Fav moments of Conference weekend

To start off our Conference weekend, we decided to go to our favorite, and most frequently visited (besides Harmon's) downtown store... the Disney Store! They were having Trick-or-Treating, a mini parade, and crafts. 

Side note: Yes, I'm a little ashamed to admit that we gave into the commercialism of Halloween and bought William a Buzz costume. Let's be honest, if he had wanted to be Woody, Dash, Peter Pan, or something along those lines, I could've made it. But it's not worth this much trouble to make a Buzz costume. At least to make one I'd be satisfied with. But the Disney Store had a pretty sweet, good quality Buzz costume, and we got a good deal. Besides, it's been worth EVERY PENNY.

 Anyway, went down to City Creek and had fun at the Disney Store, and not so much fun at the Dinosaurs. I'm not usually confrontational, but this lady was asking for it. And then a little girl threw up, so they kicked everyone out so they could sanitize the whole place. We left a little...disgruntled...about the way things had gone at the play place, so it was SO nice to walk out on to main street and see this:

 Conference was upon us, and there were tons of people downtown. Unfortunately, some of the crazies were out as well, and I wished they'd kept their profanities to themselves as I snapped these pictures. But even with them around, I was amazed at how quickly my mood changed as we walked past the temple. It truly is a beautiful building! (Another side note: Hooray for Peru for getting a 2nd temple!)

Saturday started off with Auntie Char and Uncle Jeff offering to watch Annie and William Captain Hook while I ran a few quick errands. Can I just say that they are the best? William absolutely adores Jeff, and Jeff is SO fun and silly with William. This is the picture I got while I was out, of the "pirate hat" Char made him while they played.

I was really excited to hear the two big announcements. Like I said, a temple in Peru! Woo Hoo! It's not near my mission, Arequipa is in the very southern most part of Peru. I'm excited for the members down there! They deserve it. And cool announcement about missionaries. It will be interesting to see the changes this brings to missionary work!

Saturday afternoon, after the afternoon session we got to celebrate our cute nephew Dallin's first birthday! I can't believe he is already a year old. Andrea and Spencer threw a cute Teddy Bear Picnic party, because his nickname is "Dall-bear." We got some cute pictures of this boy to make invitations.

 Here are Thomas and William enjoying some beary yummy cupcakes:

 I think they enjoyed the present we gave Dallin more than Dallin did (I guess Dallin didn't have a chance to like it... these two jumped all over it!)

Sunday morning I tried to help William get more into conference. We'd been talking all about the First Presidency, so William kind of recognized each one as they got up. We sat in the fort for the opening song, prayer, another song, and then President Eyring got up to speak. Our conversation went like this:

Me: Look William! It's President Eyring! (Pointing to the picture we had out, and then to the TV)

William: Yeah! He's my buddy.

Me: President Eyring is your buddy?

William: Yeah. He's so nice.

And then he ran off to play. At least the fort kept him interested for that long!

Danny and I always talk about how nice it is to live downtown. Yeah, we love Harmon's being so close, and it's so nice to be able go for strolls through City Creek and down to Gateway, but we love living so close to Temple Square! We love the feeling that surrounds it, and we love that William and Ann are able to be so exposed to it while they are so little. 

As another side note (and ending note), I found this costume tutorial. I'm really tempted by it for Ann, and if I hadn't all ready purchased the stuff for a costume for her, I might do it! Maybe next year. Props to anyone who knows who this is!