I Love to See the Temple

Connor and Abby

Cayden wanted to wear a tie so Grandaddy Larry got one out of his closet and put it on him. Caleb wanted one to but I forgot to get a picture of it.

Cute boy!

Waiting at the stake center.

On Saturday March 7, we went to the Draper Temple open house. It was quite a chilly morning but it was beautiful. We had to start at a stake center close to the temple where we watched a short movie on the purpose of temples and a bit of history of the Draper area. Funny moment-while we were watching the video, Connor was sitting up front by Abby and Suzanna. They showed a picture of a round sofa type thing that was part of the furniture in the waiting area of the temple and Connor says "Is that a hot tub?" really loud so the whole room could hear him. Suzanna assured him that it was not a hot tub but it was still pretty funny. After the video we boarded a shuttle bus that took us up to the temple. I have not been to an open house before I don't think so it was very cool. The boys were just in awe. The temple was gorgeous inside with very modern furnishings. There is a beautiful sego lilly theme through out the temple. Don was carrying Abby a lot of the time and she just jabbered and jabbered. It was so cute to see them together. It took about 2 hours to do the whole temple tour and movie and then they drove us back down to the stake center to our cars. I got to hold Owen part of the time and some of the muscles in my arms had forgotten they were used to holding a baby. The only thing that could have made it better was if the protesters were not there. I mean seriously-don't you have something better to do with your time? I appreciate the fact that we have free speech but for pete's sake get a life! After our temple tour we went to Mimi's Cafe for a lovely lunch. Suzanna, Ryan, Abby and Owen and Ryan's parents and his sister and her husband were there as well as our family, mom and Larry, Anne, and Calley. I'm glad that we got to do this as a family and I hope that we can go to the other open house in the summer.