Phoenix

Bracken and I took a trip to Phoenix the end of March to check out Arizona State University's law school. We left the kids with Teresa and Stock (Thanks again soo much for watching them!) on Tuesday morning and caught a plane to Phoenix to stay until Friday night. It was such nice weather which was awesome since it was snowing at home the whole time we were gone.

We had nothing planned except for an admitted students reception Thursday night and open house Friday morning. Tuesday we decided to go check out the Mesa Temple and it just happened to be the dress rehearsal for the Easter Pageant. I didn't even know they had one but it was huge, and amazing. I loved it and so glad we came across it randomly! Such a nice reminder about Jesus Christ his life and Resurrection. Then we went out to eat at PF Changs, I love their lettuce wraps!

Mesa Temple

The stage before the show started.

During the show.

I will admit it was so nice not to have to chase kids and try to keep the quiet during the pageant and dinner. It was also nice to be able to sleep in the next morning!

Wednesday we woke up just in time for the hotel's breakfast. They had the best oatmeal and am now a fan of oatmeal with brown sugar, raisins and pecans. oh yum! We then went to the Tempe Diablo stadium to watch a spring training game of the Angels against the Rangers. I didn't even know the score when we left but it was nice to sit there in the sun, eat sunflower seeds and relax.

Bracken took a picture of the grass...I guess we really were missing green at home, but finally our grass is starting to look this way!

I had to take a picture of the field and make sure to get a picture of this guy. He was just laying in front of us, chatting it up with this couple next to him that he didn't know. He kept on getting out suntan lotion and rubbing it all over his hairy chest while he was talking to them. So grody!!

Well then I guess we never got the camera out after that. Wednesday & Thursday we went shopping, drove around, ate, and were just lazy. Thursday night we went to an admitted students reception at the deans house. A lot of just small talk about where we were from, what kind of law Bracken was interested in studying and yadda yadda yadda. It was hilarious having a guy from New York say all he knew about Utah was The Deseret News but saying it like it was french without the "t". Then he was worried he offended us by saying that most of the mormons live in mesa and then immediately said..uhh I mean not that you have to live there..but most like to live by people that share their values...i mean uhhh. And of course Bracken made him squirm some more. It took awhile for us to convince him we weren't offended.

After the reception we went to California Pizza Kitchen with our friends Jesse & Jaymie. It was a lot of fun hearing about how their life is going and just catching up with them!

Friday we went to the campus and met professors and took a tour. Then it was off to the airport and flying back home! It was a nice relaxing trip!