Bohemian Twist

Thankfully it was a very simple hair-do day today. I just twisted my bangs back. It turned out really great. 

The pictures are so good. I know. 

Today Kev and I finally mailed off the packages that we made when we were hanging out in California. There are going to be four very happy missionaries. I also went to school. There was a mass exodus of people who left Rexburg this weekend. I swear General Conference is a national holiday here. Everyone went home to their families or to Utah and I am still here in Rexburg but I have my lover Jenn to keep me company. 

That was basically my day. Nothing too exciting. Nothing to complain about.

Bohemian Side-Twist Ponytail

Okay, I know the harp is really distracting but we are looking at the hair. I struggled with this one. I still struggle with it.  The front and sides look great. The back is questionable.

I just have a hard time doing the back by myself. I could man handle the back on anyone else's head. So, that is hair number mbili. (two)

Yesterday we took roomie photos for the ward directory. 

They turned out looking a little like this: 

Who doesn't want to date that? We are going for the lumberjack look. 

I think we nailed it.

It was also Kayleen's Birthday. Our baby turned 19. She is growing up right before our eyes. We went to Cragios as an apartment with a few extras. 

I went to the orthodontist yesterday to get these teeth feeling good. They shaved off parts of my teeth that rubbed. I prayed for the best and got the worst. Today I get to go back. Oh happy days. 

30 Days of Hair

I bought an ebook today. It was my first ebook buy ever.

I have challenged myself to 30 days of different hair styles.
I will keep you updated with pictures and what not.

Wish me luck.

Oh and here is the website I got the book from:
http://myyellowsandbox.blogspot.com/p/30-hairstyles.html

I am SO excited.

Day 1:

There you have it. It is called the Wannabe Becky but my roomies and I just call it "The Becky" or "Becsters." I am feeling real good about it. I am still working on the sideways braid. I tried like 10 times and gave up. Jenn stepped in to help a sister out. 

We will have to see what tomorrow brings

My date with Landon.

 A lot happened today. I woke up nice and early to clean the apartment; more like Landon proof the apartment. Brittany and Brandon wanted to go to the temple today. I offered to watch their kids while they were away. Cooper and Kami were in school. I got to babysit Landon and Max. Well, I didn't hold Max much because everyone else wanted to hold him but I sure got a lot of one on one with Landon. This kid is a nut. 

We played basketball. 

We played with play dough. 

We drew. 

We played games. 

We drew with chalk. 

We drank chocolate milk.

We ate corn dogs. 

We shot each other with guns. 

I chased him. 

It was great fun. 

I had a class at 11:30 that I had to go to because I was getting CPR certified. (I went for like 5 minutes and certified. I am basically a pro at CPR.) Kevin and Jenn took over from there. I showed up at home to see that their were darts everywhere. The house exploded when I was gone. I could not believe it. Jenn let Landon take out all aggression on Kev. Max was just as content as ever. No fuss. 

Faster than I knew it, Britt and Brandon were done. Time seriously flew. 

I have to say that I am a pretty bomb babysitter and Landon basically wanted to live with me the rest of his life. I don't blame him. We play so well together.

I went to devo. I sometimes struggle to stay awake during devo. Today was one of those days. 

After devo I have a class. The second I got into my class my teeth started hurting. I told myself that if they still hurt 15 minutes into class that I am leaving. I swear the second 15 minutes was up they stopped. On the freaking dot. Thanks teeth. Don't worry I have an ortho appointment to check things out again tomorrow. It will be the 4th time I have had these puppies checked out for the same thing. Wish me luck.

I have been quite the pintrest stalker lately. I am addicted to say the least. I am making all sorts of goodies off the site. It is totally a blessing. 

The rest of the night went normal:

I made cookie dough/oreo/brownie goodness.

I played with Kev and Addie.

Kayleen and I had a dance party and got Jenn to shake her groove thang a little too. 

Lots of texting to Tal. 

Youtube videos.

Drugging up hoping for the best.

Inviting random girls in the hallway to eat with us.

and really ridiculously loud upstairs neighbors.

Life is good.

