My Favorite Season

Goodbye Summer! It was nice having you for the three days in which you decided to present yourself. Enough of that, let's move onto FALL! It started raining yesterday and decided to pour when me and Nathan entered Hic/Nailey's ward. SO we ran into the building and I was glad I did not wear heels. When I drove home later, my street was covered with these pretty little things:

It's been a bit blustery and I've had to pull out the sweaters and blankets.
Isn't fall the BEST?! It seems like everyone loves Summer, but nope. I hate it. It's hot and you get sweaty, sticky, and feel the need to take 3 showers a day. Here are my favorite Fall flavors:
*Apples. I love apple juice and juicy apples

*Cinnamon and Apple potpurri/candles. YUM! I wanna bath in it
*Visit Here!
*Rain. I love the smell of rain coming, the feeling of being rained on, the lightning and thunder rain possibly brings, and the clean feel of it.

*Snuggling up with Nathan and watching our fav. TV shows
*Wearing soft, comfy, warm clothes to lounge in
*Fireplaces/Woodstoves/Bonfires
*Halloween!
*The colors of fall are prettier than the dead grass of summer
*The sky: it's always dark but the sun seems to always try and poke its way out
*Shoes: I can break out all my closed toed shoes
*Mud
*School: well, it's always fun to see kids going to school with huge backpacks now that I'm not in school anymore. But I don't mind it either way :)
*Pumpkin pie, bread, patches, cookies, and decorating!

*Driving with the window down because my car overheats and the fresh air cools me down
*Festivals
*Corn Mazes
*Sleeping with the window open and not wanting to get out of bed cuz its too cold
*Hot Chocolate, Apple Cider, Yummy Chai Tea, Hot Black Tea
*Football Games

There are no downsides.
Love IT.

The It List

Basically this is like my to-do list, but I thought it would be fun to make it.

You think of 101 things, and have to complete them in 1001 days. It seems shorter than it really is, but it's actually roughly three years! I didn't think it would be so hard to think of this many things that I need/want/should do, but it kinda was. Well here goes nothing:

1. Vote (10/22/2008)
   
2. Take a trip to Hawaii (02/2011)
3. Finish reading "Chasing Harry Winston" before the movie comes out
4. Get an English Bulldog
5. Buy a purse that doesn't weigh 10 lbs. with all my stuff in it (12/25/2008)
6. Read the Twilight series (11/30/2008)
   
7. Visit at least 7 states-Vermont, New Hampshire, Mass., Montana, Washington, Nevada, Hawaii
   
8. Take better care of myself when I'm sick
9. Bring my lunch to work for a month
10. Start going to Relief Society
11. Grow my hair out-past my shoulders
12. Then get my hair cut super short
13. Start/Finish my brilliant idea of a recipe book
14. Make an antenna for my TV in my room Got a new tv (9-28-08) and HD adapter (12/22/2008)
    
15. Business Idea: Natelin's Pumpkin Patch
16. Learn to swim...better
17. Attend an OSU football game (10-4-2008 WE WON!)
    
18. Give my car a good washin' (okay Nathan will prolly do this, but I watch :))
19. Get Baptized (7-25-2009)
20. Decide what I want to study/make a career of
21. Get my degree/certificate
22. Take Nathan to see California Lutheran University (my 1st college and where we spent our first year of dating apart)
23. Give Meredith my TV (9-28-2008 I'm such a nice sister)
    
24. See Britney Spears in concert (4/9/09)
25. Don't eat fast food for a month!
26. Go to the zoo
27. Get a new camera-well I did because mine died, but it's technically Nathan's so it's not new, but it counts
    
28. Take lots of pictures with my awesome camera
29. Get a new iPod or iPhone
    
30. Take Nathan to see Cirque De Soleil's "Beatles LOVE" (It's AMAZING)
31. Get a library card and use it
32. Keep my room tidy
33. Visit the Larson's in Vermont (and surrounding areas, Hello New York)! (6/12/2009)
34. Try teeth whitener again
    
35. Use up my tanning credits before they expire in January '09
36. Sell things that are laying around and aren't in use
37. Learn how to shift on a dirt bike/motorcycle (7/4/2009)
    
38. Get married (01-02-2010)
39. Stop cracking my knuckles!
40. Actually eat all 3 meals in a day
41. Take a CPR class to get my certificate (3/17/2009)
    
42. Do my own taxes at home (3/13/2009)
    
43. Go hunting, or successfully shoot something
44. Get a snowboard, boots, bindings, all the fixin's (12/25/2008 thanks love)!
    
