Thursday, December 11, 2008

A Christmas Tradition

As our ward tradition dictates, the Young Men and Young Women and their leaders go to Salt Lake every Christmas time to look at the lights at Temple Square.

But before we get there, the first stop is always a dinner at:



After dinner we walked to the Temple Square and walked around taking lots and lots of pictures. This year the Temple Square was packed with people or mainly youth. It was so much fun to walk around with our peeps.


Chloe and Kate...this is before they started winking at all the boys. There were some potential stalkers.


It was so cold (look at my nose..so red). Me, Chloe, Misty, Kate, JP, Jason and Jared


Chloe, Misty, Marisa (Mia Maid leader), Kate and Jared in the back.


A beautiful and peaceful sight of the Salt Lake Temple.


Christus statue in the Visitor's Center.


Still freezing. My nose was getting more red.


We are in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building elevator going to the 10th floor. Scary!


View from the top. Beautiful.

We decided that our additional tradition for next year is to bring hot chocolate and donuts for dessert. Yum! Can't wait.

4 comments:

Tai said...

We were just there on Tuesday. There was a youth group there handing out hot chocolate to everyone... now that was fun. Nice for me since I didn't want to cart it down. It was definitely beautiful. I loved the floating nativity in the reflection pond!

Sant Family said...

Larry and I were married in the SLC temple this time of year AND our first date was at Crown Burger! (Only it was Apollo Burger back then.) The pictures make me miss that time! Clearly you are a beloved YW president. And what a great ward tradition! I second the idea to bring hot cocoa and donuts.

Bilary said...

I LOVE Crown Burger's fries! They can't be beat. Yummy!

And even with your red nose, you looked darling! I think donuts and hot chocolate sounds like an awesome idea next year. YUMMY! Gorgeous pictures, by the way.

Annette Lyon said...

Gorgeous pictures (even with the red nose)! We haven't gone yet this year, but I'm planning on it.