a good costume, a good concert, some good weather, a good future

a good costume...
Well folks October has hit and it's that time of year again. The time of year when girls take advantage of Halloween and being wearing smaller and smaller things. For mostly this reason alone I've always hated Halloween. I went to my first costume party of the season and instead of taking the approach of most girls (wearing as little as possible) my friends and I covered our selves up quite well and went to the dance as Polygamists. It was quite funny, we had name tags that said Wife #1, #2, and #3 and one of our guy friends was our husband. It was so surprising to see how many people loved our costumes. In fact it seemed like the skankiest girls liked it the most and kept asking for pictures with us. Anyway the dance was fun, the costumes were fun, it was just a fun night.

a good concert..
One of my friends asked me awhile back if I wanted to go to a concert with him at the Velour (Provo's hip music venue) and I'm down for pretty much any concert so I said yes. Well we showed up last night and to be honest I didn't even know the band's name until we were at the door, but they're called Book on Tape Worm and they were soooo good. It was a cool experience in itself. Unlike most concerts they set up chairs which I was grateful for, it was nice to relax and soak it all in. They had the entire venue decorated in fake trees and twinkling lights and it felt very much like walking into a fairytale. They were so soo good and I loved every minute of it.


good weather... 
Fall in Utah is incredibly beautiful. I literally walk out my door everyday and loose my breath at the sight of the gorgeous mountains. I seriously can't get over them. For one thing the mountains are just huge and striking but they're also so bright red and orange and for the past couple days there have been foggy clouds constantly rolling over them. I love this crisp, cool weather with everyone dressed up in little coats and boots. Saturday was our Homecoming Football game and we had a black out. The team had sweet new black uniforms and we all sported black as well. Afterwards we had a tailgate dinner with a bunch of friends and it ended in a photo shoot against the beautiful mountains.



a good future...
In Sunday school today my teacher brought up a phrase that I love, he siad, "Have faith filled action not fear filled reaction." I've been thinking about that lately and I it applies to me a lot, especially after the big conference announcement. I've always wanted to serve a mission but when the opportunity prevents itself two years early I started rethinking. My first thoughts were fear filled reaction, thinking about how I turn 19 in a month and how a mission would be harder than I had imagined. Then I calmed down and have taken a more faith filled action approach. I really feel like this announcement's timing is important for me and I feel good about going on a mission but I probably won't be leaving until end of summer so our family can have a month or two with Spencer home and us all together. The more I think about a mission the more excited I get. It's weird talking to my guy friends now and realizing we're all leaving around the same time. I feel like this is a very exciting thing for our freshman class especially and I'm so inspired by so many already stepping up to the call.


My newest art project "foxy"

Thank you Megan Baker for taking beautiful pictures and sharing them with me.