Our Family Fun Night

A while ago, Adam and I were reading my sister-in-law's blog. She wrote about how every Friday they have a "Family Fun Night." He said, "How come we don't do anything fun like that?"

Which is just plain rude, because every night is a family fun night around here.

;)

Anyways, he didn't mention it again until the following Sunday, when we had the missionaries over for dinner. Adam told them how we were going to start having a "Family Fun Night" every Saturday and how incredible it was going to be.

The missionaries were mucho impressed with our family-bonding skills, and kept going on and on about how families don't spend enough time with each other and how great we were for doing so.

Mike and I kind of muttered, "Uh-huh" and "Yeah", and Adam smiled gleefully knowing that he had us.

So, we got sucked into having a weekly family fun night, too.

It's actually been a lot of fun. We take turns rotating what to do, with the requirements being to keep it cheap and something the whole family can do (as in not Lego Star Wars :) ). And we normally try to get out of the house. Because I spend all days on Saturday cleaning it and want it to stay clean at least until Sunday morning.

Last night was Mike's turn. His family fun nights are the best, because he gets all creative and finds different things for us to do. He found out about a fun parade and fireworks show happening downtown, and that's where we ended up going. The parade was really fun (Grace is determined to be a cheerleader someday) and we were SO close to the fireworks!


We all had a great time!

And even though I was a little stressed about having an official family fun night on Saturday nights (which can be crazy getting ready for church and all), I'm so glad that we got guilted into began doing this. It's been a lot of fun.