welcome January

hellooo January! Earlier this week I welcomed sickness and slept for 24 hrs straight, drove to Logan for student teaching orientation (pretended to live my old life for a couple of days), cut 7 inches off my hair, bought new glasses, and then finally started student teaching.

I was in my second grade classroom for the very first time when this little boy turns around takes one look at me and says, "you're sooo cute"completely jaw dropped and everything.  funniest thing in my life. Hello LADIES MAN.

Two more months and then just like that I'll be finishing college in Norway.

oh yeah look what I ran into while I was in Logie. it's like i'm still there even while i'm not.

My best friends wedding

KyPay is now a married women. I repeat Kylie is MARRIED! This girl was my roommate all of college! I'm so lucky I got to be with her as long as I was. I think our level of friendship qualifies for her kids to call me aunt Meg and mine to call her auntie Ky. 

Her wedding was literally perfect. Ever since freshman year Kylie has been rather obsessed with weddings and wedding videos. I guess all that obsessing translated into her own perfect wedding. Every time I'm at a wedding I am overcome with the love the couple shares, like it is just overflowing. Ky and Dan are SOO in love! 

Side note, I caught the bouquet at Cass's wedding in Oct and at now at Ky's too. I've been extra competitive lately and it's obviously been paying off. (borderline too competitive though because it's ridiculous and kind of embarrassing how much I want to catch those darn flowers.) I just think I need all the luck I can get ya know? At this rate of superstitious vibes I would expect my husband to just magically appear. Still waiting. Will let you know.

Here's To Kylie and Daniel. Congrats cuties! I seriously love you both so much.

honey I'm home

Practicum is over, Course work-DONE.

Ya know, it's pretty amazing to me that college comes to an end. I had no idea. Before now, there wasn't really an end in sight. Finally about thanksgiving break it sunk in while I was driving home. Right as I was driving past downtown Salt Lake I started sobbing like I had just gotten broken up with. College broke up with me, guys. It doesn't want anything to do with me anymore. It said I was too old for it. (I mean technically I still have to student teach, but since i'm not doing that in Logan I feel like I'm done.)

Am I being overly emotional about it all? There are just some serious mixed feelings over here. The unknown in life brings some serious fear of the future. But let's be real I have so many things to look forward too.

---fast forward to present day---

I'm home, and honestly I sorta just feel I have reverted back to my high-school self. My sis mish best friends are home and near by. I'm back at my high school job. It's like Hello 17 yr old Meg. It's kinda actually really great. I have the biggest bed and a whole basement to myself. I come home to dinner every single night. The TP is like 1 billion times softer then anything I would ever buy. My little sisters think i'm cool still. And I can always count on my dad to de-ice my car / clear the snow off. THIS IS THE GOOD LIFE.

And Kylie is getting married tomorrow! BYE

Lucky me

*at church* 

me to a friend: "i'm having a baby!! well errr uhhh my sister-in-law is having a baby right now!!

friend: "you're pregnant! congrats"

me: "Shhhhhhh" 

I wen't home last weekend because, duh, this baby was being born. And i'm definitely a hold-in-the-hospital-kind-of-aunt. I wasn't planning on going home until I got news that the baby was coming and it was the biggest tender mercy of all time. I didn't even realize how much I needed to be with my family. It's weird, if i'm stressed I can literally just be in their presence and I feel one-thousand times better about everything.

New babies are literally perfect. My head hurts when i try to comprehend what a little miracle they really are. And then seeing my brother hold his new baby like a pro turned me into mush. It really is the sweetest to see brothers become daddy's.

Being home made me realize that even though my life is constantly changing with college coming to a close some things never change....

>My little sisters (who aren't so little at all anymore) still run to my car when i pull in and love on me.

>I snuggled my little Ava and fed her REAL (baby) FOOD. She's old!

>Reading the scriptures together with my family for FHE- you just don't appreciated those things when you're younger.

>My dad returning home from school with his signature lunch box and so much happiness. I'm also grateful he is still way to into "group hugs" (imagine him demanding like 12 grown adults "time for a group hug" hahah)

I'm just really grateful for my family, holy cow am I blessed.

energized to finish my last 3 weeks of college in Logan. WHAT. THE. HECK.

October iPhone dump

Whew! October was busy and exciting. Mostly busy but whatever, I suppose i'll have to get used to no more napping.
Let the iPhone photo dumping begin.

Family time in Logan slash I finally watched an Aggie football game with my old man. Aggie blue really brings out his eyes, don't you think?

Hiking Mt Olympus with my BFF Amy Noelle. IT WAS SO HARD! 

Official Norway acceptance/ Last day of college classes...ever!

Oakcrest alum- Farewell Maizey poo

Halloween shenanigans. The parent trap and the Frizz? How am I ever going to top this?