In August, Carl and I flew out to Utah, where we attended BYU Education Week and enjoyed being with 19 month old grandson Emmett (and his mom and dad).
Here we are visiting the BYU Art Museum.
After the Art Museum, we enjoyed some BYU Creamery ice cream.
Andy and KayLynn are such good parents. While there, we learned they are expecting a baby sister for Emmett in early February. (Lower right: Andy at work.)
We had fun with Emmett at the Children's Natural Curiosity Museum at
Thanksgiving Point. His favorite activity was water play.
On another day, we toured the first class Dinosaur Museum , also at Thanksgiving Point.
When Andy was home on Saturday, we took a stroll through the scenic gardens at Thanksgiving Point.
The second Saturday we were there,we took a drive on the Alpine Loop to Wolf Creek Reservoir. Emmett's favorite activity was splashing in the ice cold water.
Another fun water place for Emmett was Utah Lake.
How we enjoyed being with this little family during the times we weren't on the BYU campus.just watching Emmett play was so fun.
On Sunday, we peeked in on Emmett in the church nursery and our son Andy, giving one-on-one attention to a special needs young boy in Primary.
Our yearly tradition, when we come out to Education Week, is to buy Emmett a BYU Cougar shirt. (When Philip
picked us up to drive us to the airport, Emmett wanted to drive the car.)
Here we are, spending our last few minutes with Emmett,
Other folks we got to see during our trip to Utah were KayLynn's parents and grandparents, our grandoggie Indie, and Carl's sister Beverly, our nephew Paul and his wife, and our son Philip, who is attending college and working in Utah.
We also had a mini reunion with one of the sister missionaries from our N.Y. Rochester Mission, Katelyn Johnson.
And we unexpectedly ran into one of our Elders from the mission, Tyler Robertson.
It was a special treat to have a reunion and dinner with our N.Y. Rochester Mission President,Jack Christianson, his wife Melanie, and several of the wonderful senior missionary couples who served with us on the office staff.
(A few photos from Education Week itself will be on the next "catch-up" blog post.)
