Spring Break - Day 4 - Family Fun

Like everyday in this trip, I have wanted to do more things than I had the time. I really wanted to visit with a few of my old professors, but I had to make a few choices and allow myself to enjoy this trip instead of feeling frazzled. This morning, Gillian accompanied Sarah to the high school play rehearsals that Sarah is helping direct. Mom stayed home to relax, while Elijah and I took the boys to Elijah's brother, David. He and his family just moved to Rexburg, and they have four children, the older two the same age as Jefferson and James. Needless to say, my boys were very excited to play with their cousins.
We left them there playing, eating and just being happy for being together. Elijah and I stole a few minutes for ourselves and headed toward the temple for some temple work.
The temple was as beautiful outside as it was heavenly inside. Although I wasn't able to visit with old friends, I was happy I had made the choice of attending the temple with my husband. It was a time well spent and enjoyed.

While Elijah and I were attending the temple, and the boys were spending time with their cousins, Gillian was having a great time herself with her aunts. Sarah had taken her to the rehearsals as well as to the drama class she is student teaching. Gillian really enjoyed that. Countless times she has told me she would like to be an actress, and all this dancing and singing and acting was down her alley. Afterword they had picked up Rebekah, and all three of them had eaten out at a fancy pizza restaurant, followed by some upscale cupcakes and candied apples. Having always treated Gillian as an adult, she fit right in with her aunts in conversation and judgement. She told me she had had a grand time.

We all got back at Sarah's around four in the afternoon, and tried to relax by watching some special on the upcoming Royal wedding of Kate and William. Hoping this one wedding would end in happiness, we couldn't wait for the next day to see the whole ordeal.

Elijah's brother, David had invited us for dinner at his house, so around five thirty, we got everybody in the car and drove to his house. We couldn't believe how much Rexburg had changed and how many more houses and apartment buildings had been added. At David's house, we had a wonderful time. Dinner was delicious, company fun, and the children happy.

After dinner, we all played a funny game that got many laughs out of everybody. One person got blindfolded, and would sit on someone's lap without knowing who the person was. The person sitted had to make an animal sound and the person blindfolded had to figure out whose voice it was. Sarah could make some really good animal sounds without letting her voice being recognized. Because our crowd was made of little people and big people, there were some funny moments when we couldn't stop laughing just looking at the big people sitting on the little people.

After we had had all the fun we could possibly have, Elijah treated everybody to some ice-cream at a new ice-cream shop.
Afterwards, goodbyes were in order, and Jefferson kept saying that Hyrum was going to visit him soon, I think mostly to keep himself from being too sad and burst out crying. Before driving to Sarah's home, we took the children on a ride around BYU-Idaho campus, showing them all the places we used to live, eat and have fun. Driving by the temple was the last thing we wanted the kids to remember. And what a sight to behold!