Super Bowl Birthday!

It's Super Bowl Sunday and also my cute hubby's birthday!!

Luke was sad that his team the New York Giants weren't in the Super Bowl and thought that would have been the perfect gift. I guess Eli Manning didn't get the memo. Maybe next year babe!

He is 26 years old and is on the "downward" slide of his twenties. I probably shouldn't remind him because it really stresses him out.

Because his birthday fell on Super Bowl Sunday we knew we would have to be at the church for a gathering so we decided to celebrate his birthday on a later date.

However all of our friends still made the day special for him.

Our friends Stephanie and Todd got Luke the cutest little (well I say little it was HUGE) cake.

Luke with his cake:

Close up of the cake:

They also brought him a gift his favorite cookies:

My sister Kati came down to spend the night with us and of course brought the cutest little guy with her.

He spent his time during the Super Bowl doing lots of this:

And here he is cheesing it up before bed:

It was a great day and I hope that my husband had a great birthday! (even though I didn't give him his present today, I ordered it off line and it still isn't here, aren't I a horrible wife?!?)

In jewelry news....

Last week I mentioned that I had a Stella and Dot jewelry party and I had a couple of friends that wanted to see the cute jewelry I got and I am happy to share.

First off I had my eye on two necklaces, I couldn't decide which one to get but went with this beauty. It is absolutely gorgeous in person, so shiny.

You can wear it several different ways. Here it is again, please PLEASE ignore my camo shirt, I don't normally wear camo.

I also got this chunky bracelet. I have been all about bracelets lately and this one is fabulous.

And last but not least I got a set of three rings:

I tried to get a good shot of them but it was hard.

I don't sell Stella and Dot I just really like their stuff. Very cute and good quality.

So that was our Super Bowl Sunday. I honestly didn't watch 5 minutes of the game and I am ok with that! I will catch the commercials online!

Hope you had a great weekend!

Officially a Tree

After 17 months of being married, and 17 months of procrastination I finally went and had my name officially changed.

I feel like a new woman.

I can't pinpoint exactly when it started but for some reason, somehow, somewhere in the past 17 months I developed a PHOBIA of getting my name changed.

It had nothing to do with commitment, or Luke or the actual last name, I was living the life of a Tree in every way, just not according to the government.

Which kind of seems like a crime or something. Hm...

Anyways, it was something that I kept saying I needed to do and then the thought of driving to the office and sitting there sounded horrible.

Pretty much every married girl that I had talked to made it sound like they went to hell and back to get their name changed.

And I had no desire to go to hell and back. So I continued to fake being a Tree.

I mean my blog name is Tales of the Trees, how much more official does it get than blogger?

But after about 20 panic attacks at different times I realized that I needed to get my name changed if I wanted to continue my life as a Tree.

I had too many different names floating around and I was beginning to think it might catch up with me someday.

Although it was sort of exciting to feel like a character from The Bourne Identity or something.

I have no idea why I just picked that movie. It just seemed appropriate.

Anyways......

I took off Friday afternoon and begged Luke to pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease go with me since he has Friday's off.

We arrived at the office around 1ish I took my appropriate number and sat down for what planned to be hours.

I had asked Luke to come so that he could keep me company during this trying time.

So here he is "keeping me company"

In case you're wondering as soon as we got there he put his headphones in his ears and started reading a book.

If that's not true love than I don't know what is.

We had been there for about 5 minutes when I realized that my bladder was about to burst. I gave my number to Luke and told him to listen for it, knowing that my number wasn't going to be called for another 6 hours.

I then went to the bathroom. We will not discuss this bathroom. If I develop a disease in the next 2 months I will know where it came from. That bathroom. I was thankful to be wearing a scarf because I used it as my face mask.

I came back to the holding room (or waiting room) to find Luke all in a tizzy. They had called my number but he didn't know who had called it and they moved on to the next person.

All I have to say is, "If looks could kill".

I'm pretty sure I made a baby cry from the way I looked at Luke.

He had one job, ONE JOB.

I may have even contemplated not taking his name at that moment.

So after trying to problem solve and walking around in a circle trying to figure out what to do, they finally called my number again.

And I looked at Luke like he better thank his Lucky Stars.

I eventually I got everything taken care of and finally changed my name.

Here I am so happy to have it done, and only a little bit mad at my lovely husband, all while wearing my red face mask.

And it only took 17 months of procrastination, a 15 minute drive to the building, 1 almost throw-down with the husband in the waiting room and a 30 minutes wait.

Thats what I call success.

This is what I've been doing

So I feel like a failure.

I said I would have more answers to my giveaway questions post but I don't.

At this rate I will be done with the questions around summer time.

And I have no excuse. Well actually I have an excuse but it's not a good one.

Unless you count me sitting on the couch for hours putting pictures of myself and Luke into myheritage.com to see who our celebrity look alike is.

Because that right there is my excuse, and apparently I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I remember this same thing going around at one point during my college career, and I'm sure I spent many hours avoiding a little thing called studying to sit and put my face into a website so that it could tell me that I supposedly look like some celebrity.

