Father's Day Flee -- Day One

Rick is such an awesome Dad! Here he is sharing a scripture with Janelle at our annual "Father's Day Flee." He is wearing his Father's Day T-shirt from Janika that says, "University of DAD where money grows on trees." (We wish!)

"Father's Day Flee" is a tradition that Rick and I started several years ago where we take our family on a fun/spiritual vacation around Father's Day. It is sort of like a "mini-EFY." Usually we go out of town, but this year we opted to try it from home because of other commitments.

We invited our friends, the Bashfords, to join us this year for our theme of "Legacy of Living Waters." All of the activities centered around water and we continually made comparisons between our need for physical water and our need for the "living water" of the gospel. Rick planned the whole thing -- from arranging the agenda, to scheduling meeting places, to buying all of the food.

I know it doesn't seem fair with it being Father's Day and all (he should be kicking back getting a foot rub) but this tradition was his idea after all and he is great at this sort of thing. We started off the evening with some water games and then Rick gave a lesson from the scriptures about the Savior, drawing symbolism from the water activities we had just participated in. We concluded the evening with Rootbeer Floats!