Miscellaneous July

We worked on the house a lot during July, in preparation for probably selling it and then Leslie, who was visiting took picutres of the whole house for us. Here's the house we enjoyed for nearly four years and that now we desperately want to sell.

I hesitate to even put this in my blog, but here are Leslie, Veronica, Savannah and me at the midnight release of the fourth book in the Twilight series. I ended up hating it with all my heart and didn't finish it. A piece of crap book as far as I'm concerned.

Here are Joe and Anna watching the actual airshow featuring the Blue Angels. Lori and Scott's family, Leslie's family and our family were in chairs by the side of the road. We had sandwiches, chips and cookies. It was fun.

Here is the main reason for their visit (and everyone else's that came). The Twin Falls temple is absolutely beautiful and we so enjoyed going through the tour with everyone. What a blessing for the people in Twin Falls.

TWIN FALLS TEMPLE ANNOUNCEMENT

We are so excited about the announcement of the Twin Falls temple open house and dedication. The public open house will begin on July 11 and run through the middle of August. It would be great if the family could plan on making a quick trip up here and bring your kids to the open house. The Youth Cultural Celebration will be on August 23 and the dedication will be on August 24. The temple will open for temple work the next day. What a thrilling time! We're happy we're here to be a part of this. The temple is so beautiful. Make your plans and let me know if you can come so we can get tickets.

Temple and Meetinghouse Progress Report

I'm not sure why I struggle with getting the pictures in the proper order. I meant this one to be first and then the other temple pictures and then the church pictures, but since I failed, and don't feel like doing it over, here they are.

The temple is beautiful. They are working on the inside and the landscaping. Today a crew with a crane power-cleaned the outside of the temple. After I picked up the three younger kids at school, we took photos of this so you can all see the progress and how beautiful it is. This is Veronica, Joe, and Savannah at the temple.

This is our new meetinghouse. It will be comleted in the next couple of months. We've been told to plan on changes at Stake Conference the second week of November. It is exciting to see the growth and changes in the church here, but it makes me sad to lose some of my young women who I've been working with. Especially hard to think about is losing Veronica's best friend, Kimberly and losing my friend Lori's girls. I've got to figure out ways to stay involved with them.
Another angle of our church. This will shorten our drive to church by about three miles. It's really pretty.
These are some of the beautiful trees that are being planted at the temple. Don't you love the color?
Here is the front view with the plywood still up and the name and message in front. The trees are not tiny trees, but next to the temple, they look pretty small.
Here are some of the pretty rock pillars that I imagine the fence will be attached to. It's anticipated that the temple will be done between April and June, 2008. We're excited!