Lovin Life Again!

This post may be boring, but I want to record my change of heart in Texas and a couple things I've been thinking about lately. The first couple months Texas was just...another place to live and work and go to school...and it was really hot...and I didn't have family near to ease the monotony of work and school.

One day I decided that I needed to change my attitude, because I hated BYU-Idaho for the first little while, and it is now one of my favorite places on earth. So I tried to find things to love about Texas...I didn't come up with many at first...but then a cold front came along...and I started to feel fall in the air!

I LOVE fall, even though the trees don't change colors here, if I close my eyes, it feels like a good old Utah/Idaho fall! I love wearing sweaters, I love sleeping with a blanket again! I am a new person...and I'm loving life! Me and Clark sit out on our balcony, our pepper plants are finally producing peppers, we go to the park and play frisbee, we went to a forest area near us and walked through the trails...it's been great.

These are pictures of fall that my Grandpa and Grandma from Utah sent me, I love the colors!

I also LOVE General Conference...speaking of which, something that Elder Eyring said during the R.S. Broadcast was that the early founders of the LDS hospital finally sold the hospital because their talents and energies were needed by the Lord in different places. Sometimes there are changes in our lives and even though what we were doing may have been good, the Lord needs our talents in different places now. It helps us grow.


Lastly, here are a couple pictures that make me laugh every time I see them. I am the speed component in our marriage, and Clark is the quality control. Here are a couple of "quality control" notes I have found posted around our apartment!

(This is a non-stick pan that I constantly forget and spray with PAM)

(Clark is scared I will catch our apartment on fire because I often forget to empty the lint!!)

The picture above may be one of my all time favorites!

I love these girls.

Some of them will probably not be happy that I put a couple of these pictures up.

But I was laughing so hard when I was looking at them.

We had such good times.

Visitors and Go cougs!

Don and Angie came to visit us and go to the BYU game. We had a good time seeing the sights of Dallas/Fort Worth and going to the Football game. It was so fun having family here!

Just a little spotlight on Angie, we walked to the stadium because the parking was expensive and traffic horrible. So me and Angie changed out of our flip-flops and into "comfortable" shoes. She wore my running shoes, and I wore what I thought were comfortable shoes.

By the time we made it to the stadium, I had blisters on my heels and both little toes and I was hurting! Both Angie and I had worn the thin invisible socks, so we didn't have much padding from our socks. On the way home Clark walked in his socks for awhile while I wore his shoes, then Angie had a good idea that she and Clark should switch socks, that way she would have padding and could wear the uncomfortable shoes and I could wear the running shoes to relieve the blisters.

So yes...Angie wore Clark's used socks that he had been wearing the whole day and my uncomfortable shoes. That's a true sister-in-law!