Hey Everybody, It's Family Night

That title is for Kristen, since she's the only reason I even know that song exists. Thanks. a. lot.

So tonight for Family Home Evening we had a little bit of fun. Kevan and the kids had an Uno-athon. That's where they play as many rounds of Uno as they can before we ship them off to bed. The kids looove them the Uno. Kevan likes Uno just fine. Me? Me no likey. So my job was to spin the tunes. I will neither confirm nor deny that every other song was from Wicked.

I was also tasked with Sam control. This is akin to crowd control, but harder. Tonight it involved dancing around to aforementioned tunes and throwing paper airplanes. Sam is sort of obsessed with paper airplanes. And you may not know this about Jacob, but he's a Paper Airplane Master. He is Sam's pusher. A frequent sight at our house is Sam running to Jacob with a piece of paper in hand hollering, "Heh-pane! Heh-pane!" And before you know it, you're getting bonked in the eye by Sam's plane.

Here are a few shots of the fun. As you can see, Emma and Megan take their Uno-ing very seriously.
For some reason Emma wanted me to take a picture of her 40 billion cards. I don't think she won that round.
Megan wanted a picture, too. No, I don't know what Emma is doing.
I may be wrong about this, but do you ever get the feeling that Emma's a bit of a, I don't know... ham? No? Me neither.
This is her celebration following a long-awaited win.
Occasionally Sam would bring a little of our fun over to theirs. Also he needed Jake to make him a few more planes.
Mostly he was just happy to keep to himself, tossing the planes about. I love his expression here.
Airborne!
Sometimes the other kids came over to toss a few themselves. (There's a plane aloft in the top right third of this pic.)
Or dance. At least I think that's what she's doing.
I kept trying to get Sam to show me his plane, but that proved a little difficult. I have a lot of shots like this.
And this. He is adept at moving away the second I press the button.
See?
And then there's this new thing we've been encountering with Sam. Most kids who, when they catch sight of a camera, smile or give some one next to them bunny ears or, well, Emma. But not Sam. No, he does this:
He thinks it is truly hilarious.

Finally I got a good shot. No, it is not fuzzy. You're just wiggly.
Now this one is fuzzy, but I'm including it because it makes me laugh. This picture was taken at the exact same moment that the camera got fwapped by Sam's plane.
Anytime you'd like to join us for a little FHE, come on over. Be prepared though--to survive with this crowd you need to have a taste for Uno, know all the words to Defying Gravity* (and have no qualms about jumping on the table to properly sing the end of it)(not that that happened or anything), and/or fold a mean paper airplane.

*High on my list of Things I Love About Megan is that she calls this song "Flying Off the Handlebars." If you don't know what that means, listen to the first line of it.