Meg Peg Leg

Our New Addition

2011-12-11T09:14:00.000-08:00

While I continue to go to baby shower after baby shower, and hear about the news of yet another friend being pregnant... I will continue to love my animals at home! No kids yet folks.

We do have a new addition to our little furry family though, and his name is Jack... also sometimes called Jacko... Shit head... and my personal favorite is "my little prince."

I found Ryan cuddling him a few weeks ago, calling him "my little prince," and I just thought it was so darn cute, and funny. Ry loves that little creature more than I do (and I love him a lot!)

The dogs sure love him too!!

He likes to sleep right on top of us, and sometimes curls up in the sweetest little nooks. The other day I found him curled up in our curtains, like it was a little tepee. :)

We love him, and think he is the greatest addition... who would have thought we

would have been "cat people." :)

Hiking with the pups

2011-03-08T14:16:00.000-08:00

This Video is of Ferguson Canyon during a snow storm. We love hiking with the dogs up Ferguson at any time during the year. This particular day we ran into a real big grumper pants man in the parking lot. He was up hiking with his old duffer dog, and Belle ran up to say hi. We had the dogs off leash, and he was so pissed. He started swearing at us F- this, F-that... and I was really scared that he was going to slash our tires when we got back to the car.... (we did immediately put the dogs on a leash to please the guy...)

This is a picture of us anticipating our slashed tires and broken windows on the car. eeekkkk. When we were coming back down the trail, we ran into him again and he was so apologetic and almost cried because he felt so bad... he said he was "just having a bad day man"...

I had to laugh about it as soon as we walked away because this man was seriously out of control one second and than the next second crying to us. So strange!

Have to climb all year round! Extreme Unction with gloves on! hee hee

I love these dogs!

Squirrel Time

2011-01-15T13:06:00.000-08:00

Ryan and I have this amazing tree right in front of our house that he has placed 2 bird feeders in and is diligent about re-filling them for the birds. We have a full view of the tree from our couch, and love to watch the birds fly in and out, diving down to the ground and nibbling on the food available in the bird houses. Well recently we have found that we have a neighborhood bully living in an adjacent tree... Mr. Winston "the Squirrel" we have called him. (We've even named some of the birds... we are total nerds I know, but we absolutely love watching the little interactions in the tree). Well Winston seems to have decided that the tree is his territory and loves chasing all the birds out. He is a pretty agile little guy and we like to think that he is a pretty damn good climber. :) The dogs love watching Winston, and sometimes Winston watches them back. Today Ryan put a couple little pine cones in the tree at various places, and one by one Winston cleaned house. We decided he is probably stashing his pine cones in the adjacent pine shrub, hoarding his little treasures for a rainy day when the bird feeders are empty.... what a selfish little bugger.

NEW CAR!!

2010-12-14T22:23:00.000-08:00

I finally had to retire ole' hank the truck! I had lots of good memories in that truck, but on to bigger and better AND SAFER things! It was time to upgrade to something more reliable. I was hoping the ole' truck would make it through the winter, but to no avail he just didn't pass safety. So the picture above is not the actual photo of my car... I will get some of those up as soon as I take some. But this picture is a of a 2007 suburu forester... which is what I got. And the color is the same as the one in the photo. Very exciting to be riding in "luxury"... :)

Fall in Utah

2010-12-14T21:45:00.000-08:00

I posted a video of the dogs and I at the park one morning. We all love going to the park and watching me attempt to hit tennis balls into the field for the dogs to chase. I "airball" it often enough that sometimes Belle doesn't even want to chase my balls. As most of you close to me know... although I may be athletic when it comes to hand/eye coordination I am terrible (ie. Tennis). I sure love these pups though!

I decided I should do some updating, and I wanted to post so

me pictures of Utah in the fall. It was beautiful this year, and snowed early too! This picture was taken up Big Cottonwood Canyon on the Crest trail when I was biking this fall.

Ryan and I finally moved in together, and it has been better than I could have imagined. He is one of the best parts of my day!

Big Changes

2010-06-01T21:20:00.001-07:00

As you can see... I graduated! FINALLY! It was such a great day, kind of bitter sweet. I am a little late- graduation was on May 6th. Can you believe that I am an RN? Just surreal to me. I do have my licensing exam to take still, which will is scheduled for the 13th of June... and I am nervous mcghee... I am looking for jobs right now. I have an interview for an oncology internship coming up... I will let you know how all of this transpires...

