Brian and Megan Bollard

hApPiEsT BiRtHdAy On EaRtH!!!!

2010-10-02T09:59:00.005-06:00

Disney Birthday Party!!!

Brian threw me the greatest party ever. We just asked that people dress up as Disney characters and come have a good time.

At the party we had Russell and Karl from Up, Peter Pan, 3 Tinkerbells, and Smee from Peter Pan, Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, Woody, Bo Peep, Jessie, Ken and Barbie from Toy Story 3, and last but not least Jasmine!

I have such a wonderful husband that was so willing to dress up as Peter Pan, just another reason I love him!

Shelly did a great job coming up with this great idea for a Tinkerbell cake. She did all by herself. Except the very minimal leaves she let me do in the back, we had to make sure no one would be looking at them. She did an awesome job. Make sure call her to do any of your cakes, she is great!

Thank you to all who came to the party! Especially to my husband Brian!!! Love you all!

Greatest Thing to Ever Happen to Me!!!

2010-09-21T23:56:00.005-06:00

Have you ever wondered if there is any way who can ever compare to your spouse? How about if there is anyone in the world as great as your spouse? Well I have an answer for you, YES there is someone so great in the world. You may be asking how this is possible, well I will tell you . . . I'm married to the greatest husband in the entire world. I always think there is no way he could possibly get any better and guess what he does.

When I got home this is what I came home to. The most beautiful sight, roses, balloon, candles and TWINKIES!!! What you don't know from this picture is that there is beautiful music playing in the background.

My husband did all of this, "Just Because!" He is so sweet! Thank you baby, I love you!!!

Bollard Yard

2010-07-29T09:56:00.003-06:00

Our Yard is finally done!!!

This is the front of the house before we moved in . . .

The backyard . . .

The front yard after sod has been laid for a couple months . . .

The back yard . . .

Now we just have to get our fence in and some plants.

DISNEYLAND

2010-05-25T15:53:00.013-06:00

WE LOVE DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!

Okay, mostly me, but Brian puts up with my childish ways. This was part of our Bollard family vacation . . . the best part! I love Disneyland and I love Brian's family so it was a great trip! This is the only time I've ever been to Disneyland when it hasn't been Halloween themed so I was pretty excited. Again we got some great shots!

This is half of the crew going into Disneyland. The rest were still at McDonalds finishing up breakfast. We wanted to make sure we got in line so we could be the first ones in.

They opened the doors thirty minutes early into Disneyland, but only into main street. So while waiting for the rest of the park to open we met Mickey Mouse. We were pretty excited considering Bri and I were wearing our matching Mickey & Minnie Mouse shirts.

We are too cheap to buy the photos of us on the ride so I just took pictures of the photos. This first one is of us on Space Mountain. Dan and Courtney are sitting behind us (if you look closely you can see Courtney's nose).

This one is of the Bollard boys and myself on Tower of Terror. Bob would have waived with the rest of us but he was too busy gripping the bars of his seat.

Another ride is of course California Screamin'! We went straight into California Adventure as soon as it opened so there was no lines for the ride. As soon as we got off the ride we went on it again. This is actually a shot of the second time. I think Bri was a little knocked out from the first time.

It was an awesome trip! As you can tell Bri and I were a little upset to be leaving but we will for sure be going again. Hopefully next time we go it will all be decorated for Christmas! :)

At the Beach

2010-05-24T12:49:00.002-06:00

The BEACH

2010-05-23T22:08:00.005-06:00

This last week we went on our Bollard family vacation in California. The first part of our trip was spent with Dave, Candace and Courtney. After a couple of days we met up with Bob and Wendy. They took Brian and I to the beach to meet up with Dan, Danielle and the girls. We got some cute pictures . . .

Homemade Shed!

2010-05-06T10:05:00.005-06:00

Our yard still looks like we just moved in but we are working as often as we can to get it finished. We just had our sprinkler system put in and we are having someone come and level and put down topsoil. After that we will be ready for sod. We are pretty excited.

My dad came up a couple of weeks ago and he helped us extend our driveway, patio and then build a shed. Here is the shed halfway done!

This was all the wonderful help we had. Alex is missing out of the pic because this was right before Shelly went and picked him up.

The shed is complete and now we are just waiting to do the rest of our yard. More posts will be coming as our yard starts to come together.

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!!!

