Posted in Church, Kids, London on Aug 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Our ward’s Primary had a great day at the London Temple grounds today. We rode the bus down and the kids were able to visit the Visitor’s Center, where they watched a short movie and did a scavenger hunt. They were all quite reverent inside and loved learning more about the temple. But, when we [...]
Posted in Church, Family, Travel on Aug 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
As if we hadn’t had enough of planes up to this point, we hopped on another one on Monday and headed to Utah. Thank goodness it’s only an hour flight! We were only in the Provo area for less than 24 hours, but it will always be a memorable time! We started off our time [...]
Posted in Becca, Church on Mar 4th, 2010 No Comments »
For the last couple months I have had the opportunity to get to know the MOST amazing women. After shortly moving into our ward here, it became known that I had previously had callings in music and playing the organ. For some reason, some assumed that since I can read music, I can also sing. [...]
Posted in Becca, Church on Oct 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
It’s General Conference time again! I am so excited for this weekend! The kids are anxious to have monkey bread Sunday morning and work on their activity papers. One fun thing that I have wanted to do for awhile and finally got to it this time around was making General Conference Baskets for the gals [...]
Posted in Becca, Chris, Church, Family, Kids on Aug 26th, 2009 9 Comments »
(image from www.theideadoor.com) This month’s Primary Sharing Time theme is “Temple Blessings Unite Families.” Last week I talked to the kids about how through the ordinances of the temple we can be with our families forever. I shared the experience of me being sealed to my parents and siblings when I was 5 years old, [...]
Posted in Caleb, Church, Family on Jun 24th, 2009 10 Comments »
A little over two weeks ago we had a sweet little German woman from our branch pass away. Chris was her home teacher and always took Caleb with him to see Sis. Kehaya. After every visit, Sis. Kehaya gave them chocolate to bring home. You can imagine Caleb was more than willing to take her [...]
Posted in Caleb, Church, Family, Gymnastics, Hannah on Jun 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
When Caleb was put on the gymnastics team almost a year ago, we all became fast friends with the other two boys and their families in his level. Both the boys and their families attended Caleb’s baptism in January and we all came together again this last weekend to support Zachary for his First Communion. [...]
Posted in Church, Family on Jun 3rd, 2009 6 Comments »
We finished the Book of Mormon as a family!! It may have taken us about 2 years to do it but WE DID IT!! So, we decided to have a “Book of Mormon Party” to celebrate! I was in charge of the games so we did “The Lost 116 Pages” where I basically stuck 116 [...]
Posted in Church, Family on Apr 27th, 2009 10 Comments »
Our Family Home Evenings (FHE) are always evolving. I started out being very structured with our kids, always spending at least an hour preparing a lesson every week. Then we did the Family Home Evening groups at Cornell where we put together 10-20 copies of the same FHE to distribute amongst our group, returning home [...]
Posted in Becca, Chris, Church on Feb 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
We first discovered the Five Love Languages about 7 or 8 years ago when we were trying to be better parents. Someone had recommended The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman. It was so wonderful to discover Emma’s love language and how we could better communicate with her. She was more receptive to [...]