Christmas 2008

Happy belated Thanksgiving and Christmas! We had a wonderful holiday season. We spent Thanksgiving here in Clovis, Ca. The Reynders spent Thanksgiving in Utah with the rest of the Thorley clan, so we spent our Thanksgiving with my family. Every year my mothers side of the family has a huge gathering for Thanksgiving. We do a pot luck dinner, so we always have a lot of food. I made two pumpkin pies that we brought and shared. We had a great time hanging out with my family.

Christmas was also a lot of fun. We woke up around 6 am and did our own little Christmas at home. We opened the gifts that we had gotten for each other and rummaged through our stockings. The rest of the day was spent bouncing back and forth to our parents homes. First, we went to the Murphy's home, my parents home, and had breakfast and played games, and exchanged gifts. Then we went over to the Reynders' home and broke through the posters that we made the night before (there are pictures of this). We then played games and hung out. We also exchanged gifts there. Mama Reynders made a delicious Christmas lunch for all of us. It was great! We hung out with Robert & Paige, and Annie & Adam, it was great seeing them again. Then we went back over to the Murphy's and had a great Christmas dinner provided by Mama Murphy. We had a wonderful Christmas!

Prop 8

Hooray! Proposition 8 passed in all three states! Woohoo! I know that this was a little while ago but... we want to document all that occurred last year. David and I had a great time helping in all the efforts for proposition 8. We spent some Saturdays walking precincts and handing out fliers... but our favorite memory of our prop 8 efforts was when we went out and put up yard signs. It was a Sunday evening and we had just had dinner with the Reynders. Janet, Scott, Kate, David, and I all decided that we should go out and put up the 100 yard signs that David and I had in our trunk. So, we put together all the signs and headed off to place the signs along some major roads. While we were putting up signs we got nothing but positive feedback... people were honking horns and shouting out their windows, "Yes on 8!", but just as we were finishing up, an angry young boy drives by and shouts mean things at us. We didn't think much of it, we were done so we just hopped back in the car. As we were about to pull out back onto the main road, the boy sped up the side of us and cut us off and started shouting things at us. He had made an illegal U-turn to come and shout at us for putting up signs and told us that they would all be gone tomorrow. He then sped off, once he saw he wasn't going to get any response from us. We went back to the Reynders and shared what had happened and just laughed about the whole situation. It was a great experience to be a part of such a noble cause and to defend the true definition of marriage. We are glad that the voice of the people was heard on this issue.

Halloween 2008

Halloween

We had our first Halloween together this last October. We didn't do too much but we wanted to document this happy day. Our ward had a Halloween party before Halloween day. We didn't know what to wear, and David didn't really want to dress up unless we had something really neat, so we ended up just wearing matching pajamas... lame, but our ward still loves us. Then a couple days before Halloween we carved our pumpkins. I'm really sad that I didn't take a picture of them; they actually looked really good. Anyway, on Halloween day, after work and school, David and I ordered a jack-o-lantern pizza to celebrate. We then went trick-or-treating... well kind of... the old Lady living next door to us, saw us walk by her door and was so excited to hand out her candy that she opened her door and stopped us to give us candy. We then went over to my parents home and I got a couple hand fulls of candy. We then ended up staying at my parents house and watched National Treasure. We didn't do much, but it was fun!

WOW! It has been a while since we last wrote! Don't worry... we are still alive. We want to document some of the things we have done since September.

I now have a new job, I am an instructional assistant at Granite Ridge Intermediate in the autistic program there. I now do the same thing David does for work, but I am working with kids who are a little older.

We both finished a great semester at Fresno City College. David is going to be attending Fresno State in a couple of weeks and I will start my last semester at Fresno City in a week. School and work keeps us both pretty busy (hence no blog posts since September).

Now I will write several posts to try and update you on our lives.