Heart Attack!!!

Okay, I am going to start my "Direction" today. I am fairly confident that the people this entry will effect don't read this blog so I'm safe that I'm not spoiling anything.

I am the mother of 3 little boys and I am BOUND AND DETERMINED that my boys will be sensitive and loving. I try SO HARD to impress on them the importance of thinking of other people. Well, starting next week we are going to make another effort in this on going battle. We are going to "Heart Attack" their grandparents. (For those that don't know what a heart attack is - it is a group of people that take decorations to somebody's house and secretly decorate their front door in hearts and valentine's related items.) I found some really great ideas too... We are going to make "stain glass hearts." (Let's try this picture thing again.






We are also going to do Heart door mat...
And, we are going to make some hearts with things we love about them and tape them to the door. I think our parents will really like it.
We will be doing each of these activities for the next few weeks for family night then on the family night before Valentine's day (which is also Mom's B-Day) we will take all the stuff over there and secretly decorate their door.

I'll take pictures of the final product.

By the way... all the projects above can be found at the following link: http://www.skiptomylou.org

Book of Mormon FHE

I love FHE I can't even tell you how much I love FHE. It's so exciting to teach my kids something and then they mention something from the lesson about a week later. It is so much more satisfying than teaching primary (which I also love, just not quite as much as FHE) . A few months ago I felt very strongly that we needed to have FHE on the Book of Mormon stories. Things didn't work out so that we were able to start doing it right away because it was Thanksgiving then Christmas so we had special FHE's for those but now that it's boring old January we are trying again! OH MY GOSH!!!! My kids are so stinkin cute!!!! I really don't know how I lived without them, it's like they have always been there... even before they were here and part of my life. (I have some pictures I meant to post today but I can't today. I'll try really hard to remember tomorrow!) Anyway, we did some role play. Noah was Nephi (he was a little grump and didn't want to be the guys that complain... aka Laman and/or Lemuel) Jaden and Jack (Jack just played with the Christmas ornaments we haven't put away yet) were Laman and Lemuel respectively and Mike was Lehi and Laban while I was the narrator, Zoram, and the angel. Noah has this turkey baster that he runs around with all the time and he calls it his sword so that was Laban's sword. It was so fun to see my kiddos with towels on their heads pretending to be these people. I love love love my kids!!!

Next week we are going to talk about Nephi building a boat and color pictures then glue them on construction paper. We have a special place where we hang our FHE art so these will be displayed there and after a week or two they will move to the family scrapbook. I'll try to remember to take pictures! (Here is where I found the pages for the boat coloring activity... it's a pretty long link... http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=21bc9fbee98db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=6da79f82a6bab010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1)