Back to School Feast!

My boy's wanted Chuck a Rama for our back to school feast,

sadly or happily depending on which family member you talk too, our feast this year was on Sunday.

So Chuck a Rama was a no go!

To make up we spent Saturday rednecking it up at Smith & Edwards and the North Ogden Fish Farm.

My kids love feeding the fish.

We had two main dishes all a Chuck a Rama style.

Sheppard Pie

Temple Chicken

French Bread

Salad

(Which have you tried the Lighthouse Greek Yogurt Ranch, so good.)

Orange Julius

 Lauren Photo Bombing the food pictures.

After dinner Justin gave the kids their Fathers Blessings.

Then we introduced the kids to this school years theme.

I am going to make my own typography, but my photoshop was 

acting up, so lucky I found this print out.

We selected this quote because our boy are becoming men and we want them to be strong men of God,

Lauren is turning 12, my older 3 are no longer little and need to stand on their own testimony.

To stand for what they know is right, to not care what others may say or think about them.

To stand with the lord.

We had the kids think of  school year goals earlier in the day.

We went over each of them and ways they could accomplish them.

Dallin (10th Grade),

Maintain a 3.0 or higher grade point average.

Mike (9th Grade),

Make the track team.

Lauren (6th Grade),

To have no missing assignments, and tryout for Student Government.

Milo (Kindergarten),

Learn how to read.

Genevieve (Preschool),

To learn how to write her numbers and letters.

Not letters and numbers, numbers and letters.

I love this tradition and I am so grateful to have a night dedicated to our family, our faith and the Lord.

Back to School Feast

Last night we had our back to school feast.

We invited both sets of Grandparents over, my kids have the best Grandparents.

The menu was suppose to be.

Fish Taco's with fresh pico, 

cafe rio style dressing, salad, rice and beans.

as seen here.

I was thinking of what I had planned for our feast and realized, it was all for me.

This night is all about my kids, so I changed up the menu.

Ribs, 

Mash Potatoes,

Salad, 

Hand Shucked Corn on the Cob 

(any what about bob fans?)

Watermelon.

For Desert I made 2 Slab Pies

an Apple and a Peach.

We pretty much always get our corn form this stand.

They have been selling for 49 years and really do have the best produce.

We got our corn and watermelon from here.

They are located on Main St in Kaysville kinda by Taste Doughnuts.

As a side note the lady who runs the stand is a firecracker and we love her.

I took this picture from my car, because I am sure she would have yelled at me for taking it.

 Don't tell.

After dinner Justin and the Grandpa's gave the kids a Father Blessing for 

the start of the school year.

You can find out more about blessings here.

This school years theme is 

Joshua 1:9

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(source)

I hope it will help my kids remember that the Lord is always with

them and that they have no reason to fear the world.

Stand and be true my little ones.

p.s. sorry for the crappy phone pics its all I had time for.