We're not done yet...

Well with the legal piece completed the next step was for the three of us to head to the temple and make our family a forever family.

It was a lovely day - again. We were joined by family and our dearest friends. It was a special treat as Jacquie is a temple worker in Jordan River Temple which was the temple we chose to be sealed together in. That mostly meant she was able to guide us around and ensure everything went perfectly -- which it did. The temple accommodates for families and has a nursery room with sweet and gentle workers who tend to the children, even those with special needs like Cole's. He hung out there while we changed from our street clothes into our temple dress clothes and they even changed Cole into his temple dress clothes for us.

We assembled in a lovely sealing room inside the temple and waited for everyone to arrive. Once assembled, the officiator or individual conducting the sealing shared with us some very sweet stories before talking to all of us about the meaning and intent behind sealing a family together forever and then conducted the sealing ceremony. The whole ceremony, not too dissimilar from marriage ceremony where the husband and wife are joined together with their children, only took a few minutes but the feeling was beautiful and certainly eternal. We were grateful to have Shawn's brothers serve as witnesses to the event. And we were so glad for those who could attend in person and those who attended in spirit.

The pictures we took afterwards outside the temple grounds only included a few of the folks who remained after we got changed -- we forgot to better coordinate that. Luckily, we've got them in the pictures after the blessings ... coming up shortly.

Afterwards we headed to Uncle Chris' and Aunt Angie for a nice and relaxing lunch. Here's Cole relaxing with one of his favorite 'toys' a piece of mylar paper.