Our church is campaigning for the public to know more about Mormons- hence all those really cool commercials that have been airing recently. On the mormon.org website, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints can create a profile so that friends and family that find it hard to approach us, and vice verse, can read a little more into what we believe. Everyone 14 and up has been asked by their bishops to create a profile. Being in the youth program in our congregation, there are a lot of valiant 12 and 13 year olds who aren't able to participate. But I may have been able to find a way- Make an I'm A Mormon button!! I have one on the side of my blog here actually---------------------------->
That button will take you to my mormon.org profile, but I'm actually making buttons that the girls can pin on their purses or backpacks and they can share a little more about what they believe when anyone interested asks them about it. Cool, huh?!
If you're interested in making a button of your own with any kind of design, I'm ordering mine from www.wackybuttons.com
Oh Wow! Time has flown by!! Thanksgiving and Christmas, both a blur, are done and gone. I do have pics to document them. Also births and deaths to think about around this time of year too. The most important is the birth of Christ. I enjoyed the love and laughter of family and friends and now maybe my life can slow down a bit for me to update my blog every month. Maybe. Anyway....
Ok, so let's go back a couple months to November and Thanksgiving. It was mediocre really, I mean, I had a blast at Holly and Dale Kolvig's which is where we went later, but as for Thanksgiving with my family, it was so so. Rachel wanted to do something at my house, since she and Brandon are now divorced (shocking, I know! sorry if this is the first you heard about it), so she wanted a get together with our families. I really didn't feel like cooking, but we invited Allen and Christine and kids over and Brandon was going to come with Rachel's two kids, and the missionaries were coming too, but the only people that came was Rachel and the missionaries. I was miffed a little, cause I cooked for six/eight extra people and only three showed. It turned out that Brandon got started late frying a turkey for his family's get together, and Allen and the others were going to Christine's mom's, but they knew that when we invited them, so... I don't know, maybe Thanksgiving is just touchy because that is also the anniversary of Sarah's death and I miss her a lot! She would've gotten us all together and somebody would've fought and some deviled eggs would've been smashed... sorry, just reminiscing... *sigh*...
And then it was December and we went through Adam's birthday... That's a lot of candles ;)
Then we went through Mom's birthday and then my very own birthday! (if Adam has pics of my cake, I'll post them later- thems a lot of candles too!) Here is a video of our church's bishop playing a game at the youth Christmas party that night:
And so then it was Christmas, and our tree was up and decorated, and this was also the first year that we put lights up on the house. We were going to put a big wreath up on the front of the house, that I had made, but it will have to wait till next year... time has sped by.
Christmas dinner was awesome, and I enjoyed having all the family together. Well except for Michael and Bekah's families, but we had my cousin Christie and her husband Tj, with little Ty in tow, and Uncle Barry and Aunt Roselle and her mother, all of which were a great addition to the festivities!
We had pictures taken with Santa, as well as a family pic taken... Tripp is such a little ham, but look who he gets it from, lol: We also have one where Sarah has her mouth open wide, so it definitely is in the genes!
And Marley was 7 months in this picture- she has a great smile :)
Erick's little class had a Holiday Spectacular- he's the one on the front row, in the green shirt and tie (the lady sitting down is almost covering him up with her head). While the teacher is talking at the end, he starts blowing me a kiss. He's so sweet!!
Ok, so a quick flashback to Halloween. This year was fun :) Next year is going to be more challenging with finding/making/getting new(er) costumes for the boys, but I won't worry about it... till the last minute before Halloween probably, lol.Marley was a rainbow- her white sweatsuit was the cloud and she had a rainbow tutu on... CUTE!!
Erick was Mr. Incredible (again), Tripp was Spiderman (again), Chrissy was a witch. But what was super special about this Halloween, was that DJ Lance Rock came to our church's Ward Halloween Party. Chrissy was so excited :)
Awesome, right? Yessss....Okay, so Marley is so big!!
