the good stuff

fall in a great wonder

Fall. Hot chocolate and staying under the blankets with each other just a few moments longer. Curling up with a good book or getting things done that you had set aside in the summer. If you are anything like me you set aside everything to make room for summer. It is after all what I look forward to all year long. I'm not sure if it is growing older, or the opening of my eyes that has made me fall in love with fall. It is beautiful. Today was full of cold air and blue skies. I couldn't wait to come home and make hot chocolate and spend time with Kyle. We thought about this time last year. We had an amazing week of fall traveling around to national parks.

                                    

                                           bryce canyon

grand canyon

 Kyle and I both grew up with the same basic childhood. We ended up in the same place, despite having very different experiences that took us there. One thing that Kyle told me from the time our friendship became deeper is that he wished he could have seen more. I took for granted all the things I was fortunate enough to see and do growing up. I always tease him that his life would be boring without me. We made a list of things we wanted to do and places we wanted to see TOGETHER. We are young and have checked off so much of that list. Kyle has now been to Disneyland (thanks to my parents) because it is a place every child should go...no he was not a child but believe me as soon as he saw the place he might as well have been eight years old and on a leash. We went to Mexico to one of my absolute favorite resorts. Last fall Kyle finally got to see the Grand Canyon in all its beauty. When I was little it seemed so much bigger. I highly recommend seeing it in the fall. The colors were unbelievable, and the only other people were home school kids and precious old people seeing one last wonder before they called it a day. I only hope that I will choose to do the same when I am older. To see, and do, and love everything that I never got around to. Albert Einstein once said, "It is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years"