I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Saturday, September 10, 2011

2011 Trip to Ephraim

Aug 29 - July 1st Anthony had a conference up in Ephraim.  Ephraim is THE SMALLEST town.  I really think that is Snow's College wasn't there, they wouldn't survive! Really.

Anyway, it was beautiful and the weather was GORGEOUS.  The girls and I had fun driving around while Anthony was in meetings. 
One of the nights we were there, we told them that after we ate we would go walk around the Manti temple, which was only 5 miles or so away.  On our way there it POURED with rain. We couldn't see the cars right in front of us for a while.  


The Manti temple is so beautiful.  It is amazing up there on that hill.  We never did get to walk around it though.  The rain wouldn't stop.  Some day I would love to go through it.

We, as a family, don't eat out much so that was probably the funnest thing for the girls.  I think they thought it was pretty awesome getting to eat out so much and being able to stay in a hotel!
{I have NO idea where Hailey was in these photos.}
After we left Ephraim we headed up to Kaysville to help Belinda and her family pack their house up.  They moved to Virginia for Scott's new job.  We miss them already.
All in all it was a fun family vacation.  The girls have never stayed in a Hotel before and it was good to get away before Anthony started a new school year of teaching.  I think that we need to do something like that with them every year. 

This is just a random picture of Alyssa.
What a cutie.

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