Feb- Mardi Gras

Okay so call our family weird, but this year we celebrated MARDI GRAS... and though no we didn't have a parade or took our shirts off, we had cake and fake beads... The funny thing is we did absolutely nothing for Valentines Day (except Ken cooked an amazing meal) but we did celebrate the wonderful day of MARDI GRAS! Reason.... i'm sure your wondering why? Each month for family home evening we have 5 different "activities" each month... really 4 but a 5th for those months with more weeks... anyhoo.... One week we do an activity (swimming, basketball, for a walk... ect.) one week we learn about the scriptures, one week we do a service activity, and one week we have a night of culture... we learn about another country or culture... Last month we had our friends over and did the Chinese New Year and learned about China, this month was France and we learned about "Fat Tuesday" which another word is Mardi Gras... So therefore we celebrated mardi gras and boy we had a good time.... The reason for the cake is there is a tradition that they do that they make a cake and put a "trinket" inside and whoever gets the trinket (which normally is  a toy baby doll) gets crowned king or queen of the day.... It was fun, kenny put together a fun slideshow about france and I did a little presentation on the actual Mardi Gras and how it came to be! Next month is... yep you guessed it IRELAND!! We're very excited! Anyways here's a few pictures of our FHE night.... Don't mind the hair in the 2nd picture I had just got out of the shower.....

What do we have here... the little turkey reached over and dug his little fingers right into that cake....

Nice try ZACK!