... to honor a dear friend.

I have an amazingly talented friend. Amy Fisher is her name and there are barely words to describe her. So I will solely focus on one of her many accomplishments. She was recently accepted to Emory Graduate University in Atlanta, Georgia!! They offered her a full ride scholarship with a stipend! Congratulations Amy! She will be pursing a MA in Jewish studies. She graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul with a BA, double majoring in Religious studies and Classics with an emphasis on archeology. Amy has gone to Israel for the past few summers to a dig in Omrit.I have no doubts Amy will make an amazing professor who will inspire her students. You truly are a talented young lady, full of wisdom, fun, and beauty. Your awesome Amy, and I am so proud of your accomplishments! Congrats, you earned it!

... to the YMCA!

Look out world, Megan is going to the gym, I'm gettin fit! My family recently got a family membership to the YMCA in Auburn. I actually do go. For a while there I was going five days a week. I am a wellness challenge winner for life. I barely know how to use the equipment. I can use the elliptical, and the stationary bike, the treadmill and... yeah thats about it. Don't worry I'll get there, I will graduate to the weights. Im just taking my time. After the first week, I lost weight, which is not at all why I go. I hope to gain some weight eventually. Only time (and whether or not I figure out the weights) will tell!

P.S. The snow looks amazing on the foothills!! I'm so glad we got some more snow!

... to a groovy Easter celebration.

Kids church was awesome on Easter!! We had such a blast. First of all, the Saturday before we had a great time putting on the The Great Egg Hunt. The egg hunt itself was nothing special, but the festivities before hand were awesome! We had a Nickelodeon style game show, complete with slime. There were lots of balloons,... lots of balloons. We played human bumper cars, heads up, and slime pit. If you want to know what exactly those games involve, you'll have to ask me sometime. I was a stage grip, basically a team leader who helped kids get organized. Then of course there were prize drawings. A Wii, family zoo pack, and a gift card to the family fun center were among the prizes. The whole thing was a huge success, four hundred kids showed up!!! Then Sunday we got to see some of those same families. My favorite game that we played was called Chips Ahoy! Naturally you have to eat some chocolate chip cookies (with your hands behind your back of course) then you must run over and out on some pirate clothes and shout "Chips Ahoy!" Good times, good times in kids church.

At home we had some sweet Easter baskets. I got some Dove body wash, a razor, and the classic chocolate bunny among a few other sweets. My poor mom just wanted a nice photo of the three of us, we just wanted to make sure she captured the real Murray girls.

... up the professional ladder.

Yep, I'm moving up the ladder at LMI. I finally got my stamp at work. Now I can buy off my work without having it double-checked by someone else. I usually have someone check anyways, but still... Linda also gave me my own caliber. Ooooo. Pretty nifty looking huh? I can measure to the thousandth of an inch! Pretty exact. Just thought I would show off some tools of the trade.

Random Thing #3

My sisters and I found our grandma's magnifying glass. Yeah, we had fun taking pictures with it.



Of course I look the freakiest. We had some serious laughs with that though.