Meet The Man of Your Dreams!

In the Fuller family we rotate who has who for Christ mas gifts. This year I have Samuel he is the 4Th child of 5, and the only boy. he is also the only single one left. He is only 22 (I think?) so his singleness its not too serious yet. Still though, Jenny the 3rd child has created a blog dedicated to getting him married.

Samuel dates a lot, every week I would say he has a date. He has lots of friends and is very social. Samuel probably does not need any help finding a wife but, with family of girls we feel restless and feel like we need to do something to get him married, and he likes it. He enjoys being set up and overloaded with praise, and he does want to get married soon.

Samuel is insisting that I not get him anything for Christmas. He says he has too much stuff. So to me that means he does not want anything tangible. I have decided for Christmas I will post on the blog set up by Jenny, Get Sam Fuller Married. Come check out Samuel and if you know any nice single girls in Arizona set him up!

Sleep Advice From Pammy.

I am going to post the Month of November similar to the month of October. The kids love it and it was easy. The last 3 months of the year go by so quick and I do not want to take the time to sit a write a lot, but I do enjoy a quick read on your blog so thanks everybody else for posting!

One thing that I do want to write quickly was some good advice I got from Pam Hashimoto. I love Pammy! So do my kids. We VT together, every time we go I get some great real advice from her. I told her Jr was having a hard time sleeping at night. I was mostly upset because he was falling asleep at school.
When my kids are not in school and do not have responsibility to be somewhere during the day, bed time is much more relaxed. They can stay up latter then nap or sleep if they need to, but not Jr with Kindergarten all day I have learned to be more strict with bed time.
My problems were this:
1. Jr was not getting enough sleep at night and would fall asleep at school.
2. Katie keeps him up at night, they play and talk for too long after bed time.
3. It took him 2 hours to finally fall asleep, when I put them to bed at 8:00. My only solution was put him to bed earlier. It is dark at 6:00 he does not know what time it is, if it took him 2 hours to go to bed at 8:00 if I put him to bed at 6:00 he will fall asleep at 8:00 right?
Here is Pams great, clearly obvious advice:
1. Ask the teacher not to let him fall asleep at school. Then he will be tired enough to go to bed on time.
2. Send Katie to bed after Brian falls asleep. They they will not keep each other up.
3. He will not go to bed at 6:00 if he is not tired. He will play in his bed and not be able to sleep even after 2 hours. Wear him out then send him to bed at his bed time.

Great advice! It all seems so obvious when you step back and evaluate, it is nice to have a friend to give to honest straight advice!

The Whole Month of October in 3 Video Slide Shows.

Campaigning Joys

We are still going strong on the campaign for prop 8. I few weeks ago after calling hundreds to survey I thought well we worked hard, the yes side is starting to rise, that was fun now we can rest. Then Charlie Deem the comutity organiser said we are at the sprint of the Marathon in this campaign.
Last week Brian and I participated in sign waving. When I first heard that we would be asked to do sign weaving I thought NO-WAY that is not my thing. I will delegate and let somebody else to that. Then we stepped in to get it going. We went out the first and second day. It was so much more fun then I thought it would be! You can't help but smile, and have a good time out there on the street corner holding your big yellow sign as people honk, wave, give a thumbs up or other finger and yell at you positive words and some not so postitive. The first day there was 6 women and it was a a safe corner. We got lots of positive responses sure there were a few nasty words and gestures but mostly good.
Next time we were near Hazard Center, a busy intersection in Mission Valley. There were a lot more people gathered that day participating in the sign waving. It was honestly so fun, I am looking forward to doing it again. The rest of the week our ward had a large amount of people volunteer to sign wave and most everybody had a good time. We have heard that in smaller cities prop 8 suporters gather to line the main street with pepole holding up prop 8 signs.
Today (Saturday) we are hanging door hangers. September we did this with vote yes fliers and surveys registered voters. Today we are giving door hangers to those likely to vote yes, either because in the survey they would or the demographics say they would.
Last night our Halloween surprise was receiving 6400 door hangers. At my house. to hand out! By 9:30 a quarter of them were gone. A few people have committed to working all day in this effort.
There is an amazing amount of grass roots effort going on here! So many Californians have been contacted by face to face, phone, mail, and door hangers. Other Churches are meeting today at Qualcomm stadium to pray begin or continue their fast.
On voting day volunteers are going out to pole wach and check to see if those who said they would votes yes come out and vote. Others will be calling all day tho those "yes voters"to get them out to vote. I heard the grassroots effort is a proven method in elections. I am so happy to be part of this amazing effort. Even if it does not pass we will feel good knowing we did all we could to get people to vote yes on Proposition 8.

Sit back and enjoy some videos. Then get up and help!

The church produced a couple videos to answer some questions about prop. 8. enjoy.

I don’t see how same sex marriage really hurts anyone else. Really, what’s the harm?


If Prop 8 passes won’t it take exisiting rights away from gay couples?


