Since When Was Ten Years Ago 2004?

You know what's sad and depressing?

I can't even remember half of what happened in 2013.

A whole entire year, 365 days worth, went by and I can't recall very much of it.

That's just down right sad.

Maybe for 2014 I'll start a journal! Who am I kidding that'll last a day.

Anyways, I tried to remember what happened in 2013, and picked my favorite memories. These are just my top ten memories but there are many, many more. So if you care to know what they are, click the read more button below. Okay that sounds really lame so just pretend that never happened.



10. 5K's

I run about as fast as a snail and enjoy it about -20%. But this year I just so happened to run three 5K's and it was actually my choice! I know huge shocker!!! Two were Color Run's which is one of the greatest experiences, I highly recommend it, and the other was to raise money for my neighbor/teacher who had cancer. And who knows, maybe in 2014, I'll do even more! But don't get your hopes up.

9. Barenaked Ladies Concert

Oddly enough, this isn't a band of a bunch of naked ladies running around stage singing. Sorry boys but that'd be quite awkward... It's an all guy group and I went to their concert this summer with my family and another family. At the time of their concert I knew about three songs from their kids album; but this concert was an "adult concert" which means they weren't doing any of their songs from their kids album. So my friend Alexa and I didn't know any of the songs but it was still a party!


8. The Hungry Games

Image Courtesy To
Desert Star Playhouse's Blog

That's right, The Hungry Games. Not The Hunger Games. There's this magical theater called the Desert Star Playhouse where they make hilarious parodies of popular movies or books. Earlier this year I went to go see one of their parodies based of The Hobbit except I didn't understand half of the stuff because I've never see or read The Hobbit but it was still hilarious! So I went back later this year to see a parody of The Hunger Games called The Hungry Games. I can't remember laughing that hard in one night since the last time I went there. And what makes it even better is their amazingly wonderful popcorn and rootbeer floats. If you ever have the chance, go see one of their plays, you won't regret it!

7. ROPE SWING!

You know in the movie Grown Ups when whatever his name, goes off a rope swing and swings back to hit the tree? Yeah, well luckily that wasn't me!!! This year I finally got over my fear of the rope swing and I was like Tarzan swinging through the jungle!! And the whole reason my fear ever existed was because when I was younger I did the rope swing and completely belly flopped and let me tell you, that's the definition of true pain.



6. Ultimate Shaving Cream Fight

Shaving cream fights are so much better than a lame silly string fight. And this shaving cream fight wasn't planned. There was about ten girls over at my house for an end of the school year party and someone found a bottle of shaving cream. No one's exactly sure how or who started it but it was so much fun! We kinda attacked each other and were covered head to toe in shaving cream. But the real fight came when we had to rinse off in the ice cold hose and that was when the game of revenge began.


5. High School Tennis Team

This just about sums up the bus rides

First off I was so excited to make the team considering I only started playing tennis a year ago. But what made it even better was the fact that I made Junior Varsity! But the bus rides were a real party wether it was seeing how many people we could fit in one seat, making music videos, singing, the millions of Snapchats sent, attempting to do homework that doesn't get done and even trying to sleep. I had so much fun on the team and many more memories that I've sworn never to speak of. Shhhhh...


4. Spring Break

You had to go to each of the towers
& the maze continue in the back.

Normally for spring break we go camping which is fun and all but it's not all that exciting. But this year we went to Florida to visit my grandparents who own a condo in Panama City. Panama City has a beautiful beach that I was at all day, every day which caused me to get a major sun burn. Ouchies! But my favorite memory from this trip was when we went mini golfing and they had a maze next store. We thought, "Hey this will be so much fun, let's go!" And we were right about that. Except I was stuck inside for forty five minutes meanwhile my brother completed the maze in fifteen minutes. It wasn't only completely frustrating but also embarrassing. But I went back the next day and completed it in thirteen minutes which made me number one on the "Best Time" board.

3. My Last Year At Camp Daggett
My precious time at Camp Daggett as a camper has sadly come to an end. This past summer was definitely one of my best experiences at camp, we made so many memories that make me smile just thinking about them. But the greatest memory from this year was definitely our camp out. It all started when we were given the opportunity to do The Bear River Run. The Bear River Run in a canoeing trip down the bear river and campers haven't been able to do it in over twenty years.

