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One of the best things about being young,
looking at the next 20, 30, 40 years of my life and realizing they are a completely blank canvas,
free to paint my own masterpiece on.

There is so much time.
Time to do things,
see things,
and live somewhere fabulous.

One of the BEST things about my relationship with Nic,
we talk,
ALL the time,
about EVERYTHING.
When we first met I could have sworn we lived the same life, it was seriously crazy!
I had to take a step back and convince myself that we weren't somehow related in some some sort of distant way. Ha
Some of the BIG life changes he went through, I had been through the exact same ones too.
His life story matched mine even before we met and now, more than ever, our life stories are bound together,
and I can't tell you how happy that makes me.
We get to experience those BIG changes in our future together.

One thing we talk about, a lot actually, one of those BIG life changes that are in the near future for us, is deciding where we want to live. The best part is, we realize it can be ANYWHERE.

If you remember from here, I could spend every waking moment at the beach.
I dream about living on the coast of somewhere beautiful,
maybe California,
in a big white house with the beach and ocean as my backyard, a porch that wraps around the entire house where I could spend Sunday afternoons in that little porch swing curled up with a good book.
We could take nightly walks barefoot on the beach, and have date nights down by the wharf at some quaint little restaurant that is owned by a local with yummy pastas and seafood.
Maybe a trip to the happiest place on earth (Disneyland) every now and again.
I don't know about you, but for me it doesn't get much more romantic or perfect than that.

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Mesh the Cullen house with Seattle and you have Nic's dream place.
There is something about Washington that he is really drawn to and if it wasn't for the constant rain about 350 days out of the year, I would be all over it.
It is where I was born after all, and downtown Seattle is truly amazing.
We could take ferry rides on the Puget Sound, enjoy the world's most amazing cup of clam chowder from Ivar's, walk around Pike Place Market.
I could even take my students to the aquarium!

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And then there is the beautiful city of Boise.
It is where I spent most of my childhood and more than anything, it is the best place my parents could have chosen to raise me.
It isn't too big but isn't too small either.
It has so many schools and hospitals for our careers.
Within practically a one hour radius there is skiing, sledding, rafting, camping, a lake, really anything outdoorsy you can possibly think of.
It has so much to offer.
Besides, we were married there so it is a big part of where our story began.
We would still be close to both sides of our family so that our future baby Williamsons can be close to grandma and grandpas. (or in my mom's case, they will be calling her grammasita) Yeah, its a long story... we won't go there. haha

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Oh, decisions, decisions.
The world has a lot to offer us and our new little family.
I think we will just spread our wings and see where the wind blows us :)
And no matter where we go, I'll always be happy and find home because....

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5 things I know for sure

1. The sewing world...very complex my friends. So complex in fact that I don't even know where to begin. My head is swimming with all sorts of sewing jargon. It feels like a whole new language. BUT, I have learned how to thread the bobbin and the machine. I'd say that is a fabulous start!

2. I got this little sled on a Christmas sale last weekend. $30 down to $8, absolute STEAL of the day! Is it Christmas yet? Do I own a house? Because this baby sure would look darling leaning up against the side of my front door.

3. It doesn't get much better than Yo Crazy. These new ice cream shops that let you decide how much you want in your cup... genius idea because you can get sorbert and chocolate in the same cup without getting any strange looks but not such a great idea for the New Year's resolution, "get fit but don't completely deprive yourself."

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4. I'm really upset that Picnik is closing. For those of you who don't know what Picnik is, it's a very user-friendly editing program for pictures. I have used it for the last year and a half and love it. I'm just not sure I have the time to learn Photoshop. It is just as complex, if not more to me than sewing HA. Oh the hobbies I have acquired.

5. I can't wait for Valentines Day... I have some pretty lovey-dovey plans in store for Nic and I! Lets hope I'm healthy by then... I sure do have the crappiest immune system in the world.

just because...

just because I love dancing...

just because this makes me die laughing...

just because I HAD to share, I know you will love it just as much as I do :)

All I can say is, I hope my baby has these moves!

ENJOY!

The Things Girls Do

My earliest class this semester is 9:30 and the latest is 11:00.
It is pure heaven!
Normally I would probably sleep in, take my time getting ready, and finally slip out the door a half an hour or so before class started {I like to be early} but instead, I drag myself out of bed at 6:45 when Nic gets out of the shower so I have all morning to work on homework.
This morning I had finished showering, blow drying, straightening, and putting on my makeup.
My bangs are currently in that in-between phase where they aren't short enough to sweep across my forehead but not long enough to tuck behind my ears, basically they just look terrible down.
So, I either blow dry them straight back and do a poof or I twist them to the side fastened with a handy dandy bobby pin.
This morning I decided on the "poof" look.
Well, Mr. impatient decided it was time for breakfast right after blow drying so I had all sorts of flyaways sticking STRAIGHT which meant, after breakfast it was time to head back to the bathroom to tame.

