Thanksgiving & Tinkerbell

For Thanksgiving we went to David's parents house.  We had a lot of fun! We cooked 2 turkeys one Dave Sr. cooked and the other I did. Both we awesome! I also cooked an apple pie and home made rolls. My dad and Teri came over for thanksgiving dinner also. Again it was so much fun and we had a blast (Sorry that was kinda short)

So we have been doing christmas shopping and I have most of it done. One of the things we were getting was a pet. And we were planning on getting one after we get back from the holidays. And we were thinking of getting a bird or hamster you know something small. so last night we decided to go to Petsmart to start looking around for what they have and pricing. Well we now have a cat and her name is Tinkerbell.  

She is 2 years old and is already box trained. She was a rescue cat from a shelter. So David fell in love with her and so did I and we couldn't let anyone else take her home so we brought her home.

She is getting used to us and seems to like it here. She refused to sleep in her own bed of course and instead slept with us on or bed. I'm excited and happy! We love her

(Pictures to come later)

Jessica's Wedding and weekend fun

On November 14th my best friend got married! I'm so happy for her! 

Ok so to build up to the big day...

On November 12th Jessica went through the St. George Temple to receive her endowments. It was so nice to see her there with her family and Tyrone's family. I wish David was there with me (he had to work). 

On Thursday Jessica and I had a girl day. We went and got our nails done and had a good time. Later that night Jessica and Tyrone had a Luau. It was so cute. It was mostly Tyrone's family. They sang Hawaiian songs and then they played a video of the both of them growing up. Again that was so cute.

Friday was the day of the wedding and I was the maid-of-

honor. I went and got my hair done and David flew in and met me at the temple.  The sealing was an all white sealing. Jessica looked so beautiful and Tyrone looked handsome. And the room was filled with friends and family that loved them. 

Once everyone came out of the temple and we greeted the now newly wed couple it was picture time. 

Later was the ring ceremony which led right into the reception. 

I loved their cake.

when they left they left on a really cool fire truck. 

I am really really happy for the both of them!

Ok so after the wedding David and I took our own little "remember our honeymoon" trip to Mesquite/Las Vegas. We drove to Mesquite and stayed at the Virgin River (which I don't recommend it was kinda sketchy) and they next day we went to Vegas. We just bummed around and walked around some of the hotels and just had fun.  Then we drove back to St. George and went to the new James Bond movie which was just cool. Lots of explosions and sexy Daniel Craig. 

Well now we are home and getting ready to go back down to St. George for my sisters play

PS I'm excited for Thanksgiving

Halloween, Birthday, Jessica

Halloween

halloween was a lot of fun. Before we went out David's cousin brought by her little girl Katlyn. She was so cute! She was dressed as a little giraffe. We then went to our ward activity were we actually won scariest costumes Sweet! When the party was over we went over to our friends Kristen and Mikes house were we played SceneIt Disney where we won again!

Birthday

My birthday was Nov 5th. I turned 22

 yay! David and I went out to dinner at Applebee's with Davids friend Kyle. And thats about it 

Jessica's Bridal

I drove down to St. George for Jessica's Bridal shower which was Friday. It was fun. She played the game where you have to chew a piece of gum for every question she got wrong 

and she opened a lot of fun presents including a can of whip cream!

Vegas

I took Jessica and her sister to Las Vegas for her bachelorette party. We stayed at the Rivera which was recently re-modeled so it was really nice (but still affordable) Amber and I wore shirts that Said Team Jessica and Jess wore a shirt that said It's My Day Bitches!

We then went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. It was delicious! Afterwards we went back to the hotel where a limo picked us up to take us to the Sapphire club which ended up being really lame!  First they made us sit at the bar on the side were women were stripping, then when they let us go in the guys were totally inappropriate! And we were all upset that it was not the show that was advertised!  So we left. We instead went to LAX club in the Luxor. It was so much better and a lot more fun.  When got to the club  and got in line we were surprised that there weren't a lot of people in line and the bouncer asked if we were on the guest list or staying at the hotel we said no. He told us to just stay in this line. Ok... So we got to the front (there were only 5 people in front of us) showed them our IDs and they let us in for free! We then saw the line we should have been in wow that line was long!  While in the club we noticed a lot of people taking pictures of something.  And then we saw Criss Angel and Holly (Campbell? Heffs now ex-girlfriend). 

It was cool but we kept dancing then all of a sudden they walked down into the crowed and stopped right by us! Awesome!!! It was cool. 

