Priceless Happenings

Are you ready for some football...... This weekend.... Ohio State vs Michigan then BYU vs U of U Choose your colors wisely, get you pom poms ready and remember, it's just a game. Whoever said that must have been on some serious medication!

Tomorrow is my little mans birthday. I can't believe he is going to be 2 already. We celebrated his birthday with Dels family and Liz & Gary. Seth was so funny when it came to blowing out the candle on his cake. He knows that it is hot so he was scared to get too close. Del had to go stand by him and try to coax him into blowing it out. It eventually became a group effort. He loved hanging out with his cousins and then had a blast opening all of his fun presents. Sure love ya little man!!

I was just looking in the newspaper from back home (Ohio) and found an article that one of my cousins wrote about the casinos that they were putting on the ballot on 11/4. (No, they didn't pass) He was expressing his opinions as a guest writer in the paper. The last sentence struck me as we are dealing with all sorts of issues in our society lately. I thought it very good and wanted to share. "To fail to engage your faith on the issues that affect our society is to admit that faith is irrelevant. History has proven otherwise." Thanks Steve Collett. (link to complete article: http://www.wnewsj.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=168771&SectionID=42&SubSectionID=&S=1)

My little Seth is the funniest little guy. I just had to take a second and write about him. Lately he has been coming out of his little shell and developing into Hmmmm....He loves to tease Zoe and Emma, play with the puppies and wrestle with Dad and the boys. He has also really been getting into playing with cars, trucks...all the really cool "Boy" stuff. I think the thing that cracks me up the most is him finding my camera and trying to take pictures of himself all while being sure to say "cheese". Any time the little ham sees one of us with a camera he stops looks at you smiles with that cute little grin and says "CHEESE". Too cute, PRICELESS! I can't believe he will be 2 on Monday. Wow does time fly.

I've pretty much kept my opinions about politics to myself. I feel that everyone has their own personal beliefs and that we should be able to respect each others freedom to choose the best candidate or proposition. The past two days here in Utah we have been hearing the outcome of Proposition 8 that was presented to voters in California. Our church was asked to join a coalition of other religions as well as non-denominational groups to assist in passing this proposition. The Proposition was given that an amendment would not be made to alter the California constitution to change their definition of marriage. I personally support this and if I lived in CA I would have voted for it as well. I know that the homosexual community in CA currently have the same rights that I and Del have as far as a Civil Union. Therefore, all legal aspects of their relationships are protected. As a protest to the Proposition passing, protesters picketed outside the LA Temple and today they are goi...

As many of you know, my son is quite the magician. He practices his card tricks relentlessly at times. This year he decided that instead of dressing up and using blood all over whatever for Halloween, he would tap into his magical personality. He got up early, painted his face to reflect a 4 of Hearts playing card, got to school and heard the following....Just a reminder, there is to be no face paint for costumes. He was so upset at the thought of all the time he had put into his design and then to have to wash it off. When we went to Del's office on Friday, he donned his old man mask from last year. Seth was not pleased!!

On Wed, Del got home from work and had the little ones get their shoes on for some fun. He took them over to our neighbor Gene's house. They raked up all the leaves in the back yard and had tons of fun throwing them in the air and jumping in the piles. Way to go Dad! :) They also had great time trying to climb the apricot tree.

Trick or Treat was so much fun. The kids had a day off of school due to a teachers meeting so that made it so much nicer too. We started off with a little visit to Del's office for some "cubicle" haunting. Talk about spoiled kids!! The crew at his office rock, I think the kids had a good third to half of their bag filled. They also provided chips, sandwiches, drinks and cupcakes for the kids as well as letting them use the break room to play on the Wii, search the net for Club Penguin and catch a game of foozball. Del's brother Mark also works at Wavelink so we met up with him, Janett, Westin and Ethan. Our next adventure was Trunk or Treat at our wards parking lot. This is always a huge event in our neighborhood and the kids love it. This year we invited cousin Ashley to come with us and then go up and down our street. I think she had a pretty good time. We also had a pretty good time with Del's costume...notice the goofy glasses he had us all try on, I ...