Sunday, March 6, 2011

Carl Bloch & BYU

On President's Day we took the kids down to BYU to see the Carl Bloch exhibit. I love art, I love going to museums, and we have been wanting to go see this exhibit for a long time. It was fun to take the kids. They did really well and the exhibit was just the right size for someone of Anna's attention span. Devin and I would really like to go back and spend lots of time looking at the pictures. We'll see if that happens before the exhibit is gone. I am glad that Anna enjoyed it. Hopefully there were be many more museum visits in the future.
Since we were down at BYU we thought it would be fun to go to the Wilk. for lunch. I showed Anna where I use to eat lunch with my friends.
Anna got her first taste of BYU Creamery chocolate milk.
Nicholas enjoyed some time on the floor.
Devin is so nice to endure my BYU memory gushing any time we go down there. I have so many fun memories of going to school there. I could care less about BYU sports (sorry world), but I love the school and my time there as a student. I love all the memories I have there as a kid. I remember going there with my Dad to get his hair cut and then going and getting donuts and chocolate milk. I remember my mom taking us down there so we could go nuts and run around campus and run up and down all the walkways that go over the streets. Good times. I remember being so excited that I could get a hamburger with just mayo at the old Wilk with the wood paneling, spiral stairs, and all the country flags. I remember climbing all over the white tree of life statue and playing in the fountain in front of the administration building. I remember going to the library there and playing with the microfiche machines in the Family History Center. I could go on and on. ....oh and the Bean Museum. The Creamery. The DT elevators. Oh I love it!!!! Yes I am a BYU cougar, I'm fully invested, just in a different part of BYU.

3 comments:

Lael said...

Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories. I had forgotten how many times we went there when you were growing up. It was always such fun to wander around that beautiful campus that is rich with my own favorite memories as well!

Lori said...

glad you had fun at BYU. I love it there too. yes go back to Carl Bloch. I love the etching. so sensitive. and i love all the layers of paint on his paintings. the portrait of his parents is quite amazing to me. and cool that there is a little Christus in the painting.

I am not a huge sports person...but i am a Cougar sports fan for sure. Always happy when they win...but stick with them even when they lose. Go, Cougs!!!

Nikki said...

It is my favorite place!!! I am glad you get to live so close and share the fun with your kids. I was telling my brother the other day how we used to camp out in the library during finals. Those were fun days. I am not gonna lie I am a big BYU sports fan too! Last Saturday My kids looked at me a little weird when I was dancing around the living room singing the fight song before the game!