We had a lot of fun and Jessica was happy

I am now home but get to drive back to St. George again tomorrow to go to the temple with Jessica and then I'll just stay till the wedding which is Nov 14th! I'm so excited for her!

Its been awhile...

Ok so it has been awhile since I posted on here so her is an update. 

So I love fall and I love Halloween!  I also love pumpkins! At one point we had 6 pumpkins! 

To find some of these wonderful pumpkins I wanted to go to a pumpkin patch.  So I dragged David to the HeeHaws Farm.  We had to take a really 

ghetto hay ride to the pumpkin patch but it was fun.  Once we got there we literally got to cut the pumpkins off the vine.  I'm so glad David like to humor me and do things like this with me.

We then got together with Alyssha and Lar

s and carved our wond

erful pumpkins! 

    David carved Strong Bad (for those of you who don't know who that is go here www.homestarrunner.com)

and I carved a hunted mansion.

We are not going all out on our costumes this year and just doing kinda of simple things.  Heck we bought our costumes at the D.I.!  David is going to be mauled by some savaged beast and I got electrocuted.   I'll have to take pictures and post them here. 

On a less exciting note...my car is dying! I'm so sad. We had to take it in to be looked at because there was a really bad burning smell and smoke coming out from under the hood. Well the mechanic said it was leaking oil in a really hard place to get too so even though the parts are $50 we have to pay $800 just for the labor!!!!  Well in speaking with other people this price was actually on the low end!!!! But thankfully Lars, our friend, is going to look at it and fix it for us for just the cost of the parts. Yes!!! 

We are looking at selling my car and getting a newer car (thats NOT a ford) maybe a Honda Fit? 

So thats our life in a nutshell over the past month! 

Last Weekend

So this past weekend we had a lot of fun!

We attempted on Friday to drive up to Bridal veil falls. They were showing movies up there and the leaves are starting to change. Well by the time David got home and we got some dinner the sun was starting to set. Then when we got up there the movie they were showing was some African war dance documentary so we decide to drive to Sundance and walk around but of course the sun had set so we were walking around in the dark.

Saturday we were going to get a lot of cleaning done and attempt Sundance again.  Well we got the cleaning done but Marc and Jen called to see if we would babysit Kaitlyn. Of course we said yes! Kaitlyn is so cute and so much fun!

Sunday after sleeping in (yes we missed church, but you would too if you didn't sleep at all, felt yucky, and had church and 8 am) We finally made it up the canyon. We drove most of the Alpine Loop and it was a lot of fun to see all the leaves and to get a lot of good fresh air. I love being outside!  While we were up there we stopped and thought we would hike a little 2 miles to a waterfall. Well I was in flip flops and I had tightish jeans on so it was hard to hike up hill, and David's shoes were not the best for hiking so we made it half way before we turned around before it got too dark. But we did collect a lot of pretty leaves and berries!  

:My second pumpkin I bought and leaves I collected on my table:

Monday we had Marc, Jen, and Kaitlyn back over for dinner. Which I think was really good.  It was a really good pasta with sun dried tomatoes, asparagus, artichoke hearts and sausage. Really good! And then a salad with a Gorgonzola cheese dressing. And for dessert we had flambe strawberries with a scoop cheesecake on top.  (If you want any of the recipes let me know they were really really good) 

Long one.....

Here is what has been going on....

I'm falling apart. I have gained 20 lbs in 1 week (back in July) and I can't seem to lose any of it even though I eat fairly healthy ( I cut sugar out of my diet and upped the fruit and veggie intake) I work out 5 days week for at least 1-2 hours with lots of cardio.  The only good thing is I can tell I'm stronger but no weight loss and no inch lost... it seems odd to me. I even got a blood test to see if it was some sort of thyroid problem but it came back normal.  Also for several years I have had a sharp stabbing pain on my right side right under my ribs. It is totally random when it hurts and it can last anywhere from 20 min to 2 hours. So I had a Hidea Scan on Monday. They injected my with radio active enzymes and had me lay on a table for 45 min while a machine took a picture of my gall bladder every min. and then they hooked me up to an I.V. which again I had to lay there for another 45 min as it look more pictures! I still don't have the results of that yet.  Then my right leg falls asleep. It used to be only when it was straight but now its kinda more speratic (sp?) and its very annoying. It even wakes me up at night! Lame!!!

So I got an anti-inflammatory medicine to see if that helps (It hasn't so far). If it doesn't work I'll have to go back in for more test including a nerve test. Blah!

