In "Suspense"

I got the opportunity to meet my favorite suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark, tonight at a high school in Layton. She and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, were the visiting authors for the Davis Libraries. Cool huh? First, we waited in line to get in the auditorium to listen to them both answer questions. Then we had to wait in line(about an hour and a half) for book signing! They both had new books come out this month, so I bought them for signing. I also got my picture with them! It's not very often in life you get to meet renowned authors! Mary Higgins Clark's book is Just Take My Heart and Carol Higgins Clark's book is Cursed. I haven't read them yet. And I know I can't start Mary's book until I have time to read all through the night! Her books are hard to put down once you start!

Tulip Festival

Yesterday, a friend and I went to the Tulip Festival at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. Needless to say, with the cold weather we have been experiencing recently, the majority of tulips had not bloomed yet. Hence, I was disappointed with not seeing the hundreds of tulips in bloom! It would have been so much more beautiful there on the grounds! But I am planning on returning to the gardens in May to see all the flowers! The gardens at Thanksgiving Point are comparable to the temple grounds in beauty, but it covers a lot more acres of land! It's absolutely gorgeous when all the flowers and trees are in bloom! Plus the waterfalls and ponds add to the beauty too! If you are wanting a peaceful, beautiful place to walk around, I recommend these gardens!

Spring Break

I always look forward to Spring Break at school! It gives me a chance to collect the energy I need to get through the last 38 days of work! In the past I've always gone on some sort of trip during the break. This year I stayed close to home. I spent the first 3 days in Logan enjoying family and general conference. The middle 3 days, I got a huge list of things done on my "to do" list at home in Bountiful. The last 3 days, I took mom and dad down to Ephraim to JoAnn and Mike's home. Alan and Barbara met us there. Not only did we have a good time conversing with each other, but we had delicious meals of the new recipes JoAnn wanted to try on us. Also, we made truffles and fudge(cut out Easter shapes with cookie cutters). All of us were back to our own home by Saturday night, so we could enjoy the Easter/Resurrection morn in our own wards and our own way!









Making truffles is a messy affair!

Bountiful Temple

For the past 12 or so years, I have been volunteering up at the Bountiful Temple every other Friday night for 4 hours. I work in the Family File office. I print off your family cards. What that means is that after you have researched your family, you can submit a disk, flash drive, or bar code to get cards of your deceased that still need ordinances done. But printing & cutting of cards happens sporadically so I have other responsibilities too. I help proof the finished ordinance cards to make sure they were done. I'm the first person you meet if you need further assistance from the full-time office workers. If I can't answer your question, then I send you to someone who can. If the phone operator gets busy, calls come to me and I can answer or redirect the call. And I do a variety of projects for the office workers to help them out. But once in a while, it is slow enough that I get to enjoy a good book or magazine(church affiliated of course). There's nothing like the peaceful feeling and love from my Heavenly Father I feel when I'm there! I love getting "out" of the world for those few hours to concentrate on the important matters of life. I always feel rejuvenated and ready to take on the world after leaving the temple!

Desert Star

I have season tickets to a place called Desert Star. It is a theater that does melodramatic spoofs on movies, tv shows, plays or just about anything that has to do with Utah. For instance some of the shows this year are Home School Musical, American Fork Idol, and James Blonde: Casino Re'al. They have a hero, who you cheer for, and a villian, who you boo at. The cast likes to interact with the audience. We are on the front row, so we get to interact a bit more than usual. We go on the last night of the performance because it seems to be sillier since they do more improvising with lines on the final night. Not only can you see a hilarious(at least most of the time) show, but you can order pizza, drinks, ice cream and a large variety of other snacks. You sit at small round tables so you have someplace for your food. After the show, they perform songs set to a certain theme called an olio. They are all excellent singers and they make that part entertaining too. In between the show and oleo, they recognize birthdays(we all sing happy b-day song), anniversaries(couple dances while audience sings Let Me Call You Sweetheart & then they kiss at the end), 1st dates(which they embarrass the poor couple, but it sure is funny to be an onlooker!), etc.... I've been a season ticket holder for so long(probably since 1997) I have come to have my favorites in the cast(and the ones I'm not so excited to have). And it's fun to have the cast know us(since front row and so many years)! Laughter does the soul good and you can always get laughs at Desert Star!