Easter/ Conference Weekend with the Prince Family

Joan left Thursday, then the Prince family came on Friday.  Early Friday morning, (about 4:00am) I was awakened by our fridge "dinging."  It was warning us that it was not working.  I got up and looked through the owner's manual, not finding anything in the manual even closely related to what was happening.  So I woke up Ken.  Luckily, we have a spare fridge in the garage.  He turned it on and went back to sleep.  Later that morning, we emptied the fridge and freezer and put everything in the garage fridge and called the repairman.  Nothing like starting the day with a little excitement!

The Princes arrived in time for us to have pizza, then drive to Cedar City to go to a Vocal Point concert.  Brian's brother, Carl is the bass in vocal point.  This is his last year, and we were so glad we got to see them perform before he graduated.

The show was really great!  It was so fun to be there.

Signing an autograph for his niece

Modeling their new vocal point t shirts

  The fridge repairman came just before conference started on Saturday. He diagnosed the problem as that our circuit board was going/ had gone out.  He said he would order a new one.  On  Monday he called and said they no longer make the circuit boards for our fridge (it's only five years old.  He said that was an indication that they have had a lot of problems with it, so they just quit making it.)  But he said they could get a guy in Vegas to rebuild ours for $300 and it would take a week.  After discussing it, we decided to take our chances.  We turned it back on, moved the food back in, and it has worked absolutely perfectly since.  Prayer? Miracle?  Are we crazy?

Okay, now back to Saturday.  Here we are, all ready for conference.

My little conference buddy, Gabbi (I should have put on make up)

Michelle always has fun things for the kids to do during conference

I loved this sweet moment when President Nelson went down to greet Sister Packer

Brian's sister, Michelle was in the Institute Choir that sang in the Saturday afternoon session.  She is third row, 2nd from left with the long curly hair.

Finding Aunt Michelle

One of our favorite elders from our mission was also in the choir.  He is 2nd row, third from left- Tyus Morris.  Ken texted him and told him he should find and meet Michelle!  Ever the matchmakers!

We had fun  blowing bubbles and later, hunting for candy-filled Easter eggs.

Grandpa Ken and baby William

Grandpa and his conference buddy, Jaron

Dancing in bubbles

Jaron helped Grandpa plant flowers

Kenny hunting for Easter eggs

Gabbi found the golden egg

Easter morning

The Easter bunny definitely found our house

Even baby William was thrilled with the plastic eggs

Gabbi took notes during all of the apostles' talks.

William fell asleep

Our new prophet

I love this festive picture!

Our Easter dinner ended with this delicious lemon cake

Table is all set

Our Easter feast

Monday morning, we hiked the new temple quarry trail.  This is where the pioneers got the sandstone for the temple.

Hiking buddies: Kenny, Jaron, and Gabbi

Proof that I did it.

Do I look tired?  I was!

Sweet Gabbi and Grandpa held my hands all the way down.  We made it!  Next time I'm taking walking sticks!

Thank you so much for spending the weekend with us, Princes.  Such great memories!