Total disregard....

On Thursday, Robert got off work early (which has happened maybe 3 times in the last year!) and headed home. He pulled in the driveway and noticed the door on the side of our house was open. He thought, "Did I leave the door open?" As he got closer he noticed that the door jam was broken and the casing was on the kitchen floor. The door had been kicked down. He immediately got back in his car and pulled out of the driveway as he called the police. The police came and cleared our house and came out and said, "Yup, you've definitely been robbed." WHAT?! I got home at this point and found Robert in the basement in front of our empty DVD shelves (they did leave all the seasons of Friends though. Phew!). The basement was trashed with everything taken off of shelves and out of cupboards. Then we headed upstairs and found our bedroom completely trashed. All of my jewelry was gone and our clothes were everywhere. They had even taken our temple clothes out of the bag and threw them on the floor. I was pissed about that! Our office was trashed as well but luckily they didn't do anything to Emily's room. We had tools, our video camera, digital camera, jewelery, DVD's, CD's, video game system and games, credit card, laptop, cell phone, pillow cases, etc stolen. It was so crazy. You never think that is going to happen to you.

At first I was so scared. Then later that night I felt very violated as we were looking through our clothes on the floor of our bedroom. It's so weird to think a stranger has gone through your stuff. We spent the night at my in-laws and I hardly slept at all. The next day Robert and I spent the whole day cleaning up and at that point I was just annoyed. What makes someone think they have the right to do that to someone else? Just because you're a loser and probably can't keep a job because you're a druggie doesn't give you the right to steal our stuff! Grrr. Now that we have things cleaned up (sort of) and new doors installed, it almost seems like it never happened. It seems so surreal.

We were lucky that no one was home and I am so grateful for the Lord's hand in our life. I know that He's the reason Robert got off early that day. Protect yourself, right down serial numbers, and watch out for your neighbors. Unfortunately for us, no one saw anything. But I'm grateful because it could have been worse.

Draper Temple Open House

On Saturday we took our Young Women to the open house for the new Draper Temple. Almost all of the girls had never been inside a temple except for baptisms so they were pretty excited. It was so beautiful (of course!) and perfect. One of the others leaders has a friend who worked on the temple and she was telling us how they would have to redo projects numerous times until it was absolutely perfect. I especially loved the woodwork. Apparently the wood is some sort of cherry from Africa. The girls were all really looking forward to seeing the sealing room. They just kept saying "I want to see where you get married!"


I guess it's good that they were excited about getting married in the temple and it gave the leaders a great opportunity to express our own feelings of being married in the temple. They loved the bride room as well and who wouldn't?! They thought it was pretty funny that brides get this big elaborate room to get ready in and the groom gets a stall in the locker room! Anyway, it was a great time and if you have a chance to go to the open house, do it!