A Touch Of Tyrell

October is magical. Just magic. This sunset ride in corner canyon has earned a top spot in the 10 most amazing experiences.  It was breathtaking.  Experiences like this are spiritual to me.  Of course I can't accurately describe how or why, but I feel a deep sense of spirituality, love and gratitude when I am in nature. And it all but consumes me when I'm in nature at it's prime.  I feel important. I feel known. I feel a sense of belonging.  I feel truly grateful to be able to experience nature this way. 

I was actually really sad and cried a lot on my birthday.  I also cried a lot the day before too so I had a crying hangover. You know, where your eyes feel fatigued and you feel dehydrated? It's been a rough 3 years for Jake and I  (some things get better while other things get worse) and I can't seem to stop crying. But it doesn't make anything better... it actually just makes it worse because Jake gets mad that I've been crying so much.  So I slept on the couch, woke up and went on a drive. Life has been too stressful and I needed to get out of the house. When it comes to fight of flight... you can probably figure out which one comes more natural to me.  I ended up driving through midway and park city.  The colors blew my mind.  My mom called and tried her best to cheer me up/offer sympathy/understanding.  I eventually came home to birthday surprises that Breckie and Jake worked on all day.  After baking all day I suggested he skip his dinner pl...

Parent teacher conferences are usually a breeze because the kids are so awesome.  I met with Roxy's teacher in person because she's *almost* the farthest behind in her class. I'm almost certain she is dealing with some fore of ADD and she can't seem to make any process on any assignment if her teacher isn't kneeling by her desk helping keep her on track.  I'm not one tiny bit surprised. It's been super tough to get her to learn her sight words (or do any activity with her, really!). But I'm pretty optimistic about her :) While I was with her teacher, she and Breckie took a look around the book fair. We found a new book series all about me, lol!  

With Roxy in school all day, I'm able to do cool things like go mountain biking in the middle of the day.  It's an amazing feeling.  We're really lucky to have 3 locations for mountain biking within 20 minutes from our house. 

You'd think Utah was Hawaii for how many waterfall hikes there are! The kids and I did this hike this Summer (brought a picnic dinner & got locked out of the car!) and we thought it was super fun, so we decided to see what it looked like in the Fall.  So we drove the Alpine loop the opposite way I did earlier this Fall and Breckie snapped a couple pictures. The weather was really nice and the colors were wonderful. There is such a spiritual, healing element to nature... especially in it's prime.  I'm so glad I get to see this in real life now! I find so much joy here.  I had to piggy back Roxy almost the whole way down and about a third of the way up.  We enjoyed our time at the waterfall and then headed down before it got too dark.  It was all the way dark by the time we got back to our car. I'm so glad these guys are willing to adventure with me!

I was worried our kids wouldn't be interested in going to a farm and picking out pumpkins.  We took them anyways and everyone had a good time.  The farm was super pretty.  The country store was worth a look too! Everett's friend, Gavin, had stayed the night and came to the farm with us too.  The girls played on all the things, we bought pumpkins, caramels, cookies... ... and then went home and had some soup! I hope my kids are never too old for picking out pumpkins at the farm!