FHE - Talent Night

For family home evening tonight, Maren and I gave a lesson from the friend about talents. We each performed or talked about 1 talent we each had. (we could have been there all night if we did more than one:) ) We went youngest to oldest.

Maren

She chose to do a dance from a song she performed at her dance recital last year. She couldn't remember all of it, but did a nice job improvising. (her dance included a doll "Baby Mine" from Dumbo. Aliza

She also chose a dance, not from a performance she did, but a song from another class, I'm not sure of the name, but it has her singing about a DATE she is going on

at 8:00. At the very end, it sings it is her DAD she is going out with, and Sam walked up at the right moment.

Jackson

He was being a bit silly, and was doing a somersault like a 2 year old.
So, I jumped in and showed one of many drawings he has done for me......he does a wonderful job.



Sammy
Of course I wanted him to play a song on the piano for us, but he said his "great mind" is his talent. That is very true, but I did show one of his paintings he did in Art class. I think they were learning about shades.

Sam

Being next in line, (yes, I am older than him), he came up with a smirk on his face. He grabbed my hand, pulled me next to him, and bragged that his talent was to get all the cute girls throughout his life. (For those that knew him when he was younger, True? he he)

Becca

My talent, because kids were getting restless, and it was getting late...was being an o.k. baker. Luckily I had made brownies....we all played the "water game" ate brownies and went to bed.

I am thankful for the talents that we are able to use while here on earth. We don't necessarily need to "Perform" talents, but like the story we read, our talents can be of service, helping others, and knowing others needs.
Here's hoping we can all be thankful for our talents, and think about what we have.

Once There Was A Snowman

For our ward activity a couple of weeks ago, we had a "Let Your Light So Shine" night. We were able to bring some of our hobbies (I brought my lap top and showed my blogging hobby), and show off some of our talents. We had some great acts; songs, violin playing, piano, husband and wife duets, accordian playing............Then there were the Van Trapollock families. Amy found this great act from a family in Lovell, that performed it at the Lovell Follies. They let us borrow the song and some of their props. We practiced one or two times, and we even got our husbands, Clint and Sam to perform with us. It's not a professional video, but take a look. I hope you can hear the song and words o.k. It's pretty funny.