Easter and more

The girls took a little trip to sunny California

the first part of March (without us!)

 And this might maybe be my favorite Disneyland picture

EVER!

 Thanks to Ben for hosting!

 We all love Disneyland!

We also love movies!

 

 And when classics like Rear Window are on the

big screen - we are there!

 Another thing that Mark and I enjoy is

Maya, our neighbor, who comes over

"just to talk" sometimes!

 You are never too old to color Easter eggs together

 right? 

 We didn't color many this year

 but the ones we colored were quality!

 Since Easter was on conference weekend

we had such a wonderful, relaxing, day.

 And we cooked a wonderful Easter meal together.

The poached egg salad seen above

 and this beautiful chocolate souffle

 are 2 of the things Courtney learned to make

at her Harmon's cooking class. #thankyouharmons

I have been walking around, taking pictures of plants

 

that I like for ideas to plant in our own yard.

 Of course these are taken on Temple Square.

 A garden worthy of emulation!

 One day my Paige came to town

and we went to lunch at Cucina!

 Mark got nice tickets to a Jazz game and

and Mark and Linda came too.

At one point Mark H. felt a little wetness on his head.

 And the Jazz bear was behind us with a can of silly string.

He was going around hitting all the bald guys! 

 It was way fun! I have only ever attended one other

Jazz game and we were on the top row - literally! 

 Last Sunday I made Pavlova for dessert.

And while it was far from perfect

it was yummy and I will try, try again! 

On Wednesday, April 15th we finally got some snow.

More than the whole winter combined I heard.

But the flowers on Temple Square still look beautiful!

What a wonderful world!

Conference

Another general conference has come and gone.

They are always a source of inspiration and learning.

I work for the Church so everything gets a little crazy and busy in April and October.

When my Dad was a Seventy, he and Mom came home for each conference

 and those were highlights of the year! 

Paige used to think that Grandpa and Grandma Wood lived at the airport.

This is an unusual post for me in some ways, for one thing, 

I shockingly do not have any pictures to post. 

And usually I just post family stuff.  

But today I wanted to share some of my favorite general conference talks of all time.

Here are the ones I am thinking of right now - in no particular order. 

Come Unto Christ

Well this one might be the best of all - since it is my Dad!

Hidden Wedges

A Prayer for the Children

Patience (not a conference talk)

This is a BYU Speeches talk and therefore not on YouTube 

but you can link to the text. It is so, so great. 

Thanks to our Sunday School teacher for sharing it the Sunday before conference.

Happy watching, listening, or reading. 

Holy Weekend

It was Conference Weekend!

And it was so fun to have all the kids home!

While said kids were attending a session

Mark and Mom and I

took a drive to see the splendor of the fall colors.

The aspens were so beautiful.

Silver Lake @ Brighton

Then we came home and tried our hand

at doughnut making.

And eating!

It was such fun!

What a fabulous and Holy Weekend!!!