Alice's Blessing

Wow, Steve and I sure crammed a whole bunch of things into our weekend trip to Utah for Alice's blessing!  First of all, the drive on Friday up to Utah was just beautiful.  Saturday, we drove up to Bountiful to see Sarah and to take a thankyou gift basket to the Swasey family where Sarah stayed for a month until she was able to move into her apartment.  We three picked Steven up from the airport around 1:00 pm, grabbed a quick lunch at a Subway, and then we attended a session at the Salt Lake Temple.  Family met up with us at temple square afterwards to admire the lights and to eat dinner.  The lights part was glorious (although COLD as all get out).  The dinner part was a probably the low point of the weekend because we ate at a food court near temple square which was SO crowded and noisy and the only table we could find was by the door so it was chilly.  

Sunday morning, Alice was blessed at the home of her grandparents.  It was a beautiful, special event. 

As serindipity would have it (or the Lord's tender mercies), Steve's brother Jeff's son had his coming home from a mission talk the same day in the same town (well, Orem vs Provo) so we got to connect with even more Lambson family that afternoon.

Jake with his dad, Jeff.  Jake served in Uraguay.

Mike and Michelle Warner came down from Grantsville (we also saw them the night before at temple square)

Jeff meets his great-niece, Alice

Nate Lambson and his family

McKay Lambson and two of his boys

Kate and Jordan (McKay photo bombing).  The photo of Kamrie and Ryan was blurry


We even had a chance to visit two old friends

Steve and Moana Burns - had dinner with them Friday night -

and we saw Matt and Ruth Chatterly Sunday afternoon

Sunday evening, we enjoyed watching White Christmas at the Merrills .....well, Alice didn't enjoy it. But, she will in future years.

Monday morning, we drove back to Arizona through St. George / Las Vegas -  which was a new route for us.  It was not as beautiful as the Page / Kanab route we took up but it was not bad.  Here is a photo of Lake Mead.

A VERY full but VERY wonderful weekend!