Year: 2009

Treasure Hunt

Our ward had what they called a ‘Treasure Hunt’ today where people from the ward could bring anything they wanted to declutter. Instead of taking it to DI they could just bring it to the church building and let others from our ward to pick through it for anything they might want or need. So I loaded up the back of the mini-van with 4 boxes a large bucket full of stuff and two more bags of stuff to take and to donate. I am SO excited to get that stuff out of our house. 😀 We have SO much stuff and we don’t even know what a lot of it is, so getting rid of a bunch of stuff that we have identified as stuff we don’t need, feels really good. And no we did not bring home more than we took. 😉 Ethan found a toy cell phone he wanted and Tyra found a care bear and a pair of snow boots that are hopefully big enough that she can grow into them and wear them next winter. Jeremy found a valentine Scooby doo that sings a song and a pair of shoes to grow into as well. And I found a costume that should be Dinah’s size come next halloween and an AWESOME kids book that I remember reading when I was a kid, “Henry’s Awful Mistake”. I am so excited about that and the kids have already asked me to read it to them many times. I just feel so good to have been able to help other people out with the stuff I don’t need, and they have announced that they are going to have another ‘Treasure Hunt’ in May. 😀 So it’s time to gather more stuff up to get rid of then……

Blueberries

I planted a couple blueberry bushes today. I am so excited to have berry bushes in our yard. I just hope these ones don’t die like the other ones we have planted in the past. But I dug up the soil, and mixed in a lot of peat moss, and some fertilizer and some sulfur (since blueberries like a more acidic soil than we have here). I would have taken a picture to post, but honestly a couple of twig bushes sticking out of the ground wouldn’t have been a very exciting picture, not to mention that it wouldn’t have turned out well since the branches of the twig bushes are pretty close to the same color as the dirt (so they wouldn’t have been very visible in a picture anyway 😉 ).

FHE # 10

Work FHE Manual pg 231-232

Opening song: Children’s Songbook pg 198 “When We’re Helping”

Opening prayer: Jeremy

Scripture: Proverbs 14:23 “In all labor, there is profit”

Lesson: Discuss with the kids the meaning of labor and profit. Discuss what each member of the family’s different jobs are, pointing out that everyone’s jobs are different and therefore all are important, and that it’s important that everyone does their jobs.

We discussed some of the different things that would happen if each person didn’t do their jobs (ex: if Daddy didn’t go to work every day, we wouldn’t have a house, food, clothes, cars, toys…..) We talked about how it is not physically possible for Mommy to do everything, and that everyone must do their part.

“Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that the power to work is a blessing, and that love of work is success” President David O McKay

We discussed with the kids what this quote means, that it’s a blessing to be able to work, and that not everyone has a body that is capable of working. So to have a healthy and strong body that is capable of using to work is truly something special and a real blessing.

Closing song: Hymn 223 “Have I done any Good?”

Closing prayer: Tyra

FHE Treat: Cream puffs

FHE #9

Studying Scriptures Together FHE Manual Lesson 4 (pg 17-19)

Opening Song: Hymn 13 “An Angel From on High”

Opening Prayer: Tyra

Scripture: 2 Nephi 4:15 “…my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children.”

Lesson:Show each of the standard works, naming each of them and describing a bit of what they contain:

  • Old Testament: The creation, Adam & Eve, Noah and the flood, David & Goliath….
  • New Testament: Christ’s birth, life, death and resurrection….
  • Book of Mormon: Journey of Lehi’s family to the promised land, Christ visiting the inhabitants of the american continent, Moroni & the title of liberty…..
  • Doctrine & Covenants: Revelations received by latter-day prophets…..
  • Pearl of Great Price: Premortal existence, Articles of Faith….

Discuss as a family that reading the scriptures helps us learn to choose the right, and discuss how to begin studying the scriptures together.

  • Time-Before Daddy leaves for work in the morning
  • Place-Mommy & Daddy’s bedroom
  • Book-Old Testament Stories

(So we’ll see how this new habit of reading our scriptures as a family early in the morning goes……)

Closing Song: “Tell me the Stories of Jesus”

Closing Prayer: Jeremy

FHE Treat: Oreo cakesters