Better than Black Friday!

I'm so glad that I found something better to do on Black Friday than go out shopping! (No offense to any of you who were crazy enough to venture out!)


Jes and I spent the morning unloading truckloads of inventory needed to put on the Festival of Trees. If you haven't heard of it.....this is an event that raises money for Primary Children's Hospital. It is a huge display of Christmas Trees, Wreaths, Gingerbread Houses, and all sorts of Christmas fun. All the trees are auctioned off and the money goes to the hospital. In fact, every penny is donated to the hospital, your admission cost, any food you purchase, anything you pick up at the gift shop....it all goes to help the kids at Primary Children's.



I've been so grateful to be a part of Festival this year. I have loved getting to work hard on something so self-less. Primary Children's Hospital does so many great things for so many kids and I'm happy to support this great cause.


If you think you want to try to come to the Festival this year, let me know because I have discounted tickets that I would love to give you! Discount tickets are also available at Zions Bank.

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween this year we had a Buzz Lightyear and a Sheriff Woody! They looked adorable and had so much fun!

They even managed to persuade a real-live WITCH to take them trick-or-treating!

This picture was taken at the Halloween party my parents threw the week before, but it will go down in history as one of my favorites! This is my Grandma and Grandpa Singleton reading books to Sam! So cute!!! And so meaningful to me!

Unfortunately, I didn't' get any other pictures! I was just too busy rocking out to "Thriller", enjoying watching my sister and her husband eating doughnut off a string, ensuring no little one was bludgeoned during the pinata, making carmel apples, and drinking "spooky juice" (just home-made root beer with dry ice) to be bothered with the camera. It was a great party! Thanks mom and dad!

Witches Night Out!

This year's Witches Night Out was great!!! Although, I think last year was a little more fun because it was my first time. But the thing that made this year great was that we all got together and crafted our hats a few weeks ahead. It was tons of fun!

On the actual Witches Night Out, we all met at a restaurant for dinner - and this was the scene inside.

Needless to say....everyone in the place was staring at us! Then it was off to Gardner Village. The weather was so nice this year we didn't really even need jackets! It's so much fun to see just how creative some women get with their hats and costumes! Thanks Lundberg Ladies for the fun time!!!!

October Fun

Here's a few highlights of our month -

The pumpkin walk at the Grist Mill. I didn't think it was nearly as good as in year's past, and it will never be as good as Logan's, but, we went and had fun! They had those picture boards set up, you know, the ones with a cut out so you can stand behind and put your face through so it looks like you're doing whatever's on the picture? (Does that make sense?) Well the face cut-outs were all adult sized, and my boys wanted to do it, so they stuck their heads through the old grist mill thingy. Anyway - confusing story, but the kids were cute!


My sister drove up and went with us to the pumpkin walk and here are the boys with their cousin on the hay ride.

Isaac kept telling me that he wanted to keep his hair long, that he didn't want a haircut, but as you can tell from the mow hawks - it was time for a cut. Who can resist a great tub picture?!?

And finally, yes, this picture was taken in October!!! It snowed about 4 inches one night and it was even cold enough the next day that it didn't melt. So - we trudged out all the snow clothes and had a great time in the backyard! Thank goodness it's melted by now! But they did have a great time!!!

A Few Bits & Pieces

So it's been forever again....and nothing amazing has happened with our family...but our boys are still fun and cute! So here are some new pictures and videos - for your enjoyment.

In Our Spare Time

Since I've been blog absent for a while...this is what we've been up to this summer. Traveling...picnics....swim lessons...roommate trip to St. George that was amazing, which I will probably not blog about at this point, but you can read about it here and here ....visiting and playing with Jes' family while his sisters were here from out-of-town...hiking...and hanging out at home.

These pictures are from our hike last Sunday where we ran into a rattlesnake! Luckily things turned out ok, but it was a tense few minutes!

And here are a few pictures from the Bees game we went to a while ago. It was so much fun! I love going to the ballpark!!!
And here are the boys with our 1st harvest from our garden this year. Hopefully it's not the last! (The watermelon didn't come from our garden....we only wish it did!)

Youth Conference

So my life for the last little while has been totally focused on Youth Conference. I stressed and stressed about it because I was the only YW leader going. Everyone else has nursing babies or kids with special needs. Luckily there ended up being 2 moms that came with us so that I was not alone!

We had THE BEST time!!! I really love my calling and I really love all the girls in my ward. This was also a great chance to get to know the young men...and I must say I was thoroughly impressed!

I'll try not to be too long and annoying with details, but here it goes.

