William and Megan

Christmas 2011

2011-12-29T14:37:00.022-07:00

A week before Christmas we had the Walker Christmas Party at my aunt and uncles church in North Salt Lake. Everyone brought there favorite appetizers and we had that for dinner. We also had a candy table with popcorn, candy, and yummy hot chocolate.

We had a movie night and watched Tangled, such a cute movie.

Christmas Eve
We went over to my Grandma J's house that evening and after went to my parents to spend time together and read about the reason for Christmas.

Santa showed up for a minute.
That evening we opened up our one gifts to eachother which is always Pajamas!

Figuring out our self timer was hilarious, I think this was the 10th picture we took that was center.

Christmas Morning
Santa came! Usually Christmas morning we both wake up and say "Merry Christmas"! Well this year I hear "Megan..wake up! Do you know where my pajama bottoms are!?". I opened my eyes and his pajama pants were off HAHA. He had and still has no idea or does he remember taking off his pajama pants in the night. Have you ever gotten hot in the night and taken off some pajamas in the night? I have. I think he did but doesn't remember.

My christmas presents. My favorite gift was a certificate to get a Iphone, it came with a Iphone cover. I look forward to finally having one.

Billy got lots of clothes, he was in need of them badly!
We got dressed and headed up to Ogden and went to church at my brothers ward.

My cute parents ready to make us yummy scones and omletes.

Christmas Evening
We had dinner at my parents house and opened presents with eachother.

Around 8:30pm we headed over to my grandparents and traded presents and my aunts, uncles and cousins were there playing games.

It was great having Christmas on Sunday. I loved getting into the spirit in the morning and taking the sacraments. It was such a great Christmas and sad to think it is already over. Every year I say its the best but every year it gets better for some reason.
I love my family and most importantly I love my husband.

Tis the Season

2011-12-18T16:28:00.022-07:00

That last couple weeks have been a CRAZY couple of weeks. With me planning and attending my work Retreat, putting together my work Holiday Party's (as in 3) and just working a lot, I am tired. Here has what fun things have been going on the first couple week of December.
This years Retreat I got a house in St. George the beginning of December. It was a beautiful home.

My favorite part was the heated pool and hot tub we had at the house. We spent everynight out there, even when they would wake me up at 2am to go hot tubbing. I got NO sleep that week.

Early morning hike at Snow Canyon. It was beautiful but freezing with the wind. Not like the wind though back in Kaysville. This is the week when they had the terrible 100+ wind.

Way too early..I was not used to getting 4 hrs a sleep at night. Yes this is what I look like in the morning :)

My first time golfing ever. I had no idea it was so complicated. My group above rocked!

Our 3am hot tubbing.
We had a good time but was in meetings ALL day long.

The first week of December we took my grandma to Gardner Village for Christmas. I have never been there with the elves..they were kinda creepy looking if you ask me.

My two youngest nieces Abee and Alex were in the Nutcracker, they were angels. They were adorable!

Had a fun girls night with the ladies!

This weekend we attended the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert. It was fabulous!

It's been a fun, busy couple of weeks but I can now breath and start my Christmas shoppping..7 days till Christmas!

Week off WORK

2011-11-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

Last week I took the whole week off work and just relaxed. I needed it so badly! Work is so stressful right now with no HR in Utah and Vegas. Everyday I had such a fun, filled day with friends and family. I went and got a massage at Massage Envy which was amazing, lunch with a dear friend Laura in which I heard the best news..she is pregnant! I went to a matinee movie with my mom, slept in, went to breakfast with my friend Tami, midnight showing to Breaking Dawn, Time out for Woman weekend, and lots more.

All of us wearing black boots, didn't even plan it.

We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse and went shopping at Ross and Kohls before the movie started. I have not laughed so hard in a very long time...

Katie and Robyn had fun trying on these "prom" outfits.

We had such a blast! Even though Tami thought she bought all the seats 4th row from the back, it was actually 4th row from the front. HAHA I love ya Tami!
Friday me and my mom headed into downtown and checked in our hotel for Time Out of Woman weekend. My sisters couldn't make it this years so my mom invited her best friend Rhonda and her daughter Mandi. We had such a blast, we always do. My favorite part was when they announced they had a surprise for us. Stephanie Nielson, AKA Nie Nie showed up last minute and gave the most amazing talk. There was not a dry eye in the 5,000 woman that showed up for the weekend. She is the woman that was in the plane crash with her husband and was burned 80% of her body. Brad Wilcox, Michael Wilcox, Sheri Dew, and some others spoke during the weekend. I always leave feeling refreshed in life.

It was hard to go back to work this week but I am grateful that I could take the week off and the best part get paid for it. :)

Getting used to

2011-11-25T08:00:00.005-07:00

I am still trying to get used to doing long hair. Does it really take 25 minutes JUST to blow dry? Yes, yes it does. I am used to blow drying and styling in 10-15 minutes all together. This has been a big adjustment for me but I am loving the long hair. Last time I got extentions I only had one photo of me with the long hair so I wanted to make sure I take pictures of it so I can remember. I had too much fun :)

Bunco 2011

2011-11-23T16:26:00.006-07:00

We had our last Bunco game night of the year this month. It has been great to get to know so many people and catch up with some girls that I have not seen nor talked to in many many years. I can still remember in January when all of us 12 girls got together and some of them I didn't know at all and now in November..we are all so close. It's great to get together each month just for a couple hours and just laugh and eat with the girls.

Before & After

2011-11-04T16:32:00.006-06:00

Last night I went from short hair to long hair in less then one hour. My friend Linzie put in these extentions that are amazing. They are the tape in ones and are supposed to be 100% better then those bead or glue extentions and the best part is they take less then a hour to put in and they are real hair.
About six years ago or more I got the glue extentions and WOW was that a mistake. They were so heavy and pulled my hair so it hurt. I also had a reaction to the glue so my scalp was like 100 little open soars and the worst part was it took over 4 hours just to get them glued in my hair! Also when it was time to get them out (which I only lasted like 3 weeks) it took hours to get out and it took half my real hair out with it..it was painful. So as you can see I had a bad experience with extentions so when my friend told me about these amazing extentions which are not cheap ($400+) she told me she could give me a deal..Thanks Linz!
Here is the before..

After Pictures

Cancer Bites!!

2011-10-23T12:26:00.008-06:00

Cancer this year has been very close to home, and what a great way to support what a horrible thing. My sweet grandpa has been diagnosed with cancer, and two home neighbors with breast cancer. Krista's office has put together a fundraiser the last couple years, and all procedes go to The Huntsman's Cancer Institute. The fundraiser was at Brewvies, and we watched two Halloween movies. They also had raffles going. Since I didn't bring any cash, Morgan bought me a couple raffle tickets and..I won! I won a free one hour massage, bowling, minature golfing, and a $135 value coupon at a car shop. Thanks Morg!! :) Don't worry, I gave her the bowling and golfing certificates. HAHA. We had a great time. My parents' close friends that moved out of our neighborhood over 10+ years ago showed up to support such a great cause.

My mom and her close friend Leslie, it was great to catch up and just laugh.

Love you grandpa and know you will pull through this trial in your life.

Semi-Annual Tea Party

2011-10-23T12:15:00.007-06:00

Every 6 months my cute grandma puts together a yummy luncheon for her grand-daughters and my mom. It is so fun to just sit around and catch up and hear stories from my grandma. We always stay for hours and make great memories together. I love the time we make together and know we will remember this always. I love my sweet grandma!

I am so blessed to have such amazing sisters.

My sweet grandma. She is such a loving, passionate, warm, hard-working woman. I look up to her so much.

First weekend of Fall

2011-09-25T11:17:00.021-06:00

This weekend was the first weekend of Fall. I sure do love Fall, but I do not like what comes after it... WINTER. This was a fun filled weekend with lots of fun ladies' activities and had a blast each day.
Friday we headed to Gardner Village with my sister, mom, and friends. We ate at Archibalds and walked around and shopped. They had all of their Halloween stuff out so it was great to see all their cute stuff.

My mom and her addiction to desserts.

My shopping partners for the day!

Helping the witch pull the handcart.

Witch with big boobs, had to take a picture with it.

Saturday morning I headed over to Morgan's house and us girls made two different kinds of freezer meals. We have been getting some great ideas off Pinterest (addicting) so we want to make a tradition of making freezer meals as much as we can. Yesterday we made Breakfast burritos & Vegetarian Burritos. (Recipes will be on our new family blog SOON).
http://walkergirlsrecipes.blogspot.com/

We had a good system down.

Between the two different kinds of burritos, we had a total of about 120 burritos. Yum!
Saturday evening was the General Relief Society Broadcast. I love getting with my family members and going each 6 months to listen to our amazing leaders. This time we meet up with my aunts, grandma, sister, and my friend at El Matador before the broadcast started. President Dieter F Uchtforf was the last speaker and WOW was he amazing. I always say after he speaks that it can't get any better and I am always mistaken. I really feel that talk was just for me. I love him so much and the spirit that he shares.

After the broadcast we headed to my aunts gym at the church and had a cupcake party. Of course when you get all of us together, there is always lots of laughter.

Again, this is what we do..laugh that we start crying.

My aunts and I, can you tell I am a Walker? HA

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I am so gratful for being so close to my sisters and mom. Lately I have had different people say to me "you are so lucky to be so close to your sisters". I AM lucky, but most importantly, blessed. I am blessed to have such great relationships with my two aunts Laurie and MaryAnn.
I had a fun weekend with my favorite ladies in my life and look forward to a relaxing next weekend listening to our prophet and apostles.

Bunco Girls Evening

2011-09-14T21:39:00.009-06:00

I have been in a Bunco group with 11 girls since January and have made some old and new friends. It has been fun every month to all get together and laugh for 2 hours as we play Bunco. On Friday evening we all got together just to go to dinner and do what we do best..laugh. We all met at Red Robin and was there for hours laughing. I felt bad for the tables next to us.

Us waiting for our SIX appetizers that we ordered :)I dont think we all knew that eachother ordered appetizers so when they started coming to our table I think there was a total of six, it was so funny.

I think me and Haley drank like five of those, they are so yummy!

