Andrew and Jessilyn Stagg: What we've been up to lately

First of all can I just say how much I LOVED General Conference this past weekend? I love the spiritual boost it brings into my life, and I am so grateful to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. There were so many good talks, I don't think I could narrow down ONE favorite, I had many favorites. For conference weekend Andrew and I went up to Salt Lake. For those of you who know Andrew you know of his OBSESSION with cars and since he worked at Hertz he has loves renting nice cars. Since Andrew has been working so hard at law school and I've been working so hard trying to find a job we thought we deserved a little reward so Andrew rented us a car to drive up to Salt Lake in. A 2011 Mitsubishi Spyder. Here are some pictures of our fun ride.

Driving a convertible was a lot of fun!

Andrew driving thinking he is pretty hot stuff. My sister made Andrews day when she told him that he looked at home in this car

We stayed a night in St. George on our way up to Salt Lake. While driving through St. George down the Boulevard on our way to my sisters house to say hi Andrew thought it would be fun to blast the music with the top down. It was so embarrassing! I'm not the type of person who likes to draw that kind of attention (the kind that shouts 'Hey! Look at me and how cool I am in this cool car!). I slouched over and tried to hide my face so no one I knew would see me. Andrew thought that was funny so he blasted the reggae music even louder as I slowly died of embarrassment. Here are some pictures of my sister and newphew having some fun in the car.

After our drive up to Salt Lake my hair was in knots! It was worth it though. The whole reason Andrew and I went up to Salt Lake was to go to his the 20th reunion of his mission. Generally there is a mission reunion every six months on conference weekend. My husband served his mission in Kiev Ukraine and this past month happened to the the 20th year since the mission opened. In honor of that the mission had a 20 year reunion where everyone who has served in Ukraine go together for a big shin dig. It was a lot of fun to see some of Andrews old mission companions. I am lucky to have gotten to know a few of them and their wives and they are great people we both love lots! Since Andrew has been home for his mission the temple in Ukraine was completed and dedicated. It was great to hear how the temple is blessing the lives of the members in Ukraine. Temples are amazing. Here is a picture of the Ukraine temple.

Beautiful isn't it!

Saturday and Sunday we spent most of the time hanging out with Andrews Family. It was fun to spend some time with them since we don't get to see them as often now that we live 6 hours a way. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that while we were up there I had Andrews Sister cut me some bangs! As soon as I get some pic of them I will show you, lets just say I shocked my mother speechless. Our drive home was just as fun as the drive up with the wind blowing in our hair and listening to conference. We stopped in St. George for a little while on our way home as well. When my mom saw what we were driving she fell in love. We went for a drive and I decided that my mom had more fun driving the car for 10 minutes than anyone else including Andrew. I was laughing so hard because she was so in love it! It was a lot of fun to drive, but it was even more fun to see how happy it made my mom. Driving through the gorge with the top down and the sun setting was AMAZING!

The pretty sunset we saw on our drive back to Vegas

I realize that this is turning into a long post, but bear with me and I will try and speed through the rest of what we've been up to lately.

A few weeks ago Andrews brother Spence and his Wife Cyntha and their two kids Kesley and CJ came to vegas for a visit. It was so great to see some familiar faces! We toured the strip with them and had a blast just hanging out and playing the tourist in our own city. Here are some pictures from their trip.

Andrew and I at M&M World

Spencer, Cyntha, Kesley & CJ checking out the M&M World

Saying hi to Yellow

The strip at night. The camera on my phone isn't that great, but this looks kinda cool.

Here are some other fun pictures to update what we've been up to lately.

Slip and Slide at Grandma's House. I eventually put on my swimming suit and joined them at the request of my newphew "Swip and Swide Aunt Jesswin" You can't say no to that.

I went up to St. George for my nieces birthday party. (I don't have a job and Andrew's busy with law school so why not?) My little niece looked SOO CUTE!