FALL

Fall in Utah is in full swing. Football, school, leaves changing and...

PEACHES!!
There's nothing better than FRESH UTAH PEACHES!! In fact, since Sunday we have had: Peach crepes, peach crisp, fresh peaches, canned peaches, peaches and cream, frozen peaches and peach smoothies. The only thing missing is peach pie, which a certain sister-in-law needs to show me how to make her famous pies one of these days!

Thanks to my awesome friend, I bottled 2 more cases of peaches. I love being able to enjoy peaches all year long!

10 FEET

There are 10 feet that live in my house.

Each of us have a pair.

2 of the feet or 1/5 are broken.

2 right ones to be exact.

We are getting to be really good friends with the Podiatrist.

The latest break was by this cute little girl playing soccer.

She has to have this shoe on for a few weeks.

And this little shoe is SO CUTE!! I love how little it is!

PIANO DIVA

I love to play the piano. I am so glad that I know how to play. I love that Daren knows how to play it. I hope I have enough strength in me to get the kids to know how to play it. Because 2 out of the 3 are killing me.

Tanner has taken lessons for years but the girls started piano lessons last week. At their lesson this week (by the way, one girl had to be FORCED into practicing and the other woke up early on her own to practice without being asked) I had to bite my tongue trying to not laugh at one of them.

Teacher: You need to curve your fingers and wrists a little bit.

Girl: Like how? Cause it really hurts when I do that.

Teacher: Well stand up and pretend like you are dead. Hold out your hands. Do you see how your hands naturally curve down? Well try that on the piano.

Girl: It hurts! Where are the arm rests for the piano cause I can't hold them up!

Me: Dying of embarassment in the corner-thinking to myself CURVE YOUR HANDS!! Do you know how expensive this teacher is? You are wasting time!

Teacher: Aren't you a dancer? Shouldn't you be able to hold your hands in this position?

Girl: Yeah but I just really need an arm rest. Does your piano have one?

Who does she think she is?

A Piano Diva????

NEW HEIGHTS

For nearly 2 DECADES, I have looked at the 'Y' on the mountain and wondered what the view was like from up there. I wondered what the 'Y' was made of and how they made it.

Well today, I can cross that item off my Bucket List and wonder no more. Daren and I took the girls (and 2 neighbor kids) with us to hike the 'Y.' It was more fun that I thought it would be. It is over 6,400 ft. above sea level so I was breathing pretty hard but we all did it!

It was the perfect day...65 degrees and nothing but blue skies!

This is an old picture and there isn't any snow...not yet

View from the Trailhead

Made it to the top of the 'Y'

Totally freaked out cause I am afraid of heights.

Thought I was gonna pee my pants cause I was so nervous!

View from the top

View of the stadium

Next goal...Timp Caves

THE START OF FALL...

ALWAYS begins the same way.

The weather gets cool

The leaves start to change colors

AND

BYU FOOTBALL starts!

Today was the first home game. For 3 years now, we have always started the season with this group of friends:

Dallas '09

We were all in the same ward in Las Vegas and became fast friends due to each husband's LOVE of Cougar Blue. We have SO much fun with this group! We laugh SO hard each time we are together that my stomach and side hurts.

We usually go to an away game together. However, this year due to different circumstances it didn't happen. Instead the 3 of us that live in Utah and Northern Nevada went to the game (sans Pam) and the 2 Las Vegas couples watched the game in Vegas and went out to dinner. Yet the entire night we all kept texting each other!

(Sorry Jeff and Pam...I forgot to take a picture at the restaurant. I was too busy chasing L. Tom Perry with Abby.)

Amy's lucky shirt. BYU has NEVER lost when she wears it.

Another sign of the start of fall is my husband getting the flag ready to fly. It is fun to drive down my street on a Saturday in the fall and see the mostly blue flags and those silly red Ute flags!

It has become a joke with our group of friends that each game we go to, I always see someone famous. Even though when we went to Seattle, I thought I was taking a picture with the Washington coach but it wasn't him. Oops!

So we were all surprised to see Ty Detmer at the restaurant. And it was the REAL Ty Detmer!

This was Abby's first BYU game. She has been wanting to come for almost a year now.

She was VERY cute. We had to go to the bookstore before the game to get her a BYU shirt.

BEST PART....we won the first game.