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Nic - "I thought you were done getting ready?"
Me - "Have you SEEN these bangs, there is no way I'm leaving them like this! They need to be in a poof or something."
Nic - Being COMPLETELY serious I hear a *sigh* followed by, "Oh women... what is with the POOFING, and TYING, and SPRAYING!?"
{I'm thinking, where is he coming up with tying?}
Nic - "Don't you women know guys like your hair just the way it is."
{I was dying laughing! ... I don't know, maybe you had to be there.}

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Oh honey, if  only you knew that I do these things to look pretty for YOU.
I guess a ponytail it is tomorrow!

Spontaneous

Weekends are good for a lot of things... relaxing, house cleaning, homework (ugh), church, and the BEST one of all, date nights! Little Pocatello, Idaho is moving up in the world, I know I can hardly believe it myself! We got a Cafe Rio about five months ago and have been in heaven ever since. It isn't very often that Nic and I are spontaneous or irresponsible. I mean in high school I didn't even skip school on senior skip day let alone any other day if that puts things into perspective. We are both planners down to the day, the time, the place and if anything deviates we begin to wonder if we are really losing it. I've always wanted to be irresponsible and spontaneous at least once. To wake up on a Friday morning, skip school, call in sick, buy a plane ticket to somewhere, anywhere we have never been and take off with the one I love. Ah, I freak out just thinking about it so we thought we better start on a smaller scale. Friday night we probably should have been doing homework but dinner rolled around and off we went and found ourselves at Cafe Rio. Okay, Nic had been craving it so it wasn't really spontaneous but the next part definitely was. After dinner this idea popped into my head... "Lets go to the dollar store and get tattoos!" Nic looking at me like I'm crazy, "Uh, okay?" Even though he had a lack of excitement at first I knew he would have fun (especially when I found out he had never done one before) WELL, we HAVE to change that now don't we! After putting it on Nic walks around the kitchen with this big grin on his face that said, "Check out my tattoo, don't I look hardcore?!" then raises his eyebrows at me like Joey on Friends... "How you doin'?" Then I laughed a little and reminded him of all of the reasons why he doesn't want a REAL tattoo. Apparently spontaneous makes him tend to forget the difference between permanent and temporary.

A little bit of courage

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Going to college and getting my degree has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember.
Of course, in the earlier years it was more encouragement from my parents to go, but as I got into high school it became MY dream.

While I was confident in my decision to go, I'm not sure I was prepared for the amount of courage it was going to take me.
Emotional courage - many tearful nights
Physical courage - sacrificing sleep, not so good for this 8-hour a night beauty sleeper
and even more scary,
Financial courage
I've learned to save and spend wisely and I believe spending my savings on education is a wise way to provide a prosperous future for my family.
When Nic and I got married I'll admit, I was lacking even more in the financial courage department.
But Nic is the level-headed calm one in this relationship.
He always knows exactly what to say to reassure me that things are always going to work out.

Two weeks ago I sent in a check to pay the balance of my spring semester.
I periodically would check back over the next week to see if it had arrived but when it was never entered I began to worry. Since this last weekend I've pulled it up first thing every morning followed by multiple times throughout the day and still., every time I found my remaining balance showing.

Here it goes, panic time.
Did my check get lost in the mail?
Maybe something is wrong with it and they are sending it back?
What if they drop my from classes, THEN what am I going to do.

All the while mister calm is telling me, "Meagan, stop worrying so much. It WILL get there."
Then all I wanted to do was yell back at him, "But it is not like we have thousands of dollars laying around that we can willingly fork over to these people in the event that something went wrong. We SAVE for these occasions ya know! (as if he didn't already know that). Do they have ANY idea how much people put on the line to get a degree, DO THEY? They are just money hoarders out to get us for all we are worth."

Woah, clearly it got to me.

This morning rolled around and I was feeling a new level of confidence.
I just new it HAD to be today.
After 1 minute of pure torcher going through the log-in process, there it was.
The news I had been waiting two weeks for.
Only not how I was expecting it to be.
Instead, I received a short message that went something like this:
Dear Meagan,
You have been awarded a one-time scholarship totaling the amount of $1,103.00.
I took a double-take just to be sure.
The scholarship was in the amount of EXACTLY what I owed.

My heart is FULL today and while I plan to give these generous people a proper thank you by mail, I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart here, because this is the place I feel the most like myself.
For me it was a miracle and one that I will never forget.

Having courage and faith that everything will work out is what makes dreams come true.
It has been what is making MY dream come true.
2012, you sure are good to me so far.

P.S. I STILL haven't heard hide nor hare about our actual check but do you think I care? Nope. Staying calm, worry free, not a care in the world. Because that is how I roll.
Okay, I'm going to go call them now :)

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