2010-05-02T16:20:00.004-06:00

We made it to our one year anniversary and we are still in love. Our anniversary was on a Sunday so we started our day by going to church and teaching our wonderful primary class. After that we came home and Brian begged me to watch the first round of the Jazz vs Lakers, which was a waste because we all knew they could never win first round at the Staples Center. Anyways, then we came home and started putting together our cards for each other. We decided to do home made cards! I don't have a picture of the card Brian made for me, but I did take a picture of the beautiful flowers he got for me.

This is Brian's card that I made for him as well as the video of him reading it so you have an idea of what it says.

I LOVE MY HUSBAND!!!!!

CuRsEs!!!

2010-05-01T23:50:00.000-06:00

Saturday nights with the Bollards is always an interesting experience, you can ask the Royals. This particular Saturday we invited Brad and Whitney over to play games. After some fun filled Super Mario Brothers and Hand-n-Foot we introduced them to a game called Curses. Curses is a "simple" game, all you need to do is follow exactly what the cards say. You start your turn with a Challenge card and after completing the challenge you play a curse on another player. The other player reads their card and continues to do the task until either the game is over or the bell gets rung on them for not doing the curse. If you get rung on three different curses you are out.

Brian and Brad put forth a great effort, but still were eliminated after about 5 curse cards were given to them. However, the girls were able to do much better. The following video will demonstrate the girls talents with, at that time, 9 curses each . . . .

Whit's curses at the time:

Speak as though you have an invisible golf ball in your mouth
Whenever you speak, use your arms to do some dance moves
You are Mr. T. Whenever you speak, say "I pitty da fool!''
Whenever the player to your left speaks, constantly interrupt them by saying things like "Really! Is that so? Fascinating!"
Whenever the person to your left speaks, shake as though you were in an earthquake.
You can't bend your elbows.
Whenever you speak, use your hands to give yourself 'bunny ears.'
You are a leprechaun. Whenever someone touches you, protect your cards and say"Yer always after me lucky charms!"
At the beginning of each of your turns recite a different ad slogan or jingle.

Meg's curses at the time:

You are Count Dracula. Speak like a vampire.
You are a Marine Drill Sergeant. Shout everything you say. ("Do you hear me Maggots?" etc.)
You are Captain Hook. Speak like a grizzled old pirate, ("Arrr matey!" "Avast ye! etc!")
You are St. Patrick - Speak with an Irish accent.
You are a Vulcan. Whenever you laugh, say "That is not funny." with a straight face.
Whenever you speak, say everything as though you have hiccups.
Whenever the person to your right draws a card, try to grab it away.
Each time you read a card, slap your face.
Whenever you speak, a swarm of invisible mosquitoes surrounds your head, Swat them away.

Whit and Meg ended up with about 13 each. As we watch the video we noticed a few other things were missed and the game could have been over much sooner, but the girls were too worried about their own cards. After a fun filled hour, the game ended with Whit completely forgetting almost everything. All and all we had a fun night with the Royals.

Graduation

2010-04-26T09:44:00.001-06:00

Well... I finally graduated!!!

This week was great. My whole family came up for my graduation, and also Megan's parents. Just as I perceived though, the actual graduation was pretty boring. There was about 1,500 people in my graduating class from the school of business at BYU, and it was taking WAY too long to get through all of them. I was about number 600, so as soon as I got recognized, I ran all the way up the stairs and out of the Marriott Center.

We spent some time taking pictures, we had to complete my mom's wall of graduates. Then we all went back to our house for some awesome dinner... I love when my mom visits, there is always good food. (Almost as good as Megan's)

On Saturday, the day after graduation, us 4 boys went to play tennis. It was pretty dang fun. Bob kept acing all of us with his fast serves, Dan had the hardest hits and best placement, Dave had the best all around game, and the only thing that I did decent was hit the ball into the back of my dad's head.

Then the girls went to see some dumb movie with Miley Cyrus while the boys took the little ones to Boondocks to play some games. When we all got home, we played a lot of board and video games. Good times, good times.

Then all of the fun ended as the Vegas families went home. But the weekend still ended great when Oklahoma City killed the Lakers, and then the Jazz beat the Nuggets again!!!

Under The Sea

2010-04-22T10:45:00.000-06:00

Brian married an interesting girl because she enjoys things such as . . .

We made this video for Derrick, who's on his mission in Maryland. He's so lucky to have such awesome sisters that will make videos like this for him!!!

