I'm looking forward to...

I'm looking forward to pumpkin pie next weekend :) You see what my priorities are, food is first on my list hahaha

I'm looking forward to the day when Stephanie Meyers decides to flippin finish "Midnight Sun" which for those of you who don't know is the 5th installment of the Twilight series that has been put on hold due a stupid BYU-I student who illegally got a hold of a manuscript. Lame.

I'm really excited to get a new jacket this winter. I'm not sure which jacket I'm going to get yet but this is one of my favorites.

I'm looking forward to finishing my first quilt, which by the way, looks nothing like this. This is waaaay beyond my level. I just thought it was a sweet lookin quilt.

I'm looking forward to going back to school. It is a huge mess and I don't know how it will work out but hey I'm excited!

I'm sooo looking forward to chopping down our first Christmas tree together. It is our second Christmas but we didn't get to go last year so it will be a first for us.

And last but definitely not the least, I'm so stoked to have this little nugget running around my apartment next week! I seriously can't wait it will be so fun! Oh yeah and Emily and Travis are coming too, hahaha.

lucky

AJ+me+forever=lucky me. I was honestly trying to put my thought into words and it just wasn't happening. So basically this really awesome equation is how I feel. He is so good about serving others and seeing as how we live, eat, breath, and do everything together I think it is safe to say that I am the happy recipient of much of this service. Just a few things that I really appreciated this last week were the crepes that he made me sunday night(it just occurred to me that we often end up eating breakfast foods on sunday evenings, no idea why) not just picking up but really cleaning the house so that I could focus on organizing our spare room that was seriously out of control, folding the laundry 2 times this week because he knows I truly hate doing it, and taking care of me this week by making trips to the store, giving me foot rubs, and attacking the house with disinfectant when I had a little flu bug. He really did attack the house with disinfectant, it was great. He also laughs at my jokes and makes me feel funny. That really is an act of service because I'm really not funny. He is just the best and I feel so lucky to be his wife. I feel incredibly blessed.

Papa, Natie, and Sadie's Birthday

Lame Lame Lame

If someone else has come across this problem I would love to hear how the heck you solved it. I've been trying for about a week to post some pictures but each time I do it shows up in my post as a bunch of text. I've tried new software updates, downloading from different sources, and I've checked the settings of my computer and I can't seem to figure out why this is happening. It really is frustrating though!! If you have any suggestions I would be happy to hear them! I'll feel like an idiot if this is a simple fix that is incredibly obvious but oh well.

My Dad's Birthday!

Earlier this month we were able to go to Oregon to celebrate my Dad's 50th birthday! It was great to spend time with both our families and as always I wish we could have stayed longer. It was a lot of fun to surprise my dad on his birthday and it was nice to celebrate Natalie's 5th and Sadie's 2nd birthday while we were there. I was going to upload some photos right now but my internet connections sucks so that will just have to wait. It was a pumpkin carving, movie watching, game playing, niece chasing, food and family filled weekend. I love going home and miss it already! I will try posting some pictures soon and hopefully my internet will cooperate!

oh yeah pictures...

These pics are supposed to be in the last post but oh well! Here they are now!

This is the finished product from our pumpkin carving on sunday! I always have these grand designs for what to carve but usually toss them out the window after the first 10 minutes of carving.

We put them in the back of the car but they were rolling around alot so I said we should move them to the middle seats and this is what my husband did.

With our pumpkins! AJ wanted the biggest one he could find, and I think he did pretty well. The picture really doesn't give you a very good idea of how huge that pumpkin is.

a relaxing weekend

We had a really nice weekend. It wasn't terribly exciting but it was relaxing and I just enjoyed every minute of it. Honestly we were really lazy and probably ate more food than we should have. Friday we got off work early which which is always nice and went grocery shopping. I know that doesn't sound exciting but I really love the whole grocery shopping experience from planning meals to unloading all the stuff. I really like it. Kinda weird, I know. Moving onto to Saturday, we had work off and were happy to sit in our nice warm bed and watch General Conference. Conference was wonderful and so perfect, as it always is. After conference we got our pumpkins and watched a movie. Our Sunday was spent listening to conference, eating breakfast in bed, carving pumpkins, roasting pumpkin seeds, eating haystacks, baking cookies, and watching Kung Fu Panda. As for this morning, it might as well have been Christmas for AJ. He was ridiculously happy when he woke up to snow! Although I dread the idea of the next 7-8 months filled with snow, it did make me pretty excited for the holidays. I think my favorite thing about the first snow fall is the smell in the air when it snows. I have so many good memories attached to that smell.