Our weekend

Saturday we had the chance to go to the Draper Temple Dedication. We had tickets to be inside the temple, which was a LOOOOOOONG drwan out process. It was over 7 hours between the time we left home and the time we got back. We had to wait at the chapel where we parked, get on a bus, wait at another chapel near the temple, wait over an hour in a tent tunnel, and wait in our seats. Then wait for a bus back to our parking area.
We drove to the place where we would park to take a shuttle over to the temple. The Draper temple is a small temple, not a full-size, so there is very little parking on site. We all had to park at church parking lots in the area and take a bus to the temple. Darrin had said that the last bus would leave at 2, so we got there at about 1:40. Turns out that the FIRST bus was at 2, so we were on it. They had 4 church parking lots and each was designated with a color. The color of your parking lot was also the color of your ticket. You had to make sure to get on a bus with the right color to get back to the right parking lot. Well, it just so happened that the blue parking lot where we were was also the place where the white ticket people were meeting. The white ticket people are the VIPs who get to sit in the celestial room. The white ticket people had to be on the first bus.
Soooo we ended up being the first people entering the temple behind the white ticket people, and that meant we got to be in the celestial room!
It was amazing. There was a small choir that was incredible. I enjoyed watching Callie and Kyra's faces as they saw the prophet for the first time.
No pictures since I couldn't take my camera.
Spending Saturday doing that meant no church for us on Sunday. Regular meetings were canceled so people who didn't have tickets could go watch it by satellite. It was SO odd to not have church on Sunday. It was a cold, windy day, so Darrin and Brynn tried flying a kite in our backyard:




But the winds were so gusty and swirly that they kites couldn't stay up and would come crashing down with no warning:


We also hung up our new bird feeder, to replace the one that broke. And spent some time bird watching:



I made a big turkey dinner. Last fall we got a free turkey but never needed it for a holiday, so it has just been taking up room in our freezer ever since. I never had time to make it. But yesterday was a whole free day, so I went for it!




It was really nice to spend a whole day together at home!
And finally, spring in Utah can be so unpredictable. Saturday was lovely and warm, in the 70s. I wore capris and went barefoot most of the time we were at home. Today I woke up to THIS:



Yes, that is about 6 inches of new snow. And it is still coming down!