You know, there are a lot of things I love about being in school, but you know what I hate? There's always something more I should be doing. I am never "done." I can never just relax without feeling like there's some kind of school work I should be working on. Even right now.... Aaaagrh. BUT, I only have to get through three more weeks of classes and I'm out of school for good!

Last Saturday Johnny's mom taught me how to knit! I know how to crochet, but I've always been intimidated by knitting for some reason. Anyway, I am loving it and finding it a bit addicting. I'm working on my first little project right now. Yippee!
Note: This amazing picture is by Johnny's mom as well. She's a very talented lady :)

You know you've had a stressful week when your knuckles hurt from being popped so much...Johnny and I both welcome this weekend with open arms. In other news, did you hear about this incident that happened yesterday in Provo?

As you can tell from the picture above, our Halloween was quite low-key. We relaxed all day, and then Halloween night our friends Pat and Lindsay came over to watch What Lies Beneath. We're not huge Halloween people, but I'm sure that will change one day when we have kids. For now, it was quite fun to just watch a movie and hang out with some of our favorite friends.

You know how there's certain people that, when you're around them, they encourage your bad habits? Like that roommate who you always eat junk food with? Or the friend that you always gossip around? Well, I married a night owl, and because I happen to be a night owl as well, Johnny and I always influence the other person to stay up late. I've known this for a while, but on Halloween Johnny and I stayed up until 4:30, both just doing our own little things. Luckily, DST ended, so we really only stayed up until 3:30, but still! I thought people went to sleep earlier once they got married, not later! This must stop... I just don't know how. Anyway, it's almost 1:00 (our week-day bedtime), so I should go to sleep:)
Nightie, night!

Is it just me, or has this autumn seemed like the prettiest yet? Johnny, a perpetual fall-hater, has even commented on all the changing colors and number of leaves piling up around our apartment complex. October begins one of my favorite times of the year! Yay!

As many of you know, I love to read. I would spend multiple hours a day reading if other priorities didn't get in the way. One of my friends was reading Mistborn in class and I immediately said, "Oh no, you're one of those. You read fantasy novels." He replied, "What if I told you this is my favorite book?" The conversation ended in my committing to read Mistborn if he would read one of my favorite books. Anyway, I was wrong. This isn't just some fantasy novel. This is the best book ever. And, it's a trilogy--I'm on the third and final installment right now. This book does not disappoint--Brandon Sanderson is an amazing writer. He's also a BYU creative writing professor. Anyway, if you need a good read and you're sick of the same ol' stuff, I highly recommend this baby.

College Game Day...


It was super early in the morning. Johnny and Rick slept over in tents, but I slept at home and joined them at about 5:30am.


What a huge crowd...






Johnny with the BYU flag around his shoulders


The ESPN Game Day crew


The game...

It was wet and cold, but we were super excited!


My sister Sarah came!








Yikes, we were losing pretty bad...


The game had a sad ending, but it was a really fun, although loonnng, day.

This picture was taken before the game on Saturday, so we were upbeat and super excited. In the end, we were about as depressed as they come, but I still managed to get some good shots from our amazing seats! Better luck next time, right?


Our seats... yippee!


me with my war paint...


our BYU shoes!


the stormy clouds right before the game...I thought there was going to be a downpour, but then it got sunny right when the game started


the opposing team...darn them!


Rick's...ahem...war paint...



our boys gettin ready to play ball


George and Pitta (probably watching the defense suck it up)


Hall, George, and Pitta


BYU football


cheering on the cougs!


Johnny intensely watching the game


after one of the few exciting plays


two of the players watching the game together (I thought this was a cute pic)


Unga talking to the sports therapist after getting a bad cramp


I think this picture pretty sums up how everyone was feeling toward the end... Oh well... at least we are still at #19!

I woke up this morning thinking about how nothing seems to be going right in our lives lately. After Johnny left for work, I just crawled back in bed and went back to sleep because I didn't want to think about it. Anyway, at lunch I voiced my feelings to Johnny. I was like, "I just feel like everything is out of control in our lives right now and that nothing is going right." And you know what his reply was? "Really? I feel the exact opposite. I feel like everything's been going great lately." He went on to name all of these things that I just kind of took for granted, such as us both being able to find good paying jobs. Anyway, I realized that things are going great and I should be more grateful!

Speaking of which, we got front row seats for our season football tickets!