FHE goal and reward

I'm sure this isn't a problem in your house but it is in ours: complaining, not helping out and being unkind. So I planned a FHE lesson last week about following Jesus. We read some of the cute stories from the friend magazine about following Jesus and then talked about what we could do in our home to follow him. I told my kids that if they did enough good deeds to fill this jar in one week then we would go to Baskin Robbins ice cream as a treat. We have never taken our kids there, we are that cheap, so going there was a big deal. After you did a good deed you would write it on a strip of paper and then fold it and put it into the jar.
Megan did the most good deeds by far. I'm sure she filled half the jar herself. Here she is sweeping with the play broom. She is such a great kid.

Here are a few of the good deeds done last week:
Made each others beds and mom and dad's bed
Shared toys with Nathan
Emily shared candy with her cousins
someone dusted a set of wooden blinds (I just pulled this one out of the jar--what blinds did they dust I wonder?)
We loaned some Barbie DVDs to a friend for a few weeks
Got blankets and stuffed animals for each other when someone was sad
cleaned up messes that Nathan made
tended Nathan (best service ever c:)
called grandma on the phone
helped to clear table after dinner
read stories to little girls
cleaned the chairs at church (activity day girls)
cleaned up whole downstairs and even swept
organized clothes in her drawers as a surprise for me
Now how do we keep up these helpful habits I wonder?

Needless to say we met our goal of filling the jar. Here are the four girls at Baskin Robbins.

I made sure to take a picture of Scott too as I often don't have pictures of him. He shared his cone with Nathan.

Now who would buy ice cream cones like this? Is it just me or do you think clowns are creepy too?

Today I am thankful that:

*our downstairs carpet is cleaned--I used a professional carpet cleaning company (first time ever--another sign of my cheapness) and now there are no brown spots leading from the front door to the kitchen

*Melissa has two friends over to play--friends are the best!!

*our backyard neighbor is getting their yard redone and it is so fun to see the progress each day