Olivia and her Baby!

Okay so this is not the greatest picture to show you what she is doing but she is feeding her baby...out of her bellybutton!! She sees me nursing all the time and I guess this is what she thinks I am doing. That is fine with me!!

It is just very recently she has become interested in baby dolls, now if she drops it she picks it up saying "okay? oaky? oh owie..." and kisses it on the hand or the head or wherever it is hurt. I am hoping this new interest in baby dolls will spark her interest in her little sister. Up till now I think we could have given K away and Olivia would not have even noticed!

Thanksgiving

Well I don't have any pictures yet but I will get to that later!



My thanksgiving consisted of waking up at 6:30am, driving to Niagara, picking up a double stroller that was purchased for us by my MIL (thankyou), having dinner with the family, dessert with the WHOLE family, and playing Pit and Uno hearts with some of the cousins!



It was an uneventful trip to Niagara, kellylynn was a very patient passenger. So we got there and found out that the guy who runs the mailbox place left the day we tried to get the stroller because his dog died!!! I felt so terrible for being annoyed! But he was really nice and even let us pick up our package without paying the small charge he usually asks for to pay his costs. But we are supposed to tell everyone about him so it's called "Canam Mailbox Rental". Like I said it's right over the border on Whirlpool St., you can rent the mailbox for just one time or if you have things shipped regularly and don't want to pay shipping into canada (and you are willing to drive over the border to get your stuff) you can rent for a period of time (1 month 2 months etc for a set rate) he's great!!


Dinner was tastey, Turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnip, gravy and Garlic Cheese Biscuits from Red Lobster, yup thats right, red lobster biscuits!


I think the most fun thing about getting the family together right now is to compare babies! Alexis was born March 12, Kellylynn was born April 16 and Terrah was April 18, so really close. Kellylynn was the biggest at birth but is now a midget in comparison to the other two.


All in all it was a really good day, I am very thankful for family and all the love we feel when we are together.


Pit is a really fun game, if you have played I strongly suggest you go out and find a copy and play it with 8 people! It gets crazy! Uno hearts is really fun too but can get frustrating.

Two Topics

There are two topics that I have noticed coming up more and more often...bullying and homosexuality. I just finished reading a thread on a friends facebook page where she was called a bigot and a homophobe for disagreeing with the statement that some people are "born gay"! I just happened to read this interview the other day
http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/official-statement/same-gender-attraction

Same Gender Attraction did not exist in the premortal life, neither will it exist in the post earth life!! SO HOW ON EARTH CAN SOMEONE BE BORN GAY?? I like the statements made but I love the point that yes, some people are born more likely to be gay, just as there are people who are born more likely to become alcoholics or drug addicts. But it doesn't mean that our agency to choose who we will be and what we will do about our feelings are predetermind! Really, it means that those people need to be even more careful about the choices they make.

That's my view on that subject but really the thing that made me so angry was the fact that a person can't voice an oppinion without being torn to shreds for her beliefs! As a Latter Day Saint I have been told all my life to allow people to believe who and what they will believe even if it is not in accordance with the things I know to be true. It is not our place to judge them, nor is our place to call them names for thinking differently than we do. You know, I just had this thought...all this judging and name calling is a form of bullying, even over facebook. It happened to me just a couple weeks ago for trying to defend an innocent comment that was taken the wrong way.

We need to grow up and be a little more willing to let the things people say slide off our shoulders sometimes!