FHE

Ashton taught our FHE a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful lesson on the Armor of God. He used an orange, it would float with the peel on and sink in the water when the peel was off. Sierra helped him. Felt the spirit, loved every minute.

FHE in December

Today was our first day of Winter Break! I LOVE having my kids home! This morning my brother came over and babysat my kids so Brenna, mom and I could go do kickboxing, so fun!!! Sophi brought her kids over too cause she had to go work in Lincoln's classroom. Sierra got to babysit Lucy while Uncle Norris played Super Mario Bros with Ashton and Rocky. :) Then, we I cleaned bathrooms, SO necessary! A clean house=happy mommy! This evening we took Ashton to Karate and then home for a quick dinner, called leftovers. Then off to basketball practice. In the car we had FHE. Sierra wanted everyone to talk about Christmas for 2 minutes. We all shared great thoughts on Jesus! When we got home we all had hot cocoa with marshmellows, whipped cream and a candy cane, YUM!

While we enjoyed our hot cocoa I read a story from our notebook of daily Christmas stories. Afterwards we did our Jesus picture. Then off to bed! A great first day!

"Grateful that we can be together!"

Tonight Ashton said the family prayer and said, "we are grateful that we can be together!" We had such a great day together. Didn't do anything super exciting but it was still great!
Ran with my mom this morning and she told me this story..."When you were gone at Girl's Camp I just had Ashton at my house and we were going to make cookies. I asked Ashton if he would mind running down to your house to get 2 eggs. I thought to myself Oh, Vanessa would die if she knew I was sending Ashton down to get eggs! Anyways, Ashton came back a few minutes later and said, "Grammy, I couldn't find eggs but I brought back some cookies." And he had with him a bag of cookies that were in your freezer."
What a problem solver! I love that story! :)
We had the privilege of swimming with the Patterson kids today too! Jet is in town with her kids cause Dylan got married last weekend. So fun!
We got In N Out for dinner and for FHE we played Uno, 1 game in the house and then 1 outside on our patio table. We jumped on the trampoline with our whole family, daddy too! :) Layed on the trampoline and made a wish on the first star. Then we ate cookies and milk.
Love days like this!

FHE

It was Ashton's turn to teach the lesson and he made an activity for us to do together...

that is a picture of Jesus in the middle and on each of the squares to the left is a good thing and we needed to put our orange square, that had Jesus' face drawn on it, on top of our favorite thing. For example; the temple, paying tithing, CTR, being reverent, helping others, etc. and at the end of the activity I asked him if he wanted to say anything and he said "I know my Savior lives!"

The Temple is a House of God...

Tonight was the Primary trip to the temple and we didn't make it...Ashton taught us our lesson tonight and it was perfect. It was his first time teaching. He wanted to talk about temples and show pictures of temples (his choice, no influence of mine).
He drew a picture of Jesus teaching the people for his lesson too...

and he made a game, we had to get the black paper dice he made on the top rectangle by shaking it in our hands and then dropping it. Ashton and Daddy's team won. :)

Family Time...

Tonight for FHE we weeded the garden and daddy hedged the crazy bushes. Ashton said, "wow, I'm so healthy tonight! I ate all of my vegetables and now I'm using my muscles!" YAY! Garden looks much better and we are all healthier!

FHE Variety Show

Let me start by telling you the background...Our school had a variety show and the girls were feeling like they wanted to perform but not necessarily for the whole school. So we gave a suggestion of having a family variety show. So, our family and the G family got together for FHE and had our own variety show.
The girls had a lateover last Friday and put together this program. They planned the whole thing, even did their own choreography.

Yep, we even had to get them matching outfits!

Welcoming us...

"Let's Get Together"Eliza's sweet little tap # with her very own background dancers :)
"Lollipop Tree"

"DJ"Daddy Daughter Dance
After a whole evening of trying Ashton finally started dancing for the last #.

A great show! A long show, about 1 1/2 hours. :) Loved watching the kids perform the whole time. They were in their element, enjoying, having the time of their life! :) We went for Tutti Frutti afterwards. Special thanks to Papa for coming and supporting Sierra.