General Conference weekend

Okay, I know this is late. Tough luck. That's the way the dice rolls when I have homework and exams :)

I LOVED the spiritual feast we were blessed with in General Conference! It was so incredible! I can't wait to print off the talks and peruse them all again.

I like the idea of having family traditions for GC weekend, so this year we started some. Nathan made crepes for breakfast on Sunday, which is a fun treat we enjoy for birthdays, so it helped make the day already feel like a holiday. The children LOVE building their own crepes and choosing their own toppings. My all-time favorite topping is a sweetened sourcream that Nathan cooks on the stove over low heat. It's light and slightly tangy and OH-SO-GOOD. I crave it often! Yummy! We also love to spread on flavored yogurt, plain yogurt drizzled with honey, Nutella (oh yum!), peanut butter sprinkled with powdered sugar, jellies of various sorts, cut up fruit (think berries and bananas), and whipped cream. You just can't have a bad day when it's been started with such delicious food!

In the GC sessions, we gave the children all Bingo cards with different gospel words/pictures that they needed to listen for. I think every LDS family has played this, and there's a reason why: it's so much fun! The kids were so excited every time they could mark off a word.

We also placed a bowl of marshmallows and M&M's on the side table. Whenever they heard the name of Jesus Christ, they could take a candy. They decided to save all the candy in a little bag so they could have a pretend party after the session.

Between the two sessions we did family activities. We recenlty found a puzzle that is made with 3 different sizes of puzzle pieces. It was made so the entire family could work together on one puzzle. Brilliant! We really loved it! We all worked together and had a great time. Sarah and Matthew were pretty good at putting pieces together, and Daniel was so proud of himslef for getting one pice put in place. Daniel's main job was to look through the box of pieces and find all the pieces with a straight edge so we could do the perimeter.  Or we'd have him look for all the pieces with a certain color, like when we were putting together a portion full of pumpkins. He'd find all the pieces with a splash of orange.