Temple Square

On the weekends I always get the itch to go and do something different.  Most of the week we're at home or somewhere not too far from it.  A few weekends ago we decided to head down to Salt Lake and walk around Temple Square.  I think we've only taken the kids to Temple Square once before so it made for a nice little day trip.
On the way down I discovered that my niece Madison was with my parents so I asked if we could pick her up and take her with us to save my parents lots of extra driving.  It worked out that she was done with the things she needed to be doing so we picked her up in Roy and continued on our way to Salt Lake.
The first thing we did was find a spot to eat our lunch.  We had planned on just sitting on the grass and having a picnic, but they had signs saying that the grass was new and to stay off of it.  So we went over by the reflecting pond to some tables and ate our lunch instead.

Since we were already by the reflecting pond we headed up to the Church Office building and rode the elevator to the top.  The kids were excited to see that the roof of the temple is green!  After we got back down we walked to the reflection pond again and the kids loved putting their hands in there.  

We walked through both visitor's centers and went up to see Jesus.  All the kids loved it and of course Mary was the one to climb right up onto the statue!  We took a quick picture and then went and got her down.  After we were done going through the visitor's centers we headed back to the car.  It was a nice day together.