Draper Temple

Thursday night we took our kids and went to the LDS Draper Temple open house. The temple was so beautiful!! It was fun to take the kids. Even though they are so young it was a great teaching moment. We were able to go into a Sealing room and I was able to talk with Tate about Kalun and I being married there, he thought it was cool. Tate also loved all the beautiful pictures of Jesus throughout the temple. I encourage all of you to take the chance to go. There is more info on www.lds.org. The open house continues until March.

Quick Cabin Trip

Our friends parents have a cabin. We have been saying we were going to go up to it since we went last time 3 1/2 years ago, and have never made it back up there. Finally we just decided to go. It ended up being a very short trip, because none of the hubbies could take time off. So we left friday night after work and came home late Saturday. We all felt like we had to be back for church, especially since the friends are in our ward and she's in the RS presidency, he's in the YM's, Kalun's in the Elder's quorom presidency, and I'm in the YW's presidency. Anyway, it was short but we still had a lot of fun. They invited a few other friends. We played lots of games and went four wheeling in the snow. It's funny that it's so hard sometimes to fit in a little get away, but every time we do we swear we need to do it more often.

Christmas Break

Wow, it's been really busy. We had a great break. We had a lot of fun spending a lot of family time. Kyli was able to visit for a while. So I thought I'd go back to the beginning starting with Christmas Eve. We went sledding. My mom has this perfect hill in her front yard for my kids. The kids love the snow. We then went home and got ready for the day. We then headed back to my parents for a big dinner. On the way though we had a horrible experience. We came across an accident on the freeway seconds after it happened. (I know a lot of you got stuck in the traffic) Needless to say, no police or paramedics had arrived yet. We slowed down and yelled to see if anyone needed help. They said someone needed CPR, so I jumped out and ran to help. I won't go into many more details because the scene was not pretty. But, I stayed on the scene and tried to help (I didn't have any kind of medical supplies with me) I stayed until the paramedics arrived and then worked with them for a bit, until I was no longer needed. Then we went on to my mom's. What a sobering experience to have on Christmas Eve.




Christmas Day
We had an awesome christmas. I surprised Kalun with a Wii. The kids are at such a fun age. We had a great time watching them all morning.



The Day after Christmas Kyli flew in. We went straight from the airport to Temple Square. It was so pretty, and also very cold. But we had a blast.



The next day we went swimming


We then had a big Christmas dinner with Kalun's Family where we did the nativity..

Monday Night we went to Jump-on-it



Next was the Dinosaur Museum


Then we went Ice skating. Tate loved it. Kyli took a while to warm up to it, but by the end of her trip she kept saying that was her favorite part.





The last couple days of Kyli's visit we went to my grandparents cabin. We played in the snow a lot, played games, and played wii. It was so much fun. We went with some of our friends who have kids that are the same age as Tate and Haylie, and have girls that have always been really good friends of Kyli's.





Sorry this is the longest post I've ever seen. I took like a hundred more pictures, I tried to narrow it down to only a few. I hope everyone else had a great Holiday Season!!