Temple Square in Salt Lake City

SM and I had some friends from Ohio come to Salt Lake and we met them at Temple Square.  Their three kids were so excited to see the Temple at Temple Square.  Here's the youngest is standing with me at the statue of the Christus in the Visitors Center. 

Here's an awesome picture of the Salt Lake Temple right after a large rain storm.  We did get a little bit wet but it was so much fun and I got some good pictures.

J was turning eight years old in a couple weeks, so he was excited to tell all the sister missionaries that he was going to be baptized soon.  He also was memorizing all the different flags on the sister missionaries' name tags (the flags indicate where they are from).

SM and his friend A were friends at Utah State and then found each other in Ohio.  A is a very nice and funny girl and I enjoyed making another friend.

This is A's husband, P and his little girl.  We had a good time walking around Temple Square, visiting with sister missionaries  taking pictures, and getting caught up with each other.

We also took a tour of the Beehive House, where Brigham Young lived while he was president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I thought that I had had a tour of this house before but as we went through it, I didn't recognize anything.

Isn't this harp beautiful?!  The rooms in the Beehive House were so elegant and pretty.

We are standing in front of the Relief Society building.  We all went inside and got a tour of the building.  It has an amazing history.  It was a fun tour.

These are some of the amazing and beautiful pieces in the Relief Society building.

Here we are on the top of the Conference Center.  There are lots of tall trees and even a field, along with several fountains all on the top of the Conference Center.  It's such a big, beautiful building and had some amazing architecture.

This is a photo of the field that is on top of the Conference Center.  The dirt has to be light so that it doesn't cause the ceiling of the Conference Center to cave in to the building.  We had a great visit with our friends and I enjoyed learning more about Salt Lake and it's history, past and present. 

Open House

Last night was the open house for SM's youngest sibling.  I really liked this photo that was taken of the two of us.

Here is my niece and nephew dancing at the open house.  SM had spent a couple hours the day before putting together a play list so that we would have fun dancing music that we all were familiar with and these two cuties enjoyed our picks.  My niece is five years old and her cousin is four...though, a big four year old.

Here's one of my gorgeous SIL's.  You know, it great to belong to such an awesome family.  We sure have a great time together!

Here's my SIL and BIL biting the heads off of the Twinkie bride and groom.  We aren't a silly family at all (said with a lot of sarcasm).

And here's the result of the first bite!



Here's my youngest niece...eating...one of the things she does pretty well.  Isn't she cute?!!



Here's SM and one of his brothers...the one that looks and sounds most like him.  Not the greatest photo when comparing the two of them but I just wanted to add the photo.

Here they are, dismantling the Twinkie cake and sharing it with all who want a Twinkie or a piece of chocolate cake!  SM's sister is on the right and my SIL who made the Twinkie cake is on the left.

Twinkie Grooms Cake

My SIL had a great idea to make a grooms cake for my BIL's open house.  She was sweet and invited me over to help her decorate the cake.  She started with a bottom square, and then the middle square was placed diagonal and then the top was was back to being straight on the cake.  I don't know if that explanation made sense, but I did add photos to help for clarification.

After we "glued" the Twinkies on with chocolate icing, my SIL made all the raw edges look nice with her icing gun.

Look at these cute little Twinkie buddies!  I helped decorate them.

Here are the finished bride and groom.

As I was trying to decide what kind of face to put on the Twinkie characters, I had to practice on a few headless Twinkies.  The two on the right looked more like robots to me, and I went with the two o the left.

Ta-Da!  Look at that cute Twinkie couple!

I like this photo of the cake near the bride & groom photo!  (This was taken at the Open House later that night).

Here's the whole grooms cake!  Beautiful! (And yummy).