falling into fall

Sometimes I feel like I really am falling or stumbling around my daily routines. We're well into school now and it's crazy! I'm in several studio classes which require much outside work with oil painting, ceramics, drawing etc. But it's something I love to do so homework doesn't feel SOO strenuous as opposed to david's poor schedule which demands chemistry, algebra, and lots of reading!! I'm thankful to not be required to sit and do math problems all day, ugh.

October has been so much fun even among the stresses of school and work. Mom and dad came to visit for conference which was so much fun! It was almost like they lived here! How cool that would be. We miss and love them SO much!

Well the new in the news from the chinns is...not much. We eat, sleep, do homework, watch so you think you can dance, clean stuff, walk to and from school etc...that's our usual day. Well I make it sound monotonous, but we of course have the variety of friday date nights, temple tuesdays, meeting up with jessi, todd, and kristi, running on the provo river trail, trying to get our apartment in good fashion, and other fun and exciting things.

I've been tutoring spanish at the MTC and it is soooo great. Before I was teaching the same group of missionaries for an entire 8-9 weeks. Now missionaries set appointments to come see me, they pick what to learn, and I just facilitate. It's so much easier and less stressful than before. Spanish is my friend. =)

Plans for christmas aren't solid yet. For thanksgiving we're planning to head to california to see chris and mandi and the little ones =) We miss our families and especially our growing nieces and nephews who say and do such hilarious things.

oh and wedding pictures are in! I posted quite a few on facebook, but here a few if you missed them.