The Birds and the Bees, okay fine just the Bees

I planned my first big homeschool field trip today. I have wanted to take my kids to a bee farm for a long time and so I googled and found Marshall's Bee Farm in Napa Valley. It sounded like so much fun but I was worried it wouldn't live up to the description, but it turned out great! The kids got to put on bee keeping hats and go right out to the hive and see everything in it. They even found the queen bee! Then they each got to eat honeycomb right out of the hive. They also got to see where they process the honey (uncap the wax covering the honeycomb and spin it to get the honey out). Then they got a whole table full of honey to try (20 different varieties) plus crackers, cheese and bananas and yogurt parfaits to eat. Isaac kept yelling, 'more honey'. I guess it's not that different from the 'more candy' I've been hearing him yell since halloween. It was so much fun and thanks to all my friends for coming!

Building an Eternal Family

Last night for Family Home Evening I did a lesson based on the song My Eternal Family. It's not in the primary songbook it was one of those songs in the friend a couple years ago. Anyway, it is one of the songs for the primary program next year and it is the song all the primary is supposed to learn in January. I love primary music and I think it is such a wonderful way to teach the gospel to my kids. I love making my kids picture music sheets for the songs we learn. Here's the one I made for this song.
I got out a bunch of different tools and set them out and then had sticker labels. We sang each line of the song and the kids had to find the 'tools' we use to build our family. Then they got to come up and choose a tool from the table to represent that tool. The hammer was serving, the screwdriver was speak with kindness, the staple gun was help at work and play etc... It was really fun. But the best part was our activity. We decided to try and build a family pyramid. We set up the camera on timer and after two tries we got this:

Our very own eternal family pyramid.