TVA

Temple View Apartments. This is the view from my couch. They are closing the Temple down for 18 months, starting the end of December. This is so sad. Two thoughts came to me, I need to start going at least weekly before it closes and secondly, I guess it is time to plan a trip to the Big Island to visit the Kona Temple:)

PCC

Melissa and Kaiya finally got their PCC passes so we did a quick trip. A boat ride and Temple tram ride were the highlights of this trip. We decided to just do half of the tram ride and walk home from the Temple since it was closer:)

conference and crafts

I had to come up with some creative ways to get Kali to sit in one place so I could try and enjoy the afternoon session. She got to sprinkle colored sand, "fairy dust" over these My Little Pony pictures. You pull off the top layer and underneath it is sticky. I also let her decorate a pumpkin:) I printed off a conference packet that my friend Brooke sent me and tried to get her to play bingo. When she heard someone say a word that was on the paper like, prophet, scriptures, prayer, etc. she got to put down an almond. That didn't last too long for her:( I liked it though! It had a fun matching game that she enjoyed. Matched the 12 apostles to a picture with their name. She did finally sit down and listen to Prophet Monson's final talk and then when the Tabernacle choir sang she got out her song book and sang with them. Aaron and I really enjoyed that:)

Happy Birthday Velzy

After conference on Saturday we celebrated Velzy's 3rd Birthday. The girls had a blast running around and playing with the balloons. A definite high light for the girls was the mermaid on the cake, and the cake of course. Kali helped Velzy finish licking the icing off of the mermaids bum:) After we filled our bellies with ono food we headed to the beach for some keiki surfing. I know I have previously posted pictures of Kali on a surf board, but those were poser pictures. She didn't actually catch a wave on that day. Saturday, October 4th Kali caught her first wave! It was a proud day for me:) After she caught about four waves she decided to try and stand up. This picture of Kali tring to stand is about as far as she got, she kind of was squating. Next time though, she will make it all the way up:) Thanks Malia for taking this picture. SO CUTE!

General Conference

I felt like a kid on Christmas morning as I turned on the TV at 5:30 am and enjoyed the tabernacle choir while I waited for 6:00 am to roll around. What an awesome conference filled with messages of Hope, the knowledge of Gods love for us, a wonderful conversion story, a reminder to read the Book of Mormon prayerfully and to ponder its words, the sacrament, the importance of missionary work, word of wisdom, don't live beyond our means, and learning that 5 new temples are going to be built. I am pretty sure I heard shouts of joy from the Wynes family as they announced a temple to be built in Calgary. It brought tears to my eyes and reminded me of the general conference when I learned that the Columbia River Temple was to be built in Tri-Cities, Washington.

Some words that were spoken that have really made me think are by:

Silvia H. Allred, "The greatest gift you can give is the gospel."
Neil L. Anderson, "You don't know everything, but you know enough."
Deiter F. Uchtdorf - Faith, Hope, and Charity - his description on how they compliment eachother.

If you would like to watch and hear these wonderful messages you can watch on BYU TV, or on line at BYU Broadcasting.

Remember when...

When I was a little girl, I loved to put olives on my fingers and then eat them off. Thanks Aaron, for teaching Kali:) It's fun being a kid!

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