Brian is still wondering about this new family he married in to . . .

Easter

2010-03-28T18:39:00.000-06:00

Last Week we went to Monroe for Peggy's birthday and to celebrate Easter with Megan's family one week early.

On Saturday, we had a huge easter egg hunt for the adults, which is typical in the Forbush family. We split up into 3 teams of 4 people and had a contest. We had to find clues that were hidden and use those clues to come up with a secret word. After quite a while, we finally found clues to help us find the secret word, which meant, WE WON!!! We won a big treasure chest full of wonderful easter candy. This is a pic of the winning team.

Later that day, we were all resting inside of the Forbush house. All of a sudden, all the adults realized that these 2 little kids got in a baby powder fight in the bathroom. It was pretty dang funny. Good thing these weren't our kids and it wasn't our house though. Maybe Megan and I should wait a little more to have kids.

Megan's Birthday

2010-03-28T18:07:00.000-06:00

This was back in October for Megan's birthday. We found the photos and had to post them on the blog to show everyone how much fun we had on her birthday.

Megan's mom, Peggy, brought balloons and made fun shapes and animals with them so that we could dress Meg up.

Courtney realized how much fun Meg was having and had to get in on the action.

Megan is amazing!

Daddy Forbush's B-day Dinner

2010-02-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

Babysitting

2010-02-28T18:59:00.000-07:00

Time to make cookies with the nieces. (The cookies tasted horrible). lol, look at me in the back :)

MoNrOe DaTe NiGhT!!!

2010-01-09T17:39:00.000-07:00

The Bollards and the MacLeans decided we needed a date night while we were in Monroe so we went to get something to eat then went to the local bowling alley to play pool. It was a pretty even match up between the two couples considering Shelly and I could have cared less to win . . .

. . . we were more interested in being goofy!

Avatar

2009-12-31T23:57:00.001-07:00

Just to let everyone know... WE LOVED AVATAR!!!

We now consider ourselves Na'vi... Go see the movie danget!!!

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

2009-12-26T23:47:00.000-07:00

Megan and I had an AWESOME Christmas. We went down to her parents house in Monroe, UT to spend time with her parents, Shelly, Alex, and Mercedes. It was so freakin cold. We also had a chance to talk to Derrick on Sunday who is on a mission in Maryland. Life is good! :)

Megan loves her new ipod shuffle. She promised me that she will work out all the time now since she has music to work out to. Let's see if she keeps her promise.

I got a new video game, Mario Galaxy, for the Wii which I love. I just wish Meg would be an awesome wife and sit and watch me play it all day.

Megan got too many socks this year. She loves everything about Peter Pan too. She got new Tinkerbell pajamas with 3 pairs of Tinkerbell socks.

After numerous lies and fibs by Megan over the past few weeks, I finally got my phone that I wanted. She has been hiding it for so long and always made me think that she wasn't going to get it for me. I love Megan!

WiSdOm TeEtH!!!

2009-12-20T23:30:00.000-07:00

Megan: The best medicine in the world has to be being with someone after they "wake up" from being sedated because they got their wisdom teeth taken out . . .

After a few migraines and a couple days missed from work, I finally decided that I needed to go to the dentist to see what they could do to get me taken care of. My cure was getting all four of my wisdom teeth yanked. Of course I opted to be sedated when getting my teeth pulled, because lets face it, there should be no other way! Both Shelly and Bri agreed to pick me up because obviously I would have been in no condition to drive myself! Do to the lateness of the surgery it ended up being Bri who would deliver me home. After the IV went into my arm the last thing I remember for several hours was asking the doctor, "should I be feeling dizzy?" He replied, "you tell me!" That's the last thing I remember but apparently I kept a talk'n. Before I was completely out I told the assistant how pretty she was and then my speech slowed down until, according to Bri, you could no longer understand what I was mumbling!

Brian: Meg started to blow me kisses and hitting on the nurses before she passed out. After the surgery, I went back to pick her up. The nurse brought her out to the car in a wheelchair. I thought Megan was back to normal until I saw that she kept letting her head fall over and drooling on herself. Before we could put her in the car, she told me, "no making out for a week." That made me and the nurse laugh. Then we got in the car and headed up to Dave and Candace's because I was in no position to take care of Megan all by myself.

