Precious Children of Mine!

Say "Cheese!" and these are the smiles I get. They are all dressed up for church. We are heading out the door. Sarah can't forget her purse and Colton wanted to wear a white shirt and tie, "like Daddy" today. We love Sarah's princess dress(from Morgan and Crystal's wedding) and thought she should wear it again. Sarah also wanted to add her brown sweater.Aren't I the cutest?!
I am handsome too!!
Colton and Sarah are our pride and joy!

Star Soccer Player and little Cheerleader!

Colton was so excited about his "soccer clothes" because these are the clothes that his uncles wear for soccer. He loves his uncles, Morgan and Brandon, and surely idolisms them when it comes to playing soccer, he was hoping to look just like them. He even wanted great shoes like Uncle Brandon so Colton is wear white Puma cleats with the laces on the side. Run Colton Run!!
This year Colton is playing on a YMCA team in Lodi, CA with his best buddy, Micah (seen on the left in the zip-up sweat jacket). They are by far the stars of the team. So far Micah scored lots of goals last game and Colton was assisting and this game Colton scored lots of goals and Micah was assisting. Unfortunately, they take turns being bummed when they don't score, too.
Colton has gotten a lot better this year with dribbling the ball down field and turning it to score!
Here is our little pink cheerleader. She is bummed that she doesn't get to play, just a few more years and her turn will come. But she yells "GO, GO, Go CO CO!!" (Co Co is Colton in Sarah language.) I think it was Crystal that first taught her to say Go!! Thanks!
Even though Jay is a big football and basketball fan and would never have gotten into soccer if it wasn't for the Gilliam family(me, my brothers and parents) he is really enjoying playing with Colton and watching him play! We, as a family, have really enjoyed sports together.

Got to get ALL the cars clean!!

Sarah and Colton LOVE to play outside and even more, they LOVE with excitement to play in the water. So what a better activity then washing the cars, besides Jay and my cars were beyond dirty. So the kids and I went to work, more so me of course, but they were thoroughly entertained.

But Sarah thought it was necessary to clean her car too. She needed "Wah! Wah!"(water) in her bucket, so we all got our own. Even though this car has been around since Colton was little Sarah takes full possession these days, and lets everyone know that it is hers with a loud yell.

As for Colton, he was a big helping wiping down the car. However the real fun was making bubbles and becoming bubble man. Aarrurrrg! Bubble smash!! Splash!

First Day of School!

The School year has begun again and Colton is our Varsity player at Snell's Preschool. He is always ready to learn and make new friends.



Here Colton is in front of his school, Snells. His preschool reminds me of the little yellow house, Mrs. Tally's preschool, where I attended prescholl.

We love that Colton has a great day everytime he goes, even more I get excited when he enjoys going to Blue room, which is the more structured learning room he attends once a week out of his three day he goes. As a parent it is very rewarding to watch our children learn and grow.

Fighting for YES for Proposition 8

This past year here in California a judge ruled that Marriage only between a man and a woman was "Unconstitutional." Now the marriage lisence in the state of California says Partner A and Partner B, so there has been a proposition presented to make an amendment to the state constition which DOES NOT take away anyones rights but firmly defines marriage to be between a man and a woman. With our religious beliefs and morals, you can see how this can be upsetting and something to fight for. So Jay has been knocking doors, with other members of our congegation, helping to inform people about what Prop 8 really is and we are praying that the votes will come through in favor of the Proposition. Yesterday we read an article in the Wall Street journal about the fight that the church has take on, with everything that we as a church organization have done it was amazing to be recognized nationally. Here is the link, check it out: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186063716658279.html
And please pray that this Propostion will pass to protect the sanctity of marriage that is so precious to us all. And it will also help to protect the morals that seems to be faultering in our society. This is a little of what has been consumming our thoughts and energies the last month.

How the year keep flying by!

Today I was at the grocery store and there were already pumkins for sale and there is Halloween stuff at every store. The nights are cooler here and so I am starting to feel like fall. Thus I changed our Blog background to have a little fall spirit about it. Happy Fall to you! We look forward to the harvesting of great vegtables here in the California and some really fun Fall Festivals.

Family is what counts in Life

It is always great to be with family!

Colton with Uncle Morgan and Uncle Brandon
FOUR GENERATIONS

Great-Granddaddy, Granddaddy, Mom(Me), Colton & Sarah
Me, Colton, Sarah and Aunt Shayna, who flew in from Olympia, Washington
WE LOVE YOU ALL!!