I <3 Fall.

I LOVE fall. It is my most FAVORITE season of ALL the seasons. Fall is my favorite for so many reasons. I especially love Oregon in the Fall. I love the leaves on the trees changing color, I love the smell in the air, I love pumpkins, I love scarves and boots, I love that it's the beginning of the Holiday season, I love that all my favorite bands come to Portland in the fall, and I love love love the rain. Can we say I am a true Oregonian? yes we can. The rain is my favorite part of Fall. Ok ok... so after many consecutive days of rain of course it can get a little old, and of course when you're having a bad day grey skies don't exactly help. But I love dark dreary days. I especially love going to a concert on a dark night where it's pouring down rain, and I love driving my car in the rain listening to William fitzsimmons or some other chill acoustic music. Gaaahhh I love this season. It's time for new beginnings. For years and years I especially disliked September. My dad died September 30th 16 years ago and it was always especailly a hard month for me. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that for many of those years I was in school and school always started in September. The last "hard" September I had was probably when I first moved to Utah though--where I didn't have many friends and everything was new. But the last few years I've tried to make it a good month and not let hard memories affect my mood.

Things have been so fun and so busy and lots has been going on! At the end of September my best friend (the one that moved to Germany) Cara's little sister Amy moved in with us! I love Amy. Amy is like a little sister to me. Our place is so big... now let me tell you... you might be thinking that we're a little weird for letting someone moved in with us mostly because we're newlyweds. And I wasn't crazy about the idea for a little while but I wouldn't do it if our place wasn't so big. On the bottom floor of our townhouse we have a bedroom, a full bathroom and the garage. Second floor we have a big kitchen, big living/dinning space, and a half bathroom. Top floor we have master bedroom with a full bathroom connected, another bedroom, another full bathroom, and a den. Yeah... can we say MORE ROOM than we needed? trust me the only reason why we got this place is because we got a BANGIN deal on it. It was so cheap and so great that it was too great to pass up. ALSO I wouldn't let just ANYONE move in. Amy is such a good kid and like family to me. She's in school full time and works part-time, cleans up after herself and we really don't see her all that much. All we do is share the kitchen. It's fun having her around since she's the only one who will watch America's Next Top Model with me. hehe :p It's been great having her, and the extra 350 a month isn't bad either! Isn't she just a doll? lol haha


I've gotten REALLY into running lately. I've been running for a few years now, but I never really pushed myself. When I first started running about 4ish years ago I couldn't run a mile. I would run 7 minutes on the treadmill and have to stop. Well I worked my way up and eventually started running 20 minutes on the treadmill a few times a week, but still for a couple years never would dare push myself to go further. Then a few months ago I started going further (but only like.. once every 2 or 3 weeks) and worked up to 3 or 4 miles. Then about a month ago I went to the gym and it was a leg day for me... (which meant a lot of leg weight training.. which is exhausting).. and I told myself that if I could run for an hour on the treadmill I wouldn't have to do legs that day. HA! I did it!!! I ran 6 miles and I was so stinkin proud of myself. After that I was thinking.. yeah I'll probably never be able to do that again... And then the next week I did it again! And then a couple days later I did it AGAIN! So then Yesterday morning it was my late day at work (didn't start till noon)... so I decided to attempt running outside.... which I haven't done in at least a year... I was very nervous about this. I was thinking I'd MAYBE be able to run 3 miles... because running outside is so much harder than the treadmill.. anyway, I went for it and I ran 7 MILESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! (CARA AREN'T YOU SO PROUD OF ME???) And I could have kept going except I had to hurry home and shower to get ready for work!!! I was so excited and I can't wait to do it again. After all this I decided I wanted to work my way up to run my first half-marathon... Well later that day my friend Sarah came in to get her haircut and she's been training to run a half marathon in 2 weeks and has only gotten up to 8 miles so far... a half marathon is 13.1 miles... She thinks I can do it and really wants me to do it with her. I am so nervous and haven't decided yet. I'm going to give it another week and we'll see... Her and I are going running next monday and if I can do at least 10 or 11 miles then I think I'll run it. If not I will definitely be doing one in the near future. Running outside is so exhilirating. Especially this time of year, when it's cool enough outside and everything is so beautiful. So we'll see how this goes... wish me luck!



So last weekend Bobby and I went with our friends Holly and Stephen to the Sauvie's Island SCCCAAARRRRRYYYY corn-maze. Let me tell you this was a BLAST. We get there and the parking lot is OUT of control packed.... We didn't know this going in.. but it ended up being a 2 HOUR WAIT!!! We almost decided to forfeit the 10 bucks a person and leave because it wa sso freakin cold outside and we were sick of standing in line... but once we got there... it was SO worth it.
Anyone that knows me husband knows he is ridiculous. He is HILLARIOUSSSSSSS. ESPECIALLY when he gets excited... the CHILD comes out. He's basically a big kid.. so much so that I can never get a normal picture out of him... hardly even a smile. This below is proof:



Anyway... Now that I got that out of the way... this scary corn-maze was a ball.. especially having my GOOFY husband by my side. I am the BIGGEST scardy cat. I'm a weeeeeny. And the scary people that jump out of you LOVE the scared ones... so I was followed QUITe a bit... Bobby just ate it up. Crystal I know you can picture him in this corn-maze... He screams like a girl, Like I'm not even kidding the octave of his pitch is out of control high and he gets all bouncy and giddy. We all had so much fun and it was worth every penny and every second of that long wait.

This is during our long crazy wait... Bobby is obviously not impressed.. and Holly and stephen... well it's self explanitory.

The end of the night.... SO FUN! (yikes! Where did my tan go? :( )



OH PS. I finally started decorating our place and I love it. Pictures to come soon. <3