Christ- "The Greatest Gift"

Since I am Enrichment leader in our branch I thought I'd post what we did for our Christmas Enrichment. I chose the theme Christ"The Greatest Gift". I wanted everyone to reflect on our Savior and his life. We watched the slideshow "Reflections of Christ" on a big screen in the R.S. room. I had the lights off and had a few lamps and Christmas trees to light the room with a table decorated with his picture and garland. It looked really beautiful..... after watching the slideshow I passed around a candle and asked if everyone would share one thing that they are grateful for.It was really inspiring and set the mood as we began the month of December. I only wish I a better turn out. I went to a lot of work to make it a special night and didn't get as many people there as I had planned. But, for those that were there I think it was really appreciated.

On the tables I put wrapped packages with a picture of Christ with battery operated candles on the tables. Everything was color coordinated of course ..... :) this is the favor we wrapped up-it's a crystal ornament with a picture of the Savior and a little girl holding a candle entitled"Light of the World".

We are so blessed! From the words of President Hinckley " No Man who ever walked the Earth has touched more lives than Jesus of Nazareth. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is the Prince of Peace, the Holy One. We love him. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him."

Merry Christmas my dear friends!! Love to you all!!

Santa Baby....

A king size bed PLEASE!!!!! Someday soon when we move into a house I have to get a king size bed. We are like sardines in our queen bed especially because little guy likes to snuggle right in between us.

Just a little something for me.....

A dustbuster... I know it's a practical gift. But, I am practical and besides I need it to get all those crumbs around the highchair! By the way, I've been a very good girl this year Santa!!!! :)

Where does he get that RED HAIR???

This is a question I get asked every single time I have Drew with me and we are shopping, running errands, etc. Is your husband a red head they ask? No, I say. He's actually bald but when he had hair it was dark brown/black just like mine. Where does he get the red hair??? As you can see from his cousin Chloe here who is my sister's daughter somewhere in the family there was a redhead!!! I suspected it was our Great Grandmother Annie from Ireland. But, it was actually our Great Grandmother Eva from England.

Don't you think these two look alike? Chloe is actually a spitting image of me when I was little except I had dark brown hair. Her hair was exactly like Drew's when she was younger. Just like a copper penny and now it has gotten lighter.

Truth be told, Wade's sister has red hair and my dad's brother also has red hair. So, it comes from both sides. Wade just likes to act like it's such a mystery! :)

Trail of Blood and Tears.....

Yes, we had our first trip to the E.R. last Sunday due to mommy's stupidity. I don't even like to talk or think about it. It was so sad. I was using a knife to open a box to start putting out Christmas and Drew grabbed it. I instinctly grabbed it back like an idiot. Wade of course wasn't home so I grabbed a washcloth and ran next door to my neighbors literally leaving a trail of blood and tears. Thanks Janei'a for taking us to the hospital and for coming back with the Harts to clean up while we were still at the hospital!!!! This is the next day during nap time. The final damage..... 4 stitches in the pointer finger and 3 on the index finger. It looks a lot worse bandaged up. It's healing really nicely. Hopefully, he can forgive me when he's older!

The Twilight Zone.... Just Bite Me!!!

For the love of Edward..... staying up late to catch the midnight showing of "Twilight". Matching shirts and lack of sleep all for a vampire... we really must be losing it. Whatever happened to those days in college where you could pull all nighters and not miss a beat the next day??? Happy 29th Birthday to Kim!!!

Kim was a good sport about wearing the cowboy hat for her birthday but she passed on the leopard coat! ;)

Happy Halloween- Belated!!!

My fellow bloggers I am a major slacker when it comes to blogging...... I just haven't had time lately!!! Here are some Halloween pics.... finally!! Our little gorilla with his cousin Alexis at Grandma Thompson's house. You never knew that King Kong had a binky did you????? This is us at our Branch Halloween Party. Note: I had the flu and look like one of the Cullen's with white skin and red lips!!

Thanks to our friend Traci for letting us borrow this darling costume!! We even got him to pound his chest and do a little Tarzan thing.... so funny!

GET OUT and VOTE!!!

THIS IS MOVING!!!!!!

HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF ...WE EVER KNEW...... WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE!!
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote!!! The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.
This is Lucy Burns:
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic'. They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.'

p.s. Thank you Rachael for sending me this email to remind us as women of the importance of voting!!!