I love this time of year!! Do you?

I have always really enjoyed the beautiful autumn weather. I love the leaves and I especially love "tromping", as my sister Lexie would say, through the fallen leaves. I just love that crunching sound. :) Silly I know.

I also love Halloween. My mom always made Halloween amazing at our house. I have so many great memories of steaming witches brew (dry ice and root beer plus plastic bugs/spiders)! There was always a creepy crawly creature in your cup. I loved the costumes and trick-or-treating with cousins. I loved going to the haunted forest and eating donuts and cider after.

Know I am planning Halloween parties for my class and hanging out with my friends here in Omaha. Which is great. But it will be fun to continue some of those traditions when we have a few kids.

Dave and I have been able to do some really fun things lately. We have been to Kansas City a couple weekends in the last month or two. The first time we went was with friends who live by us. The last time we were able to meet up with Dave's brother Jon and his girlfriend. Jon lives in St. Louis. The girl he is dating, Jana, is just finishing up pharmacy school in Kansas City this year. So it was the perfect place for us to all meet and hang out. We went to Oklahoma Joe's for dinner, went to a fire/water show by the river and went to a wonderful art museum that Dave and I had never been to. It was so fun! We had so much fun with Jon and Jana.

I also had a really neat experience a couple weeks ago. I am in the Young Woman's in my ward. There was a special training that all the presidencies were invited to attend on a Friday night. Sister Dalton, the general Young Woman's president spoke and taught us so much!! She is such a beautiful, wonderful person. You can just tell by her countenance that she cares so much for others and is just a very sincere loving person. It was such a neat experience to talk to her and hear her council for the Young Woman's presidencies. One thing I thought was really cool was that she told us that she always meets with the youth wherever she goes before meeting and teaching the leaders. What a great way to really know what the community is like in the area. Anyway she was absolutely wonderful!