Out Of The Mouth Of Babes!

I already told you how much I love this fall season. Here are a couple of more reasons why. I love the crisp feeling in the air when you wake up, and I love the fog that is rolling on the open fields just after dusk . Last night I was driving home from a lesson and there was this fog all over every open field off the side of the highway. It seriously looked like something in a movie where they used a fog machine. It was really eerie but beautiful at the same time. I love the way it looked with the moon lighting it and just how everything looked.

Also I love decorating my home. My mom and Matt say that I am "nesting" but I am really just having fun because I love this time of year when all the holidays just come one after another.

I have to tell you about one of my decorations that is getting most of the intention by all who come in my house. My mom made a quilt for me and I love it so much! The quilt is called The Witch's Wardrobe. The quilt displays everything that a witch might wear in her every day life, including bras. I was showing one of my student's mom and explaining the quilt and my student came over and said, " Why is there a bra on that?" I told her what the quilt was about and she replied," That is just silly." That's right my young performer, it is a very silly quilt and that is why I love it so much! It is defiantly a conversation starter but I love how whimsical it is, and it just fits my moms personality to a tee, (sorry mom but it is true you can be rather silly some times. LOVE YOU!) Anyhew now that I have embarrassed my mom enough here is a pix of the famed quilt. Oh another little tidbit of the quilt, there is even padding in the bras on the quilt. When my mom does a project, she does it correctly!

Ours

Well after a week of hearing this same melody in my mind and then Matt telling me that I was stupid if I didn't write it down. I have finally finished my first composition. That's right folks, I, Rebbecca Allen, have actually written a song and I just finished putting it in to my computer and it actually looks like a real song, instead of my chicken scratch writing on manuscript paper. The title has been shortened to Ours cause Matt loves it and encouraged me to actually write it down. I am not sure how to put it on the computer and I probably won't until I get it copyrighted or something just to make sure that it would be safe, cause I actually did write it and I want full credit for it. Anyhew, if you want to hear it, call me and I can play it on my piano for you as I have already done from my parents and Elizabeth. Anyhew just wanted to share the news with you to let you know what I have been up to. Hope everything is going well for everyone!

I Shall Try

Ok on Sept 11 I started reading the Twilight Series. Today being the 25th I have read through the entire series twice, including the 263 pages of Midnight Sun. I know I am crazy but I read online that the author suggested that the second book be read twice to fully understand what happens without being too bias. So I figured if I have to read that twice why not read my favorite, the first book, again, and it just kind of took off from there. So I will force myself to take a break from the series, cause I could probably read them again, but no I won't. So I will do a compromise, read a church related book and some other novel, then I will allow myself to re-read the series. I know I am crazy.

Other than that not much else is going on. Matt gets back today from training and being gone for pretty much 2 weeks. I was going crazy without him for only 2 weeks, not sure how I will handle 4 months, anyhew that's all folks.

YEA!!!

Today truly felt like the first day of my favorite season. AUTUMN!!!!! I love fall and the smells of the overly ripe fruits that have fallen to the ground, and the look of the trees as they change from beautiful green to vibrant orange, yellows and reds. I also love the "is it sweater weather yet?" question that you ask in the morning because there is a chill in the air. Well today it was a perfectly perfect day. There was a nice cool breeze in the air that was filled with the sense of Autumn. I welcome the Harvest time and all the wonderful holidays that are just around the corner.

~I also added some new tunes to listen to that are quickly becoming my favs! Enjoy! Scroll down to the bottom of the song list and it is like the last 6 songs.~

Done

I LOVED IT SO MUCH!! AND JACOB FINALLY WON ME OVER, BUT ONLY A LITTLE BIT! ~To clarify, I only liked Jacob in the end because he finally got off of Bella's back and was a FRIEND in the end. I never liked the fact of the love triangle. Edward is wayyyyyyyyyyy better in my humble opinion. Book 1 is my favorite book out of the whole saga, and I love the 263 pages of Midnight Sun, which is Twilight in Edward's perspective. You can view it here at Stephanie Meyer's website:

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html

Scroll down to partial draft, as she said that she won't publish the actual book now because it was leaked onto the Internet early. (VERY SAD!)

Humidity Sucks!!!!

Hey everyone! Yesterday I actually took a break from reading, I know, amazing, but I kind of had to go to church. Well, I have made a couple of assessments of things that do not go well together.

Hot and Humidity are NOT the same thing, and put them together and it is even worse.

On a Hot and Humid day and there is no AC, it sucks.

Our Branch meets at the local high school. On Saturday we had a major storm roll through here and it knocked out the power in the area. Well no one remembered to reset the AC at the school until 10 minutes before church started. Outside it was already in the 80's with 75% humidity. Inside the school there were no windows to open to let any breezes in so it was very heavy and sticky for the whole 3 hours. At the end of church it looked like I had just gone swimming because my hair was soaked from sweating so much. I told the Branch Presidency that in AZ if the AC is out that school was canceled. The actually got a kick out of it since we meet at the school.

Yesterday at church I also finally had a "moment" of happiness with teaching singing time. The Jr. Primary kicked butt with singing and had a ton of fun doing it too. In Sr. primary there were only 4 of them but 1 of the boys actually sang so it was nice to have everyone finally participate.

Of Course, after church I ate and then went back to reading. I am loving the 4th book very much, but it is incredibly long!

Also a couple of weeks ago my visiting teaching partner and I had a luncheon with one of our people who is not active at all. I think we struck a very good chord with her cause she has been attending church now, and yesterday she made 2 huge helpings, like 2 9x13 size helpings of homemade Lasagna for my partner, whom she knew was having financial difficulty and was living off of food storage to get by for a family of 6. Anyhew, my partner invited me over tonight for Family night, since Matt will be out of town for training, and to enjoy some of the yummy fruits of our labors. That's really all that is going on, but I just wanted to share that last part cause that has never happened to me before, where I actually made a difference.

Man oh Man

I am now in Breaking Dawn. I will say this, Book 2 is so far my least favorite. No Edward, and I do not like Jacob. His is a big thorn is my side. See ya's all later!