Megs wedding!!

2 weeks ago, meg got married!! It turned out to be a beautiful day, just kind of cold! I was able to take the day before off to help calm the storm before it happened and help with the little details. My mom is so good at doing it after 4 girls, that they had pretty much everything taken care of. I had the chore oAlmost f making these picture blocks, cuz Meg really wanted them and she was getting really ticked off cuz they weren't perfect.

My Aunt from Vegas helped me make these, we were a little tired of seeing Megan and Tooter's face by the end :D jokes!

We also had a little rehearsal that night cuz none of us knew what we were doing, we still didn't and it worked out! Following the rehearsal, we came back and if anyone knows my dad, he LOVES his music. Every year he does music for the Highschool volleyball and basketball teams, which is funny...maybe in the next life he will be a DJ. He was so stoked about his PA system he borrowed that he had to crank up one of his all favorite songs BARBIE GIRL!

Meg and my dad singing...so funny!

The day was great, because they had a decorator come decorate and we were in charge of the chair covers and bows (I suck at bows, don't ever ask me to help), they totally made the wedding beautiful!

The ceremony was great, my dad actually got to walk Meg down the aisle as well as perform their marriage. It was so neat to see how much honor my dad had in doing that. My dad is a crier, which made meg cry, when I see meg cry I consequently cry. It was great though. It was so fun to see all of our old friends from highschool and neighbors too at the reception. It was defintely AWESOME! Here are a few pics so you don't have to listen to my blabber mouth :D

Me and my sis Jen doing Megan up for the big day! Isn't her dress amazing...she looks great in it!

Me and toots brother starting the walk...I had to post the pics to prove I wore those nasty pink heels!

Me, Meg, and her good friend Cassie all ready!

Megs cake, I am just so impressed with it! My mom did a great job and I am impressed with her modern skills!

Meg and Toot cutting the cake. The funny thing is that when they fed it to eachother, they got it all over...Meg even got a bloody nose! It was great!

My cute niece digging in the cake!

Meet mom and dad!!

Happy wedding! (PS, sorry the pics dont go big, I promise they are cute)

July...

Summer has been crazy of coarse! Instead of a huge post, I decided I will do it over a few! In July I started school at the University of Utah, only driving up to class once a week, and suffering through another 450 hours of slave labor.

I am really good at the free slave labor, but its getting real old real quick. I gladly have 350 hours left and counting!


I get to see these picture all day through the ct scanner. I actually have really enjoyed learning it and I think its alot of fun. I can't wait to get more experience and also for 350 more hours to be done :)
I also was officially offered a job as a tech in flouro in July. It took like a month for them to do it, but its great I work 3 days a week, no weekends! I enjoy it most days...some could confirm days are better than others due to the people I have to work with.
Mark is still commuting up to good ol' E-town, for a FEW more weeks. I am anxiously awaiting so I can spend more than weekends with him and not have to come home to a dark, empty house.
Besides life that went on, we did get to go camping for a few days with Mark's family. It was colder than the dickens, but alot of fun. We usually go 4 wheeling, I went once, my pelvis didn't handle baby's weight and bumps very well. I was also very cautious with what I did camping. In early July Mark and I went on a 4 mile hike, the next day my body didn't think it was a good idea that we had gone, neither did my OB, cuz he sent me to L&D. Up camping, we love to play games...thank heaven I have learned how to play pinnochle, or else I might have died of boredem. I had forgotten my camera in the car we didn't take, so this is the only thing you get!
Sorry in advance, if you are offended.

Meet stumpman! When Mark and I dragged it back to camp, we almost couldn't carry it cuz we were laughing to hard. Stumpman describes the Hughes family so well! Until my more more exciting August post :)

Life...

So life has been full of change for us, not like you don't know. Mark has officially started commuting up to Evanston for work, a drving time of 3 hours a day :( It has only been a week and I am pretty ready for us to settle in one place. He loves staying with his family and I love staying here to work. I have had one job offer that I turned down and am waiting for another. It will be a great opportunity while finishing school. So needless to say we are anxious to see how work works out for the next few months and my school.
Some great news that will has caused another change is we are having a baby GIRL! We are expecting her a week before Turkey day (stay in a little longer so I can eat for two), jokes! Mark is guessing I will come early with work part time and school full time...my guess I will go late and become a humongous pregnant person. We are SO excited...she looks adorable in her US...I really can't wait to meet her.
I have nothing else fun to say...cuz nothing compares to a new baby...when I do anything fun by myself I will be sure to let you know!

