General Conference Snack Mix

I was in charge of a Young Women activity tonight.  Matt had the great idea that I should focus on the General Conference that is being broadcast this Saturday and Sunday.  (Here is a link where you can watch the broadcast.  http://www.lds.org/ )


As part of the activity, I decided to have the girls make a snack mix to munch on while watching General Conference.   My helpful children and I came up with a way to link each of the 12 Apostles and the 1st Presidency members to the various ingredients.  I was going  to write it into a spectacularly clever poem, but my brain just couldn't do it. 

Anyway, tonight, as the girls put each ingredient into a ziplock bag, I told them how it could help them remember the name of that general authority.  They were good about going along with my quirky mnemonic aids, and even revised some of my ideas into much better ones.  So, here is the "recipe" in case you want to use it.  I admit that some of them were a pretty big stretch, and some are outright lame.  But I think we did pretty good for a last minute, off the top of our heads composition.

General Conference Snack Mix
Monson -- one jaw breaker (about 1 1/2 inch diameter). (He is solid and strong, and there is only one president of the church.)

Uchdorf -- pretzels (Lots of people think pretzles are German food and Uchdorf is from Germany)

Eyring -- lemon drops (the oval candies look like eyes  -- EYEring)

Packer -- peanuts (think about "packing" peanuts)

Perry -- popcorn (alliteration)

Nelson -- M&M’s (Russel M) (I pointed out the similarity in the names of both Nelson and Ballard, and how both had an M, so I used 2 scoops of M&M's -- one for Nelson and one forBallard)

Oaks – Corn nuts (Oak trees have acorns which are nuts -- hence the corn NUTS could help them make a connection. (This one was pretty weak -- I know.  Maybe you could find something better.))

Ballard -- M&M’s (M Russel, see above comments)

Scott -- Skittles (alliteration)

Hales – Gold Fish crackers (Hales sounds like whales and the fish look like little whales.)

Holland – Candy Corn (When he was president of BYU when I was there, sometimes he said funny things.  So I told the girls he could be "corny".  But one girl said "You eat candy corns at 'Holloween' which is like Holland."  I liked that too.  Pick your favorite option.)

Bednar – Checks cereal.  (Some people eat cereal before going to BED, or in the morning after getting out of BED.  Then someone else said the cereal squares looked like little pillows that go on your BED.)

Cook -- cookie crisp cereal  (Cook-cookie, get it?)

Christofferson -- marshmellows (the longest names of both the people and the ingredients.  (Hey -- I was desperate!) )

Anderson -- almonds (more alliteration)

OK so that is it.  I hope you are not rolling your eye-balls at my wierd ideas.  Leave me a comment and tell me which ones you liked the best, or if you thought of anything better! 
 
Enjoy the Conference!   http://www.lds.org/
Deanne

Is Our Family Normal? Part 1

It has been a great concern to my youngest child lately, to know if our family is "normal."  He frequently evaluates something we do, and asks, "Do normal families ..."  I'm not quite sure how to answer that question.  

I decided to document some of the things that we do, or that happen at our house.  Maybe you can help us decide if we are normal. 

This happened while I was out of town.  I am not responsible for the condition of the bathroom that you see in the background.  As for the face on the potty --that would be Kaylee's creation.  A bit unnerving to sit on if you ask me...