Family Time

Danielle's age group at church is having an Amazing Race - Family Style challenge. We were given a calendar at the beginning of the month with 24 different ideas on it for spending time together as a family. To participate, you have to do 15 activities and document each one with a photo. All 15 photos have to be emailed to the church by 2/1. Then all the entrants get their name entered in a drawing for indoor waterpark tickets. Our church is huge, so I don't know how much of a chance Danielle really has, but it was fun. A lot of these things we do anyway, so we just had to remember to take a picture at some point. Here are the 15 photos we submitted.

Do a family art project.
We've done this before and thought it would be fun to do again. It was! More on this tomorrow.

Exercise as a family.

Pick a chore day.

Do a 5-10 minute family devotional.

Eat dinner as a family.
We do this every single night but I can never remember to take a picture! This was Ron's birthday dinner.

Choose a family verse and post it in your house.
Danielle really wanted this verse, so we picked it and hung it in our downstairs bath. 

Play a board game.

Make a meal together.
Ever hear the saying "too many cooks in the kitchen"?! Enough said.

Watch a movie together.
We do this almost every Friday night, plus we went to the theater this month, but I never got a picture. I did get a picture of the popcorn on the cob we made for movie night, though!

Do an outside activity

Read a chapter of the Bible together.
I have to admit we picked a very short chapter in Psalms.

Indoor snowball fight w/paper.
This one made me cringe because the thought of wads of paper all over the place makes me anxious! My house is messy enough without creating a mess on purpose! Danielle decided we could use rolled socks, which was perfect.

Ice cream sundae day.
We didn't have the supplies on hand (nor do we like whipped cream), so we enjoyed bowls of cookie dough ice cream instead.

Themed day
We decided to have a speak Spanish night (while at the Mexican restaurant), although we could have picked pj day since at least 1/2-3/4 of us don't change out of our pjs on Sundays during the winter!

Make a family wish list of 15 activities to do this year
We were stretching it a bit on #s 7 & 8.