Me, Robyn, and Katie

After dinner we all headed over to Robyn's place and played Charades & another game which I don't know what it is called. The concept is where everyone takes a piece of paperwork and asks a question "What if..". Then after everyone folds them up, you mix them around and everyone takes a question out of the middle and you answer it on another paperwork and put the answer in the middle, and then everyone picks a answer and we all go around the room and read our question with the answer we picked out of the middle. I didn't think this game would be funny, but wow was I wrong. We couldn't stop playing it, we laughed and laughed.

This is what happens when I ask Haley to grab me a water with ICE. She is a nut and I love her to death. I think me and Haley laughed for like 2 hours straight.
It was fun to get with the girls and talk about life, marriage, kids, etc. Makes me grateful for no kids, when I hear there stories :)

Raspberry Jam - Canning

2011-09-11T07:00:00.000-06:00

Yesterday I canned my first raspberry jam EVER. I picked them at my grandparents with my sisters and we divided them up and I had about 2 cups worth of raspberries so I headed onto Pinterest and found a recipe called "Raspberry Jam - SUPER EASY". That is my kind of jam :). Here is the recipe;
Raspberry Jam

Ingredients:
4 cups mashed raspberries
4 cups sugar
Because Raspberries have natural pectin you don't have to use any!

Directions

1. Use a very large pot. When the jam reaches a full rolling boil it will double in volume.
2. Heat mashed berries until they reach a full rolling boil.
3. Boil 5 minutes.
4. Add sugar.
5. Stir well.
6. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, boil for 5 minutes.
7. Remove from heat.
8. Beat with rotary beater for 4 minutes ( I didn't do this part)
9. Pour in sterilized jars and seal.
let set at room temperature and there you have it! RASPBERRY JAM!

I only had two cups worth of raspberries and it only made 2 jars HAHA, oh well :)I'll pick more this week. Hope it tastes good!

End of Summer - Labor Day Weekend

2011-09-10T11:36:00.019-06:00

I can not believe that summer is pretty much over..did it even start? I wanted to have a fun weekend of playing so we headed up to Midway Friday morning and we went to Swiss Days for the afternoon. I have not been in years and years so I was very excited. It has grown so big since that last time I have been. One smart idea that they thought of was a free parking and the buses come and pick you up and take you 1/2 mile down the road to Swiss Days. It was so much smoother getting in and out without all the crazy traffic. We had a great time walking up and down looking at all the boutiques. I wish I had a million dollars because I really think I could of spent it all. I was very proud of myself, I bought TWO things!

On the bus heading to Swiss Days.

Billy was excited for the Swiss food, Billy eating his Nachtwurst as we listen to music.
After being there for awhile we were ready to head out before it started to crazy busy. I had booked us a hotel in Park City so we checked in our hotel and just relaxed, it was nice. I was trying to finish the book The Help so I read for about 2 1/2 hours straight. I never have time to ready so I was in heaven. Later that night we went to my favorite restaurant Baja Cantina and came back and went hot tubbing at the hotel. It was a much needed mini get-away from life together.
On Saturday when we got back from PC, it was time for me to get ready for the concert with my two best friends. I tried to find my old weezer pants from high school but I have a feeling my mom threw them away a long time ago haha.

During my Junior High/High School days I was obsessed with Blink 182 so when I heard they were coming, I wanted to go. I have not heard there music in YEARS but I thought it would be fun. I have seen them over 3 times in concert so I was pumped to see them again. My Chemical Romance was also with them so that made it even better!

On the lawn waiting for RANCID to get off stage. They opened for them, and I don't like there music at all.

Tami loves My Chemical Romance, they rocked it!

Waiting for My Chemical Romance to come on stage.

I was brought back to my good ol' days, except this time I was on the lawn, not on the floor in the mosh pits.

After sitting in the USANA parking lot for over 30 minutes trying to get out, we finally made it to a road. I didn't have my GPS on because I thought I knew where I was going..I was mistaken. I thought I was heading north but when I came to this..I knew we were heading WEST!

We were laughing so hard I had to pull over because we were pretty much crying of laughter. Only us would we get lost heading to Wendover haha! Good times :) We finally found out way back onto I-215 and to Bountiful for yummy food at 1:00am at Village Inn. I love being with those girls, we always make fun memories.
Sunday afternoon Billy and I went on a beautiful hike, I didn't realize how hot it was so we didn't go too far.

Sunday evening we went over to my parents and had the last BBQ of the summer. My dad made his famous homemade hamburgers, yum!
Monday we headed to the theatre and saw The Help since I had finished the book 2 days prior. I should of brought a box of tissues, I loved it. I am ready to see it again. :) We went to Brick Oven for lunch then headed over to my grandparents for FHE and did yard work for them and sat in there backyard and relaxed and talked for hours. I just love them.
Look's like Fall is just around the corner!!

Park City with the Girls

2011-09-04T12:28:00.013-06:00

We went on a last minute girls overnighter to Park City two weekends ago. My friend Robyn's mom has a condo up there so we went up till Sunday. We had so much fun just relaxing, swimming, laying out, eating, shopping, watching movies, and talking.

Saturday night we went to my favorite place, Baja Cantina.

That Strawberry Banana Margarita was so yummy.

Tami had never been to Park City..what?? I know! So we walked around and drove to Main Street and showed her all around the area.

We walked into a book store and there was a cat just sitting there, not moving. So we thought it was stuffed, which is weird. This is Tami getting ready to touch it. Right then we asked two kids to touch it for us, the cat started breathing. We were laughing so hard. We still don't know if its real or not..

Who knew blinds could be so complicated!

We had the coolest bed. It was one of those that you pull down from the wall. I had to see if I could push Tami back in.
It was so fun just to get away for a day and spend time with my Best Friends.

Day at Pineview

2011-09-04T11:50:00.007-06:00

We had a great time spending the day at Pineview Lake a couple weeks ago. Bill couldn't make it, he had already taken off the Friday before for Island Park. When me and my sister pulled up, I could see my uncle pulling something behind the boat. Everyone was starring. I just started laughing so hard, this is what he was pulling..

The kids had a blast playing on it all day long.

Great pic of Krista, Haylee, Aree, Alex, and I.

My brother giving me directions. Never ask "so where is the brake?" on a jetski. haha

Picture with my cute cousin Leah.
The best ride on the tub was with my Aunt Laurie and cousin Andrew. I wish we would of got a picture of that. Me and Laurie were laughing so hard the whole time. I think we each peed like 3 times we were laughing so hard :).
Good Time with the Walker Gang!

2011 Mathie Reunion - Island Park

2011-09-04T11:10:00.025-06:00

Since my great-grandma LaRue passed away last year we no longer are having the reunions at my grandma's park in Farmington. We did that for years because it was too hard for my great-grandma to go far. This year we had the reunion back in Island Park, one of my favorite places in the world.
It was a quick trip. We got up there on Friday and headed home on Sunday, but it was well worth the long drive. It was great to catch up with family and just laugh. Growing up this was my favorite reunions to attend. My mom's uncles and cousins are funny.

Dad and Billy getting the trailer all ready to go.

Our long ride to Island Park. There was a huge accident and they closed both north and south so we had to go on a side street, it was bumper to bumper for about an hour. We went through a bag of chips :)

My mom rented us a cabin so we could be close to my mom's uncles cabin, it was adorable.

It was a beautiful sunset at the lake.

Dad and Morgan off to an early morning ride.

Everytime we would get our helmets on, the toys would be gone! :)

The RZR was so dirty! Krista and Jay took it out and went through a huge mud puddle so my dad drove the RZR right into the lake to clean it off..it didn't work much.

Me and my sis had a blast blaring Celine music as we drove all around haha.

One of my favorite people in the world, uncle Lee.

We had a great time and are counting down till we go back up to Island Park in April!

20 mile bike ride

2011-07-23T13:27:00.004-06:00

This morning I did my first 20 mile bike ride. I sure surprised myself that I could do it. Last weekend I did about 10 miles and I thought I could of gone farther so me and my boss Karen tried it out. We got onto the Legacy trail in NSL and headed out this morning about 8:30am. At first I was having issues..my water bottle kept falling on the ground, my bike shifts were acting up, my chain came off.
We started a great pace and played a game where every 1/2 a mile the person from behind would go to the front and set the pace. Well when we got to mile 10, I was starting to hurt. On the way back from mile 10 we started getting hot, onry, and plain tired. At mile 15-16 I really didn't think I was going to make it. The game wasn't so fun anymore and I kept thinking I just wanted a cold Dairy Queen blizzard haha. All in all, we had a great time and I am so glad we did it. It took us just under 2 hours to finish so we were very proud of ourselves.
Here is a picture of us half way done, mile 10 :)

Girls Camping Trip

2011-07-17T13:47:00.020-06:00

Last weekend, I went on a overnighter with some friends and had a fun, memorable time. We were planning on going up to the Echo Camperworld. But since it was still under water, we headed up to the Tremonton Camperworld. We all got off work a little early on friday and headed up!
Right when we took the Camperworld exit it started raining like crazy. When I ran into the office to check in, a lady just stared at us because I told her we brought a tent haha. She just said..good luck!

We all sat in my car for about 30 minutes waiting for the storm to pass. Once it did we all went and found a camp spot and it was time to put up the tent..hilarious..

Where do we start...

We did it!

Our campsite

Us four girls, I loved this saying.

Now it was time to start out fire so we could cook our food.

We tried everything and the wood wouldn't start on fire. Because of the rain storm the wood got soaked in water..grr. Linz had an idea to grab some newspaper and try to dip it in our gas tank. We looked like dorks tryin, but it didn't happen. It was starting to get dark and we were running out of ideas. Robyn and Heather went over to our neighbors and asked if they had any gasoline. Well I guess he had been watching us for awhile (oh geez), and came over and helped us out.

It was fun just to sit around the fire for hours and talking and catching up with everyone.
The next morning we woke up and had breakfast and headed over to the pool and swam and laid out. We brought over our coolers and had lunch at the pool.

We had such a great time! Even though I was a little nervous with us putting up the tent with no guys and doing everything ourselves, we did great and made GREAT memories.

