Family Home Evening

First, the confession. Mark and I, although we by default spend Monday evenings together, think ourselves in awkward circumstances for the whole FHE package, i.e. song, prayer, lesson, activity, treat, prayer. But, the last few Mondays have looked a bit more like traditional FHEs, and so we share...

Two weeks ago, a couple in the ward invited us and some others to go ice skating in Forest Park and then to enjoy games and hot chocolate at their apartment. There wasn't a lesson or prayer, but when we received the invite, it was to a "combined FHE." It was nice to have people think of us for a gathering of that sort. We just might be making friends. Wish us luck.

Last week, Mark needed to deliver turkeys to some families in the ward. So, he invited me along and we made an FHE out of it. Again, there wasn't a lesson or prayer, but we did find ourselves at the Bishop's house, which makes it an official Monday-night church activity, which (by default) makes it FHE. Right? Do you follow my logic? Anyway, it was nice to get out and serve people. We heartily recommend it.

This week, Mark and I went to Mr. Wizard's frozen custard and bought...a Christmas tree!! You thought I was going to say frozen custard. You were wrong. No frozen custard for us. We have $50 riding on Mark's ability to attain and maintain a certain physique and it's almost time to pay the piper. But we weren't even distracted by the custard. We were way too excited about our Christmas tree! (...stay tuned for pictures of our tree...TRIMMED!)

Below are some pictures from ice skating:




(From left: Mark and Careen, Amy and Elliott, Danelle and Adam)