string of thoughts

fall.

love, love, love.

love the boots.

love the colors.

love the cooler weather.

love the crunchy leaves.

love my birthday coming soon.

love thanksgiving.

love busting out the christmas tunes [soon.].

love all of the pumpkin.

pumpkin.

um, totally obsessed with pumpkin, in case you didn't know.

love pumpkin in my oatmeal.

pumpkin in my yogurt.

they're like pumpkin pies.

pumpkin pie on my bday and thanksgiving.

pumpkin smoothies [yes, i make the best pumpkin smoothie.]

pumpkin pie frozen yogurt!!!

pumpkin pie frozen yogurt.

oh. my. goodness.

i love, i love, i love.

i put pumpkin in plain yogurt with pumpkin pie spice to make a healthy version of the above said fabulous dessert. also, it's "free".  

free. em is the best sister in the world and is bringing me some pumpkin pie fro yo from her work. love her.

fro yo.

you know i love. if i'm eating dessert, i prefer frozen yogurt.

and you know i love golden spoon.

but i haven't been in like 5 weeks! since the second day of school!! [okay, i have been to em's place like 3 times in those 5 weeks though...at 50% off!]

school is just too crazy.

school.

pretty much i think i am going to save some money for steven and i and move out of the apartment until he comes back in december.

where to? 

my school.

i'll just take the air mattress.

there are bathrooms.

i'll shower at the gym. on second thought, the school has those emergency showers just in case you spill chemicals on you, which is highly likely in first grade.

and my clothes? i'll shove them in the few empty cupboards i have and in the extra classroom.

too bad i'm not in dc!

d.c.

i'm going in 21 days. yes. 3 weeks from today. more than half-way to the first "check point"!!!!

"check point."

my first little check point was actually this past weekend. claire's wedding.

i went home for less than 48 hours. friday night to sunday morning. it was pretty awesome.

awesome.

apples are awesome. love them.

tomorrow we are wrapping up our awesome apples unit.

3 apple poems.

lots of apple books.

johnny appleseed movie and book.

labeling the parts of an apple.

making applesauce in class!

writing our own apple poems.

learning the apple "life cycle".

apple stamps.

it was a little life changing.

life changing.

watching General Conference this Saturday and Sunday.

another thing i LOVE about fall. [and spring, too.]

see here to watch.

it's life changing. always.

uplifting. enlightening. faith building. faith boosting.

everything you need.

love love love it.

love love love.

steven.

plain and simple.

i love him.

[oh wait, is this supposed to be a blog

about steven and i, the hopper family?

yeah...well, he's not writing it!

and he's 2000 miles away right now.]