Stake Conference Broadcast

Today was our stake conference, only instead of trekking out to the stake center we were able to watch it at our building.  This is good and bad.  Good because it saved us a 20 minute drive.  Bad because we were stuck in a dimly-lit chapel with our children for two hours.

Cole behaved himself for the first 15 minutes because there was a rather large countdown display on the screen.  That boys loves countdowns and cheers every time a timer goes off around here.

Only they turned off the display before the countdown was finished, which ticked him off.

Then we wouldn't let him beat up his sister and run around like a crazy lunatic.  This ticked him off more.

The final straw was when they turned down the lights so we could actually see the broadcast.  It was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back.

"TURN THEM ON!!! TURN THEM BACK ON NOW!" Cole shouted.  For the ENTIRE congregation to hear.  (As in laughter from our friends.  Silver lining: anyone who knows Cole was not surprised by this at all, nor offended.  In fact, we were later thanked for the free entertainment.)

Tess decided this would be a good time to emulate her older brother, only her version was slightly softer and not quite as understandable. "Twurn on light!"  Where light?!"

It took us several minutes to calm each child down.  And then we dug in for the next 2 hours of torture fun.  Tess and Cole were both taken out a couple of times each because they were just SO NAUGHTY.  By the end of the meeting I was annoyed, frustrated, and completely worn out.  I had heard approximately 25% of the entire thing.

I love church.  I love stake conference.  I love my kids.

But combined?  Not so much.