Favorite Time of Year

I know I blogged about this last year but I can't help myself because Autumn is, hands down, my favorite season. Don't get me wrong, I love summer but there's just something about this time of year.

Pumpkins

They are so pretty. If it wasn't weird to have them up all year I probably would.

Fall colors

Nothing can compare to east coast colors. Sorry, Utah, even the colors in the mountains aren't as pretty.

Halloween

It's one of my favorite holidays. I'm not really sure why. Maybe it's all the candy.

Apple cider doughnuts

People out here don't know these exist. They're so tasty, especially the ones from the pumpkin patch in Schoharie, NY. If someone from NY would kindly send me some I'd sure appreciate it :)



Bundling Up

I don't so much like the cold, but I love wrapping myself up in a blanket. And this year I have these to look forward to. Are they not the cutest things you've ever seen?

It is hard for me to explain the feeling I get when the nights have that crispness to them and I start to see butternut squash being sold in stores. I get the urge to put on a sweater, decorate, and bake an apple pie. My domestic side definitely comes out this time of year and I love it. I love, love, love Fall!

I Like Cheese

On arms...

On legs...



On feet...



And faces...



:)

All Growed Up

These are some of my most favorite ladies in the whole wide world. Leda and Shaliese are missing from the picture because they live out east but this post goes out to them too!

I met these wonderful women my freshman year at BYU seven years ago. Seven years! I can't believe it's been that long. I've been friends with some of the most loving, generous, and sincere people for seven years. How lucky am I?! As I think of what has happened over the years I realize a lot has changed since the day I met them in August 2003. Since we met, collectively, we have graduated from BYU, gone on missions, gotten married, started working in the real world, received master's degrees, had lots o' babies (all girls so far!), run half-marathons, lived in other countries, traveled the world, and moved far away from home and each other. But we have stuck together through it all.

These women are strong, motivated, loving, righteous, funny, caring, and beautiful. Who wouldn't want to be friends with them? I mean, they're the type of people who meet you at the airport with a homemade sign the day you fly into SLC to start college. Then they invite you to a movie and crepe making before school even starts. Were it not for them I'm sure I would be a totally different person today. I don't think it was chance that I was the 6th roommate.

Lets take a trip down memory lane:

Sleepovers at Kasia's. Memorizing names of her friends I don't know :). Roommate dinner. Life-size Brittany Spears. Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving plus a whole bunch of other people. Birthday celebrations. 222. Pride and Prejudice watch-a-thons. Brick Oven outings. First Friday. Late, late nights chatting. Silly crushes. Heartbreaks. Roommate Christmas. Halloween parties. 60's night. Chinese fisherman. Hitler. Dolomite. 

These women have shaped my life into something beautiful

Claire, Kasia, Leda, Shaliese, and Jeanette...you mean the world to me

and I love you!