What's On My Happy List?

October vibes...

spider butter fudge!

Visiting our neighbor's pumpkin patch....

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Our Birthday girl!

the big 2-0!

Kate made Brie a gigantic

 lemon & raspberry b-day tart!

Birthday sushi at Keyaki!

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Halloween night!

We made pizza's....

Emmsie made us a 

yummy chocolate dessert!

gluten free even!

Kate hung with some friends!

The fam dressed up like the 

Gilligan's Island characters!

Emmsie, Hannah and Brady 

made my boat! lol

The hubs was the Skipper...

Hannah as Gilligan....

Tyler & Kyleigh as the 

millionaire and his wife....

Lilly Belle a bag of money...

Brie was Ginger the movie star...

Emma the professor...

Kate as Maryann...

our dogs were extra crew members...

Hannah's boyfriend, Brady, was 

Gilligan's gorilla friend

 on the island.

lol

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In other happenings this past month....

I drove B and Kate down to St George 

for the closing night of Anastasia at the Tuacahn.

However, we got down there and found out 

 the show was being cancelled due to a 

wicked wind storm in Ivins.

UGH! 

So disappointing! 

However, we did find the cutest cafe 

while down there.

  yummy gluten-free options...

pumpkin pie tart & breakfast sandwich!

We watched BYU win a close 

late night game

in our hotel room.

Wigg'in out close to midnight!

🙌💙🏈

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Speaking of FOOTBALL...

My goodness!!!.... what a season 

we are having!

B and I were able to go to the Homecoming game.

We went extra early to welcome the team 

to the stadium.

We felt we were in the dead of summer.

The heat was brutal!

But happy as can be to witness this!

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In a whole other bunch of random...

We attended the Desert Peak Temple
Open House....

It is so so beautiful!

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We attended the blessing 

of my niece's baby girl....

She was born at 29 weeks 

and is doing amazing.

Such a miracle!

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We welcomed my niece home from her mission.....

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Kate got an awesome award at school. 

Plus earned all A's her first semester 

as a 9th grader.

👊

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Such sad news for us! 

We were some of 1D's 

biggest fans back in the day...

Had a couple girls wrecked over the news...

they grew up listening to 

One Direction music.

Christmas 2012!

We watched the 1D movie together

 to reminisce...

And then... they went to see it again

in the theatre. lol

for memory sake...

On our way to St. George..... B, Kate and I 

listened to ALL 5 of their albums 

(90 songs! lol) 

The girls rated each song on each respective 

album...favorite to least...

😅😂

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In food news......

My favorite food find this past month
was definitely the cafe I mentioned earlier
that we found in St. George!

Dinner Group at El Paisa Grill...

very yummy barria tacos

B's roast and potato 

birthday/Halloween dinner...

with gf brownie pudding cake...

Our crepe and gf pumpkin pancake 

brunch on Conference weekend....

These fries we love to get at 

the football games...

The new pickle sandwich from

Jimmy Johns...

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In Hannah news....

She is currently enjoying Florida.

Brady's sister is leaving on a mission

so they went down for her mission farewell.

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In Lilly Belle news!

She has taken her first steps...

she's learned how to drink 

from a straw....

and enjoys roughhousing

with Bonka...

friends....

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AND lastly....

Oh man....one of THE best nights.

EVER!

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

more on THIS next time....