Advice from Ellyse...

"Never eat jail food...It's greasy"  said while we were on 24th street in West Ogden.  I'm not sure where it came from in her head, but I thought the location of our whereabouts added to the strangness of her comment.  She quickly followed that dousy with "Yeh, so if you ever want to grab us some lunch from a take out place, just don't make it jail food." ......Noted!

Oh, and if you are up early enough to check out a most beautiful pink morning sky and happen to point it out to Ellyse, she'll let you know that "Mars may be exploded."....So wise, this one!

Flowrider, Letter's to Santa, Thanksgiving, and Jake's Wedding.

Check it!  He did pretty nicely!  He couldn't move correctly for about a week or so afterwards but he said he'd do it again. :)

 We wrote our letters to Santa and sent them off to him at Macy's.  Then we shopped and shopped and shopped.  At the end the girls were pulling me out of the store.  I heart Macy's!  Especially if they're having a sale!  And especially at Christmastime! :)

 Oh, if you go, make sure to have a stamp on your letters.  Whoops. :)   We sent them anyway.  Santa already knows anyway right?!

 Thanksgiving was a little different for us this year.  Not only did we get to celebrate with my parents, we got to celebrate with Jason's parents and brother all at the same time.  It was great.  I kept telling the girls that they were super lucky to have both sets of grandparents together at the same time!  I think they were most happy about having cousin Colter up to play with.

 Jake finally took the plunge.  He got married over the Thanksgiving weekend!  Yay for Jake and Amy!

 We're so happy we got to be a part of it.   We're so happy for the two of you!!

 Here's Jake with all his guy peeps.  What a fun bunch of boys!!!

Hope you are doing well!

My response...

First off.  Read this.   

I think Dan hit the point to a T with this post.

I read the above blog post and realized I do a lot of judging myself.  Something, I wish I could say I'm awful at.  I use uncertainty as an excuse to hide behind -often.  I need to stop.

Growing up in a religion that has at times made me feel superior to others, makes me a little sick of me.  I need to stop feeling like because I'm part of something I deem to be great, I'm no greater a person than any other for it. 

I know that Jesus loves all of us. No matter what religion we belong to or how we behave.  I just happen to believe in one certain religion and because of that, I need to be a better example of how Christ would act if He were beside me.  Remembering what Christ would do and then acting on those thoughts would be a lot more beneficial to myself than believing that because my religion preaches something as a sin, doesn't mean it isn't a sin to shune, judge, demote others who commit that sin.

To these things, I put up my hope that I can change some of the ways I think.  I'm trying.  I hope that by sharing this with you, you may be able to take a closer look into your lives and see if there's any tweeking necessary as well.

Here's a video of some of the responses this post received: 

Much love!