In Keeping With Tradition

At Christmas, and during other holidays, it is often a time for families to take part in specific traditions that mean a lot to the people participating. Our family is no different, and one such tradition that Glen seems to take real seriously at this time of the year is that he goes to whatever bowl game BYU is participating in. This year found us, once again, steeped (definition--to saturate with or subject thoroughly to) in that tradition (definition--time-honored practice).

I guess BYU loves tradition as well because it seems that year after year after year they keep going to the bowl game in Las Vegas and this year was no exception. We are becoming quite familiar with that city as we seem to go there often. This time we were looking forward to having Jeff and Sarah spend most of the week there with us. We've had other family members and friends go with us in years past and it looks like Glen is trying to indoctrinate our newest son-in-law to the annual family tradition by having him participate this year. Sounded like fun to us!

On our way there, we had to make a detour in Orem for a while so that we could tend Rebecca's little girls while she worked for a few hours at the elementary school. She was excited to see a Chick-Fil-A spread all ready for her consumption when she returned home.




Our condo in Las Vegas worked out wonderfully for us to have our individual sleeping and bathroom areas and then have the common kitchen/dining/living room areas where we could be together to talk, eat, play games, watch T.V., etc.






We took advantage of the exercise room a few mornings (sorry no pictures of that) and Jeff and Sarah went out into the inner courtyard to use the hot tub (see Sarah's blog for that photo) and play on the enlarged chess set.



Some of our time was spent shopping.




We watched a couple of very entertaining shows.



Bowling was definitely a highlight--especially when Sarah put a bowling ball under her shirt to see what her pregnant tummy will look like in a few more months (see her blog for that picture).





We definitely avoided any gambling activities and chose going to church and to the temple instead. The temple reminds me of Brooke. Whenever she plays with her building blocks, she always stacks up the blocks into a structure that she calls a temple.



I can see the resemblance!