Proposition 8

Today, I felt like Moroni.

And it came to pass that I took my cell phone, and I called registered voters for four hours in defense of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our [husbands and] wives, and our children.

It's a scary world out there when people confuse good and evil.

It wasn't nearly as bad calling as I thought it'd be. We all rejoiced together when someone not only didn't swear at us, but instead agreed to vote "yes" on Proposition 8 which states that Marriage is only between a man and woman.

It's pretty confusing because if you vote "yes" you are really voting no to same sex marriage and if you vote no you're voting yes to same sex marriage.

I tried to explain to Elle a little about what we would be doing today. (which then led to a short discussion on the birds and the bees that I wasn't counting on. . .)

Her answer reminded me of The Emperor's new clothes. "Well, only a man and a woman can have children! " duh. Only the innocent young child can see the obvious truth and isn't afraid to point it out. No wonder we are counseled to be more like them.










We also brought home this form to fill out and join others who have donated money to this worthy cause.
You can too, if you really want. If you use this form and mail it in, then the Church can keep track of members who donate. It doesn't even matter if you live in CA or not!


You can at least follow Moroni and pray mightily that the cause of the Christians (and the Jews and the Baptists and every other religion), and the freedom of the land might be favored.

VOTE YES ON 8!!

The Cleavers

You may know the Cleavers as these folks to the left.
June, Ward, Wally and the Beaver.



















Chris and I have our own family of Cleavers.
From Left to right (and in the order we acquired them)
Ward, June, Wally and the Beaver. (who, may not technically be a Cleaver, but we love him anyway.)



I bet you didn't know we had such a fascination with Cleavers, did you?
Speaking of cleaving. . .








We thought to make the school transition easier, we'd cleave apart our family so Chris could start work and Elle could finish school this year.
But, Chris had a little chat with his soon-to-be-boss.
Here's the Plan
Here's our plan:
Chris will start work as planned in November with some training up north. Then, he'll work from home HERE until Elle is finished with this first semester of school.
Then, we'll be off, not only leaving father and mother, but friends too :(

Random

Did you know that dogs, like people are left or right handed (or pawed as the case may be)?
It's true! I learned this from Elle who learned it from the back of her shampoo bottle.
And as you know, shampoo bottles NEVER lie.




In other news, we still don't know when we're moving, only that it is now oficial.
Chris' work officially begged him to stay, and then threw money at him to see if that would work.
It didn't.
Then, they told him to go home and talk to his wife.
He did.
The next day, he officially refused all offers.
His (and my) sanity was called into question.
Hopefully, we'll know his start date tomorrow.
over and out

p.s. No, that isn't our dog. She wishes it were.

Elle is a girl!

Elle had her first Brownie meeting today!
Little girl mania!
She had a great time.

And much to Chris' disappointment, his parents were kind enough to bring my old doll house to us this weekend.
Thanks, again!
My parents bought if for me when I was a little girl, and my brother put it together and painted it for me for a Christmas present!
We never got around to furnishing it, and I now know why.
Doll house furniture is expensive!
We even saw a "working" Grandfather clock for about $50!

Elle has decided to call it
"Blue Gables"

Kristen gave us all sorts of fabric samples to use as rugs, bed spreads and curtains!
Thank, Kristen!
We can't wait to start playing house!

HAPPY TINTH!

This year, Chris and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary!!
Apparently, the traditional gift is tin.
It's strong and flexible at the same time. Or something like that.
It's been nothing but roses for the past 10 years!
('cause there were some pretty big thorns we had to deal with together along the way, ya know.
By the way, thanks for the kidney ;)
I love you sweetheart!

For our honeymoon, we went to Seattle. I wanted to see some real rain.

It didn't rain a drop while we were there though.

It was beautiful and sunny.

Chris made it up to me by sprinkling a bowl of hot pepper flakes out our hotel window up on the _th floor.

10 years later, Chris went back to Seattle.

Why?
you might ask.

To interview


here:

But wait, you ask. I thought Pixar was in northern California?

You are right.

He was interviewed by the 15 people in the world who work on


Renderman


(Ya, I don't get it either.)

in Seattle.

The head of Renderman approached Chris and asked him to join the team.
After much thinking and praying by all of us, we have decided it is the right thing.


So.


That means we're going to pack up and move!

We ARE excited, just a bit nervous.

Curly Sunday hair!

Elle wanted curly hair for church today, so we used the soft sponge curlers and curled it up.




















