Conference Time!

Ok, I know I'm really back-tracking but I have a lot to catch up on that I want to document. I've heard a lot of criticism recently about blogging and I have to say that I still love it. It caused me to think about why I spend time doing this and I came to the realization that it doesn't even matter to me if anyone reads these posts at all. (Ok, I do care that you're reading this and I really love comments! :) )But really this is a fun way for me to document my little family's history. So anyway, now I'm going to talk about how we traditionaly celebrate general conference.
If you live in our house, usually the first 2 words that come to mind when I mention that it's conference time are these: EASY CHEESE. (I bet those are not the 2 words that came to your mind!) We have a conference tradition of setting out a big "snack lunch" to eat while watching the Sunday afternoon session. The menu has evolved over the years and is not to vary from this: crackers and Easy Cheese, veggies and dip, fruit and dip, deviled eggs, and slices of ham and turkey to make cracker sandwiches with the Easy Cheese. Anything else I would like to add is ok as long as there is Easy Cheese and deviled eggs. We also MUST have M&M's and gummy bears to play conference bingo. I went grocery shopping a couple of days before conference and set the new bottle of Easy Cheese on the counter before the kids got home from school. This is what they said when they saw it: "Easy Cheese! Cool! It's conference time!" Maybe that's not the most reverent approach to listening to the prophet and apostles speak, but hey, if they are excited to watch conference because the get to have Easy Cheese, then maybe that excitement will stay with them and when they're older they will want to watch just to listen to the prophet and apostles speak. And I think I will still put out the crackers and Easy Cheese then, as well!