And I'm trying not to be to bitter towards this site but I have to say that I was never very pleased with the results.

First of all this is who it said Luke looked like:

Yes that is Raven Symone. The resemblance is uncanny.

After putting in the picture that I felt most accurately portrayed what I looked like this is who is said was my celebrity twin:

(source)

I will never look at Laura Bush the same.

I have to say that I wasn't too convinced that Mrs. Bush was my celebrity twin so I put in another picture.

About 20 more times.

And every time it gave me the picture of Mrs. Trump, apparently this is my celebrity look alike, minus the boobs

This blog is all about being honest and that is honestly why I don't have any answers tonight.

Well I did do one productive thing tonight, I made TWO dinners and froze one to eat next week. I pretty much consider myself a rock star after doing that.

A rock star who apparently resembles Laura Bush and is married to a man who resembles a young girl on a Disney show.

Ahhh, this is the life.

At one point the celebrity look alike indicator did tell me that I looked like Kate off of Lost but that could be because I put in about a billion pictures until it finally gave me somebody I wanted to look like.

I think Kate is absolutely beautiful.

The website was like, just give this poor girl somebody that she will like so she will stop importing 12847 thousand pictures.

So after I got her face I quit importing pictures. I realized I had become obsessed.

Oh and there might be a misunderstanding, I think I gave the impression that Luke and I are just now starting Lost, we have actually watched it since the beginning and we are rewatching the series.

Because we don't have anything better to do than to sit around and watch DVD's and try and get a website to validate that we are good-looking.

And now that this has become a long post about nothing other than my insecurities of not looking like Kate from Lost I need to sign off.

You should visit the site above and figure out who your celebrity look alike is!

Question and Answer Part Four

Sorry it is taking me so long to do these questions! I hope to have them done this week.

All about Luke

Since Luke is in a band and loves singing so much has he ever considered trying out for American Idol?

I would love for Luke to try out for American Idol next year, I think we all know I would love to meet Ry Ry.

How did you meet Luke?

I met Luke at college through a friend my sophomore year.

What are three things you love about Luke?

1. His heart

2. His patience

3. His humor

What is the most interesting thing you have learned from your husband about his heritage?

Nothing that I can think of. He's only a quarter Indian, although he looks full. Or sometimes people think he is Mexican, Asian, or Hawaiian.

Completely Random

How many scarves do you have?

12

What do you like to do in your free time?

Hm.. well read blogs of course, and read books and spend time with the hubs and lets not forget my good friend TV that Luke says I watch waaaaay too much of.

If you had a million dollars what would you spend it on?

Pay off our families debt and then put the rest into savings until I can think of something resourceful to do with it. I would use some of it to furnish a home.

What extracurricular activities did you participate in high school?

I was in band for several years but managed to keep it a secret from most people. I was weird. Now I am proud of the fact that I can play a musical instrument (well 2 including the piano). I did things here and there with some organizations through high school but I wasn't really involved in anything. I went to a huge high school and if you didn't get involved in activities early it was hard to get involved by the time you hit high school, if I could go back I would get involved more

If you could have dinner with one living person who would it be?I

I think this changes with different seasons of my life, but right now it would be Leonardo Dicaprio, so random I know.

What is something that we as your readers don't know about you?

Hm.. I'm not sure if I have ever talked about the fact that I play the piano. Well I say that like I'm good, I probably would have been good if I stuck with it, I played for about 5 years and then quit. My mom begged me not to quit but alas I did. What is that saying about "mothers always know best"??? I REALLY wish I wouldn't have quit. When Luke and I get a home we are going to get my piano from my parent's home and my goal is to re-teach myself.

Do you think your husband looks like Taylor Lautner and your sister looks like Elizabeth Hassleback?

I think my husband looks like Taylor Lautner, but nobody else does, so if you do that makes two of us.

And I don't see Elizabeth Hassleback in my sister, but I have been told that also.

What is your favorite childhood memory?

Well this is kind of hard because I have so many great memories, like when my youngest sister was born (I don't really remember when my first sister was born), or going to Disney world for the first time, but I think I will just go with the first thing that popped into my head and that was when we get our first dog. We were living in St. Louis at the time and we got her on my birthday, but she wasn't necessarily a birthday present. I can remember bringing her back to our home and just playing with her in our backyard. I just loved her to pieces.

What are three things you can tell me about yourself that would give me an idea of who you are?

1. I am a Christ follower

2. Family is extremely important to me

3. I don't take myself too seriously

What are you most looking forward to about Spring? What is your favorite season?

Hopefully being in a house in Spring and getting to spend time barefoot in our yard. I haven't had a yard in SEVEN YEARS. As soon as I get a yard I just want to run around in the yard barefoot.

What's a day in your life like? Give us your daily routine.

Well I wake up everyday, shower and go to work. I am one of those people that has to wash my hair everyday so I do that every morning. Not that anybody really cares. That was weird.

Then Monday and Wednesday I go jogging after work.

