Fall is HERE!

Fall is officially here, and I'm loving every bit of it! There are so many things I love about this season, just to list a few...
1) Cooler weather (I get to bust out my boots and hoodies, yes!)
2) Beautiful fall colors. My drive down K-10 when I visit home is definitely much more scenic
3) Crunchy leaves (Yes I'm one of those who like to step on a pile of freshly fallen extra crunchy leaves)
4) Pumpkin tastes & scents
5) All of the scary movies that start playing on channels. A little bit weird but I actually really enjoy scary movies! (with the exception of Wrong Turn...sick nastiest movie ever created and I will never ever visit west virginia because of it) Of course the night after I watch one I need to fall asleep with the tv on with something happier like some good 'ol Friends seasons.
6) Halloween & Thanksgiving
This season doesn't get much better. I also have started watching one of my favorite movies that I only watch during this time: Hocus Pocus. A classic. By the time Halloween hits I probably watch this movie a total of 50 times. I'm a sucker for Kenny Ortega movies (Newsies, Hairspray, HSM...what? did I just say HSM?) : ) Not that I know any of the dances from HSM or anything...

This week and weekend has been so amazing. First off, my birthday was this past week and I've never felt so loved by my wonderful friends! I received a package full of mallows, some leg warmers (yes, it may not be the 80s but I still rock the leg warmers), baking goods, a sewing machine from my dad (I have not sewed my 7th grade sewing class where I made a hideous butterfly pillow. We'll see how well that gift turns out), and a birthday mocha coffee was awaiting me when I got to class on wednesday. Plus multiple texts, voice messages, and fb posts to complete it. Thanks everyone! Then this week flew by and by the time I knew it, it was Friday! I. love. Fridays. First, I have time to make myself a legit breakfast other than a bowl of cereal. This Friday's breakfast choice...greek yogurt blueberry pancakes! For those of you who might be like me and enjoy cooking/baking here is the deeeeeelicious recipe!

Ingredients:

8 oz. Greek yogurt

7 tbsp. all-purpose flour

1 tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

2 large eggs (I use Egg Beaters instead)

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Cinnamon to taste

Directions:

Place Greek yogurt in a medium bowl. Add flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.

Whisk eggs in a separate bowl. Add vanilla to eggs and stir to combine. Pour egg mixture into the Greek yogurt-flour mixture. Stir together gently. Add in as much cinnamon as you like. (i love me lots of cinnamon)

Pour the batter onto a griddle sprayed with cooking spray until golden brown. Eat up & enjoy!

mmm-hmmm!

Today was a perfect way to spend a sunny fall day! It started off with going to church in Topeka, where in the college session we talked about trusting in the Lord. How more perfect than to hear that right now when I have no clue where life is taking me after I graduate?! I just need to completely fall back on him rather than taking matters into my own hands, and trust that God will take me where he needs me to be. After a great college session and regular church I headed to Barnes & Noble for some study time where I enjoyed my 2nd pumpkin spice latte of the season from starbucks and read up on some Postsecret. (If you haven't read through this book or blog, I highly suggest it) Then I headed out to Gary's Berries to meet up with the rest of the church for the rest of the evening and hung out with some great folks. They had a corn maze (shaped like a hippo......what the crap does a hippo have to do with fall?....Fail) that took me at least an hour to get through. I had never been in one before and I definitely felt like I was in the movie Signs and some creepy alien monster might pop out at any moment. And just like me and not thinking ahead, I was wearing what I wore to church: a dress, tights, boots, and nooooo jacket. Needless to say, halfway through the maze I was FREEZING. I thought my fingers might have needed to be amputated by the end of the night. (Thank you Adam for the jacket otherwise they might have had to be!) Coldness aside once the sun set, it was such a fun, fall atmosphere. Although in my opinion it would have been better with a bonfire and some smores : )

Thanks Summer for hiding my neck and making my face look like a blob : )

How tall this fall?! For David, not that tall.

It lies. It says I'm 5'1, I'm at least 5'2.

I'm hoping this week goes just as quickly. Bring on this next weekend of fun! Bachelorette party, Worlds of Fun, and hanging with my little sister who has been in AK for the past 6 months. Get excited!

For your movie quote challenge, should you choose to accept it... "You're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and I don't know why you have wings, but you have very lovely legs and you're a very nice tiny person and what am I saying, I don't know who my mother was; I'm an orphan and I've never taken drugs because I missed the sixties, I was an accountant."

Have a great week and happy Fall!