California Dreamin'

I find myself getting to a point in the winter where I just need to get in my car or a plane and get the heck out of Utah. That happened this week. Off we went to Newport Beach with my folks and siblings. I thought that i considered myself a semi-expert in flying with a baby since I lugged my child to Thailand, which was a 22 hour flight one way. Welp, that hour and a half flight to California proved not to be the case. It was awful. Tantrums, screaming, crying, barfing…you name it. I was able to capture one silent moment as Ollie slept in my arms with a Biscoff Cookie completely covering his face.

Since we arrived on Sunday morning, we were able to attend the Newport Hills Ward. We picked a great weekend to be there because all of the missionaries serving in that area did a musical program for sacrament and it was beautiful. As I was listening to the music and testimonies I found myself looking at the cover of the program. Jesus Christ was depicted on the front, and it got me to thinking. A lot of times I see pictures of our Prophet on the cover of a ward program and it worries me a bit because if an investigator were to come to our church and look at the program, they would see the picture of our Prophet and think "Oh, this must be the person they worship." To my non-Mormon friends out there, let me make it clear that we worship Jesus Christ, but we do look to our Prophet for counsel and guidance which he receives from God.

Most of our trip was spent lounging at the pool

I swear every other car that drove by us was a Tesla, so we went to the dealership to see what all the hype was about with these electric cars. Ollie was a fan.

Right before taking us to the airport we went to Balboa Island to check things out, that lasted all of 6 minutes since it was sooooo windy.