.one of the last.

Saturday was one of the last beautiful fall days of the year. The weather hovered around 70 and was just all around pretty darn perfect! We spent the morning walking along the Jordan Parkway with the fam. I feel so blessed to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world!

We continued with our outdoor activities by climbing trees with Lexie, and...

jumping in the leaves.
Thanks Autumn for giving us one last day of joy!

.new toys and the such.

I have wanted to post seriously 10 different times in the past 2 weeks, but life just happens, and the time never seems to be available to do all the things one wants to do. With that being said, I'm at the slow office today, and find myself with more free time then is needed, so now is catch up time. Where to start??
The Sullivan Halloween party:

We love our Halloween in the Sullivan Fam...here is just a sample of the good times.

Full moon cresting over the neighborhood

Our GIANT race arch that we just had to blow up to make the neighbors wonder

The Bachands sporting their Wizard of Oz

'Pea in the Pod' Bendy

My mom's clever flower pot costume (I love that Grace is watering her)

and of course Mike and Ang and the Luchedor's...those pink pants already have a special place in next years costumes.

It was a great night filled with spooky food, dancing, slime, and family!

Scary movie night:

I'm not a big scary movie person in general, but once a year I put aside my fear and get into the mood of Halloween by watching a scary movie. We like to make a night of it with dinner and friends. This year the Wards, along with baby Mikey came over for the festivities. Jill made her famous corn chowder, and we just enjoyed the company all around.

New Toys:

This past week Roy sold his mt. bike, which has been on KSL for the past 3 months. After several days of conflicting thoughts and ideas, we finally decided to buy Christmas early this year (we may have got this idea from G-ward and Hayley). Roy has been consumed with RC cars lately. Say what you want, but it's his nostalgic hobby...and honestly, even though I had envisioned a white trash hobby, I didn't have the heart to dash his childhood love.

The great thing about it though is that without fail, every guy he's shown has acted just like a little boy on Christmas morning. They LoVE driving it, and Roy can't stop smiling!

What with Roy enjoying his new toy, I was feeling a little left out. I have been wanting to get a bigger i-pod to hold all of our music, but we had never gotten around to it. We have always been fine with a shuffles for when we worked out. But we finally caved and got the i-pod touch. I don't think I've put it down since this past weekend. I keep discovering something new on it and I just get more stoked about it every time. We will just re-wrap these bad boys come December and be just as giddy then as we are now!

Sorry for the overload, but like I said, time was not my friend this week.

.what the H?.

2 things....Hiccups and Heartburn...Love the hiccups...hate the heartburn!

.still mornings.

Waking up to the blackness of fall-ish Monday mornings can be rather depressing...especially when you realize your husband left to go to the gym without you. How else are you supposed to get in your much needed exercise on such busy days as Mondays? It took a little motivational pep talk, but I finally got my girthy body out of bed and bundled up for a cold morning walk. I won't lie, when I walked out to the sight of snow I was ever so tempted to run back to my warm bed, but I'm so happy I didn't. Snow turns everything magical, even when it's 5:30 in the morning. I walked under the big trees that line the path behind the ol' folks home and just listened to the snow muffled morning sounds. It was cold and wet, but oh so awesome to be alone in that stillness. I hope this little dude loves snow and winter as much as his momma!

We filled our weekend with all good things. I spent one of my vacation days on Friday just for the heck of it. I didn't sleep in, I didn't veg, but you should see my to do list...all those crossed of jobs made it a heck of a day! Saturday, was the big Sullivan Halloween party, I'll elaborate more, but, know that we only do two things big in our family...St. Patty's day and Halloween, I love it!!

Also on my mind...
Jill and I have been talking about a boy in her primary class who she is convinced is possessed. Jill, is one of the most patient people I know when it comes to kids so you know it's bad if she feels this way about this boy. It's got me thinking about what kinda of kids Roy and I will have. Are we going to have the boy that everybody runs and hides from, will he be the nosy, rambunctious, but lovable type...really I don't know. But it made me wonder what I'm going to do to raise my children to be the most responsible, kind, happy, & unique people they can be all while taking into account they are all going to be different, and need different things from me and Roy.
Just some thoughts..

.back on back.

Here we are 6 months and some change and things are really starting to become, shall I say, weird. Pregnancy is filled with Do's and Do Not's of course, and for obviously good reasons, but the further I get along this journey the more paranoid I'm getting. One of the things I should be doing is sleeping on my sides...specifically my left side. This hasn't been a huge problem until recently. Nerves are being pinched and legs are getting restless and I find that the last place I want to lay is on my side. I'm a back sleeper...of all the positions one can fall asleep, I prefer my back so I'm horrified when I wake to find myself on my back instead of my LEFT side. Am I slowly depriving my child of life when I unconsciously roll over in the middle of the night? If so what is a person to do to stop themselves from rolling over into this position? Anyways just some paranoia that is rolling around in my head.

.nature, it's all around me.

Roy is downstairs putting on a coat of "nature's shadow" (don't judge me Kay) because the room just didn't sit well with me. I think we found a good solution to the problem though...I will keep you posted.
I'm at the moment listening to that Sample's song "Nature", and of course that just got me thinking about how much I LOVE fall.
This is how I feel about Fall.

It's just the best season and there is nothing you can say to change my mind. Last weekend we got out in the beautiful weather and just enjoyed us some nature!

Roy and Tom, pretty much as good as it gets!

Last year these aspen groves had dropped all their leaves before we could enjoy it. I think we caught the last end of them this year.

Autumn nature hikes...nothing better in my opinion.

The hike ends at this little pond/lake, and it never disappoints. Just like glass!

This morning we headed back up big Cottonwood for some more nature. Roy and my brother Casey had a little climbing rendezvous.

Roy is all geared up and ready to go.

I like to think of this next picture as the "manpri" picture. There was some excuse about seeing your feet better...???

Anyways, all good fun and all while outside enjoying my favorite version of nature....FALL!

.what will be.

Wouldn't you know that after all the painting and planning in the little dude's room I've changed my mind again. The "pee" yellow paint is gone and the white walls make everything brighter in that little basement room, but every time I walk in it feels almost sterile white...no warmth at all. Unfortunately, the idea to paint one accent wall is going to be a bit more difficult seeing as in my haste to get things done we already put up the vinyl decal (not an easy task). So yes, now I have made up my mind on what I want to do, but it might be too late unless I want to buy another decal...which I don't. I wish desperately that I had more creative bones in my body, and that I wasn't always in a hurry to think things through. Ha ha isn't it sad that this seems to be the most daunting thing on my plate right now...I'll answer that, yes it is sad and perhaps a bit pathetic. I think I like to avoid real pain in any sense, so I distract myself with the little details of insignificant things. But lets not go there (see what I mean).
Instead I'm looking forward to the weekend full of beautiful fall weather, a little rock climbing, some cleaning thrown in for affect, and maybe Roy will help me figure out what we can realistically do to fix that dang room.