home sweet home

The plan: In 4 days from right now, I will be sitting around a long table at Willington Pizza (my favorite pizza spot in Connecticut!) surrounded by all my loved ones. After that, Ryan and I will drive up to Boston so I can see our new home. Friday morning, it's off to the bank so I can get my name on our new bank account. Then Bev and Ricky are coming over for dinner that night! Saturday is a "Me & Ryan Day". He claims to have found the best Italian restaurant in Boston, so we will take the T downtown so I can test this place out! And he wants to take me around to all the shores he has found close to our apartment, like Hough's Neck. Then it's dinner with my family on Sunday, then back to Utah for another 5 long weeks without my husband :(

I have seriously been looking forward to this Thursday, October 28, for quite a while. Don't believe me? Here is a calendar I've had taped to the inside of my closet, and every night I cross off that day.
There's just something that's so comforting about crossing something off, whether it's a calendar or a list. Don't you agree?

Well, it's Autumn, and it's when I miss Connecticut the most. The colors are fabulous, and the smells are absolutely wonderful. But most of all, fall reminds me of Ryan. It's when we first started dating, and it immediately reminds me of all the rides to and from Institute, and the time he got pulled over in front of my house for being suspected of drunk driving, and all the times we would sit on the benches at Central, cuddled under the same jacket, and carving pumpkins and going to the haunted forest and blah blah blah...

My Grandma knows how much I love the fall, so for the second year in a row, she has gathered up some leaves from her yard (note a few posts back, a photo of her vibrant tree in her yard), pressed them, and mailed them out to me. I am so grateful she found the time to send a little bit of home to me. I have the best family in the world!