Fabulous Fall

I love this time of year. When the leaves start changing to beautiful shades of red and yellow, when the air outside is so cool and crisp. Life seems cozy. Blankets get pulled out, warm pumpkin and cinnamon smelling candles are burned, and the oven is put to work!

One of my favorite things about fall is a really good pumpkin pie. So the other night, while my roomies carved pumpkins, I baked my very first pumpkin pie! It turned out great and was very tasty with cool whip on top! We also baked pumpkin seeds, which also turned out pretty yummy.

We also had Valerie's baby shower last weekend... Kaydence Layne comes in less than a month!!

It finally happened...

The jeans I've worn since my sophomore year of college (the past 7 years) finally - tragically - have a hole in the knee.

fear that creeps

Last night I had to do one of my least favorite things...stay alone in my house. Both my roommates were gone for the night so it was just me. And there is this tiny, yet very disturbing fear that creeps in everytime I stay there alone. I leave porch lights on, check the locks probably a hundred times, and seem to hear those little noises I never think anything about. And I always have a little trouble falling asleep. It's on these nights that I wish Rick's lab, Lucy, was sleeping on my bed.

What is it that causes me to be afraid? Is it being alone? Or is it the darkness? The fear of not being able to see clearly what is going on outside my home. As it gets darker my uneasiness grows. So I turn on the porch light. There's something so comforting about light. It makes clear everything that was once hidden. I yearn for that light. To be at peace with my surroundings.

Maybe I need a nightlight.

"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." John 12:46

prize winning photo

My sister-in-law, Valerie, has been encouraging me for the past couple of years to enter some of my photography in the fair. Well, this year I finally got the application turned in before the deadline! And now I have a 1st place photo!

fun fair photos...

plus a BoyzIIMen concert! We also celebrated mom's 50th b-day. We spoiled her all day:)

Well, there you go, friends...I have successfully blogged:) Maybe I can actually keep this up...

inspired to blog

So my friend Stephanie from work has been my blogging inspiration. She's always updating hers with cute photos of her fam, cute backgrounds, and random info about what they are up to... I love it! So I'm going to try and be a little more successful with this...