Utah trip

We had a great trip to Utah. We stopped to visit with Jeff's sisters and family in LaGrande, got Ryan to BYU, the guys went to a football game, we got to visit Temple Square and attend General Conference, Ryan got to visit some old missionary companions, I got to spend some time with my good friend- Deborah, Jeff and I got to spend a little quality time together...and we crammed all that in to just 4 days!

I had some fun taking pictures of the SLC temple in different lights. It's a beautiful building and I'm in awe of those pioneers who built this by hand.

I got to stop by Deseret Book's Ladies Night in the JS Memorial Building. They wanted it to be like a Time Out - Hillary Weeks was performing, Liz Lemon Swindle, Lloyd Newell, Mary Ellen Edmunds, and several others were all there. It was absolutely packed - pretty crazy. I'm sad that I left my L.L. Swindle print there - that was the give-away for the 1st 100 in the door. I put it down to pay for my things - oh, well.
Ryan's living in Campus Plaza Apts. It was interesting leaving him this time. I know he left before, but this time it was like he's really gone and grown up and going to be on his own - it's exciting too, a little bittersweet!
Ryan ran into some of his old companions while we were there. It was fun for Jeff and I to meet them.

The conference center was pretty amazing and the accoustics are incredible. I lost my voice on Friday and Saturday (allegies, I think!) and I was disappointed that I wasn't able to participate in singing the intermediate hymn in the Saturday afternoon session of Conference that we attended - but because I was unable to sing - I had the opportunity to listen more completely and I felt like my entire being was filled with that music!
We had some interesting weather on our trip home. I wanted to take a few more pictures on the way out of town. When we were at the Provo Temple the wind suddenly kicked up and the storm clouds started gathering. The temp was high 50's when we headed out of town - as we neared the Idaho border it started to drop, ahead it looked like we were driving into a cloud, we dropped from 45 - 31 very quickly and found ourselves in a snowstorm by the time we were in Burley. It had turned to rain by Boise and then the roads were dry again as we came over the Blues. By the time we were nearing Hood River it was 65 degrees and windy. Kind of crazy!
I'm greatful for the time Jeff and I got to spend with Ryan and with eachother, and for the messages of the conference talks. It was a very renewing trip for me, now it's time to work on applying some of the things I learned this weekend.