Family Theme 2016

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know (but may not remember) that in 2015 we started doing a "family theme" for the year.  Last year our theme was "We Are One" (you can read about that here.)  We feel like we accomplished what we hoped to this past year, and became more unified as a couple, and therefore as a family.

For 2016, our theme is "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear."  This is part of a scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants (a book of scripture in our church).  This year, instead of just having the theme, we're setting goals to go along with our theme.  We're focusing on financial and emergency preparedness.

We're pretty excited to see what this next year brings!  Happy New Year friends!

Family theme 2015

Earlier this year I read a friend's blog post about their family theme for the year.  As I read her post, I felt strongly that it would be important for us to have a family theme for our family, too.  So about a month ago we had a Family Home Evening discussing what our family theme was going to be for the year.

We decided on the theme "We Are One."

The theme came from a talk President Uchtdorf, one of our general church leaders, gave a few years ago.  At the beginning of this year, our local church leaders counseled us to have regular family councils so that we could be more unified in our family decisions.  They also promised that as we did so our children would learn how to voice their opinions and how to compromise.

As we discussed the different potential themes, we felt strongly that these would all be imperative qualities for our children to have to succeed in life.  We also felt that it would be important for Neal and I to be more unified in our decisions as parents.

We have already found areas that we can be more unified in, and it has already strengthened our marriage to work on them.  I'm really excited to see where this theme takes us this year!