It is OFFICIALLY the season of Autumn! I don't know why but I was really stuck on the idea of acting like it was still Summer
       until the "Fall Solstice". And I'm usually the over-eager kind of person (ie; playing Christmas music right after Halloween...
  Yeah...) Maybe the fact that it's still stinkin' hot outside, and I really just can't break out my boots and scarves for fear of sweating myself out. Whatever the reason, who cares, because it IS Fall now. And I am jumpin' and jivin' about it! I'm all about the change the Fall brings. It's still pretty hot outside, oh but I can tell that it's going to start cooling down faster! Fall clothes are the best. Bundling up has never been more fun or fashionable.

My favorite part of the season change this year? Changing our little apartment's decor! We don't have much, but we have enough for it to feel festive.



I've taken the liberty of making a "Fall Live-List" (all the things I want to do this fall aka before Thanksgiving).

> I just went full time status at work. That's 8 hours of work time and 2 hours of commute time. That's a 10 hour day. Woof. It's cool though, because now I am eligible for benefits which is totally nice. but I wake up at 6 and I don't get home until 5:30. That's slightly depressing. Who would want to get out of that bed ^ EVER?! (Also, Chance made our bed frame in high school. I love it!)




>Today is the day Chance and I start the Whole30. Whole foods only, for 30 days. We are determined to complete the challenge and get our bodies reset and working well. Health!! Oh and we are also "cycling" every day. HEALTH!






>Sleep is a struggle, all around. I don't fall asleep earlier enough or quickly enough. I toss and turn a lot of nights. I wake up just miserable and push the snooze at least twice.






>My grandpa wrote a book called Who and What Am I.... Why Am I Here On This Earth??? I started reading it yesterday, and I'm almost finished! It's so good and it's been really nice to feel a connection with my grandpa again. Though, I wish I could read it and ask him questions along the way...





PS I know my blog layout has changed like 2734 already. But I'm having too much fun playing around with it! Maybe this one will last a while..?

       Provo really has a lot to offer. It may be "Happy Valley" with a slightly negative connotation, but there is ALWAYS something
       going on in Provo. The music scene is HUGE and there's always some kind of concert going on. There's farmers markets, and a million unique places to eat. Oh and did I mention there's Google Fiber here? So it must be legit, right?


So why not grab our scooters and hit the town? (The Scooters grandma was going to get rid of! Score!)

       We make homemade syrup in this house. Always have, always will. But just a word of caution to you. If you ever pour it into a
       water bottle as the dispenser, just make sure that you don't close the lid and start shaking it, because it will surely explode EVERYWHERE. All over you, all over the ceiling, and all over everything in the kitchen.

But listen to this. Sometimes, life is rude and lets you stub your toe. Sometimes life is nice and let's you find money in your pockets! And sometimes life laughs at you by exploding the syrup bottle.

Sure, we didn't think it was all that funny in the moment of explosion, but give us 10 minutes and we were laughing. It's not everyday you have to scrub the ceiling because of exploding syrup! We make the best of what life gives us in this family, and you're going to learn that very quickly.

Love, (future)Mom and Dad

P.S. You should have seen Daddy's face when that bottle exploded. HAHAHA!

        Chance and I had a conversation not long ago that went a little like this:

   Chance: Aubrey, I love you.
Aubrey: I love you too!
Chance: And you're mine. Forever!
Aubrey: That's right.
Chance: Getting married in the Temple really relieved a lot of stress from me...
Aubrey: Haha, what do you mean?
Chance: I mean, if something  happened to you, if you died, or if I died, before we got married, we wouldn't have been sealed! We wouldn't be together forever.
Aubrey: And you were actually stressed about that?
Chance: Yeah! But now, of course I would be distraught if anything every happened to you  now, but I wouldn't be as stressed...

Well isn't that just so darn sweet? Poor guy was stressed. Haha.

I don't know about "soul mates" and I don't really believe there is just one person for everyone, but it's just crazy how you can find someone that was just MADE for you! And eternity is what we are in for.