Sunday morning Dan and McKenna went to the Conference Center to hear Grandfather speak. Bethany made me laugh making herself comfortable in Alice's baby seat.
We had egg salad for lunch with my family and watched the KSL new special on Grandfather. Anna practiced more photography skills taking pictures of her beautifully painted nails and toes. And I got a great picture of Alice giving Jonathan an awesome look.
We enjoyed a relaxing afternoon session and loved the new announcement about visiting and home teaching now called "ministering" and 7(!) new temples announced including one in RICHMOND, VA (near where I used to live)! What an amazing and historic General Conference! I always look forward to going back and listening to the talks over and over again so the messages will sink in more deeply! We headed up to Grandma and Grandpa's for the Nelson family Conference recap.
Wednesday these big kids got some great Alice snuggles!
Laura Lewis took McKenna and Ben to see the Sweet's Candy Factory.
I worked on laundry, then Anna joined the big kids for a play date at the Lewis's and I got a brief nap. My parents came over for a bit before going to a meeting at the mortuary with my dad's siblings. Mickelle and Jonathan came over for dinner that evening.
Thursday we started to see some little smiles from Alice! I used the morning to be productive and tidy up the house and shower. The kids did pretty well playing and watching shows. In the afternoon Korie Brown came over to play and then we went to Hogan park with McKameys, Jaynes, Lewises, Behunins, and Johnsons. We were home around 5, had dinner, then my parents and siblings came for another visit while Dan had church appointments.
We had egg salad for lunch with my family and watched the KSL new special on Grandfather. Anna practiced more photography skills taking pictures of her beautifully painted nails and toes. And I got a great picture of Alice giving Jonathan an awesome look.
We enjoyed a relaxing afternoon session and loved the new announcement about visiting and home teaching now called "ministering" and 7(!) new temples announced including one in RICHMOND, VA (near where I used to live)! What an amazing and historic General Conference! I always look forward to going back and listening to the talks over and over again so the messages will sink in more deeply! We headed up to Grandma and Grandpa's for the Nelson family Conference recap.
After that, our little family headed up to Mantua for two days for Spring Break! Alice's first time!
Monday we ate around 9am and the kids played princesses, played and danced to music on the keyboard, colored, played house...
"Wuv Ma-way... so much."
Dan was on his phone a ton getting things organized and communicating about all the changes that would be made after all the new announcements in Conference. Then Dan took Ben outside and on the roof to fix a shingle that had come loose and was flapping in the wind.
After lunch I napped with Alice while Dan watched the Wizard of Oz with the kids. After dinner we went and visited my Grandma Jeanne at my Aunt Sherrie's house. Grandma's health had been declining fairly rapidly, hence my parents coming to town for a visit. She slept the whole time we were there and we got to say our good byes. :( My dad gave her a lovely blessing as well. Back at Mantua we watched "This is Us."
Tuesday Alice turned 1 month old!!
We cleaned up at Mantua then had lunch at Arby's and headed to the Ogden Treehouse museum with the kids! So many fun things there (the maps, diner, motorcycle, horses, and the train). We were only able to be there for two hours, but the kids loved it! We even ran into Brigette McKamey who helped us find Bethany who was briefly lost.
We got home around 4 and Bethany had a hard time waking up from her nap in the car.
My family came over for dinner that evening and Dan had church appointments.
**That night, my Grandme Jeanne passed away peacefully in her sleep.
Wednesday these big kids got some great Alice snuggles!
I worked on laundry, then Anna joined the big kids for a play date at the Lewis's and I got a brief nap. My parents came over for a bit before going to a meeting at the mortuary with my dad's siblings. Mickelle and Jonathan came over for dinner that evening.
Thursday we started to see some little smiles from Alice! I used the morning to be productive and tidy up the house and shower. The kids did pretty well playing and watching shows. In the afternoon Korie Brown came over to play and then we went to Hogan park with McKameys, Jaynes, Lewises, Behunins, and Johnsons. We were home around 5, had dinner, then my parents and siblings came for another visit while Dan had church appointments.
Friday we chilled at home most of the day, then packed up and headed to a new Westerns States hotel in South Jordan for a Webster Family hotel night! We met Dan there, so the kids were awesome in helping be bring everything in! First item on the agenda was swimming of course!
Dinner at the hotel restaurant.
Then we played games and watched movies in a big conference room. Everyone slept fairly well with Alice only waking up once. Saturday morning we had a lovely hotel breakfast then I showered while everyone watched a show.
We left by 10:45 so I could take most of the girls to a family baby shower for my cousin Lucy. Everyone loved snuggling Alice! McKenna then went to Whitney's house for a cousin play date and there was a fantastic rainbow! I went grocery shopping and Kirk Pugsley and Lizzie Jaynes came over to play.
My sister Emily flew in that evening to be here for our Grandma's funeral so she got to snuggle baby Alice too! We hung out with my family that evening and got ready for church the next day.
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