FHE S'mores!

Paul & I have started recently holding our own Family Home Evenings, which is totally different as a couple than it's ever been in any other setting, especially since our own families never really held FHE so we're a little unsure of the drill. It has been a BLAST figuring it out! There's this book, it's actually an old textbook from my strengthening marriage & families class at BYU, and we read a chapter and discuss it as our "lesson." These lessons last about an hour and a half, because we LOVE talking about gospel principles as they apply to the family. Then, for our activity, we do something fun and simple. On Monday, after reviewing the Plan of Salvation, we made hot cocoa and s'mores thanks to a Christmas gift from our friend Shean and watched "Elf". I LOVE that movie! It's a ton of fun, one of the happiest, feel-good-iest movies to date, I'm convinced! I also decided I'm going to take more pictures of these activities and such so that I can make an FHE scrapbook, to pool ideas from for future dates and FHE's and such. I'm stoked, and so very grateful for the inspiration of the prophets in instituting the Family Home Evening program weekly in our homes and churches across the globe.