Freaky Utah weather

The weather here in Utah has been pretty bizarre this spring. Although I'm not entirely sure you could call what we just went through spring. Sure, we passed through the months of March, April, and May, but I doubt that May saw more than a handful of days over 65 degrees. We're more used to having two weeks of spring in late March/early April, and Zing! right on into summer.

What this all means is that our garden is growing at a very slow pace. We've planted sugar peas, carrots, beans, squash (no, not zucchini), cucumbers, and tomatoes. Everything is finally starting to show up through the dirt, except the cucumbers, which I have to admit we did not plant good and comely spot of the vineyard (hmmm....sounds like a Book of Mormon reference, doesn't it?). I'm most excited about the beans.

One perk from the freaky weather is that last night, Mr. Perfect and I were driving home from a family party in Lehi and the lightning storm was really cool. On the downside (aside from the slowness of the veggie growth) will be the gas bill, because it just kind of sucks to have to have the heater in the house still running in MAY!

More leaving Las Vegas

More pictures from the trip. Something I forgot to mention was that because Mr. Perfect is a structural engineer, the one thing he really wanted to to in Vegas was go to the top of the Stratosphere. So we did. It was a BLAST! We even did one of the rides. *gasp!*

Leaving Las Vegas

Here are some pictures from the temple in Las Vegas.

Mr. Perfect acting a little too much like Psycho Wunderhund

Random things in Las Vegas...

...or is that lost wages?

Okay, so this trip wasn't that random. We had a family wedding there. What was really funny was that people at work would ask what we had planned for the weekend. I'd tell them we were going to Las Vegas, and they'd say "Oh, how fun." Then I mentioned the family wedding, and the next question was usually "Which casino/hotel?" I tell them that there's an LDS temple in Vegas, and about half the time I'd be asked why they would choose the Vegas temple over one in Utah. Well, the bride's family lives there, the groom's family lives in Texas, and people were coming from all over the country to attend, so Vegas seemed like the most logical gathering place.

It was a beautiful ceremony and reception, and we had a lot of fun visiting with family we haven't seen for a long time (some since our own wedding over a year ago). The weather was nice (hot but not too hot), and we saw the Hoover Dam and the new bridge (it's not open yet for traffic but it looks really cool). Mr. Perfect and I ate dinner at great French restaurant in Paris Las Vegas. It's across from the Bellagio, so we were treated to good food and the fountains as well.

As fun as trips are, it's really nice to be home.

And I promise that I'll post pictures soon (I really, really promise).

Another post from that other blog

Where did I get such brilliant nephews and nieces? My siblings are doing a great job raising their children. So Genius Child #1 presented another great post that I commented on, and again I felt like I needed to post my answer here. His original posting is about how we can forget that the events of history affected real people.

Here's my response:

I think it can be easy to disconnect the realness of an event when viewed from the distance of time. I don't know if your mom has talked much about the Cambodian family who lived with us one summer when I was in junior high and she was in high school. Very real people doing amazing things in horrific situations. I think that experience has helped me to see the people and not just the event.

I think this is also why people have an easier time following a dead prophet than a living one: you don't see them in all of their flawed, wonderful reality. You can focus on just the amazing things that God did through them without having to come to grips with the fact of their humanity.