FOFHE

June Jiggler- June 7th, 2010

Tonight we had our First Official Family Home Evening!! We have done little things on Monday to make it different than other nights, but tonight we dubbed it as Official Family Home Evening- So great things were in store!

Anything great in this life starts out at the Cowboy Grub! This is the restaurant I worked at last year and absolutely loved it! Loved the people, loved the atmosphere, and loved the food! Just a great family friendly restaurant if you ask me! And any place with this mural on the front door is a winner in my book!

After that we drove down to Temple Square- I know... typical FHE in Utah.  But we went with a purpose! A) It was our first time back since we got married there and it was so great! We saw several brides and grooms getting pics taken and we just sat and reminiced about the good ol days! It was a gorgeous night also, so that was a plus!  After we sat outside and admired the gorgeous landscaping, we headed into the South Visitors Center where a new replica of the temple is up for display.  The purpose of it is to help members who have not gone into the temple for a long time, are less active, etc. see inside it and hopefully prompt them to come again (that's what Elder Hinckley said at the unveiling of it).  It is also really cool for non-members to see it too. 

the model was made by non-members in Toronto, Canada (holla!)  The church sent them pictures of every room and they made everything to the correct scale- even the murals are perfectly how they are in the temple! So cool! I also never knew that there was a huge assembly hall above the Celestial Room- very neat.  Andy and I both sat and focused on the peaceful feeling we had while we were there- it's nice to step away from the world sometimes and just relax and focus on what really matters.

After that we drove through the hills of Bountiful and creepily took pictures of the most amazing houses!! Andy is going into Architecture, so he was loving life while looking at all these million dollar homes- Very cool!  To top the night off, we saw the most beautiful sunset and then went home and watched Mountain of the Lord.  The best FOFHE ever!

Sunday Walks

Yesterday- June 6th- was the best night to go on a walk! It was the first time Andy and I walked around the temple since last summer, and it was the second time we had been there since he proposed to me! We were at dinner at the Grandpops house and the most amazing thunder and lightening storm came blowing in! So on our way back into Bountiful, Andy and I sat in the back seat like little school children watching the lightening crack and the thunder boom! :)
Once we got home, Andsy pants and I went down for a walk around the Bountiful Temple.  The temperature was perfect and a little humid becase of the storm- just wonderful for two love sick people! :) haha.  I really do love walking around the temple- one of my most favorite things to do.  I hope I can do it until I am 98 years old!! I was grateful that our June Jiggler for the day was surrounding the temple- really put things into perspective for us!

And this picture is pretty much the same one that I stole out of my first apartment of my first area on the mission- this is what I missed for 1 1/2 years- pure bliss with that sunset in the background!

Great Treasures!

On Day 3 of the J Squared, Andrew and I found ourselves out at the Bountiful City Dump.  Why you ask?  Because we had been tearing out carpet from sun up till sun down and it was time to drop off the old cat stained remains of ugly carpet that was found in our apartment when we found it! Hallelujah! Our new carpet comes this Wednesday and we could not be more excited to move into our little love shack! :)
Best part of the day was:
A)- it was my first time to the dump and I was educated on how the dump works! I always thought that it was just a huge pile of waste- which it is, but it is actually covered up by dirt and has grass growing on it! Interesting... not like I love the dump or anything but I thought it was interesting... that's all I'm going to say about that!
B)- While we were dumping the carpet the first time, there was a little boy that had come with his father- he had made his way across the dump and had an old plastic shovel in one hand and was reaching down to pick something else up.   He yells in his most enthusiasic and serious voice, "DAD! THERE ARE SOME GREAT TREASURES OUT HERE!! AND THEY DON'T EVEN SMELL THAT BAD!!"  hahaha- the dad kept trying to get him to stop and get out of the trash pile, but he was loving life too much!
Have fun with that one pops!
Here is to June 5th and the June Jiggler!