Oh, I mean, on Elle's hair.
She slept on them last night.

BEFORE



AND

AFTER!

She got many compliments at church today!

Make-up ordeal.

BEFORE.



Yesterday I went to get new make-up and a make-up lesson in Beverly Hills! (oo, la la!)
I tried to go the other day. I had the address and everything, but the building I thought it was had a big ol' FOR LEASE on it and it didn't look like anything was alive in there.

I called Chris to confirm the address for me.
It really was the right place, so I tried to find the parking garage because the meters on the street were only one hour.

I started to driving in the WRONG end of the garage and they guys told me I needed to go around.

I finally found the entrance, but then I didn't know how to get to where I needed to go.
A nice young lady said she'd show me. She also showed me where to pay for parking when I was done. She led me to the elevator and told me to get off at 2.
I did.

I walked to the only establishment on 2 which was CLEARLY not the place I needed.
It was web design or something.

I wandered around aimlessly and somehow, after about ten minutes, I found the area.
It was a big room with lots of little studios about the size of my kitchen. (not that big)
Each studio was different. Some were massage beds. Some were nail places.
I even saw a six year old (or younger) getting her hair dyed. (weird!)

Finally, FINALLY, I found the right studio. I noticed that, had I parked on the street like I wanted to, I could have simply walked up a few steps and been right where I needed to be. (argh!)

I was pert near tears when I went in the tiny studio.

The woman sat me down in her tall chair and started combing my eyebrows. "So, we're waxing and dying them, then?" she asked.
"Um, I was here for a make-up lesson?"
"Oh, nonononono! I need more time for THAT! You should have specified on the phone!" (I had tried to when I called and started asking what I needed to do before I came, but she just told me to go to her web site. It said they do eyebrows and make-up lessons. Anyway. . .)
"Are you sure you don't want me to dye your eyebrows? You REALLY need to."

I politely declined.

Then she stood back and scrutinized my face and said, "Oh YES! You can definitely benefit from our products!"
(um, harsh much, lady?)
"You should REALLY consider dying those eyebrows!" she called as I left.

It took me another 10 minutes to find my car. I was in west parking and my car was in east or something.
The nice parking attendant lady told me " Just go up to level 2"
Well, I did and my car was NOT there!
I went back down and she said she'd take me to my car in the other lot because I could not find it.
So, I went with another parking lady who took me up to level 2 and then around a curvy hall and down another hall and voila!
Easy peasy. How COULD I have missed it when I tried by by myself?

ha.ha.

I had made a follow up appointment for a make-up lesson, but I was not really sure I wanted to go back there.

Could you blame me, really?

I WAS out of make-up and I DID need some pointers from someone other than those old ladies at the mall.

So.

I went.

Lisa was visiting that day, and she was kind enough to drive me so I didn't have the added stress of parking.
Thanks again, Lisa! You saved my sanity!!

This time, the woman again told me I should dye my eye brows. I was firm and said "no."
"Can I wax them?" she wanted to know.
"Um, I've never had it done. .."
"Don't worry"
"I'm worried."
"I have a gentle pull"
(oxymoron?)

I was prepared for MUCH worse thanks to Kristen's description of when she had her eyebrows waxed:

"It felt like like the top layer of my skin was being ripped off!"

So, it wasn't so bad.
It hurt plenty--don't get me wrong.
And I was REALLY REALLY red around my eyebrows.
I guess they look good now.

I liked the make-up she applied even if she applied it in a very business-like manner.
She seemed pleased with herself as well.
She wrote it all down for me and didn't charge me for the lesson, only the make-up which was
$$$
I even made a follow up to wax those brows of mine again.

Yes.
I am crazy.

AFTER!!!

I'm happy. Now I just have to figure out how to do it all by myself!

First day of school!

I thought I'd get with the ball and post about the first day of school!
We managed to find Elle's best friend even though they aren't in the same class this year. The good new is: all the classes can eat and play together this year! (In the past, they could only play in one area with their classmates and eat at one table at lunch)
Elle even magaged to find a new friend in her class! Yea!












Can you find her in the sea of children? Her teacher is the red-head to her left.
She really likes her teacher and class. She did get homework the first day, but it wasn't so bad! I can't believe she's so grown up!

The end of the fun.

We had one more little trip of fun before school started. Lisa came down for the weekend to run the Disneyland marathon and stayed with us, then ivited us to stay with her in her hotel so we could all go to Disneyland together! It was a fun day as you can see. There was a really cool Pixar parade at California adventure.