"Now we really Look like Twins"

This is how Jared and Kamryn dressed this morning to go to school and that was their comment. And they insisted I take their picture.

Temple Time

Justin at the Jordan River Temple

Today we went with him on his first endowment session

he's really starting to look like a missionary

trying to take pictures like he does

my boys

can you tell that it was COLD ??

this was before we went in for the orientation and session

this was after the session

(it almost looks like we're at a haunted house or something

with that spotlight)

It was a very special experience to be at the temple with our son. I certainly don't feel old enough to be having a child going through the temple for the first time. The VERY NICE ladies working at the temple really made me feel good when several of them told me that I didn't look old enough to be the mother of the missionary.

Justin seemed to take it all in stride and the new matron and temple presidency member were very impressed with what a fine young man he is. It always feels good to hear from others about our wonderful children.

After the session we took him to dinner at Chili's.

More Halloween Happenings

For 6 years now, Jared and Kamryn

have been going to their dad's work

for trick or treating

they get so much candy there

that they really don't need to go out to do the real thing.

but now that they're older they definitely wanted to go out in our neighborhood

Taylor as a nerd

with his hair like that he looks so much like his dad at the same age

Jared as a ninja

he wore this for the real trick o treating

cuz the other costumes he'd worn

were bothering his neck and chin

what fun!

Jared and Kamryn were out there for over 2 hours!

It was the most perfect weather ever

I felt like we were in AZ

Fall Break

Silver Lake

what silly kids

almost every time we go to the cabin we try

to take a walk around Silver Lake

Kamryn loves to climb this big rock

I guess this is my birthday picture.

Kamryn

our jack-o-lanterns

we carved while at the cabin

Our little family was very lucky to have the cabin for fall break. We were there from Wed to Sunday and it was SO GREAT. We had awesome weather and such nice time together.

On Thursday all of us except Paul hiked to Donut Falls. It was really fun and perfect weather. It was a perfect hike for Jared and Kamryn.

Justin and Taylor were gone Fri and Sat for YM outing to Goblin Valley. Paul came up on Friday when he got back in town.

We had some friends come up on Friday for dinner and good times.

It was so nice to have some good quality time up at the cabin together with just our family, especially since Justin is going to be leaving pretty soon.

Go UTES!

Justin told us at the start of the football season that he'd like to go to a Utah Pac-12 game this year. Luckily we have awesome friends who have season tickets that gave us tickets to the Utah vs Oregon State game. The debate was who got to go with Justin - his mom or dad. Well, lucky for me, Paul was out of town and wouldn't be back in time to go to the game. It was a 5:00 start and again, lucky for me, it was perfect weather for the game - blue skies, no wind and not too freezing cold.

We left in time to get there a little early and found a parking spot not too far from the stadium. After we got our stuff out of the car and started walking to the stadium all of a sudden it hits me - I FORGOT to bring the tickets!!!! I couldn't believe it - how stupid. And the crazy thing is that thought have never even crossed my mind the whole afternoon. Ususally I think about it all day and check a million times. So we immediately got back in the car and headed back home. I called Brooke and asked her to bring the tickets and meet us half way. This really stressed her out cuz she didn't really know how to get up to Foothill Drive but she did ok and met up with us. We made it back to the stadium, parked in a little bit closer place and got to the stadium while it was still the 1st quarter and less than an hour since I'd realized by big guffaw.

all of these cool photos are by Justin

trying to get a picture of us at the cabin

Justin doesn't trust anyone else to hold his camera

so we had to do the self portraits

it was a great game

final score - 27 to 8

Utah over Oregon State

this is the crowd

after the game trying to get out of the stadium

Halloween Party

Jared - HULK

Kamryn - Dorothy

He's a scary guy

She makes a perfect Dorothy

Grace as Rapunzel

Jared as HULK

today was the school Halloween party and parade.

It was fun to see all of the costumes and watch the kids have fun.

Kamryn with some of her classmates

Mad Eye Moody

(Principal Shaw)

leading the parade

Jared and Kamryn's

1st grade class

The 1st graders got to go to a special show

"Witches Brew"

Watching the show

check out those Halloween eyes

Party at the Park

Kamryn

loved climbing this big tree

she was up so high

and it made me so nervous

Jared and Kyson

having a good time

really?

who brings books to a park to read?

I'm just glad they came

at the end of September we met at sugarhouse park for an extended shingleton family party to celebrate my grandma's 95th birthday!

it was fun to see my cousins and catch up with them. my kids had a great time with their cousins and the older kids played some volleyball.

good times!