General Conference Traditions

Digging into the goodies. This is one of our favorite traditions!
Eliza embraces that tradition of falling asleep.

Peter is fading, too.

This is from years ago. You can see David in the background keeping his tradition alive.

Parker and Eliza show off their Conference Books while Michael makes faces!

We have a few fun traditions that we have been pretty good about. Every October and April we listen to General Conference. What a great opportunity to listen to the prophet, apostles, and other church leaders. I have little activities to keep the kids focused. Our two main traditions that have held up over time are junk food/goodies and David falling asleep at least once during the weekend event. He claims that it is during one of the seventies talks so that it wasn't that important and I always try to convince him that it was the best talk yet! One year when he fell asleep it was April Fool's Day--while he slept, we sewed him to the couch, painted his fingernails bright pink, and tied his shoelaces together. We thought that would teach him. He was alert for the next session!

This April Ben and Athena (David's youngest sister) came to visit. They were in Washington DC for an internship for four months. They rented a car and drove 6 hours to spend the weekend. It was really fun to see them again. We just hung out, visited, played and watched a wild paint-ball outing and just had fun being together. Family is great. Thanks for coming and being with us.