Lots of stuff!!

Hey all! I know I haven't posted in a while so I have a lot to say :D First, drumming is going well. I am learning lots of new beats and having a blast. Oh, and as a ad-on to the drumming subject me, along with my sisters and my best friend formed a band! It is called "The Impact" and we are starting to sound really good and also, we are playing at a concert soon where we will be playing Awake and Alive by Skillet. I am practicing like mad on drums and vocals. (I am singing half of the song) I am really excited but I do not know if it is excitement of nervousness ;)


Off that subject of that I went to Myrtle Beach for March break and met up with some family there, which is always fun and we did lots of stuff there including: Mini Golfing, shopping, and lots of other fun things. It was a blast and I would LOVE you go back there again.


Next topic: Photography!

My photography is going well, and I have lots of new pics! I will have a new post about that soon.


Now about our animals, this is the hard part. I have have lots of good things happening but lots of bad things as well....

Our dog, Samson unexpectedly had a type of cancer. We took him to the hospital and we could not do anything. Seeing him in so much pain and suffering was hard and we made the crushing decision of putting him down. It was unexpected as well, because he was only 9.

I'm not done about the dogs. Out 2nd dog Meme, had a lung cancer problem. One second she was he lovely self then the next, she was lying on the ground pooping out blood and not being able to move. She also sadly passed away.

For the first time in my life I do not have a dog....which is hard.

On the bright side we are going to get a new dog shortly. Probably in the next 4 weeks! I am so excited :)

So ya, that's most of what I have to say, but first I want to wish a happy birthday to my friend Megan. Thank you for being your wonderful self. I miss you incredibly and I look forward to your next visit.


Thanks for reading!
-Meghan

Pictures

Wow.
Just wow.
I really need to update. Seriously.

I think i'll get you up to speed by telling you what I have been doing lately. One of the things is school but I think you don't need to know about that. That would be weird. If I stop right here then that would be to short of a blog so I'll tell you about something else I've been doing. Photography. Sense I live on a HUGE farm with no city in 20 mile radius I have a lot of nature around me; deer, wild flowers, sunrises, sunsets, stars and so on. There's a ton to take pictures of. Another thing that makes me more excited to do it is love doing it. You will always be better at something if you like (or love) what your doing :)

You probably don't want me to describe the pictures I took so I will just show you.

Dewdrops on a leaf :)

So those are some of my pictures! I really hope you enjoyed them and please comment and tell me if you liked them :)

Lots off stuf

Wow.
I just looked and realized I haven't blogged in a while.

First I noticed I hadn't finished talking about the water parks I went to in Florida.
On my last blog I talked about Discovery Cove which was the dolphin experience now, this is the park that has the rides!

The place is called Aquatica along with Discovery Cove it's part of Sea World, but I have never been to Sea World so I have no idea if they are like each other at all anyway, back to Aquatica.
My Dad rented a part of a place that has beach chairs, in the shade and is close to my favorite ride there :D. Thank goodness it was in the shade that day was one of the hottest days while we were in Florida.

The first ride we went on was a family ride where there is a tube raft that we all went in and the tube you went in on the raft had lots of turns and was so fast ( it was A-W-E-S-O-M-E ). The next one was a tube raft one put this one the tube you were in the top was open so you could see below. And I mean below below this one was a high drop for a raft ride it wasn't straight down because that would be WAY too dangerous but it went down fast and then there was a slope then down again ( wicked ). This one was my favorite, you walk up a bunch of stairs and get a water mat thingy then a voice from the speakers says "Three, two, one and they're off!" then you kick off with your feet and the water carries you through a tube that just turns you for a while. Then there's a light up ahead your mat comes closer and if you look down you'll see about a 30 ish 40 ish foot drop and you go down real fast until you slide to the bottom. Another ride was kind of lazy river I guess but, it was fast and there were rapids and places were there was little geysers of water going out through the water that would burst you ahead.

This one was cool. You go down a tube and twist and turn and then go under water (the tube has air in side so you're safe :) and then you see dolphins swimming around you! It is so cool.



There were more rides but I would like to end it here.

Thanks for reading!

Discovery Cove part 2

Hi everybody. This is Discovery Cove part 2. This blog will probably be short but I should do it so I can wrap up Discovery Cove on my blog.

So, last time I told you about the dolphins there but, that's not everything there was! Along with the dolphins there were manta rays, a lazy river, a big built cave, exotic birds and other stuff. First, the manta rays!

Have you ever touched a wet, smooth, soft rubber ball with eyes? Didn't think so. If you have that's what they felt like. You went into this big pool made to look like a coral reef and stuff also, there were different kinds of fish along with the manta rays. They felt really cool and went RIGHT under you.

