Enjoying Spring-at the tulip festival

If you love spring, (does anyone NOT love spring?) you might enjoy these pictures we took at the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival on Thursday afternoon.

Since we bought Salt Lake Connect Passes, which included the tulip festival, we decided to hurry and get there before warm weather had a chance to cut short the beautiful spring flowers.

It was a dusty, windy day, but the blossoms more than made up for the weather.  

We gathered all the family members that could go (missed some), endured the crawling rush-hour traffic, and headed south to Lehi.

I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Top ten reasons to go to a tulip festival:

10.  Lots of healthy walking (exercise)

9.  Beautiful smells

8.  Plenty of photo opportunities

7.  Bonding time with grandkids

6.  Fresh air (dust included)

5.   Benches provided

4.  Local venues supported

3. Meditation time  

2.  Family togetherness

1.  Tulips

Spring is so lovely!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend!

JoAnn

I looked out the window….

Spring has arrived in Utah!

As I write this, I’m gearing myself up to return back to work tomorrow, after a wonderful week long Spring Break.

It won’t be easy!

Spring Break came just in time. 

(Is it called Spring Break because you are getting close to the breaking point?)

We just finished up a term at school and that involved correcting papers, doing grades, cleaning and organizing my classroom, and some planning. 

My husband has been recovering from hip surgery and I am almost finished as his care-giver.  He is doing well and no longer needs my assistance getting in and out of bed, putting on those awful tight compression socks, and being driven to physical therapy.  (He has had an incredible recovery and I’m not really complaining, but it makes my need for a break sound more convincing- even if daughter Heidi did most of the work during the school week.)

We saw “Captain American Fork-AF -The Worst Avenger” at Desert Star Playhouse.  My husband’s first outing at 3 and a half weeks post surgery.

Did I mention that his real first outing was a walk outside the house.  He was going to go to the corner of the street, but decided to continue all the way around the block!

While some of my friends jumped on airplanes and headed off to warm, exotic locations, I was content with staying home and catching my breath.

I stayed up late watching Netflix movies and reruns of “Blue Bloods”.

I caught up on the last few episodes of “Fixer Upper”.

I slept in.

I got a pedicure and a hair cut.

I worked in the yard.

We went to a play and out to dinner a few times.

It was just what I needed!

This weekend we listened to General Conference, the semi annual conference for our church.  The messages were uplifting and full of encouragement.

Just what I needed.

Conference weekends are my favorite weekends of the whole year!

If you want to check out any of the messages you can click on this link.

We renewed our Salt Lake Connect Passes and took our family to the Children’s Museum.

It’s not just for children, you know….

A visit to Wheeler Farm completes the break!

Don’t you love the spring time?

What do you see as you look out your window this spring weekend?

I hope it was a great week!

♥

JoAnn

P.S.  Thanks to Robbie and Brittany for the special sea food dinner they cooked for us!  Yum!