Monday, July 18, 2011

Temples

In our last General Conference we were told that we should keep a picture of the Temple in every room of our house (or maybe just the bedrooms? I have such a bad memory with this kind of stuff). So I decided the kids needed one in their room. Instead of just buying one at the church bookstore (or taking one myself) I went and had the kids stand in front of the Temple and took their pictures. I printed them in 5x7 and framed them and hung them on the wall in their bedroom.

max temple

They are so tiny compared to the Temple!

lia temple

The kids are so proud of their Temple pictures! They LOVE the Temple, love seeing it wherever we go in La Jolla, and love to point out Moroni from our bedroom window (we can see him just above the trees and buildings). Max is especially happy to have the Temple picture where he can see it. He's such a good kid, he consistently says prayers on his own in his bed at night and in the morning. He started doing this without any prompting from us, either. Sweet boy. We love sure do love him and Lia and the Temple and we're so grateful we live so close to it. I think our kids have a better understanding of the Temple because we get to see it and touch and be near it. We're so lucky to live where we do!

5 comments:

Molly said...

so cute! i totally forgot about that piece of advice from conference...thanks for the reminder :) what a good mommy!

Kevin Seibert said...

That temple is so beautiful, inside and out. It is fun to see the kids there. Making the picture personal for them was a fabulous idea.

Malerie said...

Love this idea. Oh how I miss that temple! It's so incredibly gorgeous!

sally said...

what a good idea nina. i think i will share that.

Jen said...

That's awesome! Our big boys have a picture of the Oakland Temple in their bedroom and we have one in the center of our wall-o-family-pictures in our family room. We're getting Benjamin one for his bedroom for his birthday. We're getting him Sacramento. It's so nice to live near a temple now! It was really hard being 2+ hours from the temple while we lived in Monterey. But now we're 20 minutes! Now that we live so close, we might have to steal your idea and give the kids each their own temple picture.