Grad 2012- The Ceremony

A few snapshots from the day!

{May 31st, 2012}

(The red sash means I graduated with honors in art. The criteria is to complete the course Professional Development in the Arts and to have at least 40 arts credits. I ended up with around 80. A full semester long class is 5 credits. The classically overachieving person I am also earned Honours, which is earned by having an 80% or above average all three years of high school. I have all those arts classes to thank!)

apologies for the tacos- it was a long, hot morning!

yeah dawg

So world, I graduated Canadian (Calgarian) style- No grad caps and the ceremony was before school and exams were over. If you would have told me three years ago that I would graduate from Canada, I would have laughed in your face. But today I can honestly say that I would have it no other way! 

(14 days until I am free from school bondage)

Love,

Megan Marie

Misty about Jazz

Today marked my final performance with the Treble Makers. I'm going to miss singing with this group of individuals so very much. As we sang Route 66 for the last time today, I had to choose to be happy about moving on to bigger and better things instead of being sad about what I was leaving behind. We each sang a Jazz solo today after school. I was so happy to have my brother Matt and sister Kate as well as my mom there to support me! 

Now for a few photos of the day!

John-John Morgan and I. Teammates since 2010.

Pixelated family love.

It's a bittersweet day. I've loved being a part of jazz in high school for two years. I was upset at the beginning of the year that I was put in my current group instead of the other one for selfish reasons. I've come to love and enjoy every moment with the Treble Makers and I have been given marvelous opportunities for growth. Thank you Mrs. Wood and John for helping us all make music that was good to hear!


Our songs this year:
Walkin'
Route 66
Fields of Gold
Home
Blue Skies
Blue Moon


Yours in everything Jazz related and with love,
Megan Marie

Up the Weekend Date {June 1-3}

The grad celebration has come and gone. My best friend Shannon came and went, and now my brother Matt and s-i-l Kate are here. We just had a delicious family dinner (roast beef and strawberry shortcake for dessert). I love the time I have to spend with my family- so much I am blogging now. All right, I'm used to be the only child at home. It's a minor adjustment having other bodies in the house, and bodies that look like you on top of that. To all my childhood friends who graduated from Bingham High this week- congratulations! I still bleed blue. I have a Bingham license plate decoration, among other things, to prove it.

So, here are a hodge-podge of photos from the other adventures had this grad weekend. 

Another grad party- Amazing Race style.

tired. si. 

 Here's a sneak preview from my time with Abby Dell photography on Thursday- spoiler alert!

 I have the sweetest home/visiting teachers ever- the Yamada's. They brought me the most beautiful graduation bouquet! 

 While missing her hubby who was in San Fran this weekend, we took a gander in Matt's baby box.

 Driving home Friday night, the moon was a-shining and the air was full of summer.

 Saturday brought a glorious visit to David'sTea. I left with a Jessie's Tea soy latte, and the strawberry ginger and flamingo loose leaf teas (caffeine free, calm down).

 twinned it up with seafolly.

 Oil change

 We took an adventure downtown once more. We needed to get to Cabin Fever, a used book store, but we neglected to check the address before paying for parking 20 blocks away. We took an opportunity to trek.

I was brought back to my Awesome/Radical roots. 

ankles were again exposed

 Ate at Joey's in Eau Claire- mucho fabulous.

And today I enjoyed my gluten-free (gf) lemon poppyseed pancakes, courtesy of Pinterest.

 Shannon departed for her homeland. Our Toms were to be separated once more.

 Shannon took the opportunity to use the Peter's Drive-In coupon she won at the aftergrad party. Farewells suck. and I know suck is an ugly, impolite word but oh well.

Facetimed with the twin and Squish!

I drank some tea and ate the most delicious yogurt combination known to man.

I went to church, learned about goals and such, and helped with nursery. I drew each kid cartoon style and they loved that!

Some final Sabbath Day notes:


We are what we want ourselves to be.
Align our image of ourselves to what we want to be.
Divinity is inside all of us. Recognize that, and you are going to be unstoppable. 
Remember, you are a child of God, and that's what matters most. 


Always remember who you are, what you stand for, and what you want. 

The more we follow God's counsel, the happier we will become. 


Two major life goals:
-Be of service to the Lord
-Be where the Lord wants us to be, no matter the sacrifice.


That's all for now, until next weekend, where I shall be one week  closer to being finished with high school!


Love,
Megan M.A.