Tennessee Pictures

 Augie :)

 Lauren's reaction to a Sour Patch Kid (That one's not even the best one)

 Augie sleeping in the trunk because Hannah took up all of his space

 Augie and Lucy playing tug-of-war with Augie's toy

 Grandpa sleeping in his chair

 Joseph at the pool wrapped in two towels (I told you the water was cold, and the sun happens to be hiding for this picture.)

 Lauren and Joseph at the pool

Grandpa wearing Lauren's goggles at the pool
Okay, so I decided not to put any videos on because they are complicated and take forever to load and yeah. But Lucy does this hilarious thing with her water where when she's panting and hot she'll drink, then dig through the water like she's digging in the ground and then she'll put both of her paws in it and she'll flip the entire thing over! Hannah managed to get it on video twice by snagging my iPod.

Tennessee - Day 2

I don't know if this is the right video, I don't think that it is, and it won't let me upload any other thing, so I'm going to complete this post and them do another one with all of the pictures.
I know that the day isn't over yet, but I figured that blogging is a pretty good thing to do when it's 5:15 and it's quiet and everyone else is on electronics. I was the last one awake this morning (Luckily I was sleeping in the basement) but I didn't miss out on anything. (So I hear.) We went swimming this morning and the water was FREEZING. My aunt said that I turned blue. :) So after about 15 minutes in the pool, I got out and sat at the picnic table and ate and did puzzles in the newspaper with my grandpa. Surprisingly, we stayed for 2 hours, and I spent most of it eating. We came home and Lauren and Joseph tried roller skating. I helped Joseph roller blade and he didn't last long, but it was okay with me because spotting a 5 year old little boy in roller blades that are way to big for him and hasn't really roller bladed before isn't the easiest thing in the world. Then I had ice cream outside and some of it got in my hair and then Joseph, Lauren, and my mom and I went out on the porch and played Guesstures and Grabitz. Joseph "won" because he got the most points. (We just told him that so he didn't feel bad.) There's been a change in plans. Instead of staying until Friday, I am leaving with Joseph and Aunt Margaret tomorrow afternoon to go back home in Alabama, and Hannah and Lauren and my mom will come down to Arizona on Friday. I think that I'm going to help cook dinner now! Bye!

Tennessee - Day 1

Today, we are in Tennessee! My dad stayed home because he had to work, but Augie came with us. So far, the eleven and a half hour car ride has been worth it! We left around 6:20 in the morning (It sadly felt like school all over again) and got here around 5:45 at night. Our Aunt Margaret and her 5 year old son Joseph are here as well, and we're all boarding at my grandparents. I would post pictures(I have a great video of Augie and Joseph's dog Lucy playing together) but I'm using my grandparent's computer. They both got iPads for Mother's Day (I want an iPad for Mother's Day) but Hannah and Lauren won't let me help them figure it out because I helped my other grandma with her new iPad. In the car, we were playing Sparkle, and Hannah made the dog play, and he ended up sparkling all of us out. It was pretty funny. When we got here we played outside (my mom's old trike, a little cart thing that my mom played with, and roller blades that we brought) and ate dinner. Now I'm blogging, but I have to go get ready for bed. I'll see if I have time to post pictures in the morning!
-Megan

Pictures

 Stoney Creek - this picture is courtesy of Samantha

 A building from LegoLand - We saw this building when we went to Chicago

 Some Lego houses and a Lego park

 This Chicago Lego building at "night"

 A line of famous Chicago buildings - the Sears (I mean Willis) Tower is the tall one in the background

 A Lego fountian

 Little Lego ponds with flowers surrounding them

 Lego hearts my mom and I made

 The little clear plastic lookout we put unusually large Lego blocks around - that's Lauren in the "window"

 Me wearing a real live snake (!)

 A dog that weighed more than my dad - we're all standing up, but my dad is kneeling.

 McKenna and Myra - Myra is holding McKenna. They're at the Happy Joe's arcade.

 My grandma sleeping sitting up.

 Me holding Ayah - her family put their house on the market and then I heard that they took it off - maybe my "NO! ARE YOU CRAZY?!?" texts paid off!

 The jumping house the AlSheika's rented for the end of the school year party.

 Me and Ashlyn (Actually, as Mrs. Vogel would put it, Ashlyn and I)

 Hannah and Lauren simulating Barbies, getting ready to "jump out of the airplane"

 Lauren wearing the thing that you steam broccoli in on her head

 Samantha and MaKaela and us and their friends from Brazil who didn't speak English (They spoke Portuguese)

 Me painting my room

 My mom painting my room

Augie asleep on my couch (Can you see his teeth? :)
Happy Father's Day!
-Megan
P.S. Jim Furyk is not doing to well in the U.S. Open and he was in the lead but he is now tied for the lead and I don't think that he will win anymore but i thought that he would but he's at even par and he's been kind of slacking off and my confidence in him is shaking, but I don't really mind who wins because I don't have a favorite golfer.
Sorry for that, I just had to put it in. :)

Vacation

Hi everybody! I am very sorry that I haven't posted. I tried once, but it was messed up and it didn't work. I'm going to post pictures this time, just not in this post so in case I mess up I won't have to type all of this again. (I had to do that once, it stinks.) Happy Father's Day! I'm really tired today. So, we skipped school and went to Cody on the last day there. It was great! Everyone was really surprised to see us and they even made me a yearbook. Afterword, we went to Happy Joe's (a pizza place) with Ashlyn and Caroline and some of Hannah and Lauren's friends, and we saw McKenna and Myra there. Then I went over to Caroline's for a little bit, but she had to leave for her trip to like Hawaii or Paris or somewhere awesome and exotic like that. Then after that we just finished school, and the two days (the last one was only like a third of a day) we had a long boring assembly called Honors Assembly and stood outside and signed yearbooks. Fun! (With a fake smile and fake peppy voice.) Other than that, our summer has pretty much been sleeping in and Design Star and Figure It Out and swimming. Awesome, right? I can't wait for the Olympics. We had some of our old neighbors over for a party and I got to show them my new room (We redid it, it looks awesome) and we had my cousins over last night. My mom found this huge roll of paper that could probably cover a football field (no joke, you can sit on it comfortably) and we make cool murals. (Sorry, no picture of that.) I kind of copied Lauren's idea, she was doing this huge abstract art thing in a bunch of different colors and I liked it so much that I had to copy it. Hannah made this amazing hand drawn Webkinz banner because she is currently obsessed with Webkinz. Oh, yeah, big news. SOMEONE STOLE MY COUSIN'S IPOD TOUCH TODAY! She was at an arcade type place and she left her bag with her iPod in it by a game and when she came back the iPod was gone. I'm kind of thinking about sending a text to her iPod saying something like "what you did was wrong you should never steal something now I can't communicate with my cousin anymore and that means a lot to us" or something like that. My dad is currently watching the U.S. Open and he says it is getting good. Samantha and MaKaela are back from India! They've been back for a few weeks, but I haven't blogged in a few weeks. :) We're leaving for Tennessee to go to my grandparent's house tomorrow. We're coming back on Friday. My aunt and cousin are there already with their dog, and my cousin Joseph keeps asking, "When will Augie get here?" because we're bringing Augie. Well, I have to eat dinner now! Bye!