Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Our family history....

This last Saturday our Ward had a Primary activity that was an ancestor birthday party. Such a cute idea!!! Each child was suppose to bring a picture of a relative that had passed away and to learn about them and then we were going to celebrate their birthdays. I wanted to teach Caleb about his Grandma Irene (my Dad's Mom). On the way to the activity I'm telling Caleb all about her and how she grew up in Seattle, how Caleb is like her because she was nice to everyone, she loved golf, and she was good at poker. POKER is what stuck out in his mind and he wanted to know all about it. I told him how she was even allowed to play in an all boys group at the Hearthstone.

Here are a few examples of the kids stories that were told right before Caleb (I am not trying to minimize these children's stories, they have some fantastic stories and some real pioneer heritage)....
  • My great great great Grandma died and President Lorenzo Snow laid his hands on her head and told her to come back to life and she did.
  • My great great grandpa wanted to add onto his house so he saved his money really hard and when he finally had $600 the Prophet asked for $600 to finish the temple and he gave them his $600.
  • My great great great Grandpa (mumble mumble) Heber C Kimball (for those who don't know he was a very important member of our church in the beginning). The leader clarified for us, Oh he was baptised by Heber C Kimball. Child: No, he baptised Heber C Kimball!
Caleb's big turn: "this is my grandma Irene, she was good at poker!"

(Might I add that Ive never been prouder of my family history either, I just thought the juxtaposition of the stories was a bit hilarious!)

5 comments:

The Hamlin Family said...

HAHAHA!!! I would have LOVED to hear that...Caleb's too cute!!! I loved catching up and looking at all your pictures. I think that's neat that your dad blessed Beckham!!! Plus, the lemonade looks GOOD too!!!

Campbell Family said...

What a great story! I love what kids pick up on and how they share that with others. Sounds like a super neat activity. So jealous of the warm weather! It was in the 80's here for a few days last week but that was short-lived! The lemonade stand and cookies was too cute. I love how you tell the stories. And you know the picture of Alainey on the horse....she didn't ride by herself. Layne was standing right by her when I snapped the photo. Although I'm pretty sure she would ride by herself if we let her!

Grandma Caroline said...

Well, at least Caleb's family history is unique in that city of Zion. Where ever we plan ourselves, we bring 'color' into the area. That is a good story.

Larry and Leah said...

I'll need to let Caleb know about the time Grandma Irene won the Holdem Game at McCaslands traditional USC/UCLA football party. It is still talked about as the bigest upset victory of the 30 + years of parties. The hotshot players didn't know what hit them after Grandma finished them off. Looks of "how cute" turned into looks of "this can't be real".

PS - I ran third that year adding to my past two victories. She trained me well.

Sara said...

Hahahaha, oh that made me laugh!