On Monday, Mike sent the kids off to school while (out in California) Hallie got to the airport and flew home. She brought a number of treats (and a cold) home with her.
After school, Eliza made a tambourine in her music class.
Dwight and Marilyn spent a few days here with us while they took care of paperwork and planning for their new home. They arrived Monday afternoon after traveling up from Cedar City.
In the evening Hallie and Eliza spent time at the Happy Valley Farmers Market. They bought peaches, zucchini, sourdough bread bowls, homemade salsas, and chips. The girls even had dinner from a food truck called Jurassic Street Tacos, and there was definitely more food than our little bellies could hold.
Last week Mike noticed outside his building on campus a biblical tabernacle replica being built. Curious, he asked about it and discovered that the tabernacle was originally built in California and has gone on tour for several months now. On Tuesday at lunch he went over for one of the group tours. Pretty enlightening. Dwight and Marilyn went in the evening after meeting with their architect.
After school, Eliza made a tambourine in her music class.
Dwight and Marilyn spent a few days here with us while they took care of paperwork and planning for their new home. They arrived Monday afternoon after traveling up from Cedar City.
In the evening Hallie and Eliza spent time at the Happy Valley Farmers Market. They bought peaches, zucchini, sourdough bread bowls, homemade salsas, and chips. The girls even had dinner from a food truck called Jurassic Street Tacos, and there was definitely more food than our little bellies could hold.
Last week Mike noticed outside his building on campus a biblical tabernacle replica being built. Curious, he asked about it and discovered that the tabernacle was originally built in California and has gone on tour for several months now. On Tuesday at lunch he went over for one of the group tours. Pretty enlightening. Dwight and Marilyn went in the evening after meeting with their architect.
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| (Yup. They transport it in a wooden box that reads "Top Secret.") |
Earlier in the day Hallie, Dwight, and Marilyn ate at Ginger’s Garden Cafe in Springville, which was very healthy and yummy. Right before, we went to Ream’s and scored some great deals on pumpkins for our front porch. The three even stopped at SOS Pharmacy for the great $1 ice cream.
The Maygrens and Hallie even spent some time driving through Hobble Creek Canyon. The leaves have been turning beautiful colors. We saw deer running across the road, turkeys tempting the cars, and livestock doing their thing out in the fields. We live in a beautiful part of this country.
Marilyn and Dwight had never been to Culver's and so Hallie took them to Culvers before their meeting, and after we spent some time watching Landon and Eliza show off their mad skills at AirTime Training Center.
In the meantime, Mike restocked our freezer with a shipment of frozen chicken thighs from a truck from Zaycon Foods, which is delivered here at one of the local elementary schools.
Hallie began to suffer from her cold in earnest by mid-week. Hallie did manage to get herself out the door to get some of her blood tested for the Y Be Fit program Mike and Hallie are doing through the university.
The Maygrens and Hallie even spent some time driving through Hobble Creek Canyon. The leaves have been turning beautiful colors. We saw deer running across the road, turkeys tempting the cars, and livestock doing their thing out in the fields. We live in a beautiful part of this country.
Marilyn and Dwight had never been to Culver's and so Hallie took them to Culvers before their meeting, and after we spent some time watching Landon and Eliza show off their mad skills at AirTime Training Center.
In the meantime, Mike restocked our freezer with a shipment of frozen chicken thighs from a truck from Zaycon Foods, which is delivered here at one of the local elementary schools.
Hallie began to suffer from her cold in earnest by mid-week. Hallie did manage to get herself out the door to get some of her blood tested for the Y Be Fit program Mike and Hallie are doing through the university.
For dinner, we broke in our new instant pot making some Asian garlic honey chicken using some of our Zaycon chicken. Oh, boy! We have just found a winner of an appliance!
On Friday, Mike took in an early-morning session at the Provo City Center Temple, which is now our local temple. Very ornate and beautiful. It’s a bit surreal to be in a place that from the outside looks similar to the same building we used to go to for concerts and church meetings but which is now the above-ground portion of what is actually a much larger building with many motifs that hearken back to the history of the original structure. By the time he got to the terrestrial room portion of the endowment session, he was treated to a view of the stained glass windows bathed in the light of the eastern sunrise. Quite striking!
Later in the day, Hallie and Eliza came up to visit Mike at his office on campus and go to the campus bookstore for some Conference sale items. On the way out, we caught sight of a doe who had come on campus for a visit. Not something you see very often!
We watched the Captain Underpants movie for pizza-and-a-movie night. It was really funny! We had seen a segment last week on CBS Sunday Morning about author Dav Pilkey and his book series. Quite the creative fellow.
We had the four general sessions of General Conference this weekend. Uncle Bryce put the word out that a chaplain he knows from Alaska had tickets to the conference center for Saturday afternoon’s session, and Hallie immediately responded. She wanted to make sure Landon had the chance to see a session in person now that he’s old enough to appreciate the idea of seeing it live and that we’re close.
After the conclusion of Saturday morning’s session, we all drove up to Salt Lake, where Hallie dropped the boys off by the hotel where the tickets were being held. Mike and Landon walked from the hotel to the conference center. Landon noted the vocal protesters standing on the street corners surrounding Temple Square. Mike tried to explain that these were people who had strong feelings about what was going on, that we live in a free country where they can express those feelings, and that we can be respectful toward those who do not share our beliefs.
We had pretty decent seats among many military personnel wearing their dress uniforms along with their guests. Of course, like us, there were lots of people just dressed in their Sunday clothes. We had a packed house by the time the session got under way. Landon seemed to appreciate the experience and had lots of observations and questions.