So as you can see I'm falling apart!

I feel bad for David because I've been kinda down with everything that is happening to me. But he really is the greatest! At one of my lowest moments this week he went out and bought me some beautiful red roses! i love him so much!!!

Other then that school is going great! I got a B on my first biology test (which is good for me) and I turned in my first English paper (which I think I did well on seeing has David helped write most of it lol)

On a completely different note. Kelsey, my little sister, and her friend came up for a BYU thing. It was really fun to have them stay with us.  They were at BYU all day on Friday so after they were done David and I took them out for Gelato. The next day they had to be there at 8 in the morning and I got to take them woohoo! While they were at BYU I got my hair cut. I really like it! I put a few layers in and then took 2 in off the length. Its really cute! 

Ok I think thats it for now....

A lot done

Today David and I worked on cleaning out our second bedroom. We still had a lot of boxes that we hadn't gone through since we moved in. I really want to have that room be an office/craft/guest room, but with all the stuff in there, there was no room for anything else. 

Anyways...David and I got rid of a ton of stuff took a lot down to the trash and a few boxes to DI. And we are still not done. We have to go to Target or something to get some nice organizing containers. But it feels really good to get a lot of it organized and thrown out. 

That is all :)

9/11

I just wanted to take a minute to remember 9/11/01. 

I remember that I was being woken up by my mother getting me ready to go to seminary. We were listening to the radio all the way to the church. Once in class we listened on the radio again.

All day at school we watched the news. And the Principle had an emergency assembly for the whole school. The school counselors were going to be available to anyone who needed it. It was really shocking and I was on the west cost!

I can't even imagine what it would have been like to actually be there in New York. To watch the plane fly into the building to hear the cries for help.  I am so thankful to all those brave men and women who ran into the deteriorating buildings to help others escape not even thinking twice as to what would happen to them. Thank you to all the Firemen, Police and EMS who responded. 

It was a terrible day and we lost many friends and family. I pray for the families who lost someone that day, and I pray for our troops who are fighting to keep us safe. 

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Playing with the blog

Hey so i have been having fun messing around with my blog. 

I added music and a new picture! I'm so smart lol

Anyways 

Nothing to exciting besides going to school and work (for David)

I'm hoping we can finish the rest of the thank you cards and then actually start sending them out 

thats it for now

Sate Fair

On Saturday David and I went to the State Fair in Salt Lake. We had a blast!!! When we first got there and we were standing in line waiting to buy our tickets a guy walked up to us and gave us a free ticket. Apparently they had more tickets then they had people in their group. That was great for us now we only had to buy one! Also waiting in line we were watching all the interesting people walk by.  The lady in front of us was talking away on what we thought was her phone. She was making big gestures talking kind of loud and waiting for a response from the person she was talking too. Well then David and I noticed that she was not talking on a phone. She was indeed talking to herself and her "imaginary" friend. It was quit entertaining. 

Once we got inside I dragged David to go see the animals. I tried to convince him to buy me a bunny but I failed. I also had a lot of fun naming all the animals I encountered.  When we were playing with the sheep we ran into some of David's family. (Mark, Jen & Katlyin (sp) and Bob & Maryanne (sp)). We decided that we would meet up later for the Rodeo that night.

We then looked at some of the booths and roamed around waiting for the Rodeo to start. David did buy me a claghdahh ring (an Irish wedding ring, hands holding a heart with a crown). It made me happy. 

We met up with the family and crowded in to see the Rodeo.  It was really fun we saw some horse bucking and calf tying.  I really am a cowgirl at heart!

So we had a lot of fun and it was a good date!

  

3 Months

So today is our 3 month anniversary. Hey since were still in the "honeymoon" stage we can celebrate silly things like this. LOL. 

So this weekend we did some fun things. On Friday we went to Comedy Sportz, which is sorta like a "Who's Line" kinda thing.  It was really good and really funny. We then went next door to a gelato ice cream parlor, and got really good crepes with gelato. That was really good! (Kinda on a side note but some times David and I will go on walks and we stop at the gelato parlor and split a scoop. Its a fun thing to do on these summer nights)

Anyways. Yesterday we went to Park City and road on the Alpine Slide. I forgot how much fun that was. Also they have a new "ride" called the Alpine Coaster. Its kinda like the slide where you can control your speed but there is no way you can fall off the track and you have a seatbelt. This one was really fun. You really get some speed going on that! 

