Temple Trip

Heidi and I made a quick trip to the Ogden temple in November. Man, I needed it. It had been way too long since I'd been to the temple and I have so many family names that need work done.

Star Valley Temple

I have been looking forward to this day since the day the Star Valley Temple was announced. The very hour I could order tickets to the open house I did!! Wyoming has a piece of my heart and now it has it's first temple!

We have some beloved friends who live in Star Valley so that was a huge bonus to see them as well!

Soccer season, so no Jeff, but all of my kids were there and it was so special to see inside that precious tiny temple. ...seriously the smallest temple I've ever seen, but lovely. The paintings, everything portrayed my big beautiful Wyoming so well.

Because Tod was in town, he took the boys home and my boys got to spend the night with their BFF's before I came the next day. They were so happy!

And my sweet Janan! We got to see her and her kiddos as well.

I love this beautiful girl! She is so kind and sweet and such a good friend!

Ellie used to LOVE us, she wanted to live at our house when we were neighbors and when we came to visit, she wasn't so sure about us. She had just decided she loved us again when it was time to go. She cried and cried, sweet girl!

Em bought my book! ... and loved it. :)

Star valley

Every picture. Every post. It all just makes me so happy.
And I can't help but think about the day President Monson announced our temple. It was General Conference of course and we were all watching. The Prophet said he wanted to announce new temples, which is always exciting--but the spirit bore testimony to me before he said anything, and I just knew. I knew we were getting one. I remember so clear, sitting on the edge of my seat, my heart fluttering, waiting to hear where... I'm not sure why I was granted such a sweet tender mercy, but it was so clear to me that my beloved Wyoming would be getting a temple. And then the Prophet confirmed it.
Star Valley.

House of God

Star Valley Temple May 2016

OUR temple

I can't wait to visit this place.

Moroni in Wyoming

Every new step makes me so happy and so excited!! April 25th Moroni topped the Star Valley Temple. Very soon my beloved Wyoming will have it's first temple. And it makes my heart so full.

Baptism Trip

My sweet boys went to the temple last Saturday. I sent them with 60+ names in need of baptisms. I hoped they'd get at least a third done, but they were able to do them all!! I'm so excited! Now I need to get busy on initiatories.

Mom's endowment day

When I was looking through Mom's book and at all the old pictures, I found these from her endowment day.

Spring Break day 1: train.... Temple.... Leaving the cold Rock Springsfor the slightly less cold Salt Lake City!

Spring Break!!
We decided to leave a bunch of not so spring snow and head to the big city, Salt Lake--which had slightly less snow than us. :)

We got to stop at Grandma and Grandpa's store on our way through, which is always fun!!

Friday we rolled into town and did a little shopping. And then when our Hotel room wasn't quite ready we decided to ride the trax down town to temple square.

I really do love to see the temple.

So much missionary work was happening inside of the temple. It was amazing, everywhere we walked their were sisters talking to non members, answering questions. And then a pair stopped to talk to us. They were sweet girls and we watched a 12 minute video with them, every two minutes we'd switch rooms and the rooms were decorated to go along with that portion of the video--a nursery, grandma's house, etc. One section of the video the grandfather passed away. The mom, whose dad had died was distraught, but of course thankful for the plan of salvation. My sweet little boys, one on each side of me, they both scooted closer, not knowing what the other was doing and took one of my hands, holding me and comforting me--both of them thinking of their grandma and my pain. I love my sweet Landon and Seth so much.