Fall.

I'm getting ready for the FALL to come. I can't wait to start putting up my fall decorations. Smelling pumpkin. Seeing the leaves change. I am even starting to miss my fall clothes & boots.

I love that when the fall comes more holidays start coming..Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I love decorating pumpkins. ooh and it means I'm getting closer to our vacation to Disney. Fall foods. Steve's Birthday. Corn Mazes.

Fall I'm ready for you.

What's up.

yep. Another post. I'm just chillin' at work waiting for some calls to kick in. I'm not complaining. I love when it's like this.

I figured I would just write what's on my mind. or what comes to mind.

Life has been really busy. It's almost a little overwhelming. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights are packed to the max. Here's how my schedule is every week.

Monday: work from 7:30am-6:05pm

Tuesday: work from 7:30-6:05pm/7:00 pm Volleyball practice (yep, I'm an assistant coach as well for yw)-kind of funny because I have NO experience what so ever with sports.. /8:00-9:30pm ballroom dance

Wednesday: work from 7:30am-6:05pm/YW activity 7:00pm-8:30 sometimes closer to 9ish

Thursday: work from 7:30am-6:05pm/6:45 or 7:00pm volley ball games

Even though my week is pretty busy, and somewhat overwhelming. I'm kind of grateful for it. I get to spend A LOT of my time with the young women. Which I absolutely love. I love the girls. I call them my girls. They help fill my void of no kids (for now). So grateful that heavenly father has given me this calling.

Steve has been busy looking at applications and filling out applications for school. Woot woot. Another step in our life. SO excited for Steve and what our future holds. I wonder if we will be staying here or moving somewhere for the next 3-4 years? Hopefully staying. I have a hard time leaving family and our good friends. BUT wherever we end up, Ill be grateful. Ill still be with the most important person in my life so I'll be happy.

Last night Steve and I went to a Fire Safety meeting with Dan and Carrie. I was pretty much stoked we got a free steak dinner, but I learned SO much. I never, ever, ever think about being in a fire or witnessing a fire etc. It's not something that comes past my mind. Which is really careless of me. Steve and I took out our batteries in our fire alarm, oh I don't remember..maybe 3 months ago and never put them back because it kept going off when we were cooking sausage or bacon..pure stupidity. If we had another fire we would have no warning! It just put this whole new prospective on fire safety and how I need to get more on top of things. For one not taking out our batteries, or if we do replace them for pete's sake!

When we got home we starting thinking of plans of what we are going to do in case of an emergency. Where we will meet, what we will do. etc. I feel more prepared now. So that's a plus.

I'm content with how life is now.

I'm counting down the day's until we go on our week vacation to DISNEYLAND with the Rappleye's!!! I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO excited. Disneyland is one of my very favorite places. I'm totally a kid at heart.

I just discovered these babies! Now one of my very fave's.

I can't wait for the season of Chuck to start up again-Sept 20th! Our anniversary. Thank goodness for Tivo.

Oh and speaking of our anniversary. We will be married for 4 years! whoa. Time just fly's. I thought for sure by now we would have a little bambino in our lives. But, not so. It's kind of funny how you think something or have something planned out, and it NEVER seems to go the way you had planned. hm. That's how life goes though.

Yay for Ballroom tonight! I love that Steve now randomly turns on Michael Buble and says "Let's practice what we've learned." So stink'n cute. And romantic might I add.

Today I've been debating on maybe going back to school to just get my associates. REALLY random thought. Steve and I both decided when we were first married we would just put him through school. I kind of want to go back...I just don't know when Ill have time? Maybe I will...

Alrighty, I'm done carrying on. There's some randomness.

Stoked.

So stoked that it's already Wednesday. One more work day to go.

Tomorrow Steve and I are headed to youth conference for the weekend. I'm really excited! Youth Conference and girl's camp were seriously so much fun to me when I was a young women. I even love it more now. It's so much fun to be with all the youth and Steve is with me now too-which I seriously love.

I was pretty bummed that I couldn't go to girls camp this year. I was planning on going but, than I couldn't get work off for the week since we have two other vacations that we are doing this year. Hopefully, I can go again someday though.

Life's been super busy lately. Summer's usually are. I just wish it would slow down just a little though, I'm always soo super tired by the middle of the day.

Steve graduates OFFICIALLY next Friday! I'm so extremely excited!!!!! It seems almost surreal. He's been going to the Y for 5 years it's hard to imagine him going anywhere else. He takes the PCAT in just 2 weeks and then he applies for pharm school! I'm actually really, really excited. Not the fact that I won't see Steve. But it will be an adventure for us, depending on where he gets into school. I kind of have a hunch we might be moving out of state...but what do I know?

