Conference waffles

This really is such a simple family tradition, yet it is something we all look forward to.  Every Oct. and Apr. it is time to watch general conference.  We wake up, and together as a family make homemade Belgian waffles with strawberries and whipped cream.  We work together but no one is talking, we are all listening to the speakers and we go about our work of preparing the meal.  Quietly helping each other and all of us in the kitchen together.  I love it.  It brings a certain reverence in.
It is so fun to watch how the kids are able and eager to help more and more with the cooking.  This year the girls (with mom's supervision) made the batter for the waffles.  They even cracked the eggs!

A favorite job to get assigned is to get to wash and slice the strawberries.  This conference Emma got to use her "baby knife" and help cut as well.  I was so proud of my girls watching them.

Avery helped guide and direct her and I don't think I have ever seen a three year old cut strawberries that well.  By themselves without any help from Deke or I, Ave and Em sliced the entire three cartons of berries.

Hunter watched the waffles and checked them on cooking time while dad did the sausage links and mom supervised all the "going ons" of the meal.  Hudson very willingly sat in his high chair and enjoyed his first strawberry waffle breakfast.  I think it is safe to say that he is a fan....

At first he wasn't sure but after a bite or two he just started grinning and saying "mmmmmmm" and then shoving more in his mouth.  When we put a little whipped cream on his tray he was super excited and once he realized how yummy it was, he devoured it all.

Then after the tower of waffles had been piled high and all the toppings were done, we sat down and ate together and listened to the talks.  Hunter giving a content grin at us from across the table, Avery adding on more whipped cream, Emma's strawberry/cream mustache growing larger by the minute as Hudson continued to double fist his.  Getting to be both physically and spiritually fed :) :)