Life Lately

Just thought I'd give an update since it's been a minute or two! Life has been busy, busy, busy lately. On a typical day, I work two jobs and work on homework from my five online classes! Most days I want to tear my hair out, but some how I make it through.

Things I'm Looking Forward To:

Moving Out of My Apartment
I'm getting ready move out of my apartment at the end of next month. I'm excited because this will save me rent money, which in turn will help me pay off my credit card. Whooot! If everything goes as planned, I should have it paid off by my birthday! Yahooo! I'm SO FREAKING excited! I have been "paying it off" for the last FOUR years! Wowzers! I've come close a few times but ended up using it again. Once I pay it off, I going to get rid of it!!! Ha!

Visiting UTI'm excited to go back home to visit friends and family in October. Matthew & I are taking a trip to visit my sister up north. While I'm there, I will finally get to see Jessica's baby! I'm so excited to meet this little one in person! Plus I get to take my niece trick or treating on Halloween!

My 22nd Birthday
Holy Crap! Where did the time go?! I can't believe it's almost my birthday again. It seems like just yesterday I was saying goodbye to 2009! Haha! I don't have any big plans for my birthday this year. I think Matthew & I might go to a Sun's game because they are playing that day. Other than that, I'm just excited to hang out....maybe get a massage or something. :)

ThanksgivingI'm excited to go up to UT for Thanksgiving this year. Last year, I spent it at home, steam cleaning my carpets. Yeah I know...I'm a winner! haha! This year I get to spend it with my WHOLE family! Everyone will be there. Drea & her family, John & his family, Chris & his family, and my dad! It will be a crazy trip but so worth it!

Well that is all for now. Thanks for reading :)

xoxo
Megs

The Great Outdoors...

Over the weekend, Matthew and I took a camping trip to Woods Canyon Lake with his friends Troy & Sarah. We had a great time. We camped, cooked, fished and hiked! We all survived the trip but have plenty of bug bites to prove it.

Baby bald eagle

Sarah-Jane & I fishing for crawdads

Matthew fishing

Matthew & I

On another note, my workout routine has been going well. I know I'm only one week into it but I feel better already. Surprisingly enough, I am excited to go running. It has been a struggle to finish the running each day (I blame it mostly on my bad ankle and crappy shoes). I'm going to end up repeating the first week but hopefully I'll be able to start week 2 next week.

xoxo
Megs

C25K

I have decided that I need to start exercising a little bit more. I came across this running program called Couch 2 5K. Since then I have been thinking about starting it. For about 2 or 3 years now, I have been saying I want to run a marathon. Which, if you know me, is really bizarre for me to say! haha! I HATE running! But I think that I finally found a way to ease into! Couch 2 5K is a 9 week running program that requires you to run 20 - 30 minutes, 3 times a week.

I read that to maintain your current weight, you need to do 30 minutes of physical activity 3 times a week. Because I want to get into better shape, I've also decided that I am going to start Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I plan on alternating between both because I tend to get pretty bored with the same thing every day.

I suspect that I will probably have to repeat a couple of weeks in the Couch 2 5K running program but hope that I can keep with it! And once I graduate the C25K, maybe I might start their 10K running program. Don't worry, I'll keep you all posted on how I'm doing :)

xoxo
Megs

Laughlin, NV

This past weekend, Matthew & I made the journey to Laughlin, NV for a semi family reunion. Haha! Most of my family was there and some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was nice to see them all since it had been months and even years since I'd seen some of them. We arrived on Friday night around 10 pm and were too tired to go out and about. Plus we knew we had a long day at the lake tomorrow. So we hit the hay early.

Saturday morning, my mom texted me around 6 am....I know right?! Me, up at 6 am on a weekend...she must be crazy. It's safe to say that we didn't make the first boat trip out on the lake haha! We woke up around 9 am to catch the 10 boat to the other side where my family was hanging out. Little did we know that my family was pretty strict on what time we were suppose to be there. Ha! We got to the lake around 10ish but still had to find parking. After driving around for 5 mins, we finally found a spot. We parked and made our way down to the dock. We looked around for any signs of my family and I couldn't see anyone. We waited and waited until finally I saw two of my aunts walking up. We walked over and they said we had just missed the boat. Grr! haha! We were pretty frustrated because we had been standing there the whole time. They then told us that nobody would be coming back until 1! Just then, my brother Chris walked down to the dock and we told him the same story.My aunts decided that they would recruit Matthew & I to go back into town and get jet skis. I figured since no one was coming back until 1 we might as well. Boy was I wrong! haha! We drove back into town and every place was sold out of jet skis. And I later found out, my family had made several trips back to find us. Too late for that!We got back to the dock around 11:30 and decided to grab a bite to eat. Matthew & I were both starving because we had skipped breakfast. We ate at the restaurant on the dock and enjoyed some interesting conversations with my aunts.

