Thankful Message

I'm thankful for my life. I love the life I've been given.... and I'm too blessed to list all of the things I'm grateful for- it would take FOREVER TO WRITE! But the most important things in my life are my sweet husband, my wonderful daughter, and my loving and supportive family (that includes in-laws.)
I'm thankful for my home, my my husband's schooling, for my friends here in Logan and my other friends I've made throughout my life..... and so..........

I've decided to go private. I've chosen not to for my own convenience and because I have really enjoyed finding more and more friends to blog with... but it's not worth risking the safety of my family and friends whom I post about.

So Please, PLEASE...EVEN if you only occasionally look at my blog, let me know so that I can add you to our list. I don't want to go private, but I feel it's the only way in this crazy world.

ps- I also would have gone private sooner if there was some way that people could still view my profile to get my email address so they could contact me after I go private. Does anyone know of a way to do that... or for any other way for people to contact you if they don't know your email address?

Plus 18 1/2 Inches and Minus 13

"Thankful Thursday's" just aren't working out for me. Not that I'm ungrateful on Thursday's, it's more of just a bad day for blogging... too busy.
So I've decided to have more of a "Thankful Message" each week... doesn't matter what day.

So this week..... we are grateful for the safe arrival of our new nephew!!! My brother James, and his wife, Val's little baby BOY was born on Wednesday. I was able to be there with Tianna shortly after the birth. He's so adorable and he and his mother are both doing well!!!

I don't know if they've chosen a name for him yet... but he is 18 1/2 inches long and 6.1 lbs. He is healthy, handsome, and SO LOVED!!!

In other news. I got brave.... or stupid..... that is debatable. But today, I cut off my hair. More than a whole foot!!!!! First of all, I can't believe it was actually that long... and secondly, I can't believe that I actually got rid of it. It will take at least 3 years to get it back! I'm still in shock.... but I do like it. Change is good (please don't reference that to our new President. I'm not too happy about that issue) but as for looks.... change is often needed to keep things fresh. I've looked the same for far too long. And Luke is happy that I did it... mostly because now I'll stop bugging him about whether I should or not.

And yes, I cried in the chair. Thankfully I'm friends with the girl that cut it so she didn't think I was a complete dope. Well, maybe she did. Luke was a great support though. He stayed by my side and kept telling me it looked great. So now, I guess that's up to you to decide.

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Happy Halloween

First off- I missed my Thankful Thursday Message.... this week was CRAZY BUSY!! So for this week, I'm grateful for a daughter who enjoys dressing up even more than I do... and a husband who is willing ;) even if he would rather.

For Halloween Tianna was Cinderella!!! She absolutely loved wearing her dress around town, and trick-or-treating down Main Street and at Luke's work. She got very good as saying "trick-or-treat" and "thank you" to each person. It was soooooooooo soooo cute!!!



Luke and I dressed up as Lucy and Ricky from "I Love Lucy." We both look kinda weird, but it was definitely fun anyway! Thursday night I had to dress up because our ward's young men and young women's did a little carnival for the Special Need Mutual. It was such a great experience. Halloween night we went to a little party at the Old Barn theater with some friends from the plays I've been in. The theme was Old Hollywood. So here we have some sort of diva, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, and Audrey Hepburn.
And of course, Dezi and Lucy and Cinderella.


Tianna's favorite part about that was dancing around with her daddy on the stage. She's such a funny little girl!!

And last, but not least, I have to show a pic of the back of my hair because it looked way better than the front did.

FALL FUN

This weekend we spent Saturday evening enjoying the local fall festivities that Logan has to offer. (Certainly more than we're use to!) We went with some good friends, the Kirklands, to a corn maze and the Pumpkin Walk.

SO FUN! The corn maze wasn't quite as good as the one we went to last year, but that one is haunted and well... we learned from experience LAST year, that isn't a great idea when you have children. :) Especially when you offer your baby up a freakish clown. Just kidding... ignore that statement! hahahaha....


And yes, I would have made a lovely cow, but someone had to take picture.
Anyway, it was still fun and the Pumpkin Walk was totally worth seeing. Waaaaaay better than I expected and I was excited to go before I knew what it was like. Yes-all of those animals are made out of pumpkins. Check out the elephant bums. They were my favorite!

Monday night, for FHE, we carved our lovely pumpkins and Tianna thought that was pretty darn awesome. The pumpkin-totum pole consists of our 3 other pumpkins that decided to start growing about.... September 30th. They are small and green and so we got creative. Here's a few pics and hope you enjoy your Halloween Festivities this week!

WARNING: LONG POST

So... what have the crazy Peacock's been up to lately, you ask? Well let me tell ya....

For starters, 2 weeks ago my sister-in-law, Joy, and her adorable baby, Jocelyn, came up to Logan for a visit. It was pretty cold that week, so we didn't get to do a lot of things, but we sure had fun anyway. It was really nice just to hang out and visit.
This is Jocelyn. She was just learning to crawl and Tianna and her had fun showing off for each other. The stairs became their focal point of interest.
One of the days we bundled up and went to the little zoo (I sure go there often.. i had been there the day before too. Good thing it's cheap, fun, and really close by) Thanks again guys for coming!! We loved it and we hope you will come back again!
I tried last Halloween's costume on her. It was really funny. I'm afraid it didn't quite fit.

Last weekend was Luke's fall break, and the DEER HUNT..... so we headed down to the home land. It was nice--it's been awhile since we've been there. Friday we hung out with my mom and Jana, and the kids most of the day then we went to Luke's family until Saturday night. He didn't have a deer tag so we "bird dogged" for his uncles. If you are like me and assumed bird dogging included dogs... you're not exactly right. At least in our situation. We WERE the bird dogs... on horses. It was the longest ride I've been on in several years and it was really fun. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on who you ask, they didn't get a deer that morning.

In other interesting news of last weekend, Luke's BABY SISTER announced she's getting married. So.. she's obviously not a baby but still. She was only 14 when I met her. They are getting hitched in December and we're really happy for them. We also were privileged to see his other sister whom we haven't seen since July. We have really missed you, Laura, and we're really glad you came!
CONGRATS COURTNEY AND DALE
Sunday we had to head back early so I could teach Young Womens... it was hard to leave so soon. :(
Anyway, other than our weekend events, Luke's been busy busy with school. He's been working on a senior design project and that's really interesting. He'll have to post about it because I don't know enough to explain it correctly. Basically, he's designing a remote control elevator. He also is still working 20 hours a week and trying to have time for homework. Busy guy, i'll tell ya what!

Tianna's vocabulary is rapidly increasing. It's so funny to hear that things that come out of her mouth. Her newest things that cracks me up is saying"Thank you much" instead of just thank you. I hear her say things that are definitely my vinacular... just little things I say all the time she is starting to repeat. My favorite is how she tells me "Good job" after I do ANYTHING!!! Today she was watching Dora and I was was shocked at how she was naming all of the animals and aswering the questions Dora would ask the audience. She's a smarty pants............ and some times a stinker, but that's a whole different topic.
Let's just say, if the person who invented the Magic Eraser would hear I'd give them a kiss. I just cleaned up most of my upstairs walls because she decided to draw all over them. The most frustrating part is that I asked her, "are we suppose to draw on the walls" and she said, "No." So.............. Why then, eh???
Another stinker trait is that WHENEVER Luke is around almost everything she says to him is, "No daddy" and she gives him a crusty look. He doesn't even have to DO anything and she blames him. I get after her for something and she turns to Luke to chew HIM out. It's sooo funny sometimes but its actually really sad.

