schokoladenessen

for the past several weeks, in preparation for our church's general conference, the wheelers have been spending family home evening together learning about the prophet, his counselors, and the twelve apostles. 

starting with president monson, we did a brief life sketch and then a fun activity from the history, experiences, culture, or hobbies of each general authority (i.e, made paper boats for monson, performed physics experiments for eyring, watercolor painting for packer...fifteen easy monday nights for ya'lls right there! plus, if your children have longer attention spans than mine, you can also add in a short synopsis of each apostle's last conference talk.) our kids have loved it!

here is caleb playing a german children's game, schokoladenessen, like a boss on the night we learned about president uchtdorf:

mmm...schokolade...