Logan and Preston

This weekend, I had the chance to go up to northern Utah twice. On Saturday, Dain, Emi and I drove up to Preston (Idaho) to a funeral. Dain's best friend from high school's dad died of colon cancer. It was an interesting funeral with great talks by both sons about their dad's life. His dad was a WWII vet and served in the Korean War. It's amazing how people from these historic events are dying ... Heroes from another generation who gave us so much by giving of themselves.

After the funeral, military honors, and mandatory Relief Society luncheon (no funeral potatoes ... what??!!), we drove back to Logan. On the way, we stopped at the Pepperidge Farms factory store and loaded up on gold fish crackers, cookies, and other treats. We bought some treats for Alyssa too. Then we went into Logan, picked her up and went out to lunch. It was nice to spend time with her and she's one of the reasons I'm glad to be back in Utah. We missed seeing her for three plus years, so this is great for us. Emi had packed a bag and she got to spend the night with Alyssa and her roommates. Dain and I headed back to SLC but not before stopping by his brother's house to say hello. His brother Jon and his wife Angie have lived in their "new" house for 8 years and we had never been there. It's a beautiful house. It was great to see them. We then came back to our condo. I was exhausted. lol It was nice to have a quiet evening at home.

Sunday, I headed back up to Logan, this time to go to church with Alyssa for family day. One Sunday a year, families are invited to church with the students and then they serve lunch. I got to see many of her friends, meet the ones I had only seen on Facebook and meet their families. Emi got to sit thru Sunday School and RS. The lunch was yummy and it was complete with plenty of Aggie ice cream. YUM, YUM, YUM. I loved spending that time with my two girls. Dain had to be up at Brighton to sub for someone so he couldn't go. Then Emi and I drove home.

It was a great weekend. I'm grateful for the time I spent with my family, with extended family, with friends and eating ice cream. :-)

Emi is now Sweet Sixteen

Yes, my baby is 16 (yesterday, March 17)!!!!!

 And she still shows her food ...

She asked for Hawaiian food for dinner and then met a bunch of friends at Leatherby's. It was a lot of fun for her. Happy birthday Emi!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dallas!

Three or four years ago, Dain gave me a gift certificate to drive Nascar. I chose to set it up in Dallas because we were living in Houston at the time. We went to Dallas a couple of years ago and my driving was canceled due to weather. So we went to the State Fair instead. We tried again over Valentine's weekend. We flew to Dallas only to have the event canceled again due to weather. And because I set it up there, I can't transfer it to another track. Soooo, we will be back.

We decided to make the most of the weekend. We went out to dinner at some of our favorite Texas restaurants, went to the Zoo, to the House of Blues, and even just drove around and found a beautiful lake. It was a slow and simple weekend. We enjoyed the time together and we enjoyed being back in Texas.