I Love to See the Temple, I'm Going There Someday!

Today, we got the opportunity to go to the Draper temple open house as a family. We got online and signed up for our reservation last month, so we lucked out that everyone was finally feeling better, and able to go. This was the first time of ever going through a temple open house for my kids, so it was such a great opportunity! They were excited about going (minus having to dress in their Church clothes!), and we talked as we were driving there about what to expect. They were surprised that there were cafeterias and laundry rooms in temples, and we explained why those things were needed. It takes me back in time to 1981, when as a ten-year-old, I went with my family to the Jordan River temple open house. I distinctly remember being shocked at seeing a drinking fountain there - it almost seemed sacrilegious to my young mind that there would be anything so mundane as that in a place as special as the temple! :)
When we got to the assigned meetinghouse that we were starting from, they had us go in and watch a short movie about the importance of temples. It was very interesting, and enjoyed by all (except Koleman, who kept asking why we couldn't have popcorn for this movie...). Then they loaded us on a bus, and were driven five minutes up to the temple, where we then went through some canopies to guide you up to the entrance to the temple. They gave us a pamphlet that explained a lot about temples, and asked that we only whisper once we were inside. Surprisingly, the kids did okay with that, although when we saw the baptismal font on the backs of the oxen, Kyler starting mooing loudly and pointing! (He loves cows!) :)
Everything was amazing, and so beautiful - we especially loved the celestial room and sealing rooms! Kalyssa was impressed with the brides' dressing room, and asked me about it later - I agreed that it was very cool, and that I hoped it was still a ways off for her! Trust my little girly girl to notice something like that!
We almost made it through without incident...
However, when they led us into the sealing room and had us sit down for a minute to talk to us, David set Kyler on his lap, and only then noticed that he had a wet diaper that had seeped through onto David's nice slacks! We were trying hard to listen as they talked about the mirrors that you could look into and see eternity, but we were mostly casting furtive, agonizing glances at each other as we tried to keep Kyler standing by us (but not too close to anybody). Aaaaargh!!! It's rather ironic that, here we are coming up on our 15th wedding anniversary in March, and what a contrast the situation in this sealing room, as opposed to the one as we were there to be married. We sure didn't envision this as we knelt across the altar from each other back then, and looked into the mirrors - how could we have known then all the fun we were in for?!! :)
Luckily, we had planned ahead and brought a diaper. And luckily, we were right at the end of the tour, and headed into the meetinghouse right next to the temple where they had a bathroom. Thank goodness for that!
They had set up the cultural hall in the church with rugs, furniture, lamps, etc. and had made it very nice. There were also displays to look at, missionaries greeting people, comment cards you could fill out, and refreshments (what's a Mormon function without those, right?). Then we walked out to get on the buses back to the church where we were parked. Overall, it took us about two hours total, and was an amazing opportunity! I'm pretty excited to also be able to go see the Oquirrh Mountain temple in South Jordan coming up soon - how lucky are we?!!