A December to Remember...

This holiday season has been a-maze-zing.

Ash & Luke & the girls have been here all month...so naturally

we've been enjoying ourselves.

Here's what we've been up to all month:

we went to "Pretend City..."

pretty much the coolest place in town for
kids to "pretend" to be whatever they want...

some of us had more fun than others...

we did a little springboard diving...

Clearly, Ashley's still got it

we went to John's Incredible Pizza...

(first timer)

we left our footprints in the sand...

we went flying with Mr. Stud

(aka: mi padre)

we had a birthday bash for the cutest 3 yr. old on the planet...

we made fools of ourselves...

we got pedicures with our awesome aunt Wendy...

we rode rides...

until we were pooped...

we opended up some sweeeet presents...

we played with uncle Brad...

we smiled...

{a lot}

"Children come from the Father pure and undefiled,

without inherent taints or weakness. Their souls are as stainless

white paper on which are to be written the aspirations

and achievements of a lifetime."

-David O. McKay

(photo by Ashley)

Halloween-Part Two

Jessie and my boyfriend Woody

Ward Halloween party
(complete with every Halloween decoration my mother owns of course)


(he doesn't want to hear about it)

all the cute little kidos

Miss America and Dorthy are in the house!

Despite not being able to go Trick-or-Treating, it was a pretty awesome Halloween...
until my car broke down and my parents and I waited 2 hours for a tow truck...

good times.

Crazy Campbell Clan

"We may not have it all together...but together we have it all."

(my mother may kill me when she sees this...

in that case I will miss you all...xoxo)

Halloween-Part One

Today Jake's school had a Halloween Parade, complete with plenty of awesome costumes, lots of pictures, marching around the halls (or chillin in a wagon while your teacher pulls you), and of course, trick-or-treating.

We pretty much have to super glue that hat to his head or he will take it off immediatly

Smootching with grandma

(closed eyes and everything...what a pro)


Decisions, decisions...

Are we having fun yet?

(stay tuned for Halloween Part 2...

I will be in costume for this one...

I know your killing over in excitment)

Conference Trip

Hola mi amigos!!

I realize it's been quite some time since I posted, and my only excuse is that I have no camera...

usually I use the parentals but "someone" decided to go and lose the memory card,

and therefore we haven't taken any pictures in a while...

which is a total bummer because this past weekend was full of amazing memories

that I wish I could have stored somewhere other than my brain.

But I will try to do this post justice using only words to capture the

essence of just how awesome this weekend really was.

Thursday

-flew to SLC, Utah

Friday

-Went to Salt Lake Temple

-shopping

-relaxing

-site seeing

-Dinner @ "The Roof"

(if you've never been you must go before you die...it's amazing...expensive, but amazing)

-Joseph Smith movie @ the Memorial Bldg.

(cried my eyes out)

-Dance @ Studio 600

(not so much worth the $10 bucks we paid to get in)

Saturday

-General Conference

(Kandice and I were lucky enough to sit about 12 rows

from the front thanks too Uchdtorf's body guard who is a

family friend of the Smith's and Winn's)

-Work the corner haggling people for tickets

(quite an experience...let me tell ya)

-more shopping

(surprising, I know)

-Dinner @ Zuppa's

(Utah's version of Corner Bakery)

-games, swimming, ice cream, staying up way to late, etc...

Sunday

-more haggling people for tickets

(we held up a sign that said "Will Choose the Right for Tickets")

-General Conference

-Reunion of family and friends...

Brad, Kellie, Dane, Holly, Dave, Shelley...

-group photo

-ward testimony meeting

Monday

-"California here I come,

right back where I've started from"

(I could barely wait to see Jake)

I was so lucky to get to go on this trip with the singles ward...

it was the most spiritual, uplifting, fun, sleep deprived, awesome,

rewarding weekend I've had in quite some time.

Favorite Quote from Conference:

"We become what we want to be, by consistently being what we want to become."

-Elder Scott

Reminiscing...

Found this lovely gem while going through some old photos today...

enjoy.