Mari is so fun to have at home. I am sure Beth has a better day each day because of it. Marianne is so great at pretend play. She is always making and creating and playing. This day she spent over and hour making helmets for her and beth our of paper with tape and scissors, and it was actually really good. Then she got a box and other craft supplies and created a rocket ship then her and Beth flew around the solar system all morning! She is so smart and creative.
We went to Lisa and Rodney's new home in West Jordan twice within a week because all our California cousins were driving through Utah and stopped there for an evening. I was so happy to see them all and the cousins ran around wild all night both times.
Kate and Sam studying an article of faith on the couch together. These two spend less and less time together, but I love when they do, I want them to remain good friends.
Mari draws her and I and it is beautiful as always.
Marianne and I spent some more time at Primay' Children's doing tons and tons of tests. She had pneumonia four times in a matter of two months this year. They thought perhaps she had an immune issue. In the end we didn't get answers. Only now she is on an asthma medicine and hopefully that helps a bit to keep pneumonia away.
THE PROVO TEMPLE OPEN HOUSE.
We spent an early morning with the kids showing them the new Provo Temple.
Because when Jake and I were first married this was our stake building, and it was close enough to our first home we occasionally walked here for free concerts, and Jake's law school graduation was here too. It seemed a full circle event. I loved learning of the building of the temple, and saw such a lesson in the Lord rebuilding this tabernacle into a temple. How similarly he makes holy things out of the disasters in our lives. I mentioned how rough 2015 was for our family. An almost burning of our hopes and happiness it felt. But starting 2016 seeing what the Lord can do from Rubble seemed symbolic in many ways.
I loved the design and thought that went into each hinge and step to make it look like it was all original. Thinking about why so much money was spent to save the building instead of just building something new from scratch teaches me lessons too, about how much each of us our worth, and our individuality is worth to our Heavenly Father.
We tried to go to breakfast afterwards, but funny enough it was so early there weren't even places open to eat that we could find nearby so we ended up eating Chicken at like 9:30 in the morning just because we had promised to take the kids out to eat. One of the restaurant managers saw us in our church clothes early and figured out we had been to the open house. She came over asked me about it, than gave our kids all kinds of books from the happy meals that we didn't buy.
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