Salt Lake City 2013

Our Christmas vacation began Friday December 20 when we picked the kids up from school at noon. We packed into the car and drove across a windy blown Wyoming. Our goal was to get to Salt Lake City and take the kids to temple square. We prayed and hoped for good roads, which for the most part they were good, but there were some slick spots in Wyoming where the snow had blown onto the road way and caused for some ice to make the tire ruts in the road slick and a bit scary.

 

After we got to our hotel, unpacked out bags a bit, we piled on the snow clothes and headed out in the cold to catch TRAX. We rode track 3 stops before we got to the temple. It was so fun watching Carter take in the experience of seeing and ride on a "train". He loves trains.

 As always, temple square was packed and was really busy.  We waited in line to get up to see the Christus. This year, we didn't have any kids yelling just so they could hear their echo in the openness of the area of the Christus. We didn't stay too long because we knew our time with Carter was short due to it being his normal bed time.

  It had snowed in Salt Lake the day/night before our arrival. Snow was everywhere and made things so beautiful. We were here 2 years ago when Carter was just a baby and our trip this time around was a bit quicker and we saw a lot less. The light surrounding temple square always amazes me. It's not just the lights from the displays, but the light of Christ eliminates there also.

I wish that I would have had more to mess with my Camera settings and take more pictures. It didn't like the night time, and Christmas lights together and more of my pictures are blurry.

 

The kids had fun in the hotel room. It's always fun to have a TV in your room, along with a bathroom that all 6 of us don't have to share.  When it was our time to leave to head up to Idaho Carter hitched a luxury ride on the rolling suitcase. He was in heaven.