Family Home Evening Craziness

A fun game like musical chairs...except no chairs. Play music and pass a beanbag around until the music stops. The person that touched the bean bag last has to pick out of a large bag of clothing and accessories. And what do you get when you play this....

Daniel Playing in the Snow...in the house!

Many years ago when I was still working and Grandma Nona watched the kids, she had some great fun ideas for the kids to do during the day while I was gone. This one has to be her all time best idea. So good that I use it whenever I can. If you don't want to go outside in the cold, just bring the snow to them and have fun building whatever you want in the snow. They will spend hours doing this until their fingers are too numb.

Piano Playing Kids

Daniel is taking piano lessons(from his mom) and Allison is teaching herself. Here are some cute pictures of them.

Matt & Ben's Fishing Trip

Matt and Ben went fishing with 2 of our friends. They spent all Saturday(from 5am to 11:45pm) fishing on a boat on Pend Oreille River. Here are the photos that are worth a thousand words.

Trip to Salt Lake Temple Square

The Dinosaur Museum

Daniel loves dinosaurs. He knows the names of many of them. But his all time favorite is Brachiosaurus. So when our family decided to take a trip to Utah this summer, we decided to take Daniel to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur Museum. He was so excited to be there and spent lots of time trying to find Brachiosaurus. Then finally he turned a corner and there was Brachiosaurus. It was huge and Daniel was so happy and excited. He wanted to take a picture of him and the leg bones of the brachiosaurusdinosaur. We went with Michele (Ben's sister) and her 2 youngest boys. We had a lot of fun.

Daniel at the foot of Brachiosaurus

Tate, Trace, Allison, and Daniel

Allison, Trace, Katelynn, Daniel, Tate, and Matt

Allie in the Wax Museum

Allie's 4th grade class puts on a wax museum every spring. The kids choose a person in history and reads a book about them. They have to write a report, write a speech as if they were the person and talk about their life, make a poster with pictures and a timeline of their life, and then to top it off they have a wax museum. Each child dresses up as their person, makes a homemade button and displays their poster. Then the other children in their school and parents are invited to walk through this Wax museum. The children stand still until someone pushes their button and then the person comes to life and they recite their speech.

Allie chose a girl named Sadako Sasaki. She enjoyed learning why this young girl was so famous. And what 1,000 papers cranes had to do with her life. Allie learned how to make paper cranes just like Sadako did and she didn't quite fold 1,000 of them, but she did make quite a bit and got pretty good at it. I tried to get a picture of Allie when she was standing still as a wax statue, but everytime I turned around, someone had pushed her button. She did a great job and I think this was one of her favorite projects. If you want to know more about Sadako, you will just have to look her up and find out.

Thanks to her Utah relatives, we were able to find a cute Japanese dress to wear.