MY MOMMY CAME!!

My mom had been planning to come out and visit me in the summertime since she wasn't able to come and help us move in, so that is what I  was been counting down to until then. Well a couple of weeks ago she said what if I come in a week?? Hey I was TOTALLY okay with that. I have not been working for the past month and a half so I was all for the company. She came on a Thursday evening and stayed until Sunday afternoon. It was the best weekend ever!! I love when my mom comes to visit, even when I was living an hour away in Cedar City, I loved when my mom and dad would come and pick me up to go up north or just to visit. Now living 3 states away, that is a little harder for her just to come make day trips. :) So I had to soak all this time up.

Friday morning, we woke up early and went to the temple. The St.Louis temple is GORGEOUS!!! Michael and I are so fortunate to have a temple so close wherever we both have lived. With that, I think we take it for granted, so I am making a commitment here and now on this blog, to attend more!!! 

We got done with our session, then my mom had the idea for us to do sealings. It was the first time since Michael and I had done sealings since we had been married so it was a cool experience. We were the only couple that did them so we had special treatment from the workers. I am so grateful for the temple and for the knowledge that Michael and I and our future family will be together forever because we got sealed in the House of the Lord. 

Anyways, so we got done with those, had lunch then went and had a tour of Michaels school. Michael was in class so it was just my mom and I.  I swear, my mom is a magnet for nice people. There were so many people coming up to us and asking if we needed help getting around, needed help taking pictures, asking if we felt safe etc. It finally got weird when a school campus police on a segway came up to us and asked us if we were okay? Then my mom and I got a little worried thinking should we not be here, is it unsafe to be here? (It was the middle of the day on a university campus with campus police everywhere, I am pretty sure we were safe) The campus police then talked to us for about 5 minutes about how we should always be on the look out and to be safe anywhere we are. So we headed home kind of confused on how come so many people were talking to us that day. We told Michael about it and he suggested that people probably thought that a young girl and her mom were doing a tore of the campus for a possible university for me!!! We had quite a good laugh. :)

Michaels office area. 

We are the top level.

Thanks to my sister Lindsay for the awesome wreath (the red part got broken in the traveling process :( )

We live on the long outstretch part of the building, so we have 6 of those massive windows :)

Cinderella was playing at the Fox Theater when she was here and so she had the grand idea of looking to see if there were any cheap tickets available. She found a  discount where students with an i.d. card could go 2 hours before the show started and buy discounted tickets! So we sent Michael over there and had us buy some! Unfortunately there was a limit of 2 so it was a girls night. The show was AMAZING!! When the show was over, my mom was very adamant to have Michael come and meet us at the Theater so to walk us home. (Yes Fox Theater is about a 2 minute walk/ 1 block away from our house). There were kids everywhere where we were walking!!! Lets just say that my mom is used to little towns in Utah where nothing happens!! :)

Then Saturday came went shopping, showed my mom more of the random things such as our grocery store that we go to, where our friends live etc. Michael had always wanted to go to the Catholic Basillica that is on our street and so we decided this would be a perfect time to go. That is amazing inside! For anyone that is going to come visit St. Louis or live here, go see that. It is free and it is all mosaic so there was not one painting in there. There are millions of little gold pieces to create a masterpiece! We went to the train station downtown and shopped around there, there was a big black man (they always seem to be the funniest) who saw my old flip phone and was having a hay day over it. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. He probably went on for about 5 minutes just raving about it.

We became buddies after this

That night we were going to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory downtown, but we called and there was a 2 1/2 hour wait, so my mom being the superwomen that she is, made us a Sunday dinner right then and there. I swear, things taste so much better if you aren't the one to make it. :)  Then we played a 3 hour game of Risk!!

We don't look alike or anything ;)

For Sunday, our church is at 10 so we were able to go to 2 1/2 hours of it and she loved it!! Our ward is so amazing because the ward is half young college families, or old foggies that have lived there for ever. So, it has a lot of strength and faith that come from it. My mom was in tears by the end of the prayer in Sacrament meeting. :) 

It was time to say goodbye and I wanted to just go right with her back to Utah, but unfortunately that is not an option. :( But I cannot wait until my mom comes again to visit!!