Yes. I'm actually still alive

I am the worst and took 93993 years to blog. Sorry :(

Soooooo.... remember how Maegan is going to FREAKING MINNESOTA!? I  just have to say... I'm so dang proud of that girl. She has been such a good example to me and I look up to her a lot (and probably in more ways than one). Haha. But really, she is so strong and nothing can shake her. She is going to be the cutest and most fantastic missionary Minnesota has ever seen! I'm so excited for her. :)

Well... let's see. What's been going on.... I have a lot of things going on actually, I'm just not sure where to start. and also when to stop, cause I could go all day and...


Anyway. I guess I'll start with the beginning of the semester! I got super sick. :/ Dumb. Except even dumber was that I had to give a talk... so I took a lot of cold medicine and kinda accidentally overdosed. It was the worst experience ever. I'm really not quite sure at this point why people try to get high. NOT fun. I felt so messed up. But, hey! I survived! And people say my talk was good, though I really don't remember most of it. The Holy Ghost is a real guy my friends and I'm pretty sure he gave that talk for me. :)

Since then, I've loved my classes. Well, that's a lie. I love ceramics and survive the others :) hahahah. But I'm learning a lot and getting all edgemkated. (I would like to point out that that spell checks to "germinated")

I am getting my wisdom teeth out in Febuary! Oh, and on a related note, my mission papers are almost in! yayyyayayayyayyayayayyaya :) I better go to Minnesota. ;) Oh my heck. I would die a thousand deaths of happiness. But really I'm so good to go anywhere, because I know it's in the Lord's hands.Speaking of missions, Keaton has been out 2 months already and he's doing super fantastic! I got a letter from him yesterday :) I miss him sometimes.

Well, that's about it for my life right now!
Peace out home bros!
LOVE,
Morgs

MMMM

remember how we love acronyms? yeah, me too... to figure out what the 4 m's stand for, keep reading.... if you don't care, keep reading anyways because i am about to reveal the greatest thing since sliced bread. okay that was a huge exaggeration. and i mean HUGE. but it really is awesome news and i want you to know!!
to start the reveal, i want to start by telling you about how my week went down. it started off a normal week and honestly, the beginning is kind of a blur, except one thing: the tuesday devotional. (remeber how i go to a church school? LDS Business College has a devotional every tuesday held in the assembly hall on temple square. it is a good time). so i walk the two or three blocks in the snow with a hole in my boot over to temple square tuesday morning not really expecting a lot, but boy was i wrong. come to find out, it was the christmas devotional and last devotional of the semester, meaning my last devotional at the BC. it was amazing. i loved it so much. we sang all sorts of christmas hymns and listened to beautiful songs and words. i was a little emotional. i don't think i had any tears but i could definitely feel them coming. great way to start the week and the next couple of weeks full of finals.
wednesday, i just did my thing. checked my mail when i got home from my morning job before i headed out to school, and nothing was there. but that night, i got a lovely surprise email with my tracking info and i went back out to my mailbox...

and i got my black friday package from pura vida!

there are christmas gifts inside of those cute little bracelet bags, so i can't show anyone... :) but, you know me. i love love love getting mail! and also pura vida, they're fun.

now thursday, here is the biggy... i went to work and when i got home, my mom and johnny were here (which is unusual, i am used to coming home for 20 minutes on my way from work to school and everyone has already left for work and school...) so, i saw the mailman down the street and so i took my time filling up my water bottle, and washing my hands and when he finally left our mailbox, i was outta here. i opened my mailbox expecting to see a key to the larger mailbox where packages go, but no... instead a large white envolope was waiting for me rolled up all nice... you guys, my mission call came!!!!

with a cute little sticky note from the post office saying they would have called earlier but didn't have our number!

i guess it is a dang good thing we live so close to the post office and delivery comes by 9:00 in the morning!

the problem? well, i had to run home (literally, in the snow, with tears, i ran home) and i had to put my call away (after johnny made fun of me for crying) and i had to go to school... longest school day ever. thankful for awesome friends who kept me occupied and fed me yummy treats! 

so, i came home at 5 and everyone came over and made their guesses, funniest part? no one was even close:)

(do you want to guess?)

well, i facetimed and called and skyped my fam who couldn't make it and i opened my call!! 

