Cars, Plants, and Food

Chris and I actually had plans this last weekend.  I know I know. . .  Lets sound the adventure alarm!  We normally don't have a whole lot going on.  Which is fine with us.  But it is nice to get away from our usual routine and do something exciting and different.  Early Saturday afternoon we went to the UVU car show at Thanksgiving Point.  Last year we missed it, and I was not going to let that happen this year.  Chris loves a good car show, and the UVU one is one of his favorites.  He doesn't let us waste anytime while we there either.  He is pretty particular about what he wants to stop and look at.  I asked him what he wanted to look at this year.  His response, "Only the cool cars that I actually care about."  I wasn't sure what that meant, but hat seemed like a good answer for me.  I didn't really care what we stop to look at, just as long as he was enjoying himself.   Later on that afternoon my mom and brother Zach came to Springville to see us.  I always appreciate when my mom comes to see us.  She has been down 3 times since we have moved and for that I am very grateful.  It's nice to know that she cares about us enough to make the 1 hour and some odd minutes drive to come and see us and our new life.  Anyway, I am getting side tracked.  Once they got here we went to a place in Springville called, Doman's Nursery and she bought us a beautiful mixed succulent plant for our front porch.

My mom loved it so much that she is trying to plan another trip so she can come down and get one of her own.  Chris and I are pretty thrilled about it.  Thanks again mom for the wonderful plant!  In one of our many chats of the day, my mom had mentioned something about the Payson temple and asked if we had been to Payson to see the progress.  We had not.  I didn't even know that they had done any kind of ground breaking on it.  Well, when we arrived, this is what it looked like. . .

Needless to say, they have done a lot of work on it.  Also, it's huge.  Chris and I both thought that it was going to be one of the smaller temples.  We were wrong on that assumption.  It sure is going to be beautiful though.  The outside is not white.  I looks like it is going to be an ivory color.  It's gorgeous.  We sure are lucky to have so many temples close to us.  Once the Payson and the Provo City Center temple are finished there will be 4 in Utah County.  How blessed are we??  The next amazing adventure we went on with Zach and my mom was out to dinner.  We wanted to take my mom out to a late Mother's Day dinner.  We also wanted to try somewhere new.  We decided on a quaint little place in Springville called Art City Trolley.  It was a lot of fun, and the food was delicious!  It's definitely somewhere that we are going to go to again.  They had so many yummy options on their menu.  That is not a good thing for someone like me who is bad at making decisions.  Especially food based.

All in all it was a wonderful weekend.  I am really happy that my mom and Zach were able to come down and show their support for us, our house, and our new life in Springville.  Next weekend should be great too. . .  But I will blog about that adventure next week.  You won't want to miss the update!  It'll be a good'n.