Satan's Snare

Since all the family was together this past week, I decided to have a combined FHE about getting hooked by Satan's Snare.  I made fish that had situations where they could earn a piece a candy and there were fish that said they got caught in Satan's Snare and they had to give back a piece of candy.  The kids all lined up around the "pond."
  
And they got their fishing poles and started to fish:


The fish that said they got caught in Satan's Snare were face a different direction than the other fish, so whenever one of the kids would start to go for those fish all the parents would say that they shouldn't go for that one and maybe they should try for a different one.  Towards the end, there were still some fish left but most of them were the bad fish so we asked if they wanted to keep the candy they had and walk away or if they wanted to keep fishing.  Some of the kids walked away and other kids ignored the warnings of their parents and wanted to keep fishing and inevitably got caught in Satan's Snare.  Towards the end I sat all the kids down and talked about the atonement and how it makes us all equal, so at the end, everyone had an equal amount of candy.  It was a fun FHE and the kids are asking when they can go fishing again.

The Tale of the Forgetfuls Chapter 2

Join us as we follow chapter 2 of the Family Forgetfuls.  As we remember, they were a smaller family consisting of Father, Mother, Brother, Sister:

They decided to go on vacation with the Family Plentifuls which were a larger family consisting of Father, Mother, Brother, Brother, Brother, and Brother.  But unfortunately, Mother Forgetful forgot to take a picture of all of them together.  The Plentifuls had moved up to Payson a few years ago so they all decided to head down to St. George and visit some old haunts.  As they were driving, Mother Forgetful forgot to bring her camera so her pictures were taken with her cell phone.  Finally everyone made it to the hotel.  Upon arrival:

they all wanted to go swimming.  So the cousins hopped in their suits and hit the pool.  The grown-ups were sitting by the side of the pool when Mother Plentiful saw one of the brothers couldn't swim, so she jumped in to save him.  After a while, Mother Forgetful forgot that everyone might be hungry so they headed out to dinner at the Pasta Factory.  As they were eating Father Forgetful almost forgot that there was a movie playing in the park, so everyone loaded up the children and headed for "Sunset in the Square" and waited:

and waited:

and waited some more:
 
Mother Plentiful and Mother Forgetful took the kids to see the fire truck while everyone was waiting:

Upon returning to their spot, an announcement was made that the movie wouldn't start for another 45 minutes and Mother Forgetful forgot that everyone would be too tired by then to watch the movie, so they went back to the motel.  During the middle of the night, Mother Forgetful woke up super sick and she forgot to bring any medicine so she spent the day in bed while Father Forgetful took the kids touring around town and swimming. 
Later that afternoon Father Forgetful thought Mother would be able to go on a little hike.  However, he forgot to comb Mother's hair (since she was completely out of it and has no recollection of this excursion) and they headed to Pioneer Park (Radiator Springs):

 
That night the Forgetful children were beat:

The next day, Mother Forgetful felt good as new, and after Church they went to the Temple Visitor Center.


After the movie, the Forgetfuls and the Plentifuls had some fun on the grounds.  Mother Forgetful forgot that Father might not want hundreds of kids piled on top of him:

But that didn't stop them:

By now, Mother Forgetful forgot that everyone might be hungry so they grabbed some dinner and then went swimming:


That night, Father Forgetful forgot to tell Mother that would be getting up at 6AM to head to Junction the following morning.  So everyone went to bed.  The next day, they were up and at Junction at 9:30.  Mother forgot that the kids might fall off:


 
Once everyone started to get hungry everyone loaded up and headed to the City Creek Park with the Plentifuls and the Trustfuls, but Father forgot the way.  However, he found it eventually and they had a nice picnic:

Father forgot that they would need some firework to cook lunch, so he got to work chopping:
 


Once everyone was completely covered in dirt, the Forgetfuls figured it was time to go home and once again, the Forgetfuls had a wonderful weekend full of laughs, cries and goodbyes.  Stay tuned for more adventures staring the Forgetfuls.

Round Two

Louis and Sheridy came out last Sunday, so we decided to have a combined FHE and play CTR Chutes and Ladders again.  Louis gave the kids a lesson about consequences:

Then the kids got up and started to play.  Everyone had so much fun.  Tyler was so excited that he couldn't stay in his square which put him back to the start.


Every time it was Zoey's turn she would just squeal and do a little dance even if she had to go down a chute.  It was cute.

Once everyone made it to the end, Justin pinned a CTR Badge on them and they waited for the others to finish.

After, we headed upstairs for a hamburger.  It was a fun night and I am so glad that we were able to share it with the Bailey's and the Stoker's.