it rarely happens that we get the chance to travel for spring break. well this year was the exception. with a little bit of planning, most of the utah brysons decided to make a trip back home to texas. the extra special part of the trip was that we arranged to keep our visit unknown to my parents. my sister mandie made all the arrangements down in abilene, so we were all set for a fun week in texas. friday morning, our family, along with my neices kaylee and tasha, hopped in the car and began the long road trip to texas. we stopped for the night in new mexico to visit with amber's sister heather. we had such a blast that claire still asks when we can go back to her cousin natalie's house.
the next morning we were off on the second leg of our trip. the other half of the utah brysons drove through the night so we met up with them in abilene. we then all headed up to my parents' candy store in the mall. a few weeks back, my mom sent all of her granddaughters easter dresses and asked if we might send a picture of the girls in their dresses. we decided to do one better - at the risk of giving my mom a heart attack, we got all the girls dressed up and sent them into the store first. we caused quite a scene...
i think our surprise was a hit. we played at the mall, ate some dinner, and the kids got to ride a train around the mall. the guys then headed off to watch the priesthood session of general conference. we then headed home to get some sleep after a long day.
the next day was easter sunday and general conference, so between sessions we headed over to the cemetery to visit my sister's grave. what better way to celebrate the resurrection of our savior than by gathering together and remembering that we are an eternal family? death is nothing at all. it is merely a new phase in our lives. we don't bear our testimonies as often as we should, but amber and i do desire all to know that we know that, because of our lord Jesus Christ, families can be together forever. there is nothing we want more than that. after spending some time with our sister and after the second session of conference, we headed over to the church for our big easter dinner.
on monday we headed over to the abilene zoo. we took a quick train ride around the zoo, then toured the place on foot for a closer look.
after the zoo, we headed over to the nearby park (which these unskilled hands helped build over ten years ago) to play and to fly some kites.
after playing at the park, we headed over to the pavilion to have some dinner. after some finger-licking goodness, we had a giant easter egg hunt for the kiddos. it was so much fun watching them all run around looking for their eggs.
the next day all the girls went over to my neice's cosmetology school to get beautified. we then met back together for lunch at the park before heading to the mall, where i happened to run into my best friend from my younger texas years. we reminisced for a bit before we had to take off to watch my nephew's baseball game. he got a hit and ended up scoring, so he was pretty happy. we then ended the evening with some ice cream. that was our first half of the week, but because this blog is already pretty long, we'll continue the second half in another blog.
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