Birthday and convention pictures...

I spent a little time this afternoon (between folding loads of laundry) uploading some pictures, as promised. :)

Here are a few from my birthday:

Andrew was having fun playing with the settings on his fancy camera...

The pretty cake that Mother bought me (I believe I wrote here how she did not want me to have to make my own cake and didn't have time to do it herself, so we enjoyed this beautiful cake). : We just finished it this evening at supper!

Yours truly, opening the Brad Stine DVD that Jacob gave me, while our faithful (15 year old?) Trevor bear looks on...

Oh dear.... I didn't quite get them all blown out in one breath. There were just so many of them! :)

Some of the very nice gifts I received from my family: (the piano books are not pictured here and neither are the dozen roses.....)

The following pictures are from yesterday at our district convention:

As you can see, it was a very busy place!

Mother at the Ron Paul section of the table...

During the precinct meeting, the delegates to that meeting sat according to what precinct they were from (see all the little signs?).

Here is our state Senator, giving a short speech, asking the precinct delegates to vote for him--which they did...

Those of us who were not able to be precinct delegates (only Andrew got in from our family) sat on the side bleachers and listened/visited. We were so pleased that several of our friends showed up (from quite a distance too) to vote for us to be delegates to the state convention!

A friend, Mr. M, who was running for the position of state representative, asked Andrew to stand up and nominate him. Andrew is doing just that in the picture below. There were a couple other gentlemen who also got up and seconded the nomination. Sadly, our friend did not make it in, but we were encouraged by how close he was to getting in, as he did get started pretty late in the race, so didn't have a lot of time for campaigning. I hope that he'll have much better success next time!

Random fact: Our (hopefully) future Governor Sorum knows how to text! :)

Adding up the votes...

Rep. Koppelman, addressing the audience:

The 3 men who were hoping to obtain/re-obtain the 2nd seat in our House of Representatives: (The man on the far left won. The man in the middle is our current Representative. The man on the right is our conservative Christian friend, whom we voted for.)

If you look closely, you can see Andrew in this picture:

There was some voting done by people standing as a "Yes" and the others remaining seated for a "No"...

Here, Andrew is reading from "Robert's Rules", as not everyone was sure about the way things were supposed to be run.... We were very proud of him! He got told he should be a parliamentarian. :)

The precinct delegates, again:

After that meeting was over with (it took several HOURS!), everyone was allowed to vote for delegates to go to the state convention. That is when Dad and Andrew got a tie for the 30th spot (the last spot available---doesn't God have a sense of humor--to have those 2 tie?) and Dad said that Andrew should take it. The rest of us can be alternates at the convention.

Most of the people left after casting their vote, but a few did stick around for the next hour while the votes were being counted....

Andrew took this picture of my dad and I, visiting with one of our precinct chairmen and our friend, Mr. M....

It was after 9:00PM when we got home to do our chores and eat our supper. It was a very long but very interesting day! We learned a lot.....