Gilbert Temple Open House

Today, we were finally able to head over to Gilbert, to see the newly built temple there. We have seen a little bit of it's progression here and there, as we'd pass by it on the way to Uncle Paul's house. 

It is definitely a beautiful temple. It is pretty big. The tour guide stated that it was approx 83,000 square feet. We have a temple that's closer to us being built right now, the Phoenix Temple, which is approximately 60,000 square feet. We can't wait till the opening of that temple!!

We took a tour and it was just as beautiful inside as it is outside.

I love that my family has been able to go through more than one temple. We are so grateful for temples and the blessings that it provides us.

Ringing in the New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

This New Year's Eve, I was having to work again : ( Because of that, I wanted to make sure the kids had a fun time ringing in the New Year's without me. I saw this idea on Pinterest of course and set to work. 

I designed the printouts. Aren't they cute. I started from 6pm. Inside each bag was an activity for them to do.

Randy snapped some pictures of the kids having fun with all the different activities.

The last bag had silly string inside for the kids to spray each other with when it was midnight. I was shocked when I saw this picture because I got home this morning, the house was clean. I'm glad it was an easy clean up.

The reported that they LOVED the activity bag and hope we do it again next year. I'm so glad to hear that it was success. Hopefully, that's an indicator of our upcoming year.

In the meantime . . .