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The Lord's House

Nick was able to spend the day with us on Monday so we had a Family Home Evening all day long. It was so fun and we love it when he gets to spend time with us, we are pretty crazy about dad in this house! So we got to go to the Boise temple open house. Last Summer they closed the temple and totally renovated it. It is very different, I lost my way a few times. It is beautiful. It was so fun being able to take our family through. Taylor LOVED the bride room and said "Do I get to go there when I get married?" and I almost started crying. When we went into the sealing room she was so impressed with the gorgeous crystal chandelier later that night told me that she loves me more than all the rainbow crystals like in the temple.

We are so happy to get our temple back! I can't wait for it to open. What a great anniversary present!

Under the Sea!!

I was pretty skeptical of the Idaho Aquarium, I mean come on, we aren't even close to the ocean and it's Idaho. Well we went  and it was surprisingly fun. It is very hands on, small but was great. I guess they are just getting started and it isn't the nicest of aquariums, I mean come on I am used to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, so this was like nothing but we had a great time and it was pretty fun.

 

This is the fish touching pool. I have never seen something like this, you really just stick your hands in and touch the fish. If you see the sign behind Nick it identifies each fish and next to one of the fish is a sign that says I BITE so Taylor was pretty paranoid about that little guy. It was kind of funny because Nick wanted that fish to come close so he could touch it and it was sort of playing with him (swimming fast back and forth towards him) and when Taylor saw it coming she grabbed Nick's had and pulled it out and screamed "DADDY WATCH OUT!!!"

Garden eels from Octonauts.

 

Shark eggs. You could actually see the embryos moving. It was insane.

Shark and Ray pool. This was awesome. I loved it. The rays were so active and Taylor loved them.

Iggie

Taylor touched every shark, the hammer head, black tips and the brown and white spotted.

Oh and we got to feed them. That was pretty fun.

 

 

I hate these things, ugh!

not the greatest picture, sorry honey!

Best picture! Christmas Card? Even graham is playing the part!

Blurry, thanks honey!

Goofy kids by the turtle.

 

Graham loved these birds. They are the puffins, and would dive and swim right past him.

Feeding the birds. Taylor was nervous, very uncharacteristic of her so it was kind of frustrating that she wouldn't hold the food on her own.

and the dumb bird pecked her toe.

 

My handsome boys!

Come listen to a prophet's voice...or not

Conference was pretty great, whats new. I was so happy that most of my family got to come to visit for the weekend. Terin didn't make it and we missed her a ton. We had a great time seeing everyone.



Yep that is the crew ASLEEP during this General Conference.

But not Nick, he was so eager to listen. He even took notes.  ;)

Even my nemesis, Presley, cozy during conference.

ABCs

Taylor's first day of preschool was September 4th. She LOVES learning and friends and was so excited to start preschool. Her teacher is AMAZING and she has a great class of kids.

 

 

First field trip to the town firehouse.

 

Darth Vader fireman. He asked if anyone knew Star Wars and who Darth was and Taylor eagerly raised her had and talked about Yoda and light sabers for a minute or so and all of the other moms looked at me like I was crazy. Boy do I love my girl!

 

Stop. Drop. Roll.

Tour of the House and the Trucks.