Escapes from the real world...

Mark and I both had Wednesday off, the joy of working at a hospital and being done with school, and the joy of the stress of Mark and him starting a new job. We thought it would be perfect if we weren't home bodies and went and explored Provo canyon for the first time in more than 3 years of living here! It was amazing how beautiful it was up there, lots of trees and water. We hiked up to Bridal Veil Falls, (its about time for how many times we have driven past it) and we were like thats as close as you get...lame! We found a trail and started hiking towards it, which meant up. It wasn't a bad hike at all, and there weren't many people up there, just 2 kids. Mark wanted to continually hike higher to the falls...which heights aren't quite my fancy and wet rocks don't make it better. All I could think is we were going to be the breaking news on at 5. It was quite an adventure. While we were sitting next to the fall, getting a nice shower, these 2 boys have hiked up...BAREFOOT! Don't you remember the days of playing outside and them not hurting, not no more! They were getting ready to climb down and one asked if we would help him, I said of coarse cuz I am chicken too (probably not the best self esteem booster, DUH!) I thought it was funny! I then got brave while Mark helped him. But he was so good cuz he didn't help him he just told him where to hold on, he is such a good helper! We ended up hiking for 3 hours along the river and I saw my first beaver! My feet and other things were tired so we left. We left and ended our escape at the chiropractor. Now he is playing his wonderful game with his brother and I am being completely unmotivated. But come on...an updated blog twice in one week!


Bridal Veil Falls

I always tend to give great cheesers!





Here is Mark trying to help the boy I called chicken, oops!

bored...boards...party!!

Thats right, I have finally updated! Life has been pretty chill here, its wonderful! I have officially finished RT school, and passed my BOARDS! I did much better than expected, I was convinced I was going to fail, especially from the first few questions. I don't usually get nervous for tests because I have come to accept the fact that I do ok with tests and I am usually content with my score, but this test was a little different! My heart was pounding the entire time that I reviewed it. I will say that I learned alot through my studies but the only way I passed was through lots of help from my Heavenly Father and the countless prayer from me and my family. It was an amazing experience. Anway...its a relief to be done...now I am just trying to get a job so I can make some real money! We will see how that goes, especially with a few new developments in our lives!

So to celebrate being done with xray school, and meg (she is my twin sister, and yes I obviously talk about her lots) being finished and PASSED her first year of nursing school. Her and tooter (the fiance) decided to take a trip down to HOT Lake Powell! We decided it was also to celebrate Mark and Toot's b.days cuz they are both in May too! But we went last weekend and partied! We just mostly fished because Toot has an amazing boat that is definitely dedicated to fishing.



Mark caught the first fish, thats a 'strippie' he caught a total of 8

His first Walleye, and the biggest fish he has caught in his life!

My fishie! Mark is nice enough to let me fish with him and bait the line and take off those nasty fishes!
I only caught three, none of them were keepers, but thats a ok, cuz I hate dead fish. We all caught our fair share of cat fish...Mark hated them. I tended to catch my fish in the back of the boat with my feet in the water cuz it was so hot. Sadly I didn't get a nice tan cuz I burned so nicely on the first day.


This is Meg, she hopped in to go swim cuz it was so hot, I was too chicken and not hot enough at the moment! She is always hilarious to hear when jumping in the water, as we all are!


Meg tolerates fishes more than me, but this is her right before she kissed the nasty fish! She is gross! Megan just left her pole in a holder most of the days and caught more than me! She is simply amazing!

So I just have to share a hilarious incident that happened in the boat, cuz quite frankly I can't get over it. So I was just sitting in the boat while toot was driving to get to a canyon and I wasn't really holding on the anything. I assume he went over a big wave...and I was almost history. I somehow fell out of my chair into the back of the boat bouncing around like a dead fish. I couldn't stop laughing so I couldn't grab anything, my fingers get weak when I laugh...odd! So Mark is trying to help me up so they don't have to slow down, but neither of us can stop laughing. Meanwhile Meg comes back because she thought I passed out ( I have a hsitory). Toot confirmed i was lame! I hope it wasn't a had to be there moment! We saw lots of lizards doing pushups, it was pretty sweet!

I have a goal of taking more pictures, only when we go hiking though! Mark and I have a date night every week and go hike up Rock Canyon and have dinner once a week. Its great and beautiful...I hope I remember to take more pictures! ...until I have exciting news...