Don’t gay and lesbian couples deserve the same amount of happiness as others?


What’s the point – didn’t we already vote on this?


Even if Prop 8 passes, the court in San Francicso will just overturn it again anyway – right?


I don’t know many who actually support Prop 8. I mean I’m sure they’re out there – but I don’t think there are many?


I don't think many of my reader will be persuaded to Vote for Prop 8 by this post, because most of my reader already have decided they will vote yes. I do hope this post inspires you to do a similar post. There are a lot of great videos at this web site. i think these new videos are great!
I think prop 8 WILL pass. There are so many people working hard on the grassroots effort with personally calling and recalling voters. We are now posting signs and preparing to wave signs at busy intersections. Only 3 weeks left! lets get to it and post come wave signs with us, get busy calling, had out fliers lets get to it! there is a lot of need for more help comment if you are interested!
Get your own videos here.

Standing for Something

Written by Chantal and Brian:

There are many great things about living in San Diego. This is such an important time for California. We are exited to be apart of it and to Vote. We have been very involved with the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. I have spent hours calling people to survey and later to perhaps persuade them. I have done some training and recruiting of volunteers for the Yes campaign.
Over all it has been a good experience. Most people have been polite, even if they do not agree with me. Close friends who do not agree with our decision to support proposition 8 have been polite and we have avoided heated discussions. With all my involvement I would like to think that it will pass. I would like to think that the people of California would not want the institution of marriage to be diluted and changed into a simple social contract between adults. I would hope that the people of California will understand that marriage is and always has been in every culture an institution to protect children.
I think Satan has strong, outraged and educated people working to do what he has fraudulently persuaded them is just and fair. He would have us think it is unfair to adults to not have something they think they want. Satan uses imagery of wholesome goodness, love, family, and unity, and then he blends in tiniest bit of poo. Satan will use all the good he can as packaging to camouflage his covert agenda of sexual perversion. He knows what is valued and will use that to persuade us and cloud the issue.
There may be adults in traditional marriages who are not sure how this proposition will affect them. The truth is… it wont, but it will affect children… All children in California’s public schools will be required to learn about same sex marriage (per California’s Education Code § 51890). To me proposition 8 does not take away anybody's rights. In California, same sex couples have all the rights of marriage under a civil union. I believe all Californians should have the right to marry, but four judges in San Francisco should not be able to change the definition of marriage at their whim.

Recovering...More Journaling

Monday was tough. (see previous post) I still can not find my keys or phone. The week did get better. Jr. had some good days, at school, the rest of the week. I was probably putting too much pressure on him and myself. Tuesday and the rest of the week I tried extra hard to have a good morning that way when he left home he was feeling happy and loved. I laid out his clothes and socks and shoes. that way he will get dressed first thing in the morning. I also make is lunch at night so I am not rushed in the morning. All those things seem to be helping. He is a good kid, he is so loving and makes everybody happy. I sure love him and am happy to be his mom!
Friday I had a nice day. I took Katie and Susan to the ward enrichment "Friday Field Trips" The ladies met at the beach this time. I don't usually hang out with these women, not because I don't want to I am just busy with the 3 kids, kindergarten, preschool, homemaking, etc.. It was a nice change to hang out with the young mothers and watch the kids play. They are all great ladies.
Later on friday the ward Book group had a field trip to hear Greg Mortenson author of 3 Cups Of Tea speak. I have not read the book, (busy remember) but I wet to the Book group when they reviewed the book and enjoyed hearing about it.
I am trying to become more aware and involved with the world around me. My life is very full and rich, I'm very satisfied and happy, but I don't spend much time considering things that don't relate directly to me. In the world there is so much suffering and I don't think of it too much. So that is one reason I enjoyed the Book club talk about the book 3 Cups of Tea. Also the women who meet I want to get to know better, I want to be more like them, I enjoy being with them. So the field trip was fun, spending time with the few ladies and listening to the speaker. I wish I had read the book, I think I would have appreciate the speaker more and I could share more with you about the great things the author is doing.
So to top off the recovering I went to the General Relief Society Meeting. It was so nice! Elder Uchtdorf was so right on to things I needed to hear and I felt so uplifted listening to him. He talked about the women in his life, his wife, undervaluing yourself, loneliness, God's love, experiencing happiness, finding joy in service and in creating things. My favorite quote is,

"He is a God of creation, and a God of compassion. Creating and
being compassionate are 2 activities that we as his spirit children can
and should emulate.

The desire to create is one of
the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents education background or abilities we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Everyone can create you done need money position or
influence in order to create something of substance beauty. Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty… You are spirit Daughters of the most creative being in the universe…Seek and experience
the eternal happiness creating things.

Here is a video link to his talk !
and great intro to the sewing class I was asked to teach.

BTW Katie cut her hair. I am so sad. I saw a little ringlet on
the floor and it was like seeing a lost limb. I have not finished the
job she started yet, I am pretty sure I will cry when I have to.