Ice skating to temple tours all in a day

We had a really great day Saturday. It was so very busy. We met Dan and Rosalyn downtown at The Gateway for lunch and then went to the skating rink. Our kids have never been skating before. They LOVED it. I was impressed at how good Aaron was. He hasn't ice skated for 15 years and was really good at it. I sat out because I had a nasty ankle injury about 6 weeks ago. I had a great time with my new camera. A lot of these pictures were taken across the rink and it was like I was right next to the kids. I would not have been able to do that with my old camera. Too much fun.

Lydia thought that she was the queen of the skating rink. She had a hard time waiting her turn to skate with Dad. She is excited to go back.






Katie had really good balance walking on her skates. She mostly followed the railing around the skating rink and held on to the bar.



I think that most of all Katie enjoyed being outside. She love to be outside and seems to especially love the snow. Every time we leave the house she is out tromping through the snow instead of getting into the car.



Dan and Andrew didn't have quite as much fun as we did. Dan was having trouble skating on his own without the help of Andrew. He couldn't skate and keep Andrew up at the same time. Andrew would have like to stay longer, as you can see from his protest to leaving. They only lasted about 10 minutes





By the end of our skating experience Jake was doing really well. He spent more time on his feet than not. He was really enjoying himself. We will definately go again soon.






After skating we raced home to change into Sunday clothes. We met some friends for a quick dinner and then went to the Draper Temple tour. It was really, really long. It took about 3 hours and we cut out 1/3 of the way through the our. It was like hurding 1000 sheep at a snails pace through the Temple. Lydia did not enjoy herself. She does look very distinguished stading at the pulpit in the chapel at the Temple. (Naughty, naughty!)

I was a very full day. We left the temple tour around
8:00 and then ran to the church to set up for primary and lock up the church building. We finished off the day with a Super Bowl celebration. I didn't watch but we did have some traditional food for dinner. We made super nachos and some sweet and spicy chicken wings (minus the wings) we used chicken breast. It was pretty good. Here are a few pictures.