FHE - My Family Booklet

Last week when K and I were running errands, I went by Deseret Book and picked up 10 copies of a little booklet called "My Family". I wanted to continue with some Family History, even though we did a little family history last week. I had already wanted to do this before that one, so I decided to just keep to the plan. Today I cropped, copied and pasted photos in paint, then sent them to print at Walgreens. I did enough for each kid to have some small pictures of Corey and I and their grandparents and themselves...

I thought Peter would like it if we did one for Wes. I also printed up a pedigree in a fan chart for each kid.

And with that we were ready to go. First we had an activity by Mel. Before I went to Walgreens to pick up the photos, I also went by Walmart, where I picked up two liters of Diet Coke and and a thing of Mentos, per Melodie's request. She wanted to do rockets with the kids. They were not able to do a repeat of their 2020 success (2nd video). These were both duds. I think they were too afraid to shake it up so one time Abi did it, but the lid wasn't on and it just sprayed out. Abi was able to throw it ho. On the second one, a mento fell in early so then they panicked and it tipped over and just made a mess. I guess we need some adult boys like last time - we needed Wes to do the scary part of shaking and throwing. Or it was because we were all freezing and our hands weren't working. It was 17 degrees outside! 

Mel spent the day with us after coming up yesterday with Christian. He came by to pick her up so he was throwing the football with Owen while the girls tried to do the coke rockets. 

Catching a football in that freezing air looked like it hurt. He also saw our little FHE craft. I gave Mel her stack of photos and papers and then she and Christian headed out. 

The kids kept working on their booklets. I was glad that they seemed to be very excited about filling in all the blanks. Maybe a little too excited, cause they didn't seem to like it when I said to just leave that one blank. For instance, Owen asked Corey "Dad, what is your death date?" Corey dryly replied "I haven't died yet..." haha. Hopefully the Spirit of Elijah will help our family out and they'll think doing family history is fun. Lily with a tape mustache.

So that was a success, Corey said I got an A+. We've assigned each of us a week to do FHE, and tonight was my turn. Lily's plan last week was to go sledding, but the snow at Flat Iron had melted, so that was a bummer and then we did Geneapordy instead. Family History is a good thing and I'd like for us to all do it. The kids worked on their booklets quite a bit this evening after we were "done" with FHE. I warned them that they could never sleep for the rest of their life and just work on family history and STILL never finish it. It's a never ending project. So just do a little bit each day or even if it's just a Sunday thing, that's fine, and then call it good even when you see there is more to do. It's a little bit like how I've been cleaning the grout, which I finished cleaning on the main floor tonight (well almost, except for under the table). I have been scrubbing and scrubbing the floor with magic erasers for the past week. I've been doing one eraser a day, until it's pulverized, and then I call it good for the day. Can you see the difference? WOW!

I've been working hard like Cinderella and singing "Sweet Nightingale" as I work, haha. It looks so nice now - even the kids notice how much better it looks and are able to appreciate it. I'm going to start on the bathroom grout tomorrow.