Saturday in Utah

Though we wished we could have attended more of the homecoming activities at BYU, it just wasn't feasible with Jenna's wedding.  We did, however, make it down to BYU for the Homecoming Parade.  If anything, the day inspired even more dreams of BYU for my girls.  Yay them.  We left my brother's home in Lehi around 10 am and figured if we made our way to the end of the parade route, we would be just in time.  Indeed.  The parade was a little spread out but fun.  Kristen enjoyed chasing down the treats tossed her way.  College students are sometimes too cool to pick up candy.  She didn't mind.

We met up with our girls' most favorite babysitter.  (Sorry for the backside shot.  I was on the other side of the street in the shade where the lighting was better.)  Tacy was a part of the EMT "float" and the girls were excited to get a wave from her.  I"m pretty sure she saved the dummy.  After the parade, we met up with Tacy and she spent some time showing the girls around a bit and hanging out with us in the BYU bookstore.

We parted ways to meet up with another friend, Julie S., for lunch at Cafe Rio.  That restaurant makes bank.  They were busy the whole time we were there and that was mid afternoon.  We decided to take a jaunt up Provo Canyon to Vivian Park to enjoy the fall colors.  Their Fall is a little ahead of ours as many of their trees have lost leaves already.  Still, it was beautiful.

Julie had plans for the evening and Chris and Amy were headed to the football game with two of my brothers and my dad.  They dropped my mom off with Misha, Kristen, and I.  We shopped at the mall for awhile and grabbed some dinner at the food court.  I'm sure my mom could have kept on shopping, but us younger girls were just plain tired.

We headed back to Lehi where we stopped at my oldest brother's house to drop my mom off and watch the end of the game.