I'll never let go...

We had a fabulous week in SLC. It was so nice to be there in nice weather. We had a wonderful Easter weekend. We spent most of it outside in the sunshine playing family basketball and lounging on the deck. We went to church Sunday and had an egg hunt and enjoyed an Easter feast.

The rest of the week we spent hanging with friends and family. Visited Ben's darling grandparents, went to the new Natural History Museum with cousins, went to the zoo, hit up City Creek a couple of times which was fabulous, ate at Lion House Pantry which is a must, walked Temple Square, had a birthday lunch for Em, and saw Titanic in 3D with my sisters and some gals...just as good as it was in 1997.

Was that seriously 15 years ago? Sheesh. I remember boo-hooing through it the first time when I was 14 at the Crossroads mall downtown with a few of my best girls...actually I can't even picture where that old theater was now but I do remember waiting out on South Temple for someone to come pick us up after. It was a much longer movie than we had planned for and we were scrambling after to get a ride and all squirming at the thought of calling our parents so late. Trying so hard to be grown up but still so dependent.

One of my friends walked around for a few months with a zip-lock bag full of magazine pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio. Swoon. I guess that's not as bad as my older sister who saw it like 8 times in the theater, had a binder of Titanic clippings, and wrote oh-so-cheesy love notes to her boyfriend that said things like "you jump, I jump remember?". Barf. But seeing the movie again made me realize that it certainly was worth all that adolescent hype. So good.

Man I love Salt Lake this time of year. I started pining away about living there again this week. Ben sure loooooves having this conversation again and again. Poor guy. Speaking of that little husband of mine, he was HARD at work all week re-landscaping the backyard while we were away. He really is amazing. If I had a week family free, you can bet I wouldn't be outside digging in the dirt. We want to get trees and maybe some flowers in the ground but pics are to come.

I'm in no hurry. I have a very good life and I'm very happy in Colorado. I gotta get some use out of this lovely yard and I have amazing friends and a killer ward I'm not ready to leave. But I just don't see myself being here long term. We'll see what happens but one day I plan to be back in Salt Lake. I'll never let go. :)

Early Easter

Over Conference weekend we had a mini Easter celebration. I had already bought baskets and eggs before thinking through that we would be in SLC for the holiday. And then it was decided that we should try to teach the girls the beauty of a good, competitive egg hunt before they are up against their cousins (and probably aunts and uncles) in Salt Lake.

Let's just say if we have to pick a competitor, it will be Miss Rose. Out of the 18 eggs we threw about in the backyard, she collected 14. Evie was practically forced to pick up the other four, sat and ate the fruit loops out of them and kept abandoning the whole thing to bult for the sandbox. Rosie always has been our little collector.

The girls also enjoyed a little egg dying.

A couple weeks ago my sister in-laws friend was doing mini photo shoots for a ridiculously low rate. We jumped on it. I'm thinking we would have had much better luck had there not been gale force winds blowing us to pieces the entire time. The girls wouldn't cooperate or smile and their hair was driving me nuts in all the blustering... but we'll take what we can get. Still managed to get a few sweet shots.
Happiest happy hour having sushi with mom and dad.