Today was fast sunday in our ward because we have stake conference next weekend.  But I of course forgot this and baked cookies to bring to our first lesson.  I didn't want to tempt anyone so we just left the cookies in the car and have been giving them out to who knocks on our door. (We still have about 2 dozen left). But I think our lesson went well without them.

I made a "romantic" dinner tonight for our mini anniversary. Fetticni Alfrado and Garlic bread, we even opened a bottle of Sparkling cider. 

Well thats it for tonight. I am looking forward for tomorrow because we can actually sleep in.

Good Night

First Day Of School

So today was the first day of school for me at UVU.  Since David is a full time employee there I get free tuition. My classes are on Tuesday's and Thursday's.

First class of the day is English 1010. My teacher is very up beat but there are a lot of "rules" (for a college class at least). We have to write 5 papers this semester.  I really don't think this class will be that hard (seeing as I took half of it already at Dixie State) I just have to make sure I go to class. 

My second class is Biology 1010. The professor for this class is your typical science teacher: dry humor, glasses outdated jacket... but he seems fun.  In this class you don't have to show up but thats not really smart seeing has there is so much you can learn from actually being in class.  He also posts all his lectures online so this class shouldn't be that hard.

Third class is Acting 1.  This class is going to be a lot of fun. I just acting in general. My teacher is very enthusiastic.  I have to do 2 scenes and then 2 monologues. I also have to attend 4 plays.  Oh and just on a side note auditions for the school plays and musical are next Wednesday. 

And my last class is Palliates. This one is going to be fun and relaxing. My teacher kinda thinks that everything is wonderful all the time but she seems fun. 

One fun thing is that David's office is nice and quite so I can sit in there and do homework when I have time. And we can carpool together so we are saving on gas, which means I can buy books. Books only cost me $200. blah. 

So thats about it for the first day of school.

Temple Attendance

This is the talk I gave on Sunday.

"Joseph Smith had long been concerned about the fate of his older brother Alvin who died before the Church was organized and baptisms performed.  He had even seen Alvin in a vision waiting for the ordinance of baptism. Jesus had taught 'except a man be born of water and of the spirit he can not  enter the Kingdom of Heaven'. Joseph was baptized.  Even Jesus was baptized.  What was to become of Alvin? 

The solution was announced by Joseph smith on August 15th 1840 at a funeral.  This discourse initiated ordinances for the dead.  

The first Baptisms fro the dead were done within weeks after Joseph's discourse. Although Baptisms were to be performed in a temple, they were performed at first mostly in the Mississippi River" (A brief History of the Establishment of Temple Ordinances for the Dead)

As youth we had the opportunity to attend the temple to do baptisms for the dead. This prepares is to go to the temple to preform ordinances for ourselves. 

The first time we go for ourselves is to receive our own endowments. 

Brigham Young said: "Your endowment is to receive all those ordinances in the House of the Lord , Which are necessary for you after you have departed this life , to enable you to  walk back to the presence of our Father passing the angels who stand as sentinels being enabled to give them the key words, the signs, and tokens pertaining to the Holy Priesthood and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell."

So once we have our own endowments why do we keep going?

We go so we can do the work for the dead.

There are also other reasons people go to the temple. They go to pray, to feel the spirt or just to get away from the world and feel the peace the temple has to offer.

I am so grateful that I live in an area were I can attend the temple often. David and I have made it a goal in our home to attend the temple twice a month.  

Talks & New Callings

So last sunday before church I told David that if we are asked to speak just lie and tell them we are going to be out of town. Of course i was joking. So in sunday school the guy sitting in front of us turned around and asked us if we were going to be in town next week because he wants us to speak. For a second i toyed with the idea that maybe I should go down to St. George to see if Jessica needed any help with the wedding, but then they would hunt us down and ask us to talk when we have run out of excuses. So we are talking tomorrow in church. Luckily they have 2 couples talk so instead of 15 min talks each we have 15 min all together, so its not that bad.  i have to, I mean I get to, talk about temples and David gets to talk about family history.  Well I guess its good that we were planning to go to the temple today. 

Also this morning a guy from the ward came by to extend both of us a calling. Now i know this sound strange but I was praying that I would get a calling to work in the nursery or maybe do something with the music (our ward needs help in that department) , but of course not we both got the calling to be Gospel Doctrine teachers (as a couple). So i guess when its our week to teach we will be making calls to Grandpa for ideas. 

