hiatus.

recent hiatus.  my apologies.  the sad reality is that summer is over.  the newish jon mclaughlin song appropriately titled "summer is over" has been running through my head these first three weeks of school.  three weeks?  has it already been three weeks?!  time sure flies, especially when you're having fun, as they say.  and if i had a quarter for every time i quoted that on this here blog... well... anyway.  most my usu friends have moved away since i've been there - marriage (what is this thing called love?) and graduation (who needs a job anyway?).  some days i feel like a freshman all over again, but actually i don't really feel like a freshman at ALL.  did i used to be that annoying and tiny?  don't answer that, but sometimes i wonder.  hah!  mostly i'm just done with the social scene of college... sometimes i find it hard to believe i used to be able to stay up so late and still get up so early and yet still find time to get all my homework done.  seems like a dream!  the only logical conclusion is that, yes, i am getting old.  i need my 8 hours of sleep and the 1am dance partay just isn't as appealing as it used to be... ha.  also i'm kinda done with the whole living away from home thing too.  i'm a homebody, that's all there is to it.  (probably explains why i've been home not once, but all threeee weekends since school started. hah.  don't judge.)    that being said, logan tugs at my heart strings.  i just love it up here.  

one of my favorite things in the world is fall weather!!  the cool fall air is to the point that we almost can't keep our windows open at night anymore.  and driving down sardine canyon you can see the leaves are changing into that spectacular red, unique to cache valley.  mm mmm love me some fall weather.  i don't know what i would do without the changing seasons.  sure love utah.  and of course the fall weather brings football season.  i didn't realize how much i missed football season for the last two years.  last week my aggies beat my utes... i was torn in who to cheer for, but it all worked out ok.  go aggies :)  this week, the ultimate rival byu-utah will go down - it's a red-out, i'm pretty stoked on it.  like, red corduroy pants stoked.  good old footgame, foot...game.  

trying to play catch up would be impossible, but let's just say it's been 5 months since the mission, yet that seems like a far distant dream.  not a day goes by i don't think of the mish, but it seems so far away i wonder did i ever even go?!  oh canada.  my heart longs for you.  but life back home is good too.  i do miss having a companion though, which is weird because that's the thing i was most worried about leaving.  guess i didn't realize how great it was to have a buddy super glued to your hip all the time.  back to the real meaning of missions though - Heavenly Father has given me plentyyyyy of experiences to share the gospel and reactivate since being home, which i'm extremely happy about.  guess what, you can be a missionary without the tag, who would've thought ;)  and this new ZION DAY that the holladay ysa stake has initiated is saving my life.  probably one of the coolest thing i've been part of.  just can't get enough.  i was sad to be released from my summer calling of ward missionary, but don't you worry, bishHOP despain has called me to be a ward missionary in my new ward too... with the wml that has been home all of 3 weeks, bless his heart.  i heart missionary mindedness!  (it's not work, it's a lifestyle)  

not sure when you, my faithful 2 readers, will hear from me again, but until next time, just remember that...