Megan: Bri had to run by our house really quick to pick up some pj's because he figured we would end up staying the night in Riverton. Well, while he ran inside Candace called his phone, and much to her surprise, I answered the phone. I told Candace I remembered EVERYTHING (which I don't remember saying) and the dentist said I wouldn't. Then I told her how pretty the assistant was that helped me. Bri came out upset that I was on the phone because he knew I was still out of it. So he took the phone from me and in that process I dropped my phone. Because of this I was so upset and the only thing that calmed me was when Bri asked me if I wanted to call my sister, Shelly.

"I died for 7 minutes and now I see dead people," happened to be the first thing Shelly heard me say. I than requested that when I saw her next she would bring chicken noodle soup and raspberry jelly. I asked Shelly if she would play Super Mario Brothers with me on the Wii and she agreed. I got SO excited I just started balling! Bri had to take the phone from me because I was so excited and crying.

Luckily for Bri, by then we were at Dave and Candace's house. However, due to my legs not functioning, with my non functioning brain, I was unable to help Bri get me into their house. Bri was able to get the assistance of Dave to carry me into the house and that is where this beautiful shot comes from. I'm letting it be posted for everyone else's humor. Hope it's at least worth a smile!! I now understand why my niece, Courtney, was horrified of me that night and wouldn't even come within 10 feet of me.

GiNgErBrEaD hOuSeS!!!

2009-12-20T22:58:00.000-07:00

Bri's mom knew that Brian and I are children at heart; so a week before Christmas we received a gingerbread train to make with Dave, Candace and Courtney. Our adventure began with dear Brian reading the instructions. Making a gingerbread train may seem easy at first, but as the gingerbread started to break in half and the frosting wouldn't become soft the task at hand seemed more difficult than imagined.

Luckily, we had our homemaker Candace by our side, with her handy husband Dave. He pulled out the hot glue gun and she whipped up some fresh frosting. With new tools in hand we were back on track. As we worked with one another our gingerbread train really started coming together.

After much frosting, gumballs, gumdrops and candy canes, our little train was about complete. We added a little powdered sugar for the snowfall affect and then we knew it was perfect! All that was left was for us to pose for the camera!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

2009-11-30T23:35:00.000-07:00

We just had our first Thanksgiving in our new house, it was awesome! My family came up from Vegas and my parents were the lucky ones that got to stay at our house. We played a lot of games and had some fun times together.

Thanksgiving morning, my 2 brothers and I went to go play football with Dave's ward again. Just like last year, Dan forgot to wear cleats, and that sucks when playing in the snow. But we all had a great time.

When we got back home, we all helped the girls finish cooking the Thanksgiving feast. Megan's parents came up from Monroe and had the Thanksgiving meal with all of us Bollards. It was really fun, especially when we watched a lot of funny videos on YouTube. Our most favorite video by far was Sittin on tha Toilet.

Thursday night at 8 was when the girls, Dan, and I went out to start our Black Friday shopping. Megan already had a bunch of items picked out that she wanted to buy from the mall, Walmart, and Target. Many hours went by, and they were nice enough to drop me off around 2-3 to go home and sleep. All of the others stayed out until about 9 in the morning. CRAZY!!!

Saturday morning, all of the Bollards went up to the canyon to get pictures taken. That's our new family picture up at the top. Megan and I also got some great pictures taken of us that we love and will be able to use for our Christmas cards. Megan is so beautiful, everyone reading this blog needs to know that she is the most wonderful wife in the world!

Just Starting Our Life

2009-11-20T18:38:00.000-07:00

Well, this is our first blog, so let's see if this works. Megan and I are loving our new way of life. We just got married a little over 6 months ago in the beautiful Manti Temple. We spent our summer in the humid parts of Fort Worth, Texas working for Apx Alarm.

Since we've been back, Megan started back at Apx Corporate working in the technician queue. I started up my studies again at BYU where I'm majoring in Business with an emphasis in Marketing. I plan on graduating in April 2010. Also, I just started a new job a couple of months ago with an e-commerce coaching company called Prosper. I teach students how to start a business online and do internet marketing, it's great!

We now live in our new house in Lehi where we love it. Megan spends most of her time buying Disney dvd's while I play a lot of basketball with my brother Dave. We hang out with our families a lot since we love to see them, even if their kids are a little whiney. We love our new life in Lehi and look forward to living here for quite a long time.