Lake Tahoe March 8 - 13th, 2009

This year the whole gang was able to come. Pictured below from left to right: Eric, Donna, Paul, Pam, Mike, Janet, Marleen & Brian. Here we are at our favorite resort in Tahoe - Kirkwood! We love it becuase we know if we come mid-week there won't be any crowds and once again . . . we were right! This year we had two day of skiing at Kirkwood.

Boy, we must be getting old. We never used to just chill at the resort!

Relaxing in Lake Tahoe

This night the group went out to dinner at Chevy's. We discovered $3 appetizers during Happy Hour so we enjoyed the bargain and came back again later on in the week.
Eric's back went out so "Chiropractor" Brian tried his best to help out his buddy.
Tossing the ball in the streets is always good for a little R & R.

It's always sad to pack up and head for home -- the 9-10 hour drive seems to take longer than on the way up. We've been coming up to Lake Tahoe now for 17 years -- amazing

Visiting Utah Family

After the 1pm sealing in Manti and pictures and visiting took place on the temple grounds, we drove 1 1/2 hours up to Springville and stayed the night with the Crooks and Harrison's. This gave us CA drivers a few more hours to visit with our Utah family. Harrison's hosted a dinner and everyone came. We got to meet new additions to the family as well as visit with one another. We left Saturday around 9:30 am waiting for the roads to dry up and get plowed as Southern Utah got 6 inches.

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs. Wetzel!

My neice, Sandie & Mathew were sealed in the Manti Temple. My Mom and sisters, Della, Mary Alice, Carolyn and I all drove up yesterday and spent the night in St. George. We got up at 5pm to make the 3 hour trip up to Manti and came acrossed some pretty icy & scarry round around Cedar City. We made it in time to do a session before the sealing and then got a chance to see meet Mathew in the hallway and then found Sandie & Diane in the bride's room before the ceremony. It was bitter cold and a stressful drive with a trip that was always "weather permitting" but it was so worth it all to see this happy couple sealed.

The Manti Temple

In the visitors center there were these framed pictures of some of the rooms in the temple and I took pictures of them with my camera. Pretty good hun? I loved being in this temple -- build in 1888 -- it took 11 years to build. Amazing!!!

Smear The Queer on Steriods ???

My nephew Ryan plays on the BYU Rugby team and they had a two-day tournament in Del Mar. Eric, Jason, Grandma Moore (my mom) and I went down on Thursday to watch him play. What a crazy game!!!! They won which made seeing Ryan even better!

Eric brought down Megan, Brandon and Madison on Friday to see the game. It was freezing cold (well, cold for us CA people) and even rained on them. Ryan had some free time after the game so Eric took them to go get in So CA favorite meal -- Inn-N-Out!

Girl Trip to Thatcher, AZ 1-6 thru 1-9-2009

While the kids were on winter break, we decided at the last minute to go do a road trip to Thatcher to check out the college. So, I took the girls and we drove 9 hours to the southeastern part of the state of Arizona. We stayed with Eric's cousins Babette & Roger Daley. They have a converted apartment that their teenage daughters stay in behind their house and they let us stay there and sleep in their beds. (Isn't it decorated cute??) Thanks girls for letting us be so comfy in your beds! Madison called it our Hotel! Babette spoiled us rotten -- she's an amazing cook and we loved hanging out while checking out the campus and community.

Eastern Arizona! The clock tower was recently dedicated to President Eyring's father who was a renouned scientist and graduated from EA. My mom recently told me that we have ancestors who settled in Pima -- which is just a few miles away. It is also the area that President Monson announced in conference would be getting a new temple - Gila (pronounced Hela) Valley.

So exciting!!

Congratulations Dani & Bryce - he proposed to Dani while we were here so we got to see the ring. It was fun to getting to know the both of them better! "Shoooooooooooot" is one of Bryce's favorite expressions we got a kick out of hearing him say.

Here we are with the happy couple. We hope to be back for the wedding --

for sure at the Mesa Temple.

Rocki and Madison had a great time together. Eventhough everyone had to go to school we looked forward to when they got home. They spend hours in Rocki's room .

Megan and 12 year old Chad spent a lot of time wrestling. Chad had some major moves that got the best of Megan. He was able to pick her up and flip her onto the giant lovesac.

Watch out though . . . he pinches!

Here is Bri and Megan. They possibly could be roommates out in apartment next year IF it all works out. They live so close to campus it would be wonderful.

We had a productive visit as we met with the Dean of Students, toured the campus, Megan took some placement tests, met with the Director of the Institute program, applied and checked into some off-campus housing (as a back-up plan).

She could be going to EA! It's a lot warmer than Idaho!

Thanks Daley's for taking such great care of us! We Love You Guys!!!