Daniel makes a quick stop

Today I met up with the love of my life. Daniel had a trip planned months ago where he would be stopping in Miami to take the next flight home so our vacation continuous.  Ale pick him up from the airport and went to Mari's so we could all go out to eat and then we checked in the hotel for the night. How sweet is that!



Yesterday was actually an official state holiday in Utah, and since we had just returned from the historical sites in New York from Joseph Smith era, I just want to salute those men, women and children who gave up so much including their lives so the truth about the gospel of Jesus Christ would be known. 

The pioneers who came to Utah faced tremendous hardships to get to the state. They traveled with handcarts across the plains and many of them lost children, spouses, siblings as they made their way to Utah. They faced attacks by mobs and they faced snow storms and starvation. The stories from the journals of the pioneers are stories of tremendous faith and perseverance.

If you want to see an awesome movie about the pioneers I would highly recommend the movie “17 Miracles” which is out on DVD. It is an amazing movie and watching it will touch your heart tremendously the movie tell about many miracles that took place as they were crossing the frontier. It shows how much faith they had to have to endure incredible persecution. They had no choice but to move west crossing the mountains pushing hand carts and wagons not knowing exactly where they were going to end up but one day finally on July 24th, 1847 the Pioneers first arrived to settle Utah! Pioneer day is design to celebrate the settling of the state of Utah and it is celebrated each year with parades and fireworks and rodeos and many other fun activities.

I would love to be in Utah on this day next year and watch the parade from our apartment balcony and invite our kids and their families. Sydney is planning a family reunion in Utah next July.