Being up late last night, we didn’t get up as early as we would have liked this morning. But, also because we were out late last night we didn’t bother with unpacking the van, we just had everyone sleep in their clothes. So we were that much closer to being ready to leave this morning when we woke up. I did bring in stuff like the hair brush and diapers so we could make ourselves look decent. 🙂
We had breakfast, we finished loading the minimal stuff that we had brought in and then it was time to load up the kids and get going. We drove for awhile before making a quick stop to fill up the gas tank and use the bathroom. We knew that we would need to stop a few times to stretch legs, so we tried to pick some things that we wanted to see as our places to take a break. Our first stop along our trek home was the Sacramento Temple. The kids, especially the little ones, were glad to have the chance to be out of their car seats and to be able to move around.
I did not pose this picture. They just happened to get to the fountain and stopped to look at it, I came up behind them and snapped the picture. Like how they are all just about evenly spaced, it’s just my four girls and they are standing in order from youngest to oldest totally coincidentally?
Then because children are naturally attracted to water and fountains, the boys joined them.
Lydia went around to the other side to see if she could get close enough to touch.
The grounds were lovely, as temple grounds usually are. How sweet it was to catch Jeremy pointing out flowers to Adam. 🙂
I caught Lydia totally posing for me:
Right next to the temple there was a church building, so there were lots of cars in the parking lot, today being a Sunday. And in front of both the temple and the church building, there was this nice park. Roaming the park were some wild turkeys! We tried to get close enough to get a picture, but I think the noise of so many kids scared them off. This was as close as we got:
I just love this picture of the temple peaking through the trees:
