General Conference

We always look forward to General Conference weekend. But there are times when I feel like it's complete chaos - noisy kids, crazy messes, fussy babies, etc. This time around, however, was AWESOME. I felt like all the kids, even McKell, were super good. They didn't sit quietly on the couch taking notes during all 8 hours, but they did listen some, and they did take notes some, and they didn't leave my house a disaster, and they didn't go crazy. So nice. I felt like I was able to pay attention to nearly all the speakers. 

The 3 older girls have "General Conference Journals" and special pens
that only come out during General Conference weekend.

I'm always trying to come up with activities to keep everyone entertained. This year I printed off and laminated pictures and names of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles. I put them all on a poster, and on other posters I had labels for each session. When someone spoke, their picture and name got moved over to the appropriate session heading (I had extra papers to write in the names of other speakers, too.)

Russ is especially fond of these weekends, since it means he doesn't have any church responsibilities to take him away . He loves spending the days at home with all of us.