Thanks for everyones support over the past few years of school, it was such a great journey and I am glad that I was able to share it with so many wonderful people. I love you all xoxoxox

Just because I needed some humor...

2010-04-06T20:01:00.000-07:00

I hope that you all enjoyed this as much as me... hee hee

2010-02-03T10:08:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MILES!!!! FEBRUARY 1st

He is 1 year old... I can't believe how fast time flies. He is adorable and I can't wait to see what the new little babe looks like (it's a boy), it's going to be tough to beat out miles pants.

Forced Affection

2009-10-18T21:20:00.001-07:00

I am often found guilty of forcing love on my dog, moku... and more recently my family(and boyfriend) have been so kind as to point out that I force affection on my cutest ever little nephew, Miles. HOW SAD!!! The other day as I was "forcing affection" with Miles, I was rocking back and forth on the ground with him and he was absolutely loving it. He was giggling and laughing with his mouth wide open, and of course I was making baby faces and being silly with MY mouth wide open. Although Kirsten was watching this fun rollar coaster ride, she failed to inform me that Miles had just finished dinner. During one of our upside down rocking positions Miles decided to so graciously spew in my mouth. Needless to say, I had a mouth full of baby food vomit, and all my sister did was laugh. If I do remember correctly it was Tim who was my hero, bringing me a large portion of paper towel. :) Although I am accused of using coercion when wanting to cuddle... I am

sure taking the short end of the stick when it comes to ideal outcomes. (don't worry it won't deter me one bit!!!!)

Me and the Cutest

2009-07-03T21:40:00.001-07:00

little bugger miles... such a big boy. I can't believe that he is 5 months

An interesting Yoga class

2009-05-18T21:33:00.000-07:00

YOGIS--------

Oh how I wish I had an actual picture of my instructor from sunday morning in my ashtanga class. He had a strong New York accent, and his hair looked like a graying bozo the clown. Besides what his appearance might be, I was moving through my vinyasa enjoying class...when all of a sudden in one of my twisting pretzel positions (some position that could look something similar to the image on the left) the instructor decided to sit on the floor and straddle his legs around me. Now you might think that this could not get any worse...but unfortunately for me, my arms were very tightly twisted behind my back and needless to say he brushed himself up against me... ugh!AHHHHH!!! yes yes yes... what you are thinking happened most definately did happen. I felt as though I had entered a movie, a comic no doubt, and I was the yoga student that the instructor was trying to hit on. He continued to try to "perfect" my poses(gag ya right)... and after a string of multiple awkward positions and moments between himself and I, class was over. Oh dear oh dear! I proceeded to find out his name after the class so that I could avoid any future encounters.

Mowing the Lawn

2009-05-14T14:37:00.000-07:00

Today was my first time mowing a lawn with a push mower. Now you must be wondering... how old am I and could I possibly be the most spoiled girl to have not learned how to mow a lawn. Well I grew up with such a large back yard that all we had was a riding lawn mower. So today as I stood outside, right beside a very busy road, I attempted to start the mower and could not. I pulled on things and looked in the gas tank, and continued to tug, tug, tug, tug, tug...and nothing! Lot of cars drove by, lots of honks, lots of funny stares, and there I stood looking completely clueless and stumped. So I called a few people for advice... Mom answered...and she was as clueless as I was( like mother like daughter). But as for my attempt to get a hold of someone who actually knew how to operate one of these machines...didn't happen, no one answered. From that point I decided to go inside and take my mind off of the damn thing. I began emailing a couple professors and than got a brilliant idea...I WOULD GOOGLE IT! I typed in "how to start a lawn mower" and BAM I got tips of the trade. who would have thought that there was actually going to be specific tips on the internet for that, but technology has advanced so much to provide silly information like that for people like me...hee hee. Come to find out there is a little button on the lawn mower that says "prime" and you push it a few times and it primes the gas. Well I pranced outside excited to try the prime button out on my lawn mower. 30 minutes later we had freshly cut grass and I felt successful! :) Lesson learned... if all else fails-google it!

A SHOUT OUT to all the new mommys!...(aka kirsty)

2009-05-09T22:00:00.000-07:00

Happy Mommy's Day kirsty! (and of course to my own mommy as well). He is beautiful, just like you and timmy! A little zebra of love.

cute Miles!

THE EVENTUAL UPDATE....

