I swear its gotta be SPRING FeVeR!!!!!

One of my favorite times of the year is coming up...this weekend is General Conference...and I love to do our traditional favorites and adding new ones that I saw from years before!! There are soo many talented created woman out there that I love it when I have an idea and its put together already and BEST of all......SUPER CUTE!!! Cuts my time in half!! Anyhow I wish I could have a name for the blog I found this on....I only saved the actual link and she has no name on there anywhere......so if I come across it now that I am slowly adding blogging to my life again:) I will give credit where credit is due! This is a Conferance Jar....inside are 4 stacks of question slips laminated, and a overhead projector pen (expo va voz). Each stack is color coded for each session of conference (4). Each session each member of the family will get a card to write down thier question and then they put that card back into the jar. Next FHE get the jar out and divide family into two teams, go through questions and whichever team gets the most answers correct gets to serve the OTHER team Ice Cream Sundaes complete with all toppings!! How fun is that!!

Made one for my VT sisters and my family........FUN!!

{{LoVe NoTeS Family Tradition....!}}

This we did for YW beehive class act. and thought it was really cute for the girls to be excited to share this fun tradition with their families! I originally saw this idea over at
http://www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/labels/post-it%20love.html she even has the downloads if you didn't want to do your own labels.

I just tweaked mine a tad. Our family has enjoyed this new tradition...it's fun to see the little notes everywhere! I plan on doing this for my VT too...with the message inside....FuN!!

Trip to the Pumpkin patch...!

So we went on Mon. for FHE....and had a good time, the kids still love to do this every year and I am glad!! Some of us weren't decked out in Halloween attire because they weren't home, but that's ok.....Sabrina was bummed. Bells had a blast, I love to see her so excited about stuff!!!

"Our Daily Pirates"...FHE lesson!

I also got my packets done for the FHE group I am in! I was trying really hard to upload my whole lesson onto scribd...but I use Printmaster...and so ran into difficulty..I am not a computer genious....sorry..but I did take some pics. So hopefully those out there can at least see the outline and put it together that way...! Trying to be organized I always use a FHE checklist.....

This is the outline... Cannon Ball recipe (coconut and chocolate balls) and blacklines...
Pictures from the friend..which I got off lds.org searching the Friend Magazine....also the story is from there. Actually the ship was just a random pic of internet.
Made up this game.....FUN!

Gamecards...

This lesson is on Prayer...and praying for the Daily Pirates in our life that we can pray for help and strength on. The game is cute...on the hunt sheet...it tells you where to put the clue cards at and the kids have to search for that clue..and I also included a "Make a pirate costume" idea list so the kids can dress up as pirates for the hunt. I included a laminated sword...the boys will love that! The treasure is a treasure clipart with candy next to it...which is "Prayer". I also inlcuded "Activity sheets" (pirate themed) off of FamilyFun.com for the kiddos, songs, scripture, and a discussion paragraph to look up in the scriptures on what prayer is and how, why and when we should pray....I really love makin up lessons for FHE.....the best way to do it is to just find a good story, poem, or talk and base the whole lesson around that...

This is how I organize all my lessons into these plastic totes and hanging file folders with a label...nice and neat....love that!

Primary Organization....

In our Primary the kids are challenged to memorize the scripture for that month, if they succeed they get a prize...My kids love this so when I was in primary I started to print off the scriptures (theideadoor.com) for thier church binders(I will post about these soon!) so they could look over them during sacrament. I also put them on our pantry door so that they will always be there for them to look at..and so mom knows whats going on. I also try my best to do FHE around the primary theme for the month as well. Also you can see in the pic that I have an organizing chart for school...thanks to meckmom.com. I found her several years ago and love all of her organization ideas..she is a genious and plus has printables CUTE printables I might add to use for yourself! Each child (in grade school) has the responsibility to look at thier class newsletter and arrange the velcro pics to the right day...this consists of what kind of lunch they are wanting..hot or cold(this makes them look at the lunch calendar ahead of time) if they have P.E., art, library, computer,scouts, act.days, baseball ect. I have added a few to fit the needs of my kids that she didn't have. This has really taught my kids responsibility and the girls know especially if they have to wear tennies or not....a huge drama topic in our house!! This really works for us! It also has friend time that they can choose two days out of the week, that is available to play with their friends....no more asking mom every single day!! WHEW!! Anyhow thought I would share this..!

