</div>
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Thanks Utah for a wonderful quick weekend. You're awesome.</div>
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My wonderful mom came flying to my rescue last week. I was dreading the week because Scott was leaving for Houston to attend classes for work. Which meant me being at our apartment, alone, no job to keep me busy, and no friends to keep me company. (Just so you know, I love the ward out here so far. They're awesome. But Scott and I are literally the only young married couple and also the only couple without at least 3 kids. We're clearly in a different stage of life then everyone else.) So needless to say, I was getting a bit of anxiety about Scott leaving. My mom could tell and bought a plane ticket and stayed with me for the week. It was fantastic.</div>
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I know. I have the best mom.</div>
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It was so fun having her out here and having our first visitor! </div>
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We of course had to spend a day in the city of New Orleans. The live jazz music was excellent and the mardi gras masks were very entertaining!</div>
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Mom's mask with the beds hanging down under her eyes kills me every time! haha it's such an awesome mask. And so jeanie. </div>
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I realized that I never feel claustrophobic while inside the French Quarter but as soon as I step out, I take a huge inhale as if I can finally breathe. Everything is so tight inside there. </div>
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Now for some history provided by the mug I bought: "New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste La Moyne Sieur de Bienville of France. New Orleans changed from French to Spanish then back to French control before being sold to the United States in 1803. During Spanish rule (1762-1800) two fires destroyed most of the French Quarter. Rebuilding was done in the Spanish style with wrought iron balconies, this is why the dominant architectural style is Spanish not French."</div>
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Next stop was a ride on the streetcars. The St. Charles line ventures through the uptown neighborhoods and must also be one of the parade routes for Mardi Gras considering the ridiculous amount of beads hanging from every tree and many telephone lines. (Can you see all the beads in that tree?) The houses we passed though were gorgeous.</div>
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Audubon Park is this amazing area full of huge oak trees, ponds, fountains, open green space, and a trail that has a 2 mile loop.</div>
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Such a great find! I need to go back and walk through the park some more. So glad I was able to have my mom there with me! She kept me sane and we had a great time. It was all in all, a relaxing, fun week. </div>
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Secondly, and I had no idea but the thing to wear to a football game is a Vegas style strip club dress. No, I'm not kidding. Check out my stalker photos. :)<br />
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Lovely right? Wrong. It's ridiculous. Really? You want to sit on a bleacher in that? While it rains? Good call.<br />
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And then the game got delayed before it even began. So we waited, and then got some sandwiches to go and ran in the pouring rain to this little tunnel to wait out the rain. Tunnel included smokers on both ends and drunk nasty adults on the other. It was quite the experience. It makes me realize how great Utah is with it's little bubble. I know people hate on the Utah bubble but I'd rather not be surrounded by disgusting adults who are drunk and talking about all sorts of foul things thank you.</div>
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Sunday after church we drove over to St. Augustine to walk around and see the oldest town in the US. </div>
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We had a great little trip. Even though we got stuck in traffic for an hour and a half coming home. That was a kill joy for sure. But that's life for you! You just have to take it as it comes. :)</div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-56108805925199087932014-08-26T14:33:00.000-06:002014-08-26T14:33:37.099-06:00Why Write?With not having a job right now I was running out of things to do to keep me busy during the day. A good friend told me to try out calligraphy, and can I just say that I'm so grateful I did! Calligraphy is amazing and addicting. It has a way of calming you and sucking you in. It's the same feeling I get when I do embroidery. I'm focused in on this simple task, be it a stitch or a stroke, that everything else fades away and I become relaxed. I just write, or I just sew and nothing else matters.<br />
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Now if you don't have 16 minutes to just sit down and watch this TED clip, then scroll a little further. But really, you should watch it.<br />
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The medical loving side of me caught on to this research he mentioned... Here are the notes:<br />
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-He took a cognitive psychology class and studied how handwriting helps develop the brain. During the different tactile movements of doing handwriting, the brain is engaged in more areas and the information is ingrained into the brain. The same was not found to be true with typing however, which does not involve the same type of differential tactile movements.<br />
-Handwriting was also found to be incredibly helpful in small children who were learning to read. By forming the individual letters they had a deeper understanding of the anatomy of each one, and were therefore able to recognize it when it came time to read it on the page.<br />
