M.M.M.

Megen McConkie Morgan!!!

Happy 21st birthday a few days late! I hope you had a glorious wonderful birthday!

I can't really tell you how glad I am that we are friends because I don't think my words would fully be able to do my reasons justice. I love you so much though and I want you to know how amazing you are!

You have the biggest and best smile I have ever seen and you are probably the kindest person I know. You have a huge heart and you let everyone into it with no questions asked.

I am so glad that you found Trent! He truly is your other half because he has a smile almost good enough to match yours and he is also a truly kind person with a very big heart.

I miss you! I know I am horrible at staying in contact throughout the year but I love whenever I do get to catch up with you.

I love you M to the power of 3! You are a wonderful person and I am so thankful to have you in my life! Keep smiling and being the great person you are and hopefully this year will be even better than your last 20 years of life! Love you!!

Megen

Happy birthday Megen dear. I'm going to write a list of things I like about you.

• You laugh easily
• You are not judgmental
• You have a dry wit and good sense of humor
• You are nice to everyone you ever meet
• You're loyal
• I want to look like you. Fun fact: I photoshopped the officer's pictures in our yearbook senior year--you know, whitening teeth, getting rid of dark circles under everyone's eyes, that sort of thing. I didn't have to touch yours. For real.
• You ride a xooter like a thug.

I have a random model shot of you on my computer. No big deal.

Happy birthday! I hope it's the best ever and that Trent takes you somewhere nice. You are the bomb.

Megs

Happy birthday to one of my favorite people around! I am so glad that we met all those years ago on the tennis court. Even though the first year on the team we didn't talk to each other that much we were still together. But come sophomore year and you couldn't separate us out there! I loved spending those times with you; laughing at Sharon, loving Kathy, our lessons at the U, playing games on friday, dealing with all the drama, and even you passing out once or twice :) But more then any of those things I am happy for the friendship that came out of those times.
I have spent countless hours in the McConkie basement laughing and playing. You come from the best family. I love the car drives I spent with you and especially being there for the beginning of you and Trent. Still so happy that all worked out...you two could not be more perfect for each other.
Meg you are always supportive and willing to listen to anything I have to say. I love that laugh of yours and the giant smile! It makes me happy every time I get to spend a little time with you!

Remember that time we jumped in the fountain at the U

I loved this night

The most beautiful bride

I hope you are having the best 21st birthday girl

Love you!

xoxo

Go shawty, it's yo' birthday.

 

I'm going to start off with 21 favorite memories (it's going to be hard to narrow this down), in no particular order:

1. Playing Arthur in your basement
2. "Topless beaches?" (you have to pretend Chase is saying that)
3. Concerts: Relient k, Jack Johnson (and Max dragging the cones out the window), and Dashboard Confessional . . . when those guys came up to talk to us.
4. "Goodnight guys . . . . seriously, goodnight . . . ." (and just all of that trip)
5. Tennis club.  "World cup??" hahahahah
6. Cutting oranges down from the tree
7. You and Kam somersaulting in your basement when the power went out
8. Staying up well past 2 a.m. the night that you told me you and Trent were getting married
9. When you worked at Dan's
10. La Noche de San Juan -- in its entirety (and do not forget about how that man sang to Danielle outside of the kebap shop . . . because I almost did)
11. Sitting in my car eating chicken nuggets on the dunk day of SBO elections
12. "When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you" ---and just that entire class
13. Temple trips (or that weird time we just ran into each other at the temple)
14. St. George (both times)
15. All of England.  Tony, our tour guide, sleeping in the airport (on the ground and in the space station), Wicked, Portobello, talking outside of the museums when we were too tired to go in.  All of it.
16. Walking to Sno Shack (especially that one time you thought that I just wanted to be with you, but you were really getting answered to a dance; or that one time we went with Gretch and she was telling us jokes . . . were those the same day?)
17. Eating ice cream on your porch with Gochnour.  Served to us by Gretchen.
18. Your wedding day.
19. Dancing (honestly, I can't dance with anyone else)
20. Paul?
21. Playing truth or dare and I stuck my foot in your toilet.  (Or I felt like we made up this really funny game one time, but I can't remember so we'll just go with that.)

