A Day At Mima's Beach House

Max had school off for Veteran's Day last Tuesday so we decided to go up to the beach house to see Mima (my grandma)--Max's great grandma :) Max also had Harry the bear with him. His preschool teacher told him to take Harry home with him over the weekend and take pics to document activities they did together. Boy did Harry have an adventure. Mima made bacon for breakfast, played Mouse Trap with Max, went for a walk on the beach with us and showed Max how to make seaweed "pop!". We also went on a bike ride to the park, wrote our names in the sand, made a seaweed sandcastle, and even went to the Santa Barbara Zoo for lunch. Mima is so amazing and we love going to her beach house! She has so much energy and does a great job at showing us all to love life and live it to the fullest! Thanks for the fun-filled day Mima!

Prop 8 Recap

Were we successful with Prop 8? YES. Is the fight over? NO. I don't know if you heard but there was a rally and protest march outside the gates of the LA temple last night. A few fights broke out, people were arrested, traffic was backed up. It amazes me how hard the adversary is working against us, still. No, I don't think this battle will be over for a long time....maybe not until the second coming. The neat thing is that our ward has become stronger than ever and it feels good to take a stand for what you believe in, even if it means being ostracized. After waiving Prop 8 signs one morning I took Max to pre-school and he told his teacher "I was waiving signs!". She said, "yep, there are a lot of signs because there is an election going on". Then Max said as he was flapping his hands in the air, "No, I waive signs like this and you yell YES ON 8, YES ON 8 like that". I'm glad he got the message. Too funny. It's amazing how much they pick up on. It's nice to know that I have so much control and influence over him for the time being. As parents I guess that's what we do. Teach them the values we believe in and then let them govern themselves. Josh and I were so busy with making phone calls, waiving signs, putting flyers on doors, placing signs throughout the community, watching those signs get stolen within a matter of minutes, putting Honey on the signs and video taping people, etc. that we seriously slept and vegged out for a good 24 hours after the election. Josh had a great experience toward the end of the election day. We were both frantically making phone calls (Max running around and Audrey needing to be feed) when Josh got ahold of someone who lost their absentee ballot. It was 7:30pm and the polls were closing at 8pm. Josh gave this nice lady the information she needed to go out and vote at her designated polling place. She said she wanted to vote yes on 8 but wasn't sure what to do with losing her absentee ballot and was gratefull Josh had called. I believe that even during the last few minutes of campaining our efforts for Prop 8 allowed us to make a difference.