This Sky is On Fire!

Nothing takes my breath away more than the sky. How can someone deny there is a God when there is this much beauty in the world?

Dynamic Duos

I am basically obsessed with Dancing with the Stars. My favorite this season is probably Alfonso Ribiero and Witney Carson but there are so many good stars, it's been a fun season to watch. Last night was Dynamic Duo night and two of my favorites were Alfonso and Witney as Batman and Robin and Sadie and Mark as Adam and Eve.

"Witney, it's time to cha cha!"

Halloween

This month on instagram I did a halloween throwback thursday each week and it was great. It was fun to look through old pictures and see my siblings and I back when we were cute. I obviously had a thing for whiskers / my mom had a thing for halloween facepaint. :) 

Tigger and Pooh

Marrill the Pokemon, Snow White

Lion, Horse, Flamingo

Anakin Skywalker, Max the Lion, Minnie Mouse

Grape-licious

My grandpa has the best garden I've ever seen. He seriously has so many talents it just blows me away. One of the great parts of his garden, are the grape vines. They are so cool and I always feel like I'm in a vineyard when I help him pick grapes. He had so many this year so we were able to munch on the deliciousness of the grapes and also I got to help make grape juice! Unfortunately it didn't involve me standing in a huge bin knee high up in grapes and stomping around wearing sweet boots while they all mushed, but we just put them in a juicer. Which is cool to I guess...haha but I was surprised at the huge contrast in color we saw in each different batch. Depending on how many purple grapes vs. green grapes we used. One of the best parts? Getting to have a glass of homemade grape juice every morning with breakfast. It's the bomb. 

Ringer!

Living with my grandparents definitely has its perks. One of those is getting to hang out with my grandpa all the time! He has a horseshoe pit in his backyard and the other day he taught me how to play.  I was pretty terrible but I did manage to score this bad boy (yes, I'm the white one)!

South Dakota

Now that I'm growing up I've come to realize that there really isn't any summer break any more. You're either working or in school. So this summer I spent all my time working but luckily I was able to have one last horrah before going back to school. My cousin Nae, aka my bff since the beginning, recently moved to South Dakota. After living 3 minutes away and then moving in with her my senior year, it's been rough not being able to see her every day.  It had been like 14 months since we saw eachother so I decided that had to change. I planned a trip to go up there and every last minute of the 10 hour drive was worth it. We had a fabulous weekend. Nae was an awesome host and I had so much fun. Honestly I would have been content sitting in her house watching Harry Potter and just hanging out with her for 3 days but we did so much more. We made good food, went to Mount Rushmore, Bear Country and Devils Tower.  On our trip to Devil's tower Nae made a detour through Montana so I could get a picture with the state sign. I could go into detail about all the crazy fun we had but I'll just post a bunch of pictures instead. :)

I was kind of really excited.. :)

Baby bear!

Bison!

Cool American Flag roof! 

Right outside our window!

Bucket List Item: Mount Rushmore ✓

Back to School!

Nothing makes me feel older than my siblings getting older. I am so happy that I was able to see them off on their first day of school this year. (College rocks beeteedubs, I get out a month earlier than them and go back two weeks later. Holla!) But they were crazy cute. Connor didn't start until the next week and unfortunately I wasn't home to get a picture of him, but I got the youngest three.  I seriously love my siblings more than anything in the world and am so grateful that I got to spend another fabulous 4 months with them. There is no way I can live far away from them when I grow up. I'd miss them way too much! 

Meg -- 7th grade

Kyman -- 5th grade

Massimo -- 10th grade

Goobers!

Three amigos