family night- sometimes it just plain hard

Tonight we had a special family night. We drove up to the temple (maybe 8 minutes away?) and talked about what the temple is & what we do there. We talked about the temple & how important it is. We talked about the temple & how much we love it -- why? Because someone just got his first temple recommend! It's exciting! We are setting a date & going all together.It's tough to have family night sometimes - we were all tired, had homework to do & someone was slightly (over the top) uncooperative. Somebody was told he could not have a cold chicken sausage out of the fridge (the big ones they sell at Costco with lots of garlic, spinach & cheese in them, fully cooked) until we were done with family night. Why he asked-- 1. that is gross & 2. family night is special & we had just barely finished dinner- it was getting late - Chloe had homework- this is important- get your rear in the car! Are we having fun yet?
We calmly & nicely talked about the temple etc. on our way up. When we got there it was closed & the gates were locked, of course- it's Monday. But--- someone could squeeze inside the fence. Someones sister told him he was being disrespectful squeezing inside the fence. That did not make that same someone stop. Instead someone went in & out of the fence drawing attention to that sister to hurry, "look I'm in the fence again?"


It was beautiful there.

I'm glad we went.



The view of the temple & the sun setting was amazing.

The smell of the chicken sausage someone had pulled out of his pocket because family night was over- was not.

Sometimes don't you wish you were here?