Our FHE and A little Pick Me-Upper

Our family has our FHE last night...that's Family Home Evening, for those of you who don't know what that is, something the LDS families are recommended to do every week on a Monday night {can be any other night if Monday night is not a good night, as long as it's one night set aside for the family}. Usually, I am a little organized on our FHE, everyone has an assignment but when I didn't plan, assignments are neglected and I either pull something out my magic bag, {lessons I have ahead of time, either from a class like Primary or Young Woman I know the kids weren't in attendance for or I assigned one of the older kids to do it}. Kids and I almost always make sure that the hubby doesn't do a spur of the moment lesson cuz he usually drag it out for a whole hour and then before you know it, we're all grunting our teeth and counting down the seconds on the clock for FHE to be over with.

Anyways, last night was such a night. I've been totally slagging on my FHE preparation because we did not have anything assigned and I was kinda hoping we'll just skip it altogether and try for another night but that wasn't in my hubby's plan. He sauntered in the house with a lesson all printed up in his hand and declared we do our FHE. Two of our kids were missing, at a school function, that's why I was hoping we'll forgo FHE last night but like I said, nothing is detering my hubby from getting our FHE. I was so dreading the long drawn out lesson but as it turned out, he was actually precise and finished in the alotted time permitted him for his lesson.

So I appointed myself the treat person. But instead of waiting til the end of FHE to pass out the treat...this time I decided to tie it in with my hub's lesson. Because he had such a great lesson, I suggested that at the end of his lesson, he would ask the kids question to test them and I'll give them candy whenever they answer the question right. It was really fun to see what my kids would do for candies. Even Kaitlin was raising her hands to answer questions. Like I said, with this non preparation on my part, there was no planned treat, usually I have something made or my daughter made or we got at the store. Luckily I had some chocolate candy on hand so that was great save for me cuz the kids weren't complaining at all...they were only too happy to be participating in something and getting something in their mouths..lol. It was great turn-out, everyone concerned was happy and it was a successful and fun night for all.

Anyways...our candy treat turned out to be a lot more insightful than I thought, who'd have thought. Here's a little something we got from the candy wraps I thought I'd share with y'all. Enjoy!!

• Patience is a virtue.
• Life is about making memories.
• Believe the best in yourself.
• Forget the pothholes in the road and celebrate the journey instead!
• Smile when you want to, cry when you need to, laugh whenever possible!
• Count your blessings and not your worries.
• Kick a bad habit for today.
• Remind yourself that it's ok no to be perfect.

♥ to all and God bless!

My Little Guy's Ocean Animal

Meet my son Danny...He's six years old and in First Grade.

This month his class has been learning about animals in the ocean and the teacher assigned each kid to pick an animal that lives in the ocean to do a research on it and then present it in class. Here's my son with his poster. He picked EEL to do his presentation on.

He did his research all on his own. He loves playing on the computer so getting him to get online to research about his chosen animal wasn't too much trouble on my part. He was suppose to write facts about the animal he picked like what the animal eats, what structures the animal has on its body to survive in the wild, if the animal is a mammal, a fish, a crustacean, or an invertebrate. And everything has to be handwritten. He was to include pictures of his animal and he could get his pictures either by hand drawn, from magazines or books and even off the internet.

So my son did his research with a little help from his older sister. His teacher gave him the pictures and he colored them all by himself. I didn't even help him at all with this project of his. I am so proud of him for doing a good job. His teacher once told me that he loves standing in front of the class to do presentation.

One time they did a little show-how-to do something, my son wanted to show his classmates how to make a homemade card using rubber stamps. {Looks like he's following in his mom's footsteps..lol.} Well, he came home, picked out a favorite stamp, his favorite color combination and asked me to help him make a card. When using two different color ink pad, I always make sure I washed off any ink off the stamp before I use it again in another ink and this son of mine, since he was very little, I used to let him stamp with me, had learned to do the same thing. He was very meticulous. Anyways, his teacher said he did wonderful job teaching his classmates that day. Talk about a proud moment.

As you can see in the picture, he looks like he enjoyed himself. Did I mention I am very proud of him? Because I do.

Anyways, today is Friday, last day of school for the kids then they will be out of school for two weeks for Spring Break. And tomorrow my hubby will be going off island for whole week on business trip and a little visit with his mom. I am going to be totally slave driving my kids these two weeks of their break, poor dears...eheheh. Nah, I'm just kidding. But we do need to do some serious spring cleaning, I can't begin to describe the filth that's accumulating in this house. I'm actually a little scared to go in my boys' room, I can't see the floor.

So have a wonderful weekend everyone.

A Proud Moment w/a Sprinkle of Humor

My son, Joey, was chosen Super Citizen for the month of January from his class. As is customary, the Elementary School holds an assembly and invites the kids' family to come and support their kids as they receive this award. This award is usually given out every month and the teachers from each class picks out two or three students who are usually good students, basically the kids who are very cooperative in class, do their homework, good participants and helpers in class. So every month different students are picked from each class to receive this award.

So the assembly was held this morning. Here's my son with his certificate and candy leis I made for him. The kid loves candy so to have at least four leis all made out of candy, that is almost like getting presents on Christmas day for him. We are so proud of him for his accomplishment. This is his third year receiving this award.

Anyways, I got home this morning from the assembly, checked my email and a dearest friend of mine sent this to me. {Thanks, Brandi!!} I thought it was kinda funny so I thought I'd share it.

Last week....Shrek, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were all having lunch together.

Shrek said, "I have always thought that I'm the strongest man in the world, but how can I be sure?"

Angelina Jolie agreed. "I'm told I'm the most gorgeous woman of them all, but sometimes I wonder."

Brad Pitt said,"I'm pretty sure I'm the sexiest man alive but I've never had it confirmed."

They all decided that the best way to find out if their beliefs were true was to ask the famed talking "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" to confirm for them whether Shrek was the strongest, Angelina was the most gorgeous and Brad was the sexiest. They agreed to meet again the next day for lunch to discuss their findings.

The next day Shrek walked up with a smile. "Well, it's true. The mirror told me that I am the strongest man in the world."

Brad Pitt perked up and said, "And I know for sure that I'm the sexiest man alive."

But, Angelina Jolie lifted her sad, gorgeous face and said...

"Who the heck is ANJENY?!!!"

If you find this even a tad bit humorous, you can either copy this and email it to anyone you know or you can blog it...you never know who might be cheered up from reading this. Oh yeah, just remember to take my name out of the last line and put your name in there instead.

BTW, on my right sidebar, you will notice the Magic Quilt button...you might want to check it out by either clicking on the button or click here. The owner came up with this wonderful idea about putting together a traveling quilt that will go to different cancer patients who either blogs or related to someone who blogs. It's such a sweet and generous idea and gesture that I've made a contribution of my story on there as a kind of a little tribute yesterday to my late mom since it was her birthday.

P.S. Happy Valentine to y'all and have a great weekend.