Utah and Vegas

This year I flew in to Utah to see my sister Jen star in "Romeo and Juliet" as no other than "Juliet". For those of you who have seen Jen dance know what a treat it is to watch her dance. She has always amazed me as a performer and I loved watching her on stage. Jen is just one of those dancers that catches your eye. There's just something about her. She's got the "it" factor. The night after her performance we stayed up in SLC and I think I kept her up a little too long but it was so much fun to just laugh and chat into the wee hour of the night. We don't get very many of those these days so it was fun to be able to do it again. I love you Jenny Boo!

I also had the opportunity to go skiing with Kevin's brother, Shane and my nephew Josh. We had a great time. We almost got to ski free. You see, I went to the gas station to buy discount passes and they handed me these passes that go around your neck. I was a little confused and asked the gas station workers how I was supposed to use them. They told me to just take them to the resort. When we got there the owner of the gas station had called the resort upset and said that one of his workers had given me the wrong passes. I was actually given some kind of business season pass. Technically we could have skied free because the passes were fully transferable and they were GIVEN to me, I didn't steal them. If I were mean, I probably could have kept them and there would be nothing they could do about it, but I thought I would stay nice and honest :) I was just happy to be skiing at Sundance and to get a discount was an added bonus. They charged us $20 instead of $40. We had a blast. I love skiing and it was so fun to watch Joshy ski. He's grown up so much and because we aren't in Utah very much it was fun to spend a day with him and Shane.

After Utah I flew to Vegas to meet Kevin. Thanks to Shane, we went to watch BYU in the tournament they were playing in and saw one of the greatest games ever. It was amazing to watch Jimmer exploded for a career-high 52 points — shattering the career school scoring record (surpassing legend Danny Ainge ), and the school single-game scoring record in the same game — to lead the No. 8 Cougars to an emotional 87-76 triumph over their nemesis, New Mexico, in the semifinals of the Mountain West Conference Tournament. To see it happen live was unbelievable!
We lived it up in Vegas thanks to Shane. I saw a side of Vegas I have never seen before, but that's a whole other post :)
We were also able to go to lunch with some of our best friends who live in Vegas- Tyler and Kacee Allred.