I Love to See the Temple...

On Sunday September 11, I took the kids to the temple. They were giving tours of the temple grounds and I thought it would be good for them to hear. The tour last about 20 minutes and we walked around the temple grounds and they told the purpose of the temples. We ran into a security guard who told us a little more about the temple that I didn't even know. It was really neat and I am glad that we went.

The tour ended at the reflection pool, I wanted to get a picture of the kids standing there with the temple in the background. The three older kids did great and were ready for the pictures but Karlee had other ideas. She decided that the water would be better to wade in. (It was REALLY HOT out.)

She her flip flop got away from her, I had Kallie kick off her shoes quick to get them.

She still didn't want to be in the picture.

I love how the leaves are changing color, fall is on its way.

 The girls wanted their pictures by the pretty flowers.

Here is Kelsie, the sun is kind of bright in her eyes. We turned a little for Kallie's picture but the sun was still bright. But they are beautiful girls.

We had a great time at the temple and I the kids all said that they felt peaceful there. :0)

FHE Campfire

The kids wanted to go camping with Cody when he went while in Oregon. We planned on it when we went to Utah to go camping, but never worked that we could do it. But we did the next best thing for the kids, (but the best thing for me) we did a campfire just up Provo Canyon. Where we made tin foil dinners, and had smore's and had so much fun. Thank you for all the hard work Cody and Alycia, the kids had a blast.

 Jaron was so set on wearing Cody's head lamp, ready to use it when it got dark.

He pick up the shovel and said he was a miner.

 While we waited for the tin foil dinner to cook, we told stories around the campfire. Karlee had one to share but hers included a dance and Scooby Doo, very creative.

 Here we are enjoying our yummy tin foil dinners.

 Cooking our Smore's and then the kids enjoying the

YUMMINESS

What a fun campfire we had.

Easter Egg Treats

Have you seen that commercial where the mom and kids are making Rice Krispy treats the shape of eggs with M&M's. I thought that would be fun to make, and to make a design with the M&M's in the eggs. I was planning on to do it for FHE the other night when we did the egg hunt and dyed eggs. But the night got away from us. Yesterday and today the kids didn't have school and so I thought that would be the perfect time to do it with them.

So we made the Rice Krispy Treats, so many helping hands we had lots of krispys flying every where. We got a large plastic eggs and molded five eggs. Once they came out of the egg and were laid on the plate, they kind of fell apart. I don't think that I added enough Rice Krispy, but Kyle enjoyed that they were so gooey. Once the eggs were formed the kids went to town putting M&M's in. But with each one they put in the less it looked like an egg. My idea wasn't turning out quiet right. But the kids were having fun doing it.

As the kids were getting done I wanted to get their picture taken with their eggs. But Karlee kept saying "Wait, I gotta add more." As you can see she was intent on getting all of them on. We waited and then she got in the picture.

Here they all are with their flatten Easter Egg treats.

They really enjoyed eating them (especially the M&M's).

I guess a better idea would have been to used frosting and more Rice Krispies and maybe they would of turn out like these.

Dying Eggs

For the second part of our FHE we dyed Easter Eggs.

The whole crew.

Kallie working on a two colored egg.

Jaron Making his color more intense.

Kelsie wondering what color to do her next egg.

Karlee excited to do it all by herself.

Alycia and Olivia working on their eggs together.

We Made it to the OIT

For FHE this week, we hiked up to the OIT thingy on the hill. This was one of goals we wanted to do before we left K Falls. This is before our hike ready to go.

Jaron found a hiking stick to use on the hike.
We advised him against using it, since it was taller then him.
He did not use it.

If you zoom in on this picture you might be able to see the three kids. Kallie is in the lead in the hot pink coat. Jaron is by the bush right behind Kallie in a blue coat. And Kelsie is behind him in a light pink coat. They were all a head of us during most the hike, they would get a ways up and then come right back to us. We kept telling them to stay and wait for us to catch up, but I think they just liked to be running around on the steep trail.

Even Karlee did some walking up. But not down I figure she would just roll down the hill. Kallie was prepared for the hike she brought string cheese for everyone to have on the hike. That is what Karlee has in her hand. She held on to the cheese for most of the hike, until her hands froze and she wanted to stick them into her pockets.

Here we are on the O. I love the timer on my camera, we were able to get a family shot at the top. Notice how all the kids are resting for their run down the hill.

Kyle and the kids are in the T

Then we headed down the hill, it was a steep walk down. Karlee rode on our shoulders, Kallie and Jaron ran down and Kelsie kept her head down and walked. Without her watching where she was walking she walked toward a barb-wire fence. We screamed and yelled at the top of our lungs to watch where she was going and come back to us. Either she did not hear us or was just not listening. She missed the fence and finally looked up at at us and came back to the path. Since it was FHE we turned what Kelsie did (going off the path) into a spiritual thought. About how you need to stay on the straight and narrow path and hold to the iron rod, because it is so easy to slip off with out noticing and might run into the barb-wire fence.

First Vision

For Family Home Evening tonight we talked about what to put in a Testimony. And about Joseph Smith and the first vision. We watch the Church DVD-The Restoration. And then we made these craft pop-up of the First Vision. We all had fun making them.

Here the kids are showing off their craft

I love kelsie's face in this picture

This is what the craft look like

I Will Be a Strong Link

For FHE tonight we had a lesson on being a strong link in our family. We think of our self as part of a chain - a family chain. President Hinckley said that we should never let ourselves be a weak link in our family chain. And be strong for one another. So we made a chain with all our family member names on it. Then we talked about how people on this chain have made us stronger and we have learned from them in our lives.

Here Jaron and Kallie are showing off our big family chain

Here is half of the chain starting with Great Grandpa Guptill

The other half ending with Chantel

This is the whole family chain that hangs in our kitchen. To remind us that we are part of a family and we can be STRONG link in that family.

Family Home Evening

For Family Home Evening tonight we played the game Cadoo, it is the kids version of Cranium. It was a lot of fun to play together and see the kids really get into the game. Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the game.

Karlee is trying on the glasses that you used to read the answers

Kelsie is taking her turn

Kallie had to act out a thing to us and we had to guess: it is a monster

Jaron looking through the glasses

The fun Game board as we were playing