Fourth of July Weekend

2011-07-06T14:00:00.019-06:00

This fourth of July weekend was different then any other we have had. We did everything opposite of tradition and guess what? I loved it!
I had Friday off so I slept in and then went over to my grandma's pool relaxed and got some sun. When Billy got off work we got some dinner and headed over to Bountiful's theatre to see Transformers 3D. We were all sitting there waiting for it to start when all of a suddent the fire alarm went off. Everyone in the theatre just sat there thinking it was a joke when all of a sudden the fire alarm got louder and said "there is a fire in the building". Thats when a man said "come on everyone! This is how people die, SAME SEATS BACK". It was hilar, so we all headed outside. We had to wait for the firetruck to come and check it out. I guess the popcorn machine burned or something. The theatre workers were giving out free tickets to come back so a lot of people left. We had nothing else to do so we just waited and watched. I am so glad we did because about 20 minutes later they let everyone back in and we didn't miss a second of the movie :). Good Times!
Saturday, my cute cousin Connor was in a play at the Centerpoint Legacy Theatre called The Emporer's New Clothes. He was the emporer, he was too cute.

Sunday we had a big birthday party at my parents house for Morgan and my niece Alex. We had my dad's amazing dutch oven lasagna. We also had a big sleepover with everyone in my parents backyard.

Me and the birthday girl (my mini me)

Alex showing off her new swimsuit that us aunts and uncles gave her. Shes so cute!

Kels showing off the circus tent.

Billy trying out his night glasses machine. Hes so funny.

In the morning when I woke up, Billy was gone, he went home (we live like a mile away from my parents house), Krista was in the house downstairs in bed, Morgan was with her, I got in bed with my mom in her room. It was pretty funny.
We had a big breakfast and cleaned up the backyard. No parade this year, no Centerville parade like we do EVERY year, no Kaysville parade which we haven't gone in like 7 years and NEVER will again. We went home, took a 2 hour nap :) and got ready for the day and headed over to my uncles house for a fun day!

We had a BBQ and played there for over 5 hours. My bro and sis in law went to the REAL soccer game so Billy and I watched my two nieces the rest of the time.

Billy drove the minivan around, had to take a picture of him doing it. He looked so cute :)
We went back to our house and Abee fell asleep so Billy stayed inside with her while me and Alex went and watched the Kaysville fireworks. The side of my house was perfect place to see them. We might start doing that instead of watching it at the church on Main Street.

What a fun Fourth of July for us!

Echo..Flooding..New Plan..Soapstone

2011-07-03T11:12:00.027-06:00

Last weekend we went up to Echo's Camperworld to spend the weekend with the fam. We heard it had been flooding up at Camperworld but it was still open so we headed up anyway. Billy and I got up there after work on Friday and set up our tent right in time for dinner. Most of my family was already up there so as we set up our camp, they made our dinner's for us. Yummy tin foil dinners :) I am glad my mom caved in and said we could do them, she hates them for some reason haha.

Poor Alex was so sunburned she just sat in that chair all evening long, very quiet. I felt so bad for her.

This weekend really made me realize that my little (not so little anymore) niece Aree isn't a little girl anymore, she is almost a teenager.
After dinner we headed over to the pond and watched Aree go fishing with her cute pink fishing rod. We didn't catch any fish but we had a fun time watching her try.

I've always wanted to learn how to fish but my dad does not fish so I think that's why I never have. My brother does so maybe I will ask him..I need a pink fishing rod now ;)
That evening around the campfire we roasted some new marshmallows that I brought up. They were flat, and wow were they good! They cooked so fast, so by the time I realized I had about 10 of them haha.

Alex was still so unhappy so she just snuggled with her grandpy.

The next morning we headed over to the pool so soak up some sun.

After swimming, my allergies got so bad so I went into the tent and took some medicine and fell asleep with a washcloth over my eyes. I woke up to a man in our campsite telling everyone that we had to evacuate because the flooding was getting worse. We had to be out in less then two hours. Time for Plan B..

We headed over to Kamus so Soapstone. My dad camped there as a child all the time and always wanted to take us all. I didn't realize it was "real camping" till I got there. I knew I wasn't at Camperworld anymore when the camp table had a huge sign on it that said there is bears there. Then a little awhile later a man that worked there said they have seen two bears, a mom and a little baby. I started to freak out. By the time we got there and set up camp again it was starting to get dark.

Who takes there pink luggage camping? I DO!
My parents, brother and sister in law and nieces were in the trailor but Billy and I were in our tent. Lets just say it was a LONNNNGG night for me. Half the night my mind was playing tricks on me, how I was going to die and every noise I heard I sat straight up.
The next morning we went exploring and went on a little hike.

Happy Camping!

Billy is the big 30!

2011-06-18T16:08:00.021-06:00

Billy turned 30 years old while I was on my business trip in Ann Arbor so I told him when we got home we would go up to Park City to celebrate. He did not want a family party or a surprise party or anything in that nature. He just wanted to relax with his wife..me :) My parents called me before I went on my trip and asked if we wanted to go 4-wheeling up in Park City so they headed up on Friday and we meet up with them on Saturday. We had a great time on some trails in Kamus. They had the road closed up in the canyon because they were making a Chevy commerical. You would never think that in a million years. There was no room to turn around so we had to unhitch the trailer. I think Billy and my dad were sick of me and my mom taking pictures of us :) My cute hubby, he was ready to ride! My cutie mom ready to drive there new toy. If you look on the RZR it even says "Walker", guess it was meant to be :) Its sad when the RZR has nicer rimes then my SUV haha. We say its my dad's new child.
Lunch time!
On top of the mountain and as far as we could go with there being still lots of snow on top.

After we rode all afternoon we headed back to the hotel to clean up. I needed to clean up the most because Billy had a fun time going through the mud FAST and with me sitting on the back I got mud ALL over me. He thought he was soo funny. We got stuck once in the snow. Thank goodness we had the RZR to pull us out.
The night before my parents went on a car ride and found this..well we think its a hotel but holy cow its HUGE. It almost looks fake because its so huge and built right in the side of the mountain. They had to take us up there to see it.

For the last year Billy has wanted to go to Adolph's so we decided to go for his birthday. It was so yummy! I still cant believe a steak there was $75.00.

My parents then headed home and we stayed over at the hotel and just relaxed, went hot tubbing and swam.

We got up Sunday morning and headed home the long way past Echo, Morgan, and stopped at Taggarts for brunch.
I hope Billy had a great birthday. He said it was a blast. I cant believe that he is 30, I still remember when I met him, he was 22 years old. Cant belive I have known him for 8 years. Wow does time fly when you are having fun!!!

Business Trip

2011-06-12T17:56:00.018-06:00

Last week I had to fly to Ann Arbor, Michigan on a work business trip and be in meetings ALL day long Monday through Thursday. I was excited and VERY nervous at the same time. I finally go to go to the headquarters and meet a lot of important people. I got very overwhelmed at day two in meetings because it pretty much was going over my head :) and day three I had to give a 10 minute presentation in front of important people, I pretty much didn't sleep the whole time I was there. I am glad I went because I got to meet the girls I work with everyday that lives across the US. There are 9 of us Compliance Admins for the company and it was great to all get together and give eachother ideas of how we do everything. Four of us girls met up at the Detroit Airport and got a rental car together. I became very close with them, I have never laughed so hard in the evenings. I made new BFF's forever and now I have places to visit in Texas and Baltimore.

Me and Lisa just clicked when we met at the airport, within 10 minutes we were laughing and never stopped.

They had to take a picture of me drinking water because every evening thats what I did while the girls would drink. They made fun of me the whole time, haha oh well :)

I felt like I was running for Miss America, the whole weekend when I shook peoples hands I would say "Hi, Im Megan from Utah". I think I did that..40 times. In the photo was Lisa from Baltimore, Ashley from Arizona, Lisa R from Texas, Enid from Florida, and Maria from New York.

Tony and Amanda from the Headquarters, they are awesome!

Had to take a pictures with these 3 girls because I realized I was not the shortest :) Thats a first EVER

Had to post the picture for me, because it had a 10 minute story behind it. We were laughing so hard. I had to go to the front desk each night and ask for a key to my room because I always left it in my room.

Cousins Game Night

2011-05-30T12:52:00.015-06:00

On Saturday we gave my cousin Chelsea a Bridal Shower and since we had some cousins from Rexburg come down and had my aunt Suz fly in from Colorado we had a Cousin Game Night at my grandparents house last night.

My family is very big on card games so we played our famous Phase 10 and Mormon Bridge. I had a blast with all my cousins, I love how we are all best friends and so close.

My grandma looks awesome in my Kesha sunglasses HAHA

My cute aunts, love them

My couisin Chels that is engaged.

We love getting our pictures taken :)
The cousins minus some that couldn't come.
Cousins with my grandma and grandpa on their bed.

We had such a great time laughing and just being together.

My dream nursery

2011-05-25T22:49:00.002-06:00

NOOO I am not pregnant, but I thought I would post my DREAM nursery room..IN LOVE

Like every girl I had my wedding planned out before I even turned 18..now the last 3 years I have been planning a babies nursery..one day

For Sale

2011-05-22T15:12:00.004-06:00

These are never worn shoes For Sale.These are my all time favorite shoes. They are the SODA brand. For sale for $20.00, size 6 1/2. Contact me if interested, k thanks!!

Susan Komen 5K/Sis Graduation

2011-05-15T14:21:00.017-06:00

Last Saturday I did my very first 5K. I started preparing for it in February but in March I kinda stopped running. I got hooked at Zumba so I was pretty much was doing that everyday. I kept thinking "its only 3.2 miles, I can do it"..wow was I not prepared. I did good on the first mile but after that..I was having a tough time running it..I now know what I did wrong and need to do next time. I am planning on doing a bunch of 5k's this summer so hopefully I will beat my time each time I do one. Me and my boss Karen signed up for this 5K because my co-workers daughter that is 19 years old has breast cancer. So my co-worker, me and my boss did it together. My sisters have been doing the Susan Komen 5K for a bunch of years and every year they ask me to do it with them but I always decline (lazyyy). My sisters did it again this year and we had a special someone in my home ward that has breast cancer so we also did it for her :)

I love this picture of my co-worker Wally. Him running the 5K AS he is working HAHA, hes always on his phone :)

I couldn't believe how many people came out for this. I think there was like 20,000!

At the 2 mile point, I am smiling in the picture but I was DYING

WE DID IT!!

On Friday it was Morgan's graduation day, so proud of her!! We all went to dinner before the ceremony.

She got the coolest hat, she graduated from the U but we are big BYU fans :)

Sibilings minus Billy, he was stuck at work.

I am ready for a busy, fun filled Summer! BTW, I just realized this is my 200th post!

