LDS Conference Weekend

I'm pretty sure I have the cutest kids ever.

This morning Calin woke me up a little after 6:00am (I'm not a morning person). He excitedly whispered in my ear "Mom, can we watch general conference now?" I smiled and melted a little at his sweetness and said "In a few hours we can." He was bummed he had to wait, but when 9:00 rolled around he was seated and ready to be spiritually uplifted :)

I printed out some conference activity packets for the kids to do. Capri spent the whole first session doing hers. Calin went back and forth between his packet and listening to talks. Taylor slept through both sessions, and Capri napped through the whole second session (Jordan has to work this weekend at the hospital, so he wasn't home). It was a quite day. Peaceful, slow, relaxing. Full of power, and light, inspiration and truth.

{do you see my notebook? It's super special. My grandma made it, and it has 10 years of General Conference notes in it. It's almost full, and that makes me sad, but she gave me another one this summer and I'm excited to start filling that one too}

When the first 2hr session ended Calin said, "It's over already?" Then during the second session (another 2 hours) he said "I love General Conference!" And he really does. He did this little activity where he traced his hands and then wrote ways he could be helpful in our home. He worked on this all by himself. I would sneak a peak once in a while and it was the cutest thing to watch. Once he had quite a few, I told him that was probably enough, he only needed two, but then he said "hmm, I just need to think a little harder . . . " and put a few more down. 

 I wrote them at the top, but this is what he came up with:

help, pray, learn, choose the right, healthy, work, baptize, clean.

After the second session we played a game and made some cookies together and Capri said, "Mom, there are a lot of cookies so we can share with our friends, right?!" I had actually made them with the intent of sharing them, but I hadn't told her that yet, so it was sweet she was thinking about her friends and wanted to share with them.

 At 5:00 the men go to a priesthood session of conference, so we went to the park with some friends. It was a beautiful evening. And a great way to end such a wonderful day.