Conference Weekend

Our last two weekends straight have been spent in the company of family and friends in the greater Provo area.

The first weekend was for General Conference and the second was to celebrate the birth of Ashley's first cousin on her Mommie's side of the family - Sienna St. Felix.

Taking things in chronological order, I have yet to figure out how to pay attention to General Conference while not being at a church or inside the Conference Center. As if sitting on a soft couch was bad enough, now there is this adorable child to play with. In fact, we have a great home movie of her during the opening session on Saturday.

Due to some serious health issues with Amber's parents we weren't able to stay at their home as we normally do on our trips south. But, Amber's very pregnant sister Stacy graciously invited us to their home in Springville - just south of Provo.

Although we missed Ken and Joyce, it was fantastic staying with Stacy and Serge.

We also used that weekend to see our friends who have departed Logan for the bigger cities.

On Friday, in an attempt to surprise Amber for her birthday - the day before - I arranged to meet our friends the Lewis' at a pizza joint (Gapeddo's: very good) in Salt Lake. When I made the plans I forgot to take General Conference/Mission Reunions/Highway construction into account when figuring driving time. Rather than the 90 minutes it normally takes to get from Logan to SLC, we crawled down the interstate arriving at our destination after 3 hours in the car. Amazingly, the Lewis' were still at the restaurant and they didn't even hate us for being so late.

Saturday conference was spent at our friends the Billmans. All enjoyed the company of friends and the moments of talks that we heard. Ashley made sure to provide the entertainment. Now we just need to work on her timing.

Sunday was spent with family. For the morning session we stayed with Stacy and Serge. We joined up with the Perego's who came down from Taylorsville to the Andersen's in Orem. We ate lunch with the bunch and then slep, I mean, watched the last session of conference.

Following conference we headed up Provo Canyon for a gathering of cousins stemming from my mom's side of the family. That was fun, considering I don't meet up with that group all that often.