Thomas and Lindsey: Livin La Vida Loca: Conference Weekend

We LOVE little getaways! This Friday as soon as Thomas got off work we headed to Utah. We first went to Thomas' mission reunion which was in Provo. Mine was at the exact same time but in Salt Lake. Thomas offered to go to mine but I knew he really wanted to go to his because his mission president who is from England would be there and a bunch of his old missionary companions. It reminded me of what I assume a high school reunion is like. A little bit akward. "Are you in school? Working? How long have you been married for?" Were the common questions. It's funny how you can have so much in common with people at one time in your lives and then really lose touch and know hardly anything about them and resort to small talk. We are glad we went though.
After the reunion we were starving. Thomas can always tell when I'm about to get cranky cause I haven't eaten. We headed to Denny's and then to one of my best friends (Lauren) from high school's grandparents house. They were so extremely nice! It's the first time we had met them and they just treated us like one of their grandkids. Lauren and her boyfriend showed up about a half hour after we got there and we stayed about til about 12:30am chatting. (I haven't stayed up that late in a looooooonnnnnnnnnnngggggg time) We are usually in bed by 9pm.
We were planning on going back to Salt Lake to try and get into the saturday afternoon session of conference and then head home but we were enjoying ourselves so much we decided to switch those plans to Sunday. So we watched the Saturday morning session after eating a wonderful breakfast of waffles with homemade jam. I loved the talk by Elder Uchtdorf about the simple things in life. He explained that as an airline pilot he noticed that young pilots in training seem to think that when in turbulence they should go faster to get through it. But actually there is an optimum speed when going through turbulence and it is usually slower than the speed the pilot is going. He related this to our lives. Often when we are going through difficult times we try to pick the speed up and do more. When really we need to slow down and focus on the important things: our relationship to God, our family, our fellowman, and ourselves. I loved that and will really try to remember it the next time I'm feeling overwhelmed and stressed.
After the morning session Lauren, Thomas, and I went for a hike up to the giant Y that looks over BYU. I was surprised at what a great workout it was. I knew I needed to get some kind of excercise after 4 1/2 hours of driving the previous day and this hike had me sweating and breathing hard. I love that while hiking you can still carry on a conversation though.

The Y

Saturday evening we had a BBQ with lots of guests. Lauren's two sisters and one of her brothers were there with some friends. While the boys went to Priesthood session that evening Lauren and I headed to the mall. Lauren had looked at a store online called Mikarose and wanted to check it out. They had some really cute dresses and for extremely cheap. I never look good in dresses, I always dress up in a skirt, but I found two that were super cute and all together only $26! Pictures later.
Saturday night we played a bunch of games of PIT and then called it a night.
Sunday morning we watched half of the morning session and then left for Salt Lake to try and get tickets for the afternoon session. We arrived just as morning session was getting out and I stood in standby while Thomas held a sign that said "Need 2 tickets." After about a half hour a nice man gave Thomas two of his extra tickets! While standing in standby I saw an Elder I swerved with in my mission walk by. He is from Scotland (Elder Sweeney) So I was totally surprised to see him. I guess he is trying to go to school here but you have to find someone to sponsor you who has a lot of money. So he is going to join the air force. I love seeing people randomly.
We loved conference and loved being able to watch all of it.