As a family we went to the Draper Temple Open House last Friday night. It was really very cool. The kids were entranced by how pretty and nice everything was. They were very curious about the decorations and the way each of the various rooms were used. The murals in the ordinance rooms were amazing and they loved that the trees in the paintings were "our trees" that we stare at out our front window. The celestial room was very cool and Andrew had fun staring all the way up at the huge chandelier. For a few weeks, he's been asking me what it would look like if you held two mirrors up to each other...so when he got in the sealing room, he thought it was very cool to look at the reflections going on forever.
It was a very cool experience to get to go there as a family and to talk about temples, god, and eternity with our young kids in such a cool setting. I wish we could go back with them sooner rather than later. It was a great time.
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About Me
- Okie
- Husband, Father of 3, Reader, Writer, Student, Employee in Corporate America.
Books Read in 2012
Books Read in 2011
- The Star Shard
- The Shakespeare Thefts
- Peter and the Starcatchers
- The Maltese Falcon
- Flygirl
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Jacob T. Marley
- Doc: A Novel
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Throne of Fire
- The Death Cure
- The Good Earth
- Rise of the Darklings
- The Ruins of Gorlan
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Orphan of Awkward Falls
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- A Room With A View
- The Gypsy Morph
- Casino Royale
- The Red Pyramid
- Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
- Oliver Twist
- The Lost Hero
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Tuck Everlasting
- The Scorch Trials
- Crucial Conversations
- The Tale of Desperaux
- The Name of the Rose
- Matched
- The Elves of Cintra
- The Learning eXPLOSION
- A Lion Among Men
Books Read in 2010
- The Graveyard Book
- The Last Olympian
- The War of the Worlds
- The Maze Runner
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Dain Curse
- Fablehaven
- The Turn of the Screw
- Dracula
- A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
- The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Chains
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Search for Delicious
- The Holy Man
- Mockingjay
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Those Extraordinary Twins
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Beyond the Grave
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Sword Thief
- The Amulet of Samarkand
- The Great Divorce
- The Titan's Curse
- The Black Unicorn
- One False Note
- Magic Kingdom for Sale | Sold
- The Four Loves
- Catching Fire
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Soulless
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Right Ho Jeeves
- The Maze of Bones
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Hourglass Door
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Drug of the New Millennium
- Archenemy
- Great Work Great Career
- Sea of Monsters
- The Hunger Games
Books Read in '09
- Beloved
- Holes
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Jesus Without Religion
- The Water Babies
- Coraline
- Erewhon
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Elusive Pimpernel
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- The People of Sparks
- Heart of Darkness
- Watchmen
- Tarzan of the Apes
- The Lightning Thief
- Angels & Demons
- Rapunzel's Revenge
- Son of a Witch
- Prince of Persia
- Austenland
- BUtterfield 8
- Chickens in the Headlights
- Bullies in the Headlights
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Pillage
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Babbitt
- Frankenstein
- Red Harvest
- The Public and Its Problems
- Fables: Volume 1
- The Great Gatsby
- Captain Blood
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
- The Sun Also Rises
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
- The 7 Habits of Happy Kids
- The Big Money
- The Scopes Trial
- The Charlemagne Pursuit