Family Temple Visit

Kevin sent out an email about a week ago letting us know that they would be in town and wanted to know if anyone would be interested in doing a session at the Jordan River temple. He thought it would be a good idea since Mom and Dad are waiting for their mission call and we won't have an opportunity to do something like thing again for quite some time. Not everyone was able to go, but a good-sized group of us went. I'm so grateful to have a family that has stayed strong in the gospel. It's so neat to be in the temple with them. I can't imagine anything more like heaven than that.

Afterward we went out to eat at Leatherby's. It was a ton of fun. I don't remember going to restaurants with my family growing up or even as adults so it felt like a first.

Temple Square

Every year we pick a night to go see the lights at temple square and this year was wonderful. We picked a night that wasn't too cold and it was still early enough in the season that it wasn't too crowded either. We got to go with Chris, Katie and Anna too. So it was a lot of fun. I think the girls just enjoy being out and getting their energy out. They were climbing on anything we would let them climb on, and Ashlyn just though it was fun to run around. I showed the girls my favorite tree to spin under and Kali really liked that. She couldn't stop laughing when she tried it out.

The Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Sadie and Kali both have parts in their upcoming primary program that refer to the temple. Sadie's says, "I am  thankful for the Oquirrh Mountain Temple that it's so close to my home." When I started helping her learn her part, I asked if she remembered the Oquirrh Mountain Temple (we had a family home evening there about a year ago). Well, she couldn't remember it so we decided that we needed to have another family home evening lesson there.

This time we did a question / answer session on our drive there to help the girls better understand the purpose of the temple and what we do there. When we got there, Josh showed them a slide show of the three other temples you can see from the Oquirrh Mountain Temple grounds and pointed them out.  He also showed the St. George temple because we've been there several times. We finished the evening off with scriptures and hot chocolate. It was super fun, one of my favorite family home evenings.