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Happy Halloween! Hello snow!... wait, Hello snow?... Hello Snow!!!!

Here is my BYU Cougar Pumpkin. Mer, it's not really what I wanted to do. I miss my photoshop at home! But there you go, at least I carved something. There is the cougar on the right with Y mountain on the left with lightning striking it, cause I thought it might look cool.

Here is the morning after our first snow, a lot of it has already melted, but I love the mountains in the morning; the shaddowing is just perfect as I arrive at campus.

This is a close up. I love this mountain. I wish pictures could do the mountains justice. They are so larger than life that you just can't understand until you have felt yourself shrink to dust below them.




Here is the preface of the following video. Oh! The suspense!!! It's "killing" me!

There you go. Mara was the chosen one because she dissappeared and we didn't know where she was and it was snowing and she didn't answer her phone and we could only assume that she had become a snow-student.

Ok, gruesome I know, but I had the raspberry stuff and well, anyways...

The following is just something I wrote, Ode to Autumn even though the snow has stolen your spotlight that you so deserve. My favorite season, and yet it is the hardest season of life.

Autumn; A Change in the Color of Me

Sometimes, instead of drinking tea inside, trying desperately to warm a shivering soul, watching the world behind glass, I climb up the big old tree. The tree is mostly hidden from the view of most people, but yet, it seems to see all. Everyone thinks it is dead, but it is not. I feel much safer in in its creaking branches, in its arms, that sway in the slightest breeze than I do on the ground.

I allow myself to confide in it for a moment, telling it of the things of my heart. Then, I lean the side of my face against its soft white skin and try to listen with my heart. It huuummmMmMmMMMMMMs, and I can feel the vibrations start in my toes and cover me like a home-patched quilt; it is almost as if it was tucking me back into bed after a stormy night had sent quick and frightful footsteps to my mother's bedside. It wraps my heart up and sneaks up to my mind where it somehow turns into words that I can understand better.

The old tree does not say much, but never leaves me unfilled. "It will be alright," it hums. That is all I needed to feel. How did it know? I sit there for a while and let the warmth of its words sink into the reclusive corners of my soul, patiently coaxing them out of their seclusion. I feel a change in the color of me. Then, I let go, like its leaves, and accept my feet to the ground, and I walk. And I walk into the wind. For I am not a leaf: powerless and dead. I am alive. I am ALIVE!

If you have never heard the trees whisper and warm, the brook chat and babble, the stones humm humm shift, or the rain tap its feet to the dance of life, then I would say that you haven't learned how to listen quite yet but they have so much to say to save your life, not from death itself necessarily, but from a death within life.

At some point you have to learn to trust the ground to hold your feet there, to let go, and trust the wind not to carry you away. What better way to form trust than to share your soul, listen to, and keep sacred and precious the fragile souls you may normally trample under foot.

Welcome Autumn.

Past Several Months

So this post is not very artistic like my previous ones are. But, this is what I've been up to, well besides books and papers and headaches and crowded buses... so, this is the Good Stuff... I love you and miss you more than words can say... so I'm not even gonna try, just unimagine the unimaginable..

Okay, don't laugh because most of the pictures on this particular post are of dogs.... Just remember who this is. That picture was just a chance encounter of my beautiful dogs cuddling together.. isn't that precious? This was a coulple days before I left.

This was my first night away from my little Gar Gar, but I did not have to sleep alone. This is scout, my uncle's and aunt's dog. His breed is a Samoyed. So sweet.

Theses two good lookin dogs are poodle retriever mixes, brother and sister. You can obviously tell that they each took after one of their parents more than the other... They belong to the Coverstons. I've stayed with them for two weekends and these dogs are wonderful, very well-behaved. But they play hard together two. And they, with the help of my naughty guide dog puppy that I was puppy-sitting, are able to completely mutilate 3 soccer balls in 5 minutes!

This is Rosco. He is the protecter and antagonist, but the cutest in my opinion. A white golden withought the shedding... nearly perfect.

And this is Ella. SUPER sweet. Would rather be with the people more than the mutilated soccer ball. If someone gets in trouble, no matter the species, she comes to the one in distress and leans against them. Sweet girl.

Here is another picture of scout and me. I included it because I am NOT in my pjs and my hair is done, and it's just more flattering overall...

So this video is of mom and me riding uncle Steve's tandem bike, his pride and joy. Look at Steve's cute little laugh at the end. That is the best part. I watch it over and over again when I need a lift. He's so darn cute, I can't help but smile!

Here is a REALLY BIG LEAF that I found on campus. It is one and a half times the length of my awesome cowboy boots! It was cool. The trees are forever old!

This was my ride to campus everyday before it got so dark in the morning and before I discovered the 10 mins of extra sleep I can have by taking the bus. But it was gorgeous while it lasted.

This is Sugar, my absolute favorite Guide Dog Puppy in our group. She is so cute and sweet. Her only issue was barking at the door. Disclaimer: When I quote in this movie that Sugar is the sweetest puppy ever, I mean in the Guide Dog Club. Someone asked me "sweeter than Gar?" FALSE! No Dog in the WORLD is as sweet as Gar, so don't even go there... I meant only in the club... but she is a cutie. ;) ...Just so we all are on the same page.

This is our Halloween decor provided by my favorite wonderful Sulli and Mamma Amy and boys. :) Thank you!! The movie would not upload the beginning of the movie and it cuts it short at the end too. So you missed my introduction to myself and Jes, but at least you meet Mara. But if it doesn't show at all, let me know and I will e-mail it to you. Don't make fun of the movie. I'm such an idiot with a camera unless it's taking artistic pictures. HOWEVER, At least I didn't delete the live feed... Amy. ;) And also, excuse the dead rose thing; that was just awkward. ARGGHHH I HATE VIDEO TAPING AND TALKING TO MYSELF!!! so, the only reason it is up here is for you... Cause I love you and I know you would want to see it. By the way, the cute little Candy Corn Bear's name is "Cob". Someday, I will make a real legit Candy Corn Cob and it's gonna be awesome.

On the previous movie, Jes and I realized that we left out our favorite decoration... the spider. So, we gave him his own movie. We thought it appropriate to sing the song, but we didn't like how we sounded so, naturally, we played our invisible banjos in round instead, but.... the banjos don't work when the players are laughing for some reason.

Now that I have got my camera working, I can do more of this bloggy stuff when I have the time. So, I will email updates to let you know that I have added to it. LOVE YOU!!!!