When your kids are young you really seem to take for granite all the time you have together! As they grow up and start making lives for themselves you realize just how lucky you are when everyone is all together!
This is one of the reasons why we started to have a family dinner every Sunday and then followed by Family Home Evening. I know everyone is so busy during the week and sometimes we never see each other so Sunday's was the day we could all look forward to being together! We have been doing this for the past 4 months and it has been so much fun!
I made a little family home evening chart out of paper and pockets and will continue to add spouses and grandchildren as we grow! I know having dinner can be a lot of work each week but if it means that it gets us all together to have weekly family home evening then it is all totally worth it!
I am not going to say that every Sunday is full of happy smiling faces…especially from teens, spiritual lessons, and most the time includes a lot of chaos…. but the food is what seems to gather our family together and by the end of the night the fun and laughter is what keeps us going! I know that no one will ever remember the lessons, the games we played, or even the treats that were served, but everyone will remember that we did try our best and hopefully being consistent will instill in their hearts the importance of being together as a family !
Some pictures from our eventful lesson around the fire!
C'Jay and Ireland having fun
Having fun at the creek
The three kids and Ireland
Ireland just learned how to do high 5!
Passing the baby across the creek!
The cute Powers family
Bubba laughing at C'Jays smores burning
Burnt Smores
Ireland loved the Paleo homemade smokes
Enjoying her smores with grandma
Kim and C'Jay around the fire!
Niah in the flames
C'Jay's homemade gun!
J'Dee
Irealnd reading with her daddy!
Family Home Evening around the Fire
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