a laugh a day

yesterday was one of those really good sundays. i mean, every sunday is good, but this one was extra good. it was a GORGEOUS day outside, and we walked to church for the first time. our kids we teach were actually pretty well-behaved, and we got through our entire lesson. then we had a family dinner with joesph's siblings jacob and jill and my sister lindsay, and we played the turbo edition of cranium, and had a blast. we ate some yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cake, and our friends jake and jenna stopped by. one of the best parts of the day was that our primary kids we teach were so good, and they made us laugh throughout the entire lesson. i'll share just a few of the funny things they did and said:

we taught the lesson about the nephites being slaves to the lamanites, and they escaped because they gavve wine to the lamanites who got drunk. at the end i asked the kids what they had learned. one of the shyer kids raised his hand right away and said "don't drink too much wine!"

we were talking about being in bondage, and i joked about school sometimes feeling like bondage, and the kids heartily agreed. then joseph said we only had a few more days of it, and the little girl in our class that pretty much keeps to herself suddenly burst out with "thats not fair! we have to be in school til june!" and crossed her arms all grumpy and frowned.

sometimes the kids need a little time to get the wiggles out, and i let jill do simon says with the kids. she had them do a few funny things, and at one point she had them get on their knees. she said simon says and kinda paused while she was thinking about what to say next, and i told them to bow down, and they did it! they were kinda giggling, but they all started bowing down to jill, and we couldnt stop laughing.

at the end we play hangman til its time to go, and the kids were having a hard time guessing the word i had. i kept drawing more parts to the hanging person so they could get it. at one point, i drew some long curly hair, and joseph said "oh, we know its a girl." then, the boy who had shaved his head earlier that week said "or a boy with really long hair!"

okay, so maybe some of these were funnier to me, but i had to write some of these things down. suprisingly, we are gonna miss these kids. we have one more week with them, and i'm a little sad! we were just figurng out how to teach them. i guess thats how it works.....

here's a laugh from today. i got a kick out of this article about the new yankees stadium.