Activity Days lesson

I am our wards Activity Day leader for the girls aged 10 & 11. I thought I would share some of our fun activities we have been doing!

I found a cute poem that was about gossip, and then found some different lip balm recipes I had to try! I put the two ideas together, and so for our Churches Activity Days lesson (activity days is a program for girls aged 8 to 11. We do crafts, have lessons and learn about scriptures) I thought I would put together a fun/good lesson about gossip.

Gossip is something that has been a problem with kids and youth since forever. I really wanted to have a lesson that would resonate with the girls. The other activity days leader is doing a small lesson on gossip, and then we are making lip balms to go along with the lesson. I thought it would be cute to do the whole 'mind your own beeswax' tag, to help drive home the point. Cheesy? Probably. But I don't care! :) Feel free to use the printables! Just make sure to link back here if you are using it!

(To save labels and poem right click on photo and click view image. Then save onto your computer and print!)

Idea from HERE!

Poem from HERE!

Far away (yet again) for far too long.

We are almost half way though this most recent deployment, and I haven't updated anything for a while. So, without further ado, here is what is happening in the Johnson household:
 Blake is doing well, he is ready to get back to the US of A. I am hanging in there. I have been very very sick the past few weeks, with Pneumonia Bronchitis and a massive Sinus Infection. Being a single mom and being sick sucks. Evelyn is crawling. Its crazy to watch her worm her way around the house. Grant is still ALL boy. He is definitely the jokester in our house. Grace is reading like crazy, writing stories and told me that she wants to be a vet when she grows up, and then after she is the boss of the vet clinic she wants to be an author and illustrator. She is just far too smart.
This Christmas we went to spend time with the families in Idaho and Utah so the kids and I weren't alone during that time. We had a blast, playing with cousins and family. The trip was a long one. I drove the 2500 miles round trip alone with the kiddos, and I definitely don't EVER want to do that again. Not too much fun!
Here are pictures of our most recent adventures: (in no particular order...)