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Cole..soccer pics
Cole played as defender most of the time. He really loved playing. We loved watching him and we loved his coach. Brandon made the decision for Cole to play with this particular coach again. The sacrifice was to travel 30 minutes for practice when we could have traveled five minutes. Thankfully I listened to Brandon on this. Cole's coach is a Columbian Catholic father of 7 or 8 with two or three kids on soccer scholarships. He would get excited and yell some during the games but was very caring and attentive to each player. During one game he called Cole out, spent two minutes (which is a lot in kid soccer time) instructing him and the sent him right back in. Cole truly progressed throughout the season. Cole had good teammates too. It was a great season, we're sitting the frigid temps of winter out and will hopefully get back to it in the Spring. And Cole scored his first goal...HUGE and just like him bearing his testimony for the first time...I missed it...I took Laura and some pals, skating for Laura's bday friend gig. Ah well,, at this rate I might miss his wedding!

We interrupt this elongated porter update session to bring you a rant on not so smart people (cause we don't say the s word in our family)

Disclosure: This post will not make you smile like most of my others :) ....very unhappy content (just in case you're trying to have a "there are no idiots or bad things going on in the world" day and we all need those, if that's the case, you can look at this picture and stop reading.

You may have heard that Amazon had a book for sale entitled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure. If you didn't Amazone had a book for sale entitled that. Not only did they have it listed, they defended it under the guise of censorship (*(&(*&#*(&(&@). They eventually took it off because good people took a stand.
Here's one article on the situation...
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/11/17/parents-take-a-stand-to-stage-peaceful-protest-at-amazon-headquarters/

I have often thought if a company makes a mistake like McDonald's did about an issue a few years ago (they made a decision, the public responded, they then corrected it) then you forgive and forget so to speak. Don't we all want the same leniency? So I was ready to treat Amazon the same way and then I happened upon a really ridiculous article and read some of the comments left and decided this mistake was too big about too sensitive a topic.

My brother is more than passionate about politics and after a 30 minute conversation on what is wrong with the world I asked him what exactly I was supposed to do about it right now and he said tell people, they tell people and then things start to change. It's a good theory but I'm not so sure about it, but in the spirit of that I wanted to tell people. You don't have to do anything, nothing will happen to you if you don't forward this information, but you will be educated. There was a time when homosexuality was gawked at because of the audacity of the idea. There can not be a time where people are allowed to think that pedophilers have any rights, to publish a book, to have a web site, to have a voice. I believe Amazon needs to strongly correct their wrong and until then my peasley little shopping will be done elsewhere (and I loved shopping at Amazon.com...loved it). Here is my email to them, so far the only thing I've received back is that the book is no longer for sale. I liked the article I posted above because they are still letting their voice be heard. They have a protest scheduled for Nov. 22nd. Amazon and the world need to know that this destructive idea will not get it's foot in the door.

I am not a victim/survivor of this atrocity, but know people who are, those people and unfortunately those yet to come deserve their voice to be heard.

Dear Amazon punks....(they don't let you put a greeting or I may have put that)
I can not find a way to close my amazon account and to stop receiving emails. And yes this is due to the very poor judgment of the situation with the pedophile book. It should never had been allowed and certainly never defended. I wonder how the person who made this decision would have felt if they or someone they love were a victim of this very heinous act. I doubt censorship or freedom of speech would have been considered. It was once said by a pedophile regarding his victims that they destroyed who that person might have been. To accept in any form the 'right' to promote this behavior is unacceptable and the deciding person on this should be ashamed of themselves for hiding behind the flag of freedom to allow such. I can not support such people and potential decisions like this. So Long. Find and report those who bought the book and donate a HUGE sum of money to an organization that gives support to molested and raped children and I'll consider coming back.

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This does not need to be brushed under the rug as I'm sure Amazon hopes. Taking the book off is not enough. I don't think they will actually do anything, but I know that I've done something to protect those who can't protect themselves.

