City Creek Center

Our family likes downtown Salt Lake City.  We go there a lot to visit Temple Square, ride on TRAX, go to concerts, play in the fountains at the Gateway, stuff like that.  So for years we have been waiting for City Creek Center to be completed.  Abby said it feels like she's been waiting for it to open her whole life.  Well, it opened last month, and last week was spring break, so we stayed overnight Friday night and took the opportunity to go check it out.

Our verdict: it's amazing!  The design is incredible, the fountains and waterfalls are nice, the skybridge is cool, and the creek running down the middle is the best of all.  If we had our way there would be a few more restaurant choices and a few less high-end shops, but overall it is a great addition to the downtown area.

After a lot of shopping, we think Alex and McKay had had enough, so we spent some time at Temple Square.  We ALWAYS go watch the Mormon commercials in the South Visitor's Center, but they recently stopped playing them and ruined our tradition.  But now they play "I'm a Mormon" videos and those are good too.  These are the same ones that you can watch at mormon.org.  Anyway, it was a short spring break trip, but we had a great time.

It's your birthday

We had an exciting conference weekend.

On Friday we went to the Brick Oven for dinner to celebrate Dad's birthday. (It's a tradition. We go to the Brick Oven for pizza on every birthday.) My mom's brother David and his family were there and then my dad's brother Bruce and his son Ryan (who were here to see conference) and my cousin Megan came too. It was a party.

Then Saturday was my dad's actual birthday. We watched conference and then went on a picnic, then watched conference and had cake. Dad requested a train cake and it was awesome. Pictures below.

And today is Sunday. We watched conference. It was great.

Above, Dad and Bruce enjoying Blueberry coffee cake for breakfast on Saturday.

The engine is white cake with chocolate frosting and candies. The other cars are white cake with orange frosting and raspberries. The wheels are mini Oreos. It was delicious.