Draper Temple Open House

Saturday we had a rare and awesome opportunity of attending the open house for the Draper, Utah LDS Temple!!! Growing up outside of Utah, and how it is for the majority of the members of the church, I never had the opportunity to attend a temple open house. Being here in this state where there are a few temples being built every decade or so is a unique blessing and opportunity. When the Draper Temple was announced I wanted nothing more than to be able to take our boys to the open house and let them see with their own eyes and feel with their hearts the amazing blessings of what the temples bring. We got tickets on the first day that reservations were being made and have been teaching and discussing temples and the blessings of temples in preparation for taking the boys to the open house. It was a neat thing to be able to reinforce the Lord's teachings and the importance of temples. Isaac is definitely at an age that he will remember quite a bit of that day. He still talks about how he felt the spirit while he was there and it made him feel good. Gage will remember a bit, I suppose. Bridger is still very young but we still took him and we can talk about the day that we went and how we felt and who knows? Maybe in another 5-10 years there will be another temple built here and we will be able to take them all again.  We had a wonderful time as a family and with Grandma and Grandpa Whitesides. All Bridger needed was the constant distraction of gum that kept appearing out of Grandma's purse and he was perfectly happy and content!!! He must be my child. I have no idea how much gum he swallowed but I figure it all comes out in the end anyway.....lol:)