I Love To See The Temple

Yesterday, we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House. It was absolutely beautiful! We were lucky to choose a day when not many other people were there, so we were through the whole thing in a little over an hour. A big contrast to our Draper Temple Open House experience of 4 hours! We'll never go on a school holiday again, that's for sure.

We are lucky enough to have Jeremiah's parents and brother visit us this week and decided it would be fun to go all together to the open house. Our kids are usually very active and loud, but they must understand a little bit about the importance of the temple, because they were very good, reverent, and quiet during both this and the last open house we went to. We were very proud of them and gave them a cookie at the end for being so good (ok, they would have gotten a cookie at the reception afterwards anyway, but they don't need to know that).

It was a beautiful day yesterday and the sun was shining. After watching the video, touring the temple, and enjoying a cookie and some water, we headed to the front of the temple to take some pictures. I had seen some beautiful family pictures from our friends' blogs right in front of this fountain and really wanted one of our family there too (thanks for the great idea everyone!).

How beautiful is this temple?


Here's our whole group


I also got a quick picture of just our little family


I don't know what it was about this fountain, but I absolutely loved it.


This is Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Troy


And they wanted one with them and the kids too


The flowers were beautiful and as we were waiting for another group to get done taking pictures, I grabbed this quick one of the kids, it's one of my favorites from yesterday


This is the side of the temple, it looks so majestic standing there


I love the cornerstones of the temple, I guess it has to do with the fact that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of our religion, the symbolism is just so strong to me


Hailey and I sat in the back of the car and I snapped this quick picture of her with her little legs crossed - too cute!


Then she caught me and smiled big for the camera


Not to be left out, Zach wanted one of him taken too. He was in the middle seats between Grandma and Troy, so it was hard to get the focus just right



We had a great time and the kids were so good. We're so blessed to have so many temples so near us. What a spiritually uplifting day it was for all of us!