10 welcomes. you have been missed.

october, welcome.

i am so happy you are here!

why?

1. because i have now worn shorts in october-- that is typically labeled as craziness in utah, but since it reached 90 degrees today i think my mental status is deemed {more or less} healthy.

2. with your arrival, that means halloween is only 30 days away! and somehow i'm going to find the cutest darn modest costume there is-- just you wait and see!

3. general conference is tomorrow. words probably can't convey the excitement in me to go home for the weekend, get fat with momma's good cooking and far too many chocolate-covered-strawberries, load up on mom-hugs, and spend day and night with good lovely friends. oh yes, and to hear president monsen and all the other adorable little old men (and lady)'s counsel. because am i ever in need of a spiritual pick-me-up.

4. because october unleashes decorating restrictions-- you can go crazy with pumpkins and gourds and witches and ghosts and fake spider webs and be completely adored.  if you did that in march for st. patrick's day, people might think you had gone bonkers. unless you're irish-- they're granted immunity on that one. anyways, i get to decorate home depot with october-decorative-goodness in all the creativity i can muster. maybe i'll even bring home some indian corn for my apartment. hmmm... brilliant.

5. october is special. details later, but the 11th and 16th and 22nd will be {hopefully} good days (oh huntman... you've made me a sentimental fool). PLUS, thanks to my bestie, i have discovered all these random holidays. did you know, for instance, that october 14th is national dessert day? love it. i will be making pumpkin magic on that day.

6. the leaves are changing! the mountains are morphing into this beautiful tapestry of green and red and gold.  i must make it up soon to catch a glimpse before the wind whisks the leaves away or the snow invades their serenity.

7. i have all these plans for october of being productive and getting things done and my life in order. with the winds of fall and the beautiful colored mountains i'll be turning over my own leaf.

8. i can break out my sweaters i've been saving! and my boots and jackets and coats and scarves and gloves.   i just LOVE october! and my fall wardrobe.

9. there's sure to be good parties. oktoberfest. halloween. national dessert day. i love parties! so much potential for food and boys. and who doesn't love an excuse to dress up? october is so grand.

10. everything is pumpkin! if there's anything you should know at all about me, it's that i'm obsessed. pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin. tonight i bought pumpkin ice cream at the store! and there is sure to  be consumption of pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin magic, pumpkin smash {jamba juice}, pumpkin soup? (i have yet to try that) pumpkin seeds, even (perhaps. we'll see if i'm craving sodium.) october has the best potential for pumpkin-ification. 


welcome back, my dear friend october.

i have missed you so, these long 11 months.