BYU Education Week

 Me headed to BYU mid August to attend BYU Education Week. The primary reason for going was to see her dad teach. She also got to spend time with Cheryl-Lynn, Cris and her parents.

The flight on the way out. It was quite bumpy as there were some storms. The plane almost flew to Vegas instead of heading straight north, probably to go around the worst of it.

Hello Salt Lake! A sign outside the airport shows that Salt Lake is home of the 2002 and 2032 Winter Olympics. Impressive that 2032 in on there already since that was just announced.

After meeting up with Cheryl-Lynn once she landed, our cousin Jack picked us up and took us to the store for some groceries and to his home for a quick minute. This is a picture of his stick family. That's a lot of kids!

Hannah, the youngest and the only one I had not met before. What really stood out to me was her hair--it looks very similar in coloring to Matthew's.

Mark gave me a tour of the house and was quite excited to show off their gaming system.

Chickens

Jack, Me, Cheryl-Lynn and Kristen

We stopped by to see Noah and Leah at work.

Me and CL on the Frontrunner.

We met up with Cris. Cheryl-Lynn and Cris were excited to see the BYU sign.

Cris, Me and Cheryl-Lynn at dinner. We were a bit slap happy.

We nested.

Sunday, we wandered around campus, checking out where some of our classes would be and listening to zoom sacrament meetings (one mission farewell and one homecoming). We went to our cousin Amber's house for dinner. We did measurements of the dorm room for our cousin Kelly's daughter, Kate, who moves into the dorm building where we were staying. It was fun to discuss all the possibilities for Kate.

Cheryl-Lynn, Cris, Josh, Amber, Me at Amber and Josh's house.

Monday morning, we headed to dad's class. He taught 4 consecutive classes on adult development and choosing an empowered life.

Lindsey (and her husband Brian-not pictured) came for one of the classes.

Cris, mom, Luke (via video call), Cheryl-Lynn and Me before the first class. Luke listened to the whole class.

Dad prepping for a class between sessions.

Dad teaching. He really is a good teacher.

Cris, Me, Dad, Cheryl-Lynn and Mom after the classes

We went to Josh's office to see his Legos. Josh teaches organic chemistry at BYU.

The Millennium Falcon. My kids now want one.

Josh had Legos strung up around his office.

Nice view from the office.

Tuesday through Friday, we attended a bunch of different classes during the day. I enjoyed the philosophy class where we studied different philosophers. I like how they all tried to find truth. I also attended a helpful class on neurodiversities, learned about good short stories and Cinderella stories, listened to some excellent music and learned about different cultures. I also attended dad's marriage class and his conflict class each day. After, we would talk about the classes and how they went. There was definitely a lot of learning!

Our seats at the devotional where Elder Andersen of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles spoke.

I went out to dinner at the Bombay house one evening with U's siblings. We ate family style. The food was delicious!

Chris, Allison, Me, Emily with the one building in India...

Thursday evening, we went to a concert with Vocal Point and Noteworthy.

Dad, Mom, Cris, Me, Cheryl-Lynn

The two groups took turns performing. Here is Vocal Point.

Noteworthy

Cheryl-Lynn and Me before we left with President Brad Wilcox of the YM General Presidency behind us. He sat two rows in front of us.

Cheryl-Lynn, Me, Dad, Cris and Mom after dad's last class.

We went to the art museum.

Cheryl-Lynn and Cris with a cool rainbow art behind them.

Brian Kershisnik had an exhibition at the museum. I especially liked his art that related to women and motherhood.

There were also some works by Andy Warhol.

Me and Cris with Marilyn.

Saturday, it was time to leave. It was sad to say good-bye and yet good to be going home to our families.

Cheryl-Lynn and Me in our room.

Keycard

We saw this snail on our morning walk.

Waffles and fries from Bruges at the airport. Yum! I brought home some waffles to share.

We had some nice views of the Grand Canyon on the flight home.

Overall, it was a very nice week. I'm really glad I got to go see dad teach. Someone asked us if we were dad's granddaughters. We thought that was funny. Someone else told mom that she did a good job raising dad. She was a bit taken back by that until we explained that they likely meant raising him as his wife, not as his mom...