Salt Lake City - Shelley Beatty

Bob’s birthday celebrated in Utah

September 21, 2017 by shelley

Bob celebrates his birthday in Utah every year when we attend Education Week at BYU. It gives us the opportunity to celebrate it with family; Jen, Adam, Becca, Henry, Caroline and Emily and our close friends Carole and Sam Cowley.

Bob’s birthday cake

Celebrating Bob’s Birthday

Celebrating Bob’s Birthday with dear friends the Cowleys

Sweet Friendship

But just for the record Bob did get a birthday cake on his actual birthday before we left for Utah!

Bob’s first Birthday Cake

And of course we had to have a birthday celebration dinner at Benihana’s for Bob and our two September birthdays; Henry and Caroline!

Celebrating birthdays at Benihana’s restaurant

Birthday at Benihanas

September 17, 2017 by shelley

We celebrated Becca’s 9th birthday at Benihana’s of Salt Lake City

Celebrating a birthday at Benihana’s Restaurant in Salt Lake City

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

September 16, 2017 by shelley

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper Utah

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

One of Utah’s most popular attractions features a 300,000-gallon shark tank with a 40-foot tunnel visitors can walk through and enjoy an underwater view of five different species of sharks, sea turtles, stingrays and so much more. The Living Planet Aquarium features five different galleries – from the rainforests of South America and Asia to the world’s Oceans, Deep Sea, and even the Antarctic – you can even get up close to penguins.

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

Music and the Spoken Word

September 15, 2017 by shelley

To attend a live performance of Music and the Spoken Word at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City is a real treat. Music and the Spoken Word has been on the air for over eighty-nine years and 4,595 weekly broadcasts, Music & the Spoken Word is the longest-running uninterrupted network broadcast in the world.

Music and the Spoken Word

And we got to meet President Dieter F. Uchtdorf!

Music and the Spoken Word

Meeting President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Deer Valley and the Utah Symphony

September 15, 2017 by shelley

The Deer Valley® Music Festival is the summer home of the Utah Symphony. The eight-week series in July and early August takes place in spectacular Park City venues surrounded by the Wasatch Mountains.

A fun concert enjoyed by the entire family was the “Dream is a Wish”…all Disney concert!

DISNEY IN CONCERT A Dream is a Wish: The stories of The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Aladdin, sung by Broadway singers, with original Disney film footage and sweeping orchestral scores performed by the Utah Symphony made for a magical Disney evening “…if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.”