Blast from the Past

We had a ward activity this last Saturday. I found it's trickier to get ready for an activity when you have to stop every three hours to feed a baby. Saturday was planned down to the minute, but we got it all done. We not only had the activity, but had Katelyn's follow up doctor's appointment and a baby shower. Israel was a huge help and extremely supportive. He cut out signs, glued papers together, packed the car, went through costumes, and mostly listened to me freak out about everything. My friend Cathryn saved me too as she picked up a project Friday night to help out. I'm so blessed to have such support!

The activity was called Blast From the Past and had to do with family history. The bishop wanted everyone to research a name and take the name to the temple by March. This activity supported that goal.

One of the activities was a matching game called Guess Who? You had to match up the ward member with their ancestor. I had a lot of fun making this game and even more fun watching people play it.

The family history consultants in the ward did an amazing job organizing their portion. It was awesome to watch people doing family history during the activity.

Another activity was making a grandparent notebook. Everyone was given a sheet of questions that they could glue in or write in a notebook to find out more about their grandparent.

In one room, ward members were to act out family history stories. I think people mostly just had fun playing with the costumes.

Our bishop and his wife.

The family history consultants had kid friendly family trees for everyone to fill out.

The gym was covered in trees. Each family filled out a family tree from memory as they waited for everyone else to get there.

Ward members brought food from the countries of their ancestors. We had quite the assortment of food--everything from craw fish to soda bread to potato soup to Swiss rolls.