Two Trips in Two Weekends

Conference weekend Charlie and I drove to Utah for his mission reunion and to go to Conference. It was a very quick trip that went something like this:

Thursday - Left 7:15 am for Utah. Saw my aunt and uncle that evening in Salt Lake.

Friday - Visited with my Grandparents in SLC and picked up their Conference tickets. (My grandfather used to be a General Authority and gets amazing tickets)

-5:00pm head to Provo for the Mission Reunion but got there at 7:00pm because of lovely rush hour and the BYU vs. Utah State game. (it is only about a 40 minute drive)

-8:00pm go to dinner with friends from high school and their wives. (David Lake and Zach DeFrancis)

-10:00pm go back to reunion because some people showed up after we left and really wanted to see us. We ended up staying out with these guys until 1am!!!

Saturday - Watch morning conference at my cousin's apartment

- 2:00 Attend Conference at the Conference Center.

- 5:00 head to Bountiful where my other grandparents live and where the rest of my mom's family is meeting for dinner. I visited with the women and Charlie went to the Priesthood session with the men.

-9:30 head back to SLC

Sunday- Eat breakfast at a friend's house that we did not get to see at the reunion

-Head back to AZ

WOW! It was a really fun weekend, but too short!!! I highly recommend the experience of going to conference, it is amazing to be in the same room as the prophet, apostles, and general authories! Here are a couple of pictures:

Charlie and I outside of the Conference Center
Our view at the Conference Center

Charlie and I outside of the SLC Capitol Building which is where we parked to go to Conference!
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The following weekend was our ward's campout. I was really nervous about going because I had been so sick the night before. Luckily I felt much better Friday and we were on our way that afternoon. We borrowed Charlie's parents pop up camper, which was really nice because it was really cold that night. There was not a lot of people there, but it was still really fun. We made beef stew in the dutch oven and smores! We played Phase 10 with friends of ours before deciding we were all too cold and it was time for bed. In the morning after breakfast we walked down to a creek that was behind our camp ground. It was a really fun camp out but I am going to think twice about camping in October again!

Charlie seeing if there is anything more to see of the creek

Charlie and I

Our friends and their baby Spencer, Kirsten, and baby Zoe

(this is the only picture we had of them)