Wedding Stuff :)

Well, Not much news to report. Just getting some wedding stuff out of the way. Trav and I are working on it this weekend. I have picked out invitations, center peices and my dress. :) So not a bad start. I have to convice Trav that Ross Camp is perfect. shouldnt be too hard.

Here is my dress.
http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/Collection/product-page.asp?SKU=%20Vera&i=14235323150


The invations i fell in LOVE with

http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/We_ViewEns.cfm?sItemCode=WedEns4846&sCatalogCode=WedEnsDD&iStartRow=1&lCriteria=3268&strcontinue=yes&strsearch=yes&format=WedEnsDDa


Are they AMAZING or what?!

The theme is Rustic Country. Kind of a laid back theme. My center peices are going to be old ball jars with a candle in them and around the bace of the jar are going to be twig wreaths. So it will look pretty neat!

Here is Ross Camp. I am planning on useing the chapel and the dining hall. Its a beautiful setting.

http://www.tippecanoe.in.gov/parks/division.asp?fDD=17-63




My moms best friend from highschool is actualy Nancy's best friend now (Travs Mother) Her name is Cindy and she will be doing my catering! Small world!


My wedding Party

Maid of Honor: Felisha W. ( Great Friend from High School)
Bridesmaid: Koti R. ( Travs cousin and now a one of my best friends)
Bridesmaid:Caitlyn W. (Cindy's Daughter and like a little sister I never had)
Bridesmaid: Ashlie L. (Good friend from Indy)

Flower Girl: Mackenzie R
Ring Bearer: Malik R.

Best Man: Brad R. ( Trav's best friend since they were 7)
Groomsman: Joshua C. ( Friend of ours)
Groomsman: Bryan W. ( Cindy's son and our good friend)
Groomsman: Aaron P. ( My little brother, but if he would rather not do it then Will W. Felishas husband.)


Wedding Music

First Dance: To make you feel my love- Garth Brooks
http://www.lyrics007.com/Garth%20Brooks%20Lyrics/To%20Make%20You%20Feel%20My%20Love%20Lyrics.html

Daddy & Daughter Dance: I loved her first - Heartland
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/heartland/i-loved-her-first-17192.html


Well thats all I have for now. I think I have a decent chunk done don't you?



Well Im out!

Megan

Hey all! I am still alive!

No worries. Still alive here! Has been really crazy the past 3 months!


Lets see here.


Travis and I are doing well. We actualy had a serious talk over the weekend. We were both talking about our future together. Hes wanting to go to school next fall. I am very proud of him. That will help us out so much. It will be difficult at first but I know that he can do it. Also he has decided to quit smoking. :) We are going to work on being healthy. Pretty amazing right? Things have been going pretty well.


We are moving into our new place in Lafayette in August. We will have 2 roomates but the house is so big its not going to matter much right now. Bryan and Ashlie will be with us. Trav has known bryan for years. The funny thing is that Brayn has the same birthday as me and the real kicker is that his mom and my mom used to be best friends. HA the world is small. Ashlie is moving here from Indianapolis. She will be going to Purdue. So we are all pretty happy about it!



Lets see, Hmmm



I went to see the musical CATS and it was AMAZING!!!!!!!! I cant even describe how awesome it was. Travis went with us and he actualy enjoyed it. ( Although he is a male and girls running around in those tights might have had something to do with it) I had a really great time. My grandparents and my aunt enjoyed it too. It was definatly worth seeing! I also got a snowglobe while I was there. Its HUGE I will have to post a picture of it it plays "memories". Pretty nifty, in fact I think that is what I am going to collect from now on, snowglobes.


Things are doing well here. Love you all!

Megan. <3

Holiday Madness!

Well I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I know that I did. Travis and I both made out like bandits this year!


The christmas eve "skoog gathering" was canceld. Mostly becuase I think everyone on that side of the family that still goes are getting up their in the years and it was really slick out and no one wants to bust a hip on christmas! So after hearing that news Trav and I headed down to Crawfordsville to visit with the family. His cousin Koti is a really close friend of mine now. She really is the coolest. So that was fun. The kids (Mack and Malik) were little hellions that night but after darn near tying them up in their blankets( we were giving it some thought. lol) they went to bed. The little buggers didnt wake up till after 7 am!!!! I was like HELLLOOOOO its christmas!!! I remember waking my brother up and running down the stairs at full speed at 5am! Screaming for mom and dad to wake up. They would wake up and put on coffee and Aaron and I would wait (I wouldnt say patiently) till we could open our stockings.


Another little christmas tradition that I love. I always got a slinky in my stocking. I know it sounds silly but I always look for it every year. I can't honestly remeber a year when I didnt get one. They are the best toys ever! When I have kids they will always have a slinky in their stocking.


Well after the kids finaly got up (and pounced on me) We all got dressed and headed over to "papa toms" cause thats where Santa delivers the gifts. The kids were so happy and the living room was a christmas paper tornado. I have never seen someone unwrap a christmas present so fast!!!!!! After the kids finished unwrapping trav and I got our stuff together to head to my mothers. We had a blast and mom made breakfast bake. It was amazing. I got a few gift cards and Mom got me some awesome shirts! After a while we went to visit Mikes family and had a pretty good time. Travis was so nervous, it was kind of funny! I didn't realize how long it had been since I had seen them all! My cousins are taller than me and they are only 15 and 13!!!! Well after all that we went on our way and mom sent us home with more eggs! Tell you what we sure wont starve with all the family bringing us food. We got half a pig the other day from my grandparents, eggs from mom and our neighboor brought us a million homemade cookies. He owns a flower shop here in town and is a really nice man.