Tuesday and Thursday I just come home and start cooking.

Monday and Wednesdays I also have a small group, so I come home after jogging, cook real fast and then have small group. Now that I think about it I should change my jogging days to Tuesday and Thursday. Hm...

How are you so skinny when you talk about hating to work out?

Well I really don't hate to work out, but I've just never done it alot. I just try to eat in moderation. It's all about moderation and listening to your cravings, if you crave brownies eat them, then you won't crave them anymore. Thats my motto.

What Twitter App do you use on your phone?

EchoFon and I have liked it so far.

What do you like most about your Mac, do you miss anything about your PC?

Easy answer, EVERYTHING and NO.

In fact I still have to use a PC at work and now I hate it. Once you go Mac you never go back.

If you could have dinner with your BFF Ryan what would you talk about?

Oh just life and if he is or isn't........I think he would tell me. And for the record I don't think he is.

Do you collect anything?

I collect Christmas Ornaments of the different places we go on vacation and also coffee mugs

Tomorrow should wrap us up with House and baby talk.

OH and a question that I got asked yesterday is who is my favorite character on Lost.

Sawyer, I love Sawyer. I think he is funny, and the island has been the best for him, and he has grown as a person yet stayed true to character. Love him.

Project 365 - Week Four

Time for Project 365! This week was all about snow, snow snow!

Sunday we picked up Pei Wei for dinner. If you do take out they give you a free soft drink. Woo hoo! I always choose orange soda.

Monday I started The Shred again. I have no idea why. Oh yeah that upcoming cruise.

Tuesday I had a Stella & Dot jewelry party. Their stuff is SO cute, I can't wait to get my order in so I can wear the super cute stuff.

Wednesday we had dinner with our small group and then played 90's trivia. I thought I would dominate at 90's trivia. I didn't. I only got one question right and the answer was: Titanic.

Thursday it started sleeting. The university I work at closed at noon so I came home and enjoyed relaxing with the ice and snow falling outside

Friday we spent all day inside. I ate more food in that one day than I have eaten in this entire month.

Saturday Luke got some crazy cabin fever (actually it started Friday afternoon) so he went and cleaned my car so that we could get out. We went to dinner with some friends and then spent the night watching Lost.

Tomorrow I will post more answers to the questions. Almost done!

We Survived!

We survived the Ice Storm 2010!

However, I feel like I need to admit that all of the food from the picture in my last post is gone.

Hi, my name is Megan and I like to eat. A lot. Especially when I'm bored.

There I fee better.

Friday we did not leave the house at all. It was sleeting and snowing outside and I do not leave when it does that.

I mentioned before that Luke wanted a new TV, well when he called me Thursday on his way home from work he said he was going to go price new TVs.

The weathermen were practically YELLING at people to get in doors and stay there and get off the roads and my lovely husband was driving around pricing TV's.

He got home about an hour or so later with no new TV, but instead he brought this with him

My friends, this is the best TV show EVER.

Lost season one kept us entertained throughout the Ice Storm 2010.

I have said it before and I will say it again, TV on DVD is the best invention ever.

What show would you choose to keep you entertained during an Ice Storm? The kind that makes you snuggle up on the couch and you could sit and watch the whole series and not move.

Or, am I the only one that could do that? I tend to be lazy on snow days.

Oh and if you watch Lost who is your favorite character?? I must know.

Ice Storm Necessities

For over a week now the news has been warning us of an ice/snow storm that is headed our way.

So today, Thursday, right on time the ice started coming down and the University I work at closed down at noon.

I try not to doubt the not-always-correct-weather-men, but I was mildly surprised when the ice actually showed up at the predicted time.

On my way home I decided I would to go to the grocery story. Everybody goes to the store to stock up on food during an ice storm right? It only seemed like the natural thing to do.

It was the moment that I stepped inside the store that I realized I had no idea what I even needed.

I was simply going to the store because everybody else was.

If everybody was jumping off the cliff I was right there with them.

I walked around for about a good 10 minutes before I even remembered to get a basket to put food in.

It was like I had never grocery shopped before. The ice storm was completely throwing off my A-game.

I then called Luke to find out what we needed during the Ice Storm of 2010. I figured if I couldn't think of any food we needed, Luke, the boy who loves to eat could definitely think of something.

So I called and asked if we needed any necessities for the big storm

To which he replied: Yes, please go check the TV's and see how much they are and maybe get one.

Um....excuse me what?

He then proceeded to explain that during ice storms he likes to play video games on the big TV in the living room but I like to watch TV on the very same TV, so getting a new television would solve our dilemma for the ice storm.

Hm....I was thinking something more along the lines of: bread, milk, a heat generator....not A NEW TV.

Silly me.

Between me and you I didn't even go look at the TV's. Seriously, who buys a TV in the middle of an ice storm?

However, I did get the necessary food items:

I mean, it would be horrible if we found ourselves trapped in an ice storm without Sour Patch Kids or Spicy Munchies.

That would almost be wore than being trapped inside with just one TV in the living room.

Oh the horror.