Benatis came for conference!!

General Conference, October 4th (and 5th) 2014:

Sergio & Geni came from São Paulo for conference and for Heid's citizenship ceremony (next week). We got to attend the Saturday afternoon session all together (thanks to Mike and Bro. Howell for arranging the tickets!) Sergio got a Priesthood Session ticket, too, so the boys (Mike and Jonny and Jer, who's first Priesthood Session it was,) managed to get tickets to it, too. (Small miracles all around yesterday.)

In front of Heid's house

Conference Center, Salt Lake City

(The prophet enters...)

During the Men's session, Geni, Heid, Jen, Jessie and I got to spend some time downtown. We checked out Deseret Book (and got orange rolls!), and then we  spent some time in the South Visitors' Center. Once the boys were done, we all went out to dinner at the Blue Lemon. Yum! Fun! Good times! A very special day!!

(The Benatis got to attend this morning's session, too, and then we'll get to see them later in the week.)

Miss Independant

I'm so proud of Jen! She bought her own cell phone! She has been telling me for several months that there's something she was saving for, and that she was just trying to decide if she would get it. It sounded major. But she didn't want to tell me what it was. Instead she said I would find out when she actually bought it-if she did.

Well, Mike and I got a series of mysterious phone calls last night. I finally put it together, RAN upstairs, and saw her lovely new purchase. SO proud of her for doing it herself! (We've told the kids we won't buy phones for them, that they have to get them if they want them, but she never even complained. She just DID it!)    :D