Kimbri & Mommy ~ Gilbert Temple

A few weeks ago (mid February) I took Kimbri on a little buddy day, just the two of us. I took her to the Gilbert Temple open house. Rick and I had already gone with some of our nonmember friends but I really wanted to take Kimbri.

We had been learning the primary song, "I love to see the temple" and I wanted to be able to take her and show her what a temple is. So I reserved us tickets and we went!

As we drove up to the temple she saw it out her window and got so excited and said, "There's the temple. So big! Jesus' house!"

We parked and went into the church building to watch the video before the actual tour started. Up on the screen was a picture of the temple. She was so anxious. Kimbri saw the picture and stopped mid tracks, pointed up to the screen with her cute pudgy little finger and excitedly gasped really loudly and then said, "There's the temple!" The ushers laughed. It was so funny how excited she was!

After the movie we were escorted to the beginning of the tour. Of course we had to put on the little booties over our shoes first and Kimbri wanted nothing to do with those! It was so hard to convince her to put them on. Finally I got them on and as soon as they were on, after walking two steps into the temple they were off again. After struggling to get them on and have Kimbri keep them on, an older man came up to us and said with a smile, "I think one pair of small bare feet would be ok to walk through the temple." 

So off we went. The temple is absolutely gorgeous. They had us start out in the baptistry. We walked by the font and when Kimbri saw the water she said, "Oooo, there's a pool. Kimbri go swimming!" She cracks me up :) I told her we could go swimming in a couple weeks when the pools open up for the summer (which they opened up this week! wahoo!). 

We made our way through the whole temple, ending in the Celestial room. Oh my the chandelier in that room is incredible!! I read in the newspaper that it is 18 ft tall and 8 feet wide and weighs 1,500 lbs!! Can you believe it?! That is amazing. 

After finishing the tour we walked out into the beautiful Arizona sunshine (I still can't believe how the winters are here!) and I tried to snap a few pictures. 

Kimbri wouldn't sit still long enough for me to get a picture of her actually looking at the camera. Oh well, such is the life of a 2 year old. But the pictures I took are still super cute of her anyway :)

After taking a few pictures we started walking toward the car to head out. Kimbri was sad to leave and kept saying, "Go see temple again." She loved it. I'm so glad. It was sad to have to leave but it is so close to Sams Club and the other grocery stores we shop at so we drive by there to see it often when we are out and about. 

We had such a fun Mommy/Daughter buddy day! I love you Kimbri!