Babies!

I went to Utah for an overdue visit and a bit of General Conference and had such a blast. Though it was quite the quick trip, I'm so glad I was able to visit a bunch of family and friends, plus a few "new additions"--their adorable babies!
Catching up and seeing Dave & Lis's blue-eyed little Caleb was so great (oh how I miss these friends from our China days!)

And vivacious Amber & Mike's little blond haired-blue-eyed charmer, Aiden was such a doll:

I also managed to make it back to my Alma Mater for a quick lunch with my cousin Genny and a fudgelicious trip to the bookstore. Good ol' BYU (it's been 3 years already-yikes!) So crazy to think about how much I've changed, learned, grown, etc since that time of my life. And then there are always those feelings of nostalgia--tunnel singing, dorm visiting hours, pranks, all-night laughs, my spot in the library, the beautiful MOA, all-sports games, L& T, the Dollar, trips to Park City...how the list goes on :) Many good memories and people at BYU, but so much learned in life since then. Still a cougar at heart though, it seems (as evidenced in the pict below):A very fun trip to Utah overall I'd say. Thanks much to my dearest grandma and grandpa for letting me stay with them. As is tradition, grandma delivered her always perfect round of milkshakes, and grandpa shared his laugh-out-loud stories. Actually, in one dinner we found out that once, when Grandpa was 8 or 9 years old, a worker on his family's farm gave him his first (and incidentally, last) cigarette to smoke! As this confession came out, Grandma also shared a story about a roadtrip where she and her siblings were super carsick, so her dad stopped at the store and bought them some type of alcohol (whiskey?) to get them to stop barfing. It was so nasty that they were terrified to have more, and thus stopped throwing up in the car (WHAT?!) New discoveries to say the least, but always interesting to hear about the olden days with my sweet (and funny!) grandparents.It was a quick but fun trip and I'm glad I was able to go back and visit (or run into) friends old and new. Life just keeps going on so fast, and as Ferris Bueller so wisely said " if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."