Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

Today started a long, 5 day weekend for our family. Bret took some of his vacation to do some family stuff. Mostly just relaxing and being together through the Pioneer Day holiday. Today we took the kids to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. Darci was so excited to go inside "da bumple an see Jesus". Christopher was our resident expert because he got to see the Draper temple with Grandma and Grandpa while mommy was on bedrest. We don't know WHAT Xander thought it was going to be like, but he DID NOT want to go in the temple. Many of you who know Xander know that he has OCD tendencies and doesn't like change or the unknown. While we sat in the tent outside and viewed the video he was crying crocodile tears. As we headed into the temple I was worried he would have a complete meltdown. Then we got inside... he was so in awe of everything. He was my most reverent and he asked lots of appropriate questions. When we walked by the baptismal font Darci asked me if we had swimsuits and started to think about getting undressed. The usher near us had a little laugh over that. Everything was just beautiful and Bret and I both felt the spirit strongly. As we were leaving the temple and heading to the reception tent Xander said, "WOW!! That sure was fancy!" Then we enjoyed the cookies and water and took some pictures.

Afterwards we had a family lunch at IHOP and then the boys got to go to Grandma Rosemary's for a sleepover. Xander thought it was the best day ever. I think it came pretty close.