General Conference

I was excited for General Conference to happen this month.  With a new prophet came a solemn assembly, and I was looking forward to getting the opportunity to stand and sustain President Nelson.  I really wanted the kids to take notice and recognize how special it was to get to participate in this event.  Emma did great with listening and paying attention.  Ben, on the other hand, decided to be angry and 'bored' that he had to watch general conference.  He refused to sit still and was a pain to be around!  So frustrating!  I was still very touched as I stood and sustained President Nelson, especially when I saw how touched he was too.

As conference continued, I finally got Ben to calm down and snuggle with me.  He still isn't feeling great, but he really just wanted to be spending his Saturday playing with friends or watching something on the iPad... and when that didn't happen he had a temper tantrum.  The last half of conference went considerably better than the first half!

We took the chance during the two hour break to get started on a house project, and we got the door and window in the dining room framed out with white molding.  We are going to make a chair rail and paint the bottom half white (similar to what we did in the front entry).  We ran out of molding, so I'll be making a trip in to Lethbridge on Monday to get more.  It's looking good though!  Nothing like finally finishing a project 7 1/2 years after we added on! 

The afternoon session of conference was good, although our Apple TV box quit working downstairs, so we had to race upstairs and mirror it from our phone onto the tv in our bedroom.  The kids were  happy to stay out of our way and let us watch.

I ran a few errands afterwards, got some groceries we needed and then stopped in to the book store for their Ladies' Night.  I got a couple books that will be fun to read with the kids when we go to Nauvoo this summer and then got a free audio book of Elder Uchtdorf's new book.  I saw Katie Sykes while I was there and we had a good visit.

I got home just in time to make dinner for the kids and Lennard went to our bedroom to watch the Priesthood Session.  We were eating when I heard Lennard let out a yell, so I went to investigate.  It had just been announced that Elders Quorum and High Priests were now going to be combined into one Elders Quorum!  I ended up watching the rest of the meeting with him.  It was an amazing meeting!  It will be interesting to see how quickly our Stake gets all the changes made.

It's been a great day.  I look forward to studying the talks more in depth when the Ensign comes out.  I'm looking forward to tomorrow's sessions.

Poor Little Boy

Ben woke up in the middle of the night gasping for breath.  He was so panicked that it was hard to get him calmed down.  We tried sitting outside with him in the cold for a while, but it didn't help.  I ended up taking him down to the ER and, thankfully, they took him right in.  He had a chest x-ray and his throat swabbed and then they got him some steroids and antibiotics to help him breath and start to heal.  We were home by 1:00am and he was able to sleep the rest of the night.

 He woke up feeling fine, so he wanted to go to school.  Lennard thought he'd be fine, but I wasn't so sure.  It was less than an hour before his teacher called and said that he wasn't feeling well, so I ended up going and bringing  him home.

I was touched when I came into the living room tonight and saw Emma reading to Ben.  He still isn't feeling great, so it was kind of her to help him out.

Airplane Progress

Lennard has been thoroughly enjoying getting pieces closed in and finished on the plane! He took off work on Monday and worked all day on the plane.  

 After school today, Emma had Activity Days, but then we headed out to the airport.  I brought taco soup out to the hangar and my parents came and had dinner with us.  The kids were pretty proud of their 'table' that they made!

Easter Egg Hunt

Lennard flew to Wetaskiwin with my dad this morning as part of a Flying Club Fly-Out. While he was away, I took the kids down to the Remington Ctr for their annual Easter Egg hunt. It was just as crazy as it usually is.  The kids were in the front, so they got quite a few eggs, but there were kids who didn't get any.  I was so touched to see the kids sharing their eggs with other kids without prompting.  

Festival - Jr. Choir

Emma performed with the CES Jr. Choir in the Festival today.  They did such an amazing job that the adjudicator really sang their praises.  Emma has learned a lot being in this choir.

Festival

The kids performed in the Rotary Music Festival with their classes today.  They both did such a good job! I was glad that I got to go watch them, since I had to work at the school in the afternoon.

Grade 1

Grade 2

The inspection happened today... and he passed!  There was only one rivet that he had to change.  Pretty amazing for all the hundreds of rivets he's done.  He immediately started closing pieces up and made quite a bit of progress this afternoon.

Busy Day

The airplane inspection has been rescheduled for tomorrow, so Lennard took the day off to prep for it.  He got a bunch of the parts opened and ready this morning.  We went out to lunch together at A&W and then got more stuff done before the kids got home from school.

My parents came over for dinner and FHE tonight.  The kids were so excited to get to play cards with grandma and grandpa.