The lazy river was HUGE not wide huge but long huge. I would just float there (theres a trick to that) and look at the birds flying over my head! Also, there were some fake ruins underneath you that you could look and walk on!

So that's really all I have to say!

Hope you are liking my Florida posts.

Discovery Cove part 1

Hey! This is the first post of all the posts about Florida and, like I said in the last post this is not day one of my trip but, this day was real cool so that's why this one is first.

So, this is an explanation of Discovery Cove. Discovery Cove is a place that is mostly a dolphin interaction sorta place but it doesn't only have them, it also has a coral reef place with different fish and manta rays. Across from that, there's a lazy river and in the middle it has has birds swooping over your head and fake ancient ruins under you :D Also, it is partly attached to Sea World. I can't tell you all of it to you today because my mom is kinda in charge of what I blog about and she said I should just do the Dolphin part today.

Ok, so we got up from our condo ( it's a really big place with three balconies, a kitchen, living room, 2 bathrooms, one bed room that had two twin beds, one bedroom that had a Queen bed and one that had a King bed) at about 7:OO a.m ish and got to Discovery Cove at about 8:OO. The package that we got for Discovery Cove came with a pass to Aquatica, lunch and breakfast buffet and never ending snack supply! So after we got there we had our breakfast and went to swim with the rays ( i'll talk about that in part 2 ). Before we did that we needed to get special life jackets on that kept us warm because the dolphin and manta ray pools were 75f or something like that. Along with those we got a snorkel and mask. After we went in there we went in the lazy river\bird place and then the dolphin area.

We went to nice sized building that had a grass covering the roof so it looked like a grass roof :) I am not sure what theme they were going for..... Anyways, there was a three minute movie followed by instructions like: "Please don't scratch the dolphin because dolphins that's the way they show their emotions to each other" and "When you have your dolphin ride don't kick your legs you might hit the dolphin" and some other rules. After that, we were off. We stopped at a REALLY big pool with other groups of people with dolphins we got into waist high ( for me, I am 5 ish feet) water and the instructor asked us all to call Copper! And so we did a dolphin came swimming over real fast and then, the instructor introduced Copper and herself ( Copper was SO cute!) then, gave us a a motion to do that looked like waving in sign language to do. A little after we did that Copper jumped and waved with her fin! After then sh

e told the dolphin something and the dolphin started going in large circles and so all of the group could feel and look at her. This may sound weird well, I am reading it over and it does but she felt like a really smooth rubber ball. After she explained a little about dolphins and took questions she asked, "now, who wants to kiss a dolphin?" My sisters and I raised our hands first. I went second and gave her a little one. Later after every one did it Copper went of and another dolphin named Cindy came then, the instructor explained more about them. Then a different older looking dolphin named Lester came and ( this was really fun) we went into deeper water and she said we would take rides on him! I went first this time.I held on to the the dolphin's top fin and then the dolphin pulled all of us one at a time to the end, now that was fun! After the rides on Lester she said for us the make a karate chop but don't hit she water, we did and Lester did a jump and while he jumped went back then dived into the water.

Here's a picture of me and Lester!

It was a REALLY great day!

Ok, gotta go!

Hope you are liking Simply Meghan's Florida Blogs!

Many, many posts

Hi everyone! First of all, sorry! I have been on vacation at Florida ( it was wicked awesome by the way) and haven't been able to post in a while. Though, it may happen again I will warn you.

These next few blogs are going to be about my trip to Florida but; they probably won't be in order from day one to day fourteen.

Enjoy!

Valentines Day!

Hey people, happy Valentines Day! Hope you all had an awesome and special day.

This is what my family did on Valentines Day:

In the morning we did the basics: get up, have breakfast, make my bed etc etc....

After that we didn't do anything SUPER exciting for a while (counting school). Then around 4:30 ish my Mom and I started to make the AWESOME food.

When my Dad got home from his work it was all ready. For the meat there was venison cooked rare which my Dad hunted a while ago. For the vegetables we had cooked red peppers and potatoes that were slowly rasted in the oven. For the lovely dessert there were mini chocolate cakes for each of us; the outside was amazingly cooked and the in side was melted chocolate with butter and sugar! Wow, was it good!

So what did you do for Valentines Day?

Hope you guys are liking my blog!

Meme and Cappucino

Hi everybody, I hope you are all enjoying my blog!

This week was SO exciting but also very sad. So the German Shepherd breeder that sold us Samson and the dog that we had before, Tasha (she passed away in 2007), she sent my Mom an email saying that she has a retired show dog who's a German Shepherd, six years old and her name is Meme. She said she is smart, sweet and cute. When my Mom told me that we were getting her I said "YAY! WE ARE GETTING A NEW DOG YAY I AM SO EXCITED!” Honestly if you knew me you would know what I mean. And everything Mrs. Leanne (the dog breeder) said was true! She is such a darling dog. She doesn't know simple tricks like roll over, lie down and sit (though she is learning that one) but she does know come, which is awesome!

