Suzie and Ryan: Conference Weekend

Conference weekend was last week, but I never blogged about it and it was a pretty awesome weekend! It started with my friend Max (who recently got home from his mission) his brother Kyle and his mom Shawna coming up on Friday night to stay for the weekend! It was great seeing them all. They arrived around 11pm on Friday, and they spent the night at our place, as well as Bethany. It was our first time having a lot of people sleepover and use the guest room as well as both of our couches. It probably wasn't the most comfortable, but it worked out well!

Friday night!

Max and B :)

Saturday morning, Ryan went off to work and Bethany had some stuff to get done, so Max, Kyle, Shawna and I stayed home and watched the Saturday morning session of conference. It was pretty cool. First of all, Max, Kyle and Shawna are all converts.

We first met Max Sophomore year of high school and his conversion was a very different process than others. Surprisingly, Max started going to early morning Seminary before ever going to church! He would wake up and go with us at 6:30 in the morning to Seminary, who does that?! The incentive was that our Seminary class was going to be doing "Comedy Sportz Improv" stuff and that there would be doughnuts, so he came. The first day he came, we happened to not get to the Comedy Sportz stuff, so he kept coming that week and eventually he just kept coming. He did that for a year with us before we finally asked/encouraged him to come to church (I mean, at least church doesn't start at 6:30 in the morning!) After a little while he finally took the discussions and was baptized our Senior year of high school. It was a really great experience during the whole process. Anyways, Max decided to go on a mission and while he was on his mission, his Mom and his brother Kyle were both baptized and became members of the church! Max is such a great example!

So, for watching a Saturday morning session with Max, Kyle and his Mom was an extremely awesome experience! We watched the second session as well and then Max and Kyle headed to Salt Lake to go to the Priesthood session while all of us girls went to our 8th Semi-Annual Fondue Night! I didn't get a lot of pictures from Fondue Night but we had a lot of fun and ate a lot of good food!

Nancy with our version of a Fondue Cheeseburger! So good!

Me, Jacie and Bethany

On Sunday morning, Max, Kyle, Shawna and Bethany went to Salt Lake to see the Sunday morning session and headed back to California right after that session. It was a quick trip for them, but it was great seeing them all!

Another one of our Conference Weekend Traditions is to get together and have a big pot-luck breakfast and watch conference. This year was a much smaller group, but that helped us to be able to focus more on the conference talks, so it worked out great! We always have Lish's homemade Cinnamon Rolls and have other great breakfast treats! This year, Ryan made amazing omlettes for everyone with mushrooms, tomatoes and onions and we had a ton of bacon! It was a great weekend!