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My little family has not yet gotten the pleasure and blessing of entering a Holy Temple to be sealed for FOREVER. On the very bright side, we have worked even harder in the last year and a half to get ourselves active enough for David to become an Elder. Last fall that happened and because of it, he was able to give our son a baby blessing. I thought that was the coolest day yet. Well, our little family is looking forward to yet another amazingly cool day....the day we get sealed to eachother! In the collage is my mom and I (& Ethan) at White Elegance on September 2nd going shopping for my temple clothes!! It was so crazy awesome to be there doing that. We are planning for David and I to go get our endowments the first week of October and then go get our family sealed a couple weeks later... SO CRAZY!!! I still cant even believe it!! I am so so grateful for these upcoming life changing blessings. I cant even begin to describe how happy I will be when the day comes that my family gets to kneel at the alter of the Lord and be sealed together for the Eternities! Im so proud of my family for getting ourselves out of our inactive rut we were in and have pushed through to meet these family goals. David and I really kick ourselves since we didnt just get active back then and get sealed instead of getting married and then hoping to get active and go to the temple a year later. We took the fast way to marriage back then and it ended up taking us 6 years (this September 24th is our 6th civil anniversary) to get this close to getting to the temple. What a bunch of lazy butts we are. But truthfully we dont regret it. We have grown so much on a personal level and as partners. We would never have been able to grow and mature spiritually as much had it not been for our struggles to get out of that lazy sunday rut. We have had to really prove to the Lord that we really want to be at church every sunday and that we really want to do his will and keep his commandments. Not just some of them but, all of them. We have had to prove to him that we really want to go to his Holy House and get our family sealed to him so that we may one day be in his presence again...for Forever. David and I didnt just get engaged and blissfully get sealed together. We have struggled to attend all the church meetings and such over the years. It especially got harder after having a baby, then another one. But I can firmly tell all that I do not regret this. I see a change in David that makes me even more attracted to him than when I wanted to marry him to begin with. I have seen a spiritual change in myself too. I regret how long we have let it take to get here to this point but, i dont regret the fact that we have had to prove ourselves to the Lord. It has made us so much stronger spiritually & emotionally and our DAILY family prayers (not just random anymore) that we have participated in for the last year have completely brought our family together. We know what we want, where we want to be and are finally willing to go all in and do what we need to do to get there. We know how hard it was to get this far and I hope we can remember that and never take the temple blessings for granted. I hope we can make sure we make the time often to go to the temple and to do work for those who have passed on. I am so grateful to be at this point in my life. Thank you to all of you for being such amazing examples to us!!! So glad to have you as a friend!!! Thats all for now. . . .