temple open house

it started out as a pretty busy week around the gillies house hold!

it was nice for eric to have a three day weekend... for hunting that is.

on labor day they had to come home early because eric had

to go into work later, so he didnt get as much time in as he would have hoped.

but we had told our neighbor that we would help paint sealant on her

fence so it was nice that they were home early so we 

could get a head start on that.

between me, eric, tys and trav we had it all finished 

within a couple of hours!

madyn i think finally warmed up to tyson...

she wouldnt leave his side while we were painting... 

and i dont think her mouth ever stopped moving either.

that goofball sure keeps us on our toes!

that is for sure!

thursday mom, dad, toomers, jason and his girlfriend were

passing through on their way to the denver game later that night.

so we headed to fort collins with them to go through

the temple open house before they took off to denver.

it was gorgeous!

i love the colors and all the art work

it was seriously beautiful.

probably my new favorite temple.

i was in awe the WHOLE time! 

while we were walking through i asked madyn

how does your heart feel? 

does it feel happy and warm?

she thought about it for a moment and said

NOPE! it feels cold!

oy vey!

the baptistery made a big impact on madyn.

when we were all the way through i asked her what she loved

the most about the temple....

she answered- Jesus' cows and water.

also while we were walking through there

was a lot of elk painted in the murals 

on the walls....

madyn was sure to tell me

how dad is going to shoot one of those!

the slippers also made a pretty big impact on little miss.

she was not too happy to wear them...

but after awhile was finally ok with wearing them.

after the temple we went out to eat at chilis

then they took off so they could make it to the game.

so me and mads went to target and old navy!

when we got home eric was not thrilled to find out that 

we spent some of our time shopping at target.

after he asked us about how much we spent he said I HATE TARGET!

so now whenever madyn wants to tease eric she just yells TARGET!

saturday everyone was passing through again on their way out

of town to head back home from denver.

so we got to spend a few hours with mimi and pop pop

while the toomers took trav grocery shopping.

we had so much fun spending the day with them.

madyn was in seventh heaven!

that night ended perfectly watching the utes beat byu!

this house was pretty happy and excited!