Temple Viewing

As I mentioned, I wanted to take the girls to see the 10 temples we'd be close to while in Utah and though it took a lot longer than I expected, we were able to do it!  

We saw our first 6 temples on Tuesday afternoon after leaving Katie's house, starting with the recently renovated Ogden Temple.

(Note that the girls did not cooperate - and by girls, I mostly mean Halle, for a large majority of these pictures.)

For at least the first couple temples, the girls got to touch the temple, which Eve took to the extreme and decided to hug it instead!

This afternoon was all the better because Grandma was with us :)

Next up was the Bountiful Temple:

Then on to the Salt Lake City Temple, which the girls particularly enjoyed thanks to hundreds of viewings of both "The Mountain of the Lord" and "Only a Stone Cutter" movies.

Eve correctly guessed who this was a statue of!  Smart girl :) 

The grounds were closed, so this is as close as we got....

Our next stop was the Jordan River Temple:

Then the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, by which point I was beginning to lose the girls.  They were ready to be done for the day...

But we managed to squeeze in one last stop - the very special Draper Temple where Daddy and I were married almost exactly 6 years ago!  (Our anniversary was in 3 days.)  Halle was asleep in the car and my nerves were frayed to the point that I didn't dare risk waking her.

At that, we called it a day and headed home.  Because we wanted to miss rush hour traffic on I-15, we decided to take the scenic route over the point of the mountain, which neither Connie or I had done before.  It was beautiful!  There's a whole community up there totally isolated from all the busyness on both sides below.  I loved the drive home to Provo - so cool to see something I've driven past hundreds of times and never knew was there.  I bet it's a pain to live up there in the winter, though :)

The last four of our temples had to wait until Thursday morning.  We stopped to see them on our way out of Provo, headed to Colorado.  

First, the still under construction Provo City Center Temple:

We're so excited for this one!  

Then, our much beloved Provo Temple:

You can see I was rushing at this point - only a quick picture at each temple.  Next was the Mount Timpanogos Temple:

And finally, last, but not, least, the brand new Payson Temple!

This one was amazingly beautiful!  

10 temples!  What a blessing to have so many available to us.  We're so grateful in our family for the blessings that come to us through the temple and look forward to our girls growing in love for these holy houses!