Organized in 21 Days

I have a hard time with organization. Like a really hard time. I LOVE being organized, BUT I have a hard time doing it. Junk drawers? I have about 3 or 4...or 5. I wouldn't say they were 100% junk drawers (I know where the batteries are, the pencils, etc), but they still hold stuff.....

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Beautiful Ohio…in the fall

It almost makes it worth living here… 





And yes, I may have taken a few of these while driving….

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TOFW

This past weekend, I pulled out some of my OAMC pizza wheels, packed a bag and headed off with 5 other women to TOFW.

What.a.blast!

The last time (2007 with Kimi D) was such a great time too, but I was still nursing, so I had to worry about Spencer too.  This time?  No kids and no worries as we traveled over 4 hours to Cincinnati and stayed with a friend's family. Blast.

What a memorable and spiritual experience! Wish I could get a  fix every 3 months or so..the next one is in April 2012! :)

Now that I put the basics above, here is the break down.

Met at the church (12) to pack up.  Drove down to Shanna’s parent’s house.

Picked our beds and unpacked most of our stuff. Off we drove to Kentucky.

We walked in to the Convention center and immediately I hear someone yell, “Katie!”  I whipped around to see Jen Anderson-Allred.  Oh, what memories I have with Jen from Freshman year at Ricks.  She lived upstairs from me and we had such a great friendship.  It has been over 11 years since we had seen each other.  Hi Jen!

There were 2 Main Speakers that night: Jason Wright.  Author of the Wednesday Letters.  He had some good experiences (about his dad) and insight, but it wasn’t a ‘wow’ experience.

Michael McLean was there rocking it out.  I know that some of our group was ready for him to be done (mostly bc he doesn’t sing), but I wasn’t too concerned.  I knew that he would eventually hit his stride.   (I had seen him perform at BYU-I and he was good) 

And let me tell you, AFTER Mariama Kallon.  Michael was doing awesome! 

If you have never heard of Mariama, like we hadn’t, you are going to want to read her story.  It is one of unbelievable horror and yet, she was able to find peace and comfort in the Gospel.  Simply amazing.  She was the highlight of that night!

SATURDAY:

We had stayed up past 2 a.m., so we were a bit tired today (among being emotional also..these things get you on a spiritual high!)

Anyway, the music was performed by Mercy River.  I didn’t really love them.  Don’t get me wrong, they had some good music and some great lyrics, ESPECIALLY “Bye, Bye, Bye”, but I just didn’t think they were amazing.  (Their harmonies were awesome, just not their solos. But Come Thou Fount was beyond amazing!)

We also listened to Dean Hughes, Wendy Ulrich, DeAnne Flynn, Emily Freeman and Brad Wilcox.  Wow.wow.wow.  These people were amazing.  They had SO much to offer and it was like they were talking directly to me.  So great.  When I get my notes, I’ll write some things up…

Anyway, we were each asked to bring supplies for Possibility Packs.  (similar to humanitarian packs).  Here is a pic of Laura and I and our completed packs.  It was nice to help out.

This is all of us:

Shanna, Me, Laura, Natalie, Lisa & Lindsay

What a wonderful weekend filled with amazing experiences and friendship! Here’s to April 2012!

Last rose of summer

Trying to hang on as long as possible:

Conference Weekend

It rained all weekend long.  Soccer games were cancelled and we were homebound most of the time.  (I loved it, Luke HATED it!

Between Conferences and in-between the rain, we took a short walk.

I love how I capture Mac ‘jumping’ over the crack in the sidewalk:

Love pictures like these:

Love the changing leaves!

Fruit of our labor

This is so tempting.  I shouldn't eat it, but I am going to try it anyway.  May not look beautiful, but I am pretty sure that it will taste dang good!

I have only made apple pie once before and I think it was a premade crust and someone else's filling.  I have learned that I should probably get an actual pie tin and not use a round cake pan! ;)

October 8, 2011

There are many things to update, but I wanted to MAKE sure that I didn’t forget apple picking pictures this year!    Haha!

But first, let me back up to earlier in the day:

10:30 a.m. Soccer game. 

12 Soccer game. 

1 Soccer game.

1:30 Soccer game. 

Yep, we had a lot of soccer games to go to.  It.was. SO tiring and so wonderful because it was about 80* (HOT!).  Can’t really complain about the weather!

Afterwards, we headed out to our now-favorite apple pickin’ location.    So many trees and different types of apples to choose from.

And they’re off:

A lot of the trees didn’t have many apples on the bottom half…thanks JENNA for climbing

It may have gotten a bit hot:

You just don’t feel complete, until you’ve gone to Pumpkin Land too!

They added some new things this year.  I love how this sign not only measures their how tall they are, BUT the year is changeable!  Makes for some good memories.

Mac was so funny!  He went and sat on this bale of hay and just posed:

Until next year!