FHE: 6th Article of Faith

I reminded them of what the articles of faith are, and then we watched this video and talked about it.  The kids wanted to watch it again while we ate treats :)

FHE: Marriage & Family

The vision was to take a picnic dinner to the temple and talk about the importance of temple marriage.  The reality was pizza on a blanket with the kids running back and forth to take bites and look at the fountain while we tried to sneak in quick questions about the temple.  After the food was gone, we cleaned up and took a walk around the temple, smelling the flowers, and trying out all the drinking fountains.

Despite it not being my vision, it was actually really fun and my almost 5-year-old son, afterward, asked if we could eat at the temple every week! We probably won't, but we will for sure do it again. :)

FHE: George Albert Smith

We used the back cover of the August friend for our topic this week.  It was super rushed because Jay took the kids mini golfing and got back late, causing late dinner AND I was taking dinner to a family, which also cut into FHE time...  Note to self, maybe don't choose Mondays for that in the future? 

The kids were pretty hyper and not very attentive.  We didn't do any fun activity or treat, just read some quick tidbits...  I also sang the Latter-Day Prophet song and showed a picture of each of the past ones (from the Friend back covers...) as I sang it.  It felt like nothing got through, but after I sang that song, my son asked me, "Mom, which one was the one who wrote in his journal all the time?"  Maybe he does listen sometimes?

Here's a link to more info about George Albert Smith.

No FHE...

We had a family over for dinner- a new family in my husband's department, so we didn't have a formal lesson....