Top 5 Pins

Can I just say thank you, thank you, thank you for being so excited for me & my new job. It truly means a lot to share my excitement with friends!

My top 5 Friday this week, consists of my favorite pins on Pinterest this last week :) I am a true addict.


1. A list of Pandora workout stations! I love it!  There is one for every mood.

2.  This grown up tutu. I think I could pull it off.

3. A Broccoli & Cheese soup Recipe that is delicious! Click here to find it.











4.  This rustic sign for a little boy's room.

5. The Blog Sisters in Zion had this great idea for New Beginnings! The girls are so excited about it!  Instead of the superbowl though since that is past, we are doing March Madness.The girlies are SO excited about it!

M.I.A.

 I have been slacking in the blog world for a couple weeks . . . but good news, I am still alive! I have some good highlights to share, but not yet. Maybe I will blog later. That is what I said to myself for the last couple weeks though, so we will see. I thought I would share the two handouts I shared with the Beehives today though. They are good ones :) 

Enjoy Conference!

Top 6 Sing Along.

This week was full of great things. I am actually really looking forward to having a less busy week. August has been completely crazy.  Here are my top things from this week.

1. Murphy. Murphy. Murphy. I know I have already blogged about him and all but here he is again, just being cute. How could I resist, right!? He is so fun. Come and meet him.

 2. I have started my new job at Spring Creek Middle School! I am really excited about working with these great kids. They are in 6th and 7th grade. It will be a fun new adventure.  Here's to a full week of school starting tomorrow!




3.Wednesday the Young Women were able to go to the Brigham City Temple Open House. It was so beautiful. If you get the chance you should really go. I was also able to put the little shoe covers on for hundreds of people before we went through the temple. My shift was about 5 hours. . . . so I saw lots of cute shoes :) It was fun to visit with people and see everyone bring their families. Such a special time!


4. It was fair week! I just love fair week. It is one of the best date nights. Here is one of my favorite songs & a tribute to the fair. Take a listen. Enjoy the fair.

5. Wicked! I was able to go see Wicked Saturday! Mary got all of us girls tickets to Wicked for our birthdays this year. We went to lunch and then went to Capitol Theater in Salt Lake. It is such a beautiful theater and the cast of Wicked did amazing, they are so so talented. I would recommend it to anyone. It is a play that I would be able to see again and again.

 

Here are a few of my favorite songs . . . 

 Popular & For Good.

 

Thanks Mary for thinking of us and giving us such a fun memory together! 

6. Dalan gave a talk in church today and he totally rocked it! He did such a great job. He is just amazing. I am SO lucky. 

 Happy Sunday.

Top Trek Tales

Here it is! My Top Trek Tales :)

Here we are on the first day Square Dancing. Dust was everywhere!

1. Bus rides! ha ha Just kidding. The bus rides were so long and so much a part of my week I think I have to include the time that I spent on the bus . . . with no air conditioner and lots of happy kids :)

2. Our trek family: Our family was awesome! I wish I could put a picture up but as I was only a temp parent I better not :( They were so mature and respectful and overall awesome. We got so lucky!

This was our campsite on the first day.

3. Hiking: 15 miles on the first day and about 7 on the second day. My feet were so so so sore! But Dalan and I escaped without any blisters! The long hike was our favorite. Our group was probably the smallest group by numbers and by size and they did better than many of the other families. We rock. P.s. One of our family members may or may not have counted his steps, 10,500 of his steps to be exact. Just think about that.

4. Women's Pull: This part of the hike represented a time when the men were all called away and the women had to pull the carts and take care of the children all alone. We had a mini devotional before we did it and it was beautiful. We sang Sisters in Zion and then we began our pull through the sandy trail. It was hard. I have a lot of respect for the pioneer women.

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 This picture is of all the men standing in a line as we pulled the carts. I saw many, many tears drop as they had to stand and watch.

5. Jens and Elsie Neilson: After the Women's Pull our handcart was pulled to the side for an unexplained reason. A few minutes later Dalan and I were also pulled aside and we were asked to reenact the story of Jens and Elsie Neilson. The story is this. Jens had walked so far and his feet had become frozen and deformed. He couldn't walk no more. To him his only option was to have his wife leave him behind to die. She couldn't leave him behind and instead insisted that he ride in the handcart. She was 5 feet tall and he was a big man, yet she pulled him. I love this story of love and devotion. When they asked us to do this I just started crying. When we started acting Dalan had to have a limp and then fall, we were far enough away that no one could see out faces and we were laughing about our acting skills. When Dalan had to jump in the cart he felt so bad. And my heart broke. I started pulling and about a minute later the cart started moving. It was so hard. If I stopped we would go down hill backwards. Finally, kids that they had chosen to be angels came running to my rescue. The boys came to the front and pulled and the girls ran to the back to push. The boys lifted the handcart so that I could not push at all. I can only imagine that the angels ran when they helped Elsie and they run to help us too.

