Gardner Villiage

Matt went to see the witches at Gardner Village with a few of his buddies. They always have so much fun when they are together!

(I just love this one)

Thanksgiving Point

Last night we met Darin at work, then headed over to Thanksgiving Point to do the Corn Maze. I couldn’t believe how much there was to do! My parents just got back from a cruise to Europe, and I think I took more pictures in our two hours at Thanksgiving Point than my parents did in their two weeks in Europe!

We did the corn maze, the jumping pillow, a hayride, watched a pig race, a haunted house (that was too scary for the kids so we left), the cow train, watched the singing chicken show, a grain train ride, looked at a pumpkin display, went in a corn house, played on the trains/cars/boats playgrounds, and more!

It was a really fun night, with the exception of about 2 minutes when I thought we had lost Matthew. I’ve never been more scared in my life! Darin found him quickly, and Matt didn’t even know that anything was wrong. Thank goodness for answers to prayer!

My Two Pumpkins with the Pumpkins!

Living the “SWEET” Life!

Darin and I had a “cooking date” this week. We made two desserts—neither of which turned out. So, I salvaged one of the desserts (our failed cake) and turned it into Halloween cake balls with Matthew.

While we waited for them to dry, we went outside and played in the rain!

Matt was a great helper, and he LOVED the finished product!

A Wonderful Weekend!

We had yet another fun and busy weekend. On Friday night we went to our friend’s house for a Halloween dinner party. She is absolutely amazing! The pictures I have don’t do her decorations justice—especially because she handmade, carved, sculpted, and painted nearly everything. Everything looked really spooky, including the food! It was a wonderful night!

Thanks for the AMAZING night Barbie! You're the best!


Saturday morning our niece Lissie got baptized. She looked so cute, and we are so proud of her. Matthew wouldn’t let her go all day long. Even when they got family pictures taken, he just joined their family. Thanks dad and mom for the yummy dinner afterwards!

(I just love how Matt snuck right in there)




Saturday night we had a Stake party for the 10th year that our stake has been organized. There was lots of food, bounce houses, train ride, cake walk, and a mechanical bull! It was a great night, and a wonderful weekend.

Sweet is the "PEACE" the Gospel Brings!

Last night we had our Young Women Evening in Excellence Program. It turned out great, and all the girls did a wonderful job. They decided to do a “Peace” theme, and they spent a lot of time cutting out the decorations. Barbie and I spent an evening decorating the cookies that Darin, Matt and I made, and I thought they turned out pretty cute. We have the best presidency ever! They all did so much and helped a ton! Sure love you girls! So, without further ado here are the pictures from our night!

The awesome cookies--fun to do, but took a LONG time!

The happy center-piece!

The dessert table

One of our girls played the saxaphone and did awesome!

We took these pictures after we were almost done cleaning up so we're missing over half of the young women.

A Taste of Halloween!!

Darin, Matthew, and I made a quadruple batch of sugar cookies for our Young Women Evening in Excellence--but I snuck one for Matthew and decorated it like a pumpkin. I just love this cute messy kid.

A post on the actual cookies and evening in excellence coming soon!

A Call to Blog

Do you ever feel like every second of every day is packed? I feel like we have been so busy with so many things lately that I have to remember just to breath. We’ve been busy doing a lot of fun things, but I just haven’t been taking my camera with me—and I rarely do a post without pictures.

It is only October 4th, and already my calendar looks like this:

September looked the same way. We are just so BUSY! But, I will make it a goal to keep the camera with me so that I can document what we are up to—and to put up pictures for our reader, Grandma—love you!




For starters, here is a really random picture that I LOVE! I was comparing my hair color to Matt’s, then I just made a wig on him using my hair and my sister Heather snapped this shot. So, here is what Matthew would look like if he were a girl!

For my 5 readers in the world—stay tuned, there will be more posts coming soon!

Conference Weekend

Darin’s parents got to fly back home for General Conference this past weekend. It is always fun to have them here. Darin was able to go to two sessions of conference at the conference center (thanks to his dad). I am looking forward to reading and re-studying this conference for the next 6 months!

Over the weekend we had a family dinner. We had ribs, brisket, funeral potatoes, rainbow jello, coleslaw, dill bread, creamed zucchini, peach cobbler, and rhubarb cobbler. It was really fun to have everyone over—we sure love our family! Thanks for coming everyone, and as always we missed you Geoff, Jadi, Nate, Janie, and Tom! It’s never the same without you.