Lots and Lots of Snow!

A couple days after Christmas, Evon and I packed Jeremy and Rachel into the car for a road trip to Utah. We got there just in time for a terrific snowfall. Alex flew into SLC the next day from spending Christmas with her dad. We spent the week at my parents’ home in Pleasant Grove and packed the week (a little too) full of fun! Here’s a little montage that shows how a family from the Arizona desert will go crazy when they see the white, powdery stuff.

We ate in the Lion House Pantry and met my fifth cousin, Sandy, then toured the Beehive House. We walked around Temple Square and stopped in the Tabernacle and visited the Church History Museum. They have the actual pistols Joseph and Hyrum defended with in Carthage Jail. We toured the Conference Center where we saw Arnold Friberg’s twelve original Book of Mormon paintings. We played in the snow, built snowmen and snow forts, went sledding, visited friends who use to live in Arizona, visited cousins and aunts and uncles and second cousins. We went tubing in Soldier Hollow and had the best burgers and shakes at Dairy Keen in Heber, UT. We drove to the west desert and plinked targets and snowmen. We went shopping at BYU Bookstore and looked at everything in BYU’s Museum of Art and saw Avatar in IMAX 3D. And somehow we found time to play Risk for hours and hours.
Happy New Year to you and your families. We wish you peace, happiness, good health and success.