6. Devotional: We were lucky to have a speaker come after the first day and he had some of the greatest stories. His name was President Lorimer and he was in the middle of purchasing the Sun Ranch and Rocky Ridge. He had such great stories about our Prophets!! He was such a great balance of spiritual and humor and I loved it.

7. Martin's Cove: We had four of the Priests carry 12 of the Young Woman across Sweet Water. It was a really cool experience. Sitting in Martin's Cove was really a site to see also. I actually liked Dan Jone's Cove the best. I felt the spirit the very strongest there.

Sorry that this post is so long but this week was PACKED with exciting things! Believe it or not I left a lot of great stories out!

Thank your Ancestors today :)

7 Things

 1. Dalan: because he was disappointed that he was not number one last week ;) I will have you know there is no order to these.Just what pops into my head. Dalan is the best decision I have ever made and he continues to impress me. I love dating him and being with him 24/7. Maybe we can all have an understanding that he is always number 1 :) I would hate for you to get sick of my bragging and happiness surrounding me and Dalan.

2. Morning Walks. This week my sister-in-laws and I started walking in the mornings. It has been fun, it is so good to talk and walk :) Also a good jump start to the day. P.s. I have been loving Yoga lately. It really helps my back, which is always tight and twisted. literally.
3.  Ogden area - Saturday I went on a date with Dalan and it was so much fun. He wouldn't tell me where we were going and we ended up in Ogden. Now don't jump to conclusions. Ogden is starting to classy up a bit. We went to Five Guys and walked around the area and then we shared our favorite ice cream at SubZero. It was so much fun to be with Dalan and away from the farm for a minute.
4. Finding out our family for Trek. Big news. We now have 9 kids! Dalan and I are so excited to be Ma & Pa's on this trek and these kids seem like a lot of fun! 
5. Pepper is lost :( It is really sad. I don't really want to talk about it. Doing this 7 Things was good because this week has been one thing after another. Anyway. I hope she comes back.

6.  Elephants. Is that weird? I have had a love for elephants since forever! I have since given up my collection of glass elephants that I collected when I was 10 and now I just collect pictures of them on pinterest. Thanks pinterest for providing me that less "cat-lady" outlet. I just love this pictures of an baby elephant playing soccer . . . another love. I think I was friends with elephants in Heaven.

7. Envelope Budget Software: I am being such a nerd on this Top 7. But seriously, I am kinda loving this idea. I am a planner. I have mentioned this before but here I go again. This online little system is a Budget Plan. I really like this because I always feel guilty when I spend money on myself. This is the cycle. Usually I will do really good and not buy stuff for months and then {BAM} one month I realize it and I go crazy buying awesome stuff. So. I need a way to save money for super cute things that I want . . .  Rock47 Jeans or a table . . . . ya know cute stuff. So I think I am going to give this a try and see how it goes, so that I can buy things gradually and not all at once :)

Have a good week everyone. It you see our puppy, send her home. 

Invite ideas!

This is an invite for some of the girls that are not excited to be wearing pioneer clothes on Trek. I don't really blame them, honestly. BUT it will be fun! And we are all doing it ;) Some positive peer pressure can't hurt, right? 

 

We can't go to Trek NAKED 

so . . . . . 

Join us Tuesday at 5:00 to make a skirt, bonnet or both!

Who doesn't love free juice and a cute invitation!

Good Morning World.

 Good Morning. This morning I have been eating cereal and doing yoga while watching Dancing with the Stars final season. I know. It's a hard life over here in the Bingham house. I'm not complaining :) But soon I will be outside helping Dalan with the cattle and my hair won't look so good anymore and I will wish I had eaten more cereal.

Lately I have been applying for jobs and I have been hanging out with the Young Women in the ward. I was in charge of the activity last night and it was a good turn out. I made 8 dozen cookies and they were a hit. Plus we got done a little early/on time and I hit the freeway to go watch Dalan play in his softball game. It was so fun. I wish I could go to all of his games. They are my favorite. Summer is here and I love it. 

Have a good day all.