My Little Leprechaun

In school they read stories about Leprechauns and St. Patricks Day so they decided to have a green party. They had a sign up sheet and Kaycee and her friend Alexis chose to bring green cookies. All weekend she was counting down until St. Patricks Day because she got to wear green, have a green party and bring green cookies. We also made St. Patty treats for her class.

Kooking with Kaycee and FHE

Kaycee LOVES to cook and bake things so we have been cooking whatever she wants. The other night she decided she wanted Shepard's Pie. I guess they had it at school because we've never had it at home. After that we decided to have "Kooking with Kaycee" on Family Home Evening nights. She chose a few recipes out of the Taste of Home: Good Food Kids Love and today we made our first one, well two. We made a dessert for FHE.

Kaycee's Kooking

Wagon Wheel Casserole

1 pound lean ground beef
1 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
1 large onion, chopped
8 ounces wagon wheel pasta; cooked and drained
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 large green pepper, thinly sliced
1 jar (26 ounces) meatless spaghetti sauce
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

*In a large nonstick skillet, cook the beef, mushrooms and onion over medium-heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. In a shallow 3-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray, layer the pasta, Parmesan cheese, green pepper, beef mixture and spaghetti sauce.

* Cover, bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Uncover; sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Bake 10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

Yield: 8 servings.

FHE

For FHE we did Setting Goals: http://www.ldssplash.com/fhe/fhe_lessons/goals/goals.htm

Setting Goals

There are a few ways to do this lesson. Pick the sections you like, and print the things needed for each section that you use.

Strengths and Weakness - Give everyone THIS PRINTOUT and a pen or a pencil. Then have them write down all their good habits. You can give them some suggestions like saying their prayers every day, etc. Then when they are done with that have some of them tell what some of the good habit are. Then have them write down their bad habits. They don't have to say them if they don't want to. Give them a while. When they are all done have them look at there good habit and bad habit list and take a look at how long they are. Hopefully there good habit list is long. If it's not that is fine. If there bad habit list is long then tell them that is fine it just means we have things we need to work on. Then discuss how they can work on their bad habits. Printout THIS SCRIPTURE and read it to them. Talk about how we can make our weaknesses strengths if we work on them and with the Lord's help.

Setting Goals - We can set goals to over come our weaknesses or to accomplish things we have never done before (acquiring new talents, etc.). Use THIS PRINTOUT and discuss what goals we can set. Talk about some long term goals (saving for a trip, or college) and short term goals (reading our scriptures every day, etc)

What do we need to do to accomplish these goals?

When will we have accomplished them?

To write down one or two goals they want to accomplish on their paper.
Family Goals - This is a good opportunity to talk about family goals. Use THIS PRINTOUT to make some family goals that you cam work on together.

Bare your testimony that if we work on our goals, we can accomplish them with the Lord's help.

FHE Treat

For dessert we had Ice Cream Piglets. The recipe was for Fruity Sherbet Piglet but we couldn't find just raspberry sherbet so we used strawberry ice cream.

Fruity Sherbet Piglet
1 small fresh strawberry
2 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1 slice banana
1 toothpick
2 pink pastel miniature marshmallows
1 scoop raspberry sherbet
2 semisweet chocolate chips
Chocolate syrup, optional

*For piglet's ears, remove the stem from the strawberry; cut strawberry in half and set aside. For snout, press miniature chips into the banana slice. Insert the toothpick into the opposite side of the banana; set aside. For feet, snip slits into each marshmallow for piglet's toes; set aside.

*Just before serving, place a scoop of sherbet on an industrial serving dish; add marshmallow feet.

*Insert piglet's strawberry ears and chocolate chips for eyes. Attach the reserved snout. if desired, add a chocolate syrup "puddle."

Yield: 1 serving

My Smarty Pants Kaycee

I have tried teaching Kaycee the days of the week forever. This is her only after a couple weeks. I finally got her on video but we are at Pizza Hut so there is a lot of background noise.

Cat Tales

Kaycee was so excited to go see daddy this weekend. We were able to meet several people from Mt. Spokane. They were all so nice. We had a late start so by the time we got to Mead Cat Tales was closed so Dr. Scott called over and we got a special tour of the facilities. It was pretty cool. The kids were amazed with the animals. Several of them were sleeping but many of them were up and very active.

Kaycee was so glad to be able to spend the time with her daddy and was wore out by the time we left.