Temple Square in April

Women's Conference at BYU has been something I have wanted to experience for about five years. Kathryn Rhoten asked me every year if I wanted to go to the Conference in Provo with her. Every year for one reason or another I had to say "no, thank you." This year, she gave up and didn't even ask. Wouldn't you know...this was the year that I could go, so I invited myself.

We considered several itineraries and finally decided that Kathryn would drive. Kathryn, her sister-in-law, Lona, and I loaded up her car (and I DO mean LOADED) with our bit of luggage and lots of stuff for each of our children that we would see on our trip.

We began our trip on Tuesday, April 28th in the early afternoon. Of course, it was April, so we hit snow on Cabbage Hill. It did little more than make everything beautiful, since it wasn't sticking to the road (oh, it kind of freaked Kathryn out). The snow cleared up soon after we left the summit of the Blue Mountains and it was smooth driving to the Boise area. Lona's son and family live to the west of Boise. We stayed with them for the night (and unloaded some of the stuff in the car).

The next morning headed off to Salt Lake City. Our plan was to drive to the Salt Lake Airport and pick up another of Kathryn's Sisters-in-law, Kim, from Florida. We were running a little late, so one of Lona's daughters (who lives in the SLC area) drove to the airport to get Kim and then met us at the Lion House Pantry near Temple Square. While we were waiting for them to arrive at the restaurant (about ten minutes) I took the opportunity to get some pictures of the beautiful flowers that were blooming all over the square.

This tulip is my favorite of all the ones I saw...and I saw a lot!!!

The Church Office Building. This is where I send a lot of my work reports.
There was a cool reflection of the Church Office Building Across South Temple Street. You can see the Lion House on the left.

The New Apostle Song

One of the best things about working in the LDS Seminary is that I get to hear and see really fun, educational things. Enjoy and sing along!

You Can't Beat Albertson's Sales!

How much would you pay for:

· 5 boxes of Cheerios

· 2 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

· 1 box of Trix

· 4 boxes of Golden Grahams

· 1 box of Cocoa Puffs

· 3 boxes of Kix

· 8 boxes of assorted fruit snacks (Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, Scooby-Doo, My Little Pony, Sunkist)

· 12 cans of Betty Crocker Ready-to-Spread Icing (Milk Chocolate, Rainbow Chip, Coconut Pecan, Cherry)

???

I paid $29.00!

I LOVE the sales that Albertson’s puts on.

Here is how I got Milk Chocolate icing for $ .25 per can:

Sale price: 6/$10.00 = $ 1.67 each

Additional special: buy $10.00 worth, get an extra $4.00 off = $ 1.00 each

Manufacturer’s coupon (limited number being handed out by a store employee): $ .50 off per can = $ .50 each

Coupon on side of can: $ .25 off = $ .25 each!

Pole Vault Personal Records for Kyle!

Saturday (March 21st) was the first track meet of the year. Kyle pole vaulted and set a personal record at 10 feet. Thursday (March 26th), at a track meet in Yakima, he vaulted two more PRs! The videos show his 10' 6" and his 11' vaults. The 11 foot vault earned him third place in the meet.

Kyle makes the 10'6" vault look easy:



Coach says that Kyle bumped the cross bar with his stomach, but pushed it back in place with his face.

Graupel

grau⋅pel /ˈgraʊpəl/ Show Spelle[grou-puhl] –noun : Snow pellets.

Priceline is the BEST

The best place to reserve hotel rooms is through Priceline. With the district swim meet being held in Vancouver we needed to book a room for Friday night. I got on Priceline and chose the Vancouver area, a three-star hotel (the best available in Vancouver through P) and offered $38. I entered my credit card number and with one minute my bid was accepted. The hotel we got (it's a gamble sometimes) was the Marriott Residence Inn and Suites.

Not only was the room really nice, but we had the best free breakfast. This is what was offered: Scrambled eggs, muffins, donuts, fruit, bagels, Belgium waffles (regular or blueberry), yogurt, make-your-own breakfast burritos, oatmeal and fixings, juices, milk (white and chocolate), dry cereal and toast (I may have missed an item or two).

Below you will see how our room (suite?) looked.

District 4/5 Swim Meet Preliminaries

I forgot to bring my video camera to this big meet today, then I realized I had my digital camera. Kyle is in lane 5 (the second closest lane to the camera). Enjoy the next 1 minute and 12 seconds!

Kyle qualified for the second day of competition in ninth place.