Fun anniversary

Andrey and I were able to celebrate our 5th year anniversary this weekend. We stayed at the cute Wildflower bed and breakfast down town Salt Lake. We dropped the girls off at my parent's house and headed to Gateway for our traditional window shopping. We had fun going from store to store.

We went and saw "Love Happens." It has Jennifer Aniston in it and I loved it. Not a dry eye in the theater. When we were getting our dinner in the theater, we saw Elder Holland there with his wife. It was neat to see him....but what movie was he going to see? Hm...I wonder. LOL

We had a great stay at the bed and breakfast and headed off to the State fair where we walked from booth to booth and saw the exhibits and bought lots of fun toys for Emma and Ellie. We made our fun DI run (one of Andrey's favorite places to find treasures). We then went and picked up the girls (who were not so happy because they were swimming at Grandma's).

We then enjoyed a fun night at the adult session for our stake conference. We were blessed to have Elder Ballard there (it was supposed to be Elder Holland, but he has something else come us. I got to see him the night before so it was ok. lol).

We had the overflow at our church building for the Sunday session and our family listened there. The recording was not working, so every 15 min., someone would have to run over a tape of the session and then we would watch it there; so the conference was 30 min. behind the live session over at the high school. As Elder Ballard started his talk, the chapel side doors opened and in walked Elder Ballard. The recording was so bad because of all the background noise, so he had it turned off and he and Elder Keech (sp?) took a few minutes each and talked to us live. It was amazing the Spirit that was there and he was so sweet, he took the time after to shake each our hands. Emma was so excited. She was waving her little hand at him the whole time and ran right up to him to shake his hand. I am glad the girls got this exeprience to meet a memeber of the 12 apostles, and to feel of his spirit and hear his words.

Elder Ballard spoke (as well as the other speakers) about how precious our children are and how much we should love them. He told a story about a mother who came up to him when he was speaking at another stake conf. and she said her little son was so excited to hear from him (Elder Ballard) that he wanted to call his grandpa as soon as he got home to tell him that he heard from an apostle. Finally, with his mother's permission, he called his grandpa. He said, "Grandpa, I got to hear from an 'old fossil' today!!!" It was so cute and so funny to hear Elder Ballard's response to this sweet little boy.
I am so grateful for the opportunity we all had to hear from a messanger of the Lord and to be blessed, taught, and guided by him. We are so lucky to have a living prophet today!