General Conference, Again!

What can I say? We love to go to Conference. Yes, it is a long way, but we love to be with our kids, we love singing on a street corner for tickets, and we really love how tickets just pour out upon us. In fact, a young woman came up to us this time to see if we had more than enough tickets yet. She said that she was told we always get more than we need!

Of course, going to conference usually involves getting at least one hotel room, which never has enough seating...

And of course, October conference is a tremendous time to celebrate Dana's birthday!

And going out to dinner before (or as in this case, after) the priesthood session of conference.

This time it was Applebee's, and it was great!

But not as great as the Sunday morning session. The best we could do with our tickets was to try to all be together on the terrace level, but as we walked to our seats, an usher invited us to just keep on walking all the way down to the main floor. We ended up off to the side, 15 rows back. I'll tell you one thing for sure: the singing sounds a whole lot different down on the main floor than it does in the back of the balcony.

The best feeling in the world is having your family around you, excited for the beginning of a session of conference. We missed our loved ones who were in Texas (Jon and Meli) or under the weather (Brian and Dana felt poorly). And we even missed our adopted daughter, Melanie Merrill, especially when singing for tickets!