Even Mom's need a little time out every once in awhile. I took Emma with me this year so she could go and enjoy all the same speakers that I was listening to. They just talk about things pertaining to teenage girls and then come talk to the women about things pertaining to us.
We flew into AZ Thursday night. The first thing we saw was the Gilbert temple all lit up. The temple makes me happy and so I love to see the temple wherever we go. We are super excited to go back in January for the open house.
The conference didn't start until 6pm on Friday so we had some time to play with some of my favoritest little people of all time. The kids enjoyed a little skill I picked up while on a Disney cruise, making ketchup into the shape of mickey. It makes eating lunch much more fun.
I had also packed with me a honey crisp apple for a late night snack on thursday. It was my first time experiencing one. I usually just look at the apples and then think, I'm not paying that kind of money for an apple! So, I've never tried one. But there was a super sale on them at another store and I was able to price match them when I was picking up a crate of apples I needed to make applesauce. I was sad that I've spent this much of my life having not experienced the deliciousness of a honey crisp.
Friday and Saturday we spent having the best time how to live a "higher" life. Emma was nervous about being there by herself but it works out super great when trying to find an awesome seat for 1. We were able to get her right up front. Score! It is also nice to be able to fully immerse yourself into a learning environment without having to worry about wanting to talk to your friend during the presentations.
It has kinda turned into tradition to get pei wei for dinner on friday night of the conference and I always get a good fortune. I just talked about loosing the small battles but winning the war. It was fun to get that fortune- which really wasn't a fortune.
There were 5,500 women and 1,000 girls at this conference. How I managed to run into 2 women from my ward back home there in AZ was pretty amazing. It is always joyful to find each other in unlikely circumstances. I also ran into someone that I hadn't seen in years that also lives in NM. She had driven by herself to the conference and it was her birthday. We were able to go to lunch with her on Saturday- I don't have a picture of that though. It was a sea of people and it was going from standing in 1 line to another. I'm not a big fan of that many people and those kinds of situations sometimes doesn't bring out the best in people -which was a little more than ironic since we were there to try and become better…..I guess some needed to be there more than others :0)
Emma was beyond thrilled to get to hear from Sandra Turley and have her picture with her. I was proud of my little shy girl going up and trying to get one. On each of the breaks I would go and check on Emma over in another part of the building and we would talk for a few min about what we had been learning and this time I found her getting her picture taken. We got to hear from Sandra as well and she is beautiful and beautifully talented!
The "freakiest" thing that happened (according to Emma) was that while she was hearing from one of her speakers about texting people messages of love……she got a txt from me saying "I love you." She was pretty freaked out by the whole thing. I had to promise her that we weren't given some kind of instruction on the other side of the building to do that at that moment. I think it was especially freaky to her simple because I don't send those kind of txt to her very often. We just don't have that kind of relationship, I don't know why, we just don't and I've been trying to correct it. Didn't know why I felt compelled to send her the message at the moment that I did, but now we know! Pretty incredible and amazing things happen (or according to Emma, freaky) when you follow promptings. It makes me wonder how many things I've missed out on because I talked myself out of a prompting. Too many!
I would love to just put on here all of my notes from the conference because it was really good, but I'm not going to. My kids and their kids will just have to hack into my evernote account to get access to them later….or maybe I should just print them and put them in my spiritual smash book. That would probably be easier.
My friend did enjoy mocking me because I always develop crushes wherever I go. This time it was S Michael Wilcox. I turned to my friend and said "he's really handsome." She thought I was crazy. She said "how old is he?" It really didn't matter to me. Handsome is still handsome and it was really the brain connected to his aesthetics that made him more appealing. It is really just a deep admiration and a desire to be more like a person than an actual crush….it's just easier to say crush. His was one of my favorite presentations of the event. She ran into him in the bookstore area of the conference and teased me that she got to see him up close and I did not. haha
The last thing we did before Jo dropped us off at the airport was get some dinner and some cupcakes. Just incase there were any remaining doubt as to my craziness…here is documented proof. I was having a moment with 4 yes I said 4 cupcakes! I need help! OK so I really didn't eat all 4- right then- I just sampled all 4. Emma is still mad that she only got 1. hahahahaha
I'm gonna have to hit the juice hard this week to make up for all the damage I did this weekend! I was supposed to be learning to live a higher life- not a wider one!
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