It's a great day to be alive because...

Closing for my condo is tonight and I get to sign the papers then hand over the keys. I couldn't be happier that this is finally coming to an end!

Chuck starts tonight (Yay for Nerds!)

I will be in Italy in less than a week

It's Friday afternoon...the weekend is almost here

It's a beautiful sunny fall day outside

Today is National Chocolate day

There is a BYU football game tonight and I hope they win!

It’s time for Halloween parties

There are so many good things happening right now, sure I have my challenges too but today I feel so blessed! The Travis Tritt song keeps going through my head too, you might know it:

And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey, I'm doing alright
Yeah I think I'll make me some homemade soup
Feelin' pretty good and that's the truth
It's neither drink nor drug induced
No, I'm just doin' alright
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin' when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neighborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?

Looking Back...

September kind of zipped past me and tonight is my last chance to write a post for September. It feels like I've been learning to live again this last month. I changed back to a regular 8 hour day, 5 days/week after working 10 hours 4 days/week during the last 3 years. It's been more of an adjustment that I thought it would be. I like the shorter work days but I sure miss my long weekends!

This month I've been thinking a lot about the trip I took last September and that I never took the time to blog about it. I enjoyed going to Kirtland, Ohio and then Nauvoo, Illinois with my parents. We saw several church history sites for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was an amazing trip!
Here are a few pictures:

The Newel K Whitney home at the LDS Kirtland visitors center
(notice the fall colors starting to show)

A stop sign in Amish country

Fairport Harbor
The John Johnson farm house
The Kirtland Temple
Mom and Dad in Chapin forest
The Family Living Center in NauvooJonathan Browning home and gun shop
Dad admiring all the tools in the post office
With Chuck and Charlie...they gave us a good carriage ride through Nauvoo
Morley Settlement marker in Tioga
What a great name! :)
The view of the Mississippi River at the end of the Trail of Hope
Going for a ride in a covered wagon
Carthage Jail
And my favorite, the Nauvoo Temple
I took way too many pictures to post them all here but this gives you an idea of all the amazing places we saw. Next week we're going on part 2 of this trip, we're headed to Palmyra, New York. We wanted to do it all last year but decided it was too much for us to do in one vacation. This time I have a Nook with Wi-Fi access so I won't wait a year to blog about it.

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If you want to read more about the sites I mentioned here and why they're important to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints you can click the following links:
Kirtland, Ohio
Nauvoo, Illinois
Palmyra, New York