Family Home Evening

Last Sun. we took a drive up to the new Draper temple. The reason for this drive was because everytime we get on Bangeter HWY, Konnor looks at the temple and says, "Hey! I built that" and he has also been asking to go see it. It is very satisfying as parents to know that Konnor understands some of the reasons we pay tithing. We drove around the corner to the Corner Canyon trail head and got out and went for a very short walk, the kids had so much fun we deceided to come back for Family Night. The hike was beautiful, the color were fading some but still magnificient. We hiked about 2 miles, and Konnor walked the whole way, he did awesome. Konnor called the horse tracks " Elephant tracks" and was fasinated by all the horse poop(road apples as a friend of mine called them). The walk hike was fun and made even better, by being able to see the temple the whole time. Infact at one "Y" Dan and Max choose to go another way and see if we would meet up, and I said if you get lost from us Max, just head to the temple. What a great feeling of peace.


It was breathing taking. I have about 10 Pics of the temple.

Max, Mom, Dad, Olivia,Konnor & Taylor is taking the picture so I could be in one.

One of the many bridges, Dan had gone with Max at the "Y", We could finally see them, and Max was feeling anxious that I wasn't near him, so he walked down a small gorge to be by us, in the mean time Dan ran ahead and hid under this bridge and scared the kids to death. And yes, Max was covered in small flat burrs from crossing the gorge thru weeds.

Beautiful leaves. They will make great backgrounds for my scrapbooking.

This is Max holding up his "signal", he found this on his venture with Dan, He kept screaming at me, "Mom, just follow my signal and we will find each other". It was so cute

Taylor and Konnor on another great bridge.

Max and Taylor climbing up a lime stone wall.

"ROAD APPLES", they do look better with the leaves around them, don't they?

Olivia on her first hike at 2 months old.

The whole gang, minus the photographer, me.

"ELEPHANT TRACKS"!!!!

the start of the hike.

Draper temple.

Huge home that faces the temple. This is a picture of the back, it faces onto the road and literally has about 10 ft. of usuable back yard. Would you really want a house of this size without about 50 acres to roam on. This wasn't even the biggest. About 90% of the homes are not lived in in this neighborhood, guess who's paying for thier mistakes?

coming up a big hill that over looked the valley.