Saturday, October 24, 2009

Orlando Temple Trip

Our stake has been announcing our Stake Temple Day for the last 2 and half months!  It has been a big deal as Southern Florida has been trying to prove that we are a temple worthy area...it must have paid off because if you haven't heard we are getting a temple here in Fort Lauderdale (announced at the last conferance)!

The Orlando Temple has never done 1000 endowments before in one day so our stake along with another stake set a goal to reach that mark on October 23rd, 2009.  We decided that we wanted to be part of the Millenial Stake Temple Day - so along with our friends the Batemans we packed up the kids and headed to Orlando on Friday.  We left right after school and made it up there around 3pm.  We watched their kiddos while they did a session and then they watched Taija so that we could.  It was great to just be a part of that day!

We spent the night in Orlando (let's be honest...who wanted to make a 3 hour car ride twice in one day with 3 kids) and headed home today!





Taija in her big-girl car seat!


Taija thought it would be fun to wake daddy up in the morning!

6 comments:

Jeana said...

That i so awesome that you guys could be a part of such a great day!

The Call's said...

What an amazing experience! That temple looks beautiful! You have such a cute little family!

Shonna said...

What a wonderful temple trip! So did you guys reach the goal of 1000?

Jenessa said...

That is so neat! That's awesome you went, even though your were missed at Blake's party. Thanks so much for the gifts! She loves the backpack and right away opened the goldfish!:) Tajia looks great in her new car-seat! Does she enjoy facing forward? It's a great milestone:) I'm also curious to know if you got 1000 ordinances...See you soon (hopefully anyway:))!

Justin and Toshi said...

yes...we reached our goal! We did just over 1100 endowments!

Reiko said...

Isn't it so much fun to visit new temples? Thanks for putting Bryan's name on the prayer roll. I know it helped him. Only two more months and we will all be together again.