A Trip to Utah for Easter Weekend

We originally were going to surprise all of the kids with a trip to Utah for Easter weekend.  As we talked about it, we decided we better let the kids know.  Rebecca needed to be able to get a head on her assignments so that she could take a little time off and play with the family.

We flew to Salt Lake City very early Thursday morning. (March 24).  We had to leave the house at 4:00 am.  We arrived in Salt Lake City by 8:00 am.  Then we rode the train to Provo.  Mark's sister, Emily, picked us up at the train station and took us directly to BYU campus.  Mark gave an hour long presentation to the AIChE club as soon as we got to campus.  We cut it close and arrived right at 11:00am when the presentations was scheduled to begin.

We had lunch with some of the Chemical Engineers that will be working for Valero once they graduate this spring.  When we got to the restaurant the host recognized Mark. The young man had been in Mark's Philmont crew about 6 years ago.

We met up with Matthew for dinner at P.F. Chengs.  The kids like their food.

Rebecca and I decided to try their chocolate cake.  It was super yummy!

On Friday, I took Rebecca shopping for some things she needed. Mark and Matthew took Richard and Robert to find snow.  They had a lot of fun playing in the snow. Mark even took a little tumble for about 10ft when hiking back to the car.  

Richard and Robert

Matthew, Richard, and Robert

Later that evening we had a nice dinner at Red Robin.  Although, I ate something I was allergic to and had to take some Benedryl.  I went back to Rebecca's apartment and feel asleep on the couch.  Mark and the twins came and got me later so that we could go back to Emily's house for the night.

On Saturday we planned a BBQ Easter egg hunt for some of Rebecca's friends and our family members that live in the Provo area.  It was a lot of fun.  We stuffed 250 Easter eggs with candy and some with money.  We grilled hot dogs and hamburgers at the park.

Lauren and Rebecca

Rebecca

The kids shadows on top of the playscape

On Sunday, we met at Rebecca's apartment to have lunch 

and then went to church with her.

Matthew, Dorias, Mark, Rebecca
Robert & Richard

The twins and Rebecca sang in Sacrament meeting.  They sang Gethsemane by Melanie Hoffman.  I got to accompany them on the piano.

Robert, Rebecca, Richard

Studio C

We all enjoy watching a clean comedy show called Studio C.  The boys especially enjoy it.
While we were in Utah, visiting Matthew and Rebecca, we saw two of the actors from Studio C. Their names were Steven and Whitney.  They are married and have a little one.  The boys were so excited to meet them.  They were gracious and let us take a picture.  We thought they were students at BYU and that producing Studio C was their college job.  Mark asked them.  Studio C is their real job.  They both write and act for the show.