Family Home Evening

Last night for FHE along with celebrating Nina's birthday, we had our last "about me" presentation. This has been a really fun addition to each weeks lesson. I've decided I'm going to type up a new page of questions and start over again. It's been really good to get to know each other better.

We had our lesson on family goals. We went around and around asking everyone what one thing is they'd like to do as a family this summer. Some of the random answers were: eat chicken cordon bleu, have brunch with relatives, go to an arcade, have a themed dinner, play Skip-bo, eat root beer floats, make treats for friends, play at the park... It was funny to hear some of the things. We also talk about what we need to do to accomplish all of these things, like keep the house clean, not fight with each other and stuff like that. It's my goal to help them accomplish as many of these family goals as possible.

Of course our biggest family goal right now is to have Ken find a job here in our area. The kids fasted for the first time with us. I was so proud of them. They have such sweet spirits.

Nina's Birthday

Nina's actual birthday isn't until the 23rd, but since she'll be at her dad's, I wanted to surprise her. We had family home evening last night, for the refreshments Caleb and I made a cake. It was a last minute thing and since it was Sunday, we had to make do with what we had. Her favorite colors are blue and green, so we made green frosting and used blue sugar to decorate. I had these random flamingo picks (Caleb called them ostriches...lol) and one birthday candle. We hid the cake in Caleb's room along with her presents and then Surprise!!! It was awesome to see the look on her face.

Where Are All the Good Parents?

Not at my work activity tonight, that's for sure. I've never seen so many unsupervised children. I've never seen so many lazy people that think going to an activity every Monday night where they can socialize with their friends and let their kids run wild is considered Family Home Evening. What kind of example are you teaching your children? What kind of spiritual upliftment does your family get from this? I just need to vent... Kids were running wild, making messes, doing whatever they want and the parents just sit on their butts and chit-chat. Not just bigger kids, 2 and 3 year olds were running crazy, dumping paints all over, getting in other kids ways, and the parents don't even seem to notice. Huge families with 6, 7 or 8 kids and no parental supervision. There are a few certain families that do this every week, but tonight it seemed to be the majority. By the end of the night I wanted to scream at every family I saw.

So... anyways... I'm not usually a mean person, and I'm usually very patient :)

Is it bedtime yet? It's been a long day.

adventures in wonderland

We had a fun activity today. There wasn't much turn-out, but it was our first one and I guess Orem and Springville were having their big celebrations/carnivals. Hopefully as we get going along we get better crowds. The kids that came had a lot of fun. The Queen of Hearts was quite scary though. I couldn't get kids to even come and play "The Queen of Hearts Says" with me... lol. Nina the March Hare scared a couple of kids herself. Caleb had a blast doing all of the activities. What a fun job I have!!! I'm very blessed to have two jobs that I really enjoy. It's like throwing two birthday parties every week! Alyssa was home sick (as always). Poor kid; I half feel sorry for her, half want to beat her. She spents most of her time not feeling well. I'm just gonna have to start dragging her there sick or not.

Dementors

I think the Harry Potter event tonight went fantastically. For someone who has not watched or read a Harry Potter, I think I did a great job planning it. I'm pretty proud of myself. I know... toot toot... quit blowing my own horn. The dementor capes I made were a hit in the Defense Against the Dark Arts freeze tag game. I whipped them together in about an hour, and they came out pretty awesome.

The only bad part of the night was my kids didn't come. It's a long story, that makes me really grouchy just thinking about it. I'm so sad, they had been so excited because they had seen me plan everything and helped me with ideas. Oh well. Not anything I can do about it. There will be many more events they can come to.