Father's Day

More Pictures from my Utah Trip

We went to visit with Elaine and Royal on Friday evening. Elaine had a gift for Mom and Dad. It was a "peahonk" as Brandon used to say. For lots of years, Mom and Dad have been feeding the peacocks at Jack Wing's place. Our younger girls love to go up there with Grandpa. They are pretty excited when they find peacock feathers. Now Mom and Dad have thier own Peacock.

Drake decided his great-grandpa was pretty Ok and insisted that grandpa hold him over Callie! We were shocked by that but they turned out to be great buddies. Drake loved the cat and would crawl (fast) after Will-work-for-food. The cat would generally keep his distance but didn't seem too bothered by the squealing bundle of energy making a beeline for him.

Waiting to be picked up after our fun three day adventure.

Grandma Kathy and Drake chilling at the airport waiting for our flight home.

Wendy's

We decided we wanted to try "In and Out Burger" since there is one now in Orem. It turns out everybody else had the same idea and the drive through line was ridiculously long. Then we saw the line of people waiting to get in the door to order and decided to go somewhere else.



I love this happy face. I snapped it just as Drake caught sight of his mother.

Will-work-for-food and Drake

Will-work-for-food loves to have his belly rubbed.


Drake trying out a belly rub.





Will-work-for-food trying to get his spot back without getting too close to Drake!

Easter Cookies

Cami wanted to try out the Martha Stewart Easter Cookie recipe. She made them and we all helped to decorate them. It is good to be at Mom's to have extra time to catch up on my blogging.

Grandkids

A fun sunday afternoon. Callie took these pictures and Jordan was standing behind making all sorts of faces at us to make us smile. It worked!

Some Great Women in My LIfe

Celeste, Callie, Drake and I headed for Utah to stay with Mom and Dad for a few days. Celeste and I attended Women's Conference. It was a sweet experience. It was a little cold, drizzley and windy but the company was great. Celeste read that 3 times more BYU brownies are sold during Women's Conference than any other time of year. So we decided we didn't want to be left out and tried out their brownies. I had mint with nuts (of course) and Celeste had regular with nuts. They did not come packaged, just on a piece of parchment paper. So we had to eat them before our lunch. Having dessert first was so fun we decided to eat our Hogi yogi ice cream before our dinner also. The brownies lived up to the hype. They were delicious.

I really enjoyed all of the conference sessions but was particularly touched by Sister Becks. She was the key note opening Session speaker. I have been muling around her words for days. She talked about making sure our priorities are in their proper place. We need to do the things that are essential first, then the necessary and then the nice. I think it is easy to spend most of our time on the nice since that is what is fun, our hobbies, etc. I have been thinking about how I spend my time and in which category the items should be placed. Lots of other good words of wisdom sunk into my heart from this conference. I loved attending with Celeste. I hope to go again next year with other special women in my life.

After the last session of Conference, Celeste and I met my parents, Callie and Drake at Dad's sister's house. It was really good to visit with Elaine, Royal, Rolaine and Claude. They are good people. Last night Mom's sister came over to see us. That was a fun treat to visit with Aunt Liane. I did manage to get my camera out for her visit. I wish I had had it with me for the visit with the Hendersons. Great trip!