What is going on with Megan

Hey readers,

We have been terrible with updates, so I thought I'd write a little whats going on with Megan post. If you read this blog for Gizmo or Luke you can stop reading now.

I finished my second year of law school, and quickly left for Colorado!

Josh and Mom at the Rockies Game. At this time Josh was growing his beard for a bet, he did not win that bet.

Rockies are apparently good at baseball this year, but not at the game we went to.

Sibling love.

Dad in the Bronco Barrel. Me in the child size Bronco Barrel. These are replica barrels, the actual Barrel is up on ebay, http://www.ebay.com/itm/300913611397.

Josh and I took Nana out to breakfast.

Mulligan's with some of the bike shop crew, I miss that place.

Olive and I, easily the biggest cat I've seen.

Ona and I, we watched Bridesmaids.

Family trip to the Colorado History Museum. We all really enjoyed the museum. My friend Becca works there and gave us tickets to see the Thomas Jefferson Bible, which was pretty cool. 

Ice cream with the family.

I am working this summer for a Professor at SLU writing articles and researching. The law school is moving this summer to downtown St. Louis. This is a picture of what the building will look like when it is completed.

I am also working this summer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis. This is a picture of the building. Its been a pretty cool internship so far.

I've been giving blood every 60 or so days this year, trying to do a little good in the world.

That about sums it up for me, I'll just be working at traveling a little bit. Next week I'll be in Portland, Oregon for the Crime Victim Law Conference  at Lewis & Clark Law School. I'm hoping to pack my bags full of these...

(photo credit http://corgiscorgiscorgis.tumblr.com/)

Milestones and Memories

Last night was my Teach For America Alumni Induction. It is a ceremony to celebrate the completion of corps members' two year commitment to the program. I got this sweet plaque to commemorate my work as part of TFA.

Marian and I have literally been through the entire process together since orientation on day one through teaching our two years at the same school. As one of our students would say, she has been the "wind beneath my wings."

I wouldn't have survived these past two years without Megan's support. She's even going to come in and help my students on their big end of the year projects. I wouldn't be happy and successful today without her support.

I've made a lot of great friends in my time with TFA.

#TeamFresh - Erik, Liz, Marian, Christine, and Me.

TFA sneaks into your school and asks your students some questions about you so they can put it in the ceremony's program. My students know me too well.

Today, we saw a napping duck. We can never resist taking pictures of cute animals.

Another big milestone occurred today. Megan's Honda Civi, Paul, reached 100,000 miles. Megan has been driving him since he was just 15 miles old. He's one of the good ones.

Deja is her name

We were eating lunch yesterday when we saw this little puppy on the back deck. Luckily she,Deja is her name, had a collar and belong to one of our neighbors so we were able to get her home in 20 minutes.  

Such a nice and cute dog. This is our first dog "rescue" of the year!

Spring Cleaning...of the Camera

It has been ages since we last updated our blog. As a result, we have a bunch of pictures from various adventures to share with you.

Gizmo always loves hanging out with her cousin Neila.

Megan was able to catch a rare moment of Gizmo and I watching dog videos together on youtube. They're Gizmo's favorite. 

For Valentine's Day we treated ourselves to some tickets to see the band Passion Pit. They were awesome. Although, our lives weren't nearly as exciting that night as that girl sitting behind us.

We tried to go to the zoo one day. But, we got there too late and they wouldn't let us in. So we took some pictures by the awesome metal sculptures they have outside instead.

There is this random old car-skelton thing just sitting in the middle of a grassy patch at Forest Park. What else do you do when you come upon such a thing but strike a pose and snap a picture?

My sister and brother-in-law were nice enough to hook us up with some free tickets to ride a helicopter. Yeah, you read that right. A HELICOPTER.

The view was amazing!

Would this blog be complete without an over the top adorable photo of our beloved pooch? We didn't think so either.

Megan was able to sneak away one weekend to spend some time in Las Vegas with all the ladies in her family. Here is her grandma weaving magic.

We found this recipe for potatoes on the internet and had to try it. Basically, you cut a series of slices in a potato and then alternate putting cheese and butter in each slice. It's super healthy.

Magic.

For our six year anniversary we took a family camping trip.

Gizmo loves the outdoors. She literally tries to jump on every single rock she can find.

The lovely ladies!

We encountered a treacherous river! Like the kind of river that you try to ford in Oregon Trail but then you end up losing half your oxen team, your sister gets dysentery, and most of your supplies wash away. We weren't taking any chances with Gizmo, so I carried her across.

Gizmo is quite the little swimmer!

Gizmo was able to dry off under the table when we got back from hiking.

Setting up the tent might be one of my favorite camping activities.

Sadly, there were a bunch of other dogs in the area so Gizmo had to stay on her leash the whole time.

After our weekend adventure Megan and I were pretty tired so Gizmo volunteered to drive us all back home. Who says you need to reach the pedals anyway?