Canoeing Images Courtesy To Camp Daggett's Blog

We canoed to our campout spot which is about halfway down Walloon Lake and everything was going as planned until we were warned there was a huge storm headed our way. We watched the storm travel over the lake until the point when our boat started to run away and lightning was right above us. That's when we all had to go to our tents and not long after we were told the boys tent was flooding and they had to come into our tent. So we had twenty people smushed into a five person tent, that was... fun. Long story short we ended up having to get rescued from the camp site with the help of the camp directors. Let me add the rescuing occurred in pitch black, during a huge thunder storm. But the best part was before the rescuing when we were all standing around a huge bon-fire in the pouring rain singing We Are Young.

We still got to do The Bear River Run the next day which consisted of many spiders, mosquitos, canoeing and singing of songs. This was definitely one of the greatest days of my life. I'm sad I'm no longer a camper but I am more than excited that I get to go back this next summer as a Progie. And no I'm not turning into a Polish sausage.

2. Michael Bublé Concert

HAVE YOU HEARD HIS VOICE?!?!?! HE IS AN ANGEL SENT FROM ABOVE!!! And let me tell you, he is one thousand times better live! And I'm in love with him and one day I will marry him, screw the age difference. Age is only a number, right? Okay Morgan that's a little obsessive, calm down! Anyways... my friend Madison and I went to his concert in November and it was the greatest night of my life! His face, *faints* his voice, *faints* his sense of humor, *laughs* (I know I tricked you on that one!)


1. Up On One Ski First Try!

So there's this thing called water skiing and basically you're on skis being pulled behind a boat and it's as if you're walking on water and it's tons of fun! The summer of 2012 I really really REALLY wanted to get up on one ski rather than just dropping one. Except I just couldn't get it! So this past summer I was more determined than Nemo was determined to touch that boat. And not only did I get up on one ski, but I got up my first try! I guess all that determination paid off!

I hope the few people who read this can remember more of 2013 than I did, it's kinda embarrassing how little I remember. But thanks to everyone who made all these memories & many others with me and I hope you #partyhard tonight. And 2014 is going to be great, I can already tell. So here's to 2014!

My Pooh Bear Obsession

“The things that make me different, are the things that make me.” - Winnie The Pooh

Who doesn't love Winnie The Pooh? I mean he is one of the greatest role models out there. He's a loyal friend to all his neighbors, is always willing to lend a helping hand and says some very inspirational stuff. One of my favorite quotes from Winnie The Pooh, “If you live to be one hundred, I hope I live to be one hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” Isn’t that the sweetest thing you’ve ever heard!?!

My Costco size Pooh Bear!!!

Pooh Bear is the coolest bear out there! I mean he's a fat bear who eats all the time and still is 100% self confident. And he has the awesomest friends ever! (Except they're a close second to my strangely awkward friends.) He has so many friends and is constantly making new ones. There's Owl and if he was a human, he would out smart everyone. And did you know Piglet's a boy? Yeah well he's pretty cool, he likes adventures. There's Gopher who like to explore and Rabbit who’s the all time famous party pooper. Then there's poor Eeyore... He always looses his tail and is always sad but then by the end of their adventure all of his friends cheer him up! And of course there's T I double GG E R. He's just too cool for words so I'll leave it at that.

I was younger you could say I had a small obsession with Pooh Bear... and I happened to find the evidence the other day. 

1. Physical Evidence

     a. My room was 100% Winnie The Pooh based and the other day we even found my crib set and everything! (I even have a Winnie The Pooh back scratcher, it’s the greatest thing ever invented!)

     b. I found many, many, MANY VHS Pooh movies 

     c. Along with extravagant amounts of Pooh Books

     d. I had tons of Pooh Bear and all his friends stuffed animals and even one that’s almost as big as those huge Costco bears! (See collage above)

I'd choose my Pooh hat over a tiara any day!

2. Photographic Evidence

     a. Countless pictures of me wearing a Pooh Bear hat and I sure did look stunning in it! I wish I had it just so I could be cool enough to say I own a Pooh Bear hat. But sadly, I don't. (See collage to right)

     b. When I was younger, I swear the only clothing I owned was a dress or a Pooh Bear T-Shirt. And I think I owned just about every Pooh T-Shirt ever made. I was just that swavey.

