Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Conference is Coming

I love General Conference. I just watched this video, and it makes me all excited to see what our leaders will talk to us about this time. I love gathering around in our living room, seeing which apostles Jane recognizes, and singing along with the various choirs. Conference has always meant a lot to me, but maybe now that I don't live within an arm's reach of Salt Lake City or BYU or even KBYU, every opportunity we get to hear from the prophet and apostles is more poignant.
General Conference comes with other traditions too. The most notable in our family: Sunday lunch consists of egg salad sandwiches and chocolate milk shakes. If I remember correctly, this goes back to when Brad's dad was growing up. People scoff at the combination--egg salad? Chocolate? But really, the two pair together quite nicely. We don't do anything crazy like dip the sandwich in the shake. This time around I might mix it up a bit, try a Nutella shake, or pumpkin. On second thought, I will probably save those as an excuse to make shakes more often than this weekend.
Do you have any traditions for General Conference? What do you look forward to?

6 comments:

HayleyKirkland said...

You nailed them :)

hanner said...

Mm. Do the Nutella. We're making some as I type.

faith said...

that sounds fun. i miss the crepes that my family does every conference. simple - just filled with cinnamon sugar. we don't have our own traditions yet.

Katie Tyler said...

you know MY vote is Pumpkin! I am obsessed with this recipe!! :)
PS I am really ready for conference too.

Carolyn Ebert said...

sunday conference in our pajamas with conference bingo for gabriella, plus a big breakfast of crepes w/nutella and strawberries.
(speaking of nutella, you should see how Katharina downs that stuff. now that i think of it-probably worthy of a blog entry!)

i dvr all sessions of conference, then use individual talks for fhe in the months to come.

right now we're in st. george and will be driving home on sunday, so it will be a bit different this year...

Kristin said...

Dang. I wish I had read this earlier today and concocted a way to break our computer so we would have had to call the Singley's and ask if we could watch conference at their house...while eating delicious homemade chocolate shakes.