We drove to my parent's home Wednesday night, we drove the rest of the way Thursday. We helped set up the reception a little bit, and then we drove to my Sweet Husband's brother's home. We had a wonderful meal with him and his family and my Sweet Husband's youngest brother. It was fun to see them and to see the kids play together! I love to see cousins play together, I always loved playing with my cousins and now it's fun to see our Sweet Girl loving her cousins!
As we were driving to my aunt and uncle's home where we were going to stay for the night, my Sweet Husband and I stopped for some yummy ice cream! Sweet Girl was asleep in her car seat, so we just sat in the car and enjoyed our ice cream and visiting together. I love being with him! After we were SUPER stuffed with yummy food (from before) and ice cream we drove the rest of the way to my aunt's house. They moved into a new house recently, so it was fun to see their new home. We talked for a little bit and then went to bed because we had a very busy day ahead of us.
We woke up, got ready, and headed to the temple. It had snowed an inch or so during the night, but the roads were pretty clear and we made it safely to the temple. We dropped Sweet Girl off with my cousins and headed to the sealing. It was beautiful! The sealer was really funny! I loved one of the stories that he told, so I'll share it!
He said that when President Spencer W. Kimball was the prophet, he (the sealer) and his wife were invited to a dinner party with President Kimball and his wife. The sealer and his wife were invited to eat at the table with President and Sister Kimball. President Kimball told everyone at the table that his wife always makes sure that his shirt is ironed, his shoes are shined, etc. He said, "She's always riding me." About that time another person at the table said that they had just gone to their friends' 60th wedding anniversary party and they were told there that that couple had never had an argument in their entire 60 years of marriage. The sealer said that President Kimball leaned over and said, "they must have had a pretty dull marriage!" Lol! The sealer said that he wasn't telling them that they should just try to pick fights, but that having differences of opinion and working through those is a good thing in marriage!
After the sealing, we headed outside for pictures. It was SO COLD! I'm talking my feet were numb by the time we were able to leave! Lol! But it's okay. My sister and her new husband took more pictures, and while they did that, my Sweet Husband, Sweet Girl, my sweet new sister-in-law, and her sweet daughter drove to my grandparent's home not far from the temple and visited with them until we needed to leave for the luncheon. I was also able to finally give my grandmother the home videos I'd converted to DVDs that I promised her FOREVER ago (more on that later)!
(PS I got most of these pictures from my sister's blog, they were taken by Debby Leavitt Photography, some were taken by my sister's sweet mother-in-law, and some were taken by me or with my camera)
(PS I got most of these pictures from my sister's blog, they were taken by Debby Leavitt Photography, some were taken by my sister's sweet mother-in-law, and some were taken by me or with my camera)
The luncheon was delicious, we ate until we were stuffed again! Then my Sweet Husband and I left to go see the new Provo City Center Temple, we weren't able to get tickets, so we decided we were just going to walk around and see the beautiful temple. It holds a pretty dear place in our hearts since we went to stake conferences in the Provo Tabernacle (what it was originally) while we were at BYU. We'd planned on taking Sweet Girl with us, but she had her own idea, she wanted to stay with Grandma and Grandpa, and my parents were sweet and said she could! So we drove down and parked and then noticed signs for the tour. We thought, we might as well see how long the standby line was, we didn't have a ton of time, but we checked and there was ONE person ahead of us! So we were able to take a tour of the beautiful temple! I love the temple! It was so neat to be in two temples of the Lord in ONE day! Before the tour, we watched a video about temples, in the video Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said that heaven wouldn't be heaven to him without his wife and his family! I completely agree! Heaven would not be heaven to me without my Sweet Husband, Sweet Girl, and our family! What a blessing it is that families can be together forever!
After the temple, we ran a few errands and then went to the reception. It was beautiful! It was also fun to catch up with my cousins and my best friend from college came too! After the reception, my sweet sister-in-law and I took the girls to the hotel so they could get to bed, and everyone else cleaned up the reception, bless them!
Sweet Girl was so silly and insisted on being with my parents or with my sister in the line most of the night!
Before the guests arrived to the luncheon
Sweet Girl was so silly and insisted on being with my parents or with my sister in the line most of the night!
With my sweet maternal grandparents!
The next morning we headed to my parent's home. When we got there we started setting up for the reception that night. It was also beautiful, but pretty chilly since it was outside. We had a great time eating pizzas and visiting with everyone!
Helping get the tables to set up at the Saturday reception
The trend of being in the line continued at the second reception as well!
Our side (minus our missionary brother)
chatting with cousins at the reception!
As you can see, it was a wonderful but crazy weekend! Thankfully, Sunday and Monday were very relaxing, which was very much needed!
