DAY FIVE: The best day EVER!

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 is now the best day of my life. On this day I sealed for time and all eternity to my forever love, David and my beautiful daughter, Malia. It was a super emotional day and I am so grateful that my family was here to share it with us. For those of you that are of the LDS faith, I am sure you understand the great significance of this occasion. For others, it may be a bit confusing to see what all the hype is about. Feel free to check out these links for some clarification: http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/membership-in-the-church/forever-families and http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/membership-in-the-church/temples-and-family-history. Regardless of one's religion, I am sure we can all agree that families are a great thing and how special it is to have time together. Imagine the blessing of ETERNITY together!! The day started pretty mellow. Mom and Chris came out in the morning. Mom hemmed David's pants and Chris put together the wagon. Thanks! David slept being as he worked the night before. Wait... who am I kidding? The morning wasn't exactly "mellow".... David came home around 8am jobless. He had been working for Pepperidge for not even 2 weeks and they laid him off... indefinitely! You always here that stressful things happen as you are getting ready to go to the temple... I guess losing your job the morning of qualifies! David had never officially left Alpine and is returning to work for them full time. Alpine has truly been a blessing in our lives. Britt made a scrumdiddlyumptious breakfast- Stuffed French Toast! Christina and the girls joined us for the breakfast. Once again, I wish Britt would move here so we could all hang out together. In a lot of ways Christina is like my Britt. We'd have so much fun together! Too bad Christina is leaving me, too! Stinking Army! Just kidding, I fully support the Armed Forces... Just wish the Barringtons didn't have to move. Hurry Britt, don't let there be a "friend gap"! Around 3 Dianne showed up and she and Britt took the kids down to the Caley's for us. It was nice to have that time together, just the two of us, right before going to the temple. We got to the temple at 4pm. A super huge thanks to Lori's family for watching Britt's kids! For families having children sealed to them there is a children's center while the parent's are in the endowment session. These family and friends were in attendance for the endowment: Mom, Brittney, Dianne, Bart (Lori joined for the sealing), my great aunts (Velma, Virginia, and Jeannette), the Baldwins (our Bishop and his wife, also my Visiting Teacher), Boedy Hunsaker (from Alpine), and two of David's friends from Pepperidge. He makes friends fast! He thinks the whole reason this "pepperidge ordeal" happened was so he could meet these great people! These are the people that were able to join us for the sealing: all of those in the endowment session, Ward Members: Barringtons, Becky Demuzio, Emily Morrison, Dianne Mikkelson, Kings (Kelli and Brian), Morlan Seamons (our temple preparation teacher), Alpine people: Aaron Elwood, Michelle and Chris Harris (owner of Alpine), fellow Stake Primary Presidency (Osbournes, Clemens, Debbie Grinnell). I hope I'm not forgetting anyone. Brother Hall (Stake Presidency) suggested we write our experiences down afterwards.... I should have done it sooner, it's getting foggy already! I must admit my favorite part was when they brought my Mali in.... she looked so beautiful!! She was so good! Not a word the whole time! Just her big, beautiful eyes soaking it all in. I didn't cry until I saw her. I was just so overwhelmed. Don't get me wrong. I am so grateful to be sealed to David forever. He is an amazing man and I love him with all my heart... It's just that when I realized that Malia will be ours, FOREVER, I was so... HAPPY! I am so grateful that we will be an eternal family. Afterwards, we gathered for pictures outside the temple. The weather was rainy and cold, so only a few pictures were taken. Unfortunately, none of them by my camera! Malia went down to the Caleys and my immediate family went out to eat at Olive Garden (love my employee discount! Too bad I can only have up to 8). It was nice having some time with just the adults. Thanks for dinner Mom and Chris! David had to go to work that night (last night at Pepperidge). Dianne, Britt and I stayed up chatting way too late. It was fun having some girly time, too. It was a very long and somewhat overwhelming day, yet still amazing.



The one picture in my possession from that day. This is Malia right before we went to the temple. Isn't she so cute?? This isn't actually the dress she wore in the temple. If you look close, this dress has little yellow daisies on it (dresses have to be all white for the temple). Britt tried to bleach out the yellow centers, but no luck. Fortunately, the temple had a dress for her and it was just as pretty.