Downward Dog

Those two words can only mean one thing:Yoga. You bet your behind I went tonight. 

I don't really know what to expect. I am thinking that there is going to be a lot of downward dog, a dead man's pose and maybe a few apple trees or whatever else. 

I get there and I swear... insta-giggles. I am trying to contain myself as there are nature sounds going on in the background with some serious yoga people who do not appreciate my laughter. 

It takes a while but I start to get into the flow of things until a different flow comes over me. If you know what I mean. We are now at the point where we are a little spread eagle laying down on our backs in some dead person's position. There is no way I am staying spread eagle. I need to keep things contained. I slap my legs back together and hope for the best. 

In the end, everything turned out just fine. I held out to the end. 

Thanks Dieter, you're a pal.

My teeth hurt.
Not just a little.
Not braces pain but something else.
It is intense and it happens at night when I am most stressed.
There is no way to sleep through it.
You better believe this week I have been experiencing a lot of pain.
I wish I could rip out my teeth.
One less thing to worry about.

I made my choice. If you know what I am talking about. 

Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave a talk during the General Relief Society Broadcast. It was incredible. I have never had one of the those experiences where I am listening to a talk and I swear it is written just for me. This was it. I was there. I was all ears. I was involved. I wish I had something to take notes. I hung on every word he said. He spoke to my soul. He told me exactly what I needed to hear and the next step I need to take in my life.

Point number three: Forget not to be happy now.
I forgot. I was once asked what my goal for my life was; of course I answered and said, "I want to end up happy." I forgot my goal in life. Uchtdorf then continued with an analogy of Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. He said that everyone was so excited to get a Golden Ticket in the Wonka Bars that they forgot their original love for the bars. They forgot how good the chocolate was in the first place, all they wanted was the Golden Ticket.
I am one of those people. I have had the chocolate here all along and I just forgot how good it was because I am distracted wanting the Golden Ticket. The chocolate is so good. There is nothing wrong with the chocolate. I just had to remember that. I need to be happy now. I need to remember that the chocolate does make me happy. I do remember that. Dieter just had to slap me around a bit with his words.

Thanks Dieter, you're a pal. 

After a good little walk and talk around the park. The choice has been made. I am keeping the chocolate around. I am going to remember the core goodness of the chocolate and try to just focus on that.

I choose to be happy now. 
Well, as happy as I can be with these horrid teeth.

Wacky Wednesdays

9 Things that made today great:

1. "I like your chacos and hair." -Allysen Bent. You know it is going to be a good day when you hear that come out of someone's lips. They complemented two of my favorite things. My hair looked bomb today. Thank you Jenn. Also, who doesn't love a little chaco in their life?

2. I cut open my thumb for the 2nd time in the last two days. Something about wearing a band-aid just makes me feel good. It is an Africa thing. Don't ask

3. I said my morning prayers. I know you are proud. It was right after I got out of bed and the whole thing.

4. Madison walked home from class with me. It is a long walk and I love having the time to talk with her. 

5. I made play dough chromosomes for my science class and got to play with it too. 

6. I got out of Anthropology 15 minutes early. Heck yes!

7. Talyn is being an excellent texting buddy. He is so good at it. He is so good at just going with the flow when I need him to. I couldn't ask for more. 

8. Mike drove me to class. He is such a blessed son of God and it is his BIRTHDAY! I am so glad he is dating Jenn. I love them together. 

9. I had some good times with Addie Mae tonight. We hit up the gym and she showed me the new world of pinterest. Watch out world. Here I come. 

Day 3... it was brilliant

Drum roll.... I said my morning prayers! I didn't remember until I was in the shower but I insta stopped lathering and said a quick prayer. Right there. In the shower. No procrastinating on the good Lord.  It's a start.

I also went to the gym. When my home girl Becca is around this is never a problem but she up and left me to move to Texas with her husband.

I plan on reading my scriptures once I am finished with this post. Talyn hooked me up with some excellent chapters to read. I am excited about it.

I even went to devo! Can I just tell you how excellent devo was today? I loved it. I loved every second of it. I came prepared to take a little nap and just got blown away. My eyes and ears were totally open. I am just knocking all sorts of stuff out of the ball park today.

I also got more of my stuff today from Debbie. I think I have about 90% of my stuff now. Everything is coming together.

Today was good.

the silver lining

Today started out rough but in the end it was GREAT!
No complaints.

I might have not gone to the gym or read the good word but I was social.
I just sat down and read a few pages. 
I also still struggle with morning prayers but it is a work in progress.
Everyday is just going to be a new learning adventure.

So, in the end... I give myself a pat on the back.
Way to go day 2!

I will be social. Even if it kills me.

So, that might be a little dramatic but I have been pretty antisocial lately.

Part of my little life changing goal is to be social.
This should be easy.
I do live in a college town. Stuff is going on all the time.

Goal 1. Go to at least 3 social gatherings a week.
Goal 2. Read my scriptures everyday.
Goal 3. Morning and night prayers. (night is easy. morning is a stretch.)
Goal 4. Exercise. It was so much easier to do when my drill Sargent Becca Dow was here.
Goal 5. Keep updating my blog because then I will have to be accountable.

Those are my goals for now. I will keep adding as days go by.
People keep telling me it is going to take months to move on. I sure as heck hope not.

I am just trying to make the best of it for now.
Oh, and my Sunday school lesson went AWESOME today. 

three years and coming

Cameron Clausen once told me after I got into a fight with my parents that, "Girl, you need to learn to control your emotions." Of course that just made me even more mad but it always stuck with me. He also told me to take some acting classes or something to help out with that. I thought his advice was useless.

I can control a lot of things in my life. 

I control where I am. 

I control how clean my bedroom is. 

I control how long or short my hair is and what it looks like. 

I control what I wear. 

I control what I learn. 

I control who my friends are. 

I am still struggling with controlling my emotions.
Especially tonight.
I should have taken Cameron's advice.
Maybe I would be in better position.

There is basically one thing this post is all about. It is something that I am trying to let go of and it is already super hard but I know I am strong and I know that I can do it. I just had to vocalize it and put it into writing. 

I, Megan Emily Butler start a new chapter tonight as I finally let go and just try to push forward.

As Brother Pitbull says, "Reach for the stars and if you don't reach it at least you're on top of the world."

i can tell that we are gonna be friends.

Kevin came to visit me. It is a miracle. It was his idea too. I was so excited to see him. He drove the whole way from Arlington, Washington to my house... all by his lonesome. 

That is dedication. 

The first time I saw him was quite the rush of emotions. I was so excited and also nervous that he might be a different person. I had no idea what it was going to be like. I was expecting the most awkward first few days of my life. It was just like back in the day.

Everyday I had a plethora of activities planned for us. 

It all started on Friday. 

I had planned out for us to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and off we went. It was a lot longer of a drive then I remembered. We were still super awkward. When I say super awkward, I mean extremely. 

After the aquarium we went to Santa Cruz and just watched people at the beach. It was so cold. There was no way we were going to get into the water. The highlight of that beach trip was the man who was using his metal detector in the sand and was wearing socks. 

We went home for dinner and other things and then ended up back at the beach for a midnight stroll. 

The next day was Saturday. 

We went to the A's verse Mainers game. It was awesome. The A's won. Of course. Kev got himself a hat. Thank heavens for Kathy. She hooked us up with free tickets and free parking. It was a dream. 

After the game we went to the temple. 

It was kind of on the way home. Kev always told me that the Oakland temple was a sinner temple because there is no Moroni but he quickly fell in love with it. Why wouldn't you love this temple? Is there any other temple that you can walk on? We also went into the visitor's center and you know those sister missionaries flocked to us like none other. We were blessed to get hooked up with Sister Taylor from London and Sister Capener from Boston. They were amazing. 

After the temple we went clubbing in San Fran. 

Naturally. 

I think going clubbing was the best idea we ever had. We did not really want to go in the beginning but the second that we got there it was the best experience of our life. We got these bracelets that said "drinking age verified." We knew it was going to be a great night after we noticed that. We were all over the bar and then we hit the loft. We found some classy drunk people. As soon as the dance floor opened my heart was full. We got our groove on for hours. You can't even fathom how great it was. Right before we were going to leave they had the dance off. Incredible. Life changing. I was so happy. 

