Family home evening

We grabbed the camera during a couple of family home evenings this year. The kids absolutely love family home evening. Family home evening tends to put Doug to lettin' out lots of big yawns. But you will see below that we keep him involved so that he stays alert.

One trick is to assign him a major role. Last winter we had our very own Sukkoth. Behold Doug as King Bejamin:



And the people in their tents:

The next set shows Aidan's first time conducting. Sophia had the lesson (Sophia LOVES to have the lesson, and she does a very good job, and we just have to keep reminding her: short and sweet!)

Family home evening is play time extraordinaire for Lucy. She grabs one or two of her toys and settles down in the middle of the carpet for some crazy wild toy-squeaking. I guess you could say Lucy loves family home evening as much as the kiddos. Even Zazu, our new cat who we haven't yet mentioned on the blog, is quite a student of the scriptures.

Sophia also had the activity. We had promised her for some reason earlier in the week that she could teach us all a dance. SHORT AND SWEET, we said, and she stuck to it. Look at us dancing! Boogie, Doug, boogie! Then we threw in a second activity, which was to play a favorite family game, Quirkle.