General Women's Broadcast 2014

The satellite in our ward building was having issues, so they cancelled the dinner for the women and girls in our ward and the Los Alamos ward along with the broadcast.  Kate was bummed that it was cancelled, so we planned our own dinner.

We invited 15 other ladies and girls over for tacos, dessert and broadcast watching:  Juli, Anna, and Sophi Miller, Elise, Annika, and Ashley Nye, Sylvie & Nina Johnson, Elizabeth Allen, Ada Tripp, Kristi and Eliza Lamborn, Emmy Baker, and Angela and Kyra Vest.

Dave took Jack and Nick on a bike ride to Sonic for dinner and ice cream while everyone was over.  

Kate and I took a picture together after everyone left.  It's pretty special to be able to watch the General Women's meeting together with my daughter.  It was neat to watch it with our friends in our home and sing I am a Child of God together during the congregational hymn.

General Conference 2014

We asked our stake presidency for conference tickets.  We got some for the Saturday afternoon session.

Jack got to come too, even though he won't be 8 for another few weeks. 

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We left Nick and Ty at Norm and Melinda's house.  Luckily,  Nick didn't cry the whole time and even took a few naps.  He didn't like making eye contact with Melinda or Grandma Judi.

Kate and Jack were very well behaved and sat reverently during the meeting.  They took some notes.

Jack took notes about Elder Nelson's talk.  He talked about faith and shared a story about a plane ride he was on that was experiencing turbulence.  There was a lady on board that was hysterical and scared.  Her husband told Elder Nelson after they landes that the only way he could calm his wife was by telling her that it would be OK because Elder Nelson was on board.

After the session, we headed back to Draper while Dave waited for Norm and Vaughn to meet him for priesthood.  They had tickets to the priesthood session too.

The ladies took all the kids to IHOP for dinner.

Random Conference Pictures

Conference weekend was really nice and relaxing at our house.  It was nice that Ty's naps coincided with all the sessions of conference, so we could listen a little easier. 

Jack was being super crazy during the Saturday afternoon session.  I'd asked him to pick up the puzzle pieces a few times and the next thing I knew he was asleep. 

Today during conference Kate and Jack were snacking on apples during the morning session.  When Ty woke up from his nap, he climbed onto the little chair and started eating one of their apples.  He loves eating whole apples.  He kind of hugs it to his cheek in between bites.

Ty cheesing it for the camera.  I guess he's started to notice that I take a lot of pictures of him, so he might as well smile.

I didn't take any pictures of Kate during conference but she was very busy filling out her conference packet pages, working on numerous perler beads, writting books, drawing pictures, and playing with Jack.  Conference is a little easier the older the kids get.