Let's play catch up!

Ladies and gentlemen we are going to catch you up today with Halloween, Carson and I's birthday and Thanksgiving. Oh and Proposition 8 too.

First of all we had trunk or treat! Madison was princess Belle from Beauty and the beast. A very beautiful one at that! Carson's brother Brian and his wife came from the Los Angeles area for the weekend so we all had a blast that weekend. Normally we would have to bundle Madison up so you couldn't see her costume and bring an umbrella. But not here. We were in short sleeve shirts all night! Wow, what a change being in Southern California is to what I've been used to my whole life!!











Carson and I's birthday was fun we had a yummy cake. (Brownies with a pudding and whip cream layer with bananas and strawberries and grated chocolate on top-yum!!)












It was a wonderful Thanksgiving. I did it all by myself!!
We had lots of invites from church, but we decided to do it on our own this year. It turned out pretty well if I do say so myself! There was one slight problem that I have to write down so that when my daughter makes her first turkey I can advise her against doing what I did! Also so that if she botches it I can prove to her I did too with mine. So I bought a turkey 5 days before Thanksgiving. On the tag it said there are bacteria that can make the turkey go bad if not properly preserved. It mentioned freezing or refrigerating. I was NOT going to make my family sick, because I didn't know what I was doing, so I decided to freeze it until it was closer to Thanksgiving. Well this particular turkey was 21 lbs. Now all of you turkey experts are smacking your foreheads right about now right? Well I didn't know, first time turkey cooker remember? Well I thought I ought to take it out a day before to thaw right? Well I did some reading and found out that for as big as it was I needed 5 days to properly thaw my turkey!!! So after panicking a little, I ran to the store, bought a small turkey roast and made that for thanksgiving dinner and it was great. And 2 days ago on Sunday (5 days later) I cooked my first turkey and it was heavenly!! Well now I know right? =)

Also this Thanksgiving included our very first Thanksgiving music concert. We have a child old enough to have those! So we were delighted to listen to 4 classes of kindergartners sing such song's as "The pilgrims says thanks, the pilgrims says thanks, high ho the dairy o, the pilgrim says thanks..."
and "5 fat turkeys are we.." It was VERY cute! Here are some pictures of our little pilgrim girl. She is the one in the blue on the bottom row 5 from the left.















We helped a lot with phone calling, and sign waving in favor of Proposition 8. We passed it by 52%.
It protects traditional marriage between a man and a woman. I know that I have friends who may read this who do not share our beliefs, so please don't be offended, we can just respect each other's beliefs right? Anyway, we have received a lot of "crap" for our stance, but we felt it was the right thing to do. The temples in California have been picketed for I don't know how many days now and the gay activists are in the process of appealing it. Anyway we'll see how this turns out. It was good for Madison to experience what it's like to stand up for something you believe in. She was so excited to wave signs with us and was heartbroken when she saw a "no on Prop 8" sign. So sweet.



One last thing. I feel great. My tummy is getting bigger every day and pretty soon I may have to cave and wear maternity clothes. We'll see. I am 16 weeks. Bye!