women's conference.

I got to go to Women's Conference at BYU this past weekend. What a good time! It was my longest trip away from my family, and I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing but it was pretty easy to leave this time! I knew my kiddos were in good hands and I couldn't wait to experience Utah for my first time. (I don't count Kanab, fyi) We flew in late Wednesday night and went to our lovely cinder block cells (dorms). It was freezing, and snowing. We never went to bed before 2 am (and it was pretty hard to fall asleep period once I found out my roomie was a sleep "stander" and my roomie next door was a sleep "screamer"...not the best thing to hear two blood curdling screams at 3 am especially after your roomate tells you of an attempted murder on campus that happened just weeks ago). It was a fast paced schedule, up early, shower with one bathroom & six girls, eat a granola bar on the way to devotional, RUN to back to back classes and then end with a devotional. I couldn't help but be jealous of the cute little college kids with their backpacks & innocence in this mountain enclosed beautiful scene of a college. I really regret missing out on the whole college experience and I really hope my kids want to & get to enjoy it. The Utah scenery was SO gorgeous. Never did I know why/where the song "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" came from, and now I do. We had some nice dinners and even snuck in a late movie one night, so it wasn't all work and no play. Saturday, most of our group had an earlier flight and some of us had a late flight so we went up to Salt Lake and toured Temple Square, the church history museum, the old and the new conference centers, the distribution center, and the cemetery where so many prophets were buried. I was amazed at the detail and woodwork of all the church buildings that have been around since the 1800's. We ate lunch at the top of the Joseph Smith building and we got a little personal concert in the Tabernacle from a nice organ player. I just loved this trip and feel so lucky to have so many lovely ladies in my ward as friends!