::conference weekend::

So I have to say that it's really hard for me to post photos up here without working on them in photoshop first. Don't get me wrong. I don't do a lot to them, but the little bit I do makes me very happy. So in the interest of continuing to post I'm doing it anyway. I'm sending my computer in for repair tomorrow. My fingers will be crossed that all goes well!

We had a good weekend. It's so nice that we can get conference online now. We're trying not to spend money on anything non-essential right now, so we don't have cable or satellite. So it's super nice to be able to get the video feed anyway. In Kansas City we had Dish Network and they have a BYU channel, so it was easy to watch there.

Anyway, it was great that we got to watch conference, even though the sessions for us started at noon and 4! Crazy huh? And priesthood session went from 8 to 10PM for Kris!

We spend most of saturday cleaning up and grocery shopping and doing all our normal saturday type stuff. It was nice to have some help cleaning, because it seems like with this house no matter how hard I try to keep everything clean it's always dirty. I don't know if it's just the age of the house, or the dirt leftover from all the previous renters or what. Whatever it is it drives me crazy and I hate cleaning because I feel like it's hardly worth it.

Sunday was super nice. We started it out with delicious German pancakes for breakfast. Well actually Max started it off with a yucky "soup" he made in the sink out of water and yucky food leftover in the slow cooker that was soaking there. Yuck. He was proud though.


Then the German pancakes. Boy do we love them. Max could eat more than Kris and I combined if we let him.

We also had turkey sausages. Those were yummy too. We never get to have a big sunday breakfast nowadays because we have church at 10, so this was fun.


Then we spend some time tidying up our guest room before the first session started. It's been housing all the stuff we haven't found a place for since we moved. But we got it all cleared up. It's ready for Kris's mom to come tomorrow, yay!

I got out some old coloring books, and somehow they kept Max busy through most of the first session. Busy, but not necessarily quiet. He's not a quiet kind of guy. So we listened to as much as we could. There were some really great talks. Aren't we lucky to have the kind of leaders we do in the church?

For dessert at the very end of the day I made a souffle. I've never made one before. It was a good amount of work, but delicious. It was a pumpkins souffle, and tasted a lot like pumpkin pie, only lighter. Seasonal for sure.

Yum.

I'm pretty proud that it turned out well. My cooking skills are slowly getting better as I practice. Very slowly. Still, the only thing I really enjoy making is dessert, but I'm trying to branch out.
We have a lot of apples right now and I'm going to have to make some sort of apple crisp or pie or something soon. I'm looking forward to that.

Too bad conference is over for another 6 months, but it's nice we always know we have more to look forward to.

Later!