A Saturday Night in Down Town Salt Lake

 I read on KSL yesterday that there was a chalk art festival going on 

at the Gateway mall in downtown Salt Lake.

I thought it would be really fun to go check it out.

We decided to ride TRAX there.

Let's just say we didn't have the best timing so we ended up waiting for our train twice.

But we were fine waiting, the ride there was a new adventure for us.

We decided to get off at the new City Creek Mall across the street from Temple Square.

Let's just say that it's gorgeous!

Check out this view from the mall...

 

The girls found some water to cool off in...

We really didn't spend much time there, so Sean and I will have to go back again without the girls.

Once Lexi saw the temple that's where she wanted to go.

And I decided that that sounded like a great photo opportunity.

The girls were loving all the fountains and the flowers.

They were so excited.
There was NO WAY that they'd hold still for a picture anymore.

So I got these pictures of them dancing and twirling in front of the temple...

From the temple, we saw the conference center.

We told Lexi that that was were President Monson talked from at General Conference.

We also told her that there was a garden on the roof.

She had to go see it.

So we did...

By the time we were all done with that, the chalk festival was over.

But we didn't care. We had fun anyway. And were tired and ready to ride TRAX back home...

Maybe we'll check out the chalk festival next year.

Starting Our Utah Temple Tour

 Lexi and I are both really excited that we live by so many temples now.

We want to go see them all.

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I have an idea of making a temple scrapbook.

I'm gonna print out pictures of our family at all the different temples we've gone too.

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First on our tour, was the Jordan River temple.
This temple is a 5 minute drive from our house.

Lexi told me it's her new favorite.

Today we went as a family to the Oquirrh Mountain temple, 

which is about a 10 minute drive from our hosue.

This temple reminded Sean and I of Rexburg.

 I want a better picture of the girls for our scrapbook,

so I guess we're going back :)

I just had to share the next few pictures of Avery. They really show off her personality.

It's a gorgeous temple.

I can't wait to go inside it!

And this picture is just funny.

Next, Lexi wants to go see the Salt Lake and the Drapery temple, as she calls it.

Washington Trip - The Temple

We went to visit the Seattle Temple while we were in Washington.
Lexi wanted to go see where Sean and I got married.
It was a lovely February day in Seattle.

Lexi got to stop and smell the flowers and even got to see a bride.

Quickly though it started to rain.

So Lexi borrowed an umbrella.

Lexi loved the temple.

New Years in Arizona

For New Years we decided to head to AZ.
We stayed with Jared and Val at Val's parents' house.
The last time we saw them was Thanksgiving 2010. 13 months ago!!!

Anyway, we had a great time. We were outside a lot. Which my girls loved!

It was so fun to see Lexi and Addie together again.
This was the first time that they really seemed to play together and really enjoy being together.

I'm sad to say this but this was the first time we met little Lyla. And she's 6 months old!

Sean and Jared had a great time squirrel hunting.

Sean and his Riley Nelson hair.

Sean and Jared were outside hunting and having guy time,

so Val and I decided to have girl time.

We took Lexi and Addie with us to get pedicures.

On the way home we decided to drive through Snowflake, AZ and go to the temple.
It was a gorgeous temple with phenomenal little ponds and waterfalls.
And the temple is on a hill in the middle of a golf course.

It was so good to be with family again.

Our Utah Temple Tour

This past Sunday we got back from a 10 day Utah trip.

We decided to make it a priority to stop and see several temples during our stay.

I think it's so important to make the temple as much as a part of my kids' lives as possible.

Our first stop was the Monticello temple.

Monticello is a little town with one stop light and two restaurants and

one of them is a Taco Time in a gas station.

But Monticello has it's own little temple.

Around the temple was a big open field.

A perfect spot for pictures.



Next stop was the Jordan River temple.

This is the temple closest to Sean's sister Michelle's house.

Here are our girls with their cousins Parker and Halle.

Lexi was sooooo excited to go see some of her cousins.

And here's Lexi and Parker dancing together in front of the temple.

Here is Sean with his two sisters, Andrea and Michelle.

Here's Michelle, Justin and their kids.

We love just hanging out with them.

Our third temple was Salt Lake.

We went to Temple Square with my parents who met us in Utah.

Lexi loves the Salt Lake temple because it looks like a castle.

What my girls didn't love was posing for all the pictures that I wanted to take.

I don't blame them it was crazy hot out.

While we were at Temple Square we went to the Tabernacle.

We also went and looked around the several visitors' centers.

Our fourth and final temple was the Provo temple.

I have some many more pictures from our trip.

So many infact, that it overwhelms me. I have a hard time figuring out which ones to put on my blog.

But I did already put HUNDREDS of pictures from our trip on Facebook.

Plus, Blogger is being annoying and only letting me upload 2 pictures at a time which

is horrible when you have tons of pictures. Plus it's also making my pictures all pixelated.

For now, I'm done though.