I took these pictures on my phone when I was running on Saturday. I know, I know, I should have been a professional photographer. Just look at that lighting, the way those rays of sunshine hit those quaint bales of hay. You can't fake that kind of artistic genius. Joking aside, it really was a beautiful morning, so quiet and peaceful and sometimes I wish I lived farther from the noise of the city. City meaning Provo. Clearly I did not grow up in a real city or I wouldn't be complaining about being overwhelmed by the rush of Provo.

Late last night as Tyler starts snoring:

Me: Stop that. Your snoring is too scary
Tyler: What? It was a funny snore
Me: No, it was scary. Like goblins
Tyler: What are you talking about? None of the goblins in Harry Potter sound like that
Me: I was talking about more fictional goblins-
Tyler: *bursts out laughing*
Me: *realizes why he's laughing so hard*

Real goblin


Scary and fictional goblin (but seriously, these are so scary)

So much has been going on in my life recently that I've been completely overwhelmed and far too exhausted to do anything except eat and sleep. Seriously, I'm so tired all the time. I've been going to sleep between 8 and 10 every night. Teaching is so tiring. I love it, but I come home drained.

Today is General Conference. I accidentally slept through about half of it (like I said, I'm so tired) but what I heard was so good. My favorite thing that I've heard so far is that "the past is to be learned from, not lived in." That is something I definitely need to learn.

Yesterday we went to Ephraim, Utah where Tyler's sister is going to Snow College and was the stage manager of a play that we saw. This was also the reason I slept through half of Conference. I'd never been, but I'd heard a lot about it. Like it's in the middle of nowhere and the only thing there is a bunch of sheep (true). The only store there was a Wal-mart. But it was surprisingly beautiful and peaceful. It was up in the mountains which I love.

I took this on the way up. Granted, it doesn't do it justice at all. But we were driving and I took a picture right when we were passing the only building on the whole highway. So trust me, it's beautiful up there. 

It got cold here. I'm freezing. And we only have a gas heater thing in our living room, so first we haven't turned it on yet (it's supposed to be in the 70s again next week. Weird Utah weather.) But once we do turn it on it's only going to heat up one room. So this is going to be a fun winter. I've been wearing sweats, two sweaters, a hat, an electric blanket, and a normal blanket all day. Also, it already snowed. On the bright side, here's a picture I took on my way to school the other day.

I can't even think of anything else to say. It's like, I literally just go to school, come home, eat, write lesson plans/papers for BYU, eat, and then go back to sleep. Which is okay, because I love all those things. Well, with the exception of the BYU papers.