Prop 8 Experience & Service

There has been a great deal of focus on Prop 8 here in California and our family has been trying to do our part to educate people on the importance of voting yes on 8 to preserve traditional marriage. Saturday our whole family went out to a major intersection here in Elk Grove and held up signs. We had all four corners of that intersection filled with members of our church holding signs. Even Dallyn held a sign...Kyler was held by Scott or I since we were on a CORNER and I was stressed about him running in the street.

It was a good experience for the kids and even though they got a few "Thumbs Down" from drivers and one person yelled at Kaylie, overall the children learned a lot about freedom of speech, freedom to vote, etc. We got a lot of thumbs up from drivers and lots of people honked (there were "Honk if you support yes on 8' signs everywhere). Now the kids count the number of Yes on 8 signs they see as we drive through town. I'm glad the older kids are becoming educated on the blessing we have of being in a free country and the importance of standing up for what you think is right...even if it means being yelled at by passersby. We aren't sure how things will go on Nov 4th...but at least we gave some time to serve to support the effort!


And now what is Kyler doing?

Yep, he's our family gymnast!! =)

A few weeks ago we had a Family Home Evening lesson on Service. There is a humanitarian project going on in our church to collect paper goods for a Women's Shelter. We had a lesson about service and then each of the children got to choose something from the list that they wanted to donate to the Women's home. Here are the kids with their spoils. We took the items over to the home of the coordinator...it was a great lesson and the children really seemed to get the point of the importance of serving others!!