It's the Most Colorful Time of the Year

I love fall. I love the colors, the clothes, the crisp feeling of it still being warm but having a nice chill in the breeze. Every year growing up my family would drive through the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia and look at the leaves changing color (Virginia is BEAUTIFUL in the fall so if you ever plan on going go now). I have missed Virginia's falls and the colors so Neil and I took a drive through Provo Canyon and Sundance and it was gorgeous. There's something about the mountains out here that I just can't get used to how amazing they are, so adding fall colors just makes it even more breathtaking.











We decided that we were going to make this a family tradition for our family as well, except we will bundle up next year...it was chilly in the mountains especially by the stream so we couldn't enjoy being out for long because I'm a complainer (sorry baby).

"Is This Your First?"

So as many of you know, or should know since our last post was about this, Neil and I bought a house. In our new neighborhood we are pretty much the only couple without children, okay maybe between 1 and 5 other couples in our neighborhood/ward don't have children either but you get my point.

We have a great neighborhood and I honestly love all of our neighbors and our ward has been so welcoming. Our neighbors Marcus and Terri have an annual Halloween Block Party where they close down the street and everyone dresses up and eats yummy soup. Since it has been beyond crazy we didn't even think about our costume until the day of so we both threw together something out of what we already had. So we were...drum roll please...


(If you can't tell by this picture we obviously failed.)


Neil was a gangster, or as a little girl who saw Neil and asked "Are you a ganker?" Haha, oh Utah...and then she continued by complaining that her mother won't let her wear her pants that low, haha.


And I was pregnant. This is not an announcement I just thought it would be funny because there are so many pregnant people in our neighborhood. I just put some pillow batting in a plastic bag and stuffed it up my shirt, and the funny thing is people really thought I was pregnant and a few ladies asked me if this was my first baby. A lot of people that don't know that it was just a costume were probably really confused when I went to church without a big pregnant belly and with no baby.


Now next year I'm going to be a gangster and Neil's going to be pregnant.