What do you get when you have family that lives in Boise, Provo, Austin, Cedar Heights, Salt Lake City, and Sugar City and a few technologically minded gurus? Family Home Evening over the internet! It’s a crazy concept but really quite amazing. There is a little delay mostly noticed when trying to sing the opening and closing songs, but how great it is to hear and see my brothers and sisters in such an instant fashion – what convenience. Last night we were able to take part in another modern FHE with the Baldwin family. My brother Scott came up with a cool way for us all to see/hear each other in five windows on the computer screen. (check out the pic – I stole it off of his blog)
Last night Brad’s family hosted and Dallen gave the lesson on Pioneer heritage. It has been such a wonderful blessing to hear the testimonies of my nieces and nephews. They are some very remarkable young people. I am extremely happy that my young family get to have such stellar examples!
Kudos
Comments:
Stephen said…
only drawback is getting the kids to sit still for that long.
Monday, August 11, 2008 5:10:49 PM
Scott Baldwin said…
That’s the beauty of the remote FHE, you can take your kids out of the room, or mute them when the start screaming and crying.
The trick to the audio delay on the songs is for everyone except the “hosting” location to mute their skype connection.
Monday, August 11, 2008 8:57:53 PM
John said…
Looks like a lot of fun. We should give it a try sometime. It could be amusing and worthwhile. Maybe mom and dad could participate if we had it at the right time.
Monday, August 11, 2008 9:52:42 PM
jana said…
That sounds like fun.. what an amazing way to keep connected!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:54:23 AM
Anne said…
So neat…technology really is cool! What a way to do what you can with what you have and still make family memories.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:44:02 PM