Jesus is the Light...and orange ice cream!

Tonight is Monday, so in our home, as in many LDS homes, that means it is Family Home Evening. Monday nights are reserved to family time, learning, and fun on family home evening nights. Whether you are of our faith or not, it is a special event, that I recommend all families to participate in. We choose to have an opening and closing prayer and song, a lesson, an activity, and a treat in our family home evenings, but you can do them to whatever suits your family best.

Tonight, Peyton said the opening prayer, and Brody chose the opening song. He chose "Follow the Prophet," which was the song his sweet little primary class sang in church on Sunday during the primary program. Nick had the lesson and he talked about how Jesus is our light, and he taught this by having us wear a blindfold and try to move objects from one place to another. The blindfold was symbolic of us not having Christ in our life, and how hard it can be to get through life and do tasks without Him. It was a great activity, and the kids had a blast.

We are trying to eat better, and teach our kids better eating habits, so we chose to make homemade orange ice cream. We used 2 oranges, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 and a half cups of ice, and our blendtec blender! An fun FHE was just what the doctor ordered! Peyton doing the blindfold activity (yes, she is naked 75% of the time).
Brody showing us how easy it is to do things with Christ (light) in our lives

Peyton being a silly girl

Brody following suit

Mommy doing the blindfold activity (they moved the chair across the room)

I was smelling our newest Scentsy buddy

Brody showing us how hard it is without Christ in our life

Pey adding sugar

Brody adding oranges

BLEND!!!

Yummy! The consistency was great!

First taste test....mmmmmmmm good!!!

Brody wasn't sure at first, because it was healthy, but he wound up loving it!!