My Little Hurricane Brothers

Okay so I have 3 little brothers. They are all very different but they are also very alike. One thing that they all have in common is that they are CRAZY athletic! Actually my little sister is too... what happened with me? ANYWAY I have grown up following Mitch and Russ all over the country watching them play hockey and baseball! I have been to more small towns in the middle of nowhere than anyone I know, except maybe them and my parents! But I am not complaining one bit! I love watching them! I would rather watch them play hockey or baseball over doing most anything! My mom and I were joking last weekend while watching their Hurricane tryouts that I am going to end up marrying someone who cooks, cleans, bakes, and sews and I will be the one that watches Sports Center and TSN and goes to all the sporting events! This will probably happen... not kidding!

So right now Mitch and Russ are both trying to make the Lethbridge Hurricane's team, well Mitch isn't really trying out I think his spot is pretty secure! BUT Russ is only 16 and they only take like 1 or 2 16 year olds so we will have to see! I obviously think he should make it and think he is the best 16 year old hockey player in the world... but I may be a little biased.... So to end things you should all pray that Russ scores a million goals this weekend in Tri City and that he makes the team so I can watch Mitch and Russ play hockey together on the same team! This has never happened and I think it would be SUPPPPAA cool if it did! Also Global News did this really sweet story on the both of them and think that it's worth watchin!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

They Boys!
Mitch and Russ were on the same baseball team for MHS
when Mitch was in grade 12 and Russ was in
grade 9

Paxton started "real" baseball this year! I think he is like
2 years to young but whatever he did fine!

Mitch playin Bulls baseball this summer!

Russ playin ball in Kalispell!

I know these are all baseball pictures and I just talked about hockey but it was just baseball season so I had more pics of that!
P.S I don't have kids of my own to blog/brag about so I guess for now these guys will have to do! Maybe my mom should get a blog?

All Grown Up

Today I woke up and got ready for work and headed out the door, just like a normal day! As soon as I got in my car and pulled out I realized that there was WAY more traffic around me than there usually is! That's when I realized that all the drivers looked about my age and I realized that today is the first day of school for college and university students. I thought that when this day would come I would be so happy that I didn't have to go to school but NOPE! I was overcome with a feeling of sadness! Especially when I drove passed the college and realized that I wouldn't be making the walk from the institute building to the tech building anymore. But mostly I was sad because of the faces that I won't see everyday!

These faces would be Jenelle's, Marcel's, Kara's, and Sarah's! Over the 2 years we went to school together I grew to adore each of them! We mostly bonded over how I was mormon and how each day they would ask my a zillion and one questions! Like did I celebrate christmas, do I have one mom, why do I get to sport normal clothes,  why I couldn't just go to the bar and dance and not drink? They were also always looking out for me! Telling me which movies I couldn't go to, what places I should go, and always telling me which boys I could and could not date. I think that they know more about me than most people since they would ask my so many questions! We also did other things like going to Subway every lunch hour cause it's my favorite, going to hurricane games, doing something crazy for my birthday every year, having our annual dinner and punch at my house and tons of other fun stuff!

I seriously will miss them SO much! Jenelle and Marcel are still going to school but have upgrade themselves to the University and I wish them luck! Kara is working as a graphic designer in Slave Lake and I got to see here this weekend and she is doing fabulous! Sarah is working at Maxwell Reality and probably about one hundred other things knowing her! They were the bomb and I will miss them! (Even though Jenelle, Marcel, and Sarah all live on the West Side...)

The gang on my 21st BDay
Sarah, Marcel, Me, Jenelle, and Kara
(from left to right)

I won't lie... I will miss her most of all!

This shows our personalities perfectly!

Yep we all graduated!!! :)

Exactly A Year Ago... Yesterday

.... I was doing this!

(p.s yes that is actually me)

Yep I was Sky Diving and where you might ask? Oh just here...