There is always a first for everything

After I finished my clinicals and it was time for Megs spring break, mom and dad asked if I wanted to go to Cali with them. I wasn't sure cuz Mark didn't go. But then I figured I mine as well be megs entertainment!We drove down with the parents and flew back. Here are some of the happenings! So, after 21 years of never riding on an airplane, I finally experienced it. If Meg wouldn't have gone with me I would have utterly been lost. She just has so much confidence, so I followed her. Lets be honest here, I should have listened to my brother in law and got over the fact of not being on one cuz it was like a large bus! So it definitely wasn't what I was expecting, needless to say. But I was so excited! Sadly, Meg and I thought the plane ride was far too long, even though it was 90 minutes.

This is our tray of soda and nuts, nice gesture, but why weren't the stewardess wearing the same clothes and were not nice!


Gambling was another first. If you don't know Megan, you are surely missing out...she bring the little rebel out in you . So I agreed to play $10, same as her...but she won $60 with the money i lended to her, what a freak. There was lots of money won, not by me, dad, and mom, but meg and my favorite Aunts, Koni and Wanda. Between the both of them they won $500.

When we got to California we went to a Pier by my grandpas house, to an utterly Delicious restaurant. The Pier was pretty long and it was quite beautiful. There were alot of people and people were trying to fish off of it, wierd. We didn't see anyone catch anything. It was fun to stayat grandpas house to see him again, he was pretty funny!

Along the peir there were tons of birds that just sat there. So Meg and I were watching surfers and this one came up, if you look at it closely, it doesn't have its left leg.

Megs photography of a sunset in a moving car by the ocean.

So we got to go to sea world, and it was so fun! We hadn't been for like ten years, so I didn't remember much. We got to see lots of wonderful sea life. On the whole ride there, my mom was sent to the back seat with meg and i. I don't think we have laughed that hard forever. So the whole drive we were saying sea world in different tones of voice. If you ever have the chance to it with your mother and listen to how high her voice goes. We kept repeating sea world, o it was great! Maybe you had to be there!


Thats right folks this is another first, if you don't know my ultimate fear it is that of fish! So you better look at this and weep, because I am holding a star FISH! I was so proud. Mark disagreed that it couldn't count! So later that day I touched Sting Ray. Maybe by the time I die I will be able to take off my own fish and look at dead ones. Nasty!

Random picture of us. My mom is a great photographer!

On our way back we stopped at the San Diego Temple. Too bad it was Monday or we could have got to actually get closer!!

This picture is kinda odd looking, but it has a great story behind it. So my grandpa has an orange tree outside his front door, so Meg went and got one, and my dad pointed to another one that was bigger and looked better. So they peeled it and we all wanted a bite. Man was it sour. My grandpa comes out and tells us it is a lemon. Thats right we peeled and ate it like an orange. Only people from WY.

This was also our entertainment before going to bed. Trying to get us all in!!! Meet the fam!

So onto real life...on Tueday I went up to the Univeisity of Utah to have an interview for CT school. They only accept 5, so I wasn't expecting anything. They accepted me on the spot and I will be starting in July and be done in December! I am so excited. It better blow Weber's program out of the water! It already has, cuz I applied to them in mid March and know now, but applied to Weber in January and heard nothing!! Mark left his other job, due to hatred...he is so much happier now. He started a new job on Monday at a tech support place (somewhere he didnt want to go, but he knows it will be for a short time until we know what we are doing)! So there is the 411 on life. Hope you all are well!!

GET READY TO HOLD ONTO YOUR BRITCHES....

cuz, I am officially done with my 1500 hours of free slave labor, aka clinicals for school! Don't hold on too tight, cuz I will have more in the fall. Hold on again...cuz I am going on my first airplane next week with my amazing look alike! Hope we dont' get lost!!

Its about time

Here are some pictures of the last little while, you can tell how often I have my camera with me!!



People call me Crafty Mandi cuz that what I am...lol, jk!


This is the first real gingerbread house Mark and I had ever made. We all decided to have a contest, so during turkey weekend the Green family all made the gingerbread and took them home to assemble houses . If you don't know Mark, he is very precise and picky, it was kinda hard to be so precise with frosting. We thought we had the coolest roof with shredded wheat, and our yard had pine trees, a dead pine tree (marks idea), snowman, and ice skating rink. Nikki, my oldest sister did have the coolest roof, individual hershey squares, Jens was awesome very colorful, but I think megs won! she didn't have as much as we did for a house she found out after she baked it so made an out house!! it was awesome a lifesaver breath mint for the toilet and tic tac for tp! LOVED IT!