Until we went to where the car was parked. Yeah. 

So, I encouraged Kev to park in a lot that got locked up before we came out of the club. Luckily, Kaleigh was there in a different car and had room for the two of us. 

Post clubbing. We were tried. He was hungry.

Sunday rolled around. 

(technically it rolled around while we were getting our groove on at the club)

We woke up at the crack of dawn and drove out to San Fran to get Kev's car and got home before my family was even awake. By the time church came around we were ready for a nap but we sucked it up and went. We went to 2 hours at the home ward and 1 hour at the singles ward and peaced out. 

After church is the traditional going over to grandma and grandpa's for dinner. It was delish like normal and then I wanted Kev to see the Redwoods. We mapquested how to get there and basically gave up and found a new state park to go to. It was quite a disappointment. 

This was the largest tree there. Pathetic. Well, the drive was fun on the way there and then we went home and crashed. We crashed hard. 

Monday. Aka Labor Day aka Kaleigh's Birthday came about. 

To celebrate the great day we went to the beach. Again. Along with the rest of the bay area. 

There was definite rip tide and he is definitely a lot taller than me. He took all the cold water and huge waves like a man and I just could not handle it. I was done after I got sucked under the first time. I could hardly stand. 

It was a really short trip to the beach but I am glad we went. 

After we did the traditional stop off at Maryann's Ice Cream. 

So delish. 

That night was Kaleigh's party. We went shopping for her present and missionary packages. We just won't talk about that. We came home and helped with the preparations. 

After sleeping in more than we were supposed to, it was Tuesday!

What do you do on Tuesday? 

Go to San Fran of course!

We did all the touristy things. We went to Pier 39.

We saw Alcatraz.

He ate a clam chowder bowl at Fisherman's Wharf.

I hate seafood. I got something else.

We went to Ghirardelli's Square and then took the cable car to Union Square. We shopped around a bit. I got 2 cardigans from H&M and a scarf. 

After Union Square we headed on back to the car without stopping off at a random shop and snagging a sweater for Kev and another scarf for me.

On our way out we hit up the Golden Gate bridge. It was so stinking foggy. We walked onto the bridge a bit and then we headed back home. 

I will tell you what happened on Wednesday once Kev brings over his camera for me to steal his pictures. (so Kev brought over the camera)

We had a late start but we made it up to the temple. Kevin brought family names for us to do. We first stopped in the Visitor's Center to see our favorite sister missionaries and also to discover that Addie was there too!

We would have loved to stay and chat longer but we needed to get down to the Lord's business. 

Kev baptized me for a plethora of his family and then he got baptized for the males. It was quite awesome.  

 After we meet up with Addie again. This time we went to Fentons. They have the best ice cream on the planet. I love their caramel the most. You might recognize the name of the ice cream shop because it was at the end of the Pixar film, Up.

After Oakland we hit some killer traffic on the way home. We got to San Jose just in time to babysit 11 children. I seriously left Kevin outside with a couple of kids for maybe 30 minutes and when I come back his elbow was all bloody and a child lost a tooth.

On Thursday we started our road trip back to Idaho.  

We had two problems. 

#1. Kevin got on the wrong freeway. I have no idea how it happened but all the sudden we were not on 80 anymore and we were driving on 50. After a short hour to two hour detour and a stop off in Fresh Pond, we found our way back. 

#2. Kevin's car started to fall apart. Well, not really but the plastic stuff around the window wasn't sticking like it should. We did the smart thing and just super glued that isha back to where it is supposed to be. We didn't have any problems after that. 

We had a pretty good trip. Nothing too crazy happened. We made it alive. 

I have no idea how to flip pictures.

 We also had a few run ins with this Mountain Dew can. It went all Pepsi or Coke with Mentos on us in the car when we poured Sour Patch sugar into it. It liked to tip over a lot. Basically anything that could have gone wrong with that Mountain Dew did.

To end it: He is my best friend. We are basically attached at the hip and I love his guts. 

Peace and blessings.