This past weekend Kody went to California to go to a football game with his dad.

Rather than stay here alone for 5 days, bored with no work/school, I decided to grab some last-minute flight tickets (thank you Allegiant!) and head down to good 'ol Arizona. 

I hadn't been home since March, so about 9 months! Too long without my az sun and brown desert. 

It was so nice to go home. Even though I had been gone for so long, it was like I never left! I got to see all of my family and friends that were there and it made me so happy. I am so grateful to have such wonderful people in my life, even though they're far away.

We went to the Arizona state fair. Sooo I can check that off for the next five years. I seriously always want to go to fairs and about two minutes into them I am wanting to leave, but it was still a super fun time, mostly b/c I went with these dudes. We are all teenagers now (-ish, I'm 20 so I guess I don't count, but still) and so we don't fight anymore and we just have so much goofy, dumb fun. It is the best.

I got to see my newest little cousin Krew (how cool is it that I have over 25 younger cousins?! SO MANY BABIES TO PLAY WITH :) :) :)

my old man beat the record on this game (only took a few quarters!). I have the coolest dad.

I got to see my sweet friends Allison and Maizy! So bummed that we are so far apart. Why are none of my girlfriends in Provo?! :( 

I also got to be reunited with my HALEY!! Yet another person I wish was in Provo (come on guys, just move up here so I have friends. I am really bad/lazy/awkward at making new ones).

I was kind of bummed to leave the 75 degree desert and come to the mountainous 30 degree utah (I am really not a fan of the cloudy days+snow). But it was the first time kody and I have been apart longer than a few hours since we got married (I have officially decided I hate sleeping alone, thanks) so I was soooo happy to come back to p-town and see my best friend again (major respect for military wives who have to sleep alone for much longer than 5 nights).  

See ya in 2 weeks AZ! :)

xo

I absolutely LOVE holidays.

All of them, I think that it is so much fun when everyone has fun celebrating something, even if it is as meaningless as something like Halloween :) So fun.

For the past 4 or 5 years I have started months before, planning exactly what I/we would be for Halloween. Every year my ideas are super awesome and I am so excited for them. Buuut then slowly Halloween gets closer and closer and I get super lame realize that I'd rather spend $50 on cute clothes I can actually wear all year. Then Halloween night finally comes and about 10 minutes before a party, I quickly draw cat makeup on my face and Kody puts some kind of jersey that he has. 

And that's exactly what happened this year!

I think dressing up it fun, but I was absolutely dying with how hilarious/cute the baby costumes were this year! Like seriously, Halloween is fun but I think it will be 1,000x better when we have a little cutie to dress up! Or a dog. That would work too. 

Now I am off to make my Christmas playlist on Spotify! :)

xo