The Temple

We drove down to Idaho Falls early this morning to take Kade to the temple for the first time with his Murdock cousins. It was a beautiful day and we had such a peaceful time in the temple. It was just our families doing baptisms for the dead which made it pretty special. 

Then we got to drive down to Rexburg to see our niece graduate from hair school. Haley will be a great stylist! We walked around BYUI campus a little bit to share the Ricks heritage in the family and then had dinner at a super cute place in town. 

We made it back up to Idaho Falls to get a tour of the new High School where Travis is the athletic director. It’s pretty nice and he’ll be great at his job!

The kids played night games tonight and Lesa and I got to go for a walk. It’s been a fun and active day!

Baptism

Tenley’s baptism day went so well. Having so much family here definitely helped make it so amazing. Lesa came with me to the church at 6 am to start filling up the baptismal font (it takes over three hours to fill!) When we arrived we learned that someone else had come before us to start filling it up for us. Oh well. Haha.

The program went so well! My mom gave a great talk on baptism, the actual baptism went perfectly, the kids singing was the sweetest thing ever, and Grandpa Hobson’s talk was great. Tenley was happy and smiling the whole time.

After the baptism we went to the symphony. The had a free family matinee today and it was so much fun! Everyone seemed to enjoy it. Tenley moved her baptism time up just so we could make it to the symphony. I'm glad that it all worked out!

The rest of the day was spent relaxing and eating delicious food. Ryder and Yesul are best friends. They tried on lots of costumes and played so well together. Tenely received many gifts and spent time writing in her new journals. It was a perfect day!