We left on Thursday morning and went to the Bountiful Temple to do baptisms for the dead. It was a neat experience to be there with the girls - and for some of them it was even their first time! Then we headed up to Idaho to Lava Hot Springs to swim in the pool. It was so much fun! They have diving platforms that are Olympic regulation height, and if you are a minor, you have to have a permission slip filled out by a parent before you can jump off them! (That right there is a major warning to me that it's not a good idea to do it!) I caught a few pictures of the kids jumping, but this is one of our bishopric members!

After Lava we drove to Alpine Wyoming where we had reserved some campsites in a campground. When we finally got there at about 6:30-7:00pm we found out that there were already people in all of our campsites! After a tense scramble and search we found out the the campground had doubled booked most of their campsites! So, we weren't the only one's without a place to sleep that night! It was a big dilemma for the leaders to try to figure out what to do, but the kids were all laughing and having a great time. I didn't hear one person complain at all!

We ended up finding a much better and much cheaper (i.e. FREE) campsite about 1 mile up the road. This place was gorgeous! The pictures I took don't even do it justice. It was so isolated and peaceful and beautiful! Here is the view from my lonely 1-person tent.

The only issues with the campsite was no running water and no bathrooms! We were able to get by with no running water because we had tons and tons of bottled water...but the bathrooms for the young women were a different story. The girls toughed it out for the first night, and the next morning at 6:15am we had port-o-potties delivered to us in the middle of nowhere (thanks to our YW president's mad skills!) After that it was smooth sailing! I could have stayed there for a few more days...and that's saying a lot because I'm not a huge camper!

On Friday we went rafting on the Snake River...what a blast! The water was freezing, the rapids were great, and all the girls on my boat had a major crush on our guide! You can check us out on the river at http://snakeriver.elevationimaging.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?&category=692037 and https://www.snakeriverphotos.net/findphotos.asp?InfoID=43950

Here's the whole group before we got on the rafts. Friday evening was the big spiritual devotional by the bishopric, which was really great but much to complicated to explain here, followed by an amazing testimony meeting! I had a great time and loved every minute of it!

Sam is 2!!!

Sam's 2nd birthday was a few weeks ago. We had a great day to celebrate! We met with our family at a park in Bountiful for lunch and cake, then it was on to the pool for swimming. We went to the South Davis rec center, and they have an awesome outdoor kids pool with a splash pad. I highly recommend it. My kids had the best time!

Beautiful Bear Lake!

Last weekend we were able to go on the annual Allred Spring Vacation. This year we took a break from driving down south and decided to try Bear Lake. I am definitely a fan!!!! We were there just 1 weekend before their big tourist season starts, so we practically had the place to ourselves. The beach was never crowded, we didn't have to wait in line to get raspberry shakes, and we didn't see any other 4-wheelers out on the trails. The weather was perfect, and the family time was great! I didn't take any pictures of the cabin we stayed in, but it was great! This is the first vacation where we have had a place big enough for the whole family to stay together. Usually we are split up in condos, which makes it hard to hang out as adults after the kids go to bed. This time we were able to stay up as late as we wanted playing games, watching movies in the theater room, and talking. The boys loved playing with their cousins, and Isaac especially loved playing with the huge train table they had there!

Here are a few pics.

Here's Sam playing at a park during Jes's work party we went to on our way to Bear Lake.

Isaac at the same park

Digging in the sand at the beach. The water was freezing, but they had a great time!!!

Sam's still smiling even though he just fell in the cold water. Aren't the mountains and water beautiful? Oh yeah, and my baby boy too!!!

Here's my niece Maja getting our cool kite in the air

Here's the kite flying high. It was shaped like a Macaw (parrot)

Here is the pool that Jes helped the kids build. They had a great time building and demolishing it. Isaac is in the back with the blue shirt. The other kids are my brother, Mark's kids. They're all so cute!

Our last day there my dad and my oldest brother decided it would be so fun to dress the same!!! Just kidding, it just so happened that they wore the exact same thing. Like father, like son....except when it comes to the choice in schools. Dave is definitely the black sheep in the family not only for attending BYU, but for wearing their hats!

What a great vacation!!! I love Bear Lake, it's just so beautiful there and peaceful. Thanks so much for mom and dad for putting it all together, and thanks so much to my awesome family. We all get along so well and really enjoy being together!!!

I hope my husband will still love me!

