“Stu”

I was down the hall this afternoon cleaning up in my bedroom when I heard Dinah start crying. I sighed and asked myself “Who’s taking what from Dinah?” A couple minutes later though she still hadn’t stopped and was getting more frantic, so I stopped what I was doing to go find out what was wrong. As I came into the living room this is what I saw:

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Dinah looked at me and in a pathetic voice said “Stu” (translation ‘Stuck’). Yup she was stuck. I guess she climbed onto the arm of the couch and slid down between the arms of the couch and chair, and there happens to be a stack of food storage between the couch and chair as well, so she was wedged between the couch the chair and the stack of food storage. Sigh, she is so cute.

FHE #13

His Servants The Prophets ‘The Friend’ January 1998, 42

Opening Song: Children’s Songbook pg 110 “Follow The Prophet”

Opening Prayer: Jeremy

Scripture: Amos 3:7 “The Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

Lesson: Prepare by making the felt board pieces available at the above link. Using the felt board, and felt story pieces, tell about the prophets Malachi, John the beloved, Alma the younger, Joseph Smith and Enoch. We also talked about our current prophet President Thomas S Monson, and why we watch conference. We talked about how our prophet today tells us what Heavenly Father wants us to know and do in these the latter days.

Closing Song: Hymn #19 “We Thank Thee, Oh God, For a Prophet”

Closing Prayer: Tyra

FHE Treat: Jelly beans

Jeremy’s new carseat

Jeremy has been upgraded to a big boy carseat. He is 31 pounds now, so he can sit in the booster that has a back on it. He is so excited. He hasn’t figured out how to buckle himself yet, but he is happy that he can unbuckle himself and let himself out of the car when we get home (instead of waiting for me to get to his carseat to let him out).

FHE #12

Our Extended Family Family Home Evening Manual Lesson 22

Opening Song: Children’s Songbook Pg 201 “When Grandpa Comes”

Opening Prayer: Tyra

Scripture: Malachi 4:6 “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.”

Lesson: We talked with the kids about who are our immidiate family members and who are our extended family members. She showed pictures of various extended family members talking about who they are.

Activity: We are drawing pictures/writing letters to Great Great Grandma Ruby.

Closing Song: Children’s Songbook pg 199 “I have a Family Tree”

Closing Prayer: Jeremy

FHE Treat: Chocolate chip cookies.

Saying goodbye to our spot vacuum :(

Our poor little handheld spot cleaning vacuum went the way of all the earth today. It has been our faithful friend in cleaning up spills and other messes on the carpet and couches. It has been a very handy little tool for small clean-up jobs. BUT it has been loosing it’s ability to hold a charge, and today the plug that kept the yucky water from flooding the motor broke and so now, we need to find a new one. Our very handy tool has served us well, and put up a good fight against the spills and messes that kids and pets make.