General Conference

Another successful General Conference this past weekend.  You just can't beat hearing living scripture from a living prophet and apostles all weekend long! Of course, I can't pretend that I really listened to all of it because Motherhood doesn't stop even for other important things.  However, I lived up to my goal after last conference and re-read all the talks over again at least once, so I am determined to do it again.  The things that stand out in my mind are:
- Perry's talk on Agency and Obedience
- what I do is important because I am important (from Elaine S. Dalton)
- and that we should go out of our way to be a true friend (can't remember who said that).  Due to an experience today I translated into we should go out of our way to do what's right.
- and due to my calling as primary chorister, I also quite enjoyed the phrase "children who sing are happy children" which was from one of the Seventy on Sunday afternoon - Falabella or something like that. 
 I really should just go get my notebook and look up who said everything, but it's good memory practice to see what stands out :)

Anyway, conference has messages for everyone in every circumstance, so if you weren't fortunate enough to watch it during the weekend, go look it up now!  In fact, you can just click here for a shortcut.  You will receive peace, comfort, direction and answers.  Kind of important stuff.

I went a little overboard in my planning this session, but I actually liked it.  I learned a few things to make it even better last time, but I loved having so many snacked planned and ready and changing them up every session to keep our tummy and mouths happy too. I tried having mostly healthy snacks available all the time and all the sweets were "listening treats" for if they heard specific things (like Jesus, family, prayer and temple and music).  I did learn that I had too many listening treats the first session and we tried just one at a time for the other sessions. I also tried to have several activities, but I learned that we need to review the activities before conference next time because I didn't want to sit and explain things to the boys once it started.

Here's some of our setup and snacks.  And here's a special thanks to my special boys for enabling us to watch as much as we did!  They are great boys.  It elated me to hear Brayden shout with joy when he would see the prophet!

Saturday snacks

Treat snacks.  The pictures reminded us what to listen for.  The hugs were if the speaker got emotional.  The snickers were for when a speaker made people laugh :)

We borrowed the seminary cords so we could watch on our big screen.

Our apostle activity found from lds.org (I enlarged it a bit)

A little bike practice in between sessions Saturday while Zander napped.

Our completed conference activity

 We had fun with the Bells again too.  It was nice for our kids to be able to have some extra interaction on long days in front of the TV :)  And it was nice for us to share a special time with some good friends too!