3. Letters To Pooh & All His Friends

At Camp Daggett they give you the spectacular opportunity to send letters to Pooh Bear and all his friends. Of course, I was all over the idea of sending letters to all of them. Just three years ago when I returned to camp, I was determined to send letters to each and every single one of Pooh and his friends. We all sent tons of letters and we would check Pooh's mailbox thousands of times a day to see if they wrote us back. I got multiple letters back from each of Pooh's friends! And I found out some of their deepest secrets! (Don't tell anyone, but I still have each and every single letter!)

Okay so this upcoming information is TOP SECRET, you have to pinky promise not to go and tell anyone! Who am I kidding, this is on the internet, everyone and anyone can know! So I would say, my Winnie The Pooh obsession... hasn't exactly ended. Just this past summer I bought a new Pooh Bear sweatshirt! And the best part is, it's a size 2XL so it's just like a wearable hug! I may or may not wear it in public every other day...

I also still have all the stuffed animals, HVS tapes, books and even the crib set! Sadly I don’t have the clothing or the hat. And just two years ago in a tech class we had to research the history of anything you wanted. Can you guess what I choose? That's right! The history and creation of Winnie The Pooh! 

So I know not every ninth grader out there would willingly admit they’re still obsessed with Winnie The Pooh. But you know what? Those are the things that make me different and make me, me. 

Sing-a-long books were my favorite along with the sweatshirt

The Time I Was Attacked By A Bear

It was a nice & pleasant summer day until I found out I had to go hiking. I. Did. Not. Want. To. Go. Hiking. Under. Any. Circumstances. But parents being parents, made me. The plus side (and the only plus side) we were going with our friends visiting from Michigan.

But when we showed up the day got even better because we were hiking at Deer Valley so technically we weren't hiking. What do I mean by this? Well we got to ride the chair lift up and hike down again. Don't ask me why but I think it completely ruins the point of hiking, which completely made up for the fact I was forced to go hiking. *Happy Face!*

We take the chair lift to the top and let me tell you it was quite the view. I mean I've seen it before because I live here but my friends, I swear their jaws had dropped all the way down to the Pacific Ocean. Then they took over a million pictures, but I can relate, I take pictures of everything!

We finally began hiking down and I was straggling behind everyone else because I really was not in the mood to go hiking. And of course when I'm in the middle of nowhere my bladder decides to inform me that I have to go to the bathroom, RIGHT NOW! Once everyone is far enough ahead, I decided I was gonna pop-a-squat in an area full of bushes. That's when I noticed I was in trouble. There was a bear probably 20-feet away. Except I didn't think that the bear was a threat, my first thought was, "That'd be such a cool picture if I just had a camera, with all the flowers and the bear!" Then I realized what I just said, OHMYGOD THERE'S A BEAR!!!! The bear was looking directly at me. ME! Hopefully the bear's One Direction in disguise...

The Claw Marks From The Attack

Well the bear's probably just staring at me because I'm just so beautiful. Or for the fact I was just about to release my bladder in his territory. But I would really appreciate it Mr. Bear if you would stop staring at me so I can finish my business and leave. So I decided to avoid eye contact or else the situation would just get even more awkward.

Then the thought that the bear might be a predator came to mind, I ever so slowly start to back away from the bear. The bear took a step towards me and that was enough to scare me, I turned and ran (while screaming very loudly) back to the trail trying to catch up to my family and friends. I looked back, bad decision. The bear was following me and very fast too.

I was running as fast as Morgan can possibly run, (Which if you've ever seen me run, isn't all that fast) I was catching speed around one of the corners and of course Morgan being Morgan tripped. Of all times I could have tripped it was when I was being chased by a bear!

The bear caught up to me and was just pulling and tugging at my leg! I tried to escape but the bear just pulled even harder. He kept pulling and pulling and pulling at my leg, just like I'm pulling on your's right now!

See what I did there? I know, you don't need to tell me. I'm a very funny person. That reminds me, wanna here a joke? Even if you don't, I'll tell you anyways. What'd the horse say when it fell? I've fallen and I can't giddy-up!

Anyways, as I was saying, that whole story I told you, 100% not true. Well I guess it's more like 20% not true and 80% true. I do in fact have that scar but rather than being caused by a bear attacking me, it was my dear frenemy the bike. So just substitute the bear for the bike and hiking for biking and there's the real story!

I was not a happy camper to go biking
(notice the circled areas)

This is just got awkward... I just read over this post again and literally substituted hiking for biking and bear for bike, and that didn't work at all. "OHMYGOD THERE'S A BIKE!!!" - Who thinks that? Geez. I know I'm crazy but I promise you I'm not that kind of crazy!

