DAVIE DAVIE CROCKETTE KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER!!!

So, David, my little brother, came home from his mission yesterday...er, saturday so two days ago. His flight from JFK was delayed so duh dun dahhh he missed his connection to go on from slc to reno! So I got him! We were able to pick him up from the airport saturday night and then I drove him back up Sunday morning. It was so wonderful. I dont think I realized how much I missed him until I finally got to see him again. He is so fun and funny and just great! I was bouncing off the walls all day at just the prospect of him being able to stay with me and then when it happend oh man, I could not wait until his flight landed! He kept us laughing the whole trip down to provo. We stayed up talking late at night and then because Jadie is having some issue sleeping she woke up at 2, 3, and 4. at 3:30am I heard David moving around downstairs. Finally I got up with him at 4:30. I'm pretty sure he couldn't sleep because he was so excited to finally make it home! I was thinking after he left how wonderful family is. They are a built in friend system. Escpecially when you grow up in small house and cant get away from each other. You have to become friends. I love that boy so much. And aren't I lucky that I get to claim him and each of my brother's as friends. Anyway, I just think that I am truly blessed because I have so many friends...my family. And we will always keep in contact and we each are truly interested in the others. It was so nice to see him and I am just praying and hoping he is really going to move up to Provo. Sunday dinners can be reinstated!! He may have changed on his mission in some ways but he is still my goofy little brother. Dave, I'm so glad your back.

Ranting: Give the church a break!

I write today in disgust at what is happening to my church. We are opposed to gay marriage and therefore we are being persecuted. Six churches in Utah have been vandalized and three in California. There have been huge protests outside of our temples. Just yesterday a Book of Mormon was found burning on the steps of a church in Colorado. All of this is happening because we oppose gay marriage. It seems as though those who disagree with us think that Mormons are the only ones that voted on prop 8 in California. I’ve done the math and if every member from the age of 8 up, whether they are active or not, had voted they still would have only made up a small portion of those who voted to pass this bill. The LDS church therefore is not solely responsible for its passage. Even if that were not the case the hate shown toward us is unjustified and prejudice. We live in a democratic society where issues that are brought up are voted on by the general populace. This populace has voted a certain way and that way is to uphold traditional marriage. Where is the news coverage? Is bigotry and prejudice only to be reported if it fits into a non-conservative ideology? The LDS church is not alone in being persecuted either. I find it ironic that those who are looking for acceptance or ‘tolerance’ can give none to those who disagree with them. Tolerance inherently means there is a disagreement on a subject. Conservatives disagree with liberals. We are not telling people they are terrible or going to hell, we are saying that we believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. Do we now live in a society where we can only have freedom of opinion if it agrees with the press or the left wing? What happened to religious freedom? The most disturbing thing to me is that these people, who ever they are, are targeting the places and things we hold most sacred and dear. I do not blame the gay community, I don’t think that there is a grand band saying ‘ok go out and get back at those Mormons’. I don’t know who these people are; I only know they are targeting my church, my beliefs because we believe in the sanctity of marriage. Our temples are our most sacred buildings and our churches are not to be defiled. To target these things, our buildings our scriptures, is to hit below the belt. Each person is entitled to having their own opinion. There are appropriate and inappropriate ways of going about and expressing those opinions. This behavior is disgusting. I’m hurt and angered that people seem to think its ok to destroy property or spew hatred because of a difference of opinion. Must they march around our places of worship, disturbing the services and scaring petitioners? Many do not understand who we are as Mormons. Many do not know our beliefs or what we are truly like. Instead of trying to find out who we are, we are met with prejudice and violence. We do not believe in violence or hatred. We believe you love your neighbor as yourself, you love your enemy. We believe in following Christ. We do not believe we have to sacrifice our beliefs in order to love those who disagree. If anyone who does not know who we are and wishes to find out what we truly believe all they need do is listen to our prophet. They need only go to our website and read for themselves. We do not promote prejudice or hate instead we are against it. This will be the end of my ranting I guess. I just wish that we could have respect for our beliefs as we give that respect to others. When you live in a democracy you, as the people, decide on the laws you will live by. Each of these laws is a moral choice. Therefore our decision about marriage is simply one more moral choice we are living by. Also, when you live in this land, you must, whether good or bad, go with the will or majority of the people. The majority decides the laws etc and therefore when the vote has been made (twice now) that is the will of the people and we need to respect it. Of course it is easier for me to say that when the will complies with my ideology. I just want the bigotry to stop. I just want respect on both sides, we dont have to concede our beliefs in order to respect others though. I just ask 'Where is the love?'

Photo Tagging

Annie photo tagged me... This is from the fourth folder in my pictures and its the fourth picture. This is Ezra, Jesse and Sarah's oldest...We went to my house for Christmas last year- glory glory hallyaluaa! (How do you spell that?). We had a wonderful time. I cant wait for thanksgiving this year! Anyways, Danny brought Rock band and Steven got out all his drum sticks so that there for enough drum sticks to play forever. The little kids loved playing with all the instruments. Ezra right here is showing off his sticks. I dont know if Danny will ever bring that game again for a big family event but it sure was fun. Everyone loved it. Cameron played so much I wondered where he was. Anytime I couldn't find him all I had to do was find Rock Band, and there he was! Thanks Danny for letting everyone play that game!

Halloween

So, we had a small halloween get together. We made homemade rootbeer (with the dry ice and everything, it was pretty sweet.

The Scott's. Mindy and Jon dressed up as pirates, that was pretty rad. And cute Bradley was a salior, he had yet to go to the dark side of the ocean. :)

Kami and Tina with Tina's little Addie. Kami was a dragonfly and Tina was a cat. Addie is a little bit older than Jadie and she was a lady bug. They were very cute together, unfortunately Tina has all those cute pictures so I need to get them from her. Cameron kept throwing Addie up in the air which made her wings float, it was cute. Tina had to fly solo with both her kids since Jay had to work. We all informed him that he was lame but on the same hand we all understanding needing money. How could we throw parties if no one worked?

This is Nathan, Tina's oldest. He did NOT want his picture taken. He was scoobie doo. I think he was having too much fun playing with his animals

So here we are. The bat couple. I was batgirl and Cameron was batman (only gotham is going through an economic crisis right now so batman has to do with what he has). Cameron wore his bat shirt, my long johns, yellow gloves my dad bought him, commando boots...and another shirt as a cape...pretty funny

I on the other hand LOVE to dress up. So I got this unitard from DI and painted my bat on it. I dyed the boy short underwear yellow that I'm wearing on top. I wore high heeled boots, and had a mohawk! ohyeah! oh and when I was super cool I had velvet gloves too but it was such a hastle to have them on that they were taken off shortly after the party started, as with the boots...they hurt my feet. BUT I still was batgirl!

Here are our decorations...I carved 7 pumpkins...cameron carved one and hallowed out one....yeah. but you cant see it but one pumpkin says Brady and one says Bunch. it was fun to carve

Mindy came over and helped my decorate...this is one of our spider webs


Heres the other. sweet huh! the web took up our whole window! Mindy, you rock.

So with the other pumpkins I spray painted them gold, and then covered them with glitter. they took so long they are staying up until I put up Christmas decor...the spiders liked this spot



Another of Mindy's creations...our little graveyard. May they all rest in peace. Happy Halloween!