...pumpkin carving festivities...

i should be studying right now but instead i'm blogging. don't worry about it...

anywho...on wednesay i had some friends come over and carve pumpkins. it was so much fun! i love to carve pumpkins!! we all just hungout and ate treats and carved pumpkins. here's are some pictures from the festivities. i didn't get a picture of all the pumpkins because everyone left at a different time and i just didn't think about it. also i love how i usually forget to take pictures of myself. someone had to remind me yesterday to take a picture of myself. so there is one...with my friend nicole stoos. she's the bomb dot com. i gotta get back to studying. enjoy!

...so smooth...

this past saturday the frousins and some friends went up the american fork ampitheatre across from the Timpanogos temple to a beneifit luau and concert for an organization called vivakids. needless to say it was quite the enjoyable time. the food was good even though i dropped half my haupia cake...sad day...here is me, deina, and nani freezing our butts off...the fire dancer during the luau/dance portion of the show. they were a lot of fun to watch.but my favorite part of the night was the jam session/concert. Pati, the Fiji twins, and Junior Maile got together and played. There's nothing like good local music. And can i just say that Junior Maile's voice is like butter. I'll say it right now...if i ever find a guy that has a voice like him, i'm pretty sure i'll ask him to marry me right there on the spot no questions asked. ha ha...nani too, so we better not find the guy at the same time or that will be ridiculously awkward. the twins just got back from a mission in the Domican Republic and sang some spanish songs. made me miss texas...oh my friend brandon came too (the tall haole one) and was skankin it up. he actually served in samoa with Kai. small world.

...bonneville shoreline trail...

my friend alex and I went on a hike last wednesday. i've been thoroughly enjoying the autumn time. we were going to go up and hike up dry canyon but some construction was going on and some workers yelled at us to not park there...scary. so we went to the bonneville shoreline trail instead. it's a really steep hike. I was a little surprised. I think it might have been a horsetrail but it was so pretty. of course...here are some pictures... overlooking the valley, but mostly enjoying the colors of the fall...

alex blending in with the trail...

on the way down...the sun coming throught the trees...

yellow in some yellow...

and of course i found this little flower. so cute. it's currently my backgroud and that's why it says "enjoy" in the corner. just a little reminder to enjoy :)

...enjoying the fall...

this last week i had fall break. didn't really vacation much due to work, but i did take a day off to hangout in the mountains. i definitely needed some sachiyo time 'cause i feel like i can't take one breath without having another body around me (and i'm not a momma) so i went hiking up rock canyon to clear my head and enjoy the beautiful fall weather.
the whole hike i just smiled and took picture of the beautiful fall colors...
the sounds of the leaves on the path crunching beneath my feet...and the water flowing down the mountain side... made everthing was so serene and calm...it made me forget about all the craziness of the world. i couldn't have had a better day. here i am walking along the trail all nice gross but ridiculously content.
oh and there were drinking fountains. the water was deliciouso! i forgot that these were even there 'cause i hadn't been hiking up here for a while. i sat next to the river and just took in everything around me. ate some dried fruit, wrote in my journal, read a book. it was beautiful. my gluts are sore. ha ha...i'm going to go hiking again this week, this time with a friends. i'm excited! i'll remember to post pictures :)

...conference weekend...

something that i really look forward to twice a year. without fail i walk away with words to continue to press on and soothe my soul for the trials that i face or am currently facing. i'm always happier and more content with what i already have that the Lord has blessed me with. i already think that my life is pretty dang good (amazing family, loyal friends, good health, ability to work and go to school, etc) but after conference i realize that my life is more than pretty dang good...it's practically perfect.

this past conference weekend i was lucky enough to go to two sessions with two difference sets of friends. I went to the saturday morning session as well as the sunday afternoon. oddly enough i sat in the same section at both. one set of tickets was from west virginia, the other from tennessee. what are the odds? pretty cool. this is the only picture i have from conference.

before the sunday afternoon session. it's me, d. scott, chelsea, and aaron (whose head is cut off). I've known d. scott since the summer i lived at the glenwood in provo, he's from tennessee. d. scott and aaron are currently roommates (aaron is a hoot btw) and chelsea is aaron's friend.

saturday morning i went with my friend dustin and some of his friends from back home (west virginia). it was raining saturday morning and i was sooooo happy. it was a start to a perfect conference weekend :) i LOVE the rain. everyone around us was walking with umbrellas and hoods on, and there i was walking back getting wet and enjoying every moment of it. ha ha...maybe one day i'll post why i love the rain so much...

..sweet toy...

so kuni and ollie came over the other day and they had just gone to the toy store. ollie got some swords and what not (he's such a little boy) and kuni came home with this sweet toy. so basically it blows air (on the bottom you can open and close it to control the instream of the air) and there are these little weapons you put in the balls and they fight each other. it doesn't sound that entertaining but it's a heck of a lot of fun! i think kuni and i had more fun playing than ollie :)