Soccer

had a bunch of pics of cole's soccer, just deleted them, must be too late,

catching up...still :)

More updating...won't wait this long again...ahh probably will.

Laura's neverevending bday, well not really, just posts on it. For her bday "party" I took her skating with Sarah and Emily, she loves to skate but we don't go often, so she fell a few times and hurt herself, but would get up and go again, no pics from that because I love skating and I wasn't taking my camera, we'll just have the memories...

On Monday she opened her presents from us....she got scriptures, then a big box, that had a smaller wrapped box, that had a smaller wrapped box, and so on (so much fun!)...she loves this. I did this for Cole with a gift card (cause the child loves money) and Laura LOVED it and asked me to do if for her and I did and she loved it and the earrings that were in the last box. She's been asking for a year to have her ears pierced, so we went for it. Right after she wasn't so happy, but it didn't take long to recover.


before
after, she smiled soon after this pic :)

and the last thing she opened was a card that told her clues to her last gift...a violin, we got it cheap (for a violin) and she was so excited, we went to look at them thinking I might get one for Hannah, but Laura was much more interested than Hannah and Hannah can grow into this one. We'll see how it goes.

and the real reason

for the mini wedding dress, cake and pics (yea I know),

the baptsim

Laura

had the talk with the parents

interview with Bishop

picked her songs, speakers

drueled over the thought of cake

and made an eternal covenant with her Heavenly Father

a lot for an eight year old. I'm fairly certain she doesn't fully understand past the cake, but I hope seeds were planted and that roots will grow firmly in good soil to produce a solid relationship wiht her Father in Heaven and a beautiful, happy life for her.

Laura has changed a lot over her small span of life..I think it took a year for her to really speak to her Sunbeam teacher. She's much better but still shy so she didn't want many people at her baptism. So it was an intimiate affair. Brandon baptised her, confirmed her with his dad and the Bishop. Mary made the beautiful, delicious cake.

I love the Walgreens photo clerk

and this redhead....
so due to some scheduling difficulties, rain, Laura being sick, etc. Lindsey Lou was not able to take pics of my sweet Laura Lou (one of her nicknames :) ) and at the last minute I found myself seeing what I could get. We did it just before Cole's soccer game in a neighborhood close to the soccer game that has a public landing, not that we didn't trespass property a small tidbit for one shot. Anyways, Laura was cooperative. And they turned out pretty good, but it really is hard to take a bad photo of the child.

...the walgreens photo clerk comes in where I sent in photos to be printed and when I go to pick them up, he says Ms. Porter I'm sorry we can't release these to you, they were taken by a professional, I literally bust out loud laughing. He has to call his manager over and I have to convince them both that I took the shots, I even pulled the my daugther is getting baptized today, I'm not lying card. Apparently they were stung by this and paid a hefty fine recently for something like this, but good on him for making a mom feel great!

You gotta love how her hair transitions throughout the shoot.

The blessing dress was literally a grab out of the closet as I'm running to the van idea, it sooo paid off.

more updating..oct

October was a big month for our family. Laura turned 8 and her grandparents who haven't missed a blessing or baptism yet, made the trek East to be with us and we had a great time. Here are some of our doings...Backwards, whatev! Cole's soccer game, we won and Rhoud was very impressed with the team and the coach, we really like our coach too, more on that later.













Susan, the girls and I made it down to the beach and Susan was such a good sport to venture out there with us, but she does have Idaho skin so we set up a shady spot for her.

Laura, Hannah and I made a sandman to represent their Daddy, hard to tell but he's there :).

We visited the stadium and ran (walked mostly) up the stairs, on the end zone, but there were some chicks taking names and kicking butt on those stairs.

Susan and Laura doing the chop and doesn't Rhoud just look like a head football coach? Not a nole fan though.

Rhoud and Brandon were supposed to go out deep sea fishing, but due to weather didn't make it. We hope to bait Rhoud back soon for that trip:).

We miss them, esp. Hannah, out of the blue the other day, Hannah said, mommy, I miss Daddy's mommy and daddy, they're funny! :). Yes, they are!