Saturday, January 31, 2009

Temple open house

So, on Thursday night we went to the Draper temple open house with my parents and Uncle Shawn. Nate was excited and we talked before about the temple and why it's important. He was really excited to go. The boys were also thrilled about seeing Grandpa and Grandma. It was neat experience, especially for Nate, to see the inside of the temple. They were both really good. Nate really thinks Uncle Shawn is cool and held his hand through most of the tour. He turned me down a couple of times because he wanted to hold Shawn's hand instead. Zach was really good and stayed with Grandpa for most of it. He didn't quite grasp the concept of a quite voice and made some loud comments about pretty lights and stuff, but he's cute so he could get away with it. By the end of it, he was done. We got to one room where you could sit down and listen to someone for just a minute. At that point, Zach was done with being quiet and started crawling under chairs and away from me. Thankfully, we only stayed in the room for a minute and then the tour was over. We got to have light refreshments and the ride a bus, which was probably Zach's favorite part of the night. I was really glad we got the chance to go through since it made the temple seem more real for Nate. I don't know if he'll remember it as he gets older, but it gave us a good chance to talk about things.

2 comments:

mjnetty said...

We're going next Thursday - was very busy or long? I'm excited to take my kids through it as well.

Mel said...

It was busy, but they get people through pretty fast. You start out with watching a 12 minute video at the church before taking a bus up to the temple. We did have to wait a little bit for the bus on the way up, as well as for the bus on the way back. Total time with the waiting was about 1 hour 45 minutes. Not too bad and a great opportunity.