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Vacation

This is what scripture study looks like at our house. 


On the 14th after work, Kory and I headed down to Utah. We stopped for dinner at In n Out and then checked into our hotel and headed over to Temple Square to wait in line for standby tickets for the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert. We waited for a couple of hours, most of which was warm in the tabernacle. Luckily, we got in. We were up in the nosebleeds, but it was great. The guest performers were Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville. It was awesome.


After the concert, we wandered around temple square to look at the lights and then grabbed some hot chocolate and went back to our hotel.


Kory had a CES meeting all day Friday, so I met up with some friends. Brenda and I had breakfast at a cafe in the Grand America hotel. It was awesome.

Later, Wendy and Annie and I met for lunch (although I was stuffed) at the Blue Lemon. Then we went to Temple Square and listened to Madison's Bel Cantos choir sing in the Church Office Building and the Joseph Smith Memorial. They are amazing. My niece, Ellie, is in the choir and my sister, Kristi, was attending as a chaperone, so it was fun hanging out with them. President Eyring's grandson is in the choir, so he came to listen and I snapped a little stalker photo of him.


We had fun with the Light the World vending machine in the Joseph Smith Memorial. I bought a couple of chickens. :)


We headed home right after Kory's meetings ended, stopping for a quick dinner at Maddox. The next morning, we only had Chloe and Phoebe at home so we decided to take them out for breakfast at Abracadabras. I had the Captain Crunch encrusted french toast. Oh my! So good.

Random foot rub from Kory. :)


On Monday, the 18th, the kids went to their mom's. Morgan hung around with me while I did lots of last minute errands. We spent some time at Kristi's house and then at my mom's. Morgan was thrilled to make some snickerdoodles with my mom.


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