I met Audrey in Starbucks.

I have not posted in SO LONG. Life has been wonderful.
A few significant wonderful things that have happened in the past week...

1. My birthday was last sunday and it was incredible. God has blessed me with sweet, creative, funny, caring, and gorgeous friends and I could not ask for anything more. <3

2. I walked into Old Navy today with one of my best friends and we instantly found things and fell in love with some pea coats. As we grabbed armloads of cute shirts and headed towards the dressing room, we found 10 dollar cardigans. 10 dolla`. You heard me. So needless to say, we both got one.
And almost everything we tried on looked awesome. And it was a good price. :) We were giddy with excitement as one after another after another thing fit perfectly and cutely....

WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?! EVER???!!!

3. We headed to Starbucks, which btw has their Pumpkin Spice Frappicinos again. The best.

I turn to look behind us in line and a girl was wearing a beautiful, classy black dress....and I had to say something.

"I really loovvveee your dress! It's gorgeous!"
"Thanks! very Audrey...."
"YES! *shocked that she understands my love of black dresses. And Audrey.* Like Audrey! Did you know that Givinchy actually designed her dress...?"
"Yes, and he also made the one she wears in Sabrina.... you know, the big white one???"
"OH yes, that one is quite pretty"
"Audrey was sooo classy, I've always been a huge fan."
"Me too!"
Then we went on to talk about Audrey's lack of self-confidence and growing up during WWII.

So I've never met someone in Starbucks that gets me. And I can talk Audrey HEPBURN WITH.

That was incredible.

Never thought I would meet Audrey in Starbucks ;)

much love,

Meegan

I can see it.

Jordan has a new friend....

I love this shot of her laughing!

it's too cute.

This summer has been so amazing. Since Jordan and I share a passion for photography, we get

each other. Like I can describe a shot that I really want to get and she sees my vision...

you don't find that everyday. :) thanks Jordy :)

listening to Michael Buble's Lost...

*sigh*

his voice is so wonderful.

much love,

Meegan

Starbucks.

Starbucks. need I say more??? :]

Mango vanilla smoothie.

White chocolate mocha frappicino.

Rasberry smoothie.

24 hours. In photos.

Jess and Jordan. :] Family photo.

making you hungry? thought so. ;)

They tasted better than they look!

Jordan and I laid in my front yard and looked at the clouds. ^_^

This apple is so pretty!

Jordan's Nikon. We has a camera war...not sure who won...

much love,

Meegan

sweet summertime :]

more photos of downtown dallas. :]

(I really haven't had a chance to edit them until now.)

I'm most definitely enjoying my new beautiful camera!

I'm enjoying this summer altogether. Every bit of it has been wonderful!

:)

another parking meter. :P

In front of the Dallas Museum of Art.

I love this one! The wall, the vintagey old look. everything!

Dickerson chaple. :]

I've always liked these trees. Even more from this angle. ;)

much love,

Meegan

On Harwood Street.

So my dad is awesome. He took me to downtown Dallas to take pictures. with my new camera.

just because.... :)

How awesome is that??!!

The one above is one of my favorites.

yes.

 a parking meter.

 But I think the colors are amazzzing. :]

Kinda strange... i know, i know.

meet Curtis Canon. I always kid that my camera's my boyfriend....

and now he has a name. but really, my camera is like another eye.

I know I'm weird. and I'm alright with that. :]

much love,

Meegan

Day 25: It's all in the details

This leaf fasinated me. and the detail....

*happy dance*

The possibilites are endless.

Amy's 365 has really inspired me lately. Everyday is a new and wonderful photo.

love it, love it.

much love,

Meegan

Day 24ish: Today was a fairytale.

Okay so today wasn't exactly a fairytale. But God makes every day beautiful and new. :]

 :] I really like the mischievous look in this one.

The only rose left on Jordan's rosebush. It was so gorgeous.

