Halloween

I guess since it IS Halloween, I should post some pictures of the girls in their costumes?! It is weird this year...they are all hanging out with friends so there was no need for me to dress up! I am okay with that though! The boys both went dressed and Ranger Soccer players....as if they don't wear that costume almost daily anyway!

Twilight...midnight showing!

Yes....we have tickets for the midnight showing of Twilight! Can you believe...my boys are going with me?! It is funny to me that they want to see it when they tease me the most about being obsessed (which I am NOT)!
Austin, Cassidee and I have been reading the book together. I will do anything to get my kids to read...especially Austin and Cassidee...well, almost anything. I am actually reading to them every night and they are enjoying it AND getting the english credit that they need for class!
I am SO excited to see the movie...2 hours and 10 minutes won't be long enough but I guess there is no limit to the number of times that I can see it?!

Did you know?

Did you hear that google has taken a political stand on Proposition 8 in California? I have decided to boycott google for this. Even though I believe strongly in marriage between a man and a woman and I do think that people have their agency, it is NOT appropriate for a company, especially for one as large as google, to take a political stand at all. They need to stick to business, not politics.
Here is a link to googles explanation:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html
and here is a great blog from Linda Adams....she says exactly what I feel....but she is a writer and says it much better than I do:
http://home.sprintmail.com/~adamszoo/linda/
Linda is a great author...I have read some of her books...but her points and opinions are perfect!
Anyway, I will be looking for a new place to move my blogs and I hope you will join me in this boycott. Change your search engines and your email addresses as well as blogs if you can!

A Scary Weekend!

Well, State Cup Soccer started this weekend! It is always very intense when you are playing in state cup since every team wants to be the #1 team in Utah! Austin's game was first and he play great! He scored a goal with his head...again and his team won 2-0! It was very cold during his game with all clouds and no sun!
Cody's game was a little later in the day and the sun decided to come out for a bit! I think it actually climbed to around 43 degrees by the start of his game! At 30 min. into the game, Cody got hit in the head by our goalie when the two of them and one of the other team's player all went up for the ball. Cody was instantly knocked out and started to have a seizure. This was one of the scariest things that I have ever seen....watching your child have a seizure and struggle to breathe! We are grateful for the doctor that was there instantly and handled things so perfectly! Austin was the one to dial 911 (many people actually dialed). By the time the ambulance got there, Cody was alert with slurred speech but knew who he was and were he was. By the time we got to the hospital he remembered pretty much everything. It was very scar for all of us and especially for Cody, once he realized what was happening! The CT scan was normal and we saw his regular doctor yesterday. The good news is that everything that happened was completely normal and he shouldn't have any future problems. The bad news is that he can't play any contact sports for 2 weeks! He is not very happy about missing state cup games but we want him safe. The diagnosis was actually a level 3 concussion. That is now his excuse for everything....can't go to work, can't do the dishes etc.... "I have a concussion"! We are just happy that he is okay. I feel that he had some guardian angels watching over him. Especially when he asked if he had received 2 blessings...he only received one from his coach in the ambulance.

Fall is Here!

Well, fall is officially here! With conference weekend and all of the rain, it is cold once again. It may warm up this week but we defnitely need to keep the jackets available and may have to put the flip flops away?!

State Cup will start this week for Soccer.  I enjoy this time of the year. We are looking forward to having our afternoons and evenings back to ourselves again!

Ashlee went to the homecoming dance a couple of weeks ago. That was really fun for her! Then, last weekend, the girls and I went to California. We had been planning this for a year since it was the Heritage Makers annual Reunion. The girls spent 3 days at Disneyland with McKenna and Grandpa Naylor while Traci sat in meetings and classes! They were great! Then we all went to Disneyland together on Saturday night which was a ton of fun!