Go for the Gold

In honor of the 2010 Winter Games, we thought it would be fun to have an Olympic-themed Family Home Evening. After learning about doing our best, we held several winter events.

As hard as it is to see, this is Maddy racing up the stairs to begin the Obstacle course. (Okay, I know that is not a winter sport but we improvised.)

For this part of the course, they were required to do different "stunts" on their bed.

Jumping jacks in the hall were yet another part of the course. Mom was getting tired just following them around with the camera. Dad was in charge of the stop watch.


They had to finish the obstacle course with a scripture chase on "Faith." They both did awesome and had so much fun that they each wanted to try it twice. Interestingly, they both increased their times and improved their score, achieving their "personal best."

Other events included races, in which we had to "handicap" Jake so that we wouldn't have too much of an advantage. It also included the bobsled but that didn't go too well considering we have NO snow right now. Oh well, we tried. We also hope to go "figure" skating this weekend since neither Jake nor Maddy have ever been. Jake thinks it looks easy so that should be a fun event to video.

Although Family Night never goes as well as I envision in my mind, I think the kids had fun and it's one they will remember for a long time. Hey, at least we were together as a family, right?