sealed

we had the opportunity to go to the temple on friday.

christina sent out an email to see if anyone was interested in a kid swap up there and we were!

turns out alecia and sarah (and their crews) were all going that day too. :)

 

if you have never driven to the dc temple, it is quite an experience.

here you are driving on the beltway,

(or most likely sitting in traffic of the beltway)

you turn a corner and, boom!

there it is, gorgeous.

as usually happens whenever we try to do... anything, we had some kinks in our plan.

about halfway to our destination (takes about 2 hours) little miss franks threw up all over herself.

so since we were the first ones to arrive, i took the 3 girls into the visitors center while matt ran to target to get a change of cloths.

matt and i went in to the temple first.

we were able to seal my grandparents to their parents and it was a very sweet experience.

i really love going to the temple.

and not that i'm counting, but that's 3 months in a row for us.

holla.

 

the kids loved the visitor's center.

not sure the visitor center loved the kids, but whateva.

they hung out there for almost 5 hours and, in my opinion, were really good.

after we got done, rob and christina, and then sarah and alecia went in.

so we got to hang out with r & c's 3 boys (same ages as our girls) and tony and his 2 girls.

delaney shocked all by falling and staying asleep.

and then she woke up and played like a good big girl.

the kids, who i didn't get a picture of, were all really good.

i made them stay on this "gold" carpet and we did art and played with dinosaurs and princesses, we're very versatile that way. then when they got restless matt would put all their coats on and take them outside, or tony would gather them all for a hike around the visitor center. it was super cold outside anyway, but with the windchill it was like -80°. but the kids had fun jumping and running.

it was a good day.

on the way home matt needed to stop at the scout shop for his blue and gold on saturday and i got to stay in the car with laney and this sleeping beauty. i love how she's holding on to her little handles.



the girls did really well, but friday afternoon traffic and our ride home took forever, seriously, like 3+ hours.

so we stopped at bert's 50's diner to use a pizza coupon i bought from a pta fundraiser.

the girls, who haven't had much restaurant experience, liked the atmosphere but weren't interested in the food. that's the way it goes.

all but this little jack-o-lantern toothed cutie.

she was all like "feed me!"

love this happy 1-year-old!

we left at 9am and got home at 9pm.

as soon as we walked in the door, frankie threw up again.

at least she waited till we were out of the car, small favors.

it was a loooooong day but oh so worth it.