But something happened..... When we were at church and just Meme and Samson were there she knocked Sparrow's (our hamster) cage down and he died of the shock. She didn't really know any better though. She didn't know that she wasn't allowed to and it turns out that she liked to catch mice at Mrs. Leanne's house outside.

Now I will STOP that sad news.

Usually when you lose a loved pet you want to get a new one to calm you down right? (Right). So later we went to Petsmart and saw such cute hamsters and mice. We wanted to get a younger one, four months at the max. One of them was a bit crazy (it was SO funny to watch). One was too old. Five or so were mice. One was a Skinny pig. He was black and brown so he didn't look bad. But in one cage there were three hamsters each around three months. They were all girls. Two of them were black and white and one was golden at the head to the arms and the rest was white with some golden spots. Also she had one black spot on each ear. One of the black and white ones was too quiet. The other black and white one was too energetic and she also was eating my sister’s sweater. And the last one was just right! She was kinda fast but not too much and she wasn't so quiet. So we got her YAY!

We named her Cappucino. We put our new hamster in a new spot that NO dog can reach. While we were driving home with the hamster in a cardboard box she gnawed a big enough hole to get her head through and when a hamster gets her/his head through something they can fit their hole body in! Both Meme and Capuccino are sweet, lovable and CUTE.

I love both of our new pets!

Thanks for reading Simply Meghan.

2011

Hi everyone I hope you all had an awesome Christmas and New Year. I honestly can’t wait for 2011. My family and I are going to a couple places this year. One we are going to Florida mostly to go to Disney World! (It’s my first time) But also hope to go to a few other cool places like Discovery Cove (You get to swim with dolphins!) and the Kennedy Space Center. I am REALLY excited to go to those places. My other trip is to P.E.I., it’s a BIG family get together for my Grandparents' anniversary. It’s going to be in a huge building that we rented for a while. Anyways you can probably see that I changed my blog a lot like I put up a slideshow and changed the background so please tell me what you think by commenting and writing what you think.

Hope you all had a good Christmas and New year!

Thanks for reading!

Cooking

There are many ways to describe cooking. You can say cooking is fun, challenging, easy, experimental, it's a chore or it's boring. I think it's fun, sometimes challenging, and very experimental. I can say this because I cook. I cook many things but no, I am not going to list them all because that would be boring for me to type and boring for you to read.

I like to try new things. All of my family does. My Mom tries A LOT of cooking recipes. She goes to a website called "The daring Kitchen" every month that website posts a blog on their website. It's always something thats kind off hard to make like sushi, souffle, baguette, Pate, and apple butter. Something like that.

And all that food I listed is AWESOME. This Christmas, like all of them, we made treats. We made Christmas cookies, ginger cookies, and meringues. They are soooo good. Also last night my Mom had a small party. She and I made alot of stuff like wassail, (it's a hot spice Christmas punch) and canapes ( there like little bit sized squares that has cream cheese and a lot of other stuff).

I am going to make this short and sweet. I love to cook!

Thanks for reading Simply Meghan

Drum set!

Hey everybody

Guess what?

I GOT MY OWN ELECTRIC DRUM SET! YAY!

I got it on Monday ( I was too excited to post a blog yesterday or on Monday sorry).

So I just got home from a homeschooling program called S.H.E.P that me and my sister go to.

When I arrived home I was about to close up my chickens but my Mom said I couldn't until I came inside.

And when I came in....

I GOT MY DRUM SET!

Sorry I'm yelling a lot.

My parents got it at Costco (that place has everything)

I'm soooo happy.

My teacher said I will learn stuff twice as fast!

It's also helping my mom a little because on her band practice night the drummer doesn't need to bring his drum set. ( he will be playing on mine)

Well that's all I have to say.

Hope you like this post.

Christmas

Is it too early to be talking about Christmas? Well I'm going to anyway. Christmas is coming, there's no stopping it and why would I want to? Last year I was dying for Christmas to arrive because that year I went to Alabama for it but we won't talk about that. But I want to tell you last year everyone on my mom's side went to Alabama for Christmas and New years.

We did something a little different. What we did is everyone would put their name in a hat and then would draw a name and the name they got they would give a present to that person and no one else (But they would give stuff to siblings and parents) . Last year I drew the name of my five year old cousin and I got her My little ponies, she loved them. This year well I don't what to say because he might see.... You might be thinking, what we would do with the rest of the money? What we do is we take all the money we would use and give it to charity. I honestly think it's a great idea because we are giving to the people that don't have good homes and might not have homes at all, and are starving and lost their family. And it's really fun thinking who you'll get in the hat.

