Weekend

 October conference weekend is my favorite and I enjoyed every bit of it.  I caught up on sleep and laundry, which was good.

Emma and Mark came over Saturday morning.  I made Christmas ornaments for my students while Emma worked on a puzzle next to me.

We were kind of in a turf war for table space, but we cooperated.

After the first session, we piled in the van and got lunch and went to Costco in search of a Christmas tree for our living room.  Adam convinced me that we were in Costco and the tree I was looking at was way bigger than it seemed.

I eventually believed him.

We found gluten free pizzas which they've been without lately so we bought four boxes.

We stopped at Trader Joe's and filled our cart with treats and wonders.  I got pumpkin soup and pumpkin crackers and pumpkin joe joes and GF pumpkin pancake mix.  Mark doesn't like pumpkin and I told him that it's because he's youngest and all the good genetic material (that liked pumpkin) was taken up.  Adam told Mark he did, however, inherit all his wit and charm.

So there's that.

We enjoyed two more sessions of conference and Adam made pork chops and roasted vegetables for dinner.

After eating we had a music night that stretched for over an hour.  Emma instructed us to pick a song that "took us on a journey" and another that was a "danceable bop."  We texted our ideas to Mark, he played them and then we guessed whose songs were whose which wasn't even a little bit hard.

Then we kept saying, "Play this song!" 

We told stories about which songs mattered to us and why.  We talked about what they reminded us of.  We danced in goofy ways and sang along to the songs.  I gave them an anthology of the cassette tapes I cherished in the 80s.

Adam invented music night about 15-20 years ago and like most things he invents, we love it.

Sunday morning we had the GF pumpkin pancakes, which is the one pumpkin thing Mark likes.  We received the sad news that Adam's uncle David had passed away and were comforted with words of faith and peace from listening to two more sessions of conference.  

I'm sad conference is over.

I feel like the help and answers I was seeking were found.

Between sessions we talked to Braeden and went for a walk at the Pleasant Grove cemetery.  It's a beautiful spot to walk.  Catching glimpses of the Mt. Timpanogos temple through the trees as you walk through the cemetery feels like exactly what anyone could want.

A lovely weekend buoyed me and bolstered me and I'm ready for another week!