Helen made a Battenberg cake for family night treat this week. Battenberg cake is a traditional British teatime treat with a distinctive checkerboard pattern of pink and yellow cake.
Helen made herself this sheet of instructions. Her cake turned out great!
Becky finished reading The Lord of the Rings to Helen and Gibson this week. The trilogy is over 1000 pages long and took us over a year to read. We love the brave, sturdy hobbits. Brandan is reading their next bedtime story: The Count of Monte Cristo.
Brandan's Australian cousin, Cynthia, passed away this summer. She was an ardent genealogist and traveled Australia and the United States to research her family. Her stepchildren shipped Brandan some of her notebooks after her death. Cynthia tried a couple of times to put her research online, but technology moved faster than she did and the changing family history platforms frustrated her. Brandan will now digitize these records to make them available to other researchers. Two boxes arrived on Monday and one more came on Friday. These battered boxes contain a treasure!
Another conference weekend flew by! We enjoyed being at home and focusing on the words of the prophets. Gibson and Abe are working on a puzzle while they listen in this photo. Brandan is watching on the couch with a man named Jakob from our ward.
Helen took notes in her highly decorative style.
We finished the puzzle shortly after conference ended. This was a rich, dense conference and many talks deserve more time to digest. Here are some of our favorites: Brandan liked Elder Koch's talk on unity, Becky liked Elder Holland and Elder Zwick, Abe liked President Callister's talk on the Book of Mormon, Helen liked Sister Oscarson's talk on service and Gibson liked Elder Stevenson's talk on spiritual eclipses.
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I read Lord of the Rings to Adele when she was 7. We finished when she was 8. It also took us a year to read!
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