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.

8 Months

Utah State Fair

Last night we went to the Utah State Fair for FHE. We loved seeing friends, animals, art, veggies and more. We loved eating cotton candy. We loved smelling the fried foods—but didn’t love smelling the animals. We even loved listening to a bit of Weird Al. It was a GREAT night!

Guten Tag!!

Recently we were talking to one of our neighbors who grew up in Germany, then later went back with her husband and served an LDS mission in Germany. As she told us a little about her childhood/mission I decided it was time to take another “trip.” I know a lot of people think that our “vacations” are really silly, but I LOVE them! It is so fun to read and study about the country, watch videos, listen to music, look at pictures, try new food, and more. And we really do learn a lot!

For our trip to Germany we borrowed a German cookbook from our neighbor (which got a little confusing because their measurements are different than ours, and they have ingredients that I couldn’t find), and we made Brats (yes I burned them--sad), German red cabbage (which was REALLY good), and German Potatoes.

Matthew wearing his lederhosen.

After dinner we watched a few short informational videos (and got our pictures taken in front of a few landmarks), then we listened to some classical German music (Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven), then watched a German movie.

At bedtime we read a few non-fiction German books, then told Matthew the story of Hansel and Gretel (a German story by the Brothers Grimm).

The next day this handsome German chef made us German Pancakes.

It was a fun short trip--and we don't even have jet lag!

Labor Day Weekend....(and then some)

This weekend was the Hydrocephalus walk. We had breakfast first, Matt got his face painted (he loved the cheerleaders), did some dancing, then went on the walk (but we got a little side-tracked by the ducks in the pond). My goal for team Lindsay was to raise $100, and we raised $600! Thanks so much for everyone that donated, and everyone that came! A special thanks to Shannon, my brothers, and my parents! You guys are the best!! Love you tons!

(Linds eating some banana and LOVING it)

After the Hydrocephalus walk, we went to my sister-in-law’s family cabin. We had so much fun! We played on the swing-set, the teeter-totter, the trampoline, went on a hike, laid on the hammocks, watched a movie, ate LOTS of yummy food, fed the horses, relaxed, made the BEST smores ever (using Recess Peanut Butter Cups), laughed a LOT, and MORE!! Thank you Rick and Heather for an AMAZING weekend! We had so much fun!!

(cute little Lindsay fell asleep on the hike).

(Darin and me at the waterfall).

Monday we did flags with the YM and YW, went for a long run, went to the park, went for a swim at Grandpa's and then had a yummy picnic pizza dinner in the back yard. And Matthew loved chasing the deer.

Tuesday Matthew, Lindsay, and I headed up to Red Butte Garden with our friends Angie and Daxton. Matt LOVED getting to see and hug Curious George. Darin came up after work--always fun to have him with us!

It was a GREAT weekend!!