and other internal organs

Since it's November and the season of Thanksgiving, we had a Family Home Evening lesson on this subject. (We also used this opportunity to practice using the Topical Guide so that the kids would be involved in the lesson rather than just listening -or not.)
The lesson started off with a little history lesson: what is Thanksgiving? why do we celebrate?
Isaac proceeded to inform us that we celebrated when the pilgrims got to Utah and the indians helped them. ( An example of what happens when you get Mormon and American history mixed up.) So this led to creating a tall tale as a humorous explanation of how the pilgrims sailed/portaged the Mayflower across the United States, creating the Grand Canyon when they got off course on their trek to the promised land. That sometimes Babe the Blue Ox helped to pull the ship across the land until they got to the Great Salt Lake. Toby especially found this hilarious.
Anyway, for the activity, we wrote down on cards things that we are thankful for. Besides the expected answers (parents, family, gospel, etc.) we got some interesting and amusing listings. Here are a few examples.

• my very intelegent smartness (Isaac) (I love that he really is very smart, but can't spell)
  
• resources (Isaac)
• Hazel and other internal organs (Isaac again)
• pie (Nate)
• Shiny, metalic beetles, worms, colorful dragonflies and butterflies, cool scorpions and spiders, and all the other little weird looking insects, like centipedes. (Toby)
• ME (Toby about himself) (Everyone should be so self-assured)
  
• Books and other cool bits of information that is really obscure (Toby)
• clocks (Aspen)
• Oceans (Aspen)
• Fire (Aspen)

The best part of the lesson was Isaac's comment at the end of Family Home Evening. Isaac was conducting this meeting so he got up at the end and said,
"We'd like to thank Mom for her lesson. That's another thing we should write on a card."
For the rest of November, I'm going to try to post about the things/people that we are thankful for. I hope that ya'll will remember to thank Heavenly Father for those people/things/tender mercies/blessings in your life. Maybe post on your blog too:)