Provo Temple Open House

I really wanted to go down to the Provo Temple Open House so I talked with both sides of the family to see if anyone wanted to go.  All of my family decided it would be fun to go see it together.  So I tried to set up an appointment for Rachel to get a recheck at the brain balance center but Sydney ended up quitting and so they cancelled it until March 23 during our spring break.  We ended up leaving around 10:15 from mom and dad's house.  We took Jared and Trenton so that Mom and Dad could fit into Paul's vehicle and didn't have to drive by themselves.

 Pilot & Co-Pilot

 The three kids in the back seat.

Paul and my parents decided they were going to stop at Maddox to get some lunch.  We had to stop at the rest area so we just met them there.  It seems like it took forever to get their food.

We ended up leaving and headed to Sconecutter because we had told Damian we were going to be there at 1:00 and now it was going to be 1:30.  I was starving by the time we got there but of course it was delicious as always.  After lunch we headed to our hotel so that we could get changed for the temple.  That's when we found out the pool was closed.  We were kind of ticked but was like whatever.  We then had to wait for Paul to go to Walmart because Matthew forgot to bring any church pants with his church clothes.  So finally we headed to Provo around 3:30.

 I took this right as we got to the temple and were walking from the parking lot that we parked in. We actually got into line about 1/2 an hour early.  So that was nice.

 Waiting in line.  Everyone was still happy at this point.  The wait ended up not being as bad as I had heard it would be.  Some people had waited up to four hours to get through the temple.   We only had to wait about forty five minutes before we started into the temple.

 The rest of our group that I didn't get in the first picture.

 The start of the tour.  They even wrapped mom's wheelchair wheels with plastic wrap.  They have it worked out to a science though so she didn't even have to get out of the chair.

 The outside of the temple.  So gorgeous.

 Family picture

 Of course we had to get one of just Rachel by herself.  

After that we ended up eating at Chuck A Rama.  We headed back to the hotel and were happy to see that they had the swimming pool back up and in working order.  I was watching the BYU men's vball game and then we went to the pool.  The kids of a ball while the adults hung out talking and soaking between the hot tub and the pool. It was a great day.

Family Craft Day

There was a decision made that we all wanted to get together to do a craft day in Scott's family.  So Tia found the craft we would do and then I provided the house.  It was lots of fun.  I think everyone's crafts turned out super cute.

 Everyone working on their board.

 Hallee and her funny face while I was taking pictures of everyone.

 Hallee photo bombing my picture of Brad cooking dinner for us.  That was awesome.

Here is my finished project.  I'm going to put it outside on my front porch and hope it doesn't get blown away.

The 2nd craft we did were Easter bunnies.  They were super easy and turned out really cute.

House Updates

The last few days I have had a few extra things that have been done for the house.  First I had Tia make me this really cool vinyl sign.  I'm going to make this corner into my command center with a few more things to keep us organized.  I think it turned out good.

 The grey that you can't see very well because it's not a close up says command center.

Here we have another electrical outlet.

Scott talked with Justin about the fact that our outlet next to the sliding door wasn't working.  He said he would bring an electrician over to get it fixed.  They took off outlets on both sides of it and were kind of miffed as to why it wouldn't work.  We moved stuff out of this corner and the electrician asked Justin if he could feel that little bit of a bulge.  Justin said yep.  They figured there was an outlet back there that had gotten covered up by the dry wallers.  So the electrician took a screw driver and put a whole in the wall.  He found the outlet that needed power to connect the other outlet.  I was impressed that they found it on the first shot.  So now all my outlets work and they showed me what we needed to do to fix the breakers.  Things are coming along in the new house nicely.

School Picture Day

This was what Rachel was wearing for school picture day today.  She looks pretty cute if I do say so myself.