Time Out For Woman and than some!!!

This weekend my Mom, Grandma, Aunt Cherie and I went to Time Out For Women. It was in Riverside. I had been looking forward to this event for months! It is something that us girls do ever year together. This year was no disappointment! We had wonderful speakers and great music. I was so excited to find out that Kenneth Cope was going to be doing all of the music this year. He is one of my favorite church singers. Our first speaker was Mary Ellen Edmunds. She spoke on this life being like our insurance policy into the next life. That as we follow the teaching of the gospel and commandments it is our insurance to live with God again. She is a very fun lady and has a great laugh. I really enjoyed her talk. The next speaker was Brad Wilcox. He spoke on the Atonement and how Jesus Christ has already done his part for us and that we need to do our best here on earth and Jesus will make up the rest. He had great stories and again really enjoy the message he talked on. After lunch we had two more speakers. We had first Jill Mannings. Jill is a marriage and family counselor and specializes in pornography. She addressed us on ways to keep our homes a safe guard against pornography. It was very interesting to hear everything she was saying and now bad and evil this world is. Especially the degrading and immoral things that are being done to women and child in that industry. She said that 83% of pornography comes from the United States that is on the internet. Our country is the largest producer of it. That is a scarey thought! It was a very informative talk. It opens my eyes to things I just didn't even imagine or understand. The last speaker was Emily Freeman. Once again I have to say it was a great talk. She talked on Abundance. She told a story of how she bought a wooden block that had the word abundance on it. She placed it on her coffee table and thought that was what her family needed that paticular year "abundance". Well things didn't seem to happen in her mind the way she had planned as the year went on and she didn't at first feel the abundance she had hoped for. But as she really thought about it, she realized that Heavenly Father was viewing abundance in a much different way and she was filled with blessings and had much abundance in her life. She went into great detail of the blessings in her life and stories of her family and the trials that they have went though. She is an amazing women and I learned so much from her talk. Most of her talk I was either laughing or crying. It was wonderful!! The entire conference was uplifting and so filling to my spirit!
We left the conference excited and blessed to be able to hear all the great music and speakers. Aunt Cherie had met us their and so we said our goodbyes and headed on our seperate ways. About 10 minutes into our drive home Aunt Cherie called my mom's cell phone and said she was in a car accident. She was heading down the freeway in her lane and a guy came out of control and hit her. She lost control of her van and ended up hitting the brick wall on the side of the freeway. We turned around on the freeway once we got the call since she was heading in the opposite direction than us. We got to the accident and her van was totaled! She was ok, we ended up taking her to the hospital's emergency room to be checked out. She was having chest pains, pain in her ribs and her left arm was all scraped up. But overall she was doing ok. Well we spend most of the evening at the hospital. Then we ended up bring Aunt Cherie home to my moms for the night. Then Uncle Nick came to pick her up this morning. It is so scary to be in that type of car accident. But I know she was blessed with walking away with only a few bruises!
Other than that Shane and I have been enjoying going to Disneyland with our Annual Passes. It is fun to see it all decorated for Halloween right now.
We also are heading to San Diego this coming Thursday! We are so excited to be going on a mini vacation. We are spending 4 nights at the Paradise Point for our Anniverary! Another year of marriage has past us by! I love Shane and I am so thankful to be married to such a wonderful man and a great father!

Update

Well life has been crazy busy for us the last few months and looks like that will continue for the next few months! In my last post I wrote that we were heading to Utah for Wyatt's Baptism! So I will start with that!
For labor day weekend we drove to Utah with my parents. It took most of the day on Friday to get up there. We had fun on our road trip though! I got pulled over about 2 miles from my in-laws house on the freeway! But was lucky to be given only a warning to not speed! We got up on Saturday and had a relaxing morning and then headed to the baptism in the afternoon! The baptism was perfect! It was such a special event in all our lives but mostly for Shane and Wyatt. I feel so lucky to have a husband that honors his priesthood and was able to use his priesthood to baptize Wyatt!
After the baptism Wyatt's mom had a nice party for him at the church. It was so nice for Wyatt to have us celebrate this special day for him! When that ended we were able to go back to Gary and Diane's and spend some time with Wyatt! We watched the BYU football game and just had fun as a family!
On Sunday we were able to be together again with the family and attend our new nephew Easton's blessing. Afterwards we went back to Gary and Diane's for a early lunch and then headed out of town! We drove Sunday night to St. George and then we drove back to California the next day! It was a fast weekend but we sure enjoyed the time we were able to spend with family and friends and also to share in Wyatt's special day! Shane and I are so proud of him for his decision to be baptized and follow Christ's example! He is a great young man and I am proud to have him as my step son!!
Since the baptism we have been busy here in California! It seems like every weekend we have a family event or plans! In September we had a family get together and we also have my nephew Corbin's 2nd birthday party! We bought a new car! We got a BMW 325 e. It is used but it will hopefully be a good car for Shane! We were able to go to an Angel's baseball game, that was so fun! I am a huge baseball fan and it is so fun to actually go to the game!
For the month of October-last night we had a big temple event for our stake at the Redlands Temple. It has been in the works for the last few months. We were as a stake suspose to gather names to take to the temple. Our stake had the entire temple reserved the entire afternoon and evening just for our stake! We had youth there to do baptisms and adults there to do everything else! In August Shane and I were called to be the family history consultants in our ward to help prepare the members for this event. It has been a great experience to have this calling and involved in this event. It was wonderful to attend the temple yesterday. We had over 400 members of our stake there. It was just an awesome experience. As a family we are already preparing to take more family names through the first Saturday in November. We are so excited to get this work done for our family members!!
Also another big event for this weekend, Shane is shooting his first wedding down here today! He is doing it as I am typing this post! He is an awesome photographer and I am so proud of him!
Other events for the month-we have souper saturday craft day at church next Saturday. The following weekend my mom, grandma, aunt and I are going to Time out for Women that is in Riverside this year. Then the fourth weekend of the month Shane and I are going to San Diego for four nights! This past Janurary I received a free four night stay at the Paradise Point on our FAM trip when I worked for Get Away Today Vacations. So Shane and I decided we would use it for our anniversary. It is going to be our fifth anniversay in just a couple of weeks. Time has gone by fast. I am excited for us to have this nice getaway! I love San Diego!! After that we have Halloween weekend and lots of plans also! My list could go on and on with all the upcoming plans! I will try to be better and post more often as these events happen!
I have pictures to post also but not sure where to find them on the computer. I need to ask Shane!
We are still loving being here in California! We are mostly enjoying the weather. It is nice as fall is here and winter is coming not to have to stress about the snow!