Year of dates...January!

For Christmas this year I gave Anna my quality time.  More specifically I got her a year of prepaid preplanned dates (one each month).  She opened the first on on Christmas day and we plan the day we are going to take the date and then after the date she can open the envelope for the next month.  Here was our first date card:

So we headed out to the Bountiful Temple.  Becki had gone the day before and told us that they had just released a new movie at the Temple so plan on it being busy, which it was.  The chapel was packed and not everyone got through to the next session as every seat was taken and still people couldn't all fit in the room.  How awesome a problem to have.  On our way into the temple we stopped and asked some youngish girls to take our photo (they were in their 20's so should have been tech savvy).  This is the result...

Awesome job girls...not only are we dark shadows in the front they didn't even get the whole temple in so we said thanks and waited a minute for them to get far enough away from us and then took a selfie.

The temple was awesome and such a great break from the world.  I am loving the new movies as they really make you think and understand the emotion and decisions behind everything.  The celestial room was so crowded as well but I took a minute and expressed my gratitude to my Father in Heaven for the new job and the baby and I couldn't help but think back to a dark moment just a few months before where I knelt down in the dark of my living room and plead with the Lord for some relief and some help.  I remember sobbing (we are talking full on ugly cry snot running down body shaking sobs) that this couldn't keep going on this way and what did I need to do to move on.  And now here I was sitting in the Celestial Room of His house feeling immense gratitude for my blessings.   I took a moment and bore my testimony to Wiley Bryan whose work I was doing and thanked him for the opportunity to do his work and encouraged him to trust the Lord.  I always try and bare my testimony to those whose work I am doing so I can share that moment with them.  I have to say I have had some of my most tender moments at the Temple while doing this.

After the temple, Anna and I stopped to get our favorite guilty pleasures at Dairy Queen...

It was a great way to cap off the night.  I love you Anna and I'm excited for a year ahead that I get to spend time building us!