Girls Weekend with my Besties

2011-05-09T22:07:00.016-06:00

For my birthday (the week after)I went to St. George with two of my best friends and we had a BLAST! Some stuff fell through but we still made it down there and we had a lot more fun then I think it would of turned out before. We laughed the whole time and it was so fun to just be with eachother, without the husbands, kids and stress. All we did was eat, shop, lay out, swim, and hot tub. We made friends with people at the hotel so every night we would all hot tub and just talk. Sounds like everyone up north came down to St. George.

I forgot to eat breakfast before we drove down so I was starving! Robyn brought rice cakes for "snacks"..nasty! Had to take a picture of it :)

They took me to my first Sushi restaurant. I was very nervous and I even tried the sushi, and it was very gross.

It was hard to come back home but I am so glad we went and got to spend time together and catch up on life and just laugh together. I am very grateful for amazing friends that are truly hilarious and that I can be myself 100%. These two are the best! We did start a new tradition of girls trip's every 6 months, we already have the next one planned.

Island Park/Easter/26th Birthday

2011-05-04T20:37:00.023-06:00

My birthday this year was during Easter weekend so the whole family except my little sis headed up to the condo in Island Park. Billy and I could only stay Friday through Sunday but we still had a great time.

Had to take a picture of this plant. It's my moms easter plant. She said she had to bring it up to the condo or it would die. My dad refused to she asked Billy and I if we would take it in our car, it was so funny. So Billy put it in it's own seat :)
My parents and us were the first ones up there so they took us out to dinner because the day before was our Anniversary. Everything is still closed in April so there was only a couple places to choose from to eat. We went to a place we have never heard of..Shotgun, you would think that would give you a clue. Lets just say it was VERY interesting place, we laughed pretty much the whole time because it was so creepy and nasty. Our waitress was drinking beer has she was serving us, and was about my age and had like no teeth HAHA.

Love how Alex is doing the peace sign

My birthday morning with my nieces.

On our way into Yellowstone Park on my birthday. We went to West Yellowstone for a Easter Egg Hunt for the girls.

After the Easter Egg Hunts we went back over to my parents condo and they had decorated it for my birthday dinner, it made me smile.

After swimming and coloring eggs we came back for dessert

Easter Sunday we got up and went to church at Island Park's Ward. There was so much snow that you couldn't see out of the windows of the church, had to get a picture of it.

Billy and I had to leave to come back home around 4 so we had our yummy Easter Dinner after church. My mom also made her famous peanut butter eggs. THEY ARE AMAZING. She makes them every year since I was very little and puts our names on them.

We had a great time spending time with our family and me turning a year older. I wouldn't spend the day with anyone else.

FOUR YEARS

2011-04-21T07:00:00.000-06:00

Four years today I married my BESTIE FRIEND!! It was an amazing day, and wow was it beautiful.

And now a million trillion..eternity more years :)

Protein Powder

2011-03-28T22:29:00.002-06:00

Thanks for everyone's input on my question about protein powders to try. I got a lot of calls, texts, emails, blog comments about it. I went to Walmart after work today and picked up this one to try; I am drinking it right now and its not bad at all, it actually is yum! Another question advice, is it ok to drink a protein drink at 10pm at night after a Zumba class? Didn't know if thats too late. Anyway, love the comments! Another question, I have had many people ask to me start a health blog of my LOONNNGG road to health and weight-loss..would you read it? I know nothing what I am doing but HEY I am learning on the way.

My new love book

2011-03-27T09:00:00.000-06:00

I bought this book at Barnes and Noble this weekend and I can not put it down. Very much worth reading, even if you are not wanting to lose weight. I am going to start this week what it is recommending about eating and I will see if it helps me. This morning I made one of their recommended breakfasts;

ASPARAGUS OMELET

4 asparagus spears, sliced and 1 inch pieces

1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (I didn't have these so I didn't put it in mine)

1/2 teaspoon minced garlic

salt

ground black pepper

1/2 cup spinach, minced as small as you can

3 egg whites

chives

nonstick cooking spray

It was very good! I even made it for my hubby Billy and he even really liked it, but he did cheat and add cheese and not egg whites, just 2 eggs. He laughed and said "this needs MEAT". blah blah. I liked it. I did cook 2 turkey sausages on the side so maybe next time Ill cook that and add it.

Any advice, anything works for you? ALSO, anyone out there drink protein drinks/shakes? I need to start and I need some good kinds.

30-50-70 Viva Las Vegas

2011-03-13T11:40:00.000-06:00

Over two years ago us siblings and my parents gave my Grandma for her birthday a trip to Vegas to see Donny & Marie. Well things kept coming up and we never had time. Well I had been thinking hard what to do for my sister Krista's 30th birthday. Celine didn't start Vegas again till middle of March so that was out. So we thought..celebrate Grandma's 70th birthday, my mom's 50th birthday, and Krista's 30th birthday..Viva Las Vegas, here we come!

One thing I love about my family is we are always planning trips, we are never BORING! We headed out to Vegas on Friday morning and headed back on Sunday, it was a quick trip but it was so nice to get away from my crazy life. NASCAR was there in Vegas so it was really really busy. Just leaving Vegas Sunday morning took us over an 1 hour to go like 8 miles..it was crazy! When we got there and checked in our hotel we headed over to the Bellagio for dinner. It was beautiful and the restaurant was yum! We had perfect seats too.

Haylee got really car sick into Vegas because of the traffic. So when we headed to the Bellagio she was white as a ghost. After dinner she said the room started spinning so Morgan rushed her to the bathroom..she barely made it before she threw up. This is here right after..we were laughing so hard. One minute she was quiet and white as a ghost, then the next minute she came back to the table and was all chipper! This is here just like 3 minutes after she threw up..new person!

We headed back to the hotel because I was feeling a little weird because of the car ride too so we missed walking the strip but oh well..done it a million times.

Saturday morning (Krista's 30th Birthday) we went swimming outside..it was only about 70's but the pool was heated and if you know me..I love laying out and swimming.

For lunch we headed over to the Cheesecake Factory since that is Krista's favorite place and then headed back to the hotel to get ready for the show!

I was excited for the Donny and Marie but I had no idea it was going to be THAT GOOD, but wow was I surprised, It was awesome! We had great seats and Donny even came by us during the show and touched our hands..my mom's face was priceless.

After the show it was pretty late and I was tireedd. Our hotel was right across the street from Hard Rock so my 3 sisters wanted to head over there..at midnight. But you know me, I couldn't miss anything so we headed over. When I walked in I realized how old I am now and boring..which I dont mind :). Every girl looked like a hootchy and their was clubs and just lots of young people there. Of course we had to stop at Pink Taco and take pictures and then we headed over to a yum restaurant and had dinner. I literally was falling asleep as I was eating, it was pretty funny. I wish I could of gotten pictures. They were laughing at me I guess because I had my eyes closed as I was chewing, and then all of a sudden I opened my eyes at looked at Haylee and yelled "STOP EATING". HAHAH oh gosh..
I am pretty sure my grandma was pretty done with us during the trip. Us girls laughed pretty much the whole time, doing pranks on each other (the tub mat)..big story in it's self. Hopefully the hotel doesn't charge us for it. Every day we would put the nasty tub mat in someone's bed, clothes, throw it at eachother, and on the way home Haylee packed it in Krista's suitcase in between her clothes. We laughed all the way home from Vegas to Utah.
I was not ready to come home but it was nice to spend time with us girls. Thanks to my sweet dad and mom for the trip!!
More memories to remember :)

Before & After

2011-03-12T09:48:00.002-07:00

If they can do it..I can do it

Crushes/Favorite Things

2011-02-24T21:40:00.013-07:00

I thought I would share some of my favorite Crushes :)....or as Oprah would call it. MY FAVORITE THINGS!!

Yes I know, I sell MaryKay so I should like it, but seriously, I LOVEE their mascara, its amazing! It's called Ultimate Mascara, and it really is!
I love my running shoes. They are the brand Scott and I LOVE them. Best part is they retail for over $100 and I got them for $15! Love how my mother in law works for Scotts.

Love my Biolage Color Care Shampoo & Conditioner. Also, my favorite leave in condition in the whole world is Anti Snap by Redken.

I could eat this sandwich EVERYDAY. Its from Chick-Fil-A, amazing yum! I think this week I have had it 2 times already :). P.S. Its really healthy! Wheat bread, no dressing on it, no cheese. If you tell them to not put butter on top of the bun its only 4 grams of fat :)

I love my little SUV. Its been a great car, I've already been looking at the CX9 with the 3rd row seating, one day maybe.

I cant live without my Big Sexy Volumizing Hairspray, the best. I have tried lots & lots.

Wish I looked this good in my leggings, but thats not the point ;) I love my leggings. I love wearing them during the winter and at church, I put boots on and they are just like nylons but thicker. My fav!

What are some of YOUR favorite things??

Queen of Hearts - Girls Night

2011-02-21T08:00:00.001-07:00

I won tickets on Facebook on Friday to the Chocolate Affair. Queen of your Hearts at Gardner Village.

We started at the Chocolate Affair. They had a red carpet leading to it, it was cute. It was sooo fun. They had sooo much chocolate, chocolate fountains, hot chocolate bar, chocolate desserts, etc.

Their was 100's of ladies there.

The hot chocolate bar was soo yummyy.

We were in chocolate comas by the time we were done..wow that was a lot.
All the shops had huge sales, a lot of them even had free prizes. You would pick a card out of a deck of cards and if you picked hearts you would get a prize. We won jewlery and other fun stuff.
We needed REAL food so we went to Archibalds for dinner, my new favorite place to eat. Well when we came out of the restaurant it was snowing/raining SOOOO hard!! Our car was so far away. So had to take a pic of us getting soakedd, people that saw us running and screaming were probably laughing at us :)

I think this is my new tradition going to this every year.

Valentines Weekend

2011-02-20T12:30:00.019-07:00

Billy and I did our traditional Princess Valentines Party for my two youngest nieces over Valentines weekend. Billy had a horrible cold this year so he pretty much stayed upstairs in bed but we still had a good time.

For dinner I got them Pizza from Domino's and cinnastix. They have never had the cinnastix before..you could tell. They were lickingg the icing

We painted princess crowns and put jewls on them.

After Alex frosted the first cookie she kept begggginng to eat it. It was so funny. She would frost then lick..frost then lick. She is 100% Walker :) After we were done frosting, I put all the knifes and spoons in the sick and I turned around and she went and grabbed them out of the sink, licked them all then put them back. Oh I love her HAHA.

