Roller Skating Fun!

Wow, it's been a long, long time since I've put on a pair of roller skates. Tonight, we went to Skateland. A few weeks ago I found out that Skateland does "Christian night" on Monday nights from 6pm to 8pm with free admission and they play all Christian music! You only have to pay to rent the skates, unless you have your own. Tonight was the first Monday night that I've been off in a few weeks, so, tonight was the night. We had a really fun time!! Loegan and Malia took their rollerblades (that they've never really used, until today). Loegan caught on pretty quickly. Malia struggled with her rollerblades for about an hour, then decided she wanted to try roller skates. She still struggled, but, liked the skates better. Anyway, it was pretty fun. This is the only picture that turned out halfway decent. I took this after they had big drinks of water (Skating is thirsty work!!).

Last Friday, we went to a Back-to-School event hosted by East Valley Christian Home Educators. The kids had so much fun playing in the game room with LOTS of kids and lots of games, etc. I was in another room learning lots about EVCHE and other home schooling info. It was great. I also learned about some things that we all should be involved in. First of all, we all need to support Prop. 102 which is the marriage ammendment. They are trying to put the definition of marriage of one man and one woman into the constitution. Back when the constitution was written this definition was a given and anything else was unheard of. Now, we see what's happened in California. Go to http://www.yesformarriage.com/ for more info. The other thing we need to be involved in is supporting Parental Rights. In the past, just like with marriage, parents' rights haven't been questioned. Meaning, parents are responsible for their children, and how they're raised. In the future these rights will more than likely be seriously questioned (and in some cases, they already have). In many countries, they've already taken the slogan, "It takes a village to raise a child," meaning that parents are not necessarily responsible for the raising of their children, the whole community is. This would take away a parent's ability to make decisions on how their child is raised. Scary, huh? Well, just look at how over the years, people have started thinking differently about marriage and other issues that have changed over the past 30 or so years. Go to http://www.parentalrights.org/ and sign the petition to get this made into an ammendment in the U.S. Constitution. Sorry, I'll get off my soap box now.

About last Friday's Journal Blogging, last week was so crazy with Loegan being in Payson and Malia's video shoots, etc. that we decided to skip it for a week.

School is going great. This will be our first, normal, full week. So far, things are going good. Actually, GREAT! It really makes such a huge difference on how smoothly things go when the gospel is the main focus! God has been so amazing and so faithful every step of the way!