Memory Lane

So this morning as I'm reading friends' blogs filled with fun fall festivities and the weather changing etc...it's made me start thinking about my favorite memories with fall....and they all seem to be in Utah-what's up with that?  oh yeah, because they actually have a fall :)

I loved fall in Oklahoma too-very pretty there as well and remember the days of trick or treating when your parents would make you wear a coat over your costume....really?  In the words of Jerry Seinfeld: "I don't recall Superman wearing a jacket..."  Except I got smart and realized that if I hid my jacket in a place that my mom would never look (behind the nice couch in the living/piano room where we kids basically weren't allowed) then I could go out without a coat.  I know....sneaky...very sneaky.

Some of the things that I miss from my Utah falls:

the corn maze at thanksgiving point of course!  The last one I remember was the one of napolean dynamite.  This was a very significant date for code and me before we were seriously dating.  Apparently I was playing hard to get a little too hard and not sending enough positive signals so this date was his last attempt.  We held hands as we squeezed through this gross inflatable monster thing-aww yes, true love.  But what really did it was I asked him out on this group murder mystery date letting him know that yes, I did indeed like him.   A year later we'd be having our wedding luncheon at thanksgiving point...

Though I went here all the time, I somehow associate it with fall....but the Springville Museum of Art. This was one of the best dates that Code took me on-I had never been there before and he knew I liked art/humanities and stuff.  Really, it was that date that got me looking into doing an internship there.  Plus, I don't know if people there realize how amazing it is to have such a quality museum for FREE.  Man, if I lived there I'd be taking day trips over there all the time with Jake.  For that matter I also love BYU's MOA-also amazing and FREE.  Man...I miss that...

Of course I have to give a shout out to BYU Football-there's nothing quite like being in a stadium with 1,000s of other people all cheering for the same team.  It's pretty much the essence of college.

Oh and I miss all the great hiking that there is around there-sooo pretty and interesting!  I miss our hikes. I mean, don't get me wrong, code and I go for walks here but it's not the same as getting out and spending a saturday hiking and talking and seeing all the beautiful nature.

Alright I need to stop before I get annoyed that I'm in a place where the temp is still in the 70s and it's too hot to get out and go for walks/do fun stuff during the day. 

Needless to say I am so excited for our roadtrip to Utah thanksgiving week!  I'm going to show Jake around campus and we already have a long list of restaurants we have to eat at (zuppa's, cafe rio, in-n-out, crown burger, and that yummy chocolate place in orem with the HUGE cookie pans?)