Gilbert, Arizona Temple

We decided since the Gilbert, Arizona Temple was driving distance for us that we would take the opportunity to take the kids to the temple open house. John's mom joined us and we all had a great time!

We left on Friday afternoon and headed to our hotel. To our surprise our room had two bedrooms instead of just two beds. It was great! We put the kids to bed and then stayed up and played some games.

The next morning we got up early and headed to the temple. It was a beautiful day and the temple is Absolutely Gorgeous!!!! The kids really enjoyed seeing all the rooms and I could tell that Charles felt the spirit at times. When I was talking to him about the baptistery I got all choked up and could barely talk. The spirit was so strong there and being with John and the kids in the temple all together was the BEST thing ever!!!! I am so glad that we took the time to go see the House of the Lord. I hope the experience is one that the kids will always remember. 

Madison was having a rough time when we were trying to get a picture in front of the temple. This was the best one we got!

After going to the open house we headed back to our hotel and packed up and stopped for lunch at our favorite place,  Chick-fil-A so we could let the kids play for a while and then we headed home. 

One of my favorite parts about our road-trip, besides the temple was all the Sonic's that we got to stop and get Slushes!!! Yummy!!! The closest Sonic to us is about 30 minutes way.  But in Arizona they are like every 3-4 miles. It was great!!!