General Conference and Easter

When General Conference and Easter fall on the same weekend, it makes for a busy time! Especially with Zach's birthday thrown into the mix. We really wanted our children to feel the significance of General Conference and Easter, so we did a few things leading up to the weekend. Beginning the Saturday before, each evening we read a little bit about what happened that day in the last of the Savior's life. We hung the summary and related pictures on our kitchen cabinets, and we also read the summaries found here. Throughout the week we watched a number of the Easter focused Mormon Messages.

Our FHE on Monday night was centered on the importance of General Conference and how to prepare and take notes.

We unfortunately ended up with a few sick kids during the week. Lily got it first with a fever and pinkeye (Sunday-Thursday), and then the fever and yucky-ness hit both Anwyn and Zach on Friday. So they ended up spending a lot of the weekend resting on the couch. The talks were wonderful of course! We hung up pictures of the apostles in the hallway and used sticky-notes to record the key messages of their talks.

Jared made our traditional conference crepes and cinnamon rolls.

Sunday in between conference sessions the children did an egg hunt outside, and then decorated eggs.

It was a nice weekend spent with family, hearing inspired messages, and remembering and pondering the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.