Conference Time

We just finished watching General Conference, so we're all feeling a spiritual uplift. The whole family watched together. Stephanie spent the time being held, crawling around on the floor or standing up holding onto the furniture. We think she will walk soon. Jackie had found a conference packet for kids on the Internet. The packet included some coloring pages with the different General Authorities and a picture of a necktie next to each one. Whenever another speaker got up, Nathan would find the matching picture and color the necktie to match the one that the speaker was wearing. Between the conference sessions we went for a walk on a paved trail near our home. The weather is warm and everything is beautiful and green here. We are really enjoying living in California, and Dave loves working for Google in Irvine, on their TV Ads software team. Google is a fun place to work. They have great benefits, including free breakfast and lunch. We are getting settled in our new home in Mission Viejo. When we first moved here, Google put us in temporary housing in an apartment complex in Irvine for two months. Unfortunately, we needed an extra month to close on our house, but we couldn't extend the lease for the temporary housing. However, one of Dave's co-workers told him that you can get good deals renting off season beach houses in Newport Beach by the month. So that is what we did. We found a house on the Balboa Peninsula. It was wonderful living steps from the beach, and it actually cost us less than the temporary housing would have.

We also bought annual passes to Disneyland, which is only about a half hour drive from our home when there is no traffic. We love being able to go there, and Nathan's favorite rides are the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Splash Mountain.