The girls ran a few errands in town while the guys watched the session. As the girls drove around Hallie noticed that downtown Salt Lake and their old stomping grounds sure do look a lot different than they did 10 years ago.
After the afternoon session, Hallie and Eliza picked the boys up and took them to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, a new shop in Salt Lake employing mostly people with special needs. Hallie had heard about the shop through friends on Facebook. We enjoyed the sweet treats, but we also especially liked getting to know the guys behind the counter, both of whom were professional, engaging, and courteous.
We each tried a different flavor of ice cream and free topping: chocolate-covered cinnamon gummy bear with M&Ms for Mike, peanut butter and chocolate with crushed Oreo cookies for Hallie, real strawberry with hot tamales for Landon, and hot tamale with gummy worms for Eliza. Fresh out-of-the-box flavors! All of the family members wanted to share their flavors with each other, and everyone loved the other flavors. Almost all flavors were made in-house, and the flavors that weren’t were still made locally and even had fruit from local farms. Awesome!!! If you are ever in Salt Lake make sure you go to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream. It was so yummy!
After getting home, Mike went upstairs to take Eliza to bed (she fell asleep on the way back) and to watch the priesthood session while Hallie and Landon played downstairs. One of Landon’s new friends, Lincoln, came over, and the boys played on the Wii for a bit before going back to Lincoln’s to watch a movie.
After the priesthood session ended Hallie ran over to Macey’s grocery store for some last minute items so we could make egg soufflé in the morning, which has become a general conference tradition in our family. This year all of us tried it with some of the homemade tomatillo salsa the girls had bought from the farmers market.
For the Sunday morning session of conference, we each took turns picking a key word to listen to in a talk and if we hear the word everyone gets a skittle. This game ended up pretty successfully for all of us, and the kids paid pretty good attention.
On Friday, Mike took in an early-morning session at the Provo City Center Temple, which is now our local temple. Very ornate and beautiful. It’s a bit surreal to be in a place that from the outside looks similar to the same building we used to go to for concerts and church meetings but which is now the above-ground portion of what is actually a much larger building with many motifs that hearken back to the history of the original structure. By the time he got to the terrestrial room portion of the endowment session, he was treated to a view of the stained glass windows bathed in the light of the eastern sunrise. Quite striking!
Later in the day, Hallie and Eliza came up to visit Mike at his office on campus and go to the campus bookstore for some Conference sale items. On the way out, we caught sight of a doe who had come on campus for a visit. Not something you see very often!
We watched the Captain Underpants movie for pizza-and-a-movie night. It was really funny! We had seen a segment last week on CBS Sunday Morning about author Dav Pilkey and his book series. Quite the creative fellow.
We had the four general sessions of General Conference this weekend. Uncle Bryce put the word out that a chaplain he knows from Alaska had tickets to the conference center for Saturday afternoon’s session, and Hallie immediately responded. She wanted to make sure Landon had the chance to see a session in person now that he’s old enough to appreciate the idea of seeing it live and that we’re close.
After the conclusion of Saturday morning’s session, we all drove up to Salt Lake, where Hallie dropped the boys off by the hotel where the tickets were being held. Mike and Landon walked from the hotel to the conference center. Landon noted the vocal protesters standing on the street corners surrounding Temple Square. Mike tried to explain that these were people who had strong feelings about what was going on, that we live in a free country where they can express those feelings, and that we can be respectful toward those who do not share our beliefs.
We had pretty decent seats among many military personnel wearing their dress uniforms along with their guests. Of course, like us, there were lots of people just dressed in their Sunday clothes. We had a packed house by the time the session got under way. Landon seemed to appreciate the experience and had lots of observations and questions.
The girls ran a few errands in town while the guys watched the session. As the girls drove around Hallie noticed that downtown Salt Lake and their old stomping grounds sure do look a lot different than they did 10 years ago.
After the afternoon session, Hallie and Eliza picked the boys up and took them to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, a new shop in Salt Lake employing mostly people with special needs. Hallie had heard about the shop through friends on Facebook. We enjoyed the sweet treats, but we also especially liked getting to know the guys behind the counter, both of whom were professional, engaging, and courteous.
We each tried a different flavor of ice cream and free topping: chocolate-covered cinnamon gummy bear with M&Ms for Mike, peanut butter and chocolate with crushed Oreo cookies for Hallie, real strawberry with hot tamales for Landon, and hot tamale with gummy worms for Eliza. Fresh out-of-the-box flavors! All of the family members wanted to share their flavors with each other, and everyone loved the other flavors. Almost all flavors were made in-house, and the flavors that weren’t were still made locally and even had fruit from local farms. Awesome!!! If you are ever in Salt Lake make sure you go to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream. It was so yummy!
After getting home, Mike went upstairs to take Eliza to bed (she fell asleep on the way back) and to watch the priesthood session while Hallie and Landon played downstairs. One of Landon’s new friends, Lincoln, came over, and the boys played on the Wii for a bit before going back to Lincoln’s to watch a movie.
After the priesthood session ended Hallie ran over to Macey’s grocery store for some last minute items so we could make egg soufflé in the morning, which has become a general conference tradition in our family. This year all of us tried it with some of the homemade tomatillo salsa the girls had bought from the farmers market.
For the Sunday morning session of conference, we each took turns picking a key word to listen to in a talk and if we hear the word everyone gets a skittle. This game ended up pretty successfully for all of us, and the kids paid pretty good attention.
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