Brinley's Scripture for Family Home Evening!

Oh my, we laughed so hard during our Family Home Evening tonight!!! We have been having the kids take turns picking a favorite scripture and reading it aloud after which we try to discuss it a little bit. Well, tonight was Brinley's turn. She was pretty excited and felt very important. She had the page number and verse all written down on a paper. We prayed, sang and then it was time for her to share her scripture. She can read most of it but has a little trouble with some of the words. Quincy was so kindly helping her...which made this all the more funny. This was the verse that they were reading out loud together:

Leviticus 20:17 - And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of thier people; he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

When Quincy came to the first "nakedness" her eyes got so big I thought they were going to pop out of her head. She went ahead and whispered the word to Brinley and then I thought her eyes were going to pop as well. Needless to say we lost it from there. We were laughing so hard that we were all crying!

Oh, it was a good Family Home Evening. We might not remember the great lesson Quincy gave on the Holy Ghost tonight, but I am pretty sure we will never forget Brinleys scripture!!!

Birinley's "sick" day! NOT

A couple days ago Brinley was coming down with a cold so I wanted her to lay low for the day and not play with friends.  The other kids got busy and she was the only one left home a couple of times.  I also got busy and just let her do her own thing for awhile.  Oh man, that girl has an active imagination and she makes some MESSES!!  After asking a million times to clean up various messes that she had made, I walked in the room to find her yet again laying out a big plan.  I said to her, "what are you doing now?" to which she replied, "Sorry, I'm sick - I have to entertain myself". 

Just for the record, here are a FEW of the things she did to "entertain" herself during the day...
    
     - got out about 15 small plastic cups and poked shishkabob sticks into them to create something
     - popped her own popcorn in the air popper...complete with melted butter and salt
     - dragged out loads of books to read to herself
     - dug a box and milk jug out of the recycle and drew all over both of them with permanant marker
     - painted her own fingernails...pink and white stripes!
     - made snowcones with our snoopy snowcone maker
     - drew on about a thousand pieces of paper
     - found an ice cream bucket in the garage and cleaned it out with a half a bottle of dish soap
     - chopped up part of a block of cheese to make herself a snack of cheese and crackers
    

I thought kids were supposed to lay around and watch TV when they weren't feeling well!!  It's just a good thing she is sooo cute and we love her so much!