Needed a day off, so I went snowboarding, by myself...

"Now I sit on the rooftop's edge

The muddy street beneath my swollen head

Trying to forget you

To believe we've never met"

- Radical Face

Swimigloo

We woke from our hibernation and decided to go for a swim, after we touched up our igloo of course!

Mid-terms... sorta...

Last week was mid-terms, so what do I do? I put aside all homework, skip all my classes, don't sleep one wink, and play with nicole! Yay! She came to visit me all the way from seattle, so we maximized our time together. We ate cafe rio, went photoing, made a stop motion featuring shemily white, played at wal-mart, fed a squirrel, didn't sleep, listened to music, ate out all day everyday, and just sat around! It was so much fun! The four days went way way way too fast :( here's some pictures from the week...

Saturday = snowmobiling and snowmobiling = death

It was a beautiful saturday afternoon and what would be better than to go snowmobiling? So Kevin, Justin, Breanne and I go up to Green Canyon to shred some powder. Anyways, to make a long story short Breanne got hypothermia. YIKES!!!! She passed out on our way back and we all freaked out just a little. We couldn't get her awake so Kevin and Justin gave her a priesthood blessing, she woke up shortly after. We had to sit her up and we began our 8 mile trek back to the truck. She passed out 3 more times on the way back, hitting her head on the handle bars. Alas, we got her back to the truck and removed her wet clothes. Slowly she warmed up and began to talk, for a long while she tried to convince us she was taking a nap... I don't think people usually take naps while they are snowmobiling... But anyways, all is well, she recovered to full health. What a scary scary day, thank heavens for the power of the priesthood.

When I'm feeling down I think of home, I love cardston. It's so beautiful. Here's a sunset and a sunrise, it warms my heart on days that I'm down, a day like today...

Megan is over facebook.

So today I decided Facebook is dumb, and I'm pretty sure I'm over it. I'm just waiting a few days before I decide I'm done with it. Since I am over facebook, I decided to shift my interest to blogging. What a great thing, eh? These are some pictures that finished off the year 2009. I love snowboarding...

Santa's workshop in the making. We didn't get around to going to walmart to get our family photos, so we had our own family photo shoot. We missed out on making toys for santa to deliver, but we'll make sure we get that done for next year!

Baby Connor!! So cute. Above is the little guy sporting his canadian hat and below is him reaching for my camera, just so he could put it in his mouth.

Adventures in Waterton! It was filled with climbing bears hump, shooting roman candles, eating tin foil dinners, swimming in the lake, band poses, climbing trees, and stacking three people on top of each other.

Check it! My dad and I threw these pieces of work together. Somewhat of a summer project. I'm still trying to comprehend what Jordan is doing in this picture.

Flappy headed adventures...

Future plans and goals

Future plans go as follows

January to July of 2009 - Finish sophomore year of college

July to December of 2009 - Work for the town of Cardston

January to July of 2010 - Finish my Junior year of college

July - August/September 2010 - Work and prepare for a mission

August 2010 to February 2012 - Serve a mission

February to April 2012 - Work

April to July 2012 - Start senior year of college

That's a pretty specific outline, but I plan on graduating after I return home from my mission. If I'm not married by the time I graduated I'll continue to go to school until I am, or travel the world. Once I find the one I want to marry then I'll marry him in the temple, settle down, pop out kids and live happily ever after.

My goals go as follows

- Serve a mission

- Marry in the temple

- Graduated with a degree in Math Education

- Raise good kids in the gospel

- Do family history till the day I die

- Attend the temple weekly

- Always be worthy to go to the temple

Now here's a list of more fun goals, that would be sweet to accomplish, but at the same time I'm not to stressed about these ones.

- Travel to Jerusalem

- Snowboard down the Alps while eating a swiss chocolate bar

- See the pyramids

- Visit Mesa America

- Learn to speak spanish

- Live in a teepee

- Travel to the North Pole

- Surf in Australia

- Watch the olympics live, preferably a volleyball match

- Get a perm

- Go to general conference live

- Shake the prophets hand

- Go to Palmyra and Nauvoo (again)

- Ollie over the equator

- Study the stars

- Go to Japan

- Snowboard at Whistler BC

- Go to Mexico, a nice beach

- Hike the Grand Canyon then parachute down

- Spend at least three months living in England

That's all for now folks

Through the eyes of Megan Hartley

As I look back on my life I see how many different experiences have served to strengthen my testimony and mold my view of life.

I'll begin with my testimony, even though my view of life and my testimony are so closely knit that it's hard to describe one without it pertaining to the other. This is what I know to be true. I know God lives! I know he created us in spirit and provided us with this awesome plan so that we could have bodies. I know the power of the atonement is real, that Christ really did take upon him all the weakness of man in our fallen nature and suffered the consequences of it. I know He loves me. The more I ponder and learn about his merciful atonement the more I realize I'm not deserving of that great gift, but He offers it anyways, and I can access it so freely. That is so powerful. I love him with all that I am. This gospel is so full of hope, faith, and love, and it makes me happy. I know the power of prayer is real. God answers my prayers on a daily basis, I just have to notice his hand in my life. I know the reality of the power of the priesthood. It has been such a wonderful blessing in my life. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and my love and respect for him has grown immensely as of lately. I know the Book of Mormon is true. It has taught me to come unto Christ and it has literally changed my life. I know this gospel is true and living and is led by a prophet of God, President Monson. I love my Savior and I love this gospel.

Now my view of life. I'd say some of the greatest lessons I've learned over the past 3 or 4 years is that #1 I CHOOSE to be happy. I've learned the power of thought and of agency even though things may be hard I can choose to be optimistic. #2 I've learned to be proactive, to make things happen. And if something goes wrong in my life to just take responsibility, instead of pushing it under the rug. Life is a precious gift from God, I want to make the most of it so why not choose to be happy through this gospel, which brings me my greatest joys. I want to give my time on earth to my Heavenly Father, I want to serve him till I die. I don't want to waste an eternity on a lifetime. I want to continually be learning. I want to be better every day. I want to be an instrument in the Lord's hands, whether I'm serving or raising his spirit children. Life is just awesome, I've learned to love it, and I truly believe that that love comes through the hope of the gospel because of what Christ has done for me. In Him is my greatest peace and happiness.