Saturday in Salt Lake

On the 14th, we went to West Jordan to see my family and all headed up to Salt Lake to see the Ferrell family (James' sister and brother-in-law). We were pretty late in getting there, but it worked out fine. We went to the visitor's center in Temple Square and found them looking at all the Book of Mormons in different languages. Katie kept running around and finding ones that Benjamin could read (German and Russian).

At one point we saw a Japanese one, and I told Katie her mom had gone to Japan. She didn't believe me. "No she didn't!" I told her to ask her mom, and she did. She was pretty surprised when she found out it was true!!!

It was fun to see them! Katie and Jane were very excited. I don't know if Jack and Aiden recognized us. Probably James, but I don't think they knew who I was.

It sounds like AnnaMarie and Tyler had rotten luck with their no-storage 15-passenger van. But Jane and Katie were sure happy to each have their own row of seats! James and I got to sit by them.

After Temple Square we ate at a fun waffle place, where for some reason at least 3 different manifestations of James Bond picked up separate orders. They were good waffles. We also got french fries. Jane was having trouble with her napkin flying away in the wind until we showed her how to keep it down by putting a soda can on it. Then she decided that instead of the soda can, she wanted to put ALL her fries on it to hold it down. She became very frustrated as she ate them all.

After the Waffle place the Ferrells left for their vacation. We were about to go home, but saw a booth-festival-fair-thing going on and decided to walk around for a bit! The first section was mostly home-grown produce, but then it got more artsy and crafty. And snacky. I just love seeing all the crafts! Some of the booths gave me ideas of fun projects to do.

1) Owl pillow. There were pillows that were cut in the shape of owls. So cute! I could do that with dinosaurs too. The only difference was that they got a really nice edge using a serger, I think. I got nothing that fancy, but I do have a super little sewing machine from Marianne! :D

2) Book cover notebooks. They had plain blank notebooks, but had re-bound them with covers of children's books and old books. I really liked them, for some reason. I found tons of kid's books at DI that would make cute notebook covers. But I think the binding process is a little beyond what Cougar Creations can do. You never know though.

That's basically it for projects, though there were lots of fun things they were selling. Like superheroes and comic book characters painted into famous paintings. And wood crafts like Michael does. And jewelry, clothes, etc.

My mom couldn't resist buying some cupcakes, since she is the Cupcake Expert and has dreams to open a cupcake shop. So we all got some yummy dessert.

One tent that James found interesting was Tin Type. They had this really old-fashioned looking camera that took pictures and somehow put the pictures right onto thin plates of metal, about 4x5 inches. They looked brown, faded, and old-fashioned like. I guess Tintype was a thing in the late 1800s!

So it was a fun day! Sadly, we only got two okay pictures of the whole day, so here they are:

 

 Dad, Josh, Emily, and Mom

 

My dearest sister Emily!