Now on to me. I've been trying to enjoy a walk each day with my friend and our daughters while we still can. I'm not looking forward to being cooped up during the cold winter. I've been do a lot of little projects like sewing a blanket for my soon-to-be-here nephew, scrapbooking, and I'm starting on Christmas presents. Yesterday I really truly had nothing to do... so I did what I've been putting off for a loooooong time. I started reading Twilight. I know, many of you will gasp at how I've managed to not read any of them yet, but I just didn't feel much desire. By the time I gained that desire, and procurred a copy... i just had to wait until I could donate enough time to hurry through it. That's exactly what i did. I started ready yesterday about 4:30 and read in between fixing dinner and such until about midnight. Luke made me stop. Thankfully, I was half way through.
Then I dreamed about it through the night and couldn't wait to get up and finish it. Between peeling myself away to do laundry, dishes, and mothering.... I read all day (LAZY ME!) and then I finished up a few hours ago. I don't think I've ever read a book that long in less that 24 hours... it usually takes me a few days at least. Anyway, I'm glad I read it... but I dread starting the next one because I won't want to stop till I'm done. Thats the main reason I don't read for pleasure very often.

And now... I'm going to take an idea from a friend's blog and write something I'm grateful for on this fine Thursday. (I'll do the same each week until Thanksgiving).

I am soooooooooooooo thankful that the man i'm in love with is not a vampire. I already told Luke that about 4 times.

:) hahahahahahahaa... Have a great day everyone!

Oops I did it Again...

So I got myself involved in another play. I just can't help it!!! This time it's a show I've wanted to do for a long time and finally have the opportunity. I'm playing Simeon's Wife in



Auditions were WAAAAAY in advance this time. The show doesn't run until March. We have four rehearsals before Christmas and then we really start rehearsing in January. I'm way excited about the cast too. Several of them are my friends from Beauty and the Beast so it will be fun to reconnect with them, and the others are people that did the summer show whom I don't know yet, but they seem really really cool. It's going to be fun to be in another play... but once again, I might be crazy for deciding to do it! We shall see!!!!!!!

I do however have to thank my sweet hubby for his support! I know it takes away from our family time and it's hard to stay in town on the weekends the show runs, but I really appreciate you allowing me to do this thing that I love. THANKS LUKE!

Proposition 8

Wednesday night, Luke and I attended a special fireside held at the USU Institute of Religion on Proposition 8. We are obviously not California residence but it was open to others and we were curious. Neither of us fully understood why the LDS church was taking such a forceful stand on the issue. Boy, were we enlightened!!! We had no idea what effect legalizing gay marriage in California will have on us.
Elder Ballard, Elder Cook, and a member of the seventies, spoke and each of the urged all of us to do our part. Whether it be by calling all of our Californian friends and family, donating to the cause, or simply blogging about it, we need to do something.

Thursday we were contacted by the Herald Journal (Logan's newspaper) to comment. Last night we located the article on the internet and were sooooooooo disgusted at all of the negative comments that article created.
We need to preserve the definition of marriage!!! It's not about being anti-homosexual. It's about marriage between a man and a woman being ordained of God! If Proposition 8 is not passed then our religious freedoms are threatened because our church does not allow for gay marriages. Our children will have to be taught both heterosexual and homosexual practices in school during the sex-ed. The church could be denied it's tax-exempt status. Adoption agencies that don't allow for same sex couples to adopt can be threatened.... and so on.

Please check out these links on Proposition 8. They will express the importance of it far greater than I can.

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

http://www.preservingmarriage.org/

and this is the link to the article in the Herald Journal.

http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2008/10/10/news/news02-10-10-08.txt

But remember, we need to act in a Christ-like manner. Much of the fireside was focused on pursuing this in a loving way like our Savior. Christ loved the sinner, but did not condone the sin. Neither should we. In the name of tolerance, too many of us condone sinful or immoral practices. That is not the Lord's way and it should not be ours. We can love our homosexual friends and family members but we should not allow for this to destroy the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.