Utah

Well, we are coming to a close for the day and I wanted to put up a quote I saw in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building today. This quote really hit home with Jon and I since the two of us have been so busy and caught up with working. We feel like we haven't had time to work on our family as much as we should or would like to.

"No measure of success can compensate for failure in the home."

We have been in Utah for the past couple of days staying with Brittany and Aaron for Brittany's graduation from BYU.We are all too proud of our youngest sister! Jon and I also had the chance to visit Nicole & Jaron and their family in Smithfield (an extremely small town just outside Logan) for some skeet shooting, pizza at Fire House with Taylor and just playing with their kids. Jacob (Nicole's oldest 6yo) had such a great time that he asked his mom if Jon could stay just a little bit longer. He was so good with those boys! Nicole has such a positive outlook on life, she should be a spokes person! Family first...none of this "rat race" stuff that the world gets caught up in. It's all too true that your greatest joys stem from your posterity. We also went up Provo Canyon and hiked to Bridal Veil Falls. As you can see the snow has yet to melt so the falls were mostly frozen with minimal water flowing. We also drove to Park City and walked the main strip and headed back through Heber.It was pretty desolate there since skiing season has already come to a close, though there was plenty of snow to ski on.


Today we visited Lehi Roller Mills where the famous movie Footloose was filmed. (Going there had nothing to do with the movie.) I enjoy going there because I toured that mill while attending BYU on how wheat is processed. (Remember Kristalyn?) They sell yummy goodies in their small shop in the front of the plant. We walked away with pumpkin chocolate chip cookie mix, raspberry muffin mix and gingerbread muffin mix!! They are packaged so nicely in handmade fabric bags, too cute!

Another great adventure we had today was Jon and Aaron being able to test drive a dune buggie!!! They both came back with a grin from ear to ear and dirt caked on their faces! "We gotta get one!!"

We ended the day with a walk around Temple Square.We also had a guided tour through the Conference Center. Here we are pictured on the top of the Conference Center in front of the Salt Lake Temple. In the JSMB we saw the movie about Joseph Smith's life. It was so very powerful. Needless to say I walked out with tears streaming down my face. Here a picture from the top floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building facing West (Salt Lake Temple).Brody was such a great sport, always smiling!Nothing short of a fabulous day.Oh ya, and I can't forget "Guitar Hero"!! Jon couldn't keep his hands off of it!!! Thank goodness we don't have one...he'd never get anything done!