(Obviously I'm missing a number of things . . . but I didn't want that entire list to be Spain.  So just know that all of those are on there too.) 

Megen Morgan.  What a gal.  I cannot even begin to express my love for you.  You have been there for me at times when I needed you most, you put up with me when I've been cranky (aka when my suitcase handle broke), and you have always been someone to listen and care.  I love how we can sit and talk about everything we disagree on, but yet never argue or get bothered.  Honestly, it's an amazing sign for how many consecutive hours we've spent together and still have so much to talk about and laugh about.  (Also, a little side note, I'm pretty sure 73.5% of my music is from you.  Also another side note, another favorite memory is when we went to the U game in November, and my feet were dying, and that guy gave me hand-warmers, and you brought all of my favorite candy.  You really are so sweet.  Oh also, remember when you had a crush on Ever?  I do.)  

But beyond our friendship, you are an amazing person.  You have the kindest heart out of anyone I know.  Like that time we were walking from the temple and you gave that lady your money.  Or the time Isaac was sitting by himself and you went over to talk to him (and when you invited him to come get churros with us).  You are so friendly and warm, and everyone I know just loves you.  You are a hard worker and a loyal friend.  You are the best.

More work e-mails . . .

Today, my good friend chapman00606922 sent me this lovely e-mail:

在波罗的海和北海之间有一个古老的天鹅窠.它名叫丹麦.天鹅就是在它那里生出来的,过去和现在都是如此.它们的名字永远不会被人遗忘.

Here's the translation, just in case you don't know how to read Chinese:
Between the Baltic and North Sea, an ancient swan nest. Named Denmark. Swan is born in it there, past and present, so their names will never be forgotten.

Poetry at its finest.

Lissa Dear!

Okay, I am so sorry, I know this is forever late...but I have had finals and crap going on and haven't had many free moments to breathe. Thank goodness I am now on spring break though!Anyway, here is my tribute to our dear friend lizzy.

Lissa Dear,

Has anyone ever told you that you are awesome? Haha of course they have because it is true! You are one of the best people I know and I hope you know it. I miss getting to hang out and talk with you all the time. High school was fun and memorable do in large part to all our random hang out times. You were the friend I could call and just for rides with when I didn't want to deal with reality. You were the one willing to drive with me out to my mom's house to get things I needed and had forgotten. You were always there for me and I love and miss you so much.

I love that you and I always talked about boys and life and that we would do stupid thing like skip class to go to Einsteins, haha or up to Walker's house (which by the way is one of my favorite and funniest memories of us), or just home to your house to hang out and eat whatever we could find.

You are a wonderful person Lizzy Grant and you get more amazing and beautiful every time I see you. I am so glad we are friends and that we have been since sixth grade! You have been such a big part of my life and I hope that never changes. I love you dearly!!

oh the humanity

can someone please tell me who is participating in this trend?



I saw this on pinterest and I just want to know who in their right mind is doing this to their hands. can anyone shed some light?

R.A.W.

I'm very proud to announce that I am now an aunt!!

His name is Rex Aldus Weight and he is the bomb

and his hat is awesome.

He was born March 12, 2012 at about 7:30 am!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!

a summer bucket list

So.  I have some exciting news.  Yesterday I got a call from Goldman Sachs with an offer for an internship this summer!  I'm so excited/nervous.  But this means a few wonderful things:

1. I'll be in Salt Lake this summer.
2. I'm going to (most likely) be making bank.
3. The combination of these two mean it's going to be an awesome summer filled with fun things.
4. I need to go shopping.

Anyway, with that being said--and with the fact that this could possibly be my last summer at home--I want to make an awesome summer bucket list and any of you are welcome to join.  (Jane, you have to join in on some of these.)

• White trash party/demolition derby.
• Road trip. Possibly to California.  Or Bear Lake works too.  (Or both.)
• Mona rope swing
• Bonfires.
• Movies at the Capitol.
• An awesome 4th of July party/something to welcome back Lizzy and Kamrin.
• Picnic.
• Coyote Gulch (I doubt any of you will join me for this haha).
• Swimming and barbecues. 
• Concerts.
• Book club?

Anyway, those are just some of my ideas.  Please add anything fun that you think of and we'll party like it's 1999 2012.

lizzy g

I know I'm two days late and for that I am sorry! But guess what, I still love you.

