Last year on the same day as our anniversary we drove to Utah to attend a sealing at the Mt Tipanogas Temple. Our friends Jen and Sean were getting sealed to their son, whom they had adopted 6months earlier.
This year our friend Randy has met the women of his dreams and they were getting married in the Boise, ID temple! How cool to spend another anniversary for us at the Temple!! So we planned our trip. My mom was going to watch the girls and during the day when she was at work the Schafers would watch them everything was taken care of. We were set to take off from Omaha Dec 30th at 5:00am on Northwest Airlines. We arrived at the tickets line at 4:35am we were told that we were to late to check in and had missed our flight. The next flight available was at 2pm the next day!!! The sealing was at 10am!! I freaked and started to cry. The lady gave us the number to reservations and told us to check with them maybe they could find us something. They said the same thing. So Mike says "we'll drive". Crazy man that would take 18 or more hrs!!!! But we had no choice! Randy is very special to us. He has always been there for us and by all means we were going to be there for him!!! So we started driving, we were about 1/2 and hour from Lincoln (we had driven about 1 1/2hrs) when Mike woke me up. He said to call the reservations desk and see if we could fly out of another airport, we would just drive to that other airport...Brilliant man!!! I called and after talking to the lady it would cost us $800-$2000 to fly from anywhere else....but wait, did we want to fly out of Omaha today? YES!!! There was an open flight at 4:30pm today and would get us to Boise at 11pm that night. WOW! I told the lady I would kiss her if I could!!! We would miss the family dinner but we would be there tomorrow for the sealing and reception. So we got to the airport at 1:30...just in case we didn't want to miss this fight! We just hung out at the airport and waited for our flight. When we went through the metal detectors they pulled us aside and checked us real good! I guess were had been flagged at terrorist :) Finally we were on the plane. We made it to Boise. The sealing was beautiful. Janna was a gorgeous bride and Randy couldn't stop smiling. Mike and I had a fun time and even got to eat some great food :) Congrats to the Langhams we are so happy for you both!!!
We found a Fuddruckers!!!
Boise, Idaho Temple
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How cool is that? great story! I'm glad you made it and had a good time!! So....How'd you get home?
I wanna know how you got home too. was it a 2 way flight. I'm glad you got to go. When I first started reading this post I thought yay you are makeing a trip to Cali for the wedding, since Randy is from here. didn't realize his wifey was from Idaho. Darn. Maybe sometime this year you can come to the temple with me. It's my goal for sometime this year. yay!!!!!I'll let you know.
Oh my gosh I did not know this about Randy tell him congrats from me. That is great and wonderful I am so happy for him. She is beautiful and they look so happy. That is a great story and gosh what an adventure you had. Crazy I too want to know how did you get home?
P.S. We had church today at 9:00 am and it was so wonderful Sacrament was so quite. :-) Also I got a new calling I am 2nd counselor in the primary. Hee hee
THat is awesome! Congratulations to Randy! I remember him! and his bride... absolutely beautiful! I cant stop smiling for him!
fun pictures! I'm so glad everything worked out for you guys...
somebody does not want you guys at the temple! So happy for Randy, that is awesome. I'm glad you guys were able to make it, what a crazy experience.
See Heavenly Fathers power is stronger than Satans!
I'm SO GLAD that you were able to be with us when we were sealed to Carson! We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends like you!!
Didn't you guys have Fuddruckers when you were here for our sealing, too? I love that you are keeping up tradition!
I wish we could have gone! We thought about it.
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