We met a group of friends on Monday for our annual Martin Luther King Day service project. We made fleece blankets for a homeless teen drop-in center.
We've done the same project for a few years now. It's a great project for school age kids-- the skills required are cutting fringe and tying knots-- so everyone can help.
We finished 7 blankets in about an hour. Our project gets a little bigger each year. In the back row are Sofi, Eliza, Annie and Helen. Seth, Tayvon, Jake, Abe and Ashton are in the middle. Taylor, Sadie and Maddie are in front. Gibson is behind the green and brown blanket. Sofi made her headband by braiding the selvages from each of the blankets.
Monday night we had the sisters for family night. For our activity, we had a mini "Chopped" competition. Each team had to make a healthful snack that included apples and craisins. They could add any other ingredients they could find in the house. Sister H. and Gibson made a bowl of granola and yogurt with apples, bananas and craisins. Sofi and Helen hollowed out their apple and filled it with a mixture of peanut butter, honey, craisins and pecans. Abe and Sister D. made a spinach salad with apples, craisins and poppyseed dressing. Brandan was the judge and called it a three way tie.
Helen started growing crystals on Saturday using a kit she got for a birthday present. She and Brandan made three solutions: yellow, blue and green. So far the yellow solution has grown the most crystals.
After a couple of weeks of freezing (and gloomy!) fog, we had a wonderfully warm weekend with record high temperatures. Helen, Gibson and Abe rode their bikes on Saturday.
A friend took a photo of our family at stake conference and emailed it to us. This is a photo we want to remember! Time is flying by and we'll only be sitting together at church for a few short years.
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