Today . . .

Conference weekend was really nice.

Weston did an entire painting project all by himself on Friday (except for the little bit he let Lydia do). Caden practiced the piano 45 minutes without being bugged and then went to his dad's office to study football. We all went to the Granger game that night, where Lydia performed in the halftime show. She was an adorable, very talented "Mini Excalibur".

Caden finally got to play in a game on Saturday. he did fine and has a few welts but otherwise, no worse for wear. The boys played soccer as usual and had fun.

I decided President Monson spoke later than planned just for me, because just as I turned on conference after the football game, the temples and the temple attendance fund were announced. What a blessing.

We had orange rolls, bacon, eggs, and juice for breakfast Sunday morning. Then the kids brought in all the bean bags and blankets to sit on during conference. Shortly after conference began, they were all banned from "the pile" and forced to sit on the couch or the fireplace. They bore it well. We are still looking for ways to anxiously engage them all so they can get more out of conference, or at least sit and listen.

Garrett learned to make friendship bracelets and how to tie his shoes during conference. Caden listened to a lot. Lydia played with beads and toys. Weston coveted his Roald Dahl books. When he received them last Christmas, he had no desire to read them. Luckily, he has found a love for them in the past month and has now read at least 7 of them start to finish and picture walked all the others. Yay!!

After conference we ate chicken and rice and zucchini. Then we played And it Came to Pass outside on the grass. Garrett and Weston won by a lot. It was beautiful weather, but it was 85 on Friday and the high is supposed to be below 60 Wednesday. Crazy!