5 Kids, Frontrunner & Temple Square

We had our nephews Kaleb and Carston come stay with us for a few days. They are visiting from Texas (and formerly New Jersey), so we don't get to see them much. The kids had such a great time playing together. Nathan is off track (for 5 weeks :) and he's dying for kids to play with, so it was perfect. Kaleb is Nathan's age, and Carston is Sarah's.

Nathan and Kaleb painting Wall-E.

Carston set up a great train track. He would play with trains all day long!

The boys are very into trains, and wanted to ride the Frontrunner. We hadn't ridden it yet, so we planned to ride it to meet Rob's sister Charity in Salt Lake to see Temple Square. The kids loved it!!!Matthew liked seeing the other trains we passed. They all thought it was fun to switch to the TRAX train and ride to Temple Square. The boys were really happy to have their Mom back.
Temple Square was amazing (as always!). I have never seen this few of people at Temple Square. It was so nice to be able to see the Nativity, and not have to wait in line for the Christus. It was great. Here Nathan and Sarah are showing off their Jazz beannies that were handed out at the Jazz game the night before. Sarah went on a Daddy-daughter date with Rob to the game, and they made it through the whole game! She wasn't into the game, but loved being with her Daddy and watching the Jazz Bear.
The kids remembered the Tabernacle from TV. It's decorated so beautifully for Christmas.Charity had never been in the Conference Center, so we had a little tour. It made her day/trip to see the Tabernacle Choir practice. They sounded amazing!We went to the Church History Museum. It is a great place, plus it has a Children's section where they can build temples, play in a Nursery full of babies, and dress up and reenact the Nativity. There was so much to do there, but we didn't have time. We raced off to catch our train home, but missed it by a couple of minutes!!! ARRRGGGGHHHH In the evening the Frontrunner only leaves once an hour, so we had a whole hour to wait in the cold for the 9:25 train. We didn't want to go back to town and risk missing the next train, so we stayed put. We spent some of the time in the Greyhound bus station. That.... well, you'd just have to experience for yourself. Somehow we survived the wait, and the ride home. The kids did really well, especially considering how late and cold it was. We had a few moments like this, but mostly we kept them laughing.It was a great time until we missed our train, but still it was an adventure and we made lots of fun memories. We'll look back on that and laugh. I don't however, think I'll be able to convince Rob to ride the train again.