I'm also pretty excited to make his grad cake! For the most part I have an idea of what I'm doing, I just hope it turns out the way I want it. I found these two cakes, that I'm stealing ideas from. :)

I might just make a grad cap with blue and white...

or

I really, REALLY love this cake. This lady did an AWESOME job. I'm thinking of doing the cake all white with maybe the byu Y in blue on the second layer in a big letter or just the blue and white stripes like the bottom pic...

Okay, something completley random. I have that blasted Jonas Brothers song in my head-"Hey You." I LOVE the song, but it's been going through my head all day.

Thank you for running into a power line.

Well, I was able to get off work early today. Thank you random person for hitting your car into a power line by my work. The power was out for over an hour, and since my job has everything to do with a computer, and a phone- that pretty much explains why I'm so grateful to the person who made our power go out.

I really do enjoy my job, but sometimes it's mentally draining. I talk to a lot of really nice people, and also a lot of really rude people or people who speak a different language, so there is a language barrier...

I guess that's how it is with any job really. My good friend Anne and I were able to go and do some shopping, and now I'm here at home. Back on my computer. funny. I'm finally not having to be in front of a computer, but here I am. That's probably why it's a good thing I work. I came home thinking there is plenty to do at home I'm so happy I'm not having to work. I get home, everything is clean. Spotless. Not one thing to do. Steve's gone working for his dad. I thought of breaking out some crafts, but I just made one last night... which reminds me. Two of my little beehives came to visit me last night. Totally made my night. They wanted me to make crafts with them. :)

Steve and I have been watching the show Chuck a lot lately. An episode every night. Thank you Dan & Carrie for introducing this show to us, you've got us completely hooked!

Last weekend Steve and I watched chuck episodes with papa john pizza for our date night. We stayed up until 1! That is so late for us. Isn't it funny that when your dating you have all this energy and think you can stay up all hours of the night? Then once your married you feel like you need to pass out (go to sleep) by 10??

What else? I bought myself an early birthday present. I picked up "The parables of the Princesses." Thank you Grandpa and Grandma E. for the birthday money. :) I can't believe that I'm going to be 25! That sure feels old to me. Even though, REALLY it's not. One of my friends at work told me to have a Happy 21st birthday on Monday. Woot woot! At least she thought I was in my 20's not teens..I get my birthday off at work! I'm SO happy! Thank you Memorial Day! Steve said we can do anything. I really want to go to the Zoo. It's been a tradition since I was super young. I'm a kid at heart anyway. But I also really want to go dancing at the place by the purple turtle. We haven't been there since our first date. literally. It's this cute little country dancing place in Pleasant Grove. Who knows?

Which reminds me, it's grandma's birthday Sunday. I need to work on her present! :)

That's something I need/should be doing since I have this extra free time!

Well, I guess that will be all of my ramblings for today.

Jotting down my thoughts..

Just want to write.

Today's been a long day! I'm sitting here at work, and still have 2 more hours to go and then YW right after. Is it bad to say I just feel like going home, getting in my pj's and turning on a good movie? When it rains, it sure makes me feel lazy!

I don't mind the rain, it's sure a lot better than SNOW! Rain is kind of peaceful when it hits the window.

Steve's been busy like MAD this week. I barely even get to see my husband. It's like he's in Canada again. boo. I'm home, so is he, but he gets in a "zone" (which is great) that he only "hears" and See's his books. He stays up so late studying, I go to bed without him. He's had 4 finals this week and has had to do all 4 finals within 3 days. I'm pretty proud of him though! He's such a hard worker, and really cares about his grades. When finals week comes I just do my own thing. I guess it's a good practice for me when he gets in to pharmacy school. I've heard I never will see him then. That's depressing. But when he's done with school we'll have a good reason to celebrate!-Especially Steve! :)

I've been making lots of crafts lately. I really love making things. I feel so accomplished when I look at my finished products. I've decided it's almost an obsession for me. My craft closet is getting out of hand! I really can't wait for when Steve and I have at least one more bedroom, so then I can maybe have a craft room? That would be heaven. But, for now our closet is perfect.

I still don't have exciting news to share on the being prego idea. Which it is of course, still a huge bummer for me. I've learned to be patient. But, I still have my days where it can be hard. I swear it has everything to do with Steve drinking Mountain Dew. ha ha. Okay, maybe not, but have you heard what that pop does to a guy?

OH! and I seriously LOVE listening to books on tape! I can get things done, drive etc while listening to my book! It's a win-win situation! Right now I'm listening to the Barrington Family Saga by Anita Stansfield. So addicting! And all last week STEVE listened to it with me. It was great! We both talked about what could happen, what we liked about it. I think that's actually my favorite part about listening to the book, is that Steve and I can listen to it together.

Woohoo! I'm done with work! 3 day's down, 1 more to go! lat-er!

Glee!

I just watched GLEE for the first time. I'm completely obsessed with the music and dancing! I'm still trying to decide if I like the actual show though.