Vernal Temple Trip!

We left on Friday afternoon and it took about 3ish hours. Hyrum did pretty good and slept for an hour of so but got really sick of the car after he woke up. I ended up hopping in the back to feed him and entertain him but we survived and arrived in Vernal around 5:30pm. We stayed in the dinosaur Best Western Inn. We put Hyrum down for his nap and went swimming in the hot tub which was literally right next door. It was the best hot tub room we had ever been in. After the hot tub, I went to get us Cafe Rio and frosty's while Marc stayed with Hyrum. Hyrum struggled to go to sleep because he wasn't in his own crib in his room so we all stayed up pretty late and when Hyrum finally fell asleep, Marc and I watched a movie. Then Marc woke up early to go to the temple first. Then Marc came back and I went to the temple while he packed up and then he and Hyrum came to pick me up. It was such a fun trip!

Marc's thoughts on the Vernal Temple:

This is a smaller temple. It is supposedly twice as big as some of the smallest temples built in the church. The design is unusual for the church. It is almost castle like with its big stones. The temple geometry is rectangular in design with progression through the temple following on the outside corridors with most of the endowment activities are in the central core. The third floor of the temple houses the sealing rooms and the second floor the telestial, terrestrial, and celestial room. A very simple celestial room, no broad windows or central chandelier. The room is simple in design with a large painting of Christ coming through the clouds. The neatest part of the celestial room is the entrance after the veil that has a wall made of etched glass with leaves. There was only one transition from the telestial room to the terrestrial room. It was beautiful as all temples are.

Lori's thoughts on the Vernal Temple:

The Vernal Temple is very unique because it has brown brick on the outside and has a lot of wood on the inside. It of course is beautiful. The session was wonderful and full of the spirit. My heart breaks thinking about those who can't go to the temple. It is such a place of peace and wonder. The Celestial room is magnificent in it's simplicity. When you walk in there is a etched glass wall of branches and leaves. And there is also a huge picture of Christ descending from heaven. There are a few chandeliers with beautiful little glass cups around each light. It is fabulous and I always feel a renewed sense of who I am and what my purpose is when I enter the celestial room. I know the temple is truly the house of God and love being there!

Here are the Pictures from our trip:

Here is our hotel


Hyrum seizing the day, crawling around after being in the car for so long!


He is one fast crawler!


Our room - Not very clean covered with Hyrum's toys, cereal, etc.


Hyrum playing around. The door back there is the bathroom where Hyrum slept in his pack-n-play.



Here we are standing in the rain getting our family picture together.


Daddy and Hyrum in the rain!


Mommy and Hyrum in the rain!


Me waiting for my boys to come and get me from the temple.


On the drive back, we stopped at Granny's Drive Inn in Heber where I remember going to get shakes when we would go camping.


Hyrum couldn't have the ice cream because of his dairy allergy so he settle for mango's...


And a long ice cream spoon. Yummy! It was such a fun trip!