I love October!

I love fall and winter! They are my two favorite seasons! All the pumpkin things come out! Pumpkin candles, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins...mostly foods with pumpkin in it is what I look forward too. It's going to be a bit of adjustment after I have the baby and don't have any excuse to eat whatever I want...darn it.

Well my last doctor visit went well. Little Brian isn't a monster like we thought so i'll be waiting for another 3 weeks, but we're so excited! I finally bought a crib and next we're going to go to babies r us to buy this super cute crib set we saw with little monkey's on it.

I'm also pretty excited to go on maternity leave. I do have one complaint, I only get 5 days of paid maternity leave! Really?! If I were a more aggressive person I would complain...but i'll just write about it in my blog...

Other great news, we're buying a house! I really don't plan on living here in Arizona for the rest of my life but if we're going to be here until we both finish school I would much rather be making a house payment than rent. And then we figure we can rent the house out when we move back to Washington. Atleast thats the plan so far. The only downside is that the houses we're looking at would mean we would have to switch wards! We love our callings and our little branch! Although I haven't been able to do as much with the young women since i'm a little bit pregnant I love seeing them each week! And i'm so excited for the things we have planned for the next couple of months. So Joel and I agreed that we'll make the slow transition...but after christmas, haha.

This week i also have an appointment with my counselor at ASU. I was accepted into the Justice Studies program and plan on studying human rights/immigration. But i'm thinking of just sticking with cross cultural communications which is what I was studying my first 2 years of college. I guess i'll see what my options are and what classes I have left.

Joel's working pretty diligently on convincing me that we need to buy a dog also. I try to remind him of when we first got married and bought a little chihuahua and how he used to step on him all the time (accidentally of course) and about how he hated waking up in the morning to take him on a morning walk. But he seems to have forgotten all of that.

And I have to share the cutest thing about Joel. A little bit ago we bought some corn pops cereal because he loves all of those sweet kinds of cereal. So I get home from work and he was a meeting with the elders quorum and I see the box of corn cops literally ripped apart and two big bowls full of corn pops on the counter with no milk. And then I notice something next to them. A little star trek light up badge! haha he had ripped it open and poured out ALL the cereal to get the little toy, but then didn't like the little toy so he left it all there! I love him for things like this. haha.

Well I hope everyone's doing well and that they enjoyed General Conference this past weekend! I don't care what anyone says, I would have a poster of Elder Bednar on my wall if they had one.