Tample Square

On Monday, December 20th the girls and I got to perform with the Lehi Children's Choir on the mezzanine of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Temple Square. We don't have any pictures of their actual performance, but HERE and HERE are some from year's past! It is always such a beautiful setting and the choir sounded amazing! This year our performance was late enough in the day that we got to go get dinner and then walk around and see the beautiful lights at Temple Square. This is always a fun tradition and this year was perfect! We were there early enough to beat the huge crowds. The rain and snow that had been off and on all day had stopped and it was relatively nice outside! Which is why I can't figure out the grouchy face on Kierra above. I think people were walking by saying how cute she was so she put on the pouty face. She actually really had a great time! We all did! It was a perfect night!





While we were there Kaylee kept saying she wanted to go to the Church History Museum. The kids love the I Am a Child of God children's exhibit there. She kept begging all night, but I told her we would probably go later in the week. So, on Thursday the 23rd (before all of our cousins came....next post) :) I packed up the kids and went to the museum. At first we were bummed (especially Kaylee) because the first thing they told us was that the children's exhibit was under construction and the new Book of Mormon one wouldn't be open for 2 weeks. However, they had Christmas projects for us and of course extra stuff about Joseph Smith since it was his birthday. Obviously the church history museum has a lot of history of Joseph Smith so I'd like to say that I am so amazing and planned this perfect trip to celebrate his 205th birthday, but no...it never crossed my mind...we just wanted out of the house. It was just a wonderful coincidence!

It is completely free to go....even parking is free in December....so it was the perfect activity! The ladies at the museum were so fun with the kids! They did so many fun activities with them and kept their attention so well. We can't wait to go again!



We decided to just quickly walk through temple square again because we have only ever seen the nativity at night with crowds of people so we walked by that and decided to go up to the Christus in the visitor's center. Again, no people so we even took a picture. It was a nice relaxing morning! Would've been fun with Daddy there, but we still had a great time together!