Conference Weekend

Conference this past weekend was great with the packets people emailed us - thanks!




Lincoln actually sat through almost all four sessions! (Sat afternoon he left to watch Backyardigans) His first comment when President Monson spoke was "He has a cool haircut!" He sat on the couch and faithfully colored the tie to match each speaker and attempted the wordfinds and mazes. He can name all the Apostles by their pictures thanks to the pictures in the packet and a few hours of review he kept asking for.




Truman knows President Monson, Pres Packer, Elder Nelson, and Elder Oaks. We used some word association so he thinks Elder Bednar is Elder Doorknob. (Bed-nar to bed-knob to door-knob?). He sat through quite a bit as well, in the way he sits through things - mostly pacing or kicking the soccer ball around)



As most of you know, Lincoln and Truman wear as many outfits a day as they can sneak past Mom and all of them are as authentic sportswear as possible. Even though it is still cold they insist on shorts and a BYU or other sporting t-shirt. So, Sunday morning at 7:30 when Lincoln showed up in my room in his Sunday clothes ready for Conference I was surprised. "We all need to wear our Sunday clothes to show reverence for Jesus when we watch Conference today. Are you going to wear your dress Mom?" What can I say to that? So even Jefferson and McKinley had their Sunday best on by 10 am to sit on our couches and watch Conference. We are grateful for a very good example in our 5 year old.




He was listening to Elder Ballard's talk on young mothers and paid very close attention to the part where he spoke to the kids. When the talk was over he cleaned up the room, unloaded the dishwasher, set the table and gave me a hug every five minutes. He told Truman about the talk and Truman emptied the clean dryer into a basket and carried it upstairs into my room. He is our manual labor guy:) I guess we will be including that talk in our FHE curriculum each week:)




Lincoln also took note when Elder Ballard said we should not spend all our time on the computer, so I am sneaking this entry in before he catches me:)




We had fun with Sarah here for the weekend and she helped me make homemade granola and chocolate chip cookies.