I'm sorry I've been so behind on my 365 >.<

Hoping to make up for it!

much love,

Meegan

Christ in Youth

CIY 2010 was the best CiY yet.
:] The week went by WAYYY TOO FAST though.
I roomed with the lovely Payton and we were next door to Taylor and Ab (: I love those girls!
The rafting trip before we got to CIY was beyond beautiful. It started raining, gently at first, then harder, so you could barely see.... It was breathtaking watching the rain clouds seep over the mountains of pine trees, listening to the rain plink-plink, drip-drip on the water, and I forever have a mental image of all of this. With Payton practically dancing sitting down in the middle of it. haha and when Josh and Logan fell out of our raft!
*that was awful!* We were so scared something would happen to them...
But God returned them (and Josh's Crocs) safe and sound to another raft. :)

A few of my favorite memories...
Singing "Jump then Fall" with Payton in the old yellow bus on the way to the rapids.
Eating peanut butter and Oreos with Logan and Payton.
Randomly playing ninja on the lawn... in a skirt. >.< Then singing "Breaking Free" with Payton for no apparent reason.
Getting absolutely SOAKED, playing volleyball in the rain.
Youth group time every night.
Laughing about something someone said for 10 minutes, but not knowing WHY it was so funny.
Taking pictures of Logan and Lace near the clock tower.
Wacking people with pool noodles. And watching other people wack each other with pool noodles ;)
Praying for people. and being prayed for.
Worshipping God, living and walking every day with the awareness of His Holy Spirit.
Watching 1,400 teenagers worship God with all their hearts.

To name a few. <3

Logan and me :)

Lace and Logan! I love them both. :]

Okay so I was really liking the crape myrtles. A LOT.

Jonathan and his awesome sunglasses.

much love,

Meegan

Day 9: playing with chalk

AHHH I'm sorry I'm behind.... :( Things have been busy! but a good kind of busy.

WE LEAVE FOR CIY TOMORROW :] :] :]

Hard to believe a year has flown by! 15 HOURS in the van. bleck. haha but so worth it <3

I like the colors in this picture... and the focus. man, I need inspiration. Hopefully I can find some at CiY and the absolutely gorgeous campus we're staying at. :]

see ya'll in a week!

Much love, 

Meegan

Day 8: growing up.

I know I didn't take this picture today but it has a good point:

friends who stick together growing up need each other. I speak from my own experience. Through all the akward stages and crushes and clothing mishaps and terrible boys and messing up. And learning how to love God and serve Him with all you have...

A good friend of mine has noticed that whenever we're apart for too long, bad things happen. And when that happens, one of us isn't there to pick the other up, dust them off, give them a hug and keep them going. :]

That's why friends need each other: to walk through life with.

In the photo above:

Michelle is on the left,

Kelleigh on the right.

I've known them both for as long as I can remember. :] And both of them are leaving for college this fall. Hard to believe....but they won't disappear forever and I'm blessed by knowing both of them.

I'm glad I've gotten walk through life with them. :]

much love,

Meegan

Day 7: random apple?

yes, an apple on my window sill. But I thought the apple was really pretty. As you can see, I thought of this AFTER I took a bite of it. oh well :]

AHHHOHMYGOODNESS.... CIY is in 4 days! Hard to believe a year has gone by. I'm looking forward to the whole trip. (Including the 15 hour van ride to TN.)

do you ever have a musical stuck in your head? Since Monday, I have been singing WICKED NONSTOP. ;p

much love,

Meegan

Day 6: cousins :]

Happy Tuesday! :] I know I didn't post yesterday... I've been in Houston and I couldn't get the photo to upload. sorry. :(
Well, Laci and I had a wonderful time taking pictures.
*more to come!*

much love,

Meegan

Day 5: Rain boots

Hello from Houston! Happy 4th of July :) it's such a gorgeous day, no rain! The sun is shining and the sky is blue...It's humid though. (when is houston not humid?)

