One of my favorite girls' trip every year is BYU Women's Conference at the end of April... because it's the best of both worlds. Fill your spiritual cups, partake of mostly amazing speakers and devotionals with thousands of other women... old & young all there for the same reasons... and most of all because I get some R&R with a few of my favorite people in the whole world!
Pee-your-pants and LOL fun...
Mom treated us to a-mazing massages and our new fave-- the flavored oxygen bar.
We stuffed our faces with mom's version of BYU mint brownies, Cafe Rio, Rumbi, Lion House Pantry, Starbucks--you go knowing you're going to gain at least 5 pounds cause if you didn't, then you didn't really do it right. We stayed in mom's RV right on campus-- perfect place. Mom made us her version of the famous glitter cup-- can't leave home without it!
The shopping is always a highlight too-- gotta hit all the favorite little Utah boutiques and giant decorating warehouses to file away yet more ideas and spend money you really didn't want to spend...
(and get matching cute hats on clearance)
I always love the 'Evening of Service' ... where thousands of women crank out several projects which benefit women's shelters and various humanitarian needs. The Sharing Stations, which are booths filled with wonderful ideas and 'helps' for our busy lives is always a highlight as well.
I promise we didn't wear the same clothes the whole time...
And this year? Fun SIL, Tallie, talked me into running a 5K on Saturday. I'm not a runner. I wasn't a runner then. But I was dang proud of myself after I ran with freezing cold ice bombs pounding on my face with soaking wet-to-the-bone shoes. It was all worth it for the massage and Magelby's Fresh afterwards... and beyond sore legs.
There were record cold wintry temps and conditions the whole week... it's May! We even drove through a massive blizzard through Central Utah to get there.
And I always leave more than filled and eager to apply all that I learned... and ready for a long nap!
(isn't my momma purrty?)
1 comment:
Your mom is gorgeous! Not surprised, though. I'm so glad you had fun and even ran what sounded like a most horrible 5k--don't you find that you can do anything without kids? Someday I'm gonna get to go to Women's Conference!
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