Turkey Day

Thanksgiving this year was wonderful. I know Thanksgiving is kind of a lame holiday, but I must say that it is one of my very favorites. I love how happy everyone gets starting this time of year and there is just something in the air or the water or something I swear!

This year the whole famdamily came over for dinner at 5 and we ate SO much food! I love mashed potatoes, and I love turkey gravy but my very favorite Thanksgiving treat is cream of mushroom and french fried onion green beans. Mmmm mmmm good! I could eat a whole tray of it myself. Another favorite of mine is rolls. This year not only did we get regular homemade rolls but we also got homemade orange rolls, yum! "They're both favorites. If they have both I get grape though cause that's a little more favorite. But if they don't have grape then ah, that's fine cause cherry's favorite anyway. It's like another favorite, just not as much favorite." If you have no idea what I am talking about, please visit this like --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prLLabn1vPA --- if you went to it, you just got hooked I promise. Brian Regan kills me. Anyway, back on track...the point of that is that I love green beans AND rolls ha ha.

After dinner we all cleaned up, relaxed, watched some football, celebrated Mason's birthday, did some crafts, played 'pin the hat on the turkey' (hilarious!), and this movie guessing game ha ha. It was a very fun night at the Haycock household!

My buds and me


War and Billiam


Carly and Judd


Probably Mason's favorite present ha ha


This kid opened his first book, "How To Train Your Dragon" (yes, the movie came from this book! Never knew.) and an hour later he was done. 213 pages in an hour. He's amazing!


Oh goodness she kills me!


The original Haycock 5:)


Haycock girls including in-laws


Our REAL personalities


All in all Thanksgiving was wonderful this year! Happy Turkey Day for all! I'm grateful for all the blessings I have in my life. What a great year!:)

Sweet Bliss

The Alvey's have a cabin up in Oakley that they go up to every few weekends. I went up with them last winter, and the beginning of October they invited me to go and spend a Saturday up their with them and again it was so fun! It was pretty cold, but there was no snow yet this time, which was quite nice. The first time I was nervous to go because I was going to meet most of his extended family on his mom's side, but they are all so nice and now that I know them all, this time there were no nerves!:) They have three horses, Poco, Chief, and Tawny and not gonna lie...they scare me! They are just so big! They are really fun to ride though, so both times Adam and I took a ride on Poco, Adam's favorite horse ha ha.

The first time I went with them to their cabin, we took Poco for a ride, swung on an old wooden swing, and went on a walk by the cute river that runs past their cabin where Adam basically fell through this hole of gross, mucky mud and my foot slipped into the freezing water. Our feet were not in the greatest of shape for the rest of the day ha ha!

This second trip was much less traumatic:) We took another ride on Poco and stopped at a natural spring where we drank some delicious, freezing cold water and rode past the beautiful river. I love being out where you can't see a single cabin, house, anything, just trees and mountains and the river, it is so peaceful and pretty. The one funny event was after we drank from the spring, Adam got back onto Poco and as I was trying to get on, Poco started running away (that is how much he doesn't like me! ha ha!) and I was literally horizontal and hanging on for dear life until Adam helped pull me up and made Poco stop running ha ha. Quite the experience:) Like the first time at their cabin, Adam's mom and siblings fed us a late delicious lunch and then we headed home.

Taking Adam's cute cousin on a ride around the pasture


The love each other!


Adam doesn't like pictures in general, but he's quite good at the goofy ones


We're cute:)


Thanks Alvey's for being so nice and inviting me up to your cabin! I had a blast!

There Is Beauty All Around

Once upon a time Adam and I were at his house and we could NOT decide what to do. I am quite the indecisive person and Adam and I can never choose what to do or where to go ha ha. So as we sat there trying to force the other person to choose what to do, Adam's dad gave us a fantastic idea! We took my jeep and drove up above the Bountiful B and oh my goodness it was amazing! I can't believe that I had never been up there before-it was THAT cool. If you haven't been above the B like I hadn't, do it.

So we drove up the mountain until we got to the tippy tippy top where we could see out over the city for practically forever! We started to head back down at the absolute perfect time as the sun was setting and it was perfect lighting for pictures. That means that I took a lot and am going to post a lot! Be prepared.

That little speck? That's Adam ha ha


He didn't know I was taking this, but I really like it




I love the moon, end of story.




Gorgeous sunset












I know that was a lot of pictures, but aren't they amazing?? Uh I love Fall so much! The reds, oranges, yellows and greens. The crunchy, crispy leaves everywhere. Fall is the best time of the year to take pictures. I just love it. This was such a great night above the B and I can't wait to do it again next Fall!

May This Year Be A Great One

Fall is great for oh-so-many reasons. One being that it is the season which contains my birthday. October 11th-my birthday for the past 17 years. I'm 17. That's really weird to me. One year from now I will be an adult. How strange is that?

I remember, even just a few years back, I wanted to be older SO bad. Now though, I really just wish I could be a little kid again.

In the words of Taylor Swift in her new song "Innocent":
"Wasn't it easier in your lunch box days? Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything and everybody believed in you?...Wasn't it easier in your firefly catchin' days? Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild until you fell asleep?"

Or in the words of Rosi Golan in her song "I Don't Wanna Wait":
"No one tells me where to go, no one tells me what to do today... I feel just like a child thinking everything is mine at the drop of a dime... Oh I feel just like a child running around getting wild, unaware of the time."

So back to the subject, my birthday was last month and it was great:) I opened my presents that my sweet mom and Cailey bought for me and they did such an awesome job picking things out for me. I got a cute scarf, a super pretty silver bracelet and head band, a turquoise(my favorite color) sweatshirt(sweatshirts are my favorite article of clothing)-so basically that was a total success ha ha, a gray vest, a cute lime green long sleeve shirt, and a pair of jeans.

My favorite sweatshirt


That same night the family all went out to a pumpkin patch out in South Jordan to pick out some pumpkins which Adam and I later carved with Carly and Judd..that was fun ha ha:)

I didn't get many pictures that night, but here is Cailey and Double A


Adam and me being our goofy selves


It's quite the challenge to get him to SMILE in a picture ha ha. Success:)


After the pumpkin patch we went to dinner at...can you guess? Red Robin of course-the Haycock restaurant for every occasion ha ha.

The "three little girls"


After dinner Adam gave me a gold necklace and headband which I love and have gotten so many compliments for and a really yummy vanilla lotion-he knows about my super sensitivity to scents and chose great with the vanilla ha ha:)

Yummy yummy


So to sum it all up, I had a really great birthday and it was really fun to play with my family. Thanks everyone for my birthday presents and wishes!

Come and Gone

Fall is my favorite season-by far. But unfortunately Fall has come and gone already this year and I am a serious Debby Downer because of it. Hence this post. To lift my spirits and keep me positive, I am going to blog all about my Fall and pretend that Winter isn't here yet:) Every day until I cover the whole season, I will post something that I love about it, or something that I did during it this year. Here goes today's post.



When asked what you are grateful for, a typical answer from your average-Joe would be "sun", "sunshine", you get the idea. However, in this scenario I am not your average-Joe. My response is rain. Crazy as it may seem, I absolutely love rain. Maybe it has something to do with growing up in Oregon where it rains all year long? I don't know where it comes from, but I DO know that I love it. The smell of rain itself is incredible! Don't you just love walking outside while it's raining and breathing in the fresh, clean air? I do! Not only do I love standing out in the rain getting soaked from head to toe, but I love all the things that rain means. Rain is the essence of Fall. Rain means cool temperatures, it means rain boots, it's my favorite thing about my favorite season. Until next year Fall. Come back soon!