GenCon Oct 2014

Every April and October, our church has what's called General Conference, where the church leaders address church members and give spiritual messages.  It's a whole weekend thing, with three 2-hour sessions on Saturday, and then 2 more 2-hour sessions on Sunday.  It takes the place of Sunday church services, so it's fun to be able to stay in PJ's, eat a big breakfast, and then settle in for a spiritual feast.  It's broadcast on a local TV station here in utah, on the radio, and online.  We listened to a lot of it on the radio, but also watched online.

I try to gather some activities and snacks to keep the kids as quietly busy as possible so Kerry and I can focus on the talks, and some activities to hopefully help them start to pay attention to what's going on during conference,too.

We posted the picture list of the church leaders so that the kids could find and mark who the speakers were as they talked.

In between Saturday sessions, we stacked the bunkbeds in the boys' room to make room for another bed in there.  Kate hadn't been sleeping in her own bed for months because she didn't like being all by herself in her room, so she started sleeping on the floor in the boys' room, and after a few months of that she asked about having a real bed in there.  Poor girl.  So we stacked the bunkbeds, and (much to Yeabsera's dismay) she gets the top bunk!  It's nice to have an official bed configuration, and we now have a designated toy room.