-Cursive was found to be even more beneficial to the brain. Researchers and scientists have done brain scans on children learning cursive and found that the different parts of the brain engaged are similar to those that adults typically use for writing and higher reasoning. The screen went blank when the kids were doing typing because it didn't involve the same type of tactile movement.<br />
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Interesting right?! I love learning about how amazing the body is and how things effect each other.<br />
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I think it was in high school that I decided I wanted to start writing in cursive more. (I'll have to check my journal for sure though.) I had to do a google search for the cursive alphabet for some of the letters I had forgotten from elementary school. Cursive became my primary handwriting for my journal and remains still. I love cursive. It's so fun and fast and beautiful.<br />
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If all of this hasn't inspired you to take a second look at your handwriting then I don't know what will. It's never to late to try something new. Start with cursive and just a normal pen or pencil. I think knowing cursive beforehand has been helpful with picking up calligraphy. And then try some calligraphy. I'm excited to really study it out and practice. I find myself looking at billboards now and imagining the direction that the strokes would need to go to produce the thick/thin look of the letters. Pathetic I know but whatever. It happens!<br />
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The only thing about the area is that there were a lot of little fishes that you would accidentally step on, or they would nibble at you. And there were even these little jelly fish looking guys and I got stung on the arm by one. (No worries, nothing happened except a stinging sensation that lasted for about 10 minutes). Now there were some speed boat racing going on right out in front of us, so I can't decide if they were stirring up the water and causing all the fish to come closer to the shore, or if that's just normal.<br />
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Quaint little place to stick a restaurant don't you think? We loved it.</div>
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Behold the <a href="http://www.bellingrath.org/about-us.html">Bellingrath Gardens and Home</a>.</div>
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Walter Bellingrath was one of the first to open a Coca-Cola Bottling Company in the southern area, and let's just say he made a pretty penny from it. He and his wife ended up creating a beautiful garden that covered 65 acres, with the help of an architect. They opened their garden to the public in 1932 just for one day, but it turned out to be quite the attraction. It's been open ever since and now you can also tour their home that was built around the same time. </div>
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The house was built in a "U" shape with this courtyard in the middle. They had no air conditioning yet so the shape of the home helped the air flow better through the house.</div>
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They had many different themed areas. The couple traveled to Europe at one point and was very influenced by the English style gardens. They had an area for that, an Asian garden, a Bayou, a large rose garden, and a few others. The garden is most popular for all of the azaleas and camellias that grow there.</div>
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It was a fun little weekend getaway. I think the next one we'll hit Pensacola Beach and see which one we like better. They're almost right next to each other but we heard Pensacola is more crowded. Orange Beach was nice though. We'll be back for sure!</div>
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And the Bellingrath Gardens and Home, was so lovely. I love learning about people and what they did and the stories about them. When Scott and I were in Oregon, we toured Captain Flavel's house as well. I think I see a pattern starting to emerge... haha find me some old houses please!</div>
Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-40796895531503804382014-08-19T13:54:00.000-06:002014-08-19T13:55:45.909-06:00Global Wildlife Center (aka "FEED ME!")Number 6 on the Tripbuzz website for things to do in Covington, LA and given a 96% rating was the <a href="http://www.globalwildlife.com/">Global Wildlife Center</a>. So Scott and I decided to check it out last weekend.<br />
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Basically, it's a park where a bunch of wild animals (all grazers) roam free(ish) and you ride in this covered wagon train and feed the animals. They have these miniature deer, zebras, giraffes, emus, kangaroos, and a bunch of other animals that I had no idea what they were.<br />
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(Some playing around before getting on the wagons.... Scott mid yawn. haha)</div>
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These are the cups of food that you can buy. You can also buy an entire bucket... which is definitely the better option. The animals chow down! Also, they are known to take the cup right out of your hands.</div>
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It was so hot out there. I was getting a little sweaty. Also, it started raining at one point and those "covered wagons", don't actually mean they'll protect you from the rain. Which lead to my entire backside getting wet and adding on to the sweat. Yum-my</div>
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Tiny deer! They're so cute. </div>
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Don't know what happened to this guys poor horn, it's bent all the way back. </div>
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The animals swarm the wagons. They know that you have food hidden inside and they want it!</div>