She finally got to eat her cookie, she was in heaven!

It was so fun to spend time with them and have a party. They say the funniest things, I love it. We watched Monsters Inc, they have never heard of it so we watched it. They loved it, which I knew they would.
My friend Tami had come down for the weekend so Saturday she invited me to lunch. It was fun because a friend from High School came and it was fun to catch up. I love blogs because you really catch up on friends lives.

We were at Olive Garden for hours talking and laughing. Out waiter was soo cute and was sure Tami had to date him and marry him. He was flirting with her and everything. I was about to put her number on the a paper he started talking about his fiance...blahhhhhh.
Saturday evening we went bowling for Kelsey's birthday. Wow did I suck at it :) It was still fun. We then went back to the house and had dinner and yummy icecream cake.

Yup I got 67..I need to practice.
Monday on Valentines Day Billy had a box of dipped strawberries delivered at my work, it was so sweet. He had to work late so he didn't get home till almost 8pm. So we just did take out and watched a movie, I love him :)

Happy Valentines!

2011-02-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Chuch callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalledled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk"

-Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

New Chapter - Dad's Retirement Work Party

2011-02-12T10:22:00.033-07:00

After 32 Years of dedicated service to the State of Utah..my dad is retiring! On Monday my dad had his work retirement party. When my dad decided to retire and he let his right hand man know about it (Bob), Bob decided to retire too so they had their party together :). Bob always said that when my dad leaves, he is leaving.
It was a great day for my dad. I never realized how many people love and support him at his work. My dads secretary counted about 400 people came to his sweet tribute.
My dads secretaries did an amazing job at the decorating, program, lunch, etc. They really outdid themselves. They wanted to keep my dad and his friend Bob separated at the party so they did BYU & UTAH colors since Bob LOVES U of U, and my dad LOVES BYU. It was a cute idea!

I just love Debo, she is my dads amazing secretary and has worked along side my dad for a lonnnng time. Best part is, she is best friends with my mom too.

Preparing to go downstairs for his Party!
My dads employees made this, it sits in his office..hilarious

Us kids sitting in the front row waiting for it to start.

They gave him a very nice plaque, it was the two things in life he loves..pic of his family and pic of his cabin, actually 3 pics of his cabin haha

He did a great speech, it was sweet how he made all of us kids stand up and his parents, and his brothers and sisters. Afterwards I had a lady come up to me and say, "I have never seen your dad like that talking about his family and introducing each of you, I always just see his working life". I really thought about what she said. We his family, always see his family life, not his work life.

My dads siblings minus Gyle, he lives in Colorado.

My beautiful mom and grandma. Now you know where I get my looks from

Monday is his last day..it will be bitter sweet.

Onto the next chapter in life..everyone thinks he should be a Yellowstone snowmobile Guide..his dream job.
This week my dad sent out a sweet email to all his kids and daughter/son in-laws. I hope he doesn't mind me posting it on my blog, but I want to remember it always and plus this is my journal of life..
I wanted to drop you all a note to tell you each how much I appreciated you coming to my retirement party yesterday. I was extremely happy and proud to introduce each of you as my family. It was a great day for not just me but for both your mother and I.

In work life, there are two types of people. Those who live to work and those who work to live. I hope each of you know that I work so I can live, so that I can enjoy my time that I spend with each one of you. I truly believe that we all need to appreciate every moment we spend outside of our work lives and understand just why we need to have employment. Work does not make us complete, it just gives us the ability to complete our lives.

Thank you so much for attending. OK, now I'll crawl off my soapbox.

Now, the next question is: do I live to be retired or be retired to live?

Love you Pops!!

Good Things Utah

2011-02-10T20:04:00.000-07:00

Monday I took the day off for my dads work retirement party so that morning I went to Good Things Utah. It was pretty fun, it was a lot different than I thought it would be. The girls are sooo nice and sweet. We went on a good day because they were doing Valentines Ideas. We got a gift card to a Lingerie/ Gift Shop called Husband and Wife. I need to check it out this weekend. Its not a kinky place, its a nice classy place. Anyone been there before?

They showed me and my friend in the audience, the girls next to us were not even smiling nor clapping, dorks..I think that is while they only showed us once. I joked that we should just quit our jobs and go to the show everyday and then shop till we drop, how would it be :)

Super Bowl 2011

2011-02-09T19:49:00.008-07:00

What a great Super Bowl this year. Every year since I was little we have gone to our friends house for the Super Bowl party. Its fun to get together and laugh and eat A LOT. There is always SO much food, its crazy!

This was JUST the dessert and salad table, their was 2 other tables of food..

We had two TV's going, one upstairs and one downstairs because there is always so many people.

The money board..I didn't win any money or prizes this year, oh well! It was fun to all get together with people we have not seen in awhile. I pretty much just go for the commericals, half time and the yummy food. Half time was pretty good, I give it a "B"..Fergie is hot..Usher coming from nowhere was the best part..but sad he didn't sing.

So I think its time

2011-02-06T14:12:00.002-07:00

to change my blog into Private..I never EVER evvverrr wanted to do this. It looks like a huge pain! But..since I have put a Live traffic feed on my blog, I am having some crazy people from out of the country looking at my blog..countries I have not even heard of! Also, New York, Mexico, Florida, etc. Dont get my wrong, I dont care if people look at my blog but out of the country? Um no..that freaks me out.

So I guess the next step is to ask for your email address so I can send you an invite! I will make it private in a week or two. So Dont be shy, even if I dont know you very well, or not at all that is fine :) I look at blogs that honestly I dont really know the people but love their story.

Love, Megie

Special Day

2011-01-29T18:30:00.016-07:00

Today was just a great day. Yes it was not a sunny day, the sun was hidden with the smog/fog but something great happened today, my step-grandma Sherry got baptized. She has been taking the discussions for about 7 or more so months. She started taking them up in Seattle where they lived and they just recently moved here this summer and she took the big step.
Today as I saw her just glow it reminded me of 6 1/2 yrs ago when Billy took that step and got baptized. I made me smile because the spirit is so strong and their lives change forever, for the good.

My dad was asked and honored to baptize her, it was special.

Me and Billy before it starts..(what you think about my eyelash extentions? Im trying to get used to them)

Love my Pops!

Love my Hubby! Wish I could post the picture of us two the day he got baptized, but I would have to scan it, oh well. We have come ALONG way since 2004, wow do I love him!!

My nieces sang some beautiful primary songs. They did a great job! We had to do the talks and singing in the chapel because there was over 60+ that showed for her special day.

January Blues

2011-01-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

I wish I was here right now SOO badly..
Positive note..I'm planning our vacations for the year..Billy turns 30 in June..Im planning a big fun trip! shhh

New Place

2011-01-21T17:53:00.005-07:00

I found a new place that everyone needs to try when you need a pedicure. I love pedicures. I think I got addicted to them when I was going to Beauty School. I try to go about once every 2-3 months. Well this month alone I have gone twice.
First one I went too was at The Gateway called Sanctuary Day Spa. It was so nice. They take you into a back room where its very dark. You sit in these long chairs and stair at the ceiling which are stars blinking. Its beautiful. They have biscuits and drinks for you as you wait. Then the ladies come and introduce themselves and take you into another room which is where they do the pedicures. Its very nice upscale place. I went with my boss and my co-worker. We had a great time. The pedicure took about 45 minutes. As your toes dry they take you back to the room with the stairs and you just relax and think "this is the life". My boss paid for me so I didn't know how much it cost till I got online and looked..$50..wow.
The second place I went too is in Sandy and its called Pella Nails. A long lost friend that has come into my life again invited me. She has been there twice before and lives up that way so we headed over there. It was fantastic! Yes its an Asian place, and yes they dont speak very good English but wow was I suprised how good it was. The place I have been going for years called Star Nails in Farmington, is great, dont get me wrong. I love Lisa and Kevin that own it. But its always so "fast". Them two are usually the only ones working there so they work as fast as they can because of course they want MONEY $$. Well this place in Sandy they had about 7 workers working and it was very low key. My pedicure from start to finish took about 1 hr and 10 minutes. They used hot stones, hot towel, etc. Price you say..thats the best part..$20! Not kidding..Now if only I lived closer..

Sunday afternoon

2011-01-16T14:06:00.005-07:00

I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon blogging. Right now at this time I am usually taking a nap but not today. Today we are watching my two nieces that are 4 and 5 years old. We are all sitting here in the living room, Billy and Abee are playing the game Memory, and Alex and I are sitting here on my latop listening to Disney movie's songs on Pandora, singing loud! Sorry if you can hear :)

We took the girls to church with us and it was so fun, it was fun to see how is with 9am church with little kids..im tired :)

Most adorable Penguins

2011-01-11T16:50:00.007-07:00

My two adorable nieces were in the Nutcracker last month and they were Penguins, they were the cutiest penguins EVER. There dance was adorable and the best part was Abee was the last one to come out on the stage and she turned around and shook her booty, we all laughed so hard. I'm so glad Billy came, even though he started to drift at the beginning. P.S. They are not twins, they are 13 months apart. :)

11 Step Program for those thinking of having kids

2011-01-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2

Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their...
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.

Lesson 3

A really good way to discover how the nights might feel...
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)

Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.

Lesson 4

Can you stand the mess children make? T o find out...
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

Lesson 5

Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.

Time allowed for this - all morning.

Lesson 6

Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Lesson 7

Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Lesson 8

1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.

You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.

Lesson 9

Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.

Lesson 10

Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Lesson 11

Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

This is all very tongue in cheek; anyone who is parent will say 'it's all worth it!' Share it with your friends, both those who do and don't have kids. I guarantee they'll get a chuckle out of it. Remember, a sense of humor is one of the most important things you'll need when you become a parent!

01-01-11 Holiday coming to an end..

2011-01-01T12:31:00.016-07:00

I has been so nice to have the last two weeks off work (paid btw). I thought I would of gotten a lot done around the house, but not really. I played pretty much most of the time. Since Billy only had Christmas Eve off, I didn't really get to do a lot with him, moslty family. Monday we headed into Salt Lake, checked into the Marriott and had a great R & R with my fam. We got two suites so we had plenty of room. I think this is going to be our new family tradition. We were away from life, messy homes, laundry, dishes in the sink, presents all over the house, etc. We went swimming, hot tubbing, lunch at a YUMMY place called Traditions Pub & Grill, lights at Temple Square, watched the Jazz Game in the hotel lobby eating The Pie, played card games, laughed, got stuck in the elevator going to each floor because my little sis would get in the elevator before me and push EVERY level and jump out so I had to go on each floor level (they did this to me TWICE).

