Conference weekend April 2012

My childhood friend Alicia and her family, which is a second family to me, came into town this weekend. Sage and I spent Friday with them shopping at the Gateway and we all went to dinner at Tucanos. Taylor took Sage home and I hung out with Alicia and Josie. We walked around City Creek and had a good time together. Saturday and Sunday was General Conference. We tried to time Sage's naps so we could really focus on the messages that were being shared. This was one of my favorite messages: Stop it!. (Even if you are not of our faith I would encourage you to watch it.) Saturday evening while Taylor went to dinner with his dad and brother and then to a meeting for the men in the church, Sage and I spent time with Jeanne, Jodie and her girls. Sunday morning Alicia and her family came by for a yummy breakfast of french toast, strawberries and bananas on their way out of town. It was so nice to visit with them and wish we could see them more often. We spent the day watching more of Conference, relaxing and napping. We were going to invite the Chezik's over for dinner, but they had already started dinner and we hadn't put our dinner in the crock pot yet, so they invited us over instead. Dinner was  delish and we love visiting with them. It was such a nice weekend spent being uplifted and spent with friends and family.

What a wonderful weekend!

We had the best weekend spent with friends, family, and full of Christmas celebration. I don't think it could have got any better.

• We had one of the best weekends. Friday evening we had the Peterson's over. Sage and Cole got to play for a little bit before we put them both to bed. The four of us then had dinner and played games-speed scrabble and racko. We had a really good time. 
• Saturday morning Taylor woke up early to do some Christmas shopping. He brought us back yummy peppermint hot chocolate from Starbucks. 
• Grandma & Papa came down from Paradise to visit with us and bring our Christmas tree/decorations they had got us. 
• We all went to our wards Waffle Christmas Brunch and afterwards went to the Festival of Trees. 
• After Grandma & Papa left we put Sage down for a nap, put some Christmas music on and decorated our tree. We watched some of the movie The Christmas Carol. 
• Taylor & I read/sang Sage the 12 Days of Christmas Book.
• We went and picked up a few more Christmas decorations we had in storage and then went grocery shopping. I don't know why, but I love when we go together. It makes it so much fun. 
• After putting Sage to bed we made dinner and even used our Christmas china. Why wait for a special occasion? Every day is a special occasion, right?
• We finished decorating and cleaned up and watched more of The Christmas Carol.
• Sunday we went to church, came home and all napped, ate lunch and watched an uplifting Christmas movie called Mrs. Miracle (It's a Hallmark movie). 
• Taylor & I went to the Conference Center to watch the Christmas devotional. Lorrie & Kylie were so nice to watch Sage for us and Dan was so nice to drop us off and pick us up from the Conference Center, so we wouldn't have to battle parking.
• When we got home Sage went to bed and we watched Miracle on 34th Street.