Catching Up Is Hard to Do....part 1

I feel like there is so much to update on here that I don't even know where to start....so I will just go month by month and do a summary....sounds like a plan to me, we will see how well that works.

In APRIL
 We had the temple open house for the Kansas City Missouri Temple. What a wonderful experience that was to be able to help out with and be a part of furthering the knowledge of the gospel in our area.

We also had the opportunity to take a friend of ours through. As well as Ryan's parents and sister Katie & her husband, came out to visit during the open house so we were able to go on a tour with them.

Finally having a temple in our area and so close to where we live is exciting and truly a blessing!

On MAY 5 & 6 the Dedication Sessions were held. We were able to attend the Sunday morning session at our local stake center while a friend of ours watched Brysen for us. Later that day after the last session was over, Ryan had the wonderful opportunity to help clean the temple and prepare it for opening the following Tuesday. They had to put all the furniture, decorations, carpets, etc. back into their proper places and everything cleaned and organized back to perfection. He stayed and helped out for several hours while Brysen and I walked around temple grounds and talked with people from different wards and stakes that were also walking around the grounds enjoying the peace and tranquility of the temple.
We also watched a terrific thunderstorm roll in, at which point the rain came we were allow to wait for Ryan inside the temple in the waiting room. All in all it started our month of May off great!