our favorite time of year!

there is just something about the fall!! obviously college football (a true passion of ours, only magnified by living in sec country), a slight chill in the air, the colors (i was pretty burnt out on orange after high school, but i love it again!), pumpkin anything and everything, the anticipation of the holiday season, and i even love how busy it is because we don't mind being busy for really great things!  like DNOW, the best thing we do in the johnson ferry student ministry. it's an amazing weekend retreat & is less than three weeks away! there is a crazy amount of work we do, but so so worth it to see what God does in the lives of teenagers! that part reminds me of working at young life camp, which is always a good thing!!

next week we are heading out to arizona for jeff's wedding! he is ricky's former roomate and has a big place in our hearts! it's our first time back to God's country since we moved here, and when i think about it i just feel like my heart is so full it's going to explode! going back to the place we met, seeing our friends that became our family, the mountains, the wedding!! and my parents and my sister are coming, too! could it get any better? only if it we were leaving right now instead of next week, ahhh!

i should probably be embarrased by this pic, but for real? who hasn't seen my cry before?

we are also working on our house whenever we can! i don't know when i'm ever going to put up "after" pictures because there is SO much we want to do and only so much time & money every month, but it's so fun to make it our own. but hunter is not a big fan of the projects. especially the current one! ricky's been using the air compressor/nail gun to put up waincsotting in the living room & dining room and hunter HATES it! i was in KC for libby's wonderful shower a couple of weeks ago and ricky literally couldn't get hunter out of our closet! that's hunter's safety zone, apparently! and the other morning, ricky got up to feed him (obviously hunter's #1 priority), and i heard some loud thumps. it sounded like ricky had tripped & fell, but nope! hunter had fallen asleep under the bed (i know, right?!) and kept bumping the bed trying to get out because he was so excited about food. i know i talk about hunter a ton, but i can't help it! he's the most entertaining dog ever!