Finally 1 o'clock rolled around and someone came and picked us all up. We made the VERY short journey across the lake where my mom & sister were waiting. I was excited to see everyone. We spent the rest of the afternoon swimming and playing.That night we went out to eat with my family at Chili's. Our waitress looked like she pretty much hated life. haha! My order was correct but I think pretty much everyone else had something wrong with it. After dinner, my brother & sister decided to go back to their hotel rooms because their kids were pretty worn out from the whole day. Matthew & I made our way to the Casino that the majority of my family was staying out. We played a few slot machines but didn't really win anything.

The next day, we went to lunch with my brother & sister-in-law at Outback. I got some potato soup that was so delicious! After lunch we decided that we better make the 4 hr journey back home. I told Matthew he could drive because I was a little sleepy. I'm so glad he did because on our way home we got a flat tire! Luckily he was able to pull over before there was too much damage done. The only bad thing was we were in the middle of no where and still 2 hours away from home. Thankfully, he has triple A! Since I have the worlds crappiest jack set for my car, we were unable to get the tire off. We had to wait about 40 mins before someone came out and put my spare on. We were able to make it all the way back to Phoenix with out any problems.

All in all it was a great trip! I'm so glad that Matthew came with me and that I was able to see my family. I didn't take a lot of pictures but here are a few.

xoxo
Megs

Keira & I

Gavin

Aeris & her stuffed thing named Ice Cream

Aeris, Ice Cream, Keira, Angela

Matthew & I

Keira & Gavin

Aeris after a long day at the lake

Matthew walking on the wobbly dock

Aeris

The fish I was pretty certain was going to eat Matthew's hand off!

Just a couple of Ducks waiting for a boat ride!

California Trip : Kate Nash

Last weekend, Matthew & I drove to California to see Kate Nash in concert. Since the concert wasn't until Tuesday, we decided to stay with our friend Rachel in San Diego for a few days. The first night, we went to the beach at sunset. Oh how I miss the beach! I love just watching the waves and feeling the crisp breeze. While we were in San Diego, we walked around and enjoyed the company of Rachel and her boyfriend Eric. One night we had a bonfire down by the pier and played sherades haha. It was a lot of fun. The day of the concert, we had decided that it would be cool to go to a taping of a show. We chose The Price is Right. I'm disappointed to say that we did not have that great of a time. We stood in line for about 4 hours and didn't even get in any of the crowd shots. After the Price is Right, we headed over to the El Rey Theater for Kate Nash. It was a really good concert. It was kind of a smaller venue so we were really close. The pictures didn't turn out as great as I hoped. Anyways, here are some pictures from the trip.

xoxo
Megs

Matthew frolicking on the Beach

Doing yoga on the beach

Rachel's yoga pose

Super Cute the band that opened for Kate Nash

Matthew & I at Kate Nash

Kate Nash

Grand Canyon!!!!

I finally got to see the Grand Canyon! You would think after living in Utah for most of my life, I would've seen it before the age of 21 haha! Anyways, Matthew's friend Joe has a cabin up in Williams, AZ which is only about an hour drive to the Grand Canyon. Since we were up there for the weekend, we decided to take the trip since I had never been. We even took Marty haha. The poor little guy was so tried after walking about 2 miles. But everyone and I mean EVERYONE would walk past us and say "oh cute dog" or something to that effect. It was so funny. Even the macho tough guys would. And there was an old gramps that just loved him! On our way back, we saw this campground that was Flintstones themed. For $5 you can walk around and take pictures. So of course, I paid $5 to get some awesome pictures. So enjoy!!!

xoxo
Megs

Matthew & Marty at the Grand Canyon

Marty & I at the Grand Canyon

Marty after a 2 mile hike :)
Bed Rock

Matthew gettin a little lovin

Botanical Gardens

So it's been a while since I've posted but Matthew and I went to the Botanical Gardens recently. They had a butterfly exhibit going on. It was really neat to see. There were about 10 or so different kinds of butterflies. It was neat to try and find them all. After we went to through the butterfly exhibit, we walked around the botanical gardens and saw some pretty neat plants. I went a little camera crazy haha! But here are a few pictures....

xoxo
Megs

Zebra Butterfly

Some other kind of Butterfly haha

Cactus & Flower

Matthew & I

Cactus & Flowers