Kara For Assessor!

 

I have said it before- I think running for public office is one of the bravest things anyone can do. I am so incredibly proud of my dear friend Kara Hansen Garr for putting herself out there to hundreds of thousands of people. She ran a clean, fierce, positive campaign- and look at that- over 87,000 people clicked the box next to her name and voted for her! That is simply amazing- she is amazing. Kara4DougCo I am in this for the long haul- I am behind you yesterday, today, and in the future!!! You are simply incredible, and I am so proud to be on your team!

Piano Recital

 Camille is really doing great with piano! She sounds absolutely beautiful on the piano!

IKEA Date

 Ben and I went on a date to IKEA- not to look at furniture, simply to go eat dinner. It was delicious!

Royal Icing Fail and Littleton Haunts

 I tried my first batch of royal icing. It didn't go well. I was pretty bummed, but you can't get better if you aren't willing to fail. I learned a lot, and hopefully my next batch will be better!

Then, we went to Littleton Haunts. We went last year and everyone loved it, so we went again. Thankfully, the weather was perfect for us just like last year, and we all had a great- and spooky- time!

Cakesicles

 Camille and I have been wanting to try Cakesicles ever since I went to the Pinner's conference, and we finally had some time to do it.

These require quite a bit of work, and we found "painting the mold" and then putting in the cake batter was far more successful than dipping the pops, because they just fell off the sticks when we dipped them.

We think they turned out pretty good! Even though Claire and Ben said they were ghosts when they are obviously mummies.

I took them for my kids in primary and one of my 6 year olds said, "They are MUM-scicles!" I thought that was pretty cute!

College Tour Day 4

 We started the day with a great tour of University of Utah. Claire seemed to really like this campus. We learned  a lot about their nursing program, and it seems like it would be a really good fit for Claire.

She made good friends with a girl, Molly, from Virginia who was also there touring and going into nursing.

They won for tours because they gave us free ice-cream!

We won't turn down free ice-cream!

After the ice-cream, we headed to Ogden to tour Weber State. After stopping at the French bakers for lunch:

The Marriott building!

By now, Claire was so excited for me to take more pictures

Weber is a beautiful campus, but similar to SGU probably a bit too small for her to consider. WHich is too bad because she could basically go for free with all the scholarships she could get.

On the way down to SLC for our final hotel, we stopped by Grandpa Marriott's house which is currently for sale.

Then grabbed some Swig's, because, well, when in Utah...

The trip was 3,154 miles by air. 862 miles by car. 5 nights, 5 different hotels. 2 coasts (basically). 3 time zones. 5 universities. And 1 overarching thought:

I am too old for this.

Overall, though, it was a good trip and we learned a lot. Claire was able to narrow down her choices- BYU, UGA, or UofU. Those are three great options. So now we wait for acceptance letters and scholarships.

College Tour Day 3

 Day 3 had us flying across the country to Salt Lake City, very quickly hopping in our rental car, and racing to the University of Utah and getting there about 2 minutes after it started, but we made it!

It was a good tour, but they are actually more expensive than the University of Georgia, so it is off the list

We then drove up to Logan and got some Aggie ice-cream before checking into our hotel.

YUM!