Our friends from Michigan, my brother & I
(notice the circled areas)

(The circled areas indicate my shirt that was ripped and a bandage that was put over my boo-boo)

Well I hope none of you out there reading this have to deal with the physical and emotional pain of your once dear friend the bike attacking you. And if anyone of you have been attacked by a bear, I have four words for you. Glad I'm not you.

The Ten Truths About Birthdays

This past week I had my fifteenth birthday! I know hard to believe I've been on this planet for a whole fifteen years! And sadly no, I didn't get my permit. My parents won't let me get it until I actually "study." But I mean who actually studies for those things? Not Morgan!!! Anyways... I think birthdays are great but I mean birthdays aren't perfect. So here are The Ten Truths About Birthdays. 

Did you know I was the cutest one year
old to ever crawl on this planet? True fact

1. Birthday Cards
Birthday cards are my favoritist thing ever. I know every time I get dragged along to go the grocery store with my mom, I go look at the birthday cards. You know there's the sentimental ones but really... "AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!" The best ones are the cards that sing to you! I mean you open it and it sings, you close it and it stops. Open. Close. Open. Close. Open. Close. Now don't tell me I'm the only one to ever do that, because I've watched all of you do it! But my absolute favorite ones, are the ones my friends make me! You know the ones that are hand made with the inside jokes, beautiful pictures and of course a little bit of the sentimental stuff.

2. Cake
Cake? That is so last year.

3. The Embarrassment 
Is it just me or is it the most awkward thing when you're just standing there and everyone is singing Happy Birthday to you? I just can't help it, my face turns bright, bright red!

4. The Fisher Tradition
Luckily the Fisher Tradition isn't to go fishing on your birthday, that'd be down right awful. The Fisher Tradition is to make your birthday last as long as humanly possible. However, I have a hard time of doing this because my birthday is in the first week in November so normally it last about two days. But hey, that's one more day than someone who doesn't use The Fisher Tradition.

5. Having To Reply To Everyone's Birthday Wishes

The best High School Musical party
that has ever existed

I mean who doesn't love getting 'Happy Birthday!' messages? I know I do! But you know how it is, the more you receive the more loved you feel. Except sometimes it causes problems... I just realized today, quite a few days after my birthday, I forgot to respond to nearly half of the birthday messages I got. Oops!

6. Pressure To Make Birthday Plans / Not Wanting To Exclude Anyone
Before the dawn of time when I still had birthday parties, I would invite every single one of my friends because I know how it felt to be left out. I don't know how my parents handled so many crazy kids running around but some how they managed. Now that I'm fifteen it just seems a little ridiculous to still have a birthday party. But you know what, maybe I want to have another High School Musical birthday party! The world may never know...

7. The Question
There's actually two pointless obnoxious questions that I know all of you have been asked before. 1. How does it feel to be a year older? Correction. I'm only a day older than I was yesterday. And I don't miraculously feel a whole year older! C'mon people, I'm the blonde one here!! 2. What do you want for your birthday? So we all know we actually want something but it's just an awko-taco moment because you don't actually want to tell them.

8. Happiness 24/7
It's near to impossible to be in a bad mood on your birthday; It's about 24 hours of complete and total happiness. It even makes getting up for school wonderful because I get CINNAMON ROLLS!!! And then this year when I showed up at school my dream car was awaiting me.

This is the actual car I received but
it's just as cool! When you pull it back,
a ghost suddenly drives it forward!

9. Presents and Surprises
I know this sounds selfish but I'm just telling the truth. We all know presents are the best part about birthdays. And the best kind of presents are the surprises. And this year I got the ultimate surprise in the whole entire world. But I'm going to leave you in suspense because I guarantee you I'll write about it in February, you know the month that comes after January.

10. Acting As If You Actually Like A Gift
I know we've all been in this situation. Your mom picks out some article of clothing you're just looking at it thinking, "What in the world was she thinking when she picked this out? I think this is the ugliest thing I've ever seen! I need to go wash my eyes!!!" But instead you just say, "Thanks Mom! I love it so much! This is probably the cutest thing ever!" And then you never ever wear it or even touch it again! Been there, done that!

In the end, I think birthdays are one of the greatest days of the year. They make you feel important with everyone wishing you a happy birthday and it's the one day of the year when everything seems centered around you! Just remember you share your birthday with approximately 19 million other people around the world. I had never met one of those other 19 million people until this past summer at camp. Happy birthday Tony!