IM GOING TO MINNESOTA!! i mean, its going to be cold... really cold, in fact, this was the night i opened my call...

so, pretty cool actually.

but aside from the weather, it is beautiful (i mean, according the the pictures i have seen:) i havent been there, duh), and i know that it is exactly where i need to spend 18 months of my life! plus... part of canada is in my mission, and i think that is really cool. and also michigan, and wisconsin and iowa too. and i just want you to know that i know The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true church upon the earth today, the book is true, and minnesota is going to be the hardest, most rewarding 18 months of my life. and i cannot wait! so, to answer the question i know you have all been dying to know... maegan's mission to minnesota minneapolis is the dumbest acronym i have ever thought of probably, but hey, you read my whole, really super long blog post about four letter m's didn't you?  

stay cool,

maegan

lalala hmmm la la lalallalala

Sometimes I make my own music. My friends call it "Morgan music." That title is an example of my beautiful lyrics. 

Here are the promised pictures of the emerald ball

Okay so we aren't that photogenic. get over it. 

yeah he brought me my favorite flowers:) He's probably the cutest.

Also he is gone now. Just so it's clear, I do not plan on being one of those gross, over the top missionary girlfriends. I'm not even waiting for him. I would date other boys if I knew how to attract them. Haha.

In totally unrelated news, I've been on a chick flick watching binge. Ha... netflix actually has some pretty stupid ones. But hey, I still cry. So I guess they are doing their job?

Me and my roommates recently decorated for Christmas... We have a real christmas tree with candy canes and ornaments and lights and 2 walls full of paper snowflakes and silver and gold pine cones over the kitchen table and a merry Christmas banner and ornaments on ribbons hanging above our window and jelly merry Christmas stickers on the door and a mini Christmas tree on the table....

We should probably stop finding things to do instead of studying for finals.

MY SISTERS BABY IS DUE IN 15 DAYS

so cute.

Well.......... School is almost done :)

and... that's about it. boring life.!!

but... MAEGAN HAS EXCITING THINGS TO POST SO I'M GOING TO BE DONE NOW.

K bye.

-Morg

changing seasons

hahahah okay so yeah, i made myself laugh a lot at the title for a minute. it was sort of a joke, but also very real. metaphorically as well as literally. its snowing. so yeah, i hate that. if you know me, i really despise the snow. i wish it could be warm forever. but its not... so we deal with it and we get some pretty cool pictures i guess.

(photo cred: hanna nolen, who also really loves me a lot to get up and take it for me...)

also i really love my school and that i get to spend so much time this close to the beautiful temple. 

so my life... has been a mess of crazy and exciting. whats's new? i have 7 hours left of my internship which makes my life really happy. like, realllllllly happy. it has been a great experience but it has also made my life hard this semester. i have three weeks of school left and it has been great. i also started this thing (started as in made up and told people it was a real thing so it sorta became a real thing...) we call it wildlife wednesday. it's pretty fun. i like it. here is my selfie from this week... (a big shout out to savana- thanks sav for the scarf, without her it would not have been wildlife).

we also had a fiesta at school this week... no joke, i have evidence. 

so yeah, that was fun. i think i enjoy school.. but then i realize how much homework i have, the majority i have put off and i  then think otherwise. and then i have days like this^^^ and i remember that it really is fun.

i don't really have a lot of other things to say at this point, except that my mission papers have officially been submitted.... stay tuned!! eeeeeeeeeee :)

-m

44 days until CHRISTMAS

Oh Maegan. LOVE that girl. (and her posts)
So, I'm kinda trying to thing of what is new... and not coming up with a lot. I have a boring life. Whatcha gonna do.
OH!!We 8 walked!!!!!! Yayayayayay it was sooooo good. Just like old times. Other than Keaton was there. He is kinda super glued to my side lately. He leaves in 9 days. :/ But I guess he did come a few times back in the day. Maybe not quite like Ben or Mark, but he was there every once in a while? Yeah... sorry about that Maegan.

Well, I finished another scarf. That makes three! Oh man. Grandma status... I know.

