Bountiful

This weekend the roommates and I went up to Bountiful to spend Friday night at Kelsi's house. We were welcomed by her wonderful family with delicious fajitas that kels' mom had made us. We then went to Nielsen's Frozen Custard for dessert. It was delicious! I hadn't been to Nielsen's in a long time and a cookie dough chocolate custard concrete was overdue. 

We obviously loved it.

After a great food, company and conversation at Nielsen's we went back to kels' house to get ready for our sleepover. We got in our pj's and put in the movie Music and Lyrics for us to fall asleep to. It was great. I always have a blast with these ladies. 

We spent almost all of Saturday lounging around, eating yummy breakfast, painting our nails and watching movies. It was just what the doctor ordered. We all loved having the time to spend together and to just relax from our busy schedules. Kelsi's family is also so fun to talk to and they were so kind to host us for the weekend. It just felt so good to be in a home and to get away from Provo. 

At around 4 we got ready for the day and headed to India Palace, where Kelsi worked over the summers, to get some good authentic Indian food. (Kels is 1/4 Indian btw, even though you might not ever guess it from looking at her. Her grandpa is from India and he came to study at BYU, joined the church and married a girl from Denmark). The food was delicious and the workers were so kind to us. They all love Kelsi. 

This mango drink is to die for! It is soooo good!

delicious little desserts.

I seriously cannot express how much I love these girls and how grateful I am to have them in my life. I don't think it was any coincidence that we all moved in together this year. It was so fun to get away for a quick weekend trip, eat good food, relax and spend time together. I can't believe that we're already half way through this semester. Time really does fly when you're having fun!

Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving was such a blast! I loved getting to see my family because I hadn't seen some of them since May. My mom and Emily arrived first. It was great to have the three sisters reunited again because I missed my Emsicle!

Father and Matthew arrived later and we celebrated by me skipping my last class before break and going to sushi. Here are the boys eating shrimp with their heads still on.

We ate delicious food throughout the week including this brown sugar and pecan brie cheese cooked inside of bread. Can't go wrong.

We found out that Greg, Emily and I are all the perfect sizes to make a Livingston Totem pole. Score!

On Thanksgiving morning some of us ran a 5K. It was my first one ever. Let me tell you it was a little rough mainly because the first half of it was literally UP A CANYON! It took double the time to go up the canyon than it did to go down. I was flying down that thing. I was pleased to receive a blueberry bagel upon its completion. We had a lovely dinner with lots of family at Merry's house that evening. I love thanksgiving and feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family and to have so many awesome opportunities in my life.

We got to meet a bronze artist one day. It was way cool to see such large scale sculptures.

Later that day we had family pictures taken. 

I LOVE MY SISTERS!

And I love my family!!!!

One night we went to see the Temple lights with lots of my mom's family. The lights were beautiful as always.

That night we got our Livingston family matching Christmas pajamas. They were a definite success!

We ended the week with Music and the Spoken Word at the Tabernacle. It was great.

I loved getting to spend time with family at Thanksgiving time because that is one of the things that I am truly most grateful for. 

Life Lately

Life has been so great lately. I am so blessed to be surrounded by such awesome people. My friends and family seriously are the best. I love them.

Monday night we discovered that Michelle had a dress-up box and I found some favorite things inside, such as the cat hat and the silky robe. I just need to find an opportunity to wear them.

On Monday night I was visited by Greg and Liss, which was fun to see them and then I got a visit from a gorilla that scared me sooooo badly! I had received cereal with a note that said: To Megan, From: Gorilla. I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean until I opened the door to a knock and a gorilla jumped out of the darkness and growled at me. I screamed and ran across the room. You could say that he got me. The gorilla turned out to be Mark and then Jessie came up to the door as well. It was pretty hilarious. I felt honored to be the first to be scared by the gorilla costume.

I went to the Farmer's Market at the stadium last week with my roommates and this week with Meesh and Jessie and bought some delicious pears, apples, plums and zucchini. Then I cooked that zucchini and ate it with cheese tortelini. It was pretty delicious if I do say so myself.