You Know It's Bad When The Medic Is Called

*Flashback*

"SECURITY?!?" "WE NEED SECURITY!" the clowns scream at the top of their lungs. "Okay, you two just wait in the corner until security gets here," one of the nicer clowns tell my friend and I. I wait there in agony, waiting and waiting and waiting. When security finally arrives he glances at me and immediately said into his walkie talkie, "We need the medic in the clown maze ASAP."

(In case you haven't realized it yet, I was at a haunted house)

You're probably wondering Why in the world would Morgan need a medic at a haunted house? Yes, I'm a very clumsy person but this time, I didn't trip and fall. No, a zombie did not hit me in the back of a head with a fire extinguisher. And obviously my legs did not get chopped of by the creepy chain saw guy. It's called an elbow to the face.

The Elbow To The Face Experience

It all happened in slow motion (mainly because there was a strobe light doing its thing). I saw the zombie lady reach out trying to grab us, but we ran, we ran as if she was going to be the death of us. I watched as Brendan tripped at the exit but caught himself by the frame of the door. That's when the contact with his elbow and my face happened. More precisely, his elbow and my nose. No one else realized what happened, but I knew instantly what would happen next.

My nose began to throb when we were trying to find our way out of the creepy clown maze. That's when I felt the bloody nose coming on. Once we were around the next corner I already had a warm red pool of blood swishing around in my hands. That's when my friend finally got the attention of a clown. The clown looks at me, touches my face and calmly said, "Your beautiful face has blood all over it." All I did was nod. That was when the clowns started calling for security and told my friend Lane and I to wait in the corner.

While we patiently waited for security to show up, about five of the clowns surrounded us in the corner. Now that is the definition of terrifying. It was a strange sensation. Imagine: five of the creepiest human beings you've ever seen times 10 but them acting so incredibly nice and genuine. They were all asking me what happened but my favorite clown was the one who had the puppet who kept saying, "George is coming to help you!"

Finally security (George) arrived and shortly after the medic (Spencer) came to my rescue. The whole situation after this was one of the most awkward things I've ever experienced. It was some random old guy blinding me with his flashlight while attempting to remove all the blood from my face and hands. And then he tried to stick a piece of gauze (let me note NOT a tissue) up my nose.

While Spencer was still attempting to wipe all the blood of my face, many people found us in the corner. The clowns were like our body guards just scaring them back into the maze. Some had really funny reactions to seeing so much blood. But my favorite reaction was when a boy not that much older than me screamed, "HOLY SH*T THAT GIRL HAS A LOT OF BLOOD..." But then he got cuts off because he was screaming while running away from the clowns.

Thank you clowns.

Epilogue 

We ended up making it through the rest of the Haunted House safely except Spencer wasn't able to get all the blood of me with the disinfecting wipes. My friend Lane, who was with me the whole time, somehow managed to get my blood in her hair. When we finished the haunted house the rest of our friends exploded when they saw us. They literally thought we died because we just disappeared and they had no idea what happened to us. Although I got a bloody nose and was in a few really awkward situations, I had tons of fun!

Blue Armpits

If you were offered the opportunity to be covered in chalk from head to toe, would you do it? I took the risk of being covered entirely in chalk and not knowing how long this chalk would stay stuck to me. 

This colorful experience is known as The Color Run. The Color Run is a 5K (3.10686 miles to be exact) run through color magically falling from the sky! Just kidding the color doesn't actually fall from the sky but that would be AWESOME!!! 

The Seven Easy Steps To Becoming As Colorful As Possible

Step 1: Find as much white clothing as possible so the color will be more noticeable. 

Step 2: Run through the color

Step 3: Roll in the color

Step 4: Repeat step 2 & 3 at each color station

Step 5: Cross the finish line

Step 6: Join the after party

(This is where most the color comes from)

By the end of the after partying, all the colors have
blended together to make an icky brown color

Step 7: Get the color "blown" off of you

Step 7 doesn't actually get all the color off of you, the rest you're going to have to scrub and scrub and scrub off yourself. And not even all of it will come off! (I discovered this the hard way) I walked around for days with bright blue armpits, orange elbows, and streaks of color in my hair! I even went to school with all this color on me! But in the end, blue armpits and all, being covered in color head to toe was 100% worth it!

Celebrate life even when you have blue armpits!

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