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!