Qwirkle Anyone?

One of families favorite games to play is Qwirkle. It is Scrabble meets Dominos. We play it a lot. I think it Jim's favorite game, although now that he has learned how to play Settler's of Catan that may be a close second! Clark bought his own copy to have at college.

We bought another copy while in Utah this weekend for The Wynn Wilkes' Jr. family as a thank you for letting us stay with them. We had fun teaching them how to play!

Utah Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend in Utah!

There was a lot of hugging and mugging going on!

Jim flew to SLC on Thursday for some business appointments. Thanks to his frequent trips on Southwest Tessa and I were able to fly to SLC on Friday.

We stayed at Wynn and Emily's and I think we were the first guests in the newly completed basement - everything looked great and the bed was very comfortable. Thanks for letting us stay! We love you!

The girls had lots of fun with the kids too!

And we enjoyed chips and salsa from Los Hermanos with Addie!

Tessa spent Friday night with Cali in her dorm room. They both managed to sleep together in Cali's twin bed!

Tessa is not sure how she is going to like sleeping in a small twin bed when she goes to college after sleeping in her "Princess" queen sized bed!

This week was deJong week for the Young Ambassadors - it is the one time during the school year that they perform on campus at BYU. Since this was our last time to see Logan perform as a Young Ambassador we couldn't miss the opportunity!

The show was also taped by BYU TV so those of you who get that channel may want to watch the schedule for it!

Jim saw the show Thursday night along with Grandma and Grandpa Wilkes and Dave and Tricia before they flew to Arizona on Friday for Mark and Celeste's temple sealing.

Our whole family attended the show Friday night. Of course it was amazing and Logan was terrific!

We also saw the show Saturday night too. Prior to the Saturday night show we were able to join the cast and crew backstage in the Green Room for their preshow devotional. Logan was conducting and speaking. It was an amazing experience and one that left his mother in tears!

We couldn't take photos during the show but here is one of them warming up prior to the show!

Of course no trip to Utah would be complete without at least one trip to Cafe Rio (we made two this trip) and a visit to Tai Pan Trading (thanks to Emily for going with me) and then there was the stop at Smart Cookie and after show treats at Brick Oven Pizza.

We also found a fun new bakery where we enjoyed some yummy cupcakes and sugar cookies - Sweet Tooth Fairy!

The whole family attended church this morning at Logan's ward - it was nice to go all together. Thanks to Clark for volunteering to get up early to go with us! We stayed for all three hours so Jim could go to Priesthood with Logan where he was teaching the lesson. We headed to the airport right after church.

It's good to be home but I miss my college kids already!!

College Kid Catchup

Tessa just told me that I haven't been very good about updating the blog lately - she's right.

Last week I promised you a college kid update but didn't get it done. So here it is -

Cali spent the long weekend last week in Park City with some of her floor mates. One of them lives up there so they stayed at their house. I think they had fun just relaxing and sleeping most of the time. They did do some playing in the snow, a visit to downtown Park City and Cali shared her Sumo Wrestling talents with the group!

This was a busy week for Cali as she prepared for her MDT Auditions.m(music, dance and theater) She had to sing two songs, do two monologues and dance. She called us after the dance audition to say she was still alive!

She worked hard to prepare and her sweet older brother Logan was a big help too. He rehearsed with her and went to auditions with her to offer moral support and then treated her to breakfast afterwards! They are only accepting 16 people iinto the program but Cali felt good about her audition - we are so proud of you CALI!

Logan and the Young Ambassadors have spent the last two weekends traveling to southern Utah for performances in Cedar City and Richfield. Work, school and dating are keeping him busy! We are so excited to see the Young Ambassadors next week!!! We were also glad to hear that Logan had attended a job fair this past week at BYU. He's going to need a job come June when he returns from Scandanavia!!

Clark just returned from a week end in St. George with some of his roommates. They did some hiking and went to the BYU Rugby game (some of his roommates are Rugby players)

Clark's big news for the week was that he was accepted into a study abroad program at Cambridge, England. We are so excited for him. He will spend July and August there taking classes. He has already figured out when the running of the bulls in Spain is and plans a weekend trip! Wish I was going with him (not to see the bulls but to Cambridge) - bet he's probably glad I'm not!

Jim was in town most of the week - just making a day trip to Yakima. It was a pretty normal week around here for us - school, work, rehearsal, more work etc.

I have still not been released from Young Women's so have been doing double duty with my calling. Trying to figure this whole Stake thing out.

It was parent observation at ballet this week so Jim and I went to watch - with all the money we spend on these dance lessons it is nice to be able to see what she is doing once in a while.

Saturday was our ward temple day in preparation for Ward Conference. We attended the temple session, chapel session and then out to dinner with some friends.

We have enjoyed a nice quiet Sabbath today - no extra meetings and only one ward to attend - ours as there were no Ward Conferences.