We took naps in the afternoon (it was so nice!). Here is my mom fast asleep cudding her pillowpet that Santa brought her.

My nieces are silly. They were getting bored as we waited in the lobby for my other niece Aree to come off the mountain from skiing.

Man do I have cute parents

My camera was about to die so I took this right when it did..turned out pretty
I watched lots of movies the past two weeks ago. Went and saw True Grit with my parents and sisters, Tangled with my sis Krista and went and saw Tron with Billy. At home we rented Salt & Bounty Hunter. I have also been reading a book! Shocking I know, I NEVER have time a read, so since my friend Tami gave me The Hunter Games book for Christmas, I started reading it. I have always wanted to start reading that series but thanks to Tami, I have now :)

The tree is down, the christmas decorations put away..its now time to move on to a new year, new chapter in life.

New Years Resolutions 2011

2010-12-31T16:25:00.006-07:00

As I look back to my blog post from last year 01/01/10 about my New Years Resolutions, it made me smile. This is what I had to say...

"As I woke up this morning, my mind was full. What was my New Years resolutions going to be? I started naming them off...lose weight, praying, reading and studying the scriptures, FHE, save money, etc. The usual stuff I say to myselft every year. But as I layed in bed looking at Billy, I came to a conclusion..no resolutions for me...I want a challenge. My challenge this year is To Be A Better Person. As we layed in bed talking about what I came up with, he loved the idea. So our challenge for both of us this year is To Be A Better Person."

I would say that I worked on that challenge and hope to keep working on it this year. Also, I want to add to it..TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT. I need to work on it BADLY. My life is always so crazy and I need to live in the moment.

Happy New Year my blogging friends (If I still have some)

Love, Megan Maree Walker Boehm

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

2010-12-25T17:40:00.037-07:00

Merry Christmas Everyone! Friday (Christmas Eve) Bill and I spent the whole day together (yeahh!). We slept in till 9am which was so nice. :) Then we headed to Bountiful to get our movie tickets to Tron 3D, got lunch at Iceberg, which I have never been before..yummy shakes! We ran into the movie theatre with 2 minutes to spare. I thought we were going to get horrible seats but they were pretty good. When I first walked in, I thought I went in the wrong theatre. There were SOO many little kids! Through out the whole movie I kept thinking "Why are these parents bringing 4-8 yr olds to this!?! Just because its PG and Disney doesn't mean its for kids..lots of the kids were so annoying and little ones were screaming. I kept giving them "my look" (get it from my mom). Anyway, the movie was GREAT! Billy really wanted to see it so I went and I was surprised how much I liked it. I have never seen the one that came out a long time ago, so I was going in with a fresh mind. Billy loved it too.

After the movie we went and stopped at my little sisters new place and took Billy on a tour, since he has not been able to see it yet and see my cute little nieces. And to also pick up my shake from Iceberg. I had to drop it off there before the movies because I didn't want to waste it :) Here is a pic of me and my niece Alex eating it on the floor in my sisters kitchen

That evening, we went over to my Grandma Jenson's house for dinner. She started a new thing this year with having an Open House. I think it turned out very well.

Had to get close up pictures with my cute mom and dad

It was fun being up at my grandma's because she lives in Farmington up at Somerset so they all have their luminaries lit up and on the streets, very pretty.

We then headed over to my parents house to read out of the scriptures and sing Christmas hymns and talk about the real meaning of Christmas. We then ate dessert and my mom picked up a birthday cake for Jesus, it was cute.
We headed home and opened our one present to eachother which of course is PJ's!

I always get Billy Christmas pajamas but I saw these and HAD to get them, he was so excited!

We almost forgot to put out our stocking for Santa

Stayed up till late watching The Christmas Story and then off we went to bed for Santa to come!

Christmas Morning came so fast, I woke up and Billy was already downstairs watching The Christmas Story AGAIN.

He was so excited for his GPS system! Where ever we went all day, we had to put their addresses in it so it could tell us step by step..I just rolled my eyes and smiled.

I had a big box and it was full of tissue paper with one that said "keep digging"..ya it was a gift card in there. He thought he was so funny :)

All our stuff, we kept it light this year with the GPS as our big present.

Cant forget what Santa brought me some new shoes :) IN LOVE!
After opened presents to eachother we headed over to my brothers house in Ogden and had a big traditional family breakfast!! Omelets, scones, cinnamon rolls, hashbrowns, fruit, egg nog, and orange juice..I ate TOO much but it was amazing!

My daddy making the yummy scones and omelets

My new apron my aunt gave me, it says "Domestic Diva" with some bling and pink all over it, my favorite! My mom's apron is the one I gave her last year, it says "This is as Merry as I get".

Alex was so excited to show me that Santa brought her a orange, it was cute!

Krista and Jay gave my parents the DVD of all the NCIS seasons, my mom was so excited. She is really obsessed with NCIS. Everytime we go over to there house, its always on TV in there basement.

I think Abee and Alex love Uncle Billy just a little..haha

My sister in law Haylee made us this beautiful picture of the Salt Lake Temple, its tinted with a light pink..its beautiful! Billy loves it too hehe

Our big present! Camperworld Resorts Membership!! My mom got us a cute ornament that says "Happy Camping"! We are both so excited to have this membership and can go to all the resorts in utah all the way up to Bear Lake to Lake Powell. Now..we need a trailer :) Cant wait to have kids and to share camperworld with them like I did all growing up, great traditions!

Billy had already zonked it was only noon! We dont even have kids yet..HAHA

My funny brother
After opening presents with my family we headed over to Billy's parents and opened presents with them. Then we headed over to my grandma and grandpa Walkers house and opened presents with them..at this time we were all tired..

Billy and I headed home after that all took a 1 hour power nap before the big dinner at my parents house.
My mom's cooking is the best! Whoever could make it for dinner came, some went to there inlaws and then met up after for dessert. We then exchanged gifts with my Grandma & Grandpa Sid.

Christmas evening we usually go back over to my grandma walkers house and play card games but my cousins, aunts and uncles were having dinner there so they went ahead and started playing because we were running late. We did stop by though and watch Morgan open her present, she got her wedding quilt. (my grandma makes a beautiful wedding quilt for every grandchild, so since Morg probably wont be getting married soon, they gave it to her..it was special :)

My cute cousin Niccol got me a christmas present, she is so cute! In the extended family she is known as the "princess" and I have always been known as the "queen". I love her to death. It was so thoughtful of her.

Christmas is now come and gone..Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

Cute Pasta!

2010-12-23T14:39:00.006-07:00

This year for my close friends, I was super excited to find the cutest pasta EVER. I saw it online about 2 months ago and had to buy them. I have been very excited to give them out and now that I have, I can write about it. :)

Its purse and shoes pasta, isn't hat the cutiest? It goes great with my homemade marinara sauce.

Beauty School Reunion/Catch Up

2010-12-22T09:30:00.000-07:00

My friend Laura that lives in Logan got in touch with me and wanted to get a Get Together with some old friends from school. It was hard to find a time because of the Christmas Season and how busy everyone is. I knew we couldn't get everyone but had a fun with who came. We laughed and took some fun pictures.

At school we used to call them the Twin Towers.

Me and Jenny have been friends since we were..4 years old I think.

Use 3 have not been all together in years so it was just like the old times. Funny pictures

Love those girls and had a great time!

Christmas Treats

2010-12-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

This year during the holiday season my mom has been really busy to make treats with all of us girls so me and my sister got together Sunday and started cooking away! We made so many amazing treats...we started at 3pm and finished about 8:30pm..lots of cooking!
We made homemade Oreos, homemade marshmallows, crackels, m&m cookies, and Oreo truffles. It was a lot of fun to spend time with my sis and cook. I think we ate half of what we made. Everytime we would turn around Billy was running out of the kitchen with treats in his hand. :)

Happy Cooking!!

Walker Christmas Party

2010-12-20T22:09:00.008-07:00

Saturday we had our Annual Walker Christmas Party. This year we took a tour up at Shriner's Hospital in Salt Lake. It was great! We then headed to back to the church for a Cafe Rio kind of dinner, yum!! Me and my sister was in charge of the rice and beans. It was an interesting recipes, and it was hilarious trying to find the ingredients at the store. We both were laughing so hard. Who would think that tomato juice would be so funny to find. :)

It called for fresh lime juice. I learned how to get juice out of a lime from Oprah, when she went on her camping trip with her best friend Gayle this last summer. You squeeze with your teeth! :) My sisters were laughing at me so hard. It worked though.

My niece kept saying "grandpa is my elf". It was so cute!

Having a tour at the hospital. Morgan had to be a little kid and play

I learned so much at that Hospital, what a great place for kids getting help.

Merry Christmas, from Billy & Megie

2010-12-19T11:26:00.006-07:00

I designed my Christmas Card this year on Shutterfly, and I was very pleased with it (except the prices). I love receiving Christmas cards in the mail, it brings a smile to my face.
Here is one Christmas Card that I received in the mail that I loved :)

Maybe next year my family should dress up for next Christmas card.

Christmas Carol & Dinner

2010-12-17T21:07:00.009-07:00

The last couple years my parents have taken their kids to a play. So this year we went to The Christmas Carol at Rogers Memorial Theatre and the best part was that my uncle had one of the main parts and my cute little cousin was in it too. We all met at Salt City Burgers for dinner and then headed over to the play. It was so fun to spend time with the family. I was sad Billy couldn't make it at the last minute (work!) but we all had a great time.

Aree loved the burgers, yum!

I dont think I have enough pics with my sis..HA

The dessert was to DIE for!

I laughed so hard when we all walked outside to see what my dad had done to his truck. My comment was, "that is so cool dad..and ghetto at the same time!". I love my dad, hes hilarious!!

They did such a great job!!

