A town motto

When we lived in Pittsburg, CA (not to be confused with Pittsburgh, PA--the h is the big differentiating factor) there was a town motto of sorts.  It was on those flags towns sometimes fly on their main streets.  The motto:  Recycle your motor oil.

Sort of inspiring.

And that was Pittsburg for you.

Saturday we came up with a motto for Pleasant Grove (in case anyone in the city government is reading this you are welcome to have it made up on flags to fly on Main Street.)  The motto:  30 Minutes from Awesome.

We love and adore being 30 minutes from BYU.

We went to a concert at BYU, featuring Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus, that was for families of small children.  Braeden and Mark are small-ish?  There were a whole lot of toddlers in the audience.  It wasn't the regular staid concert going house but we still enjoyed it.

After that and lunch with our favorite songbird we took Mark back to the Museum of Art to see the exhibit we had liked so much the day before (Braeden had an afternoon baseball game date).  The exhibit is Nina Katchadourian:  Curiouser.  We love it.  We also saw the Tiffany Glass exhibition.

It captured my imagination.  Now in addition to a Cape Cod style house on...Cape Cod and a Spanish style house (with shiny red tile floors) near Balboa Park in San Diego (or can I just live in Balboa Park?), I want a Craftsman style house on a leafy tree-lined street with a deep front porch and Tiffany glass.

In the meantime, I'm happy with my house perched on the side of a mountain in good old Pleasant Grove:  30 Minutes from Awesome.

We have too many houseplants (depends on who you ask) and not enough humidity but especially when all our kids are here, there's nowhere I'd rather be.  This place is the venue for shows like "World's Worst Magician" that Mark and Adam treated us to on Sunday (a.k.a. The Gingician and his Apprentice).

I have no words, but come over and they'll perform it for you.  There's a soundtrack.  And it may be one of the best things that has ever happened on a Sunday afternoon, 30 minutes from awesome.