Hands down the best memory I have with you is at soccer camp senior year.
I honestly don't think I've laughed so hard as I did late that night when we stayed up in our beds talking forever. And like, I've laughed pretty freaking hard since then. Just not THAT hard. That is the caliber of the laughter of that night. If laughter were a gun, that night was a bazooka.
I also loved waking up in the morning and acting like meth-heads as we ate oreos/smeared them all over our mouths and danced. I honestly don't know how we even had time for soccer because we were acting like asshats the whole time.

I wonder if they make girls prettier than this...

You are always so funny and so light-hearted. You always know the right things to say to everyone to make their day. I think we're all pretty lucky to have a friend like you. Happy birthday m'dear!

happy birffday

companion, companion

I really just love you so much. We decided from an early age that we were destined to be companions on a mission. We took over the Indian Hills talent show with our "Castle on a Cloud" rendition (brooms were included). I caught the moment you back flipped off your tramp on my phone (don't know if you remember that). We explored BYU's campus to search for the counselors office only to be rejected because we didn't have an appointment. We experienced our first BYU dance together  and decided to never attend one again (holla out to mah gurl Anna. U waz der 2). I ate my first J Dawg with you (onze agin kean, u waz der). I had an awkward statistics class that you saved me from. You've made my engagement so much fun! Basically, I just treasure every moment I have with you. I can't believe I've known you since I was seven!

Love you baby g. Hope your 21st birthday was the best!

haha I suck in this picture. PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER KID!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hot like Wasabi when I bust rhymes

So.  I'm just going to start listing things.  Some will be memories, others will be things I love.  Others might just be random stuff.  Basically, I know that you'll know what I'm talking about because you always do.

• Late nights.  Sharpies.  You tube.  Facebook . . . cannot even breathe from laughing so hard.
• Your lawn business and my little apples.
• Your poem, "Feelings."
• Rascal Flatts and John Mayer
• The fact that I can just text you lyrics and you know exactly what I'm saying.
• Hammock.  Doritos.
• Llamas.
• I was jealous that you got the English record in Mr. Sain's class . . . I'll admit it.
• Writing notes.  
• Eating that Costco chocolate cake without even attempting to cut slices.
• Sabrina, Blind Date, John Tucker Must Die, 1000 Ways to Die, When Good Pets Go Bad
• Walks.
• "I'll meet you at the corner" really means, "see you at my house!"
• We made up a secret handshake to do at that corner once upon a time . . . can't remember it.
• Snow shoeing.
• That one talk on the 3rd level.
• Oh, okay.
• I <3 pix/txt warz
• Chubby Bunny (which we're never playing again because of 1000 ways to die)
• We're perfectly normal.
• You taught me how to dry my hair.  And paint my nails.  And do my makeup.
• St. George, Jackson Hole, LP, Newport, etc.
• Brinner, caramel popcorn, sludge
• Steamers, popsicles, ice cream (esp. when you were just starting to date Wyn)
• running (esp. when we went and got Jamba Juice after running . . . 1 mile)
• Beyonce and Jay-Z -- RIP
• summer in general
• Girl scout camp, Brighton camp
• Journalism; typing notes to each other in Ruthie's class
• Our old Noodles & Co. dates when we'd talk about going to BYU
• Shopping (esp. right before X's bridal shower)
• Here are your perfectly normal pancakes kids
• Face paint, Britney Spears, anything else remotely childish that we enjoy.
• That game we'd play at the Snow's (?) pool where we were floating on rafts and we were in college and if we started to do something bad we'd start falling off and the other person would have to swim over and save them.  
• Cuddling in your bed after rain storms and opening up the window and talking.

Basically, I just love everything about our friendship.  I love everyone thought we were so different when we were starting off as roommates . . . but that didn't even make sense because, well, because.  You know what I mean.  Thank you for always being there for me when I've needed you most.

[And again, I apologize that I haven't done much for you today (I had a lot of ideas in my mind), but this week has been chaotic.  It will happen though--just don't think it's weird if you're getting funny birthday picture messages in the future.]

Anyway, there's a ton more I could say, but I'm just going to stop here and instead clutter our blog with lots of pictures.