Tyson's Pumpkin

Well, Tyson finally got his pumpkin done. He was up until 1:00 this morning finishing it! He said he wanted to do it for himself more than anything...so I thought I would post the fruits of his labors! Poor guy has been working SOOO much this week, he needed some time to do something he wanted to do. In fact he is at work right now! Anyway, here it is!

Prophetic Counsel

This is very pertinent today, and I imagine it will get more so. I just had to share it.

"Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions. President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never hesitated to follow the counsel of the Authorities of the Church even though it crossed my social, professional or political life.'

This is hard doctrine, but it is particularly vital doctrine in a society which is becoming more wicked. In short, brothers and sisters, not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ includes not being ashamed of the prophets of Jesus Christ. . . . Your discipleship may see the time when such religious convictions are discounted. . . . This new irreligious imperialism seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions.

Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive. Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as untrendy and unenlightened.... Before the ultimate victory of the forces of righteousness, some skirmishes will be lost. Even in these, however, let us leave a record so that the choices are clear, letting others do as they will in the face of prophetic counsel.

There will also be times, happily, when a minor defeat seems probable, but others will step forward, having been rallied to rightness by what we do. We will know the joy, on occasion, of having awakened a slumbering majority of the decent people of all races and creeds which was, till then, unconscious of itself.

Jesus said that when the fig trees put forth their leaves, 'summer is nigh.' Thus warned that summer is upon us, let us not then complain of the heat."
--- Elder Neal A. Maxwell

For those of you interested in reading the entire quote you can read his talk here.

As someone who is concerned about one such fight going on in CA right now. I invite any who would take Elder Maxwell's counsel to stand with the First Presidency in fasting on this fast Sunday, that on Tuesday Prop 8 in CA may pass!

OH YEAH!

ONE WEEK! EXACTLY! EEEEEK!

I just wanted you all to know that I am such a dork I already have my ticket! And I can't be more excited about this movie!

Our Halloween Fun!

Well, today was Rebecca's first Halloween, and I think she had a good night! Here are some photos of some of the goings on. Other stuff we did that we didn't get still shots of (and we still have not downloaded the software to put movies on our computer yet...) was her eating Squash for the first time (an appropriate Halloween treat I thought!) and her first taste of trick-or-treating!

Here is Becca and Mommy Cat. ;) This was just before Rebecca had her dinner, so we waited to put her costume on after she ate.

This is her Halloween present from mommy and daddy. The book "That's Not My Monster!"

Just before dinner Becca tried on mommy's cat ears. They were a little big, but I thought it was cute!

There we are...all dressed up!

It's hard to get a shot of all three of us when there isn't an extra person to take the picture....this was the best we got.

And there she is! Our little eggplant fairy. ;)

It was such a great night! It was fun to see friends and their kids out and about in thier costumes. Becca enjoyed going to see some of our neighbors for the most part. I think some of it was a bit overwhelming to her, but she did well. I love Halloween and hope you all have had a wonderful, spooky night!

Becca's Halloween Outfit

So...I am a horrible mom and totally didn't think about getting her stuff to wear on Halloween other than her costume! So...I had to throw something together and I don't think it came out too badly...

If only I had an orange bow instead of a pink one...

Happy Halloween!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to be the first one to wish you all a wonderful, scary, fun, candy-filled, and safe Halloween!

I had this pre-posted this morning, but I had to add this cool sunrise that Tyson got a picture of. Very Halloween!


P.S. Enjoy this new background I will only have it up a few days until I switch again!

7 Facts Tag

Whoever started this tag did a great job with making this graphic! Very cool.

Here we go 7 random/weird things about me.

1. My thumbs are double jointed. They have been since I was a baby. My mother's are as well, and I think Rebecca's are too. I used to scrunch them down and play my own game of "Here comes Mr. Duckbill Platipus" instead of "here comes thumbkin" during Sacrament Meeting.

2. I LOVE holidays. Every single one. If I had the money I would deck out my house top to bottom for each holiday. My favorites that I CANNOT miss are Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, 4th of July. I think I got this from my mother and grandmother.

3. I am affraid of dogs that are bigger than oh say, a Beagle. Long story.

4. I am a bionic woman...well kindof. I have fifteen screws and two metal plates in me.

5. Singing and dancing was my life in high school. Literally. I loved it more than anything, and wanted to make it to Broadway. I doubt that will ever happen, but it was always a dream of mine. There is no feeling like being on stage with a group of people you love singing songs that touch your heart. Some of my favorites we did in high school were from Lion King the Musical.

6. Tyson is the only boy I have ever kissed. (Well that counts, kissing my daddy, grandpa's and I'm sure when I was really little, my brothers doesn't count.)

7. I have issues with feeling alone/left out.

Okay, 7 people to tag, I tag Sara, Angela, Courntey, Jena, Lindsey R, Diana, Torri, Brina, Aimee, and Mom R. (okay, that's ten...but who's counting). ;) And anyone else who wants to...there are too many good friends on my list who like to do tags, so if your name isn't listed and I didn't go post on your blog, do it anyway! ;)