So my photo is kind of ironic...considering it's not rainy. Yes folks, these are rainboots. Aren't they cute?!!!

This weekend has been so busy: seeing old friends (who are now taller than I am), attending a great wedding, and spending time with family I hardly get to see.... :] but it's been a good kind of busy.

Hope you have a wonderful 4th of July! 

We're setting off fireworks tonight. ^_^ 

much love,

Meegan 

Day 4: Converse :]

This is my dear friend Amy. or her pink converse at least. :] I'm constantly inspired by her brillance with a camera....

This weekend I'll be attending a wedding. I love weddings. I like the photography. And since weddings are so much more amazing than the photos that are taken to document them, and those photos are what inspire, imagine what the real wedding is like. Now I'm rambling, but you get the point.

Goodness gracious, the photographers for my wedding will have some HIGH STANDARDS to meet. hahaha :]

much love,

Meegan

Bridge to nowhere

Never before have I sacrificed for photography as I did yesterday. Trekking across fields of tall grass and sunflowers in a skirt, bearing the ridiculous Texas heat, and getting my converse COVERED in stickers.

don't believe me?

But we had a wonderful adventure that I'll believe we'll remember for a long time.

We stepped in gum, cut our knee then went to Target to buy bandaids, bought bubbles that were a misrable fail, and sweated before we even took a single picture. But sometimes, that's how life is. :]

Why am I trying to TELL you what happened, when I can just show you?

Kelleigh doesn't even know I took these! :p

thanks you two. <3 yesterday was lots of fun! :]

much love,

Meegan

Day 2: Raindrops.

It rained yesterday. It was horribly muggy and humid and my hair was quite rebellious. But I really do like rain and how it makes the grass green. And raindrops are beautiful.

I cannot wait for our epic photoshoot today... :]

much love,

Meegan

I've been inspired. :)

perspective. it makes the world go round.

I've been inspired. I've made up my mind: I'm going to do a 365 photo blog. thing.

Miss Amy has inspired me. :] hey, it will give me a great excuse to take photos everyday. :P and edit them.

So this one I took at Celebrate Freedom on saturday the 26th. I laid down on our blanket and almost gasped. It was so beautiful. Just the power lines. and blue sky. and the YELLOW umbrella. I quickly grabbed my camera and captured something gorgeous in ordinary life. it's always there...

you just have to look for it.

tomorrow, miss Kelleigh and I have a photoshoot planned.

Pictures to come.

Much love,

Meegan

It is well with my soul.

where to begin? where to begin this blog post?

First of all: GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME. He is listening when it doesn't feel like it. This week at camp was above and BEYOND anything I expected. Watching people seek after God and hear His plan for their life was a beautiful, beautiful thing. Relationships were repaired and rebuilt last week. People were gut-level honest about their walk with God and their worries about the future.

God always comes and touches hearts when we least expect it. So look around. Encourage others. Speak the truth in love. And don't worry too much about what other people think....Life's way too short for that. maybe you have to step out of your comfort zone to encourage or strengthen someone.
Even though it's difficult, DO IT.
People are changed when others care enough to walk with them through joy and pain.


When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,


when sorrows like sea billows roll;

whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,

It is well, it is well with my soul.

 

One other thing I learned this week: Peace with God and your future is so incredibly important. And once peace like that is found, life is so much more. complete. :)

 
Much love,
Meegan
 
 

One of my favorite pictures I got this week. :] they both make me want to

smile.

life. is. amazing.

Mygoodness, camp is next week. Like in two days, I'll be sitting in the mess hall at CCLW. :D I'm so incredibly excited, God is going to move in people's hearts and minds next week.... Ican'twait.

This year, I'll be bringing a disposable camera since my camera died *sniff, sniff* and I hope to get some really awesome vintage looking pictures. 

