FHE

Tonight Family Home Evening was... interesting. Some of the fun points. We listened to a song from the hymn book, page 307, How Lovely Our Deseret. It talks about the Word of Wisdom in the second verse so we read it in D&C and talked about what everything was. I told the boys that when it was a very easy decision, right now in their lives, they needed to decide to not break the Word of Wisdom ever. We talked about how very young their friends, and even their LDS friends would "invite" them to do bad things. We told them right now we were going to committ to 5 things, 1-no alcohol, 2-tabaco, 3-coffee, 4-tea, or 5-illegal drugs EVER in their lives. So we told them when they were amazing high school athletes, and were strong and healthy, we would hold up our hand with our fingers spread for the 5. When we left the house in the morning, we'd hold up our hand, etc, and that would be our reminder all our lives. So Cael says, while holding up his hand, "I will never eat meat, drink water, eat tabasco, and that's all I remember." Nice Cael! Not exactly what was taught, but at least he heard something. Just a little confused on what we will do and what we will not do! He is so dang cute! (I lost him again today, surprise I know. I found him in the Yukon eating gum as fast as he could shove it in. Dang boy!!!) Then Caden had the activity. He chose football. It was the first time we have played as a family. It was Dad, Carter, Caden vs Mom, Carson, Cael, and Colby. While playing, Cael handed it off to Colbs to run. We tell Colby to run down the yard, and here comes Caden full speed ahead ready to take his head off! Luckily Chet deflected him at last minute and saved the poor boys life! Chet asked Caden what the heck, and Caden was clueless. (Caden-land I tell you!) Carter said, "The kid is one for crying out loud!" And how would Carter know that? Because about 5 plays earlier Carter tried to take off Cael's legs with a full body tackle. Chet and I had to block the older boys from destroying our babies. Man they are active. And loud. And filled with endless energy!!! Luckily, we are all alive and healthy! And refraining from meat, water, and tabasco if you ask Cael! (Cael knows what tabasco is because Cars is a huge tabasco eater. Papa keeps him HEAVILY stocked!)