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen (who am I kidding no guy reads this!) a year ago I was lying on the beach in Hawaii with my BESTIE! Seriously the best vacation I have ever taken! Katelyn and I were at her house one day and decided that we wanted to go to Mexico! We wanted to go somewhere hot with beaches! Then we realized swine flu was kinda going on so maybe we should stick with Hawaii! So we just booked the trip! Didn't really tell anyone just did it! Best spur of the moment decision ever! I had so much fun and I am so glad we did it when we did and didn't wait till this year! Because a lot has happened this year for both of us!

Katelyn has....

-become the worlds best esthetician 

-started dating a boy named Ray Wilde

-went to India for 17 days

- is going to marry that boy named Ray Wilde

I have....

-graduated from College

- went to AZ twice

-started my own photography company

 -the company has turned into multi million dollar photography business (okay maybe not)

So now it would have been to hard for both of us to go on vacation with just each other! We had so much fun and did so many things! Like skydiving, hiking, parasailing, snorkeling suntanning, shopping, went to the north shore, and went to a hula show! It was a BLAST! Here are some pictures from this epic trip to HAWAII!

His name was Johnny Guru and he threw me out of a plane!

We made some friends from Australia

I LOVE THE OCEAN

so does Kate!

oh and we love each other!

my all time favorite picture of us!

Overall the trip was amazing and I miss Hawaii SO MUCH!

on a side note you can check out a tiny sneak peak at Katelyn's engagement session and her family session on the photo blog! 

Pretty Please????

Oh you want to see more of these? I know you do!!!! All you have to do is go over to http://www.meghanmaxwell.com and check them out! and PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP will you COMMENT?!?! I love comments so much! You have no idea! So I am commanding all of you bloggers that look at my blog to comment! 

Thank you. That is all! :)

P.S Have a great weekend!

Nightmares

You know those bad dreams that you just have OVER and OVER again and every time they seem to get more scary and real? Well I keep having the same theme to all my nightmares that have been coming almost every night for a few weeks now. You might think that this is what I am having a nightmares about...

NOPE! Or maybe this?

Well you would be wrong again! SO what is it you may ask? Wedding Photography.

You might also be asking how I keep having nightmares about this? Because I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE shooting weddings! BUT  I will give you a few examples.

The first one I had was that it was my wedding day! I was so happy and excited and getting ready and then my mom walked in and was like so who is doing your photography? I started to panic because I had forgotten to book someone! How could I forget to book my OWN wedding photographer! I started frantically calling all my photographer friends and no one would answer! I then woke up worried and stressed. I then told my mom about this dream and her response was "PA ya right! Like you will forget that part! You will forget your groom before your photographer!" ....she's probably right about that....

Second comes from a totally different nature. I had this dream last night. I dreamed that I was shooting a wedding of 2 people that I didn't know. I was waiting outside the temple as usual and then the head temple dude announced to me that they were coming out so get ready! So as I always do I turned to my assistant Jocelyn and told her to get me my stuff! As we went to get my camera out I realized that I had my camera and only my 50mm lens! I didn't have any spare batteries, no extra memory cards, no other lenses, no filters, no lens hood, and that Joce has forgotten my shader! I was freaking out and then it started to rain. Seriously, I was losing it! Then when they walked out as I was trying to get ready I missed them walking out, and then they just vanished! The bride and groom, the wedding party, the family, the friends and I realized I had taken so much time they just decided not to get pictures! I started to BAWL!! Luckily my alarm went off and I woke up!

You might think these are not real nightmares but I worry that something like this will happen to me every time I shoot a wedding! The night before a wedding a wake up every hour on the hour afraid I have slept in and missed the wedding! I check my equipment probably 300 times before we leave and make Jocelyn check again once we get on the road! Jocelyn doesn't understand how I get nervous before every single wedding. I tell her.. "People only get married once! It's not like I get a do-over! This is the biggest day of their life so far! These pictures will be shown to generations of their posterity!" and so on... BUT when I finally get there and start taking the pictures I am no longer nervous and just love every second of it! Weddings and Engagements are actually my favorite to do! I guess maybe these dreams are good cause they scare me into being even more cautious when I shoot weddings and enjoy them so much more because these things don't happen!

Okay that's all! Sweet Dreams Everyone :)

p.s I have a little sneak peak of the weddings I have shot lately on my photo blog! You should go over there and check them out and COMMENT please ;)