Homeward Bound

We headed to Utah for our yearly trip the end of June. We took it a tad easier and drove out in 2 1/2 days instead of 2. My brother recently moved to Midway, which is a perfect stop for us before we headed down to So. Utah. We enjoyed spending the night with them and eating fish tacos! I always told Daniel that I didn't and wouldn't ever like mexican and fish together, guess I was wrong once again. Sunday after church and lunch we head to St. George. We stayed at Aaron and David's place and were treated to an amazing dinner by a whole crew of family (Mom, Aaron and Elisa, Amanda and Jake, Esther and Ryan, and Nate and Candy). Monday we went to visit Dad at Ben and Shaea's. After visiting on the lawn for a bit we decided to drive 3 blocks over to the temple and walk around a bit. It had been a long time since my girls have been to a temple and I thought it would be fun to see where Mommy and Daddy were married.

 

It must have been a combination of the blue sky and bright sun but I didn't remember the temple being so bright white. It was actually hard to look at it was so bright. The girls had a fun time looking around the vistor's center. As we were walking around the grounds, this bird hopped down from the tree and just sat there looking at us no matter how close we got.

 

We are pretty sure that it was a peregrine falcon but we are not sure why it wasn't afraid of people.

 

While we were in the visitor's center we ran into Daniel's brother, Matt. Matt works as a maintainace engineer at the temple. He told us if we could find someone to watch the kids he could take us in the temple to show us some cool things. Well lucky for us we brought Grandpa along. He watched the kids while Matt took us through some behind the scenes places in the temple. It was neat to see some of the old pioneer construction that is still holding the place up. We were pretty lucky that it was on a Monday so it was closed. It was super amazing experience! Thanks Matt!