Open House

My husband, Joe, thought it would be a good family outing to attend the Draper Temple open house, so that's what we did tonight.
This first picture was taken in a Draper ward house where we watched a video and then waited for the bus that would take us up the hill.



This was taken through a tinted bus window.



After a 'silent tour' of the Temple we were funneled into the ward building situated right next to it. Here they served cookies and bottled water.




Getting back on the bus:



After this we went to Applebees for dinner and then we picked up my sons car from the shop. He just had new tires put on his car. My daughter also payed for some work on her car today. She had the automatic window fixed this morning. It's a good thing that they pay some of their own car expenses. Three cars can get to be a bit too much sometimes.

Sarahs 20th Birthday!

This will be a short post. Sarah is getting off from work early, so I'm hurrying with birthday preparations.
She is turning 2o! I can hardly believe she's that old already. She was born at Alta View Hospital in Sandy Utah, on February 12th, 1989. She was 8 pounds 9 ounces and 20 inches long.
She has been a Joy to us and such a very good person. She deserves much more than we are able to give her.
I hope she knows that there is a lot of love behind her little birthday celebration.

Her cake:


Cake, flowers, balloon bouquet, treats and a money card:


WE LOVE OUR SARAH!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

New Office Location

This nice looking building is our new business location. The current economy has our little company moving out of the glass towers. The cost to be there has been $6000. a month, which is fine in a healthy business atmosphere. As it is, this new situation makes more sense for us now. It's a mere $ 500. a month.
The sad part is that many good employees (9?) have had to seek work elsewhere. It feels like we're almost back to square one. A person just has to be grateful for what they do have. At least we are still employed and able to meet our living expenses.
Before we settle in we probably need to go wash some scuff marks off the walls and do some touch up paint. For such a good price we had to take it as is.
The building itself is nice and we have a dentist right across the hall from us.
My husband and his boss have big windows in their offices, but one poor fellow will be in a windowless room that resembles a large walk in closet. Then there are a couple more small rooms. One will be for storage and the other a lunch room. A girl will be at a desk near the front door, so she'll be in a good position to greet people.
So, this will be an interesting new challenge and adventure. We're not new to that. It's good for us, right? I'm okay with challenge, as long as we're still in the game.
I hope that everyone out there get's through this lovely recession without to much hardship.
Good luck to us all.

Lunch date

Today I went on a lunch date with my mom and dad. First I got to their house at about 11:00. They live on a beautiful mountainside above Salt Lake City. We visited in their living room until it was time to go eat. We drove to a place called Quans. It's a Chinese food restaurant in the basement of an office building. It's next door to the well known Eagle Gate Apartments.
This seems to be a favorite lunch place for the Church office workers. Today our timing was excellent or it was a slow day for the restaurant. We practically had the place to ourselves.
Since almost nobody else was there, I thought it would be a fine chance to take a picture of mom and dad (before they had food in their mouths). As expected (in a basement) these pictures are dark, but still okay.






The food was good. I tried a little of everything this time. Then for dessert I had a little salad and some fruit; slices of pineapple, orange, and pear.
After lunch we meandered a bit through mom and dads neighborhood, looking at some houses and then we went home. Mom and I sat on the front porch for awhile. It's this awesome long porch that has a gorgeous view. The best part about the porch, I have discovered, is that it gets full sun and it's toasty warm along there, even on a cool day with snow on the ground. We soaked up the rays and I think I even have some color in my cheeks this evening. I've been turning lilly white this winter.
This Spring they're going to take me for a drive up Farmington Canyon. They were surprised that I've never been up there. I'm personally surprised that there's anything left around this valley that I haven't done yet, so I'm looking forward to it. We want to wait until the trees are green and the wildflowers are up again.
What's the big deal about Farmington Canyon you say? Well, my great grandpa ran cows up there in the 1800's (that's history). Plus it's supposed to be pretty.
So, that's the report on my afternoon. It was more entertaining than most of my days. I got home around 4:30; so it's been a nice long day.