We had such a fun Tuesday Adventure! My darlin’ and I love spending our Tuesdays together and we’re always trying to think of meaningful and fun activities. Our time together is precious.

We both love doing Family History. So, for a while at least, we plan to spend every Tuesday morning at the Family Search Library. Today, I worked with my dad doing my family history, my sweetie worked on a computer somewhere else in the building. We worked for about and hour, not long, and then we left. We talked in the car about what we did as we drove to our next activity. It was great!!

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About a month ago we had a very wonderful meeting in at our church. It was a meeting called “Stake Conference”. We meet with all of the congregations in the area where we live, and hear from other members we don’t always hear from. In this meeting we heard members talk about their experiences at the Temple. The feeling in the room as they spoke about the Temple was glorious. I feel that same feeling when I’m in the Temple. So…we decided then to attend the Temple once a week. We chose to go on our Tuesday together. We wanted to go to the Oquirrh Temple. I was so excited!!! It is so beautiful. We drove to the Temple, and found out they were closed for cleaning.

We snapped this picture out in front of the Temple.

It was ok that they were closed, because the Jordan River Temple is close by. Yay for Temples!

Aren’t they beautiful?

We went to the Temple. It was wonderful. I love to be there and feel close to Father in Heaven. See that gold statue on top of the steeple?

That is the angel Moroni.

He was a prophet hundreds of years ago. You can read more about why we have the angel Moroni on our Temples here!

Before heading for home we stopped at Scheels. Wow, what a fun store. It is a sporting goods, etc store. I’ve never been in a store that has a ferris wheel inside of it. Yes, this store has a ferris wheel inside of it!

We took a ride, and I think I might be getting too old for that. It was fun though. We walked around, and kept losing each other. My darlin’ loves sports. He is an amazing athlete. He doesn’t really need any sports equipment, but he really likes to look at what is the latest. It’s kinda like me and handbags. I totally get him.

Well, we had such a full and fun day. I cherish our time together. He is my other half. He is my best friend. And Tuesdays are always an adventure with him.

This Tuesday Adventure was actually last Tuesday, and it wasn’t with my sweet husband. I drove all day Monday with my wonderful parents to Yuma, Arizona where my nephew and his darling wife live. Then on Tuesday we did some sight seeing around town.

First we went to this statue that tells about the Mormon Batallion. They stopped here as they marched 1900 miles. It is a beautiful statue. It was nice to see it!!

We went to the Territorial Prison. That was quite interesting. It was in use from 1876 to 1909. It was very interesting to see the prison and hear about the inmates.

This picture (above) is of one of the guard towers. It has a well below it. Clever. 

Some of the inmates used their time in prison doing crafts and learning a skill. These beautiful stitched items were made by one of the inmates. Wow, who knew?

A row of cells.

My favorite story is that the prison was used for a while as the high school. Their mascot is the “Criminals”. How funny!!!This sweet puppy is Patches. He is a sweetheart and very fun to have around. He is my nephew and his wife’s puppy (that makes him my great nephew). It was so fun to see him. Squishy!!!

It was a great Tuesday Adventure! My sweet darlin’ stayed home and watched the daycare kids for me so I could go with my parents. What a sweetheart!

I worked it out with my daycare to take Tuesday’s off!! Yeah!

So I will be having a fun adventure each week with my sweet husband. Some Tuesday’s may be more adventurous than others, but life is usually pretty unpredictable and that makes for some pretty fun adventures.

So I will be sharing a little about our adventures as we go! I hope you enjoy hearing about them. We went to close down the summer home of my mother-in-law, my darlin’s mom. We traveled to the Bear Lake Valley that is about half in the state of Utah and half in the state of Idaho. We went up on Monday night and stayed over. We got up and drove to Montpelier, Idaho to have breakfast. On the way in town this beautiful moose crossed the road in front of us. I couldn’t get the camera fast enough to take a closer picture, but you can see he is big and beautiful!

We drove on in to town, ate breakfast then we decided to go to the cemetery for fun. Yes, we do that sort of thing. My husband’s father has roots in the Bear Lake Valley, so we knew there would be family members buried in the Montpelier Cemetery. We had so much fun looking for familiar names. We found the Hogensen’s, but couldn’t find the Pearce’s. So we went to the City Hall and asked them for the information. They were very helpful and just look at the beautiful building they have. 

We went back to the cemetery and found the Pearce’s. I love cemetery’s! Have I said that before? I’m sure I have. I find them very peaceful, not at all scary. 

On the way out of town, we saw this very beautiful old building. I had to get a picture. Do you think it was a school? Church? or maybe a big house? Beautiful.

In the little town of Paris, Idaho there is an amazingly beautiful Tabernacle. I was amazed at the detail the craftsmen put into this building. The colors are perfect and the design is lovely. What a gem in this little town. 

The we took a drive up Bloomington Canyon. Wow! The leaves were spectacular!!

It was truly a wonderful day. And our adventure continued as we made it home in time for my darlin to help the Cub Scouts in the neighborhood finish last minute preparations for the Pinewood Derby that is scheduled for Thursday.

My favorite thing about this Tuesday Adventure, was being with my darlin!!