We Love to See the Temple

We love to see the temples and we're fortunate enough to have one within a half hour's drive of our home AND right beside our Stake Center.  So this past Sunday when we went to Stake Conference we told Y that we would take her to look at the temple afterwards.  I know it's kind of shameful but this is only the second Stake Conference we've attended since we've been married and the first since Y has been born.  And even though B and I try to go to the temple often, we never have the kids with us when we go so this was Y's first experience seeing the Detroit Temple.

So when we told her we'd take her to see the temple after conference was over she was expecting us to get into the car and drive all the way to Washington DC to see the temple where B and I were married and where we took her last year on our drive to NC.  So I had to clarify several times over the entire weekend that we were going to see a different, smaller temple but no matter what I said it didn't sink in until we were actually standing in front of the temple.

And so we took a few pictures:

And after we were done taking pictures and walking back to the car, Y's first question was if we were going to the Washington Temple now. Haha, we attempted to explain to her that that's a really long drive and maybe we'd go next time we drove down to NC.  Her response to that?  "Can we go to North Carolina now?"  I hope she keeps such a desire to visit the temple as she grows older and is actually able to enter its doors.