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Apparently you're not suppose to feed the zebras with the cup. You're suppose to just throw the food on the ground, because the zebras will still bite at you. But what the heck, I fed him with the cup anyway.</div>
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Zebras are so cool.</div>
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Longest tongue ever. Also, his throat alone is a bottomless pit.</div>
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One more cute zebra for you! There are also giraffes but they don't come up to the wagon train very often. So, next time I come here, I'm doing the private tour. Which means you're in a smaller car and you drive up to the giraffes! There are two baby giraffes as well right now so I definitely doing it!</div>
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Anyways, Scott and I had a great time. If you ever happen to be around here, I would completely suggest it, along with light weight airy clothing, water, buying the bucket of feed, and the private tour. :)</div>
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{1} Jane Eyre: by Charlotte Bronte<br />
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The first time I read Jane Eyre I thought it was boring and couldn't read past her living at the school as an orphan. Which is ridiculous because that's the very beginning of the book and it's a short section. Eventually my younger sister read it all the way through and was in love with it. So of course, I had to try it out again.<br />
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I love this part... "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."</div>
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(Also, just reading that has my mind singing the song from the broadway that uses that exact same line in the lyrics.)</div>
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{2} Life of Pi: by Yann Martel<br />
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When I was younger, the cousins would draw names for Christmas gifts. One year, the cousin whose name I had drawn had this book on her list. I bought it for her and was immediately curious about it. Eventually I read it and instantly fell in love.<br />
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The book has these little nuggets of goodness throughout the book.</div>
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"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."</div>
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That line! It gets me every time.</div>
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Some people have a hard time getting into this book. It's slow at first and they can never make it to the ship sinking. Which is a bummer because after that is where it really gets good!</div>
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People also have a problem with the ending of this book. I love the idea that it carries though. "The world isn't just the way it is... we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?"</div>
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It's the idea of creating a story in order to live through or with a moment. To remember things just a little different so you can still enjoy the memory. </div>
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If you've seen the movie, Big Fish, the dad does this same thing with elaborating the stories and weaving in all sorts of tall tales. It's his way of becoming immortal through his stories, even though his life was more plain and ordinary.</div>
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{3} Cyrano de Bergerac: by Edmond Rostand</div>
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I have a special place in my heart for this little play. The movers packed this book with the cover bent and I nearly had a fit when I unpacked it. </div>
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I was introduced to this book in high school. It was one of the books we studied in class. It's a play about a man with an abnormally large nose who is very witty and eloquent with words and also handy with a sword. He's in love with Roxana but she sees him as just a good friend. Christian is a new soldier and is very handsome and has caught the attention of Roxana but he gets tongue tied very easily and Roxana wants poetry and eloquence. So Cyrano helps Christian win over Roxana by telling him what to say and writing the letters for him. "You plus I equals one hero of the storybooks,"</div>
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Now it doesn't end there of course, but this book has little lines sprinkled throughout that make me laugh out loud sometimes! Cyrano is so witty and clever. "Call it a sort of lie, if you like, but a lie is a sort of myth, and a myth is sort of truth. No reason why Roxana should be disillusioned. Let's start a fruitful collaboration."</div>
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{4} The Fountainhead: by Ayn Rand</div>
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My last year in junior high, my English teacher gave us a list of books to read for the college bound student. Well, I love reading and I was obviously college bound so I would thumb through the list and underline titles that sounded interesting. Most of the time I had no idea what the book was even about. That's how I discovered The Fountainhead. It's kind of a catchy title and when I found out it was about an architect, I was sold. (I was interested in architecture at the time as well.)</div>
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Roark is an architect who battles conventional standards. He is a modern architect and in my mind I envision his style to be similar to Frank Lloyd Wright.</div>
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The book is all about individualism instead of collectivism. Which is everything Ayn Rand is about. The book is a little bit of a hefty read as far as length goes. But I love her development of characters and her writing. </div>
