Family Home Storage

Family Home Storage "Our Heavenly Father created this beautiful earth, with all its abundance, for our benefit and use. His purpose is to provide for our needs as we walk in faith and obedience. He has lovingly commanded us to “prepare every needful thing” (see D&C 109:8) so that, should adversity come, we can care for ourselves and our neighbors and support bishops as they care for others. "We encourage members world-wide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings. "We ask that you be wise as you store food and water and build your savings. Do not go to extremes; it is not prudent, for example, to go into debt to establish your food storage all at once. With careful planning, you can, over time, establish a home storage supply and a financial reserve." —The First Presidency, All Is Safely Gathered In: Family Home Storage, Feb. 2007, 1

Activity Day Girls

The activity day girls, with the help of their leader, Lorie Madden, made some great "Mormon Ads." Check them out below! Thanks for sharing them with us Lorie!

Friday Family Spotlight

Meet the Seagle Family!

Tell me each family members name and age :

Clayton 31 

Charice 35  

Addison 4 

Abigail 2 

Kevin 7 months

Where are you both originally from?

Clay- Oxnard CA,  Charice- Sherwood OR

How long have you been in the ward and lived in Brentwood?

Since May 2008

What do you do for work?

Clay,Software Support at Kaiser Permanente 

Charice, Massage

Describe each family member in one word:

 Clay - animal 

Charice-fabulous

Addison-rock star

Abigail-sassy

Kevin -flirt

What are your current church callings?

Team teaching CTR 7, Home teaching  and Visiting teaching

What is your family's favorite dinner?

Chicken turnovers with cream cheese

What is the biggest challenge you face as parents of 3 very small children?

Patience

What is your favorite family activity?

Family Wrestling hour

What is your family's favorite movie?

Kung Fu Panda

If you could pick a family theme song, what would it be?

Chicka Chicka Rock Star written by Addison Seagle

What is a family tradition you have?

Making chocolate chip pancakes Saturday mornings

What is your family's favorite scripture?

Havent gotten that far with the kids yet!

What helps to keep your family strong and unified?

The Lord and Laughter

Basic Food Storage Ideas

By Janet Towne

Build a small supply of food that is part of your normal daily diet.  One way to do this is to purchase a few items each week to build a one week supply of food, then you can gradually increase your supply until it is sufficient for three months.

Basic Food Storage Items

You might want to consider the following basic items for storage.  These amounts are enough to sustain an average woman for one year.  A man would need more, a child would need less.

Grains (rice, wheat or other cereal)                    300 lbs

Powdered milk                                                        100 lbs

Sugar or Honey                                                        30 lbs

Salt                                                                             5 lbs

Water                                                                         14 gallons

*These items provide a diet that supplies approximately 2,300 calories per day.  The amount recommended for an average 25 year old woman.

The following is a delicious salad and a way to use your wheat.

A Meal in One Salad

3 hard boiled eggs cut up

1 sweet pickle, diced

2 stalks celery, diced

1 large carrot, grated

1/4 green pepper, chopped

1/4 onion chopped

6 radishes (optional)

1 cup mayo

1 can tuna, chicken, or ham

2 cups cooked whole wheat

mix all together and chill

*serves 8

To cook the whole wheat:

1 cup whole kernel wheat

2 cups water

1/2 tsp. salt

put in crock pot and cook overnight on the lowest setting

Friday Family Spotlight

Meet the Vernoy Family!

Their family was baptized and joined our ward in September 2008. Scott is currently serving in our ward as an activities committee member and ward greeter. Cami is serving as the Young Women's secretary. Kaylee is a laurel and Megan is going to be a beehive this year!

Names and Ages of family members:

Scott- old

Cami- 29 and holding (o:

Kaylee- 16

Megan- 11

How long have you been in the ward?

Less than a year!

How long have you lived in Brentwood?

14 years

Where are you from?

Scott grew up in Downy California (southern)

Cami grew up in Vacaville, California

What do you like to do as a family?

Vacation at the beach, play games, watch movies, entertain, watch our kids play sports, bake, eat!

What is your family's favorite movie?

"Hoosiers", "Remember the Titans"- we love those inspiring sports movies.

What is your family's favorite dessert?

We love ice cream in this family but also rich, chocolately, chocolate cake!

Do you have any pets?

We have 2 fish- Mushi and Chip

Where was the your last family vacation?

Honolulu Hawaii

Where is your next vacation going to be or where would you love to go someday as a family?

Next vacation will probably be to a different Hawaiian island, but we also want to go to Europe before Kaylee goes to college (fingers crossed)!

If you could pick a family theme song, what would it be?

"Down By The Bay" is an old time family favorite because we used to sing it all the time in the car and see who could come up with the craziest animal doing what!

But, by title, it's got to be "We're All In This Together" (from High School Musical) or "The Best is Yet To Be" (Frank Sinatra).

What is a family tradition that you have?

We just started a great tradition this year that we agreed we would do every year. We packed a bunch of lunches and filled some backpacks with gloves, hats, snacks etc. and took them to San Francisco and passed them out to the people on the streets. It was really emotional and fulfilling for our whole family.

What is your family's favorite scripture?

We are still searching for our favorite, we are so new to the scriptures. But if I had to pick one for us it would be:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith." (Galations 5:22)

What helps to keep your family strong and unified?

Dinner together as a family almost every night!

Pinewood Derby 2009!

Thank you to Tara Heston for the photos!

Ward Activity- Dance Party!

A great time was had by all who came to the ward dance party on Friday night.  There was great desserts, great music, and great dancing (including the limbo, the Macarena, and a dance-off)!  Thank you to our activities committee, the Willits and the Vernoy's, for all of their hard work.