.the love has returned

And I love it.

.Autumn time

This last week has blatantly become autumn. It seems that the trees are just screaming that fact.

They are vibrant and bright and beautiful beyond words. I love it.

We stayed at Air's parent's house this weekend with the kids while his parent's were out of town. We had a lovely time.... except for when Tiana got a compound fracture on her arm from falling off the long-board ...and except for when I had to go in to work for the entire bright and sunny Saturday.

Other than all that, it was a great time.

We went for a Sunday evening drive through the countryside to look for some color… also, we were scoping out a spot to take Tam’s engagement pictures. We are so excited to have a wedding coming up in the family!!

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Last night we had family home evening. It was warm so we made it a picnic at the park and got to see some more color!

Tiny Tiana Tim was sporting her new cast and the rest of us just LOVE volleyball!

We basically played all night.

Don't be jealous.

Happy Autumn friends! I love you all!

.A few things lately…

Air is in school again. We went to the University the day before classes started a few weeks ago to get some things done. It was a little weird to think that it’s all starting over again. You wouldn’t believe the crazy scheduling the two of us have been doing with one car! We have seminary, Air’s in school and working odd hours, and I’m working even odder odd hours!

We know that we’ve been very blessed though, because Air was able to get his classes all back to back this semester! Also, he has a free train/bus pass from the school, and the train station is really close to Michaels! Awesome!!

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It’s been getting colder here, and it’s been raining a lot. Maybe these are the conditions that produced more slugs scooting around in our yard than I’ve ever seen! In my life! Awesome!!

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On Saturday morning we finally had some free time before I went to work… So we took our three-year-old couch back to Ikea and traded it in!

Goodbye to our old couch! You served us well… sorta

We picked up this beaut:

We are loving it! *Plus* it has a few bells and whistles that make me giddy with excitement! :)

This slides out…

And becomes a twin guest bed!

And it has this huge storage space! Awesome!!

What would we do without Ikea?

Also, what would we do without Air’s dad and his truck? Thanks so much for helping us out Papa Gusa! We love you!

.Labor Day laboring

Tiana, wishing she were a squirrel

I didn't work on Labor Day by some miracle; but of course Air did. You know, he has the type of job that doesn't just pause for holidays. But that's completely alright because this is what most of his time at work consisted of:

All summer Air has been working with Allison—who happens to be a very fun and happy little girl. She loves hanging out with us, and begs us to let her watch Invader Zim episodes at our house every day. After we watched every single episode with her (and laughed our heads off) she wanted to watch them all over again—which is why she is sitting by the computer with headphones. haha! We loved this all summer and are going to miss having such an awesome schedule now that summer’s over.

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As soon as Air got off work we went to Rundle Park with our family for a picnic/hot dog roast! We saw some early signs that autumn is coming. It was just a little chilly… but we got over it. We live in Canada after all.

And here is the cute recently *engaged* couple!! Jadey and Tam {Jadey may be a vampire (can’t be too sure tho)}:

I got Tiana to be my model for these sunset/reflection pictures:

Work it girl! Perfect! You’re beautiful!

We had an awesome time! Sorry that Tessa and Jadey aren’t feeling too well—this is the sickie time of year and I’m just grateful that we haven’t caught anything yet! My seminary students are all coughing up lungs though! YIKES!

Oh, one more thing:

I guess we like Toyota in our family since we are all driving them! We realized this as we were leaving and Air’s pop asked me to take a photo of the phenomenon! :)

Isn’t the sunset gorgeous!?? Pictures never do these things justice.

.bedtime stories

It was so sweet spending time with my nieces Hailey and Alexis. Hailey loved having us read her bedtime stories. I've told you this before, blog, but I MISS THEM! A LOT!

And my husband is adorable.

Hailey loves Air so much... you can tell by the way she just stares at him as he reads and laughs at everything he does. hehe

Reminds me of someone I know...

Myself.

I guess I taught her that?

.Dollarama

We went to the dollar store to look for some journals to give our seminary students. We walked past some mouse traps and threw them in our pile of miscellaneous dollar store items (pens, extension cord, candy, spatula, notebooks... you know).

When we got home Air put peanut butter on a trap and set it in the middle of the floor in our laundry room. All the while I stood by saying, "I really don't think we have any more mice in the apartment, hun".

Little did I know...

We caught a big one today! Of course it had to happen while I was home alone. Again. It's pretty disgusting to look at; but I can't help but smile and be glad that this mouse is gone! Why didn't we get mousetraps earlier?? $1 for two reusable traps that actually work!!?? Dollar stores rule.

Now we just need a pet owl to eat this mouse...

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In other news: Seminary's been going pretty good! I couldn't believe how many new kids came walking into the classroom on the first morning. Air and I both have MORE kids than we had last year!! MORE!!!

But they are really good kids. Like really good. And I already love them all.

Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend friends! I'll be at Michaels if anyone needs me...

.Aurora Borealis

Do you see them!? Do you see the northern lights in the sky!?

We saw them outside of the city on our drive home from Air's parent's and couldn't take our eyes away to see the road! It's hard not to watch as they move and dance around so quickly in the sky. I saw them once last summer at girl's camp, and have been waiting for them to come back ever since!

If you're wondering what these are and if you want to see some better images, watch this little educational vid:

Sometimes (most of the time) I am very glad that I live in Canada. And also that I live in this beautiful world. Things like this remind me that anything is possible through our Father in Heaven.


Seminary starts again tomorrow morning! I am both excited and overwhelmed.

Fare thee well, summer!

Wish me luck, friends!