For the month of December, Jared and I decided that we wanted to step up our Family Home Evenings a bit to help us remember who Christmas is really about!
Our first Monday we focused on the Shepherds and how they take care of their sheep. Then we started talking about Jesus and how He is also a Shepherd and takes care of all of us. And that He has asks each of us to help Him take care of each other. To wrap up our evening, we went to the store and let Garrett and Tori each pick out a toy for someone else. This turned out so great and it will be something we do every year from now on! It was so neat to see Tori especially grab on to this and be so excited about giving her gift to someone else to help take care of them!
For our second FHE, we invited some friends over to share Christmas stories and some yummy treats! We were joined by the Amber Smyer, Toney, Kunz, Homer, and Fenton families - it was so much fun! I love how all the kids gathered around for the stories!
Benson did an awesome job reading their family's story!
Hurrah for sharing fun Christmas stories!
The night wouldn't have been complete without a reading of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"
Tori had so much fun playing with Anna and Olivia!
This gathering of friends was so wonderful and turned out to be our going away party without us knowing it. We ended up accepting an offer of our house two days later, and we were gone in a week and a half. I am so glad we had this night to strengthen relationships and just enjoy such wonderful friends!
We talked about the Wise Men for our third FHE! To remind us that they brought gifts to Baby Jesus, we delivered gifts of cookies to some of our neighbors! This is another one we will keep doing!
Our last FHE (tonight) was by far the most special- especially since we got to share it with Grandma and Grandpa Allen! We saved the best for last and talked about Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus. To make it even more special we dressed in our Bethlehem attire. We started out with a yummy Bethlehem-esque picnic dinner!
We had pita bread, meat, cheese, fruit, and some chipotle spread (I'm sure they had that in Bethlehem)!
Everyone enjoyed our fun dinner!
After dinner we started talking about Baby Jesus- I love that Baby Jesus is almost as big as Garrett!
Garrett was very concerned that we couldn't find Mary!
Grandma had a very special song for us to sing to conclude our last FHE before Christmas- tonight was very special!
Our Family Home Evenings leading up to Christmas have been wonderful this year! I am so glad that we have taken some time to step away from all the hustle and bustle and really remember our Savior Jesus Christ!
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