A puzzle that we did from work, I of coarse didn't finish it, Mark and his bro did.

Mark says hi snowmobiling , he went with his bros cuz i was chicken and it was too cold! It did make for some fun time with sis in laws and Meg!

Me and Meg trying to get Luci to behave-shes so cute

Minus my ever unattractive hamburgler shirt, this is a cute picture of my sister, Laycee, and Charly! Layce is always so good to come say hi when she is in town. It makes Christmas so good. We love talking about the good old times and see my moms face. Charly was the entertainment this time laughin her britches off at Luci!!




Just a couple of reasons it made it worth it to drive to Evanston 4 times in 2 weeks!

Family Fun

Sorry, I am pretty lame and forget to take my camera anywhere! But the past couple of weeks have been so much fun. The most important thing, I finished school last wednesday :D only a few months left (I am not counting or anything). For Thanksgiving, Mark and I got to go up home and hang out with both families. Our families are on the same schedule, so I wasn't looking forward to having to share equal time with everyone. I think it ended up alright, we had a blast and didn't want to go home. I got to meet some of Mark's moms family I hadn't met and played games there until we couldn't stand it. We then went to my parents house and played with my sisters, but all of them left on Friday, but I did get to go shopping!! We got to go Christmas tree hunting with my parents, Marks first experience! We also made our first gingerbread house. We haven't been able to decorate it yet, cuz we are procrastinators, and now our sink is broken and we try to use little amount of dishes. We had a blast and wish we lived closer, maybe one day in the future.
This last weekend too, cuz Marks family came down to AF to his nephews baptism. I had the chance to drive up to SLC and watch my nephew, sorta, but just entertain my sister in law. They stayed at our house and we partied as best we could. We got to hang out with the entire family on Saturday and it was really fun. We love family. Anyway there is a catch up with us, maybe soon I will remember I have a camera!

Crazy 8 Tag

8 tv shows that i watch
1. Dancing with the Stars
2. Friends
3. Numb3rs
4. Full House
5. Studio 5
6. What Not to Wear
7. America's Funniest Home Videos
8. CSI...I wish

8 things i did yesterday
1. Worked
2. Dishes
3. Watched Numb3rs
4. Got the mail
5. Played the organ
6. Went to Sportsmans
7. Grocery Shopping
8. Talked to Meg and mom

8 places i love to eat
1. El Matador
2. Cafe Rio
3. Taco Time
4. Brick Oven
5. Applebee's
6. Hunan Garden
7. My house
8. Mom and Dad's house

8 things i am looking forward to
1. being done with school
2. getting a real job
3. thanksgiving dinner
4. snow*
5. Mark to come home
6. Megan to come visit
7. Dancing with the stars!
8. Day off on Tuesday!

8 things on my wish list
1. Marks old car out of the driveway
2. Clothes
3. School to be done
4. Megan to come live by me
5. a dog
6. kids
7. house
8. a Corvette for mark

8 people I tag (if I only had 8 friends)
1. AuBri
2. Danielle
3. Laycee
4. Stephanie
5. Jessica
6. Jeri

Girls Weekend!!

So this weekend the girls in my family, except my oldest sister, Nikki, went to Riverton, Wy to see my twin sister. We decided to go before the weather got too bad, because we didn't want to be the ones driving in the snow, sorry Meg. Riverton is up where the famous Rocky Ridge/South Pass is where the pioneers had to go through. Anyways, after a 700 mile round trip, it was so much fun! We just got to hang out, be blown away in tornado like winds, eat all you can eat chinese, watched how to make haunted gingerbread houses, and met Meg's student ward, which was about 20 people :0! The best part was totally hanging out all night and laughing, nearly giving my mother a heart attack! I can't wait until Megan moves closer to home, so we can play all the time! Here are a few pictures! Ps dont worry, Mark didn't have to stay home alone, he played with his family too, but we are much cooler!


Wyoming roads tend to be rather boring, so they
have to make the drive interesting somehow!



Ya know, since somebody clocks how fast they run across the highway!

Meg and I having one of our better moments!

Me and my adorable twin, mom, and older sister!
We all look so much alike!

And just for some fun, here are some more pictures of Meg and I, cuz people think that its so wierd that there are two of me!

Us, enjoying home life!

Who could ask for more beautiful faces!

I know this isn't Meg, but this is Luci, my parents puppy,
this is how she rode on my parents 4 wheeler, they called
it Toto's basket. She like me, cuz she thinks i am meg

My beautiful sisters

Mark and Meg summer 07