The reason...in a nutshell. :)

Well...now that I'm finished inviting people to my blog, it's way later than I thought so I can't write very much. Thank you everyone who is reading this for wanting to be a reader and stay caught up with our lives. :)

The reason, as some of you know, that we went private is because David has joined the military. He is currently in Basic Training in Missouri. After that, he will go to Texas and be trained as a nurse. The plan is for us to go and join him in February. I just didn't want just anyone surfing the web to be able to know that the boys and I were without David -even though we are currently living with my parents, soon enough we will be traveling to Texas and David will only be able to see us in the evenings, but he will have to go back to sleep on base.

Anyways, now that I will be able to write more freely about this, I will be putting up lots of updates!

Thanks again for accepting our invitation to read our blog!

Halloween and Fall pictures

Note-these pictures may not be organized the best, I just got frustrated with trying to move thme around.

No fall would be complete without playing in some leaves! The boys had a blast! Of course, I had a really hard time getting them both to look at the camera at the same time..here are some of my attempts.

It was much easier to get the individual shots, even though they still took a little work.

We went trick-or-treating with Diana and Brandon and their kids this year. It was a lot of fun! We started out the night with their ward's trunk-or-treat, then went around in their neighborhood.

David's parent live in the same ward as Diana, so it was fun to see them there at trunk-or-treat too!

This is the first Halloween that I ever remember when it was warm enough that you didn't even need a jacket.

Carter is always such a good baby. He was totally content to just ride along in the stroller.

The army crawl

This is just an update that is long over due. Carter began the army crawl (some say he looks like a frog) when he was 5 1/2 months and sitting steadily by himself at 6 months.

Click on the video to share in his excitement as he first became mobile.

Now, at 7 months, he is getting into everything that he can and driving his big brother crazy!

A Hard Decision...

We have decided to make our blog private. I really didn't want to, because I enjoy blog surfing and looking at people's blogs and have found old friends that way....but we feel that this is the best thing for our family at this time.

So.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave me a comment with your email address so that I can add you as a reader. If you would rather, you can send me an email at: aakristalynford@yahoo.com

Even if you are just a friend of a friend, I will still add you. It's really sad that the times that we live in are such that we have to be so careful.

I hope to hear from ALL of you!

-Kristalyn :)

Fast for the success of Proposition 8

One of things that sets The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints apart from other churches is that we have a living prophet who receives revelation that is relevant for our day.

I remember when I was in Young Womens, and The Family: A Proclamation to the World was revealed. I remember that one Saturday, we were asked to go door to door and pass out copies of this Proclamation. While we recognized that this was a new revelation and recognized it as scripture, I don't think that any of us realized how these profound truths would be threatened.

This November, the citizens of California will be voting on Proposition 8. A 'yes' vote is in support of legally recognizing only the marriage between a man and a woman. I just reread the Proclamation and it really stuck out to me how many times it specifically mentions that marriage between a MAN and a WOMAN is central to God's plan.
I know that this is not a mere coincidence that more than a decade ago, Heavenly Father, through our prophet, began preparing and reinforcing in his children the importance of marriage being between a man and a woman. I know that the wording of The Proclamation is deliberate.

The proclamation states that "the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children."

There is a reason that Satan is attacking the family in this nation. He knows that if he can get the central part of the PLAN to distinigrate, he can personally interfere with the eternal destiny of our brothers and sisters.

Satan is working hard to see that Proposition 8 does not pass. I just received an email where a sister tells of her experience in attending the Oakland Temple. She said that there was a mob of protesters, harassing those going to serve in the temple. This because the church is involved in supporting Proposition 8.
This really hit me hard. The time has come for us, as members of the church, to stand up for what we believe in. We can not afford to be silent. Our leaders have said that if this proposition passes in California, it will spread to the rest of the country. No matter where we live, we will eventually face opposition in attending the temple. In Boston, where homosexual marriage is legal, churches have already been losing their 'tax exempt' status because they refuse to marry couples that are not a man and a woman. The church will never bend on this and so the possibility of us becoming an illegal entity is very real.

We have been asked to fast and pray this weekend for the success of this proposition.

These are truly the last days and we are seeing prophecies being fulfilled.
I am grateful for our leaders and I know that if we follow their counsel, we will be able to enjoy peace and happiness in our lives.

Photoshop give away

I saw this on my friend Tamie's blog, and I just couldn't resist trying to enter.
The blog "The Secret is in the Sauce" is giving away the New Photoshops Element 7. I thought it was worth a try. Click HERE to try to win it for yourself! Good Luck!

Does anyone else's house ever look like this?

As always, I'm a little slow putting up this post that I thought of a while ago. I just had to post it and see if anyone else can say that their house gets this tornado-like:

In my defense, when these pictures were taken,

this little cutie pie...

was suffering from his first ear infection and I consequently was running on little sleep...

so

when this little cutie pie....

...was left to his own devices 'cuz Carter was demanding more than his fair share of my attention...

This is what happened....

After getting both boys into bed, I saw this sight and decided that it would be more therapeutic to take pictures and blog than to tackle the mess just yet.

(All of the shelves on this DVD organizer are normally full)