Simple Pleasures

This morning we attended a session in the Idaho Falls Temple. I always enjoy temple worship with my sweetheart, and it's a special treat to visit new temples and see how their layouts and murals compare.

In this temple, I love that the world room mural included a picture of a wife handing her farmer husband a cool drink of water. It was a nice reminder that although mortality is full of hard work and trials, it also offers many opportunities to comfort and cheer each other, especially within our families.

This afternoon we attended a cattle auction, then took the kids to Reed's Dairy for some "squeaky" cheese curds and ice cream cones. I'm told they mix potatoes into their ice cream there to make it extra creamy. Whatever they're doing they should keep it up--the ice cream was delicious.

We usually buy Joy's ice cream in a cup, but today we decided to let her get her very first cone (which she opted to share with Daddy). She and Daddy surveyed the flavors and agreed that they wanted . . . licorice ice cream. I would have thought they were the only people in town who would choose that flavor, but when we left I noticed that the woman holding the door for us had grey ice cream on her cone, too. Wild.