Book of Mormon FHE

On Sunday, November 6th we had a special Bowling Family Home Evening. We were able to have Rich's parents and all of his siblings participate. Three of his siblings' families were able to come to our house and the other two joined us on the internet through skype. We each shared our favorite scripture story or scriptures. It was a lot of fun even though it was hard to hear everyone and definitely something we need to try again.

After our FHE the families at our house had dinner, played, and talked. For dessert we planned an object lesson for the kids. Rich set-up an iron rod that lead down the hall to our kitchen table where the tree of life was surrounded by delicious fruit with chocolate fondue and other goodies. The kids held to the rod, but moved so quickly and only had eyes for dessert that I think the lesson was lost....oh well.

The kids holding to the rod and hurrying toward the tree of life. The black sheet was the mist of darkness.

Rich and I made sheep cupcakes to go along with one of my favorite scripture stories in the Book of Mormon. That is Ammon the missionary in the middle of the flock of sheep.

Rich and Ava made this rice crispy treat wall to represent another great scripture story with Samuel the Lamanite. The "Happy Birthday" was for EmmaLee since it was her birthday earlier in the week and she loves rice crispy treats.
Ava really likes the Samuel figurine and now can tell you a little bit about his story. I love that Ava is learning the scriptures.