2009-03-22T20:44:00.000-07:00

So..... As most of you all know, I am really bad at getting on and blogging, but I get inspired and motivated about once a year, so this is my blog for the year(there might be one or two more but on average this is about it) I just got back from a fun little climbing trip down in Red Rocks and St. George, It was a big blast, lots of tough climbing and hiking. At one point we got lost on our hike down from the crag in the dark and I ended up with 3 new big blisters on my feet(those damn chacos on the gravel). This picture I posted is a 12A climb on the Steep and Sunny wall at Red Rocks.... no I did not send this climb clean, wha wha.
As for the rest of life, I started nursing school last fall and will be FINALLY done with my bachelors degree in 2010(ABOUT TIME!). I have a new nephew, in which you can view on my sister's blog(because I cannot figure out how to post more than just one picture), his name is Miles and supposedly he just has his first roll over, which is thrilling. Lets see... what else... Well I do have another new roommate, I have been going through roomies like mad in the past few years due to a little thing called marriage. I guess that that's to be expected at this age(and in UT ). I think that I have finally hit a roommate that will stick around for a while however, she has a boyfriend but is not in any hurry. Im SAFE! :) Let me just say that I do feel like the pressure that is put on people to get married so young around these parts is ridiculous. I get it from my mother all the time, she wanted to nominate me for the show the BACHELOR for hells sake. (which is not up my ally). I think I will stick to my rock walls and climbing for the time being, that is my only love at this time! :)

WINTER IN THE HOSPITAL

2008-02-22T14:51:00.000-08:00

Yes yes indeed this here is a photo of me right after i had surgery on my pelvis. I was just minding my own business one day when all of a sudden this friend of mind pushed me off of a 25 foot cliff.....uhhhh.... okay so that is not exactly how it all happened. I was just cruising on my snowboard with some friends early december and we were all just being rather silly hitting cliffs(and i say silly because there really was just not enough snow cover yet) well unfortunately for me i uncovered a rather large and in charge rock with my a$$. and the rest is history, i fractured my sacrum, and pelvis and was taken down to the bottom in a toboggen(sp?) and an ambulance. some of the most painful hours of life thus far. i wouldn't wish such an event on anyone. i initially went without surgery but my pelvis just didn't heal up, so that is where this photo comes in... a plate and 6 screws later i was laying in the hospital for the 2nd time in a month. needless to say...the medical bills are out of the roof ridiculous amounts of money... why do we have health insurance? oh yes...so that .000000005 % of the bill is covered. :p

and here i leave you with a fantastic photo of kirsten!!! she looks like an angel right out of heaven. hee hee hee... i think i may have been laughing at this point(maybe RIGHT after surgery when my legs were still numb and i couldn't feel any pain) I'm pretty sure my pain level went WAY up after that day and my ability to laugh went WAY down. it hurt to sneeze, laugh or move for the first two weeks. BUT...now im almost all better and should be back in the saddle soon. cheers to everyone... hope everyone else is feeling dandy and enjoying the slopes for me this winter...

Hello Blogging World

2007-10-03T20:59:00.001-07:00

Being new to this whole thing don't think that I could figure all this out without a little help from the expert, my sister. I was inspired by a couple of people to join this escapade of blogging... kirsten and laura! As for those of you have not yet checked out laura and ashley's blog, you should. I can truly say that i laughed my ass off, and i think that laura could possibly be the most entertaining blogger i have ever met. Thanks to laura, I have decided to jump on this band wagon and write about my daily doings. As for today, I fortunately got to spend the day with my mom. In sight of recent events(me and my boyfriend broke up) my mother thought it would be good to do a little retail therapy. "Retail Therapy?" ha ha...i laughed, and than gave it a shot. Shopping has never been a huge thing i enjoy doing. I go to the mall when I know I need something, buy it, and leave. I hate browsing around for hours and hours...but thankfully it was a breif shopping spree. As much as I would like to say that that mended my broken heart, it didn't, I could care less about a new pair of shoes or how i look at this point. At this point you are probably asking yourself...."is she going to let herself go?" now now now I don't think that it will come to that. I can fully see my self functioning again in a year or two...just kidding. I will be on my feet again in 3, 2, 1...As for those of you who have talked me through this(and are continuing to talk me through it...im sorry i will stop crying) Thank you :) it meant and still means the world to me. I love you all(and you all know who you are)