Happiness at Home: Conference in Virginia Oct 2014

Monday, October 27, 2014

Conference in Virginia Oct 2014

This is becoming such a tradition that I need to label it with the date. After being on the east coast for 4 days, we flew home, took care of business for 3 days and immediately flew back to DC. Luckily, on American we can fly to the Dulles Airport which is so much closer to our family there. We were dreading the flight since our last experience was awful. It started out about that awful. After Mariah kicked the seat in front of her many times (and I asked the lady to move to one of the other 50 empty seats on the flight and she spoke back in Mandarin and didn't move) and I was SO stressed trying to get her to sleep, she FINALLY fell asleep. Jackson freaked out because he didn't pack (and I didn't enable) his favorite blankie. He swore he would NEVER fall asleep on the whole trip just to show me how much he needed it. After a huge tantrum and moving to the back of the plane he changed his mind and decided a blue blanket was close enough and fell asleep in my arms. The last hour of the flight was GREAT! I even slept.

We love being at Rich and Ashleys house. They treat us so well and have such amazing food. Friday night was filled with disappointment and sadness as we watched BYU lose and lose their quaterback. So sad. We went to bed really late and got up early for Volleyball for the boys and a long run for the girls.

We made yummy food and listened to talks from our prophet and other leaders. It is always inspiring. The kids were pretty good. Jackson really looks forward to conference now that he earns $ to buy at the conference store and he likes to color and do other projects. He actually listens too!
We ate lunch and then headed out to apple pick at a nearby orchard. It was a neat experience. The kids were afraid to eat the apples right off the tree... because they didn't look like the store apples. I was glad we taught them how to do it. We were also glad to have grandma and grandpa around. They are serving a mission in the DC temple and we are luck enough to be able to visit them.

We had great food and the boys headed to the priesthood session in time for the moms to put the kids in baths and to bed. I was so tired! The boys came home with 7 Ben and Jerry's ice cream (so of course I had to try them all!)

And we think our kids are scared of dogs... Mariah even warmed up a bit!

We spent Sunday going for a walk and then watching more and more conference. The kids had a tougher time today, but still managed to let us listen to most of it.

We left for the airport as soon as the session was over. luckily, there was no one sitting in front of Mariah and she could kick without me getting stressed about it. She fell asleep within an hour and the kids all zonked out.

Jackson lost his first tooth waiting for the shuttle at the airport. He has been so excited talking about and wondering about when and where he would lose it. He was all smiles and excitement about losing it. I can't believe we are at that stage already!