So I LOVE Fall. It is by far my favorite time of year! I love the weather, the leaves, the colors, Halloween (my favorite holiday), my birthday, football, and of course I love the clothes that comes with fall! I love all the sweaters, layering, boots, hats...oh I love it all! I've been dying ever since we moved to Texas...fall eventually comes around but it's known by a different name (winter) and it flies by all to fast! Rarely do the leaves change, I miss so badly our fall drives through the canyon...oh it is so beautiful. :-( I got through it last year by keeping my mind off of it and just trying to not think about what I was missing. But doing that is becoming increasingly more difficult the longer we stay away from home! This entire year I have been so homesick for Utah! Our last trip up there this summer served to just seal in my heart that Utah is home for us and I'm counting the days (impatiently) until we can finally go back. It's especially hard because if our life goes the way we want then that means we'll be away from Utah for a number of years...it's hard. My best friend just had a baby two months ago and it absolutely killed me that I couldn't be there! Between all the weddings, birthdays, showers, holidays and babies, and just everything going on there that I know we are missing out on is so heart breaking! So now on top of everything else we're missing out on another gorgeous Utah fall and Aggie football...
Things right now are going okay in Texas, we're trying to have an open mind and focus on the wonderful things going on here, but despite my efforts my mind keeps drifting to that Utah fall...so I finally decided the other day (a decision Chris laughed at me about) that I was going to will it to be Fall here so at least it would one less thing I was missing out on. I decided I'd wear my fall clothes, act like it was fall, believe it was fall, and just generally think FALL. I'm pretty sure it's working. The last two weeks has been total Fall weather (as fall as it gets in Texas). It's been slightly cooler weather, rainy, and fall like. I do see the leaves starting to change and fall and this weekend I'm hoping to put the final nail in the coffin so to speak by putting up all of my fall decorations and doing fall crafts with the kids. I would love love love to see the Utah fall though so if anyone out there wants to email me some Utah fall pics I would be in heaven! (I'll probably blow them up and frame them and hang em' all over my house) I do have my KSL 5 weather calender that I bought for Christmas while we were in Utah and I'm loving the fall pics in there!
But for now I'm thinking happy FALL thoughts and wearing my fall clothes (which sometimes means I have to blast the AC) and missing home but trying to make the best of our current situation! Wish me luck! :-)
