I Love to See the Temple

Friday June 20th, Cooper was Sealed to us.

What a wonderful day.

Corbin sang "I love to see the Temple" for days before and still is all this weekend. I hope that he will keep a memory of that day.

He is still so young.

I could tell that he felt the spirit there. I could tell by the way he held on to me and was so reverent as he looked at the pictures of Christ framed on the walls. I whispered to him that the feeling he had inside was the Holy Ghost. That the spirit was telling him that the temple was a special place. A place where families can be together forever.

I hope that he will remember that feeling .

When Derek and I, along with all of our family that were in attendance, were sitting together in the sealing room the man dressed in an all white suit talked about families. He was darling and said some great things to all of us.

When he thought enough time had passed and that the boys had made it down the hall to us and were probably waiting outside the closed door, he went over to open it and said that "your children should be here now"....but they weren't.

In that moment I was reminded of our journey to bring kids into our home. And how when we decided it was time to start a family and we opened that door...no one came.

They didn't come when we thought it was time... and they didn't come the way we had planned.

We know that is because our family wasn't just in our hands it was in our Heavenly Fathers.

Sitting there it only took seconds. A few breaths. And they were here, we were a family.

I'm sure that's how time passed to our Heavenly Father too.

He knew that once we opened the door that He would be walking these little boys down the hall to us . He couldn't help it if their little legs couldn't move as fast as we wanted.

They are here now, and so worth the (little) wait.

We hope to do this again. We want to adopt again. We pray for more children. The door is open, now we are just waiting for them to make it down the hall and join our little family.

(Thanks to all the family that were there to be part of this special day. We love you for fitting us into your busy summer. And we know that the family who couldn't make it, wanted to be here too and we love you for that)