And that September sky, how it whispered 'I love you'

Oh, how I love September. Fall is coming, school is back in session and I actually have a strict agenda to live by, and, oh yeah, my birthday :) 'Tis a grand  month.

Well this one was just as awesome, if not awesomer, than the rest. This was my 20th September!!

Once again, I spent this year in Utah with my brosters. See here:

This is just about the best picture I can ever get of three or more siblings.. :)

BUT FIRST!!

Caleb, Cameron, and my dad drove up and surprised me!!! They were supposed to come the weekend right before my birthday, aka the 10th, but instead drove all night to come to me on the 4th!! And I got to spend Labour Day with them :) It was such a wonderful surprise that, apparently, everyone was in on. Including Dylan. Well, we spent Sunday together and had a lovely dinner at Nate's with Holly, too. Then, Caleb and I walked around the Provo temple grounds and it was such a wonderful night.

The next day, we had no school so we (kinda) slept in and then my dad tried to fix me car (wah wah) and I suggested we go and HIKE THE Y!!! Since my dad had never done it and he's all totally in shape and smoked all of us going up. It was just as hard as I remembered. But we all four made it to the top :)

Then we got to go to dinner with Josh and Amy! So it was Me and Caleb, Josh and Amy, my dad, Cam, and Nate. So much fun! We went to J-Dawgs and feasted on the glory that is the J-Dawg.

They brought me all kinds of fun gifts, such as, THEMSELVES, and CARAMEL NIBBLES!!!! Like 5 bags! FROM LONDON!! It didn't take me long to scarf every single bag. I'm sad they're gone. Then, they left that night. Short trip, but well worth it :)

The rest of that week was pretty boring in comparison but then my birthday week was full of even more surprises!!

Caleb and Cameron's official birthday gift to me came! And it was the book set I've wanted for a while now:

I believed I've linked to it in another blog somewhere in the past, but in case you missed it, here it is. It has all 7 Harry Potter books but they are special because

                1) they're the BRITISH versions (i.e. different spellings and language), and
                2) because they are paperback and the covers are completely different pictures but
                     all really super neat looking. [Collector's item, really].

So basically, they love me mucho. This came a couple days before my birthday so I was STOKED!!

THEN, on my birthday day (the 14th), I was late to Biology but didn't really care all that much. I was sitting in the back when my phone rings with an 801 number. Because I'm in class and don't know the number, I ignore it. It calls back, only this time, it left a voicemail saying, "Hi, this is so-and-so from such-and-such flower company, I'm at your apartment building but don't know which room is yours. If you could give me a call back and let me know what room to deliver these to that's be great.."

I ran out of class and called him back IMMEDIATELY! He left the flowers in the office and I spent all day going crazy just wanting to go home to get them. They were so worth my acting crazy:

I think he loves me or something :)

So, of course, I didn't think my day would get any better until Caleb offered to fly me home in two weekends to spend some time in AZ. He's so amazing :) [Unfortunately, these plans got a little changed around]

OH, and when I came home with my flowers, my room was totally decked out with streamers (As you can see in the pic above)! I love Dylan :)

Then, Jennica came home and brought me like a bouquet of balloons! So sweet!

And then, of course, no birthday is complete without a cake:

Yup, sparkler candles!

Best roomies ever! (Minus two)

So, yeah. It was a splendid day. Then two days later, I got some unfortunate news that changed my flying-to-Arizona plans. Read Here. But Cameron flew back into town on the 17th and stayed till the next Tuesday and we were able to party (for the most part). On Saturday, I went to Nate's for a while and we drove out and got lunch at this Wing's place (I got a wrap) and then we got to go see Nate's NEW HOUSE!! It's really far out there but it's pretty and this move'll be good for him. Then I returned home and me and my roommates had a crepe party, thanks to Jennica and then got ready for the Holy War. The BYU vs. UofU football game. I was so nervous...

and we lost.. bad. I won't say anything more.

But I actually had a bunch of homework this weekend and the only real celebrating we did was going out to SUSHI!! on Monday.

It was really fun because I invited my/Nathan/Holly's friend Wes to come along because Holly and Nate didn't know that we knew each other so it was a really cool/fun/hilarious surprise on our part. hahahahahah! anyways... It was probably the funnest night I'd had in a long time. And definitely the most I'd laughed that hard in forever! It's nights like those that I remember how much I LOVE my brothers :)

The next day, I took Cam to the airport and that was bittersweet. I always get sad when he leaves me.

The next week/weekend was a whirlwind which, if you followed the above link like a good little child, you'd know all about. So worth it :)

Next thing I knew, September was winding down and Caleb was coming back up to Utah for Conference and to spend time with me and his family.

He landed on Friday and we went to his mission reunion which was actually really fun! The people were so cute and friendly and (we won the football game that night) it was just so great to be around him again and see him with all his old buddies. Such a sweet experience to share with him.

so much fun :)

We spent the weekend at Otto and Emily's which was super fun because, well, they're super fun people. Plus, we got to spend the most time with baby Eli, hee hee. His parents flew up Saturday morning and drove up to Salt Lake with Josh and Amy and we all went out to dinner at Rodizio Grill! WOOOO!! It was so good.

Just bein a creeeeper :)

Sunday, we all watched the wonderful conclusion of Conference together and had a fun time eating and laughing and just hanging out. [By the way, if you missed Conference, I'm sorry, but you NEED to go watch it. This year was SPECTACULAR]. After everyone had gone, Caleb and I walked around Temple Square and it was lovely.

Visitor's Center

Caleb flew home early early Monday morning and I said goodbye to him and went back to sleep, meaning to wake up at 6:30 and drive home for class. Welp, that didn't happen and Otto had to wake me up AT NINE for my class. I booked it out of there and made my way home, but didn't make it to class (oh, how sad...).

Monday night, I got sick in the middle of the night. Blacked out, hit my chin on something (don't know what or even remember doing this until I felt the sore today), and threw up six times. Yeah, uh, I didn't go to class on Tuesday.

Today, Dylan's present FINALLY came for me! haha it was supposed to come like LAST Tuesday or something but JUST got here.

Yeah, that's a full sized cardboard cutout of RONALD WEASLEY. Take that, yo! Best part is, he was just chillin in my room when I came home and scared the crap out of me hahaha

He had a speech bubble that said, "Happy Birthday, Katie! Sorry I'm late. The Floo network was down and someone stole the nearest portkey. So I had to fly. Hope you still love me. Much love, Ron Weasley"

Yup, I have the coolest roommate. Everyone can now commence being super jealous :)