Election Day thoughts

With the Presidential election coming up on Tuesday, I just wanted to give you some "food for thought."
I'm not going to tell you which way you should vote, but I am going to tell you some of the things that are influencing who I vote for:
1. No matter how you try to justify it, abortion is MURDER!
2. God gave Adam Eve, not Steve!
3. "The day we lose our will to fight is the day we lose our freedom!" Everyone in the world should have the right to have freedom! War isn't good, but sometimes it is necessary! You don't believe me, ask a Veteran or someone who has come to America because they wanted to get out of a country where they didn't have freedom! It is worth fighting for! Check out this site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8
4. Even with the Law of Consecration, everyone is still required to work and do their part! Free handouts= a poor nation! Anyone who can watch their big screen TV while drinking beer and smoking while the government (meaning us as taxpayers) puts food on the table for their children is not a good parent or citizen! Same goes for anyone who has kids just so they can get government handouts! We are taught as members of the Church to be self sufficient, not to rely on others.
5. Anyone who is not willing to put their hand on their heart when the flag is raised or the National Anthem is played should not be leading our country! If you can't show patriotism, you shouldn't be in America!
Those are just a few of the things that have gone through my mind with the election coming up. I'm not asking you to agree with me, but I am asking you to really think things through before you vote! Don't vote for someone just because they're your party's candidate. Vote for them because they represent the values that you want to see in America!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Halloween Pics

Ok, you asked for it, here they are. Bradley was a vampire and Olivia was a witch. Amanda dressed up as little red riding hood, and I was a skeleton(ok, I wore a skeleton t-shirt).

William Minch's Mission Call

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William Minch, Uncle Doug and Aunt Mary Anna's grandson and Pat and Dave's son, received his mission call and is going to the Utah Ogden mission (where Uncle Doug and Aunt Mary Anna live) leaving Dec. 31st. INTERESTING... The Minch family is planning on going to Utah for Christmas,so it works well.....

WANTED-HALLOWEEN PICTURES

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OK, I know all my nieces and nephews, who are out there, are taking your kids trick or treating tonight. I WANT PICTURES!!!! Pretty pretty please!!!!!!!!!!! I want to see all those cute kids (and their parents, if you dress up, even if you don't) PLEEEEEEAAAAAASSEE

TTYL
Aunt Betty

Rochelle- juST had to Show You!

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/message.html?id=4176324. The Cougar fans don't think boise would be a bad meet! So there!

Memories of my Dad

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Just thought I'd write a few things I remember about my dad, since it's his birthday today.

He was born in 1919 and has a twin brother, Dale, who died when he was one month old. His dad was in his 40's when he when he was born and my dad was in his 40's when I was born, so people are suprised when I tell them my GRANDPA was born in 1877. Dad and Dale were the youngest children of Jedediah and Margaret Taylor.

Things I remember about my dad.

He ALWAYS had licorice under the seat of his car or truck, or bit o honey, or sometimes circus peanuts of salt water taffy. He said a few words I wasn't accustomed to, when herding the cows. He loved his horses, Lucky and Penny, and the ones he had later in his life. He always enjoyed a good ride. His favorite game was 'guard the puddle' and played that with many unsuspecting kids. He had a great sense of humor, and loved to joke. He was VERY hard working and expected his kids to be there, too. I remember many hours spent weeding potatoes, burning ditches, killing potato bugs, etc. on the farm. He usually was either right there helping or busy with something else more important.

This post would be a mile long if I wrote everything. Let's just say Dad is an amazing father and I'm lucky to have him. He raised me with great values and taught me how to work. I'm a lucky lady!
Happy Birthday DAD!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!!!

Happy 89th Birthday!!!!

USU Homecoming and Pumpkin Walk

Chandler rode with one of Chris's co-workers Mollee in the USU Homecoming Parade on Saturday. Incidentally, thee car was made by a good friend of mine's pappy.

He was a little excited!

Wild Thing!

More pictures of the pumpkin walk can be seen here.

This is my favorite - may the force be with you!

Thought for the day

No matter how crazy life gets....

How Jeremy and Rachel made their big announcement to her extended family

Ryan's school project

Ryan's class has been learning about communities this month. As part of their lesson, each of them was asked to pick a place in Lehi and make a model of it. Ryan chose IMFT! (Matt's work) He and Matt made this model out of chocolate and frosting! He brought it home Friday and it was gone within 24 hours! He and Matt sure had fun making it! I made the IMFT sign and the little flags, but they did the rest!

Boise State

With a win over San Jose tonight of 33-16, Boise State is now 7-0!
GO BRONCOS!

Greetings from Elder Pearson

Every 3 months, the missionaries write a MISSIONARY MOMENT for the newsletter. Here is David's for Nov.

Hello and Greetings from the wonderful state of Florida. I'm currently in the Sarasota South area and loving it. I was thinking about what I was going to write in this for a long time, and I couldn't think of anything. Then someone asked me at church what were some ways that young men can prepare for missions. I decided to look to the scriptures for the answers. I came up with a list of five Do's and five don'ts.