Mrs. David Andrus

So its official I am now Megan E. Andrus!  I got my name changed. Its  kinda weird honestly. I mean I have always been Megan Edmunds. But I do like it. It makes things feel complete. 

Kinda random but we have been looking for a wii fit forever and everywhere we look they have been sold out. Last night I said I wanted to get the game Mario Party for the Wii so we can play together (we only had 2 other games that were 2 player) so we went to Gamestop to get our game. While we were there we noticed that behind the counter there was a Wii Fit. We bought it of course! Its so much fun and you really do get a good work out from it too! 

Best Friend

So my best friend Jessica is getting married! I'm so excited!!! I do find it kinda funny because at my wedding in May she was saying she wasn't going to get married till next February or next Spring and now she is getting married November 15th LOL. I find it quit entertaining!

So her soon to be husband is half Hawaiian and so they are going for a tropical theme and instead of a luncheon they are having a Luau.  I think it will be awesome!

Oh and I'm in her party (She's having me and her sister be bridesmaid) And I'm one of her closer friends and I told her that she could call me day or night and I would help her with anything she needed. So I got  a call the on Wednesday asking me to come and help her pick out her wedding dress on Thursday. Well I live in Provo and she is down in St. George. I said I would be there.  So yesterday morning I got in the car and drove all the way down to St. George, picked out the dress, saw my family and then drove back home. Yep I drove 7hrs to help out a friend! It was fun though. And if she needs anything else I will go down and help her again (I just hope its on a weekend this time)

Life

YAY!!! David got the job!  

This is really great news for many reasons.  He will be making enough that I don't have to work which means I can go back to school!  And to make things even better since He works for UVU I get free tuition! 

So I'm excited to start classes on Aug 27th

Job Interview

Today was David's job interview. He thinks it went well. His current boss is on the hiring comity and told him that he should be getting a call later this week for a second interview. 

If he got the job I could go back to school on free tuition and we would be making enough so I don't have to work at all.  

Prayers and good thoughts are appreciated 

Thanks!!!

Update

Ok so it has been a while so let me update you. 

David and I got married on May 31, 2008!!! ( More on that latter) We spent a weeklong honeymoon in Florida at Disney World. It was so much fun!!! We then moved into our new apartment in Provo.

We then took a trip to Yellowstone for David's un-official family reunion.  It was a lot of fun. I got to see 2 black bears and a couple of wolves so I was happy!!!

And now we just got back from a mini family reunion in Hawaii with my mom. It was my 4th time to Hawaii and it was David's first.  We did all the touristy stuff lit the PCC (Polynesian Cultural Center) and Pearl Harbor, and of course spending a lot of time in the sun and on the beach.

so now we are back at home trying to finish moving stuff from my old apartment and then unpacking and decoration our new place.

More coming soon!

The Introduction

My name is Megan and I will be getting married in 9 Days to David. We are both very excited and a little nervous all at the same time. I’m starting a new chapter in my life and now I have to worry about someone else instead of being selfish and doing things for just me!
I really can’t tell you how much I love David! For the short amount of time we have known each other I have fallen head over heals for this man. He is always there for me and would do anything to see me happy (and I want to do the same!) I really could go on forever but right now I won’t bore all of you.
We are getting married on May 31st in the Jordan River LDS Temple. There we will be sealed for time and eternity (which means it’s not just till death its forever! good thing I like him so much). We’ll then have a reception at the Northampton House in American Fork UT later that evening. And then its off to our Honeymoon at Disney World!!! And for all of my friends down in good old’ St. George We will be having an open house at my mothers on June 14Th.
OK so a little about David… David just turned 27 this month. He graduated with his Bachelors in Digital Media and is getting ready to take the LSAT later this year. He wants to go into IP law (I hope that’s right) If he scores well I hope he picks a school on the coast (East or West I don’t care I just want the ocean!!!) He served a 2 year LDS mission in Peoria Illusions. David also has an amazing family, and he has one younger brother.
Ok about me… Like I said my name is Megan and I’m 21. I haven’t really gone to school, unless you count my one semester at Dixie State. I plan on going back to school and study to become a Vet Tech. I love to travel! I spent 4 months in China teaching English to kindergarteners. And I have also been to Italy just for fun! (But there are so many more places I need to go).
So I hope this got you started and I’m sure you’ll get to know the both of us very well.

P.S If some of you random bloggers want to get us something for our wedding we are registered at Target and Bed Bath and Beyond!!!