HFE (Huge Family Evening)

Sunday marked the largest official Family Home Evening gathering of the Provo Hutchings clan. Here is a list of attendants:

Carla Hutchings (Haskin) Family: Stephen & Heather, Todd, Katie, & Brady (honorary member, present via teleconference). Kent Hutchings Family: John and Cara, Chad, Kelby, Amber-Rose, & Mikkelle. Byron Hutchings Family:Kevin, Amanda, Abby, Mariah,Marc, Chelle, Kendall, Lindsay (honorary member), & Scotticus. Ross Hutchings Family: Kyle.

And, of course, our favorites: Grandpa Bay and Grandpa Jean.

So it was quite a full house.



Kyle was in charge, and he was able to procure an all-star lineup:




Todd gave a fantastic lesson on the 3 purposes of the Church. We made a special effort to focus on Elder Ballard's challenge to use "the New Media" to promote good principles to the world and participating in uplifting conversations (follow this link: Ballard's BYU-Hawaii Address). We also talked a lot about Indexing, which is an easy way to get involved in genealogy (see www.familysearchindexing.org).

Katie shared her amazing talents: Talking on the phone to her Minnesota boyfriend for hours at a time. To demonstrate, she called Brady and allowed us to interrogate him. See video below (sorry, our camera's zooming is all messed up).

Grandpa inspired us by reading a letter from a political advocacy group that was written to Janet. After thoroughly confusing us, he discussed the importance of getting involved in issues (such as those mentioned in the letter), and that we can make a difference.

Kendall and Lindsay led us in a rousing game of Categories. I won't explain it here. I'll just say that Amber-Rose won, Marc cruelly confused everybody, Kyle and Todd formed a secret combination, and Grandpa cheated (he was taking notes)

John and Cara were not in charge of dessert, but they were still able to burn some cookies pretty badly by leaving them in the oven for 2 hours.

Kelby and Amber-Rose were in charge of dessert, and they provided some fabulous sugar cookies with green frosting...and a cute baby!

So that was the evening!