Women's Broadcast - Fall 2015

The Women's Broadcasts are always great - I can hardly remember not having them - so glad we do have them.  I especially love how the women in our family feel so connected by them.  We discuss them often - text threads, email threads, photo-sharing - sometimes we are lucky enough to enjoy them together!!  Like I did last night with Dawn and Eve.  And then Dad came down from the stand and joined us - a veritable treat!!

 

Phoebe shared the fun of sharing the broadcast with Agnes for the first time.  Oh the joy of a daughter!

 

And Ara was able to go to the Conference Center - with some good friends and some pretty good seats!!  I recall going to General Conference for the first time when I was a freshman at BYU.  I didn't realize or appreciate it at the time, but at the session that I attended, Thomas S. Monson was sustained as the newest apostle!

We loved hearing from Linda Reeves - beloved former member of Arcadia Stake.  Mormons are so good at connections, aren't they??

I loved the closing choir number.  The worldwide audience sang along while the choir sang an accompaniment - I felt like I was singing with the choir. For a non-singer like myself - who loves to sing anyway - it was a real treat.

Let's hear it for the general auxiliary presidencies who put it all together!!

(And on a male note, I always love President Uchtdorf - who did not disappoint!)

Birthday Celebrations in the morning/Women's Broadcast in the evening

Dad worked at the temple, but Noah and I went to Jenny and Allen's house to be part of the Dequer Family Birthday Celebration for Wayne and Christian, Van and Wendy's son, who turned 12. Wayne didn't mention what age he was turning - but Jenny gave him an iPod that you can use while swimming! (We gave him a Jerry Garcia tie!!)

It was a Birthday Breakfast - better than IHOP too!! Maybe this can be a new trend!! Lots of good breakfast food - and lots of good company!

Here are Van and Wendy with their kids. They live in Lancaster and had come down Friday night. Allen and Jenny bought a house in Sierra Madre, so there was lots of room - and a big new dining room table - and a new billiard table to break in !!

This is obviously Wayne with Noah and Scott - it was fun to see Scott again - sounds like he's some sort of favorite uncle!!

And me with the Dequer Women!! I have always loved all the Dequers, but I especially enjoy maintaining a relationship with Dawn, Wendy and Jenny - in spite of years and distance.

Speaking of years and distance, we had our now traditional dinner before the Women's Broadcast - prepared, served and cleaned up by the Stake Presidency and High Council!!

And Melissa and Mary Grace came - Helen did too, but I didn't get a shot of her - I thought this group photo would make some of you smile!! All those long-ago Young Women are now some great Relief Society sisters!!

The busy brethren in the kitchen. John H. is moving - to Yosemite - so we are now scrambling for a replacement!! He has been the key player in getting these meals to happen - the hunt starts now!

The broadcast was great - I'm thinking that the new buzzword among the women of the church just might be "Mind the gap!" If you didn't hear the broadcast, go to LDS.org and you can view the meeting.

But "Mind the gap" will be quoted often I am sure - and for good reason.

Maybe we'll meet at some Relief Society meetings one of these days!!! (speaking of "meeting" - got several emails from the new Stake Relief Society President in Phoebe's stake - we shared notes - and I sent her a photo of Phoebe so she could pick her out of the crowd - and we all know Phoebe is a real stand out - so that should be easy enough. Phoebe really manages to "connect" with everyone!! It's a gift.)

Note: Eliza successfully completed the Ragnar Relay she ran in this weekend - we will look forward to a report from her soon - maybe I will wake up to one even! (She usually wakes up before we do!!)

And of course, we will be interested in the new ward configurations that will be taking place in her stake this Sunday too.

The news never stops around here!