Work Retreat

2010-12-07T21:00:00.023-07:00

I totally forgot to blog about my work retreat and I want to make sure I have it blogged for my blog scrapbook Im going to print.
In October my office went to a work retreat to Island Park. They wanted me to plan it so we went up to my favorite place, Island Park. My parents have a condo up there so I knew that my co-workers would love it and have a blast going into Yellowstone. We left on a Sunday morning and came back Thursday. Monday & Tuesday we sat in the cabin and was in meetings from 9am-6pm so it was nice to get out on Wednesday and go into Yellowstone.

I was in love with this cabin. It had 7 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, hot tub, theatre room, and game room. When I was researching a place to stay I knew this one looked perfect, and I was right. The best part was it is usually $750/night and I got it down to $400/night. :) I cant explain to you sitting outside in the backyard with nothing but a huge river going through the back and an amazing sunset..I honestly could of lived there forever.

Wally went all the way up to the cabin and made me a big pot of hot chocolate, we all couldn't stop laughing. This pic is like a 30 minute story, I wont tell you but I had to post so I could remember. I have never laughed so hard in my life.

On our way into Yellowstone. Me and my boss Karen sat in the back of the SUV the whole drive. On the way to find the cabin (which we got lost) we got SO car sick, I thought we were going to die. We took two suv's and we were in the fun suv, I was glad.

At Old Faithful

These chairs were so comfy! I wanted to take it and put it up at my cabin.

Should be a postcard

I had a great time and got to know my co-workers a lot more..some more than I wanted :)

Holiday Work Party

2010-12-05T10:58:00.003-07:00

So after planning my work retreat in October and all going up to Island Park, it was time to plan the work Holiday Party..they had given me an amount of how much per person..well I couldn't really find anything I liked for that price. I got him to go up to about $40/person so I had much to choose from now :). We had our work holiday party at Rodizio Grill last night. I think it turned out really good, I was pretty nervous all week for some reason (dumb anxiety). I had a great turn out, about 70 people. We had our own private room and our own private servers so that was great.

I can now check that off my list..now onto the Years of Service Luncheon next week.

Potatoes, Potatoes

2010-12-05T10:41:00.008-07:00

This week me, my sister and my mom went to my step-grandma's house to help her with her Ward Christmas Party Food, I dont think I really knew what I was getting myself into :). We were there Tuesday and Wednesday after work till about 9pm helping. We were helping feed for 300 people. We skinned the potatoes, cut, and boiled, smashed (thank goodness for my moms BOSH), and put the potatoes in a huge frosting bag and put them over the meat. Sounds easy eh? We did 120 lbs of potatoes!!!...dont worry I documented it in pictures..

We did 13 of the huge pans! Isn't it pretty shepards pie though? Its all about presentation! Right Mom?? haha, My mom has always taught us that, I guess thats where I get my perfection, my mom.
We all went to there Ward Christmas Party last night, and I was so glad I did! There ward is on the hill by the Bountiful Temple so that tells you right there how nice it was. The owners of the Hale Theatre are in there ward so they helped with the production of the Christmas Party and it was amazing and the food was yum too! Glad I could help out.

Another Reason Why..

2010-11-30T22:14:00.002-07:00

Another reason why I LOVE HER!!

Is this outfit just adorable?!?

Thanksgiving 2010

2010-11-27T21:12:00.015-07:00

It has been so nice to this year to have Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off of work. My last job I always had to work Wednesday, and go in after all my early morning Black Friday shopping and work Friday. Did I ever tell you I love my new job? :)
This long weekend has been so fun to relax and spend time with my hubby and family. Wednesday Billy didn't have to work either because of the snow storm so we spent the whole day together, it was so nice. We have not done that in a very long time. We rented lots of movies and stayed home pretty much all day watching them.
This years Thanksgiving was the ON year for the Walker Family Thanksgiving so we had it at my parents church. It was fun to all get together and eat, eat and eat some more.

We had a room with the football game. Brought in the couches from the churchs entry way..good idea eh?

Their was SOO much food, it was crazy!

My aunt made the cutiest little treats. FYI, she has an amazing recipe blog, http://m-a-cafe.blogspot.com/.

My cousin Niccol, she is my black friday shopping partner. She has been on her mission so I was so happy this year to go shopping with her.

Preparing for our Black Friday shopping. Tradition ya know! :) This year though we went to Shopko after the family party and got amazing deals. We got their about 45 minutes before they closed and their was probably only like 10 people in the store, it was great! I need to remember that for next year. Also, Thursday morning Billy was at Kmart at 5am and stood in line for a hour to get his own Christmas present. He got his GPS system for super cheap!
We had a great Black Friday shopping. I didn't really need anything this year so I just went for the fun and got little things. I just wanted to get Billy's GPS system but since he got it Thursday morning I was not stressed. We had a great yummy breakfast after our shopping and my little sisters new house she bought the week before. I am super excited for her. I love the inside, its sooo pretty. Im helping her decorate the place, she has hired me (for free of course) to decorate.

Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for a warm house to live in. With this very cold weather lately it makes me so thankful when I walk in my house everyday. I am thankful for my job, and Billy's job. I am thankful for amazing family that I have, and am thankful for the little friends that I have and trust. Thank you! Now lets the Christmas Season begin!!

Time Out for Women 2010

2010-11-20T17:28:00.016-07:00

I just got back from a fantastic Women's Conference this weekend. Last year was the first time they came to Salt Lake. It was fantastic, so I was sure looking forward to going again. This year it had doubled in people. You could tell the word had gone around about them coming to SL. There were about 4,000 ladies this year. The theme for the conference was "We Hope All Things" -Article of Faith 13.
The Conference started off last night. Virginia Hinckley Pearce & Heidi Swinton (who wrote President Monson's book) spoke to us. It was fantastic! Sister Swinton told us the funniest and serious stories about President Monson's life. I couldn't believe what she went through to write his book. I cant imagine! She had to read EVERY conference talk he ever spoke, all his 45 journals, books and books of letters he has kept from people (he loves telling stories as we all know), interview everyone he knew in the last 70+ years, and bring it into a book. WOW, the lord was helping her out. I cant wait to read that book!! Also, the musical speaker was Dallyn Bayles. I have never heard of him before this but wow, he is amazing. His voice just blew me away. He is traveling across the US in Broadway shows and has lots of great talent.
Last year when we went to TOFW, we got a hotel and all stayed in the same room. This year we did get a hotel but got two rooms because their were 9 of us. Last year we didn't get much sleep, and this year was pretty much the same. When you're with our group, we laugh so hard and their is always a story. Like last night... I had to document this because I dont EVER want to forget it.

Last night after the conference, we all wanted a treat. So we headed to Maverick by our hotel to get Krispy Creme donuts and Hot chocolate. Well its in a pretty scary part of town and it was late. We all were very hyper going into this situation (not good). While I was waiting for everyone to buy stuff, I headed back to my aunts SUV. I told her to give me the keys so I could get in. She told me that it was unlocked. Well as I proceeded to the car, my other aunt and grandma were already in the car... well all of a sudden I try to open it and the alarm just starts BLARING sooo loud! When I tried to open the car, the alarm was set off and the car locked up. My aunt and grandma were locked in and they couldn't get out, and I couldn't get in HAHA! I started laughing soo hard, my aunt and grandma were dying in their laughing, and I lost it. I started to cross my legs because I had to go the bathroom soo bad. (If you know us Walkers, we pee our pants a lot when we all get together). So I am screaming because I have to go so bad, the alarm is still going, people are looking at me thinking I am trying to break into this car. Im trying to get my cell phone out of my purse while trying to concentrate not to pee. Well all of a sudden I just fall to the ground laughing. I just sit on the ground next to the car (alarm STILL going) and I can't stop laughing. All of a sudden I see this dark shadow behind me coming towards me. It was a man. I really thought he was coming to steal my purse and rape me. All of a suddent I open my eyes and he says "Ma'am are you ok!?" I look up and its a cop! Now remember my aunt and grandma are in the car watching this whole thing laughing and the alarm STILL going off. I was laughing so hard I just said "Im just peeing my pants and I cant get in my aunts car". He just stared at me and said "Have a good night ma'am" And he walked away. It was sooo funny. Right then my aunt that OWNS the car walks out of MAVERICK laughing so hard because she can see me on the floor dying laughing, a cop walking away, the alarm still going off. She just loses it..she stands in front of Mavericks front door and crosses her legs. By this time I am screaming at her to help me. She is now concentrating on not peeing HER pants. End of the story, I peed, my aunt peed, and my aunt that was stuck in the car peed. It's always a story with us :)
Today the conference started at 9am and we wanted good seats so we got their about 8am. Hillary Weeks was the Musical Speaker today. She was also last year's, and of course she was great! Brad Wilcox, Linda Eyre, Shawni Pothier, Mariama Kallon, Amanda Dickson, and Emily Freeman spoke. They were all AMAZING! I took a couple notes that I wanted to take out of the conference;

*Get out of the business of competition. (LOVED this Quote!)
*What is our definition of successful life?
*Five Secrets for Parenthood
-Be your own kind of best mom
-Have an infrastructure
-Have a "family" mission statement
-Give your kids ownership
-Formalize family traditions
-Teach kids to work
*Five Reasons to HOPE
-To love life and see good days, change your perspective
-To see a good day, list what you love
-Give your heart a great experience
-To see a good day, remember the special days.
-To see a good day, determine a reason for the HOPE that is in you.

It was so fun spending time with my sisters, mom, aunts, cousin, grandma, and step-grandma. I love them so much and am so grateful to be so close to them. We are all like sisters.

It was so nice of my little sis to meet up with us for lunch.

I feel refreshed and rejuvinated. Guess its back to the world again.

Some Truths I've learned

2010-11-11T19:56:00.002-07:00

1 - Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

2 - I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

3 - How the HECK are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

4 - Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. Im pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

5 - Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

6 - Can we all agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I dont want to have to restart my collection...again.

7 - "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this-ever!

8 - I keep some peoples phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

9 - I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

10- The only time I look forward to a red light is when Im trying to finish a text.

11- Their no worse feeling than that milli-second your sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

Yummy Apple Pies

2010-11-07T15:45:00.009-07:00

My mom found this recipe in the newspaper the weekend before Conference and it was a lady that makes LOTS of Apple Pies with her daughters and then freezes them. Then when you need an apple pie you just take it out of the freezer and put it straight in the oven, you dont need to wait for it to unthaw. So we got together yesterday and worked on it for about 6+ hours. We all had a great time, we laughed, we yelled, we laughed some more. I think my mom was all ready for us to leave at the end. We had made a system and it went fast. I am sooo grateful for a mom that has taught us how to be a homemaker. She has taught how to can salsa, marinara, peaches, apple pie filling, grape juice, etc. I look at girls my age that dont even know to to cook nor can and it makes me sooo sad...I am so happy that my mom has taught me. I cant wait for when I have kids and they grow up that I can teach them.