I'm really grateful for good friends. The ones that tell you that you look pretty when you don't feel like it, include you when you feel left out, and talk about boys, camp, swimming pools, spicy nachos, God, and how ironic life is. *and those who let you borrow their camera when you've been missing yours. Thanks Amy!* ...what a blessing they are. :]

Much love,

Meegan

From the heart

...So it finally feels like summer. Waking up at 6:15 every morning for the first two weeks in June was difficult. But now, chemistry is over, camp is next week, and the ACT is done with (for now)...so lately I've felt like I can breathe again. :)
Yesterday I went to the library for the first time in a month. It was nice to be completely surrounded by books and not having to study! I really have been suffering from lack of good reading material. I picked up Dear John by Nicholas Sparks and it's been hard to put it down. :]
Today was wonderful. Woke up at 8:45 (that's sleeping in!) and read some of Dear John. Then I went to Happy Hour at Sonic with kids from my youth group. My goodness, I love those kids! And tomorrow Swim n Study starts for the summer. I cannot wait!

It's been about a week since my camera *aka my boyfriend* died.... I think I've been going through withdrawals. Didn't realize how much I see things in pictures till I couldn't use a camera to take the pictures.
Beware everyone, I may be kiddnapping your camera to get a shot. ;) jk.

  I really like these verses. I have friends who love each other deeply. and from the heart.
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:23-24

love always,
Meegan

Defying Gravity

Wow that was scary. O.o
ACT. is. over. Until I take it next time. :( About halfway through the hour long math section, I considered why I was there, why I'm taking this insane test and what can I do to not have to take the rest of it.....do I either a.) faint or b.) throw up everywhere so they would HAVE TO dismiss me? Well, I did neither of those things. and sat there, glued to the desk. In room 228. With an insane test in front of me.... *sigh of relief* oh so glad it's over.

Tonight, I will go drown my stress and exhastion in swing dancing. Can't wait! :]

I'm thankful for:
snapple mango madness. air conditioning. good photography that makes you audibly sigh and melt into a pool. *if you know what i mean, isn't it wonderful!?* Saturdays.... Frank Sinatra. Swing dancing. pink Coverse. the musical Wicked.

much love,
Meegan

God works for the good of those who love Him

ACT tommorow.

5 days till the first swim and study.  

9 days till high school camp.

1 month until we leave for CiY. :]

Chemistry labs ended yesterday. :( How sad is that??! Now, I know chemistry is not something people often miss or even wish for, but it was so much fun. dry ice+goggles+serendipity+silly putty+exploding water bottles+Wicked soundtrack+good friends=best 2 weeks of school. ever. :]

My mom and I went shopping today and got some really cute clothes!!! Finally, successful shopping. Here's the deal: I. don't. like. clothes. shopping. There is wayyy too many clothes to choose from and half the time, they don't fit right. But thank goodness for Ann Taylor Loft. Got a super cute skirt on sale for $13 :]

For some strange reason, I'm nervous about the ACT tomorrow. But I've been through harder things than a four hour test. :]

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

much love,

Meegan

One more day. Just one more day. :)

One. more. day. One more day until chemistry is over. Today was really long. By 11am, I was ready to go home and go back to bed. But miss Amy helped me restart my day at lunch.... We listened to Wicked and ate Dove dark chocolate. I'm telling you: Amy and chocolate make everything better. And Mr. Nathan sat with me and kept me sane. And Madeline had super adorable red shoes on and it made me smile. And Sarah gave me a really sweet hug. And Daniel and Seth helped me graph..... so today wasn't all bad. Meegan, count your blessings. :)

Monday, Jordy and I went trapsing through a field of wildflowers. :] You see, I've been daydreaming about a field at sunset with lots of flowers for a couple weeks now...so I finally got to do the shoot!!! *minus the cute couple standing IN the field. Sigh.* But I was really happy with the sunflare my camera captured. So without further adeu...

I'm really proud of this one. :]

And this one. <3

I like this sunflare too. :]

Much love,

Meegan