One thing my husband and I have done pretty consistently is have a Family Home Evening every Monday night. It helps us to spend a little more time with our children. I think because we started when our kids were pretty young, it has been easier to keep going. This last week we decided to go to the Museum of Art at the nearby university. The exhibit was called "Windswept". The artist had a semi-truck full of willow saplings brought in and then created the exhibit on-site. It was kind of cool.
Recently we had another Hansen Family Reunion at Bear Lake. We've been having these destination reunions since 2008. There were about 70 of us in attendance. Bruce and Michelle organized the activities and did a good job. I enjoyed myself! Hopefully lots of other people did too. We showed up on Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed a taco salad dinner, served by Neil and Kristie's family. We also worked on two mixer games: a word search with the names of all 100 Hansen family members as well as a Bingo card that involved finding people with different attributes like recent high school graduation, birthdays in certain months, etc. The word search was definitely the most popular. Also popular was playing Nine-Square and Sandy Pickle (a cross between pickle ball and badminton). Thys and Katrina might have won! After dinner, we had an FHE activity/lesson. Liz had made a book with stories of the first ancestors to join the church. She had selected different stories for us to act out in g...
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