On November 9th our ward had their annual Primary program. Mason, Cooper, and Shiloh all participated this year and had a small speaking part. Mason decided this would be a good day to have his tie tied in a trinity knot and Cooper wore his studly pink bow tie.
That same night, we had Family Home Evening. For those of you who may not know what Family Home Evening is, it is a night we set aside to be together as a family. We have a lesson, an activity, a treat, opening and closing prayers, and sing a few songs. Our lessons can vary depending on what we feel our family needs to learn. Sometimes we have lessons on being respectful, responsible, kind, loving, following Jesus, keeping the commandments, etc. This week, our lesson was on Choosing the Right by obeying our parents. Our activity was to color this sheet below and tell one way we were going to obey our parents during the next week. Our kids really go into coloring these papers. I love having time set aside to be together as a family and I know this nights help to build our family unity.
Shiloh had been asking to go see the temple since we came back from the Odgen Utah temple open house in August. So, Friday, November 14 we took a trip out to the temple here in Spokane. It was a really cold night, but we had fun walking around the temple, taking pictures. The best part was seeing how excited Shiloh was that we were doing what SHE wanted to do. It warms my heart to know that the one thing she wanted to do most was to go she the Lord's house, even though she is not old enough to go in.
Shiloh had a Thanksgiving feast at preschool and made cute little hats out of her hand prints.
The other day, Kinley was not happy about something. Don't really know what. I tried to comfort her, snuggle her, etc. Then she said, "I want yo' gasses (glasses), mom". So as a desperate attempt to calm her down, I gave them to her. As soon as I did, she calmed down, put them on, and watched tv with them on for several minutes. Silly girl!
Last night, we were blessed to go to on of our former young men, Shane Lee's wedding reception. He married our sister-in-law Michelle's little sister Heather. Crazy small world. Shiloh really wanted to dance with her daddy, so he did what any good daddy would do.
Jeff got a new firefighting helmet, so he HAD to bring it home for everyone to try on. Dang, that thing is HEAVY!
