I have watched more baseball in the last 2 years then I would have cared to in a lifetime. All of those boring nights were finally worth it last night when the Phillies won the World Series!

Palmyra and Niagara Falls

Luckily we made it in time to see some of the leaves still on the trees. It was a very rainy day.

Kirsten, Grammy, and I walked to the top of Hill Cumorah and got to see this beautiful view.

Kirsten not wanting to take pictures in front of the Palmyra temple.

We had our own personal tour of the Smith farm (it reminded me of my days in Nauvoo)
Then we went to Niagara falls. It was so windy. Colton thinks it's funny to get cold water sprayed in his face.
Beautiful Niagara Falls:

Busy Month

This last month has been soooo busy!

First Jonathan was gone for 2 weeks! He went down to Texas to train and then to Utah for his friend, Spencer's, birthday. I have so much sympathy for single mother's whenever I'm home by myself. I'm such a baby but man it's hard work.

Then my mom and Emily came to visit for not long enough. We had lots of fun relaxing, getting a pedicure, playing games, and baking with my sister (one of our favorite past times).

Then Jonathan's mom came into town last Friday. We went straight up to Palmyra and then to Niagara falls (pictures to come). We got back last night and now we're getting ready to get our house on the market tomorrow.

It's been crazy!

Oh and go Phillies!

Who's who??

I ran across some baby pictures of Kirsten and I was amazed at how much they look alike.

So sad...

Warning: This post will probably be pathetically dramatic...


So these last few weeks have really been beautiful around here. Driving down the road to the street I live on I see all the trees turning to different shades of orange, red, purple...It's beautiful. I cross this old one lane bridge over a little stream and pass a dog park before turning onto my street. My street is lined with trees that are also changing colors. Each time I come home I feel as though my heart is breaking. I am so sad to have to leave.

Yesterday we went to the Chester Springs Creamery or Milky way farm, it's only a few miles from our house but if feels like you're out in the middle of nowhere. We had ice cream at the creamery and then went over and fed the goats. I looked out over the farm and was in awe at the beauty of this world that I have called home for almost 2 years now. To the left was the barn with the sun setting behind it. It was a beautifully sunny 75 degree day. Straight ahead was the old farm house, the type that I see on a daily basis because they are everywhere around here. I looked over to my right and saw the pumpkin fields, corn fields, and goat pasture. Beyond that were rolling hills covered with colorful trees. And again my heart broke.

Here is a picture I took last year at the pumpkin patch on the farm. It doesn't do it justice and this day doesn't compare to the day we had yesterday. Unfortunately
I didn't have my camera.

A picture I found of the farm in the summer.

Today's testimony meeting was filled with people giving thanks for the announcement of a temple in Philadelphia. Ever since even before we moved here we've heard speculation of a temple being built in Philly. And when they announced it last Saturday I almost cried. I was so excited! I know it won't affect me at all, unless I get to move back here someday. But I am so excited for my friends who live here. In the last couple years hundreds of people have joined the church in Philadelphia, in fact so many that missionaries don't proselyte there any more they just work on helping the people who have just joined. What a blessing it will be for them to have the temple right there. It's going to be built in downtown Philadelphia like the Manhattan and Hong Kong Temples. It was so fun to hear people in testimony meeting say that they jumped up and down and screamed when they heard the news. What an incredible blessing it will be. I'm so sad that I'm going to miss all that goes on when a temple goes up close to home.


I'm sure Midland will be great and I'm not one of those people who has such a bad attitude that I just sit at home and shun anyone who tries to be my friend. No, it will be fine. I find that if I have low expectations usually I'm pleasantly surprised. I just feel like complaining today!

Tagged...

Ok, so I was tagged by Rachel, usually I'm too lazy to do tags but what the heck here it goes...

8 TV shows I love to watch.
1. So you think you can dance
2. The office
3. Chuck
4. Most things HGTV
5. The Gilmore Girls
6. Lost
7. The biggest loser (I actually have a love hate relationship with that show, but we'll save the details for another post)
8. Seinfeld
(oh and currently OU and BYU football, but I guess that's not a show...)

8 Places I love to eat.
1. Cafe Rio (oh how I miss you!)
2. Anywhere that has a good cheese steak (oh how I'll miss you!)
3. The melting pot
4. There was this restaurant in Homer, AK that had the BEST salmon I have EVER had, don't remember the name, but it was good.
5. Panera Bread
6. Little mexican place in our town, have no idea what it's called, it's a hole in the wall.
7. New English
8. Home (can you tell that we don't get out much around here?)

8 things that happened yesterday
1. Woke up before 6 to two sick children
2. Went to some friend's house to eat breakfast and watch conference.
3. Put Kirsten to bed at 5:30
4. Watched the Dallas Cowboys football game (curse Jonathan for making me care about a team that I once hated, just kidding, I love you)
5. Killed 2 spiders!
6. Ok so it was Sunday and I cannot think of anything else that I did.

8 things I look forward to
1. All the wonderful holidays coming up.
2. A vacation with just Jonathan and I next Summer.
3. Going house hunting.
4. Moving to Midland...
5. Family coming to visit this month.
6. Family reunion next summer.
7. Girls trip in November.
8. Retirement.

8 things I love about Fall

1. The beautiful leaves changing colors
2. Football
3. Fall food
4. Halloween
5. Anticipation of Christmas
6. Pumpkin patches, apple cider donuts, and hot chocolate
7. New clothes
8. Seeing Jonathan's child like excitement over getting to start real fires in our fire place everyday, I swear it's one of his favorite past times.

8 things On my wish list
1. Decorations for my house
2. Return of my pre-pregnancy body
3. New clothes for my new body
4. Happy, obedient children
5. A house cleaner
6. Happy husband in his new job
7. Happy me in our new home
8. World peace

8 people I'm tagging
I don't like tagging people so anyone who wants to, go for it!

What in the world is wrong with the font on this thing? It looks normal and then I publish it and it looks like that...

Kirsten's song

Kirsten was singing and dancing...

"Now it's fall it's not Summer anymore, now the leaves are falling off the trees. It's so beautiful but it's not going to be beautiful in Texas it's going to be so brown..."

I guess I should keep my mouth shut and stop complaining!