FHE fun

So, I love reading my friend Sarah Bradley's blog, she is totally organized and writes Monday Memoirs, Tuesday Tips, and so on and so forth throughout the week (pretty cool right?). Last week her Tuesday Tip was about the FHE she had the night before. She had bought a metal tub from Lowes for around $4 and enough graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate bars, and marshmallows to make smores for her cute family. The whole night cost her $10! She is my hero.

Since I can only copy good ideas and not come up with them on my own, I decided to cook hot dogs over a fire and make smores for part of our FHE on Monday. I went to WalMart in search for a tub. Why not Lowes like smart Sarah suggested? Well, WalMart has everything right? I needed other things for the house, like the Smores materials, and I have 4boys. I must maximize my happy cooperative time when I have it! WalMart is fun for all: when they are good while I do my shopping, I will take them down the toy isle and let them drool over, wish upon, play with, then say goodbye to the toys. (Yep! I NEVER buy them! teehee) Guess what? You know already...they did NOT have any tubs! Zip, Zilch! So, I go to the garden center in search of bricks or paving stones-I'll build my own fire pit! How about those suckers were like 3 bucks a piece!!! I would need 10-20. I might as well BUY a real firepit. I call my sweet hubby to consult, he gives me the OK (this man has been wanting a fire pit for years!) I find one for cough cough 75 dollars that I like. Nope, they don't have any in stock. OK people if it were just my family I would have given up there, hit Lowes the next day for a tub and had FHE on TUesday. But, I had invited another family over! Then I had a brillant thought! I have 2 metal trash cans at home! Maybe that would work. I drive home and do a test fire in both trash cans. As soon as the sticks caught on fire, so did the trash can!!! Ok, now what? Another light bulb goes off: There is a Target next to my house. What's better than WalMart to a kid? TARGET! I throw the kids in the car, again, and off we go. Target has a cute copper fire pit there so I grab it and put it in the cart, swing by the toy isle-"Target has different toys Mom", pay for my stuff, and head home. On my way I receive a phone call from Gary saying he is running late, and one from my friend who tells me her day is crazy, her kid is screaming and can we reschedule.
$100 and 2 hours later, the kids and I roast hot dogs and marshmallows. We had laughter, lessons, singing, crying, and lots of hugs and kisses. It was the best 100 dollars I've spent in a long time. I tried Sarah, I tried. :)

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Our new fire pit! Zechariah and Daddy

Me and the boys Ammon was crying b/c I told him no smores until he eats his hot dog