Tonights agenda is not so hectic. Trav and I are going to catch a movie around 5 and maybe go out to dinner.


Well it's time for me to head out of here. Will post pictures asap.

Meeting The Family.

Rob, Jaacob, Me, Renee, Jeremy
Jacob, Jack, Jeremy,Erica and Jess.

Grandma Kane and Grandpa Kane

Koti, Jack,Erica and Chris

Yeah Grandma Kane is a nut. :)

Travis and Nancy we all were trying to mess this picture up by making them laugh!

Well, honestly I have a big family and it never really botherd me at all. I guess I was used to it. On the other hand I never realized how it felt to come to one of these family functions when your not "family". We just always invited people...

Well this past weekend I got a dose of Randolph convention. Not as big as the Parkers but they came out the woodwork this weekend. Trav's grandparents came from Florida (I almost jumped in the truck to go back with them) and then Jack came from California. Now before I continue know that the past weekend is a bit of a blur.

Jack has 6 kids, Jessica,Jeremey, jacob, Erica, Josh and Cody. We all congregated at Jessicas house saturday evening and had a nice dinner and I met alot of the family. The kids were great and we had a really great time all weekend. Sunday everyone came to our place and I made dinner and yum yums. I had a great time but I am exausted. Jack is staying with us for another week untill I get the final word on his rental. Jack is not well... it was worse than what I thought. He is very nice and my heart goes out to him. Im just glad hes home with his family cause I know thats where I'd like to be.

I can't wait to be home for the holidays.

RUN TURKEYS!!!!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, well I hope everone had a wonderfull holliday. I know I personaly thought I was dying. Too much food and too much driving. Travis and I braved "Black Friday" and took a trip down to the cell phone store and got ourselves a plan. With some nifty new phones I might add. My Step dad and my uncle have the new I phone wich is just way to techy for my taste.


So we survived thanksgiving!!!!

Now its time to put up the tree, make some cocoa and relax a little bit more!


Will Post again asap.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.


Yeah, Okay.


As many happy thoughts that are flying through my head right now... i should be flying off this chair into the ceiling like freakin peter pan!





Well lets see here. It has been INSANE at work the past 2 weeks or so. Tax "fraud", balloons (dont't ask) and ceo's. Well it's finaly over. I think/pray/hope, that this never happends again.

Nina moved in with her friend and Eric and I are still talking. He dosn't seem all that bad. On the other hand my mother thinks I would be best friends with Charles Manson if I talked to him long enough. I can't help it thats what I am good at. I can talk to people, I listen and to some people thats all they want. So anyways that nightmare is now over. Few days of peace and then come to find out that there is no such thing as "relaxation" when your Megan. Family is fighting over things that shouldn't matter. I know they don't mean to stress me out. I think this is just the way that God made me. I hate fighting, hate it. I don't like the way that it makes me feel and when theres nothing I can do to fix it, Its worse.

Trav and I have to think long and hard about the next few months. You see Trav never new his father. Actualy I will tell you a bit about his father that even HE dosn't know. Trav's (sperm doner as we shall now call him) SD and Nancy were friends in highschool were going to run off and get married and have the fairy tale ending. Well SD decided he was going to try some drugs, got hooked and became a nasty person. Nancy got pregnant, he hurt her, she lost the baby. Well turns out shes pregnant again and wakes up and says I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! She leaves his pathetic carcass and thats that. She went on and went to nursning school raised a WONDERFULL SON. She had a happy ending. Now here is where the story gets sad...

You see Trav never knew his father but Jack, (nancy's older brother) was always around and the man became his "father". Jack made many mistakes in his life but he did the best he could for Trav even with him having his own kids. Jack has been diagnosed with Cancer and is not going to be around much longer. He is actualy going to be on his way back to Indiana to live out the rest of his days. Trav want's Jack to be at the wedding. Jack's right lung colapsed a few days ago so instead of flying he will have his friend drive him home. Notice the problem here?


Trav wants to have him at the wedding, who am I to tell him no?


We move up the wedding and heres how its going to work.

#1. Some family members will NOT be happy.
#2 Jack gets to see the wedding
#3. No money for a big wedding.
#4. we arnt that formal anyway.
#5. I'm too chicken $#!7 to talk to my family.


Ok, I admit it. I am afraid to say anything. You know why? Cause the only ones that would have a problem with it are the ones who are freaking stressed out right now.

I talked to Nick about it last night for 2 hours and he told me. Do what your gut is telling you. This is your wedding, this is your time. Your not rich, most people round here don't have as much as you do. He told me that as long as theres a preacher, a witness and the two of us, we got nothing to worry about!!!!!!



So many things going on right now. Will update again as soon as possible.





and remember;

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

You know your a Benton County kid....

Well you know you are a Benton County kid, when you risk your LIFE to save 12 stupid pigs.


Thats right, I said risking my life!!!! I was drving along on 26 heading to my grandparents house. One of my good friends Nina was with me and we were talking about this weekend. All of the sudden she yells that there is something in the road. I slammed on the breaks threw that baby into park and jabbed the hazzard lights. There they were, 12 pigs, scared to death and wanting to get across the road. Nina and I looked at eachother both knowing we couldn't leave the poor things to get hit. So here we are standing in the middle of 26 stopping traffic and trying to get the pigs across the road. I don't know about you but I don't remember ever seeing Pig herding for dummies but a book needs to be made!


I will update more later. A mountian of paperwork is about to avalache off my desk if I dont get a move on it!