M.I.A. ?! I'm back!

I felt like I have been MIA for a while now! Between all the family birthdays, baby showers, the elections, our anniversary and YW ... I have been slightly overwhelmed! It has been a whirlwind and I can't believe how fast the past month has gone! I feel like I've neglected my family, friends and my blog so much that I'm going to try to catch up before the holidays engulf me! ha! Tonight we had our Young Women in Excellence and it was seriously awesome! It has been soooo time consuming but soooo worth it now we had the finale of it! Our theme this year has been "Steadfast and Immovable, always abounding in Good Works" ... how fitting eh?! I kept thinking thoughout the elections and with Prop 8 how necessary it is for us to be "Steadfast and Immovable" on so many issues. I really do try to be tolerant of people and feel that we were all given free agency and we do get to use that gift but so many things right now effect my family and children and it is so important to listen to our prophets council and be "Immovable" on so many things facing us. Our whole theme tonight was "Like the Stars" (steadfast and constant) and we had a Oscars, movie star thing going and really had fun with the girls! Baylee was very involved and dressed up with us all tonight too! It is so fun she can see how good these young women are at such a young age and she really does look up to them. She learned the song and sang with us all tonight too! It really was kind of a family affair because Tone came and helped in the concessions and we borrowed my parents old fashioned popcorn machine and he put it to work :) Bos enjoyed the popcorn and had root beer for the first time and I think he drank the whole thing! I am so lucky to have such a supportive family! This is an awesome video my good friend Ivonne had found on YouTube and we showed it tonight ...