General Conference April 2011

I just love General Conference. Twice a year The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints holds a meeting that is broadcast to the world. In the 10 hours of speakers over the course of 2 days we are given the opportunity to hear from the Prophet of the World, President Thomas S. Monson. We then hear from the 12 Apostles and other leaders of the church.

It is always wonderful and I always learn. If you are interested in what was said you can go to www.lds.org and follow the prompts. You can either read, watch or listen to all the talks. Awesome!
Conference is held in Salt Lake City, Utah, but we live in Texas. So we get to watch it at home. I've found some excellent websites (www.sugardoodle.net) with wonderful hands on activities for the kids to do while they watch and listen to Conference. This year the activity packets were divided into age group. Nursery age (1-3), Junior Primary (4-7), and Senior Primary (8-11). They did such a good job and were really well focused towards those age groups.

Obviously the kids loved them
One tradition we have as a family is our Family Puzzles. These puzzles are about 400 pieces but they come in 3 different sizes, so everyone can help with the puzzle. If you don't get it zoom in on this picture and you'll understand. We've started to buy a new one for each Conference, it takes at least one Session to finish it (2 hrs). So we do get to listen for at least that block of time. You can buy these at Hobby Lobby if your family is interested.
One of Phoenix's activities included making a soldier out of a balloon. Well, once the balloons were out that just turned into all sorts of little crafty projects. London made about 15 balloon people. Sicily tried (with at least 6 balloons) to make a snowman. And as you can see Aspen made the Solar System. She kept asking us, "What color is Mars? What color is Neptune?" She did a pretty good job I thought. But I'm still getting really sick of tripping on balloons.