I Love to See the Temple-Hand Print Spires

As many of you know a new LDS temple (Oquirrh Mountain) was dedicated on Sunday. I felt really blessed to be able to attend the dedication and hear some wonderful uplifting words. My sister and I traded babysitting so that we could each attend a session. One of my favorite things said was something like this...You have a room in your house for eating, you have a room in your house for sleeping, you have a room in your house for TV, but do you have room in your house for Christ?"

I decided that it would be fun to have some Sunday appropriate temple activities and mementos for the kiddos to remember this special day. I found a cute temple coloring page on Mormon Share to start them off. Then, I shrunk down the picture of the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple from LDS.org and printed them each a wallet size copy to keep. I meant to ask my niece how she felt about the new temple and record it for her journal, but ran out of time.

When googling "I love to see the temple coloring" I saw this quote in the third listing. "I love to see the temple. (put fingertips together to form a spire)" I got soooo excited!! How cute would that be, hand print temple spires. I clicked on the listing, but it turns out it is just actions to the song, not an actual art activity. Not anymore. I just traced the outline of their hands on a piece of paper with the angel Moroni printed at the top. It would be really cute to use finger paint or ink so you could see the detail of their tiny hand. It is almost like they are raising their little hand saying, "I love to see the temple." Sorry if you are gagging now. See it on the fridge below.

The best part about this activity was today when we walked in to the kitchen to get a snack today, my son looked up pointed at the fridge and said, "temple." Aaah, my heart fell out of my chest. Then, I got a good laugh as I realized I have 7, count them SEVEN, temple pictures on my fridge. Hello.

1. Lists our old wards goals, but they are good so I keep them up there.
2. My mini temple calendar where I keep track of what day we went to the temple each month with a little gold temple sticker. We went tonight, so dear me, that makes 8 temples on the fridge now.
3. A cute little card from Deseret Book that has part of the YW theme "Make and Keep Sacred Covenants."
4. A magnet of a gorgeous photo of the SLC temple that his talented Aunt LaRae took. We bought at hubs family reunion.
(these two help hold a temple wedding announcement, he he)

5. The wallet size of the new Oquirrh Mountain temple
6. The coloring page
7. The hand print spires

I guess you could say that "I love to see the Temple." hardee har har

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