Salt Lake City Weekend -- Temple Session

I was sooooooooooooo lucky over labor day weekend to make a fast and furious trip to Phoenix and Salt Lake City! A HUGE thank you to Christy for offering to take my kids so that I would be able to go!
I flew into Phoenix early Thursday morning and Kristin and Ben picked me up! We went back to her place to visit and to wait for Blake and Michelle to pick us up for lunch. We went to Cheesecake Factory (Oh those Avocado Eggrolls....YUM) and had a really nice lunch! Then we headed straight to the airport for our flight to Salt Lake. Mom and Dad met us at the gate and we were off to a pre-wedding gathering. What a nice evening! It was so fun to see Heidi and Devon and all the family before they got married!

After a late night visiting with my sweet sisters, we arose early and headed to the temple to do a session! I was married in the Salt Lake Temple (16 years ago) and each visit brings back such great memories of my wedding day! It was so nice to return!

It was so nice to be with my family!

The temple grounds were AMAZING! The flowers were stunning and looked just how I remembered them on my wedding day! It was a gorgeous September day and we couldnt resist snapping a few pictures in between brides walking by!




Sorry for all the flower pictures in my post! They were just amazing!

My sisters Kristin & Michelle

We had a few people telling us where to look and in not one picture are we all looking the same way! LOL! We laughed and laughed the whole weekend! It was so fun to be together and not a moment was wasted!

My mom and dad snuggling on a bench!

The temple looked so beautiful against the blue sky! It was hard to get a picture because there is a lot of construction in the area! Oh how I love the history of this temple!

This is my favorite shot of it...not sure why..just liked it.

Flower...

After we had a nice lunch at the top of the Joseph Smith building, we stopped into the conference center. There was neat art work display going on and we had an informative session about the auditorium. Things were a bustle as they prepare for the upcoming October conference. We had only a short time before we needed to be to the wedding so we snuck in an hour of shopping, a quick costume change and we were off to the wedding!

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when you arent packing 4 kids along!