Thanks for reading!

Winter is almost here!

Hi everyone.

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I will try to do it more often from now on.

I can't wait for it to be winter! I like spring and fall but now it's all wet, yucky and cold. I'm telling you it's not fun.

So last Sunday in the morning, when I got out of my sleeping bag (I was at a sleepover) I saw that outside it was snowing - and I was really happy! But not all fun things last. It all melted quickly. *Sigh*. Right now when I look outside it's wet and ugly. Well, one of the best things about being cold is that you can sit in front of the TV with some hot cocoa and enjoy. Hope next time it snows it'll last!

Hope you like my blog!

Saturday

On Saturday my family and I went to the Museum of Nature. But that's not all we did.In the morning we woke up then a hour later we left our house. First we went to a car repair shop were we picked up my dad. Then my sisters and I had crepes with bananas and chocolate for breakfast at Cora's. And the waiters said one was too small and so they gave us an extra one no charge! When we left a man asked us if we wanted free fudge and I couldn't say no. Later we went to Costco to see what it was like cause my parents have not been there for a while. And then we went to the Museum of Nature where we met up with my Aunt, Uncle and little cousin. At the end we got groceries and then went home. It was an awesome day.

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Jackson Jones

I am excited for Saturday. I am going to a book release. Not just any book release that I saw a advertisement for it and know nothing about then go on short notice. No. I am going to a book release that I have read before it was released. It's because I know the writer very very very well. And she gave me a makeshift one that had like one problem and they fixed it. Her name is Jenn Kelly a very kind and lovely lady. The book is called Jackson Jones the tale of a boy an elf and a very stinky fish. I will say this.... IT'S AWESOME! It's adventurous, funny, emotional, cool and has a great meaning a to it. The release and signing are held at the Chapters in Kanata on Saturday at 1:00 and it's open to everyone. I gotta say this book is the best book I've read!

Drumming!

Yesterday I went to music class.It was my second day there. I love drumming!

The place I go is awesome! There are guitars and stuff lined against the walls, a lot of pianos and electronic drums acoustic drums and even bongo drums.

And my teacher is really nice. He said if I'm going to learn how to play a song then it will be one I like and one I choose. He is a great drum player too.

I know a simple drum beat. One that you can play to country music, rock music, pop, almost everything.

I am LOVING playing the drums!

Thanks for reading my blog!

Biking

I have a bike I guess every one does. Well it's not officially mine but its my sister's but it's too small for her so I use it.

So I hardly ever ride it. And I think that's kinda wasting a good bike. I also think I spend a little to much time indoors. We also have a drive way thats 1km long.So I decided to see how many km I can bike in one week. Every day I biked in that week. I started slow then worked my way up. At the end of the days I would mark how many km I did. At the end of the week I counted it all up and in the end there I biked 40km in one week! I was really happy with myself but it wasn't easy.

And maybe some other week I will try walking and see how many km I can do. But I can almost guarantee it will not be 40km!

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Church

Yesterday I went to church.

We aren't a very big church yet so we rent places to hold church at.

Most of the time we get up at 7:00 and leave at 7:30. Then when we get there my dad and some other guys set up the sound stuff and get everything up and ready to go. Then my mom and the rest of the band practice. At 10:10 the service starts the adults sing and listen to our pastor.

All the kids 6-11 go to the kids' church and toddlers and babies go to their own classes. The youth have their own spot too. Sometimes on special days we get out our mascot and fun cruiser and have fun by worshiping and enjoying snow cones, popcorn and cotton candy. All in all I think we have a great church!

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Maritimes

My mom is a mom,singer,piano player,song writer and the worship leader of my church.

One day she heard about a Christian event soon going on called Oasis and it was held in the Maritimes. Later she had a radio interview and the man that did the interview wanted her to do some musical events in the Maritimes. A lot of my family live around there too. And so my mom and dad said as this year's trip we were going to the Maritimes!

We had so much fun. My mom sang at a few churches and concerts and we got to see my grandparents,cousins,aunts and uncles and my great aunts that I haven't seen in four years! And we might be going there next summer to do some more concerts and to see my relatives!

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Music

Hi

I play the piano a little, and so do my sisters and my mom. I'm not so good but my mom is awesome at it.

My mom wanted us all to do our own instrument and so one day after a home schooling thing she said, "You guys will be doing music lessons every Tuesday."

I get to play the drums. I am SO excited!

Now I have a practice pad that is a small single drum that you put on a table or your lap and play, and of course I got some drum sticks. But later, in maybe 6 months if I do well I will get a full drum set!I will post it when I get it.

I need to practice hard every day for at least 15 minutes but I know it will be worth it.

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