45. Complete our camping gear supply
46. Enroll in Health Insurance
47. Open up a Savings Account (4/2/2009)
    
48. Move out of my parents house (01-02-2010)
49. Understand the rules of football
50. Mail in a secret to http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/
51. Read more books
52. Blog at least twice a week
53. Successfully make it off the lift with my snowboard
54. Get new riding gear (in pink of course)
55. Become a regular at the gym or exercise in general, regularly
56. Sew things, other than holes in mine or my sisters clothes
57. Learn to drive a manual
58. Cancel myspace/facebook...or both
59. Get all my pictures printed and put into photobooks
60. Have a fondue party
61. Sight-see in Portland
62. Welcome Home Kevin (4/16/09)
63. Get a part-time job
    
64. Figure out what's wrong with me...haha (11-12-2009)
65. Do the Portland to Coast every year (08...it sucked)
66. Buy a coffee table and put books on it
67. Go camping in the middle of Winter/snow
68. Make someone take fun pictures of me and Nathan for a day (October sometime)
69. Lose weight i.e fit into my older jeans
70. Buy a bicycle
71. Ride it
72. More Q-time with Nathan
73. Cancel the crappy magazine subscriptions
74. Read the scriptures at least once a day
75. Actually wear my glasses and not just admire them
76. Switch my banking accounts to a new bank (5/25 they kind of did it for me. go chase)
77. Grow a vegetable garden
78. Grow a flower garden
79. Wear the clothes that sit in my drawers untouched
80. Donate to Stand Up 2 Cancer...Here
81. Learn to play the piano
82. Finish the photo book type thing I'm making for Nathan
83. Take my dog (or Chloe) to the dog park
84. Get my car fixed (battery-9/26-2008)(heater 9/15/2008)
    
85. Stain mine and Nathan's furniture
86. Become better friends with "the girl-friends"
87. Get a new cell phone and NOT drop it everywhere
88. Get my first Nordstrom Credit Card Rewards certificate (12/13/008)
89. Start scrap-booking again
90. Go to Disneyland during Christmas time
91. Don't do my laundry until I run out of clothes
92. Participate in 4 walks a year
93. Buy cute Fall/Winter clothes (try every weekend :))
    
94. Pay off both my loans-(i did one!!!)
95. Dress up my cat for ALL holidays
96. Go to the Dentist (10-14-09)
97. Get a NEW dirt bike/quad
98. Get my wisdom teeth out (11-27-09)
99. Dye my hair (non-blonde)
    
100. Get in contact with Kristin/Mandy/Becca/Tabitha
101. Stay Alive

So, there ya go... If it's highlighted PINK, then I've done it... There will also be a link on the left side to go to it...don't expect anything soon, I mean, I've got three years right!

A little mouth to mouth action

Thank goodness for Firemen! If my house were to catch on fire and my cat couldn't breath I would demand this kind of service!



The fireman was asked what it was like giving mouth to mouth to a cat...he said it tasted "Haha, like fur."
...uh well duh. your practically eating it's face off. As Kevin would say.

Beauty Makes Its Mark In WA

Last weekend, me and Nathan, Nic/Hailey, James/Jen and kids went up to Washington and camped out here Friday Night.   

It was BEAUTIFUL! It reminded me exactly of this church camp I went to when I was in middle school. Although it was near Cour de' Lane, Idaho, and this was in Washington. 

Nathan and the girls sitting on the dock. There wasn't too many people out there but it was such a pretty day and the water wasn't too cold. We brought jet skies and Nathan played around on it while me and Kennedy waited for the rest of the gang to come down.

Here are pics of us on the ski's:

Nic and Bree, Hailey, Nathan and CC, and Me and Nathan. Nathan tried real hard to throw us over, but with my lung capacity and ability to scream really loud, we only got inches away from drowning.

And some other random pics for fun!

My hair was being extra crazy that day

CC got a little too wet

**I think I want a house on this lake. And live in it forever.**