Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

Monday, 24 September 2012

lazy-ish. . .

 i have been SOOOOO lazy over the past 
several weeks when it comes to blogging & keeping
record of what logan & i have been up to.
i apologize to the 3 people who read actually read this :)
we have actually been doing a lot lately in terms
of exploring good old san antonio.
the parentals are coming for a visit in a couple of weeks
so we've been trying out some new things to make sure
their trip out here is worth while.
some friends at church told us about eisenhower park
which we checked out over labor day weekend.
yes, i know labor day weekend was like 
a month ago, but it's better late than never, right?
right.

so we ventured over to eisenhower park which was HUGE.
it's a maze of trails and pathways and trees and 
lookout points and awesomeness.


 
 





a couple of weekends ago our ward had a fiesta.
it may or may not have been on the same night as the
BYU/UTAH football game. 
needless to say-everyone came, ate and left in record
time in order to make it back before kickoff.
the fiesta was a fun way to end the summer season.
we enjoyed some snow cones & watched
the kiddles bust open pinatas. 



the weather here is perhaps the most interesting
thing i have ever encountered.
i LIVE for fall & the change of seasons, therefore i
have been a little depressed due to the lack
of fall weather here in texas.
i've decided that san antonio has 3 temperatures:
1: super hot & humid
2: hot & himid
3: rainy & humid
it is ridiculous!
while i welcome the rain as a change to the typical
sweltering heat here, i am literally praying that i can
figure out a way to make myself get into fall mode.
all i'm asking for is some leaves to change colors or
something-is that too much to ask san antonio?

one rainy sunday we decided to take a walk.
i was loving life because it was actually below 60 degrees
outside and the skies were a lovely overcast.
it was the kind of day that made you want to
put on snuggly socks and drink hot chocolate.
i live for those days.





my heart skipped a beat the other day when i went
grocery shopping and these beauties were piled
high outside of the store.
i want to buy like 1039473 of these pumpkins and spread them
all over san antonio in hopes they'll make the
town feel more fall-ish.


aaaaand last but not least on this lazy/random post- the zoo!
my friend morgan & i hit up the zoo on saturday with her
cute little boy while our husbands were stuck working.
it wasn't deathly hot out which made for a fun afternoon :)





we rode the train through the windy backwoods
of the zoo & were gloriously entertained by the 
creepy train conductor who told awkward
jokes the entire time that you feel the need to give 
a courtesy laugh to.
his repertoire of "jokes" included but were not limited to
comments about vampires, indians & police.




san antonio is being good to us despite the hot
temperatures in mid-september.
we are having a blast exploring the city.
i miss my utah mountains, crisp fall weather & warm clothes,
but i've heard that within the coming months the temperature
here can drop down & it gets pretty cold.
i can hardly wait!



Monday, 10 October 2011

finally fall. . .

it pretty much changed seasons overnight here in provo.
last week it was 70 degrees and sunny, and then i literally
woke up to rain and 50 degree weather.
while i would have liked to have a little more of a transition into fall, i must
admit that i am thrilled that my favorite season is here :)
so far our fall season has included the following:

cheering on our football team!


buying pumpkins for the porch.
(technically the little white one is a squash but it looked fall-ish to me)


baking cinnamon rolls.
i wish my house could smell like cinnamon goodness all the time!


finally getting to wear my hunter boots:)
i have literally been waiting for hot weather to end so i could wear these.
i'm obsessed, i'll admit it.


made a trip to halloween city.
if you don't have one close to you i feel bad for you.
halloween is my favorite holiday & if you don't think halloween
is a real holiday then we probably shouldn't be friends.
i love dressing up and finding costumes & i love seeing what
other people choose to dress up as even more.
our costumes for this year are in the works as we speak :)


i think it will be pretty hard to top last years costume, but
we will try our best.
(in case you don't know who were are- go watch the movie UP!)


besides the treats, halloween costumes & pretty leaves, i love
fall because it's the season logan & i started dating :)
we had 2 classes together and some of our friends got together to
carve pumpkins in the middle of october.
this is officially the first picture of logan & i ever taken!
don't we look like babies?!
and by "we" i mean logan.

logan thought it would be a good idea to
carve a pumpkin to look like our teacher's face.
i went with it.
i remember he asked me to carve his hair.
???
how to do you give a pumpkin hair?
i was nervous because i didn't want him to think it was lame/have no
artistic or creative ability whatsoever.
i was terrified while trying to give that pumpkin the best
head of hair i knew how to carve.
i apparently impressed him because we ended up talking
till 3am that night and as they say, the rest is history!


this was our finished pumpkin that was supposed
to resemble our teacher, along with the pumpkin our friends carved.
theirs says 'LOW SES'.
as in low socioeconomic status.
it was supposed to be scary.
we are sociology majors...we thought it was hilarious.
logan actually brought the pumpkin to class and showed it to our teacher.
we thought he would love it and give us extra credit or something.
nope.
he laughed awkwardly and i could tell he was wondering why we would
take the time to carve a pumpkin that looked like his face.

i now hold a special place in my heart for pumpkin carving.
i'll be sure and take pics of the pumpkins we carve up this year:)







Thursday, 15 September 2011

all things fall. . .


i'm so anxious for fall weather i can hardly stand it.
today i caught myself literally smiling like a fool while
thinking about walking through fall leaves.
i have issues.



















i'm excited for:
1. boots
2. warm layering clothes
3. pretty leaves
4. pumpkin treats
5. corn mazes
6. halloween!!
7. fall crafts
8. turning the heater on
9. thanksgiving
10. the first snow-fall

hurry up fall!