Temple, Bowling, Paleontology, Icecream, The Girls, and The Smiths

 Thursday morning my dear friend Samantha came and picked me up at the hotel so that we could spend the day together. We have not spent the day together without kids since we were in high school. We started our day with a session at the Provo City Center Temple. We have never gone to the temple together as adults. It was absolutely wonderful. We were early for a session so we just go to sit and talk. The beauty of the temple was positively magnificent and beautiful.

Then we had lunch at Kneaders (this was a must for me because we don't have one here). I did carpool with her picking up kids from school and taking them home, we went and picked some veggies from her sister-in-law's garden, got an ice cream cone, and then I stopped by to say hello to her parents before she dropped me off back at the hotel. It really was such a wonderful day, and although we hadn't seen each other in six years it was as if no time had passed at all. 


Chris took the kids to the Paleontology Museum at BYU. At one point they were watching workers behind the glass cleaning up dinosaur bones. Chris turns to Myles and says "Wouldn't that be cool if we could go in there??" Myles agreed that it would but that that would never happen. Well, leave it to Chris. He asked, and they all got to go behind the glass and see the bones and work being done up close and ask questions. Chris was busy holding Meg, so no pictures.

Then they all went bowling on campus for a $1 each.

 

They went  and had ice cream at The Creamery, and they went to the library on campus before heading back to the hotel to go swimming. Look who they found there.....................

I was sent this picture by Aeva. Chris, the kids, and she saw Rhaevyn doing her New Student Orientation tour. This boy is from Vancouver, so they had lots to talk about. Aeva got separated from her group and just decided to hang out in the library. Her New Student Orientation didn't go so well.

 And this was it................the last we'll see of them until Christmas........................


Thursday evening we were determined to visit our friends Sam and Karen Smith. We missed seeing them last time we were in Utah, and we weren't about to let that happen again. Silly me forgot to get/bring their phone number before we left home. I had no way to check my email, so I hoped just showing up would be okay. They have the nicest neighbors who volunteered to text Karen for me and gave me her number. While they finished up a soccer game we decided to run to Walmart to get snacks for the drive to Idaho. While we were at the Walmart in Lehi we ran into a Sister that was in our ward several years ago. When she and her family moved to Utah she gave us their piano for Aeva. It was so great to get to see her and chat briefly. We headed back to see the Smiths and had not planned on staying too long since it was a school night. They were so good about how late we ended up staying. It was great to get to see their children too who were great to entertain Meg and Elsa. We feel so blessed to call them our friends.  Even though it has been many years since our last visit, they are just so easy to visit with. We were so very glad that we were able to see them and only wish that we had remembered to get pictures. Thank you  Smith Family!!!!