home for the holidays...and away

theres nothing better than going home for the holidays!

reunion. last night all together before Robyn left for Key West!!

movie night at caitlyns with more of the girls

ugly car picture. i was holding sophie in place haha

mine and zachs christmas date to the Melting Pot.

SOOO yummy!

eating our dessert at the melting pot :]

checkin out the lights at temple sqaure. IT WAS FREEZING!

in front of the temple and the cute floating candles. zachary looks so cute in this one :] haha

trying to take our own picture

then someone saw us struggling and asked to take it for us! it was a group of teenage girls and personally i think they were just trying to oogle over zachary cus they were giggling and laughing....haha oh well!

our after-after activity....making a sweet gingerbread house

almost finished...we are pros!

all done! with me and him even standing out front! we are really proud of it if you couldnt tell...

nativity night with the fam...kate was the donkey haha

sophie as Mary and baby ruby as baby Jesus. 

sophie and mushie with their matching doggies. haha too funny

meg and parks playing with parkers new tractor

meg opening her new boots...

yes, hannah montana guitars. and yes, i wanted to go crazy after listening to it all night haha

meggy and her boots that she wouldnt take off

i wish you could see what he is so smiley over. Papa and mushie gave parker a huge remote control car and ive never seen parker so excited in my life

me and baby ruby. she is tooo cute!

mexico! me and kayls found this hideous pig noses....so why not!?

new years eve! love her

me and A were pretty stoked about our ginormous drink!

the girls with our nummy drinks

i was obsessed. and it was huge!!

cannnt wait until next year:]

its about time

that i read the second twilight book....

so i started it. i feel like im quite behind since the whole world has read them all like 5 times over. (maybe thats just my roomates) but i officially have started new moon. also because i so so excited to see the second movie and so i want to have read it first. and another reason. the second book is about jacob more and i think he is so so good looking :]

family christmas party

2 reasons why i love family christmas parties

#1 ....to see all my fam. cousins, neices, aunts, sisters, and all the inbetween

#2...the amaaazing food :] well..sometimes

i loved how pretty they made my plate look!

mmmm :]

hate to say it but...

I told ya so! 

zoo three is here.

told you it wouldnt be long before you found me there again!

meg was so excited!

and so was sophie! (and kate)

yep that thing was quite terrifying to some.

this too was terrifying to some...and by some i mostly mean kate

zoo lights :]

mushie pushing meggy moo

no one was really ready for this...poor kate had got her toe stepped on right before this as well

red robin saved the day

nope, kidding MCDONALDS saved the day

enjoying her chicken nuggets

such the little poser

cant help but love that cute little smile 

i think ive out done my trips to the zoo for a while....

christmas spirit

Its being to look a lot like christmas! Well, k not really- in St. George it looks more like September still. There is no snow, we have no christmas tree...soo we go to ugly xmas sweater parties to bring in the christmas spirit! Kind of a silly way of doing things- but hey! its works!

I looked every where for an ugly sweater...and finally I found my dream sweater at Walmart. its just gorgeous!
I don't really know how to explain this...haha. these boys from Cedar have a special "Christmas Face" and so me and Caitlyn attempted and this was the outcome. Basically we failed.
Caitlyn looks like she works at Target and Im pretty sure I could pull of the Elementary school teacher look.
All the girls...and some random boy who jumped in the back (gotta love picture ruiners...not!) 

Sophie was a little upset that Robyn had no ugly sweater...sooo this was the outcome :]

zoo one, zoo two.

So I've found my new obsession: the zoo. Yes, the zoo, full of smelly animals and those few annoying children- but its not always like that to be honest.  The other night be and Zach went to see the zoo lights two weekend ago and we were basically the only people in the entire place. It was so fun and I hadnt been in a super duper long time.  So then two days later, I went again. Yep, again. I took Sophie and Parker for the day and once again had a blast. So if your looking for me...I'll most likely be at the zoo.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention: a great post-zoo activity is to dip strawberries. this is Zachs new obsession...were all about new obsessions these days. 
Dipping those strawberries like pro's- Welcome to the Parker family.
Me and Zach at the zoo lights...yes I believe thats a ram or something going for my head.
the zoo the second time around. Sophie looks so cute!
Sophie and Parker on the tigers...or whatever they are. Ps. when I saw those statues when I went with Zach, I thought they were real....(it was dark!!)
Love this picture. Shes just tooooo cute!
My second favorite. I think she looks so old in this picture. Parker was too busy looking at the real animals rather than posing with the fake ones. I dont blame him really.

recap

So I've been quite the blogging slacker...again. School has been the super busy, probably busier than I have been the whole year.  So I guess that is my reason as to why I am so behind in the blogging world.  I will try to be more up to date from now on, since my scheduale should be pretty easy until finals. So the past month has been busy like I said, and this past week I've had THEE worst luck in the world.  I know complaining isnt really the most mature thing to do, but sometimes it's all that comes out.  So first of all, I had a huge photo assignment due. I had about 70 pictures that I needed to take in a week for my portfolio. So I took them and then when developing them- i come to find out that NONE, must i repeat, NONE of them worked. So I got the lucky oppurtunity of redoing the ENTIRE assignment, in a weekend. And then to my luck again, one whole role, which is about 35 pictures, got ruined. I learned my lesson- PHOTO IS NOT MY CALLING IN LIFE. I will never take a class again.  Ill just stick to my digital camera and taking pictures of just regular day to day things haha.  On the other hand, I had a flight home last friday and of course, in my bad luck streak- it was a flight going to st. george. problem! i was in st. george already, and needed to go to salt lake. (luckily i found a flight the next morning) But when i got in town, I had to get my hair extentions fixed...and of course that didnt work so well, i had to take them ALL out. yikes. back to short hair for a week. Which was not my first choice but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do right. So anyways my luck wasnt at it peak.  although when i did get home, Zach filled me in that I missed a very good talk in church about being grateful- and not only being grateful for your blessing, but for your trails as well. I guess I should have been there because it was probably just what I needed to hear.  So during this Thanksgiving season- I am grateful for all the obvious things that I have, all my blessings and all the things that make me happy, but especially during this time, I am grateful for my trails.  I've learned they only make me stronger and I learn from the situation.  Zach also told me something i wont forget, you cant go through life without having a couple bad days, because then you couldnt be grateful for the good days.

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving :]

the boys flag football team lost in the playoff so we made them cupcakes...they ate them all in about 5 minutes flat.
we find some kind of enjoyment in just about everything... haha
me and zachary had our two year on november 12! sooo crazy
haha one night we did makeovers- its too bad zach actually really looks good...
in the process of my masterpiece...its a miracle that he let me do this
zach owsley was megans victim....haha he looks super happy
finished project! Going for the blue steel look
a little visit from our BYU friend Hillary!
Yes, we did go to the midnight showing of twilight....
hah our new favorite restaurant...just because of this cool mexican man
had to put this one up here- cus of kates face hahaha. the best part about coming home is seeing my fam!