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I put up lots of new posts.

Read about our new addition to the family here.
Read about our new car here.
Read about awesome books I'm reading here.
Read about my 20th birthday here.
Read about our wedding here and here. There were too many pictures for one post!
Read about my favorite season here.
Watch the inspiration for the name of this post here.
And have a good day!

My Favorite Season!

I LOVE FALL. It's gorgeous outside. The weather is not too hot, not too cold. Fall is the start of lots of fun holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I love love LOVE fall decorations! I can't WAIT to have a real house to decorate! I do have a front porch but it's not the same.

Last year I met my hubby in the fall and one of our first dates was going up to Bear Lake and going on a four wheel ride through the mountains around the lake. It was SO colorful I was AMAZED. I had just lived in LA for a year where the only colors you see are green and brown. But there was yellow, gold, red, orange, hot pink, browns and it was GORGEOUS! I'm so excited to go on another four wheel ride through the colors this weekend! We both have Saturday and Sunday off (cue hallelujah chorus...) and so we're going to watch conference at the bear lake cabin. I'M SO EXCITED FOR CONFERENCE THIS YEAR. Oh, you all should listen to Elder Uchtdorf's talk, it's a great one. You can watch it here.

Some fun pictures of fall last year:

Marcie and Mater....

We bought another car! Mater. He's a 1997 Honda Accord. Dark gray/black exterior, gray interior. He's a stick shift car. We like him. Okay, I like him, Jake ADORES him.

Mater on the left, Marcie on the right.

Marcie on the left, Mater on the right.

Family of Three!!!

Hehe just kidding, don't freak out.

Jake and I bought a horse! Crazy, I know. She was $50 and she's a superstar, so why not?

We named her Lia, not Leah because that means "weary," but Lia because it's Hawaiian and it means "dependable." So far it's true! She has been so good to train! She is so sweet and smart and calm and CUTE. She is almost a year old and has never been handled in any way. Well, she's been caught four times EVER and he just put a halter on her.

Here's some pictures of our new addition ;)

She's disproportionate because she is just a yearling.

This is when we went to pick her up. She didn't even run away, she just stood there and watched us.

Jake getting her to trust him.

Getting her to trust me.

She's trusting him....

Trusting me...

We were so proud of her for getting in the horse trailer!

SO PROUD!

We did have to push her to get in...

We were also proud that she let us lead her around

Now she is in her new home with her new friend Diamond and she is the first horse that has ever shared a coral with him that has been nice to him! Every other horse kicks him and corners him and takes his food. But not Lia!

It is a lot of work. We have to go see her every day and do certain things with her every time we go. But it's also a lot of fun. I go see her after school, before work. Jake goes when he gets off of work. Our weekends pretty much revolve around her. We love her!

Not A Teenager!

September 11 was my 20th birthday!

I remember September 11 ten years ago. My family had just moved to Washington from Utah. I was in Ms. Ervin's fourth grade class. I was ten that day. I remember that I did not understand the significance of what happened until later years. It is sad to see what people say and to see how people feel on that day. I feel so bad for the families who lost someone in that tragedy.

But Jake did spoil me. And I did have a great day. It was kind of a birthday week, really. I got Kinzie, my kindle, a week earlier. Jake and I went out to dinner, got ice cream, and rented redbox movies all week. Then Saturday I worked and he brought me lunch. Saturday night I got to open a gift because it was for both of us... A new shower head!! I was SOOO EXCITED! It's the kind that has like a hose that comes off of the shower head so it's a two in one... you know? It's great you can turn one off or have both on and there's different settings for how the water shoots out. I love it.

On Sunday we had church bright and early. After church Jake made chocolate chip pancakes for lunch, cause that's what I wanted. Then we went to his parents house for a while to chat chit (yeah, I flipped that **** ...... Name the comedian!) Then we came home and I got to open ANOTHER gift- Tangled!!!!! My favorite movie, umm, EVER. Then Jake and I ate my ICE CREAM CAKE. Then I talked with my family and Monique and her kiddos. Then I did homework (boo) then went to bed and fell asleep to my hubby massaging my sore back! Awesome! Oh, and for dinner we had a chicken and rice casserole that I got in a recipe thing from my grandma Hathaway and it's REALLY good I love it. But it makes a TOOOON and we're gonna have leftovers all week lol which is fine because, again, I love it.

That's all!

Here's the only pic I have

Some Good Books

Here are some books I've read/am reading and love!

Warning: some are sad.

My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Sundays at Tiffany's by Gabrielle Charbonnet
Growing Up Gracie by Maggie Fechner
Untouchable by Scott O'Connor
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
The People Code by Taylor Hartman
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen (thanks for the reminder Momsy!!) LOVED this book!

And a bunch more that were free on Kinzie, my Kindle! But I have not started those yet!

He Made It Home

of course! They made it home safe and sound and no one was hurt, except Dad C.'s horse Lighting, but he'll be fine. I'm so proud of Jake because he TOOK PICTURES!

