Fargo Favorites #50

Today the things I love about Fargo are the things that my little Fam does or started here in Fargo.

1. FHE Board

I have made some very creative, fun things while living here in Fargo. One of our favorites is the time I got a bunch of ladies together to make FHE boards. They all turned out so different and all so darling! In our family we love it because it allows everyone to have a turn to do and share their favorite things. We all are in charge of something to make the Family Home Evening special.

SONG: It's fun to see which songs everyone knows. Or try to be brave and sing a new one. Also I love to see what songs become our favorites. Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam or Scripture Power are always our fallbacks! ;)

PRAYER: The person whose on the "prayer" conducts FHE so they get to decide in which order we do things for Family night. Sometimes the kids like to do it backwards. LOL! Treats first are always fun! Right, Jen N.?

SCRIPTURE: We used to have the person on the Scripture just get out the book and lead us in scripture reading. But we've changed it so that whoever is on the Scripture shares one of their favorites. It's fun to have the kids explain their favorite stories and help them find where they're located.

LESSON: Ideas for lessons are endless! I used to be a FHE Lesson Maker FREAK! I know, hard to believe! (Me a freak about anything??) But I have BOXES and BOXES and BOXES of FHE lessons. Not to mention our monthly subscriptions to the Friend and Ensign Magazines. There's never an excuse for being able to find something good to teach the family. I also love it when the kids teach us what they learned in Sunday School. They have some great memories and ideas!

ACTIVITY: This is where the true colors shine! It's really important that everyone gets a turn on the activity because we are all so different. Anything from an outing to Wii time to drawing to board games to HideNSeek. Lots of fun and a great way to support each other in things that we like! (or someone else likes and we do it because we love them! LOL)

TREAT: You gotta have a treat to make it a FHE! LOL! Yummmmy! Everyone loves to be on the treat!

Man! We have some great times together!

2. Hide N Seek

My kids were so little when we moved here that we did simple HideNSeeks back in UT but nothing like our games nowadays! We blow those days out of the water! LOL At first it was more of a "YouWho!" Game where all the kids made noise until Mom or Dad found you. But nowadays sometimes it takes forever to find everybody! They are some quiet, sneaky (perhaps in this case... smelly) hiders these days!

3. Garden Harvest

We never grew a garden as a Fam until we moved here. Now we don't claim to grow a fabulous garden but we do grow one every year! And we get so excited when we harvest stuff! Over the years we have enjoyed beets, radishes, tomatoes, peas, corn, peppers, broccoli, watermelon, pumpkins, lettuce, onions, potatoes, eggplant, rhubarb, carrots, and of course apples. It makes us so happy! Yummmy!

4. Peaches n Cream

The last several years we have spent a butt-load of cash on buying yummy, Colorado peaches. We justify it because it's a fund-raiser for the Youth for Christ Group AND they are YUMMMY! Peaches N Cream are a hit around here in September!

5. Stepping Stones

This one is a little bit metaphorical! LOL

One one hand- the kids and I have had fun making stepping stones for our flower garden in the front. It's so fun to see their creativity. And also adding new ones (kids and stones) to our family/ garden.

On the other hand- Fargo has been a huge stepping stone in our lives. I say stepping stone because we don't plan on this being our last stop along the way to... ???? (well I was gonna say something but either it sounds a bit morbid or sad so we'll just say.... in the long run of things Fargo will be a memorable stepping stone for our Family.) It's here that we have learned so many things. We have learned to step outside the comfort zone of our family circle and make some amazing friends. We've grown in every way possible- taller, wider ;0) LOL, in numbers, spiritually, socially, emotionally, as a couple, as a family and as individuals. We've also learned we really are pretty funny! What an amazing place to put your foot down in. We love you Fargo!

P.S. I've been waiting forever to publish this post but I guess I'll just have to add the new stepping stones at some point. Maybe after I get a new camera! LOL See GNO Sadnote for details!