Meg Got Her Hairs Cut :)

So I have been wanting a really cute hair cut. I am not sure if it is because I have gained a few pounds and feel ugly or because my long hair would occasionally choke me in my sleep and I would have a nightmare I was being choked. Well so this is the conversation that I had with Stephen when I found a picture of the hairstyle I thought I would like:

Meg: Stephen do you like this hairstyle? (me pointing to a picture i found online)
Stephen: Yeah it's cute. I mean the haircut is cute.
Meg: Well I only asked if the haircut was cute... (slightly confused why he clarified)
Stephen: Well you won't be able to look exactly like her.
Meg: I know I just am looking at the haircut. (I smiled and laughed, and Stephen thought nothing of this conversation)

Well here is the picture I showed him in connection with this conversation:

I know that I am no Heidi Klum, but I love the haircut I have and have actually gotten compliments. So either the compliments are just a nice thing people say when a haircut is bad or they really mean it.

I went to the David Douglas Salon in Provo at the Riverwoods Shopping Center. I went to a girl named Whitney and I really liked her. She was fast and did the cut exactly how I asked.

Just a note: I have only gotten my haircut two other times outside of California so this was a stretch for me to get it cut in Utah were a lot of women tend to have similar haircuts and similar looks (if you know what I mean).

Second Row Jazz Game!

Well we were given some sweet tickets to the Jazz vs. Spurs Game. It was agreat thing that the Jazz won. But the bad thing is that my picture of Thurl Bailey didn't really turn out.
Well here are some shots. We were way to into the game and so we didn't really take many pictures of us.
This is us, second row baby!!!
Just Darren Williams warming up, no big deal, I see him all the time up close, just joking!
My horrible picture of Thurl Bailey, its even side ways I am lazy :(
Some game shots! Cameron (my little bro will be jealous)
Free throw!!!

So cool story... I am close with Randy Rigby (President of the Jazz) and he waved and said hi to us at the game. Yeah, we are so cool right now! Randy's daughter is my very best friend, Heather Ribgy.

Thanks father-in-law, Papa Steve for the great tickets and especially to think to give them to us!

Nike Women's Marathon 2009

Well a quick update.... Mom is doing well, she is talking and moving around with a walker. She should be able to go home around the end of this week sometime or even early nest week.

Well in October I went and ran a half marathon in San Fransisco. My mom, sister and I have done this marathon before and the best part is the Tiffany and Co. necklace at the end.

So here are some pictures, (of mostly my sister and I), mom could only walk the last 100 feet. She did this so she could get a necklace!!

This is where we had to check-in and get our race packet. There is tons of free stuff, we are hanging out by the Girahdelhi Chocolate counter get a taste of each type of square.

This is the traditional heart that is at union square that has become a traditional picture to take.

This is the Bear in the Macy's Christmas section giving me a high five for running a half-marathon.


And this is my mom, sister and me with the one who started it all. The Central Coast TNT Manager Barbara Saia.

This trip was extremely special.... We got to go see WICKED! So my mom asked Lisa and Elaine some old friends of ours, and they must of played the "she has a heart problem" card to get us those tickets. We got to sit pretty close and it was totally the best Broadway I have ever seen.
My aunt and cousins came too, and my mom's friend Anna who we stayed with in San Fransisco.

I got in trouble for taking a picture inside, oh well....

This is us by the painted on Wicked posters outside the theater.

Well the following pictures of the actual race and other activities related to the race. Again they are all of Lindsey (my sister) and I because my mom wasn't able to run it with us. The theme of the race is RUN LIKE A GIRL. Its so empowering, especially when you hear mom's yelling "You are running to save my daughters life!" The race is to fund research for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. But this year I was unable to fund-raise for it, I got in through a lottery drawing.

This picture is before the race even starts at around 5:00 am. The streets of downtown San Fransisco are filled with people (aka women). there are about 4-5 blocks of people packed in the streets waiting for the race to start.

As the race starts there are different start times. So when we get through the start line its already been like 15 minutes.

There is so much going on, people cheering, bums yelling, and there are even choir singers and bag pipe players all with Nike shoes on!

This is are traditional picture with the Golden Gate Bridge, well Golden Gate FOG that is! Oh how I love the fog and miss it!

I tend to dance to all the DJ's that play music throughout the race.

Well here are some more shots of the race. I was not wanting to take pictures because I was feeling the hurt for sure at mile 8 or so.


Well not training for a half-marathon (13.1 miles!) was a bad idea. But I survived and I am doing great now. I had a great time and I know that I will try for the lottery of the race again for sure. When I have the time and the means, I'd love to raise the money to go with Team in Training again (TNT).

Proof that I RAN LIKE A GIRL!

My Mom's Open Heart Surgery

Hey well this week has been a good and kind of worrisome one.
My mom has had heart problems for years with her heart in aphib. She has had a hard time going up stairs, or any inclines. She is tired of it, so my mom went to hospital on the first Tuesday in November. She got prepped for surgery on Wednesday. She was supposed to go in for surgery around 1:30pm. She didn't get in until about 2:30pm. There was about another hour of prep work and she was put through surgery. This is a recap that dad emailed about the surgery.

Wendy's (Mom's) Heart surgery was a success. It was a 5 hr operation. It didn't end until about 7:15pm MTN. They successfully repaired the mytral and Tricuspid valves. They performed "maze" ablation, and reduced the enlarged portion of her heart. While in there, they found an "appendage" which they removed. I think the "appendage" was a result of uncirculated blood over time.

The only glitch that occurred during the surgery was one of the pacemaker leads detached from her heart. They re-attached it. I guess it was the best time for a lead to come detached, the surgeon and doctors where right there to fix it. As a result, they decided to not re-set the pacemaker deeper. So the pacemaker still protrudes showing a bump below her left front shoulder blade.
Wendy did well with the heart-lung" machine. She is in ICU right now and is on a ventilator, (normal procedure). She will not be conscious until perhaps tomorrow morning. She will go off the ventilator then she will have to exercise her lungs to get her lungs back into the whole breathing thing again.
That's all for now. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.

She is currently still in the hospital in Albuquerque. She was on a ventilator and I am currently trying to find out if she is off of it yet.

Thanks to everyone who asked and showed concern. Especially thanks for your prayers.