Tradition

I spent a lot of time thinking. Obsessing. over what Christmas gifts to get people this year.  There were a lot that I knew were spot on, a few I wasn't sure how they would be received and a few that were darts thrown in the dark.  But of all the gifts this year, my very favorite one to give away was also the most fun to create.
   Over Thanksgiving break my little brother Stephen found some old pictures of me and my brothers around BYU campus.  He mentioned that we should re-create them sometime and so we decided that is what we would get Mom for Christmas.
Here's the before..........

Stephen, Michael and Kristen, circa 1994 at the bridge to the BYU Law Library.

                                   Kristen, Stephen and Michael in the BYU Bean Museum.

 If we would have thought it out a bit more I'm sure we could have coordinated BYU shirts and found a celtics cap and some glasses.  But we did our best and had a blast in the process.  It's been awhile since I've laughed that hard with my brothers, and laugh we did as we posed ridiculously in public places and had strangers take our pictures.

The trees have grown a bit since then, but not much else has changed on East campus.

Unfortunately the museum has changed a bit and the exhibits have been moved around so we were only able to find the one lion.

It was a pretty fun day and I only wish we were able to give that few hours of jolly rememberingness along with the pictures.