So he left our house at like 7 am. Then they got the horses loaded and drove for an hour and a half. Then they were ready to ride to the campsite!

Dad C. and Kayla riding

Jake riding... And a gorgeous background!

So pretty!

Dad C. and Kayla

Kayla and Jake in the tent playing some game that is like phase ten, but it's the Cromwell version

Dad C. and Jake all ready to go fishing!

Jake in his fishing gear

Jake fishing

Dad C. and Kayla sitting around the campfire one night

Kayla freezing and studying her butt off on the benches and little table Jake made

Jake fishing on the last day

Being goofy. This is his fly that caught him like eight fish in two hours.

Dad C. and Jake leaving the camp on the last day and heading up to the Upper Lake... To play on the rope swing...

Kayla about to go into the freezing cold water...

She's in.

Jake about to go in...

He had a video of him doing it and he yelled "I love Rachel!" but I can't find it!

But then they made it back to the horse trailer and came home!!
I'm glad Jake got to go up into the mountains. I hear he's grumpy all winter if he doesn't go at least once in the summer. Mostly I'm glad they had fun and were safe!

SPOILED ROTTEN

So to keep me entertained while he was gone, Jake got me....

A KINDLE!!!!! (it's also an early birthday present)

I'm naming her Kinzie. :)

Jake is so awesome. I can't even believe I have Kinzie my Kindle!

It was still a long three day weekend but Kinzie did help make the time go by. ; )

Bodies Exhibit

Mom C., Bomer (Shalina), Dane, Dash and I went and saw the exhibit on Saturday! I feel so smart after going! It was FASCINATING. We learned that all the specimen were from China and that their laws are different concerning what to do with dead people so when someone dies and their family can't afford a funeral, the body gets donated to science. They love to donate to this bodies exhibit because every ten years they switch to new bodies and they call the families of the old bodies and throw a really nice funeral for them. I also learned that getting the bodies to this exhibit takes 1 year of prep. I can't remember all the lingo or the order but they first soak in some chemical for three months that takes off the skin and fat. Then they do the same procedure that they do for baseball cards, they soak it in something for 6 months that makes it have a plastic (or rubber maybe...) covering! Then they do something else for three months and then the bodies are ready! I also read about how they got the one specimen they had that was all blood vessels ready but I can't remember what the process was called or how they did it... arg! It was so amazing though. And they said that every single thing in the museum is real, the eyes, nails, blood vessels, everything! It was really creepy if I thought about it but I just didn't.

I also learned lots of random facts that I of course don't remember most of. Like, you have to take in 3500 more calories than your body burns before you gain a pound. Same thing with losing a pound, you have to burn 3500 calories more than you took in before a pound is lost. Babies are born color blind, I already knew that. On average people let out a disturbing amount of gas every day, I don't remember how much. Something like 30% of the people in the world have an extra rib. Most of the dust in your house is dead skin-puke. People literally shed like 15 pounds of skin every year! There were so many other cool/sick/weird/random facts that I wish I could remember!

The baby room wasn't as cool as the bodies exhibit I went to in Oregon. One of the babies really did look like Voldemort, sceery. They had a placenta that was from triplets, it was so huge but way cool!

They had one body that was broken into two parts and they were facing each other, the skeleton of the body and the muscle of the body, same person! It was so neat! And that specific specimen has broken his upper arm and had not been able to afford treatment so you could see on his arm bone a huge bump from where the calcium deposits had healed it itself. SAD. I wish I could have taken pics but that was not allowed. It was just super super cool and I would go like three times if I could. I wish I could have gone with Jake, because it was SO COOL! But he was on his forever long horsepacking trip.

Speaking of this trip to the mountains, it's really bothering me because I have an over active imagination when it comes to bad things happening to people and he has no service so I have not talked to him since 7 am Saturday morning. And I'm nervous for them because Tyson ended up not going and so it's just Dad C. with a really bad leg, Kayla with, let's be real, no survival skills, and Jake. For all I know the bear that was spotted there THIS WEEK ate them. Or worse, just mutilated them and they are currently suffering and bleeding to death. Or their horses freaked out and they are all stranded running out of food. Or they drowned in the river while bathing. Or they were eaten by a piranha while fishing. Or Dad C. re-broke his leg so they're waiting for someone to find them. Or Kayla wandered off and got lost so Dad C and Jake are still looking for her. Or SOMETHING and they won't come back tonight like they are supposed to and then, if you think I'm being ridiculous now, I will REALLY freak out and basically Jake will never be allowed to do anything ever again. Woo glad I got all that off my chest! Haha. Seriously though, I have not fallen asleep until like 2 am every night and I've gone to bed between 11 and midnight!

Anyways back to my actual post about the exhibit, it was amazing and fascinating and I love doing things that make me feel smart! I'm glad I went!

Also, I'll update you about whether Jake makes it home or not, because I'm sure everyone is as worried as I am, right?