I love to see the temple

I have wanted to start a tradition with our children that when they turned 12 we take them to the temple for the first time. I had it all planned(I am a huge planner) out that we would take Aiden one Saturday in September. Well after the whole fiasco with my kidney problems in July and August, I really felt like I couldn't ask someone to take my kids for a whole day and my kids didn't really want to be left. Then football and fall hit and it was crazy. When I had heard that the Idaho Falls Temple would be closing for a year and a half I knew we needed to go before it closed.  Aiden had a game on the first Friday in February in firth and I knew we would be down there and so I asked David if we could go to the temple after his game and then stay the night and he agreed to it! I was SO excited I then began planning. I did Family History for weeks to come up with names and I was so excited to take my first born to the temple with family names. We had invited our friends the Linger who's son's birthday was about 2 week after Aiden's and they had wanted to bring Wyatt to the temple as well. I wasn't sure if my family was more excited to go to the temple or to have the Linger's go with us!  It was such a fun and emotional day, emotional to have my son with me and emotional because I was able to get baptized for my Grandma who I dearly loved. There was no doubt that she was there and that she accepted the invitation, I felt her spirit very strongly. I was so grateful for the experience we had at the temple and for our dear friends the Linger's that we have had the opportunity to get to know better!