Conference Sunday Beignets, Creations and Selfies

We stuck with our usual tradition of making beignets for breakfast Sunday morning for conference.  As always, we had lots of help and they were delicious.  (However, certain members of the family, OK, a certain member of the family was very upset that we made beignets without her, but we couldn't exactly sit around all morning just waiting for her to wake up.  And we did wake her up before we ate them,  She was not very happy with us.)

During conference, we put one of Peter's birthday presents to use and made a lovely creation.

Jonas made the sphere.

And we just combined everybody's parts the best we could.

It kept everyone busy and entertained so it served it's purpose.

And afterward, someone stole my phone and took some selfies.

The Field of Dreams is Complete, Guess Where We'll Be For Water Polo Tomorrow?

That's right, our 3-plus year pool ordeal is finally over.  Shawn's field of dreams is complete.  We are so excited we can barely stand it.

It is a thing of beauty.

All set up for water polo, complete with lines, floating cages, and a center ball drop.  Woo hoo!

And look at this awesome fully functioning scoreboard.  We are feeling so spoiled after 3 years of being at Granite with everything barely holding together and functioning on a wish and a prayer.

And set up for swim team with beautiful new lane lines and flags.

It's a good thing we like this place so much, because we will be spending an awful lot of time here,  It's kind of our home away from home.

Shawn cant' keep from smiling every time he thinks about it. Maybe "giddy" is the word to use.  Can't wait to test it out.

The Final Day of Our Adventure in Which We See Four Corners, Monument Valley And A Forrest Gump Movie Spot

We split the drive home into a couple of days which made it a little easier.  We left Fort worth where it was nice and toasty warm and stopped in Amarillo for the night.  The kids went into the hotel shoeless and in shorts and t-shirts.  We woke up to snow.  We had to go out to the car and go digging through bags just to get everyone dressed appropriately to get back to the car in the morning.

A stop at 4 Corners was part of the itinerary as well since it wasn't too far out of the way.

It was really cold, though.

Amelia taking a seat in 4 states at once.

The Utah State Seal.

Samantha doing the splits in 4 states at once.

All the kids in separate states with Peter keeping them all connected.

Kissing in 4 states at once.  That was a first.

After Four Corners, we took another little detour to Monument Valley because it was there and we thought we should see it.

Mostly we have lots and lots of pictures of rocks from this detour.  Really big Rocks.  We like rocks.  Just look at our front yard.

But I think these rocks are pretty spectacular.

Woody liked the views, too.

This right here is where Forrest Gump stopped running in the movie.  It was a pretty important highlight for us to stop there, too.  (Note: Make sure kids watch Forrest Gump.)

 

Despite our reservations about driving all the way to Texas and back with the whole family, I think we had a fantastic spring break.  We saw cousins, watched some good water polo and saw all sorts of cool things along the way.  I'd even do it again.