Happy Birthday Brycen

Brycen had his 4th birthday on Nov. 11th, I cannot believe that he is already 4, time really does fly the next thing I know he will be on a mission :) He got to have 2 parties, one with his friends where they fed the ducks at a local park and then decorated cupcakes. And another on Sunday the 11th, it was his primary program and so both sets of his grandparents came to watch him. He preformed his part (I have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ) exactly as he had practiced and he sang most of the songs, or at least hummed them while winking or giving a thumbs up to a member of the family. He is a cheese ball, but we love him anyway. Happy Birthday Brycen!!!

Splish Splash!

After a visit to their cousin's house in Utah and wearing goggles in the tub there my boys just had to have some of their own. No complaints here though because I think that it is adorable.

The Rexburg Temple

I had a really awesome, once in a life opportunity last night. I got to clean the Rexburg Temple. A missionary couple that are in charge of the temple are in my ward and they asked for volunteers so of course I jumped at the chance. Our group was in charge of the 3rd floor which is all of the sealing rooms and actually the largest sealing room in any temple, it seats 80! It was so beautiful and after we cleaned (for 4 hours) they took us on a tour. I got to see the mechanical rooms and everything, it was really amazing. There is still a lot of work to do, but it was still breathtaking. The wood is from Africa and is so beautiful and the limestone is from Israel. The murals were not up yet, but they are being done by Del Parsons. It was amazing just how perfect it all had to be, any imperfection at all was marked by a piece of tape so that workers could come through and fix it. Even in the mechanical rooms that will never be seen by anyone I saw tape where things had to be touched up. They told us that the First Presidency and the others in SLC spared no expense in building it because of the love that they have for the people of the area as well as the BYU-I students and walking through it that was very apparent. It was an extraordinary experience!


Just a little FYI the openhouse tickets are available sometime later this month and the openhouse starts Dec. 29th. I am not sure how long it runs, but if you have the opportunity to come and see this temple it would be an experience that you would never forget.

Happy Halloween

We had a very busy Halloween! We went to a party, went trick-or-treating, carved and/or decorated 5 pumpkins and they boys went around for days wearing vampire teeth that made them drool excessively.Brycen was a bat and Rylan was a spider, but they also have superman costumes that they love to wear everywhere, Rylan runs around saying, "man, man" it is really adorable. Overall it was a really great time!