getting ready for school

we had a special family home evening last night. our theme was "back to school and working hard". the boys start back at preschool this Thursday and they are really excited. Austin and I both feel that the most important thing in school is to work hard. you can accomplish anything if you just put your mind to it and work for it. we've both been very big on the motto "we can do hard things" lately as well.
so for family home evening we talked about working hard at what our teachers want us to do. we reminded the boys of the things that they've accomplished and the new skills that they've acquired from lots of practice and working at it. we also had some backpack races in which the boys raced to one end of the yard, filled their backpacks with books, zipped them up and ran back to the finish line. We did it a couple of times and they both loved it and each won at least once. For our treat I made back to school cupcakes that really turned out cute. And before bed Austin did father's blessings for all the children. It was a great family home evening, one that you could tell they are going to remember for a long time. it's so nice to have a successful family home evening.