FANTASTIC WEEKEND!

Jared and I were fortunate enough to break away from our stressful life here in Denver and spend roughly 5 days in Utah. We left early Friday morning and arrived at his mom's house around 4pm. About 10 minutes after we arrived my sister in-law and her super cute kids arrived and the party began. We always have so much fun playing with them. We had a wonderful dinner and some killer peach cobbler for dessert(and I don't even like peaches very much). After more playing Jess and the kids headed out. Saturday morning we slept in as much as Cayden would let us. We headed into Toelle so I could hit up DI for more children's books. I have quite the collection now thanks to my trips to DI. After our DI run we went up to Jess and Sean's house. They fed us lunch and then took us to see their new house. What a trip that was! Their new house is beautiful. I am so excited for them. I can't wait to see it once they move in. After seeing the new house we went back to their current home and hung out for a while longer and enjoyed some Marie Calendar's pie. When we finally left we stopped in Bountiful to visit Jared's Grandma and then headed back home. It was a long day but it was a good one. Cayden and Tayler playing with balloons

Jared being the fun Uncle that he is

Sunday was a normal day. We went to church, came home and ate, sat and chatted a bit, scanned some pictures, and then put on a movie to finish out the evening. However, we were pleasantly surprised when Jess, Sean, and the kids came out to the house. It was so much fun hanging out with them. Monday rolled around and we had to get up early because we had reservations for the Draper Temple Open House. Going to the open house was such a wonderful experience. It is such a BEAUTIFUL temple(not that they all aren't beautiful). Anyway, when we finally got to the temple I was so excited to go inside. We walked through admiring the beauty of everything from light fixtures to stained glass windows, to the doors, to the carpets, it was all so awesome. As we were walking through Jared pointed to a picture of Christ and said "Cayden look, who is that?" Cayden looked up, pointed, and said "JE." I started to cry. It was such a comforting feeling to know that he still knows who Jesus is. We moved on through the ordinance rooms and then into the Celestial room. Cayden loved this room. It echoed really nicely! Yep, Cayden tested it out with his shrill scream. Then he started reaching to the ceiling as if he saw someone there that he wanted to hold him. The last room we went into was a sealing room. (FYI-The Draper Temple has the biggest sealing rooms out of all 129 temples) Sitting in the sealing room and telling Cayden that it was in a room just like that that Jared and I were sealed brought happy tears to my eyes. It was such a wonderful experience to stand in that room and look into the mirrors with my little boy in my arms and my wonderful husband at my side and know that we are going to be together forever. I am so thankful that we had the opportunity to go.

We woke up Tuesday morning and had breakfast with Jared's mom. Then we told her good bye as she headed out to work. So we gathered our things and headed home. Cayden was such a good little traveler. We only had to stop once because he was begging to get out. It was such a great trip and I was so glad that we were able to make it out. Its always nice to spend time with family and its really nice to spend time away from home even if it is only for a short time.

On the playground at Little America

Hope everyone has had a wonderful week!!

~LOVE TO ALL~