Fun Times in California

We drove down to California last summer when Chris was gone at a paintball tournament. I love this rest stop in the middle of the California desert. It has fun huge rocks to climb, lots of room to run around and great picnic...

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Super Short Arizona Visit

We drove down to Arizona for the weekend the week before Easter so we could go to the Easter pageant at the Mesa Temple. On the way down we stopped at Glen Canyon Dam. Marion LOVES the bridge, so we got out and walked on it so...

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St. George Fun

Chris went out of town and my sister Lisa was supposed to come visit in March, but had to cancel at the last minute. I had already told the kids that we were going to St. George to go to the museum, so we decided to take them...

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St. George Fun

  We went down to St. George to check out the new children’s museum. It was free in December. It is AMAZING. The kids had a great time. We could have stayed way longer than we did, we didn’t even have time to...

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Salt Lake City with the Garcia Family

The next day we met our friends, the Garcias, in Salt Lake City. They wanted to take a tour of the LDS Conference Center, so we went along. This is at a fountain in the center that has a glass ceiling above it. There are only...

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Laie Temple

  We went to the Laie Hawaii Temple. The kids got dressed in nice clothes and came to walk around the grounds with Nana and Grampy while Chris and I went inside.     Elora loves the temple, especially all the...

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Manti Temple Trip

We really liked when we lived in Austria going to the temple in Germany. It took a long time to get there, but we stayed a week with our whole family there (as opposed to just going a few hours in a single day). It was a much...

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