July Trip Part 3: Provo & Lit. Conference

Saturday night we arrived at my parent's home in Provo. It was so great to meet my nephew Lewis:

That night we also went to dinner and then to "The Chocolate" with my cute brother and his beautiful wife:

  Love the Kazookie!

Jane took LOTS of pictures of my neighbor's lambs too :

On Monday we went to visit Grandma & Grandpa Great!

 We also got SNOWCONES..

 For dinner we met up with part of my family at a Mexican restaurant- yum!
 

We also swam in Salem Pond-

 On Wednesday my sister finally arrived and she finally got Kate to paint her nails:

 On Thursday and Friday I went to a Children's Literature conference and we got to listen to very talented writers and authors.  Here is my mom and I with Erin Stead who illustrated "A Sick Day For Amos McGee"

 We also heard from: Karen Cushman, Jennifer Nielsen, Tony M. DiTerlizzi, Sara Pennypacker

and my favorite Steve Jenkins!! He makes paper collages and writes books- click here.

 
Other things we did:
Bowling at BYU- 

 Jane made lots of potions & caught chickens

On our last night there we hiked the Y on the mountain: