twenty two

since i'm twenty two... tonight i'm writing twenty two things i love most 

about this thing we call life. 

Write down the things you love most. I bet you'll find it hard to stop.

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this is me. 

1. i love to travel. some of my favorite places in the world are switzerland, prague, spain, italy, and london. and i'm an overly dedicated journal writer. i love to write.

2. i love my fam more than anything. they are my best friends. i feel so blessed to have 

married into the most incredible family too.

3. i love to ski. both water and snow. 

5. i love writing music. and to sing. i could play the piano or guitar for hours. 

 6. i love art and photography. and i love to craft and create.

a few recent art projects in prismacolors... and some in progress

7. i love doing anything outdoors playing any sport.

8. i find adventure in the mountains. 

(and yes that is me paragliding over Salzburg, Austria)

9. i love to fly fish and spit sunflower seeds on the river with my best bud. 

10. one of my passions is basketball. i could talk it, watch it, or play it for hours.

11. i love that my man is still a boy at heart.

12. the two trips i love most in the summer are Lake Powell and Hebgen Lake, Montana. 

13. i love to read inspiring books. 

14. i love motorcycling at the barn

15. i love the fall and spring

 16. i love the utah utes.

17. i love the beach.

18. i love finding boutiques and designing interior spaces on a budget.

19. i love being able to wake up, put on scrubs, and try to help people get healthier. 

the nursing field is incredible and i love teaching about health.

20. i love that my sweetheart asked me to be his forever in the swiss alps. 

21. and that he designed my ring to look like the star right above us that night. 

in lauterbrunnen, switzerland. 

22. i love that i married the boy who i literally fell in love with at first sight...who immediately became my best friend. and that we could be sealed for time and all eternity in the temple.  

and that i'm just his "little girl"

xoxo

meg

Easter on its way

Easter is on it's way. So why not get some 

cute decorations up? 

Something fun about being poor college students is finding creative ways to cheer up the home.  I love to craft, and I saw something like this at Tai Pan... so I decided to make it myself. The best part about it, is you can make this for under $5.00.  In fact, most of these things you probably have around the home already...so you're good to go!    

You will need 6 balloons (or however many "eggs" you want to make), pages of a magazine or newspaper, acrylic paint, ribbon, and flour/water.  

Blow up the balloons just part way so they are still on the small side.  Paint the pages of your magazine with pastel colors.  While you let them dry, prepare the homemade paper mache. 

If you Google "paper mache recipes" you'll get 364,000 results. Don't choose anything more complicated than this.

HOMEMADE PAPER MACHE

1 part flour

1 part water

Bring to a rapid boil for three minutes. Then let off heat and stir while cooling.

It's that easy.

Cut your paper into 2-3" strips and dip into paste. Run your fingers down the strip to get any excess off.  Place the paper strips on balloons according how you want them to look. Hang to dry.  I wrapped a string around the tops of the balloons and hung them that way. (Make sure to place some paper towels underneath, cause they'll drip for a while until they dry.) 

When all the balloons are done and dry, pop the balloon and make another hole in the top so you can string a long ribbon/string through all the balloons.  I added extra ribbons around the balloons and on the ends of the ribbon to spice it up, but you'll have your finished product in no time.  

SO easy and cute.  

Here's my final product. 

Happy Easter-to-be everyone.

  

  

a taste of our spring break

We decided to go on a road trip for a few days...and somewhere warm! Since our Runnin' Utes were playing in the Pac12 tournament, Las Vegas couldn't sound more appealing.  

I believe packing some journals is always a good thing.

One of our favorite things in Las Vegas were the Bellagio fountains. There's something romantic about them. Plus, we ran into the Utah b-ball team in front of them, and I gave them a little pep-talk before their game the next day. ;) 

We watched our Utes defeat both USC and Cal in the tourny. I love that my blue-eyed boy is a Ute. We even got to do the "Harlem Shake" with Swoop and members of the MUSS after halftime.

  

I have a hobby of making videos of all our trips.  While going back over this video I realized the two of us are as much in our "honeymoon stage" as we were 9 months ago.  Honestly, I don't think we'll ever leave this stage...but I'm okay with it.  I love being in love with Bry.  

Enjoy.

large from Meg Miles on Vimeo.