MeL's LifeStyle

Hey everyone! It's MeL! I am starting up my own blog now so that everyone can keep track of me while I am school! :D I will get Mom to post on this blog and you can see mine at:

http://melbourneslife.blogspot.com/

Thanks!! :D

MeL

We're Back!

Hey everyone! So we are finally back on the internet! Hoorah! After 8 months I believe? Sorry it has been sooo long. Dad, Mom, and I have been super busy all of the time! Then when we do have time... we forget! But we are finally back! At least for now. You see, I am going to start pressuring Mom into posting because I am leaving and can't do it anymore! So if there is another long gap, just remember that I am pressuring Mom.

But a lot has happened! First off, Dad is no longer the interim president at CEU. USU and CEU now have an affiliation and they chose a chancellor to fill the president role. So Dad is now officially done with that! He will be teaching at the college again in a while. But for now, he enjoys his free time taking pictures and fishing!

Mom has been chilling out at Wellington Elementary School. She takes care of all of the reading and such. She was also pretty busy during the school year but is now hanging out and visits the grandkids as often as she can!

Then there is me! I just graduated with my Associate's Degree from CEU and am now heading up to BYU! I move out in a month to start there.

As a family we have been doing some fun stuff and what not. We went to the Stadium of Fire to see Carrie Underwood, Beaver for the 24th of July, St. George, Provo, Lehi, Orem, anywhere you name and we have been there! At least in Utah... :D There was also grandma's camp which the grandkids loved and so did the rest of us! We love to see the kids and spend time with them! Also, Mom and Dad went on a cruise to Alaska! They absolutely loved it there and wish that I would be like the waiters there and serve them food ten times a day. But that sure won't happen!

So that is what has happened!! Great isn't it? But I will do my best to start getting Mom to post!

The Beginning of My Last Year as a Teen

So I finally turned 19!! Woot! I had an amazing birthday - thanks given to everyone!! I loved it! The only downside to my birthday was that I pretty much had my mid-life crisis at 19. It was just great. Other than that, I had an amazing time!! :D It was pretty sad though for most of the day. My school schedule is so hectic. This is how my day went: School from 8am - 4pm and then meetings from 4pm - 7:30pm. It was super intense, but once I got home, it was even better!! I hung out with Mom and Dad for a bit, and then some of my friends came over including, first Rebecca, then Blake and RaeLynn and Jacob!! It was great!! Here are some pictures of when my friends all came. Oh and look at the awesome cake that they gave me! My friend RaeLynn and her sister, I believe, made the cake. But it is amazing!!

Crazy busy life!

Woa!! Crazy busy life!! Life at the King household has been like no other, trust me. School started, work started (did it ever really end?) and there has been no time for anything! Here is what is going on:

Dad is the Intern President at the CEU, and is doing awesome, although he is super busy!! He just has his birthday and received some of the best gifts ever, if I do say so myself. He got the new Brian Regan comedy act on DVD, plus an awesome shirt that says "Take Luck!", and a bumper sticker that says it as well! It was awesome! I was pretty jealous.

Mom is also doing very well. She is a reading specialist over at Wellington Elementary School. She is also busy with this job and also with being the Relief Society President! She is always doing something for that (also known as helping everyone else! :D). But she definitely enjoys it!

Then there is me! I am crazy busy for sure! I just started my freshman year of CEU! I love it! It is probably the best year of school that I have ever had. One thing is, is that I don't have time for anything! I am NEVER home! Literally, ask Mom or Dad. They will tell you! I am always in class, doing something for student government, doing homework, and when I do have free time, I am usually with my friends! It is pretty funny because Mom was always saying last year that I needed to get out more, and now when I do, she complains that she never sees me anymore. :D It is hilarious (or so I think!)!!!

But other than that.. there isn't much. I know Mom is planning on writing a post (finally!)(just kidding Mom!) about the summer activities that I never did say anything about. So you will hear more later! Sorry it has been waaayyyyy long since we last posted anything!