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I can't rave enough about this book. I don't even remember how I came across it, but it's high up there on my list. And C.S. Lewis is pure genius.</div>
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As you read, you have to flip things around a little to gain the full perspective. When he says, "the Enemy" he's referring to "God."</div>
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This is a hefty book, not in length but in quality. You almost have to read one letter a day and just soak it in until you can move on.</div>
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The mountains back at Utah cradle you in a way. You feel secure being surrounded by them. Like they're a comfort blanket.<br />
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The trees have the same effect to me. They're so tall and loom over you everywhere. You can never see very far without a wall of trees blocking the view. (Unless your driving on the Causeway or in New Orleans... that's a whole different ball game.) But I like it. It feels cozy.<br />
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There's a couple trees here that always catch my attention.<br />
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The first are Crepe Myrtle trees. They are literally everywhere. They don't have one solid trunk, but multiple skinny trunks. At the end of the branches shoot out these pink flowers that look like half of a lilac. Most of the ones I see are sparse like this one... and I don't love the look of them.<br />
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But if it was an older tree and more filled out, then you get this... Which is pretty cool.<br />
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The second are the giant Oak trees that just drip with moss. Really, I can't get enough of these trees! They are my absolute favorite.<br />
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I was driving around downtown Covington today initially to find the farmers market. What I found wasn't worth getting out of my car for, so I just kept driving through all these old small neighborhoods. I found the most amazing giant oak tree. Not even kidding you.<br />
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One last picture. This is right by my apartment! (Ignore the yoga pose, sorry!) I love this area though!</div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-84559118244934036062014-07-29T12:52:00.000-06:002014-07-29T12:52:08.943-06:00Beginnings of life in CovingtonAfter a not so bad 26 hour drive across the United States, we finally arrived in Covington, Louisiana. Our new home. We split up the drive between 3 days. The first day we made it to Amarillo, TX which was a 13 hour drive. Day 2 we drove to Shreveport, LA which took us 8 hours. And the last day was 5 hours to Covington. (It definitely helps when you make the first day as long as you can. The days after seem easy in comparison!)<div>
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I did pretty good on the drive as far as my emotions went. But the hour before we got to Covington, I started getting anxiety, which I mostly expressed in the form of being a "keep your eyes on the road!" sort of backseat driver to Nate. </div>
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I really like Covington. I like the size of it. It's smaller, but still big enough to where you have all the major stores you want. The main thing we don't have is a Costco, but I found out today that there's one across Lake Pontchartrain in Metairie. But there's also a Sam's Club 15 minutes away as well. Our apartment is off of the main road that runs through town but it's tucked back in the trees away from the main road. </div>
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The humidity hasn't been terrible. But when the sun is out on full blast... gahhhh it's bad. If it's overcast, I don't mind it as much. It feels good on my dry Utah skin right now. The lady showing us around a furniture store gave us some advice about the humidity. She told us to "get a drink. Get a few drinks and after that you won't even care." Obviously she didn't know that we don't drink and the only thing we'd be having is water, which I'm pretty sure I would still care about the humidity after drinking water, so.... wasted advice. </div>
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I like our apartment right now as much as I can, seeing that we have a cheap air mattress as our only furniture. Yes, that baby serves as a bed, couch, and seat... stupid thing. We have what we brought in our car. Which was basically vacation essentials for 2 weeks, along with cleaning supplies that our movers wouldn't transport. Oh and my 2 little house plants. They survived the drive! We have no cooking ware. No pots, pans, silverware, baking dishes, cooking utensils... the works. We bought paper goods to use, cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and microwave dinners. It's a blast. </div>
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We bought a hibiscus plant for our little patio and finally some chairs to go out there last night. (We finally have something to sit on other then the floor!) The hibiscus plant is doing pretty well and we already have a couple of blooms! </div>
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This is the view from our apartment patio. I secretly love it. I love that there are no buildings behind us. I just stand out there at night and listen to all of the noises from whatever bugs/creatures/animals are out there. They really are quite loud. Also, no crocodile has been spotted yet. I'm on the lookout. </div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-83794218943776292462014-06-18T18:09:00.001-06:002014-06-18T18:09:44.430-06:00Gateway Chalk Art Festival 2014<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
