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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Spring Break - Day 6

ogden utah temple and st. patrick's day.

all the girls sporting their best green digs but the smiles are something to be desired lol. that sun was shining too bright!

i love all the beautiful flowers at the temple.

take 2...a little better than take 1!

we love to see the temple!

we are so glad we got the chance to see the ogden temple before it was closed for renovations. one of which will be a change to this water feature.

reading a story with the grandma and grandpa statue.

on our way back to the house, we stopped to play some more. jay helped ariana use the toys correctly.....aka his way.

after the delicious dinner miranda made, michael made dessert! dessert crepes!

they are treating us sooooo good! love you guys!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

yesterday, like i said, we didn't get to tour everything so we came back for round two. jay and i came down earlier in the morning to attend a session at the salt lake temple. amazing! what an uplifting experience! the girls were with michael and miranda and we met up with them all at the church history museum. ariana was collecting eggs. it reminded her of grandma roleen's chickens back in albuquerque.

ariana and laney climbed aboard nephi's ship to do some fishing.

caprice was ready to feed the missionaries.

jay helped chloe and alexis to build a temple.

jay and ariana even tried to learn some latin-american dances and dressed the part!

from there we went to the lion house, brigham young's mansion residence. the mansion has been beautifully restored and serves as a museum offering tours showing what life was like for the young family back in 1855. (sorry for the lack of pictures) with all the rain, we called it a day and went to see our friends....and their sweet new baby! adelaide is adorable! i wish she liked me more! lol it was good to catch up with our friends, we miss them so!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Spring Break - Day 4

while everyone was taking turns getting ready for the day, ava decided to show off her skills on the air hockey table.

we rode the FrontRunner into salt lake city.

the temple we (well, me for sure) wanted to see the most, the salt lake city utah temple.

we love to see the temple!

touring the visitor center we learned about the building of the salt lake temple.

and even got to peak inside with this model of the temple. there is an audio depiction of each room displayed. very cool!

we took a break for lunch and tried out a (new to us) hamburger place, crown burger. it was good food! it was good to rest our feet! all good! caprice's wants them to open one closer to home!

across the street from the temple we toured the conference center. general conference will be in just a few weeks and it's neat to see right where president monson and his counselors will be sitting.

this beautiful mural is etched in stone on top of the conference center.

view of the temple from the roof of the conference center.

i know my savior lives.

something to remember.

today was a long day and we didn't get to visit everything on our list, so we'll be back!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Spring Break - Day 3

laney had to go to school today so we thought it was a good idea to go have lunch with her.

ava needed her own picture taken.

and you always need some good silly faces!

everyone enjoyed their lunch. laney was left to finish the school day and we took chloe with us to go see the bountiful utah temple. the temples are closed on mondays, but we still were able to walk around.

caprice loved that this tree was so green....even the trunk!

we love to see the temple!

even though we're on vacation it's still monday night...family night! we found this awesome play center close by and they had a special for family night! unlimited bounce play, laser tag, pirates cove (tunnels with swings and slides)!