i think i'll go to jackson hole and hike/eat/laugh my brains out.

[scott and gina would love to cordially invite you to the wedding of their daughter michelle to albert einstein. we don't know exactly why he picked her, but let's just say they don't call him the smartest man in the world for nothing ;) badumbumpshhhh.]

no legitimate need to really mention it, but i'll just put it out there in the universe.

 i happen to be currently googling/in the market for any kind of ukulele. 

don't ask me why. i just want one.

oh, and a large hammock.

okay, and jack johnson and/or jason mraz per chance?

dear birthday present gods, please get me these things, love lazy hawaii-wannabe meesh.

this past weekend was quite the crazy/amazing/tiring one for me.

i did it big with some of the treasured family [mom, mark, lori, reesie aka she she] in jackson hole, wyoming.

probably one of the more random spots for me to visit, but i had a freakin blast.

and i took about a bazillion pictures [that's french for like 500], so i'm only going to share the truly meaningful ones on this here blog [can't shake off that western accent crap just yet].

[disclaimer: meaningful in my book does not = meaningful in your book. know that.]

introducing meesh's grande expérience a la jackson:

[started the trip wrong right with an overdose of peanut butter which resulted in my later car sickness. but i just had to in honor of my weekend with my niece reesie pie! okay, i made that up, i just wanted that peanut butter. happens to the best of us.]

[laughing at everyone forcing reese to take a picture with the dumb buffalo]

[this beaut was parked next to us. mmmmm cashews.]

[yellowstone natural hot springs that you're not actually allowed to get in and they're really just there for looks. wtf yellowstone? not fair.] 

[more of them tantalizing pools.]

[clever shirt. i can haz it??]

[old faithful geyser. me and lori joked that it really was manmade and they just have someone go down there every two hours and blast some water and dry ice it up. conspiracy theorists in the making.]

[my favorite little pipsqueak hogging all the ice cream. ehh maybe i let her do it. how can you not let those big brown eyes work their magic on your heart?]

["les grandes tetons" couldn't stop saying this in a french accent alllll weekend, don't ask me why. also, five guesses for what teton[tee-tawn] really means. hint: just say the "tet" part over and over, you'll get it.]

[atop the tetons after the tram ride. gorgeous.]

[me and mark taking it all in.]

[been there, done that.]

[took me like two seconds to build.]

[i'm obviously really pumped to die river rafting. but seriously, i asked our quiet raft guide if anybody had ever fallen out the raft, broke any bones...died? that got him talking. turns out i didn't really want to know and his stories shut me up right quick.]

[lori ate healthy the whole trip. wish i could've gotten her to budge from her diet with me.]

[pancake aka best thing i have ever eaten in a looooong time. seriously, where have you been all my liiiife??]

[me and mom glamming it up on the boat ride across jenny lake.]

[beautiful waterfalls everywhere on our hike.]

[cheesin' it wit lori guh guh.]

[sweetest pea in the pod.]

[tree-huggin it.]

[mom-huggin it.]

[stupid moose that urged us to hike a mile higher to see it. luckily it was beyond gorgeous up there, or i would've shot that thing down out of vengeance. i'm obviously kidding, stop crying people.]

[i'm her favorite aunt because i snuggle her when her mom is partial to the moose kind.]

[jennaaay lake-gotta pronounce it like on forest gump. you just gotta.]

[ribbing all dang night at the bar j ranch. ribbing is an activity now, i just decided.]

[plate of food that was bigger than my entire body........yes, truth's out america, i weigh ten pounds. it's true.]

[look closely, they're both asleep. apparently i'm the only one that can stay up late in this family. and late means past ten o'clock.]

[antlers.]

[already doing the kissy face at 2 years old. a girl after my own heart. just kidding daddy, you didn't see that.]

highlights of the weekend include taking a tram up to the tetons [a whole whopping 4000 feet....could've puked], river rafting on the crazy rapids with mom and mark [me and mom were shoved up in the front where all the action happens aka water up the ying yang resulting in me screaming at her to "shut up and paddle" because she wouldn't stop telling me we needed to be on the same beat together while we paddled....that woman will probably be my personal metronome for the rest of my life], hiking up and down and all around the tetons after taking a boat across jenny lake [something about that environment get me belting "someday my prince will come", "call me maybe", and "let's go fly a kite"...real crowd pleasers, lemme tell ya], eating twice my body weight at the bar j ranch and laughing at the old cowboys performing [best part was when the old one randomly sang "i'm sexy and i know it"], laughing my butt off at my kooky family [reese chucking her shoe at our "expensive" dinner, lori's over-priced rotten milk, "oh my gosh, i loooove forever 21 too! this season really is the best", "i really do need to invest in one of those fanny packs", "burping is a blessing", "what, you want me to do it right now??], and eating way too many oreos and cheesy whale crackers for my own good.

so what if i maybe didn't shower as much as i should've [or at all...tmi?] or ate about twice than the average human should or sang more disney songs than ones for my own age group?

the meesh appeal seems to just continue to increase, doesn't it? 

i'm kinda way tired from it all but kinda wanna do it all over again. 

this time, i'll literally tape reesie to my body because i can't get over her cuteness! "say birrrd"

i am okay with not having to watch barbie's princess and the pauper for the thirtieth time.

although i was just learning that "i am a girl like you" song.

ohhh darn.

seriously, that ukulele please???

it's a sad day when...

[bottom floor of the library power outage.]

you find yourself paying more attention to watching free willy 2 at work than reading julia child's life in france book. and you know all the words to the movie too. what can i say, i am one classy lady.

you spend some quality time watching the hills reruns. yes, i am on my way to getting my college degree and i still have a guilty pleasure with reality tv shows. can't win em' all.

you have to google things like "jedi restrictions" and "dark side clothing styles". yes, my group project in my writing class is making a website about why you should join the dark side. there are no words.

you are so tired in the morning only on account of the fact that you stayed up way too late pinteresting desserts and taunting yourself for hours, and continuing to mentally come up with the ultimate dessert to make on friday free day [cheat day]. seriously, i'm pathetic.

you eat more fruit than normal food in one day. let's just say it made things interesting.

you have nowhere to wear your new dress and are constantly tempted to just wear it around the house. i have problems.

you listen to all of lil mama's "lip gloss" song and don't want to scream by the end [seriously, that song is like five minutes long of her telling the world why her lip gloss is "poppin'"].

you have white dry shampoo in your hair because you are too lazy to shower. and you don't brush it out all the way before you go out in public. cool beans.

you can hardly walk up any stairs because you were stupid enough to wear a narrow pencil skirt to work. good thing i've got flights of them on my journey to and from to work [hey, at least it's not the pencil skirt/bike combination repeat of july 2011].

you're in the bottom floor of the library finishing a butt-long research paper when the lights goes out. is this normal? everyone continues to work, even the librarian stacking books, so you do too. then a teacher and students come through and the teacher calls YOU out for being so studious, even when the power goes out, and everybody laughs. hi, there are ten other people here too, make fun of them! in my defense, i was working on my laptop, not reading a book. i am cool.

your biggest problem of the morning is what side of your head should you part your hair on. my problems just put african children's problems to shame, apparently.

it's thirty minutes before class, hw isn't done, clothes aren't on, and food has not been eaten in too many hours. my life is under control.

[these may or may not all be applicable to me this week/right now.]