Chalk art festival number four happened for me this past weekend and I think it was my favorite image that I've done so far. It was also my last chalk art festival before Scott and I will be moving. </div>
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There were three of us that worked on the image together as a team. Last year we did a Michael Jackson image but it rained and ruined our work, so we never fully finished it.<br />But we wanted to do something with a lot of color, something interesting that wouldn't be everywhere else. (Frozen movie characters were immediately thrown off the list of options. Way too popular.)<br />This was the oil painting I found that we decided to do. </div>
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<br /> Normally I like to prepare for the festivals by sketching out the image on paper using the grid and then when the time gets closer, rough sketching the full size we're going to do on sidewalk. But this was the first time that I never sketched out on paper, on sidewalk or anything before the festival. So I was not feeling great about it. Combine with the absurd amount of things going on in mine and Scott's life the past couple months... means I was at times regretting even signing up for the festival. I just didn't feel like I had enough time for everything and I was getting stressed out! </div>
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Meet KaLee. She is a perfectionist and made our image perfect. Amber and I made her do that hard parts that we didn't want to even attempt. (Like the gondalas.... geesh hard.)</div>
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<br /> It ended up only taking us 4 hours to finish the image the next morning. I thought for sure it would take longer but we got rolling along! </div>
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<br /> The image was 8ft tall and 6 ft wide. I have no idea if we won any of the contests. We didn't stay long enough to find out. But that's okay because I never do these for the contests. It's fun being in the environment of all these great chalkers around you, creating beautiful images. You get sucked into your own work and don't realize you've been on the ground as long as you have. I love chalking as a group. My first chalk art I did by myself and it was fun and rewarding, but I couldn't even attempt these larger scale, and more difficult images that we've done as a group. Plus it's just fun to spend so much time with your friends creating something.</div>
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YAY!!! He has officially and successfully defended and conquered his thesis for his Masters in Geology! </div>
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Yay for freedom and no more school stress!</div>
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Where: Covington, Louisiana </div>
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Duration: Unknown, somewhere around 3-5 years</div>
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Reason: Scott has a job with Chevron!</div>
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When: July 22nd, the long drive begins!</div>
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The flight left Friday evening. We were finally going to see what our next few years of life would look like! By the time we were flying over New Orleans the sun had gone down and all you could see were patches of city lights grouped together. You could see a river running through the city, it's edges lined with lights. As we descended the windows started to get foggy and I knew we were in the right place... humidity.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />The humidity slaps you across the face over there. It was 10:00 at night when we landed and it was still so hot and wet. I could feel my poor, dry, Utah skin just soaking up the moisture.</div>
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Our hotel was right on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain. The view was insane looking out at this huge lake with a road going across looking like it leads to nowhere. It takes a half hour to drive across and all the while you feel like you're driving in the middle of the ocean, you can't see any land going towards Covington! It is also the longest continuous bridge over water.</div>
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I loved driving around Covington. It made me think of the time I visited my cousin in Georgia when I was young. There are so many trees, big trees. And they line the edges of the roads. I liked the feel of Covington. It's more just a small town, away from the tourists and questionable items that you come across in New Orleans.</div>
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We started off our morning looking at the two apartments that we had narrowed our search down to. It took less time then I thought and was an easy choice! You turn off the main road, and the street stops at the apartments where they are back and tucked away in the trees. Scott will have at most an eight minute commute to work and there's a sports medicine office two minutes up the street if I can get hired there!</div>
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After finding our apartment we wanted to go explore New Orleans a little more. We were told that there was some stuff to see and good places to eat in French Quarters so that's where we headed. We found Bourbon Street. (You can't miss it. The smell is a dead give away along with the never ending rows of bars and loud music.) It's a gross street. I'm okay to never walk down it again. </div>
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There were other streets in the French Quarters that weren't as bad. They were even quaint. We found a jazzy band playing out on a bench in the sun, sweating like crazy as they played. There were voodoo shops and lots of artwork displayed around a park. Past the park you can walk up to the Mississippi River and most likely see some steam boats.</div>