School is going well... I do lots of homework. As a side note... I should probably stop procrastinating. 

In other news, I made another wedding cake:

Oh and guess what I'm doing on Thursday?!

I'm going to the "Emerald Ball" (uvu dance) with Keaton <3

(stay tuned for cute pics:))

Oh and speaking of him, his farewell was on Sunday:

 

He did a great job.

Also Christmas happens to be in only 44 days! Is it bad that I'm maybe more excited for the semester to be over than for Christmas? And even more exciting than both of those is my sister's baby that is projected to arrive 4 days before Christmas:)

Until next time friends!

and maybe next time I'll have something more exciting to say....

ADIOS

welcome back

sorry it's not wednesday, but i'm here and we are good to go. morg's post; i died. it was soo good. and that creepy guy, WHAT?? haha thats so random and sketchy. but it's cool, you know his knock so you guys are good. ;)

anyways, i want to tell you a bit about my life here in the greater salt lake area.. (aka davis county). my life has been good. i have little to no social life and what human interaction i have is limited to my family, my nanny children and the occasional passerby. i currently am working two nanny jobs, go to school full time and also spend about 10 hours a week at an interior design showroom for my internship. when i am home i feel like i'm strapped to my computer working on homework... living the life right here. but i know it is going to be worth it. especially since this:

if you can read close, that is indeed a "request for graduation" form!

WOOOOO!

if you can read closer, you will see that it entails me taking a test, paying a fee, meeting with multiple people to ensure that i am indeed ready to graduate... lets get real people, it was almost not worth all the work to fill out the dang application... haha 

that's a lie. i cannot wait!

i have loved LDS Business College so much. i do all sorts of fun things and i have met so many awesome people. our school is so diverse and there are people from ALL over the world. i love it. butttttt... as much as i love it and the people, i am ecstatic to be done. i will be graduating in december with an associates degree in integrated studies with a certificate in interior design. if you were unaware, an associates degree is two years... i have finished (crammed) it into just a year and a half. i passed up multiple events, vacations and my summer to be able to get where i am with the grades that i have... i can't wait for a break even if it's just for a minute before i move on to the next chapter of my life!

i really don't have a lot more to say, considering i really don't do a whole lot besides school and work... but i did have a little photoshoot with my cat last night and i know you will love it! don't look at my face, it was Fabians face that made my whole life happy, have a good laugh and make fun of it all you want. 

#ishouldbeembarrassed #eh

well, thats pretty much my life right now... stick around, it might get a little more entertaining. 

-maegan

Ditto

There really is nothing like the summer of 8 o‘clock walking. Basically it was magical. I wish I could live that summer over again. Like maybe every summer? Yeah. Good plan. I wish the 8 walk was still alive. So many memories happened on those walks. We had deep talks, good laughs; sometimes much needed cries… and so much more. Really it was quite therapeutic and we bonded so much. It’s stupid how less than a mile had the power to weaken that bond. Now I’m an hour away from home and going to college. And if we are being honest here I miss 8 walk and the porch swing and all those things, but really I miss Maegan.

What a babe

Yeah… I probably might have creeped on facebook to get the pic....

And as a side note Sarah is super great too. Just an added bonus to the picture I guess :)

So since about all Maegan knows about my life is that I go to UVU and all I really know about her life is she goes to LDSBC… I thought I’d give a life update.

 I'm far away but my apartment is super cute! I painted it before school started. I don’t really have pictures of it.
I should probably get on that… but I do have a picture of my bat cave!!!
Behold:

yup. That’s the closet

Also there are a lot of old people where I live.. Old as in RM's and such. My ward probably averages 24 years old. Eh.

The most extreme case is this gem:

• ·         27 years old
• ·         Not going to school
• ·         Associates degree
• ·         Looks like Al, the chicken man from toy story

He’s over a lot…. Good thing he has a distinct knock or he’d be over a lot more. :)

In other news, I took up knitting again and knitted myself a scarf in one evening and a day. It was freaky fast. I guess that’s just a side effect of working at Jimmy Johns over the summer.

This is the finished product:

Yup. Same phone! Good stuff. #greyisthenewblack

School is crazy. I can’t believe I’ve already made it through half a semester of college. And mostly that I’m still alive.

