Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!!

To honor St. Patrick's Day I thought I would talk a little about my favorite color... GREEN!!! Some of my favorite things in life are green! Here are a few examples:

Grass

I love grass and I'm so excited that spring is near so I can enjoy grass again!

Green Apples

To me green apples are delicious and I love them!

Forest

Most forests are gorgeous and full of green foliage. I love this picture below. If only I knew where this was.

My Green Neon

Though my Neon may not be the prettiest shade of green and it's taking on more a rust color these days, it has still been a really great car for me for almost 8 years. It is the only car I have ever owned and we have made many great memories together.

Passat

My newest favorite thing in my life that is green just happens to be a 2003 Volkswagon Passat. Though I'm sad to see my litte green Neon go I absolutely love my new Passat! I feel very spoiled driving such a nice car. Isn't it cute?!

So there you have it. Those are just a few of my favorite things that are green!! Is there anything green that you love?! Please share!

Touring Salt Lake

On Thursday I was able to get off work a little early so we decided to visit some places here in Salt Lake that we have never been to or at least haven't visited since we were little. We jumped on TRAX and headed downtown. The first place we went to was The Church Office Building. We took a tour of the lobby and then they took us up to the 26th floor. The view from up there was amazing. Here are a few pictures I captured on my phone.

The next place we toured was The Beehive House. It was really neat to see the rooms Brigham Young and his family lived in. It was a nice home and we learned a bunch of things we never knew before. For example, Brigham Young only had 11 days of formal education and a lot of the rooms in the house were added on after Brigham Young died. Here are a couple of pictures from the house.

Our next stop was The Conference Center. That building is so amazing and truly inspired. We got a tour of the inside of the building and learned neat facts about how the 21,000 chairs were installed and how much weight the main beams can hold. It's amazing. And then we went to the roof. A place we have both wanted to visit ever since the building was constructed. It was beautiful up there, even in the winter. There were running fountains everywhere and beautiful trees and a large grassy area.

It is hard to believe that most of these places we hadn't visited before even though we have lived in Utah our whole lives.

After the Conference Center we decided to get something to eat. We ended up walking almost all the way home before we decided on a Chinese Place. My feet were killing me when we got home but it was fun to visit some neat places and spend the afternoon with Brian. It is awesome living in downtown Salt Lake.