Those of you who also read Evestigation will know much about our weekend activities. We left Cedar City at about 12:30 PM and headed to Las Vegas. We are listening to "Three Cups of Tea" at present and enjoyed the ride down, if for no other reason than the opportunity it provided for us to listen to our book. When we arrived, after having a tough time finding the place, we found Daniel and Evelyn, trying to keep each other company. Rosalyn broke away from her meetings and we ran to Trader Joes (this was Evelyn's first trip!) and finally, Frys Electronics. Of course Daniel and I had a wonderful, but short, time in Frys and wished we could have spent more (time and money). We completed the evening with a lovely Japanese dinner, a trip to Toys R Us, and wander through the Meadows Mall. The last two stops should make Sarah, Daniel and Matt nostalgic for days gone by.

Rosalyn dutifully attended the last morning of her conference, and we went to breakfast at Weiss Deli (formerly Samuel's Deli) in Green Valley. Evelyn slept while we dined on fresh sesame seed bagels with cream cheese, and enormous plates of eggs, homemade hash browns and fresh fruit. It was a wonderful stop. We even brought a cheese Danish home to share with Rosalyn. I hope she got some. Sarah called us that morning certain that we were stopping at Weiss' for breakfast, and of course she was correct.

Evelyn was a delight. She is so very sweet and a darling, cuddly, armful. She just goos and giggles and smiles most of the time. Bubby just loved having pleasant conversation with her. We were all packed into the motel room, and I swear I never heard much from her during the night, although the evidence that she had been ministered to was present.

We tried to help Daniel and Rosalyn pack up for their trip home and watched Daniel load everyone's gear into the rather "blue" eight-passenger van. Here is Daniel posed with his crew, minus Rosalyn who was trying to check everyone out and get the needed receipts for reimbursement.

I call this one "Evelyn in the Oleander". Of course, if she was in the grabby-reachy phase, we couldn't have pulled this one off. We were waiting for her Daddy to load her car seat and I was trying to keep the sun out of her face. We couldn't quite get the smile, but she had just finished one.

Bubby and I had to return to Cedar City and get ready for the Saturday evening session of Stake Conference, which I conducted. It was a very good session with great talks and music. We even got to see the second half of the SUU Lady T-Birds disappointing defeat at the hands of the DSCU Lady Rebels.

Sunday morning was the general session of Stake Conference, and I had to speak. That means getting up early and practicing my talk in my work office for a few hours. The session went well, and Bubby and I were able to have lunch together.

We had some stale-dated half and half we needed to use, so we made clam chowder. I had purchased some beautiful, and over sized, jalapeno peppers the previous week, and we seeded, stuffed and wrapped them with bacon. This is Beany's favorite preparation and we decided to pose this picture of the last one, just for him.

We had a pleasant post-conference afternoon and evening, visiting on the phone (and Skype) with all of our kids. We particularly enjoyed seeing Leo. He is growing and looking very big. He holds his head up well, and doesn't seem to mind his father's ear fixation too much.

Buboppy