Temple Square and Great Grandparents

Utah/Idaho Summer Get-Away
Part 2:
This is where it all began! 17 years ago!!! Holy Cow - that sounds like a long time :) I couldn't possibly be old enough to have been married 17 years. Oh, that's right. I was just a baby. ;)

I love to visit temple square. It is soooo beautiful and holds so many special memories for me. Not only were we married here, but this is also where Dave proposed, very romantically, I might add.
Inside the visitors center they have a new scale model of the temple. It is amazing. You can see all of the different rooms inside just as they are. There is also a monitor where you can highlight the different rooms and it tells what these rooms are used for. I loved it and learned a lot too. I loved showing it to my children. What a genius idea to teach people about the temple and the work that we do there. I also love that it helps people understand that the temple is sacred -- not secret.

The Assembly Building

The Tabernacle

Grandpa McEntire

Mom B. and Grandma Atwood

Grandma Atwood especially loves Ashley! She is amazing and inspiring. In her 90's, she keeps a schedule that would tire most people and drives herself everywhere too!
Grandma Buhrley's health has declined over the past year. She had to be moved from her home to an assisted living center. She still has her spunk and delightful wit, only now her short term memory is not serving her well. She has broken her wrist and had pnuemonia recently and on a few occasions we thought we might lose her. But, she has rallied and we were so happy that we got to visit with her again.






These tender-sweet pictures of my boys just melt my heart.

I love a parade

Our Utah/Idaho Summer Get-Away
Part 1:


This Summer, like the previous two, we spent the last weeks of our summer vacation visiting our family and dear friends in Utah and Idaho. It was a wonderful escape from the desert heat and a pretty perfect way to rest, relax and rejuvenate before the busier, more scheduled days of school routines rolled around again. We drove up to Utah and spent our first day there playing at BYU with the kids:
Shopping at the bookstore (outfitting Zac with a BYU wardrobe),
Bowling at the Wilk,
And of course eating lunch, ice cream AND mint brownies at the BYU Creamery. Yum!

(I love taking my kids to BYU. It means so much to me and played such an important role in my life. In the 4 wonderful years I spent there, not only did I have the time of my life, but I learned soooo much, met and married the man of my dreams, and graduated with a degree in design, a deeper testimony of the gospel, and a greater knowledge of who I am and what I wanted to become. I want this experience for each of my children. Soooo I love to take them there and start planting little seeds...)
We spent the later half of the day enjoying the company of our wonderful friends the Seare's, who we miss terribly since they moved to Utah last summer. They insisted that we stayed with them and we loved spending time with them in their beautiful home. The boys all took in a game of golf, while Kristen and I headed straight to TaiPan :) We ended a great day with Costa Vida and visiting until it was "o-dark-thirty" :) (sadly I enjoyed myself sooo much that I didn't think to take any pics! Crazy - I know)

The following day we met up with the Sabey's, our dear friends since dental school, at the Day's of '47 Parade in SLC. We followed the parade with lunch at Tucano's, a unique and delicious Brazilian Grill that is a new family favorite! Then, the dads took the kids to the Clark Planetarium, while Kerri, Maddi and I took in a little shopping. We concluded our Pioneer Day celebration in Spanish Fork with shakes at Glades Drive Inn, and the Spanish Fork Rodeo and fireworks show!

This is Kristen's mom, grandmother and daughter Chloe in this beautiful carriage, one of many from her mother's collection.

Kerri and Maddi

Don't you just want to kiss these cute cheeks?!!