A few weeks ago our ward did a talent show and the Elder's Quorum presidency did this cute lip sync to the Wiggles. Jes and I both thought it was so funny - so we voted for it to move onto our Stake's talent show. Little did we know that one of the guys wasn't going to be there that day...and guess who they asked to fill in???? Yes! Jes became a wiggle for one night only. They did the "Hot Potato" song, for those of you who know. They did it complete with the hot potato, the cold spaghetti, and the mashed banana! My only regret is that my camera is not that great, and I am not that great at using it - so the video I have does not do it justice!

Jes is the green one on the end.

I love you Jes!!! Thanks for being a good sport!

The Potty!

So - the before mentioned reason that I have been unable to catch up on my blogging (or cleaning my house, or anything else really) is that we are offically in full potty training mode at our house. Isaac's been wearning big boy underwear for going on 4 days now. He's doing really well, but it still is no fun at all. I hate cleaning up the "accidents" and it's really hard because I know that I'm not giving enough attention to Sam, but I don't know what else to do! So - my life now consists of watching Isaac like a hawk for the "signs" that it's time to sit on the potty, and cleaning up after the misses. Sounds like fun, huh!

I know he's going to get the hang of this soon though, and then it will be one more parental rite of passage that we have made it through!

The California Leftovers

For soon to be stated reasons....I have slacked on the rest of the California stuff. Sorry everyone...I know you've been waiting on the edge of your seats...right???? Anyway - I'm still too busy to do everything but here are two videos of my babies talking about California.

Thanks again Amy and James for everything!!!! Our kids had a great time at your house, and they still play with the animals you gave them. And most importantly - they remember who gave them the animals!!!

We love California....just not the drive

We went on a family road trip to California last week (somewhat different than college road trips!) We had such a great time though - and here are some of the highlights.

We stopped in St. George to see Marie and her new house. So much fun, but we didn't stay long. Her house is beautiful though, and I really want to make a roomie trip down there to see her (hint, hint girls!)

We pulled in to Jes's sister, Amy's house at about 12:30 in the morning and just crashed. The next day we went to Newport Beach and let the boys dig in the sand and we also looked around in the tide pools for crabs and star fish. It was a little cold that day, but the beach was still fun. It took the boys a while to warm up to the idea of the ocean, but once they did, they had a great time!

Here's Sam walking on the beach with Grandpa Lundberg

Isaac getting out the digging toys with Grandma Lundberg

Isaac & Jes in this cool cave at the beach

Sam and Grandma Lundberg at the beach

Isaac, Jes, Grandpa, and Aunt Amy searching the tide pools

The boys finally warmed up to the beach and we buried their legs in the sand

Here we are being the best parents in the world! Letting our kids play on the lifeguard stand that has no railings and a sharp 5 foot drop

The next day we took the kids to Disneyland with all their cousins (minus a few). It was their first time and they both LOVED it! I thought that I took a million pictures...but these are all there is.

Isaac was so excited to ride on the Flying Dumbo's because he saw that ride on the Disneyland commercials on TV. He also really wanted to ride in a green one, and even though we were the last ones to get on the ride...we got green!

This was Sam's favorite ride, Casey Jones, the Circus Train. We are riding in the Wild Animals car. The ride was really cute - as you went around the track, the Casey Jones song played on the speakers. Both the boys had a lot of fun!

This is after It's a Small World. Isaac was a little weirded out by all the singing puppets, and Sam fell asleep

Both kids were a little scared on the Finding Nemo submarine ride

Here they are meeting Mickey at his house!

Such a great moment!

This was the Jungle Cruise ride. Isaac really loved this ride, naturally because of all the animals you see!

The boys had a blast playing in Toon Town! We could have spent a lot more time there!

Saturday we spent the morning and afternoon at Laguna Beach. It was much warmer and sunnier (is that a word?) that day. The boys had a ton of fun digging and playing with cousins.

If you look close you can see my awesome, gorgeous, beach bum, hubby body surfing! It was fun to watch him! The water was FREEZING!

Uncle Eben and Aunt Amy spent a lot of time making this cute little pool for the kids to play in. They all loved it!

Sam loves to dig!

Finally, Saturday evening was the event that brought us to California in the first place. Jes's brother, Lucas was getting married! It was a beautiful ceremony in a gazebo overlooking the ocean at sunset. It was so magical and romantic! We all totally love his new bride! Samantha is so cool, and nice, and cute, and fun.....and the list could go on. She makes Lucas so happy and that is so nice to see. Somehow, I didn't take any pictures of them though, but here are the boys at their wedding.

Thanks so much Lucas and Samantha for choosing to get married in California. We never would have taken this trip this year without you providing us the reason to. We love you both and are so happy for you!