Conference Packets

My kids LOVE "home church" (that's what we call Conference weekend). Maybe it's the treat making that goes on, or the prizes for good behavior, or the packets to entertain them, or the fact that Jennie's birthday is always around fall conference and Dalton's birthday is always around the spring conference, but they have a great time on Conference weekend.

I just printed my kids packets for Conference. I'm not a fan of cartooning the general authorities, so I printed them as follows.

Junior Primary Packet: pg 1,3,5,7,9,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,22.
Youth Packet: pg 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,11.
Senior Primary Packet: pg 13,16.

enjoy!

Joseph's Birthday/ Baptism

Joseph's birthday breakfast... Chocolate and Butterscotch chip waffles, he's been talking about them since that day at your house Elise. Yum!


Doughnuts in class! My papa started this tradition. Joe's favorite is the maple one and he talked it up to his classmates all day, so when I brought two assorted boxes in just before the bell rang, every kid wanted a maple. They were good and some of them split one. I hope I can channel Joseph's ability to persuade when he gets a little older and the stakes are a little higher than doughnuts.


Joseph was so excited for his baptism. I'll never forget his smile in the font, he was positively beaming!


He had a ton of support with Abuella and Grandpa, Lewis, Grandma and Grandpa "C", Mishawn, Micah, Brock, Tanner, McCall, Jaymie and us of course making it to his baptism. His friends Maren, Parker and Addison were able to come too.

Thanks for making the trip everyone. You really made the day just perfect. Abuella, he loves navigating his new scriptures, and Grandma "C", he loves his green afghan. Thank you so much!

General Conference

It's time again, and I'm always looking for ways to get my children as excited for Conference as I am. Deseret Book has this great booklet ready for printing. I didn't actually print the whole booklet, just the pages that I knew my kids would use. Enjoy!

Scripture Advent

I just found this advent calendar this morning and I'm so excited to start it for FHE tonight! I love that the FRIEND does all the work for me, all I have to do is follow through.

p.s. it's on page 10 titled "Stories of Jesus, Tell Them to Me"

House of...

We had the amazing experience today of attending our Stake Conference in the Conference Center. The rule for General Conference, (and all of the seasonal and theatrical performances at the Conference Center) is that no children under 8 are allowed. For Stake Conference, however, we were encouraged to bring all of our children! I just couldn't pass up this opportunity. We TRAXed down and arrived right when they were announcing the speakers. I had no idea that we would be hearing the voice of our Prophet! Not for the whole world, but for us, me, Sherrie Crawford, (and 86 other stakes... but still).

President Monson commanded us (me) to be/have a house of prayer, fasting, faith, order, and lastly a house of God. Sister Lant counseled us to beware of over scheduling, and focus on serving our family, and God.

Elder Ballard spoke, but well, this was Stake Conference, and like any other Stake Conference, we did have all four kids with us and there were moments of chaos. I had to spend some time erasing the pencil off of the walls, and putting the hat on the dolly, and separating Sophia's hand from my hair, and Jennie's hand from my -now broken- necklace, find the elusive pacifier, hand pencil and paper to the boys, and answer questions to which I may never have the answer (how big is that TV screen? It's not really a TV screen, it's a projector mom. Is that real gold? Why is the prophet so small I can smoosh him with my fingers? How long till it's over? How long have we been here? Have I been good enough for a cheese stick?) I can't seem to remember what Elder Ballard spoke of.

Walking back to TRAX and home was peaceful, no deadlines, no rush, just a restful Sabbath. We are an eternal family, we love the Lord, and we believe that the Prophet today is Thomas S. Monson, he spoke to us today, and we will do our best to follow his counsel.

Sophia was today's photographer

Behold Your Little Ones

I overheard Annette, (our Ward Primary President) telling Doug about a new Nursery Manual to be used in his class, (Doug serves in the nursery with Sophia, and he loves it!) Anyway I was able to head to Distribution yesterday and picked it up. "Behold Your Little Ones" is the title, and the manual is fabulous. The pictures are right there in the manual, (Doug has said that when you take longer than 3 seconds to retrieve the picture you want from the old kit, the kids have already lost interest) the pages for coloring are full sized for easy copying, the lessons are all simple, and involve lots of word, poem or song repetition which works perfectly for that age group. It's $5.50 and a must in the home of any nursery aged child. It has been out for only a couple of weeks, so the website doesn't have a picture of it, here's my own lame shot of the cover.