An FHE Committment and a Few Flashbacks

Doing a little FHE cheer.  Sort of.

We love Family Home Evening.  When we are on the ball we have it on Monday night and it consists of a gospel lesson, a fun activity, and a treat.  When were are not on the ball or when we have a "rain delay" (ex:  toddler meltdowns, an emergency, or too late of a start), we push it to Tuesday night.  That was the case this week.


Tonight we had a standard treat (cake made by me) and lesson (taught by J), but the highlight of of the ten-minute time span was the "Get Goliath" game that D led.  To play the game D would ask the kids a question related to the lesson (but you could ask them anything) and if they got it right they would get one large marshmallow to sling at him, trying to hit him on the head of course.  Our children were squealing, jumping, laughing.  That one is a crowd pleaser for sure.


This blog is a family-history-in-the-making, so it makes sense I should post more about this anticipated event in our home.  I'm going to post about our FHE successes and I'll include the bloopers, too.  Tonight I kick it off with a flashback of a few FHEs over the past year.  

Last year right after Christmas D taught a lesson on gratitude and then we staged photos of our family enjoying our gifts to send to the gift givers. 

Lest you think it went perfectly, here's evidence of the monkey-jumping that ensued.

In February for one activity we drew sketches of D's banjo.  J was very serious about the task.   He is a budding artist.

 D couldn't take the assignment too seriously.

In August the monthly message from the prophets of our church was about Temples.  We used the child-friendly suggestions for the lesson and I taught the principles of the lesson while everyone colored the handout.  Everyone was remarkably quiet--E was focused on peeling the paper off the crayons, A had discovered a pink marker, and J was speeding through the task so that he could have a treat.

And then he begged me to take silly pictures.

Tell me what you do.  Come here on Mondays (or Tuesdays) and tell me what you did.  Or post on your blog about your highlights or even just an image of your FHE and include a link in the comment section.  I love re-using other families' ideas.