So. Much. Homework.

Let’s see… I have a few friends. Very few. Like, so few that one of my closest friends I've made is a cashier at the grocery store I shop at.... he probably doesn't even know my name.

Of course my roommates are my friends: Aimee, Sierra, Sadie and Heather.

And our adopted sixth roommate Nathan.

Heather, Nathan, Sadie

Sierra and her fish

Me and Aimee

Oh yeah. We found some big squash.

But basically, the most important of my friends right now is this kid:

I have the best boyfriend in the whole world.

Socute.

He is leaving to New Zealand on November 21^st 

Welp, that’s my life. Sorry for so many pictures!

And Maegan? I decided that next time I’m in Bountiful, we are 8 walking. It’s happening.
Until next time amigos.
-Morg

the new life

well, i sometimes go through old photos. mostly it involves facebook stalking myself... (this is awkward). but really, i see the pictures of the good ole' days when things were easy and simple. the biggest things that summer we had to worry about was whether or not we needed shoes to go to Dicks market or not... yeah, i loved that. i feel sentimental today after i saw this...

we had so much fun. can we pleeeeeeease go back?? we made fun shirts and we drove around and had 8 o'clock walks every.single.night. WITHOUT FAIL. so many things happened all at once. it was like a bomb hit and everything got scattered. that was clear back in 2012. i started college, morg finished high school. i moved and that killed the daily routine. 2013 has all happened so fast. i am almost done with my schooling at LDS Business College and morg moved out to go to UVU. the worst part is, that is all i really know. one sleepover was not nearly enough of a catch up for all that has happened. i am not going to lie, i miss the way it used to be. i mean, look at us. ^^^ i bet what you're thinking is "cool story maegan." but really. i mean it with all my heart. if i could go back, i totes would.  

tonight i should be (my mom thinks i am) working on my homework. but i couldn't help pay one last tribute to the summer of 2012 and the morgan/maegan adventures. temporary tattoos. homemade sweatshirts. balloons from brian the balloon guy and midnight movie premiers. 

so long friends.

-maegan

8 walk: a tragedy by Morgan Hilton

Life sometimes sucks. Look, I even googled it.

Especially life sucks for this bird because... it went the way of all true Americans and got reeeeeeeeeeeally fat. Now it is trapped in a cage forever, taunted by the open door. Never escaping. Probably hearing the never ending song of birds outside the window. But hey, what are you going to do? ...Diet I guess. Let's just say, I'm glad my life isn't as sucky as this pathetic bird.
Anyway....
I was really going to tell a sad tale. It all started with... well, 8 walk. It started strong... and it only grew from there... then, MBM.
MBM was the peak of 8 walk. We were never so religious about our nightly walk. Probably cause we had a fairly good reason to walk. (hott boys tend to do that...) Then.. well you could say that ended badly. B is an A hole. and M and M.. well, we rock. (I just covered like half the alphabet!)

^^^^^clearly m rocks^^^^^
We slowly lost it. 8 walk faded and died. Summer was good, then school hit, life started sucking and.... :/ Last time we walked was about............ shoot. a few months.
I just miss the days when we 8 rocked mostly...
But we are bringing it back. Yes, sexy. but also the walk. Because life is always better with 8 o'clock
and I think everyone in the world should 8 walk. Except probably not. Then our whole neighborhood would be outside and hear everything we say..... so no. Don't 8 walk. Please.

Unless you are that bird in the cage. Walking is a great weight-loss program! Walk away, birdy. Walk and be free :)
-Morg

outlook.

well, i recently visited a friends blog. recently as in... an hour ago. it was so cute. really. she did a great job. the posts were all well written, the background looked great, she had the whole deal.

i came on over to our blog..... disaster. if you remember only a short time ago (like 40 minutes because i just fixed it), we had a bad looking blog. and evil cats. thanks morg. so, i actually took time. genuine time. time i could have spent on homework. to fix our lovely blog here. i personally think it turned out quite nice. i like the look. gray is my favorite.

