Temple Square picture scavenger hunt

This was a really fun activity we did. My sister, Sheri, went a few days a head and took pictures of random things, then we went back to find the items she had taken pictures of, Some were very difficult to find while others were quite easy. It took about an hour and a half to find all the items.

Here is our day. First we parked and rode trax in the free zone.

and of course the Beautiful Temple

after the scavenger hunt we went to the top of the Church office building. When we first went into the building A sister at the desk asked us if this was a family reunion, I told her it was our weekly activity. I think she was a little surprised. I mean, what do you expect when you see 4 adults and 16 kids?

Then we went in to see the Christ Statue. We had a difficult time keeping the kids from running off, so here are only a few of the kids.

Dinner at the park

Since Kim came into town, We decided to go to a park for dinner.

Jennie would be good with twins.

There was a family there having a reunion and they had brought this cute little train, they were so nice and let our kids have a ride too.

Sad thing is, is I don't have any pics of Kim and her kids.

Bingham Copper Mine

This was our weekly activity. It was a long exhausting day. It started out taking Caleb to the Dr for his 6 month check up. He weighs 20 lbs and is 28 inches long. He is in the 90th percent for both. He got 3 shots, but has been very happy.
We all met up at Sheri's house, sent the kids out the door for school lunch and the Adults, Caleb, Mary and Melanie went to Village Baker for lunch. YUM, they have the BEST sandwiches. Went back to Sheri's house and ate our lunch, kids came back from school lunch so we loaded up to go. On our way out there Wendy's tire lots its tread. So the tire got changed and we all headed to Les Schwab to have it fixed (we were in 3 different vehicles). Les Schwab is WONDERFUL, they gave Wendy 2 used tires and we were back on the road back to the copper mine.








Left to right
Thomas, Melanie, Bryanna, Michelle, Caleb, Katrina, Cora, Justin, Kyle, Rachel, Mary, Owen, Sadie, Adam, Wesley and Daniel





Kyle was SO fascinated with the big trucks. He wanted to go down in the mine. I told him they were working down there and that he'd be squished like a bug, but that didn't stop the "want" to go down there

We heard this big boom and dust started flying on this one area. Guess they were blasting.
After we left the mine, we were headed back home. My plan was to go to Wendy's house and we were going to run to the DI cuz I was looking for a cabinet to put my shot glasses in. As I was driving home, I remembered Bryan didn't have a key to the house. I had been switching out the door knobs so we'd only have 1 key to the house instead of 2, well the Dead Bolts are too big for the holes that are already in the door. So I had told Bryan I wasn't going to give him a key to the house till he fixed the dead bolts. Well I realized that He'd be locked out if I didn't go home. So I had to run home and make sure the door was unlocked. And was nice and gave him a key. So back to Wendy's house I headed, with only 2 kids this time. I just had this feeling I needed to go to the DI last night. Well I had also warned Bryan that I wanted to swap out couches. Well I got looking at the couches and found this one for only 15 bucks. It now sits in my living room and the other one is in the garage, ready for the dump.


This is the Cabinet I found for my shot glasses, it's an old Stereo cabinet. It came with the shelves. I just need to get it cleaned up a bit and get the Shot Glasses in it. Paid 5 bucks. Can't complain.

Grandpa's Funeral

Well the funeral services were wonderful. My cousin Lauralee sang a Beautiful song and my cousin Gina and Kimmy did a song with the violin and the piano. They are Very talented and all did a wonderful job. One of the things the bishop said that I just loved was "I've always heard about Harold's posterity and I've never seen it, but WOW" made me laugh. What do you expect when they had 11 kids, 62 grand kids and 159 great grand kids. And that doesn't include all the spouses that come with it.
I think everyone held there emotions pretty well. Until my dad had us sing "Happy Birthday" to my Grandma, it was her birthday. I know I lost it then. But Grandpa's death was a Good thing, he lived a wonderful life and he is now reunited with his Wife and Daughter, parents, Grandson and a few great grand children.

Katrina made me laugh. How do you explain death to a child? I told her that his spirit went to heaven and we were going to bury his body in the ground. So she asks, How are we going to get him down from heaven? Then asks (on the way to the funeral) if we brought shovels. Silly girl.

Grandpa's Viewing

So this is going to be picture heavy, but they are fun pictures. This was on our way down. I still feel like a tourist, So I was taking lots of pictures.

Rachel and Cora

Madalynn

Mary

Wendy

Bridgette

At the viewing. I didn't see many tears shed, though I know he will be truly missed.

Phil and Sheri

Marie and Connie

Bridgette, Madalynn, and Mary

Bridgette and Wendy

Mom (Mary) Bridgette and Wendy, If you look there is an Orb in the upper left corner. We Decided that since Grandpa was in the picture above, that it was Grandma wanting to be in the picture too

From Bottom to top
Madalynn, Bridgette, Mary, Cora and Rachel

Carla

Madalynn, Grandpa (Bryan) and Mary

Bridgette, Mark and Wendy