Festival of Trees

Elora got to sing at the Christmas tree lighting in Orderville this year. Marion was very excited to go watch her sister sing. She also for some reason always wears her snowboots, even though it has been 60 degrees every day. But...

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Happy Halloween!

We started celebrating Halloween the Saturday before! There was a Halloween celebration in Orderville, so we got our costumes prepared and headed over to watch the parade, enjoy the dance, and I even entered the soup...

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Glendale Apple Festival

This year I was in charge of organizing the Apple Festival in my town. I asked at a Town Council meeting what was happening with the Apple Festival this year, and was asked to form a committee and find someone to be the...

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Oktoberfest at Brianhead

We read about an Oktoberfest celebration in Brianhead in September, so we dressed the kids in their Austrian clothing and took them up there. As soon as they got out of the car, they ran out into the meadow to play with the...

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The Apple Festival

A few weeks ago we had the apple festival in town. There was a town dinner at the park and Chris and I got to be in charge of some of the games. Chris spent the week before the dinner building a catapult and a castle for his...

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