Our son, Ryan, Opened A New Woman's Center and We Picked Up a New Car

Stacy and kids came back through St. George from their Spring Break ski trip up north 

and stayed with us Saturday night, March 21. Tom and Jake had flown back to Mesa earlier in the week 

(Tom, to take the scouts on a camping trip, and Jake is on the baseball team) 

and Syd is finishing the semester at BYU. 

I directed the INSTA-CHOIR Sunday morning - 

The Lord My Pasture Will Prepare - 

and Stacy came to the 9 AM meeting to sing with us. 

We had a large choir with several visitors and they sang beautifully and brought the spirit to our meeting.

I had prepared ahead of time a chicken Florentine and a marinated veggie salad,

so when we got back from church, we boiled the fettuccine and broiled the garlic bread, ate, 

then piled into Stacy's SUV and headed for Mesa.

Why did Roger and I go to Mesa?

Two big reasons:

Ryan, with the talented decorating help of his wife, Emily, just opened his new Woman's Center.

Ryan has outgrown the office where he has been operating his Urogynecology practice. 

He found an existing building that had been a spa, completely redesigned it to potentially house two more doctors, as well as Dr. Kelly Kantaris and himself, Physician's Assistants and physical therapists.

Check out his website:

www.TheWomansCenter.com 

We were so impressed with this beautiful new facility!

It incorporates Ryan's innovative and efficient ideas of how to provide the best of care for women 

and it will make them feel comfortable and at ease as they are being treated.

These two have been working very hard to bring Ryan's dream into fruition.

There are still several things to be completed, but they are up and running in this new, state-of-the-art facility. 

Monday night for Family Home evening, Stacy invited Ryan's family over for dinner.

Our wonderful Aggie friends, Mike and Kathy Cranny, who are big potato farmers from Oakley, Idaho, 

and have a second home on our block, had just given us a large box of wonderful spuds.

We brought some to share and we fixed a big potato bar.

While we were in Mesa for two days, we got to see Jake pitch and get a double in a baseball game, 

catch the end of Luke playing T-ball . . .

(Max usually plays, but he hung out with us 'cause he had a little bug.)

. . . have fun with Stacy's and Ryan's families and . . . 

(drum roll, please) . . . 

. . . pick up our new car!

Roger has been studying the internet for a few months, we have test driven a few cars 

and we narrowed it down to which car we wanted.

He found this 2014 used Lexus ES 350 with just 14,000 miles on it in Chandler, Arizona,

which is not far from where Stacy lives in Mesa. 

We drove home in it on Wednesday morning, 

and we are thrilled with it!

We donated our 2000 Maxima, with its 240,000 miles, its squirrelly front end, zero shocks 

and meat grinder noise when it runs, to the National Kidney Foundation KidneyCars. 

It has served us well!

We loved our quick trip to Mesa!

We brought home our new car, some grapefruit and oranges that Roger picked at Stacy's, 

some yummy salsa verde and some more great memories!