Morgan and Krista made the crusts from scratch

Kelsey cut the skin off the apples and put them in a bowl of water/lemon juice

I made the apple mixture with all the ingredients and scooped it up into the pies.

My mom stood there for over 6 hours and rolled out the dough for the top and bottom crust.

My niece Abee helped all of us with whatever we needed. She was our entertainment and talked our ears off the whole time. LOVE HER!!

I think Morgan counted 34 pies..wow was it a lot but so fun!

Thanks mom for the great idea! Great memories we are making all together in the kitchen.

Halloween

2010-11-01T19:49:00.011-06:00

My parents had their Annual Halloween Party this year. The last couple years they have been up at the condo in Island Park so I was excited. Billy and I dressed up this year and had a fun time being with family and friends.

My mom made homemade donuts..they were amazing!

My mom in her costumer..kind of a costume..

I did dry ice in root beer, it was yum, the slush after awhile..im craving it right now.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween, we sure did! I ate too much :)

Decorating for Fall

2010-10-25T20:34:00.008-06:00

It has been very difficult from going to a big house to decorate to a small townhouse to decorate. I feel like everything is all pushed together. I have had to put a lot in storage, oh well! I had a fun time putting out some of my halloween/fall stuff out. I love this kind of weather, the colors, the leaves, family time, love it!

I have no idea where we are going to put the Christmas Tree when that holiday shows up around the corner..maybe in the middle of the room? HAHA

Haunted Mansion

2010-10-17T14:58:00.008-06:00

Friday evening we went to the Haunted Mansion with a couple of friends. Wow was it a waste of money. Half the time we were in a huge line in the haunted house. It wasn't that scary at all and it was so HOT just standing in line pretty much 50% of the time. I wish we would of gone to Castle of Chaos or Nighmare on 13th again. Oh well, we know know we will never go there again. It was fun though to hang out with friends and just spend time together.

They were giving out Red Bull's and it was Tami's first time having one..it was nasty HAHA

Family Pictures 2010

2010-10-09T10:50:00.007-06:00

Our family pictures this year turned out pretty good. No one was really in a bad mood, onry, etc. This year my mom didn't want to pay for a professional so my sister in law's friend came up to our cabin and took them for us. She did really well I thought. Here are some of them.

Conference Weekend

2010-10-05T20:49:00.015-06:00

What beautiful weather we had over Conference Weekend. When we got off work on Friday we headed up to Tremonton and went camping at the Hot Springs Camperworld. I have not camped at this camperworld in 7 years so it was fun to try some where different other than Echo. During the days we would turn on the A/C in the trailer but at night we would have the heater on, I love that kind of weather. It means Fall is around the corner. It was so nice to just leave all my stress, issues, LIFE at home. Since I was little we always tried to get away for Conference weekend, either camping or at the cabin. I hope to keep this going as Billy and I start having a family one day.
By the time we got up there all my family was already up there except my sis Krista and her hubby Jay. My dad had made his amazing dutch oven chicken, ribs and potatoes. That evening me, billy and our two nieces sat around the campfire and told ghost stories. It was so funny!! I started off with the ghost story and as the story kept going I could see my cute 4 year and 5 year old nieces eyes has big as oranges. So I had the make the ending funny and not scary. We went around and each person told a story. I love hearing my nieces imagination. My dad came over and my niece asked him to tell a ghost story and so he told a story. When he said "The End", my niece Abee turned to me and said "That wasn't a ghost story..that was a bear story!". I laughed so hard, she is adorable.

Saturday we woke up and watched conference, wow was it amazing. I think I cried a lot through most of the talks Saturday morning. That evening the guys got ready for the priesthood session. Wow was that a story in itself. First of all, my brother in law was getting his church pants on and tripped and ripped a huge whole through his pants..so he wore jeans and a church shirt and tie. My dad was getting dressed in the trailer and realized he forgot a church shirt and my brother forgot his church clothes all together so he wore just some nice work clothes. Billy was the only one that brought ALL his church clothes. It was really funny. Us ladies thought it was pretty hilarious. We all just said "Dont worry, were in Tremonton, everyone will probably be wearing jeans to the Stake Center". When they got back, we were right, some did wear jeans. :)
While the men were at priesthood, us girls went over to the swimming pool and had a fun time. The pool is open year round because it warmed up by hot springs, so it felt like I was swimming in a tub water.

Krista forgot to bring her swimsuit so we had to get a cute picture of her.

Teaching Abee to lay on her back
When the guys got back we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows as the men told us all about priesthood.

Billy roasting twinkies, he just loves it..nasty.

Sunday Billy and I got up and made breakfast for everyone. We made french toast, bacon and eggs. The little girls did so good while we all watch conference. They just sat on the floor and colored and worked on Conference packets.

They made some yummy navajo tacos.

This is now hanging in the trailer. Its pretty funny.
I feel so rejuvinated after conference. I love hearing the words of the apostles.

Dinner with friends

2010-10-03T19:26:00.004-06:00

Last week I got together with some close friends to celebrate some birthdays and to catch up with eachother. We had such a great time, I think we were their for over two hours just chit-chating. It was a crazy summer so I didn't really see any of them all summer so we all had a lot of catching up to do. I love just laughing with them and talking about pretty much nothing and telling funny stories together. I always say life is going to slow down but I dont think it will. I dont get to see them that much but I know they are always there for me when I need them. So hopefully we all can get together MORE often. These group of girls are amazing and I look up to each of them. They are strong, outgoing, go-getter woman. I think thats why we all get along so well. Love you girls!!
P.S. Just taking a picture of all of us was like pulling teeth for them :P

I had to post the next picture, it was hilarious! I love Lynds to death, I can always tease with her and she totally "gets me". Not a lot of people do. Dont kill my Lynds for posting hehe

Do I need therapy? Probably

2010-09-25T08:34:00.007-06:00

I wasn't going to blog about this but after waking up this morning, I am now. For the last 3 weeks I have been having the most craziest dreams EVER! Since I have seen Inception, my dreams have gone wacko. I always have had weird dreams, my family has always laughed when I told them the dreams I have had. For the last maybe five years I have had the same dream maybe..15 times. Its the same dream that I am going to die young, not old. Evertime I tell my mom I had the dream about she gets all mad haha. I one day just said, "I know I will pass away young now"..people dont think its funny.
Anyway, if you have seen this movie then you will understand the kind of dreams I have been having. When I first saw this movie, I freaked out half way through the movie, because a lot of what my dreams are about was explained in that movie..well ever since the movie my dreams are getting CRAZZZYY.
The past maybe 1-2 months I have been kinda down on myself about certain people I am not friends with anymore. I have been trying to analyze the situation and trying to figure out WHY they are not friends with me anymore..what did "I" do..
Well these certain "old" friends (about 4 of them) have been in my dreams for the last 3 weeks. Every night it picks up to the night before. We talk..we laugh..we talk about the past..I ask them what "I" did to our relationship...they have forgiven me, I have forgiven them..I actually have woken up crying because one "old" friend told me the honest truth of why we are not friends. (Now, again..this is my mind working as Im sleeping so its probably not really the truth). I have even been having dreams about ex boyfriends, which I have NOT been thinking about at all..which I dont understand why Im having those dreams..
Anyway..to what Im getting at is..I love going to bed at night because me and those "old" friends, are friends again..Call me crazy?!? Yes. It is crazy but I love it. Because I miss them more then words can say. I have tried to reach out to them in the last 6 months and nothing has happened which I know they have moved on and dont want to be my friend anymore, which I dont blame them. But when I wake up in the morning I think...why?

Party Planner

2010-09-19T14:24:00.005-06:00

I really think that my sisters and my mom should be party planners. I think we have learned it from my mother. She loves to plan a party and goes all out for it. My grandparents used to be caters and Krista would help them all the time. She has learned all about catering and makes amazing food too. I told her she should call her company Krista's Katering..isn't that great?!? haha. Anyway, yesterday we gave a family friend a baby shower. Krista and my mom pretty much planned it out but I had a great time helping them. Its always a lot of work but its sooo fun! Here are some pictures of the great food and decorations..

This was our first time making a diaper cake..it was pretty fun! I think it turned out pretty darn cute.

Yes I did tie each celery and carrot together with ribbon :) I wish I could just be a party planner with my fam.

William and Megan

Christmas 2011

Tis the Season

Week off WORK

Getting used to

Bunco 2011

Before & After

Cancer Bites!!

Semi-Annual Tea Party

First weekend of Fall

Bunco Girls Evening

Raspberry Jam - Canning

End of Summer - Labor Day Weekend

Park City with the Girls

Day at Pineview

2011 Mathie Reunion - Island Park

20 mile bike ride

Girls Camping Trip

Fourth of July Weekend

Echo..Flooding..New Plan..Soapstone

Billy is the big 30!

Business Trip

Cousins Game Night

My dream nursery

For Sale

Susan Komen 5K/Sis Graduation

Girls Weekend with my Besties

Island Park/Easter/26th Birthday

**FOUR YEARS**

Protein Powder

My new love book

30-50-70 Viva Las Vegas

Before & After

Crushes/Favorite Things

Queen of Hearts - Girls Night

Valentines Weekend

Happy Valentines!

New Chapter - Dad's Retirement Work Party

Good Things Utah

Super Bowl 2011

So I think its time

Special Day

January Blues

New Place

Sunday afternoon

Most adorable Penguins

11 Step Program for those thinking of having kids

01-01-11 Holiday coming to an end..

New Years Resolutions 2011

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

Cute Pasta!

Beauty School Reunion/Catch Up

Christmas Treats

Walker Christmas Party

Merry Christmas, from Billy & Megie

Christmas Carol & Dinner

Work Retreat

Holiday Work Party

Potatoes, Potatoes

Another Reason Why..

Thanksgiving 2010

Time Out for Women 2010

Some Truths I've learned

Yummy Apple Pies

Halloween

Decorating for Fall

Haunted Mansion

Family Pictures 2010

Conference Weekend

Dinner with friends

Do I need therapy? Probably

Party Planner

FOUR YEARS