FHE and Trees

Weston's head has managed to remain unopened this week. He's pretty careful with it, except the time he was pulling the sound box out of the rocking horse's belly and it smacked into his head like a sling-shot. We told Fiora to put the guts back into the horse as we comforted Weston and she said, "Oh yeah, I can do that. I'm seriously brave." Meanwhile we were waiting for Savanna to finish up the lesson she volunteered to prepare for Family Home Evening, Jared kept lovingly encouraging her to hurry it up, "Don't rush me Dad. This is going to be a great lesson. I'm just putting the finishing touches on it!" She had a lesson complete with activity on the Nativity. We were impressed! The best part was the musical ending, the kids took turns singing us a song. Fiora sang "the North Star" and Weston sang "I am a Child of God" and Savanna sang Christmas song she learned at school. Then we ended with Fiora saying the Family prayer and mocking Weston's prayer method by blessing every tiny object in the room and Savanna defending Weston's honor by smacking her while she prayed.
We went to the Festival of Trees on Saturday and saw an exquisitely beautiful tree that our ward made. Underneath the tree was a picture of Lillian and Sophia Mousques, the other baby in our ward born with Downs Syndrome and a heart defect. A lady standing by the tree asked us if we wanted to hear the story behind it. We said, "That's our daughter." She was so thrilled to see us and said so many people have been touched by Lillian's story. That brought tears to my eyes! I'm very grateful to the ward for creating that tree and allowing Lillian to touch others once again. We were also impressed with the tree Heidi Weight made in Lillian's honor, that was a surprise to me! It was covered with little angels and again Lillian's picture underneath. Thank you Heidi for your time and talents put into that tree, we loved it! We took pictures of the trees but are having technical difficulties downloading them, so I'll post them tomorrow.