hey fools.

while my vacation isn't over for another 48 hours,

here are a ridiculous amount of pictures.

none of that even made sense.

but i don't really care...

the sweetest hearts: olli g, and little miss taytum tots.

 gaming. we should get a medal for our gaming, no?

...and herbas with the mountain dew. really, primo?

 there were ten pies. made from scratch. minus the pumpkin. because it is a sin in this family to pass up a costco pumpkin pie.

maizey and taggerson. the most opposite dogs on earth are also the best of friends.

some authentic texas barbecue... praises be to the pork rib gods, and hard 8 bbq.

heyyyyy, julie sister. i like your terrorist hat.

 the blueberry-eyed baby, snickers, the suffocating elf on the shelf, and a baby cousin all grown up.

that last photo collage was completely random...

i apologize?

w/e.

thanksgiving has been good to me.

reeeal good.

thanks, teJas.

love you forever.

happy 31st!

we celebrated this spooky night getting spoiled by grandma edith, and partying with our killer ward.

it was low-key, and wonderful.

precisely the way i like my halloween to be.

 

 but...

it's november the first in about twenty minutes.

which means it is finally legal to watch the family stone [on replay], drink egg nog, and put up a christmas tree in my big, beautiful bay window.

which maps out my day tomorrow in exactitude.

but for now,

happy halloween!

...

love, 

b.a., charlie chaplin, and a black eyed pea.

something festive.

i had fun not going to the howl like the rest of the world.

you know, the rest of the world being those who go to my school. and those who aren't cool enough to go to my school, and come to the howl anyway. 

posers.

the mary poppins pumpkin... would we expect anything less from me? she's my favorite girl.

 

so, instead of howling, we carved pumpkins, brewed up some wassil, and celebrated all hallows eve with stockard channing, sandy bullock, and nicole kidman.

[if you don't speak pop culture fluently, that means practical magic. sillies.]

how much more festive can you get?!

plus, we kind of thought we owed a little something to halloween...

considering the fact that we have been listening to christmas music since october first...

 when i told my mother that i would not be attending this "school dance", she was highly disappointed, and asked me why. i proceeded to tell her that i A: was opposed to the 10$ charge, and B: couldn't handle all of the grinding.

then she asked me what "grinding" was.

...

i changed the subject.

all in all, cousin night with the pumpkins was a success.

...a success that turned into cousin sleepover.

where i hauled my entire bed into melodey's room.

howl shmowl.

wake me up when october ends.

...

i love the shoes that make me feel like margaret sullavan.

which reminds me...

jimmy stewart, you are the bees in my knees.

...

autumn is coming and going quickly.

thank goodness. i am ready for snow covered logan. you either love it or you hate it.

being the outcast that i am, i prefer it. off with my head.
however, i think we can all agree on one thing: october overstays its welcome each year.
or maybe it's just me who thinks that... it must be the decemberist inside of me yearning for holly bells and chestnuts.

...

the dreamy house that i can't resist stalking on the daily.

i'm pretty sure george and nina banks live inside. which makes it all the more appealing.

...

my happy place.

my happiest place.

and do you know what?

it's the lips, i think.

i wore mittens today. big, brown, beautiful mittens.

i haven't posted a picture in a while... so here's logan lately. tucked away in beautiful, beautiful cache valley. it always surprises me that the leaves on those big tall trees are really that golden. can that be real? what would we do without autumn?

missy and i went househunting yesterday.
this house is a contender. and it's in the lead.

outside of jake and court's church.
courtney and i marveled at the color.
and then naturally i turned it into a polaroid.

so i went to bed at 3 a.m. last night... and woke up at 8 a.m. ... and now i'm in that same cubical of yellowing wood i typed from yesterday. waiting for my american institutions class to start.

i hate it.

but happy autumn, and happy wednesday! halfway through the week already? get out there and enjoy the leaves while they're still here! those brilliant colors are disappearing fast into clean white SNOW! i can't wait for ski season...

have a lovely day. :)

hey neighbor. i'm glad we're in love.

how pathetic am i.

sitting in my nook, second floor, merril-cazier library, making a very unconscious attempt at my annotated bibliography and research presentation, due tomorrow, and posting this.

aforementioned question with a period at the end was not rhetorical. answer if you must. i know. i am pathetic. sometimes i walk in the library daydreaming of the people that i will meet. maybe, just maybe, i will sit down in my usual nook and some handsome young gentleman will see me. maybe he'll walk over and sit at the nook beside me and ask me my name. you know, really, he doesn't have to say anything at all. maybe he just smiles at me, puts in his headphones, and goes to work on some math homework that will one day make him big dollar bills. and once that happens, we'll probably live in a mansion somewhere in france. or maybe this mystery smile doesn't exist.

maybe daydream number two sneaks in and says "hey, how are you?" and i'll say, "hey, good. i'm glad we're neighbors and that i'm in love with you." then we'll most likely talk about how we're going to travel the world and do cool things like teach english in third world countries and ride exotic animals for the rest of our lives.

but it never happens. i always just sit alone in my cubical of wood, plug in my computer, and apparently type away at the blank screen that should be a word document, yet is a new blog post. and a pathetic one at that. then usually i look around at all of the other pathetic people, most likely dreaming the same two dreams.

man. if i could only harness this kind of writing energy into my research paper, i would be golden.

that is all.

then i realized that these things are great and i have never noticed before.

today i am grateful for wikipedia and highlighters.

how else would i have finished... almost finished... 9 pages of american institutions exam review... 141 terms... 200 years of american history...
in 9 hours.
i owe my grades to you, wikipedia and highlighters.
unless those grades happen to be below C's...
and in that case you can just have them.

so today, i am grateful for wikipedia and highlighters.

ohhhh and p.s. this next one is for yesterday

yesterday i was grateful for drinking fountains.
but not the warm kinds. those ones freak me out a little.
so i'm grateful for cold drinking fountains that quench my thirst.
especially the ones in old main.
i could swear they're fresh from the top of our logan mountains.
weird that i just said that. because they probably are.

thank you for drinking fountains. :)

as always... i only remember to show gratitude when it's november.
and also when my sister-in-law courtney reminds me that i need to in her posts.
so i'm following her example.

today i am thankful for clean laundry.

i am ashamed sometimes when i think about how i don't show enough thanks for silly little thingslike that that make my life just a little better. i take for granted clean clothes to wear every day. my favorite thing is the smell of detergent and fabric softener. especially when it is on my pajamas, helping me to fall asleep.

so today, i am thankful for clean laundry.