On Thursday they were having Harry Potter Day at the Pendulum Court Cafe on campus so naturally Jessie, Mark, Alissa and I went together and it was AWESOME! They had it decorated perfectly and they had food in honor of the books. I ate Avada Kadavra Apple Pie for dessert and it was delicious. They had butter beer that included actual butter in it...not our favorite. It was a magical experience.

f'real

My roommates discovered "magic shakes" that you can get at Maverick gas stations so naturally we all had to go back to try them out. It's pretty cool and delicious. You pick which kind you want out of the freezer (I got reeses peanut butter cup) and then you put it into this machine and it lifts up the shake into the machine and it blends it up magically into a drinkable milkshake (you can pick the thickness). Then it lowers the shake down and you drink it with really big straws. I would recommend it not only for the shake but also for the experience.

so good...f'real.

p.s. Today was a great day because I was super productive. I rocked my Human Development test, finished my clay sculpture, went to class, did homework and celebrated with my roomies. Life is good.

Mama Melissa Came to Town!

I was so excited for my mom to come visit because I hadn't seen her since May and I felt like I hadn't been able to really talk to her since then either since our schedules were so different this Summer. It was so great to have her here because she is so fun and she takes such good care of me. It was fun to show her a small taste of my daily life here.

The girlies (minus emily) are back together!

On Tuesday night we met up with Greg and Liss for dinner and then we went up to Aspen Grove so I could show mom where I worked this summer. The canyon is absolutely gorgeous right now with all of the changing leaves. 

Then we went to Sundance for some hot chocolate. It was fun to visit in such a pretty place.

On Wednesday night my mom took me and my roommates and Jessie and her roommates out to The Chocolate for dessert. It was delicious and I'm glad you could finally taste it mom!

On Thursday night Greg and Liss came down to Provo and we had a progressive dinner. We started out at a place called Cranky Chuckies and it was kind of a funny place, but their nachos were soooo good. I will definitely be back for some more of those. Then we went to Black Sheep Cafe for some really delicious navajo tacos. I would highly recommend it. Then we hit if farrs for dessert, of course. It was such a fun way to make dinner last a little longer so we could spend more time together. I would highly recommend all of the places we went to.

Then on Friday, us kids told our mom that we were all busy that night so we wouldn't be able to see her until Saturday sometime. But really we surprised her at a condo in Park City and we celebrated her birthday with all of her sisters and we ate delicious food, told fun stories and just had a blast. I'm glad that we could surprise her :)

My Aunt Merry's wedding veil made an appearance a couple times. Who knows who'll wear it next?

Cousin Rachel, Jessie and I participated in all the typical sleep over activities. I love them both dearly.

Hope you had a happy birthday mom and that you enjoyed your trip and surprises!

I sure loved having you here. You are so great to talk to and our talk was just what I needed. Love you bunches!

Piano Guys and Chicken Pot Pie

A couple of weekends ago I went to a concert for the Piano Guys with my roommate Michelle a.k.a. Meesh. It was so great. Stephen Sharp Nelson and Jon Schmidt were so in to their music and you could tell that they loved what they were doing. Afterwards we went to Roll it Up for delicious crepes. Definitely a great Saturday night.

This was one of my favorite songs they performed:

Then on Sunday Meesh and I made a chicken pot pie from scratch. It was deeelicious despite accidentally adding 4 tsp of baking powder instead of 1/4 tsp.

we're so domestic :)

The Chocolate

The other night, Alissa and I were doing homework together like good little students when all of the sudden we got on the topic of The Chocolate and the next thing we knew we were in the car at 9:45 driving over to The Chocolate hoping that it would still be open because it closes at 10. We made it and they made us a chocolate chip and peanut butter cazookie. Definitely worth it. Spur of the moment things like that are the best. I'm hoping it will happen again soon :)

Baking Bread

Last Sunday I baked bread for a Spain reunion and it turned out great to say the least. 

I would most definitely say that it doubled in size. It was huge and delicious.

My roommate Michelle was baking bread at the same time as me so it was a party. We only had to deal with the smoke detector once. 

It was super easy to make so I'm seeing some more bread making in my future.