Conference Weekend and Devin's Birthday!

Well, we had such a great time this weekend. We left Friday night and stopped on our way at Cafe Rio (one of my favorite places) for dinner. We then made it to Murray in time for our play at the Desert Star Theatre. Little did we know, it is actually a dinner theater, so we didn't need to eat dinner! Oh well...next time we will know! We did enjoy the free popcorn though. We saw a parody (that is all they do there) called "Scary Poppins". Oh my it was funny. We really enjoyed ourselves. They even sang to Devin because it was his birthday! He loved that...ha ha ha.

Here we are at the theater, though you can't tell.

We then stayed the night at the Red Lion Hotel in downtown Salt Lake. We were on the 9th floor so we had a great view of the city. That is what we are trying to show in this picture, but of course you can't tell.
That's better. I think I will be the next Vanna White...what do you think? Nice pregnant belly too.

Saturday was Devin's birthday!! YAY!!! We stayed in our room to watch the first session of conference. As we were getting ready, we realized that I had brought the above two shoes for Devin to wear with his suit! Ha! I thought it was hilarious, but Devin didn't really. So he threw on his sneakers with his suit and we headed to the Gateway in the pouring rain. I was completely clueless as to what the weather was going to be, so I was wearing short sleeves, no jacket, open toed shoes, etc. Lovely. We purchased Devin a new pair of church shoes and me some close toed shoes. By this time, we were both looking like drowned rats, so we decided that we really needed an umbrella. We opted out of the $20 ones at the Gateway and instead drove to Wal-Mart where we got a handy umbrella for just $4. We then took trax to Temple Square where we were going to wait in line for Standby tickets to the afternoon session, but decided we were too cold and watched it in the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Building instead. That was quite nice! Huge screen...believe me, we got a really nice look at the organist's big fat diamond ring as they kept zooming in on it for some reason. I thought the children's choir was so cute!

After that session, we met up with my mom and Dave, who were privledged to go to both the morning and afternoon sessions (it helps when you have connections, eh, mom?) Devin was the lucky recipient of a ticket to go to Priesthood with Dave as of course my mom was not going to go with him. Dave's brother was sustained to the Presidency of the Quorom of the 70 yesterday, Elder Jay E. Jensen, and therefore, Dave and Devin had marvelous seats on the floor to hear him speak in the Priesthood Session. I can't say I wasn't a little jealous. Oh well. My mom and I spent the time changing our clothes (as I had not brought any warm clothes, I hung out around town in Devin's long sleeved shirt. I am sure I was quite the sight!). We went to a bakery called Gormandies and ate cookies, hot chocolate, and eclairs. Now that's the life.

Finally, after the Priesthood session, we went to dinner in Draper at Goodwood for Dev's birthday celebration. We brought our own cake and candles and lit them right up in the restaurant. My mom thought it was so white trash, but I didn't care (and I have no idea when she became white trash conscious...). At one point, my mom announced that she and Dave had a song for us. Of course, I thought they were going to sing "Happy Birthday" or something, but no, they busted out some 70's folk song about a guy who wants to know why his girlfriend is leaving him after he keeps telling her she is fat. Where they get these things, I have no idea. But, it was hilarious. Notice also if you can the card my mom got Devin. A little old man in a speedo. Very becoming. Overall, I think Dev enjoyed the birthday and I know I had a great getaway with him! Who knows how often we will be able to do things like that after we have kids! So better enjoy it now, huh!?