February FHE

WEEK 1: Nate told me one day that he didn't know how to tie a real tie. So for family night Erik taught us how to tie a tie. It's a lot harder than it looks. After we had all practiced Kiersten and Erik had a tie-off to see who could be the fastest and have their tie look the best.

View the video of our tie-off here.

WEEK 2: Valentine's was the next day and I had been planning on making cinnamon rolls all day for breakfast the next morning. It didn't happen. So for FHE I taught the kids how to make cinnamon rolls. No documentation of the actual rolls exist, however, but they were delicious.

WEEK 3: For spring break we are taking a road trip to Oregon. I had the kids research different places to see, things to do, where we might like to go. Their list includes Oaks Park (a mini amusement park/skating rink), the Oregon Zoo, Powell's City of Books, Sauvie Island, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Tillamook Cheese Factory, Portland Japanese Garden, a lighthouse, Munson Creek Falls, Jazz vs. Blazers game. Tyler added whale watching and the aquarium. I'd like to visit the temple grounds since we'll be in a city with a temple.

We were so excited when we found out the Jazz are playing the Blazers the Monday night we get there. After much deliberation, we opted against attending the game. For one it was just too expensive; two, we would be sitting with the opposite team's fans; and three, the only Jazz game we've gone to this year happened to be against Portland. So we'll hang out in our hotel room and party that way.

WEEK 4: This week we wrote a silly family story. It was actually a sentence/drawing game we played that goes kind of along the same lines as the telephone game. Each person had their own paper and at the top they wrote a sentence about themselves or someone else in the room and then folded the paper back and passed it to the person to their left. That person then looked at the sentence and drew a picture about that sentence. They then folded the paper so that only the drawing was showing and passed it again. This time the person could only look at the drawing and write a sentence about the drawing. The game went this way until we had reached the end of the paper. It was hilarious to read how the original sentence changed.

JAZZ GAME: I stole Erik's pictures off his camera from when we attended the Jazz game for FHE in January.