Summertime Family Home Evening: Hot Dogs, Marshmallows and Sparklers

I thought it would be fun to share with you the pictures I took at our dinner/Family Home Evening activity this Monday

then I looked at the faces in several of these pictures

I promise we were having fun

no, really. Even Tyler.

Britt's happy when he has his Mountain Dew

Cole is just thinking hard about roasting hot dogs

and Rachel is wondering if I am going to notice she is wearing Olivia's flip flops (the ones that barely fit Olivia)

Fun (just disregard Tyler's expression)

Is it ready yet?

Does this photo look staged? (And who is that in the pink? Isn't she usually behind the camera?)

marshmallow time!

getting out the sparklers

now it's fun!

check it out!

I haven't played with sparklers in forever! I can't believe we haven't made that a 4th of July tradition. We will definitely have to get some and some fireworks to add to our celebration this year. These were some old fireworks my parents gave me.

It was really fun to spend some time together as a family. Thanks, Britt for coming up with the idea to roast hot dogs and marshmallows. I was kind of uninspired about what to do for Family Home Evening since I went to an exercise class at 7:00. I think it was an excellent dinner and activity. It was a really fun evening, even if my girls kept running up the fence to talk to the Nielson kids about what we were doing for Family Home Evening. It made it kind of hard for me to get pictures of my girls with the sparklers when they kept running away with them to show the Nielsons in their back yard (through the fence). Silly kids.