well, along with my friends really good looking blog, she had some really good posts too. that's where i feel we are either 1) lacking. hard. or option number 2 and most likely) our post are the best. they are our own, and they are us, and they are... well, you can fill in the rest. you know.

that is all really. enjoy the new look. i know i will.

hott genes

so... basically. everyone who is even sort of attractive, happen to be related.

morg: i'm related to them.

me: what? no you're not. how are you related?

morg: because i'm hott.

me: hahahahahhh. my cats are kinda cute? 

gus and baby cat. they are freaks.

but.. SOCUTE:) :)

MBM

WE LIKE ACRONYMS.
BIHASGMBMWE. that means something. it may be an untrue statement at this point, but it none the less means somthing. Anyway, Batman is in our top 56 favorite things in the world.
B eing
A wesome
T his
M uch
A nnoys
N obody
so there ya go.
POGS
BATMAN
MM (no b)

dear morgan...

it's fine, you don't have to reply to all the replies... but i just want you to know.... 

and i don't know any talking dolphin's. so probably, you're the best. 

re re re ereeeraesrklsdjfksejarfiahrfgiobdahfcjvkbandf

i forgot what reply we were on.... ^clearly.

um... what the freak happened to 8 walk dude. this blows. and what you just texted me, about 8 walk.. stop. please. now. you're making me feel...... ew. just no. neighbors are over-rated.

and as for the twitter thing.... no. i will never get a twitter. sorry yo.

re re re this is a joke

MAEGAN HI.
go get twitter. blog your twitter name... i'll follow you and then tweet you every second of my life. :)
#thuglife #sincethatmakessense #8walktonight #questionmark?

re: re: real

#bestfriendsforevereventhoughweneverevenseeeachotheranymore
#questionmark

but really. school sux. but it's good. i rode in the elevator, 7 floors, all alone today. that never happens. lucky me, i guess.

sometimes, i think i don't have friends at school... and then i remember that i don't. except, kinda i do.... i do have friends:



you remember jeremy right? good. :) he's my friend.

and, i don't even have a twitter account.

re: this is real

Hey maegan. I'm.... Just trying to tweet. Harder than it seems. #shouldbedoinghomework #twitterprobs #WeAreTotesHavingABlogConverstion #awkmuch?
So... what the crap are you up to on this lovely afternoon? #NeverSeeYouAnymore #HateSchool #8walkisnowaweeklything #suxtosuck #busylifeprobs #atleastwe'relearning?
talk to ya... later. probably on the blog. #lastresort #thatislow #IsThisWhatWeHaveComeTo?
well... #seeya

this is real

oh, morg. hey.

what up?

nbd

so. sometimes, i get these jobs. funny jobs. real freaking funny jobs. no joke. 

the latest, well it isn't that funny. i have been stuffing envelopes for this company. it's cool. 

we did all of those before lunch. after lunch, we made it to 2500 envelopes.

^^^ that is the not so weird job.

i do that, while morgan goes to school.. school blows. 

the really super weird job that i got into. picking worms at a golf course. yep, worms. monday through thursday's. 9 o'clock until 11. with my mother and step dad. haha 

it was the worst. but we love the worst, so really it was great. really awesome. one night.... i talked morgan into going. well, we had fun. wear your sweats, duck tape garbage bags to your legs and crawl on your hands and knees pulling worms from the sopping wet ground, with your head lamp shining the way. you get paid by the hour. 

we made dang good moneys. 

and.... we sang justin bieber 'boyfriend' the whole time. only not the whole song, just parts of it. 

"if i was your boyfriend, i'd never let you go..."

the last job. well, i am a nanny, right? got morgan to be one too... i sat in the car in front of their house for a good 45 minutes today while i waited for morgan to be done with her interview. 

i played tiny tower. 

and frogger. 

love it. 

so hard. 

we sail

We have recently acquired SAILOR status.

Sometimes, we go sailing for mutual and it's legit... but it also blows (no pun intended ;)) because, it's maegan's last young womens activity. :/ :/ :/

Hate that really. so so so so much.

the worst.

 

But really, we love the worst, cause look at that ^^^^^^^^^ THAT is the best. 

So calm and pretty :)

I think I'll go write sailing on my summer bucket list and then check it off

P.O.G.S.