Family Night at the Cannery..!

I called in last month to make an appt for the cannery......it has changed since the LAST time I was there, which was a long time ago! You can't just show up and can whatever you want, now they have you make appts. and only to can what they have scheduled for that month...The Johnstons came with us since they are family and they were all jokin about not havin the "mormon" badge...lol! It was sooo funny not to mention the big silver canister lookin things as we pulled up..I was sayin yeah we gotta take a "secret" passage down under ground and show them our badge...heehee!! We were laughin like crazy!!
The kids had such a good time we are planning on coming once a month for a while ...that'll be fun!!

Kellee and I didn't read the instructions about not wearing jewelry, she ended up losing one of her earrings...and so we were jokin about that too..! Luckily my earring broke at dinner afterwards..lol! Ray ended up seeing a longtime friend from high school and of course he said..."You Mormon??!!!??!! He gets that alot....he was a crazy kid back then...WAY back then..!

Cute General Conference Packet by email....

If anyone would be interested I have a 14-page packet for General Conference this coming up weekend that I got from a friend by email. It is all updated with the new prophet, new apostle, etc. It has all kinds of things to keep kids busy and focused during Conference, including fill in the blank, color the tie, Bingo, word search, match the picture and name of the apostles, coloring, etc.

The second attachment is a card game to help kids learn the names of the General Authorities, using symbols like an oak leaf for Elder Oaks, a red cross for Elder Nelson, etc.

Since I am not sure how to upload it as a post, leave a comment with your email, and I'd be happy to send it over....it is really awesome!

Another recipe for P.I.E. night...

I just found this and love this idea, I am going to try this Sunday night! I'll post my pic then.

Core an apple, leaving the bottom in tact. Add a dollop of butter inside, a few walnuts or raisins, and then cover with brown sugar and cinnamon. 350 for 40 minutes.

Another Cute Idea...

Fancy Drop Off Lunch Boxes.......for your kids or hubby.

Except for him probably different food..heehee. But I love this idea I found over at Blissfully Domestic (great site), since I do lunch with the kids once a week. They still would like to go somewhere or me bring them lunch from a restaraunt, but really you could do so much with this idea.....make it a theme or somethin...totally cute!

Here are some other "lunchbox ideas":

Want some Cherry pie in a jar...?

I saw this on another blog a while back and since have forgotten which one it was....so I attempted this on my own. I just took my apple pie crust recipe and filled an open mouth jar with the dough, and then spooned out the cherry pie filling into it, did a little cute heart shape and baked it at 400degrees. It turned out great. I wanted to do these for our family P.I.E. night and freeze these ahead of time and give everyone their own individual pie. Our P.I.E (Personal Interview Evaluation) night is an interview with each of our kids to just discuss one on one any problems they might be having. Our family loves this and so I wanted to start it up again since school has already started. (summers are lazy for us around here!) I feel like football and cheer season not to mention school in general has taken over our life and now Sunday will be our "Monday" FHE etc.. A good friend of mine did this a couple of years ago for an Enrichment and explained a binder type "Family"calendar. I've seen them be called Home Command Binder also. Mine has phone numbers, an address book, Mon-Sunday cleaning list, grocery list with an insert for coupons, my weekly menu for breakfast lunch and dinner, bills to pay etc... It keeps me organized. When I get a chance I will post some pics of my binder.

Anyhow, these would be really cute for a christmas gift or visiting teaching gift as well....mmm...