The California chapter of my posterity celebrated Family Day together today. We used the LDS building at 51st & Dover in Sacramento which is a lovely building. (I live in the same house but attend a different building because of boundary changes.) I had spent weeks researching, planning, and preparing for a fun day together.
I THOUGHT we were going to play a bunch of Minute to Win It games, but we did not. Not a one. Maybe another time. We managed to enjoy ourselves.
30 baby or youngster pictures of 22 family members (me, my children, their spice, and my grandchildren) lined one of the walls for people to identify.
We had a lot of fun with the Photo Booth from
Thomas Hinds Entertainment DJ company. Some of the photos are minorly hysterical.
A game of Headbands was fun. (In
headbands everyone has a headband with a card with a name on it stuck in
the headband. Everyone knows what name you have except you. You must
ask yes and no questions to figure out who you are.) Since the headband
names were family members plus a few Disney characters and Santa Claus,
it was pretty easy. Well, Lucas had a little trouble figuring out he
was Santa Claus and it took Bethany a while to figure out she was
Bethany.
The children stood on the stage and threw down 5 giant 2
foot inflatable dice for a Yahtzee game scored on the chalkboard.
We did
"speed dating" 2 minute interviews with each other.
In
Family Bingo
each person filled in bingo cards with the names of family members.
Cards on which we had written something good that happened in the last
year were drawn and if it was from someone whose name was on your card,
you put an M&M on the space. Some highlight news: Acadia is up to 90
push ups, David saw an original manuscript of Handel's Messiah,
Benjamin went to Disney World for the first time, Lucas ate at Disney
Club 33 (very, very exclusive. Debi did, too. She arranged it. She
worked with a member) Debi traveled to several countries, Sariah kept a houseplant alive for over a year, Andrew was Dungeon Master for a
Dungeons and Dragons game, Jared learned welding, Bethany flew an
airplane, Joseph went to San Francisco with Andrew.
