Bucket List #21-Palmyra Temple

Bucket list #21...go inside the Palmyra temple.  A couple of years ago, I joined Amy's family to a vacation that included Washington DC, New York, and a mini church history tour.  And by mini, I mean basically Palmyra.  We visited the sacred grove, Joseph Smith's homes, and a walk around the temple grounds.  I was struck by the beauty, especially the stained glass windows, and decided to add attending that temple to my ever growing bucket list.  It did not disappoint.  

One of the temple workers pointed out to me these windows (the ones facing the sacred grove).  They are all clear, no green leaves or brown trunks.  It represents the holy event that happened just across the field and allows temple workers and visitors to look out to the sacred grove.

Happy Birthday Kathy

Kathy spent her day doing all of her favorite things, a long run, working outside, reading, and dinner with the family.  Happy birthday to the best DIL.

 

Come From Away

 Lori was given two tickets to "Come From Away" and asked me to join her.  It was fantastic.  I've seen it twice before, but this "small" production was just as good as the traveling company.  I laughed...I cried...and all the emotions in between.  Thanks Lori, for a very fun evening.

Go Cougs!!!

 Carson was able to get us tickets to the BYU game, so we made a quick trip up to Utah.  And by quick, I mean we got there after midnight, Friday night and left Sunday morning!  But it was worth it because I got to see Todd and Kathy, Claire and Sophie, and Carson.  We got a lot crammed into a Saturday...met Carson for breakfast at Kneaders, stocked up his freezer at Costco, found white shirts at the bookstore for the "whiteout game", found succuss shopping at the mall while Todd and Owen were equally successful at fishing, met everyone at Burger Supreme for dinner, and then cheered BYU to a win.  I'll admit, I spent some of my time looking for Carson on the sideline!! Oh yea,  I also got to try a Cougar Tail!!  What a fun, and exhausting day.

Disneyland

Todd really wanted to go to Disneyland, so he took the day off and away we went.  It was so much fun being there with my adult child.  We had lightening lane passes, so we were able to go on everything he wanted, including all the indoor rides in Fantasy land.  I was really excited to see the new parade and it did not disappoint.  A great blend of new with a tribute to the old electric parade...the old music was interspersed throughout the entire parade, Donald rode a big drum, and there were a few self propelled floats all covered with lights. 

And just like that, Todd's week was over.  We did get some stuff fixed around the house.  A new kitchen facet, ordered a strawberry stack for my garden, added new dirt to my berries, and most importantly, figured out my lawn.  He sprayed it for bermuda grass, put a pre emergent down, and will be coming back in early spring to aerate and reseed.  His spraying is working!!

Beach

 If it's Labor Day, you can find me at the beach!!  This time with both of my kids, just like days gone by.  

Oh yea, Todd and Owen were there too!  It was a perfect day.

Dodger Game

My birthday present from Todd and Kathy was for him to come down for a week and work on my "honey do" list.  Because he can work from anywhere, he can do this without taking any time off from work  Well, he worked, but we also found some time to do some fun things...like go to a Dodger game.  

We decided to add some adventure by going there on the Metro instead of driving.  There is a free bus that goes from Union Station right to Dodger Stadium, but we heard that it's crazy busy after the game and that we could take the Metro one stop further to China Town, and that would be within walking distance to the stadium.  We decided to make sure it wasn't too sketchy by walking it in the daylight.  Up a big hill!  In the heat!!  My heart rate got up to 150 and I had to stop many times to catch my breath, but we made it.  Going back was easy peasy...down hill and much cooler.  All went great until the Metro got side swiped by a car and we had to wait in the hot, unconditioned car until the police cleared the area and we could get moving again.  Quite the adventure!  Oh yeh, the Dodgers lost, but the Dodger dogs and peanuts were well worth the trip.  and Todd got on the jumbo tron!!