Wednesday at the Lyons and in Salt Lake City

The Lyons are the BEST!  We love them!  They kindly took us in for a few days.  They fed us delicious food and entertained us with all sorts of silliness and fun.

Shari and Steph

They have the sweetest dog, that my kids are crazy about.

Andrew and Max

Freddy and Max

Shari made us wonderful breakfasts.  This morning we had buckwheat pancakes and fresh orange juice.

  

We made quick visit to Temple Square on our way to the Church History Museum to see Howard Lyon's painting "I Am A Child Of God" that has Sara in it.

It was hard to get a good picture with it because of the plexiglass, but it is huge and GORGEOUS!

We enjoyed some of the other art that was on display although there were some pretty strange modern pieces. We took pictures of the ones we loved.  The art show is titled Tell Me The Stories of Jesus.

This one is The Mount of Transfiguration.  It was pretty awesome.

This was one of the weird ones.  I think it was called Vertical Desert.  There were a lot of paintings that were difficult to visually connect to a story of Jesus. 

Elder Birch was one of Sam's favorite mission companions and we accidentally met his grandmother at the Family History Center.  We got talking and then made the connection. Crazy!

We found a young man from our ward as well, Leir Mitchell.

We had one more treat at the Family History Center, we saw Amanda Blakely's mom, Diane.  She is a doll.  We love her!

We walked over to City Creek Mall for lunch and walked around a bit.  It is a beautiful mall with a creek running through it.

We like to eat at the Pizza Studio when we visit there.  We each get our own little pizzas.

Sara chose to be healthy and got a yummy salad.

Then we stopped by Herriman to see one of Freddy's friends, Bailey, for a few minutes.

After that we dropped Andrew off at our friends the Masons' house so he could hang out with his friends there.  Mostly Makayla.

The rest of us went back to the Lyons for the evening.  Tim had some time with Max.

Sara posed for 6 artist for 3 hours.  She got a 5 minute break every 25 minutes.  She said it was like sleeping with her eyes open.

The results were awesome!

Then the kids spent the rest of the evening watching disturbing Youtube videos.

And sadly for Drew I picked him up and brought him back to the Lyons.