Family Photos

Thank you to Shelly Markham Petty for capturing these for us!

Establishing a House of God: Fasting

As I was searching for a FHE lesson on the internet I came across a Primary Sharing time on the topic.  And it just so happens that they used the scripture D & C 88:119 to lay the foundation.  It had me very intrigued.  The lesson was pretty cute too.

you can download all the houses in one pdf, here.

 I started by having them put the houses that were already built in order.  That helped them to figure out what house was missing.  We also discussed our family rules for fasting.  For those that want to know, at age 8 we ask the kids to fast one meal.  At age 12 we will want them to fast 2 meals.  For those that aren't baptized yet, they have the option of practicing, maybe skipping a snack.

Establishing a House of God : Prayer

I kept this one pretty simple.  I used some of the lesson from here about Heavenly Father answering prayers (mainly I used the first story) and added some activities from here to help us figure out out how to make our prayers more meaningful by pondering and listening.

We talked a lot about what it means to ponder and how to ponder.  Kiah helped me to demonstrate a one sided conversation to drive home the point of the need to listen.

At the end I had the kids start a very simple prayer journal.  I wanted them to write down things that they were thankful for and things that they maybe wanted to ask for as well.  I was really impressed with what they came up with.

We did make a little prayer tracker using beads and a ribbon.  It is for our family prayers. Pretty simple, 14 beads on a  ribbon.  We slide the beads from one side to the other after a prayer is said.

Kiah picked the songs, and I thought she did a great job. She picked "Child's Prayer" and "I pray in faith"

Halloween 2014

Red Ribbon Week

Mustache you to stay drug free

Be smart and stay drug free

Be Super and stay drug free.

Eli got to wear his PJs that day for another activity.  Luckily, we have superhero PJs. 

I didn't get a picture of the kids in their Hawaiian outfits to "lei of drugs" But they were really cute.