~MeL~

King Family LIfe As Of Now

The last little while of our King Family life has been pretty busy. Dad, Mom, the Lotts, the Williams, and myself went to California about a week ago. It was a ton of fun! We went to Disneyland, California Adventure, the beach, a National Tide pool park(don't remember what it is called), and a Dodger baseball game. We had a ton of fun! We also have proof that we all went to! Most of us got fried at the beach so if you notice that we all look like tomatoes.. that is why! (Although I am probably the only one who still  shows signs of a real burn. Everyone else's turns in a tan within a few days, but mine is still bright red and it is a week and a half later. Sigh..) But other than that, we had a blast!

Besides California, we really haven't done much. Dad has been at work all week (Sigh..), Mom has been working on repainting and just plain out redoing our house (so far it looks really really amazing!), and I just started school this past Monday (yay...!!). So we have all been pretty busy. 

Mikelle and her cute kids also just flew out here too! She is finally moving back out here (WOO!!) We are all so excited to have her within a few hour drive, instead of a few day drive. It is really fun to have them here. Mikelle and the kids are temporarily staying with us until they get there stuff and can move into their new house. Chris, unfortunately, has to drive the car out here and is in the process of doing that. Poor guy... Speaking of which.. having them here at our house also gives me the chance to cream them in Settler of Catan-Cities and Knights!!! BRING IT!!

~MeL

Celebrity Moment!!

So I just got back from my Senior Trip with the rest of the seniors in my stake. It was a blast! We went to the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house, we did baptisms for the dead at the Monticello Temple, saw the new movie "Up" (that was an amazing movie! I recommend it!), hiked up an Indian Ruin named the Cidadel, toured Temple Square a little bit, and went on a river run in Moab. It was so much fun and it was really really cool! What was also amazing was the fact that I had a celebrity moment! Our first day, we went to Tucanos for lunch (LOVE it there!) and guess who we saw there? Andrei Kirilenko from the Utah Jazz BB team!! It was amazing! He just came and ate lunch there the exact time we did! It was great. We were all star-struck for the rest of the day! We even got him to take pictures with all of us!

Graduation!

Graduation! It finally happened! Sorry for getting to this a little bit later than planned. But anyways it rocked! I loved every minute of it! Although the actual ceremony was a little bit long, I still thought it was very good. I liked it more than Mom and Dad that is, but I also had a nicer chair to sit on :D! But everything was pretty basic. We went to the ceremony, we went outside and took hundreds of pictures, we went and ate lunch at Grogg's (yum!), and then I went to Grad Spec. So it was basic but it was such a major blast! I felt really quite proud of myself. I graduated 11th in my class of about 240 kids! I was, however, disappointed because I was one chair off of the first row. I would have been but they put student body officers in front of everyone else, including valedvictorian, and that pushed me back about 6 chairs. But oh well! I was still happy I was far up there!

Speaking of Grad Spec....I WON! Well sort of. But I did break the King Family Curse and won something at Grad Spec. I actually was called during the first part of Grad Spec to win something but I took a risk and told them that I wanted to wait for the Senior Prize drawing. Apparently if you win something else, you cannot win the Senior Prize, which is a desk, computer, printer, camera, and some other stuff. So I waited for the Senior Prize. For that, they call 20 seniors and eliminate them one by one to the last person, who gets the prize. Well my name was called for the 20 seniors! But I didn't win. I was the first person called to say that I didn't win it. Sigh.. But that is ok! For being one of the 20 I won a few things. I won a box of sprite, snake-eye dice things, an old (smelling really bad) lotion bar, a paperweight, and $10! I felt pretty great about it!!

Anyways...it feels amazing to finally be graduated! The only real thing that I will miss from High School is my friends. I will miss them like no other! A lot of them are leaving for other colleges and I am still depressed about it, but I do have friends staying here!! Thank goodness! Other than that though, I am just plain out happy that I am in college (despite the fact that it makes me feel extremely old!). I have been ready for college since my sophomore year! It finally came! YAY!

Here is a video of graduation. It is pretty long and most of it is just me with my friends, but if you have 7 minutes of your crazy schedules, check it out! It is great!! Or so I think!! PS- The first song in the video was our graduation theme if you wanted to know. The other song was just one put there because I didn't have another song and I really like that one! And I am really really sorry if you cannot read the subtitles on some of them. They looked bigger when I made the movie!