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Our flight back home was early the next morning, so it was just a small little trip. But I'm so glad we were able to go out there and see the area and find a place to live. I'm excited to move and I'm glad we're on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain. :)</div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-4691638575381832792013-08-07T13:27:00.003-06:002013-08-07T13:27:58.880-06:00BalanceI feel like this year is an off-blogging sort of year for me. I think I've done about max two posts per month if that. Maybe I feel like there's nothing quite blog worthy to post on here lately. I'm a grown up girl now working about full time. I'm dating someone. I'm taking voice lessons. I'm developing another random hobby of embroidery. (Okay I guess I should blog some pictures of that goodness because it is fantastic.)<br />
But I feel like life has gotten into a rhythm. A rhythm where I am keeping afloat and just riding the wave. A quite rhythm, more to myself and who is around me day-to-day instead of something shouted online. Maybe it's because I want to really experience something, relish deep in it without having to be the person behind the camera making sure every one else can see what fun we're having.<br />
A friend of mine recently returned from her mission and she had a companion that talked about not being able to take all of our photos with us after we die. So she just focused on enjoying the moment while she was there. I think that's a great thing a lot of us need to learn in this new technological world. Sometimes it's hard to be "there", in the moment, because we have something else calling our attention. A text message, email, facebook notification, instagram, snapchat... we get so caught up in everyone else's life. And then it's a war and challenge to make ourselves look so fun, perfect, outgoing and living life online that I sometimes wonder if that's really living. But then again, I love the connection to people. I love reading their blogs, hearing their thoughts, seeing their pictures.<br />
It's the world we live in.<br />
I guess balance is the real answer.<br />
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But isn't it to almost everything anyways?<br />
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Sadie Dodsen and Amber Johnson were my lovely team members. Can you believe that they've never done chalk art before?! They're amazing and I loved doing this with them!</div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-35472708935275996262013-06-08T20:53:00.000-06:002013-06-08T20:53:32.951-06:00Some ThingsBeautiful summer is here. I love how late the sun sets and I love the warm weather. Work is always interesting considering the fact that I pick up shifts at five different locations. (AF Hospital, Riverwoods Urgent Care, Utah Valley Sports Medicine Clinic, Provo InstaCare, and American Fork Clinic) Really my schedule just keeps me on my toes.<br />
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I'm participating in another chalk art festival this next weekend. I've been stressing quite a bit but things are falling into place and I feel better. Two friends of mine are going to be working with me as well. Our team is called Queens of Chalk and this is the image we're doing...<br />
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I went to Texas for the first time last weekend. Houston, Texas it was, where the humidity is abundant and the traffic even more. But don't worry, I had a fantastic time!</div>
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*Galveston*</div>
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*Kemah Boardwalk*</div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-53128659073724935662013-05-09T22:44:00.000-06:002013-05-09T22:44:17.085-06:00Catch UpI almost completely ignored this poor blog my last semester. So much has happened since I don't even know if I should bring things up to speed. But I'll do a quick recap anyways.<br />
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-I got a new calling in my singles ward as the Relief Society President. (Seriously, this had to happen right with my last and most stressful semester?! Good one...)<br />
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-I turned 22 in February. </div>
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-I bought a car! A Nissan Sentra 2005 whose name is Richard Parker. </div>
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-I got two new jobs during the last month of my semester. (So stressful but hey, it was a good opportunity.) So I now work at American Fork Hospital, a Sports Medicine Clinic, and Riverwoods Urgent Care.</div>
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-I finished all 1500 clinical hours and passed my last bunch of classes. </div>
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-I graduated with a second associates degree. (So lame. Why couldn't it have been a bachelors?)</div>
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-I passed my Radiology Technologist boards exam. <a href="http://megansobscurities.blogspot.com/2012/03/wish-me-some-luck.html">Do you remember</a> how stressed I was about taking my Limited Practical Tech exam? Well this was way worse. But all is well, I passed.</div>
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It's so strange now knowing that when I come home from work I don't have homework or something to study for. I don't have school or tests. My time outside of work is completely my own. I love it. Life is so good right now and I am constantly grateful for it. </div>
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Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409683601660792387.post-71416872689789576612013-03-18T18:43:00.000-06:002013-03-18T18:43:54.534-06:00Monday's Music<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gwx4iTRLXG8" width="640"></iframe>Megan & Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10839390569231542737noreply@blogger.com0