While preparing for a mission DO:



Pay your tithing (Acts 5:1-10)
Learn to love to be reproved (Proverbs 15:10)
Learn to live without plumbing (Jeremiah 4:19-20)
Be Righteous, not slothful (Proverbs 15:19)
Worship God with all your might (2nd Sam 6:14)


While preparing for a mission DO NOT:



Make fun of priesthood leaders (2nd Kings 2:23-24)
Get Married and have kids (Jeremiah 16:3-4)
Accept gifts from your enemies (Alma 55:11-18)
Ask for a sign (Alma 30:48-50)
Confuse 1 Nephi 3:7 with 3 Nephi 3:7


I hope that this list helps all of you know what you can do to prepare for a mission. I know that these have blessed me in my life. Happy Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Merry Christmas!! I miss you all!

Football Update- especially for Anna!

Hopefully posting this won't jinx Boise State, but I couldn't resist!
With a 27-7 win over Hawaii, Boise State is now 6-0 in their football season! We have a couple of big games yet to play (San Jose State- next week, and Fresno State- in 6 weeks, are suppose to be tough) but so far so good! Matt and I went to a Sports Pub tonight to watch the game with a couple of Matt's buddies from work! It was a good game! Hawaii beat us last year, so it was nice to pay them back! It was also nice to see the blue "Smurf Turf" again! We don't have ESPN, so this is the first game we've been able to watch this year! Anthony and I are going to Boise in 3 weeks to watch the game against Utah State! I like living in Utah, but I will always be a BSU fan!
By the way, Anna, what's BYU at now? 6-1?
Sorry, couldn't resist!

UPS Sort Aisle

This is a video clip of me sorting packages on the sort aisle at work. The picture is a little fuzzy, but the speed is the same. This was my last trailer of the shift so I was already tired, but I had to go fast because the packages of this load are Mona Vie drinks which is a very expensive drink in a breakable bottle. The person I sort for likes to go as fast as he can when the packages are all the same size in the load so I usually have to do about 1800 PPH to keep up. That will wear you out!

Cassy's School Project

The circus

I thought I'd share a few pictures of the circus my family and I went to in September. We had an awesome time! I also included one taken at Hogle Zoo.

Dad's bathroom and Randy's trailer

Here are some pictures of Dad's bathroom that I have been re-doing. I am glad it is pretty much done. Also are pictures of the trailer that Randy has been working very hard to build. It is large enough to carry a car or pick-up. I am sure it will be used a lot. I am proud of him! He did a great job!

Ashlee

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They did a laporoscopy on Ashlee today. They removed a cyst from one of her ovaries, but that's all they found. they didn't find any endometriosis, which is almost sad, as we hoped they would find it, and remove it, and that was the problem. They are again playing the wait and see game.... please keep them in your prayers.

Wild Ride

Ok, first off, I want to say that I have the best wife in the world!! For my 30th birthday this year, she got me the best gift I have ever had. I got to go to Las Vegas last Saturday and fly a fighter airplane! It started out with a classroom session on the basic maneuvers on how to control the airplane. Then I was suited up in a flight suit, helmet, and parachute and got strapped in. There was a pilot sitting next to me and he handled the take off and landing, but everything else was all me. We flew out above the desert alongside another airplane with another guy who was doing the same thing as me. We got to practice some basic maneuvers and then the dogfighting started. The airplanes were all set up with laser tracking and smoke screens that showed when you hit your opponent. We did 4 "engagements" and I won 2 of them.(Not bad considering the other guy had his pilots license and I don't) I got to do a lot of rolls and loops, and the whole thing was videotaped. The flight lasted about 45 minutes and my stomach really thanked me when we got back on the ground. I guess I can check that one off the Bucket List!

EXCITING NEWS!!!!!

Ok, I'm going to see how many actually read the Taylor Blog by only posting our exciting news here! Yeah, I'm evil!!!


Anyway... the news.........



Being the youngest of the "BIG 5", I take great pleasure in announcing that I'm FINALLY going to be a GRANDMA!!!! Yeah, some time in mid April, right during finals, Jeremy and Rachel are going to have a baby!!! We're pretty excited about it.

We have hopes that Ben and Ashlee aren't far behind. Ashlee is having surgery tomorrow in hopes of correcing what they think is endometriosis, so they are able to have a baby soon, too!!! Please keep them in your prayers, too..

Anyway, had to announce our exciting news!!!

TTYL
Love
Soon to be GRANDMA PEARSON!

Conference Today

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If you watched conference today, Jeremy and Rachel were in the audience. During the rest hymn, when it says When in splender he'll descend, then all wickedness will end, Jeremy is in the lower left hand corner and the Call's are next to him. You can see him fairly clear for a little while.

Delrey's Dad

is getting married to Wilma Hardy, Oct. 25th in the Memphis temple. Not sure much more than that except she's 68 and has 3 adopted children. They met online. She's moving to St.George, for the time being, and then they will probably sell both their homes and go from there. Phyllis died the end of Jan. this year... yeah.... anyway... not sure how we feel. Everyone feels they are rushing it, but what can we say........

And the winner is....

Thanks to everyone who voted on Anthony's pictures! He decided that he's going to go with the picture of the rushing water! We're going to get it enlarged to 8x10 and then mat it to 11x14. He'll put it in the contest at the end of the month! I'll keep you posted on how he does!

Anthony needs your vote!

Anthony took these pictures and wants to enter one in an art contest at school! The problem is, he can't decide which one he likes the best! The theme is "WOW!" Which picture do you think is the best? He has a month until he has to turn it in, so we might go a few other places, but these are his top two for now! He took them in Little Cottonwood Canyon.