Temple Day!

On Saturday our family was able to go the Temple and be sealed as a family for time and all eternity.

For all my friend who are not members of our religion (we are LDS or mormons), I will explain what this means.

In our religion we believe that we can be married in the LDS Temple and we will be together forever. Our marriage ceremonies do not say "until death do us part". Kendall and I were married in the Temple 7 1/2 years ago and any child that is born to us will be sealed to us, but any child we adopt needs to go with us to the temple and be sealed.

It was such a beautiful experience. As soon as we walked in they knew who we were and were ready to take us into the temple and get ready for our day.

They treated Madeline like a princess and the lovely ladies took Madeline and Max to the nursery to wait while we got ready.

Kendall and I met with the man who was performing our sealing and he was very excited to do it for us. The reason for this was that his family had experienced the very same thing.

They had a child soon after they were married and couldn't have anymore for years. So they finally adopted when their son was 7 years old.

So he was very tender towards our experience.

He mentioned that after the sealing it would be as if Max were born in the covenant, (like Madeline was). He said that Max has waited for a long time to come to our family and had to come by a different way.

It was such an amazing day and Max truly is part of our family. We have known that from the very first day we got him.

This was one of the most special days our family has experienced.

God knows our family and every thing we went through had a purpose.