A trip to the temple

Lately we've had a lot of trips to the temple. There is a new temple that was just built near us, The Oquirrh Mountain Temple. We feel so blessed to have it near by. I've had the opportunity to serve at the open a house a couple of times and we've been thru it a couple of times.

This week, since Aunt Runnie and her kids are in town, we took them to see the new temple. It was really crowded, but we enjoyed the beautiful spirit there.

Then, yesterday, we took trax up to Temple Square in Salt Lake City and had a wonderful time. We took a tour through the Beehive house, walked around Temple Square, and saw the movie at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Nonna even treated us to dinner the Cafe.



I called it a success even though HY ended up in Mini-E tinkerbelle panties, and Mini-e ended up with no panties at all by the end of the day.

Trax, Lights, & Free Hot Dogs

It doesn't get better than that, does it? At least not for our HY.
He thought he'd entered heaven when we boarded that train for SLC. And Farmboy was pretty happy to be out of traffic.
When we reached the city, he didn't want to get off to see this spectacular sight!





We walked around Temple Square & sipped our hot chocolate (one of traditions) & tried to keep warm. And we even got a family picture. A rarity indeed.


Then we headed over to the Delta Center (newly named Energy Solutions Arena) for the Carol Sing-a-long & free hot dogs and a drink. Not a bad deal. We even saw a glimps of Santa. HY thought that was pretty darn cool.

Of course, we ended with his favorite part, the train again.


And Mini-E thought the train was pretty cool too. I just thought this picture was too perfect to pass up.


Despite being FREEZING, we lived and had a great time together.
Definitely a tradition we are keeping.

Here comes the Bride

Well, she did it! You may remember this post. Yesterday I got to see these 2 get married in the Salt Lake City Temple. It was a very beautiful ceremony & I was honored to be a part of it. Everyone was so excited. These 2 have been dating a few years now. A day that was long awaited. Here are a few pictures of the newest Bride & Groom.

This las picture is me looking down the steps of the Temple waiting for the group photo. Aids, wish you could have been right there with me! The only picture I failed to get was one of me & the beautiful bride. Dang!

Temple Square

We left the kiddos and went to see the Tabernacle Decicatory Concert last night. It was super cool to sit in the newly renovated Tabernacle and listen to the Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square. Incredible. We even got to see Pres. Monson (from a distance).

Thanks to Grandma Suz and Grandpa S (Papa) for getting such cool tickets for us. What an incredible concert.