*My new Happy Mix of various euphoria-inducing songs
*a daughter who taught herself how to ride a two-wheeler, and a neighbor boy who was kind enough to remove her training wheels since her mother is retarded with tools of any kind
*the Franson's dog, Preya, who hovers over our kids while they are outside playing and barks a warning if strangers come near our yard
*dead bolts on all our doors to keep us safe at night
*Fun new reads (Fablehaven, Lincoln by Gore Vidal)
*Phone calls from dear, far-away friends
*Visits and calls from my kids' AMAZING grandparents
*blackberries (as in the kind you eat, not the kind you carry around with you)
*sunny days (and rain to break it up this weekend... I like variety)
*Miss California, who stood up for families and opposed same-sex marriage in her interview question during the Miss USA pageant last Sunday night, thereby losing the crown. I only saw the recap, but I had Maggie watch it with me to show her an example of a brave person who stood up for her beliefs.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spring Break in Rexburg
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Yeah, um, so this is what our Spring Break looked like here in Rexburg. Actually, when we woke up on Friday and saw the snow, the kids whooped and hollered and ran for their snow pants. Luckily it doesn't take much to entertain three smallish kids - a pile of dirt, a foot of snow, and the neighbors' dog, chicks and miniature goat did the trick. The dirt pile became a raging volcano, fort, or nest as needed; the snow provided hours of snowman making fun; and we call the animals "Chick TV" because we all spend so many hours entertained by them (in spite of the fact that the goat, who is just as tall as Spencer, head butted him the first day). Maggie's cousing Katelyn sent us "Flat Stanley" all the way from California to sample life in the great Gem State; he sure got a change of scenery!
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Pull-Up Rebellion
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Just the Larsens being silly. Nobody wanted to go to bed so we played dress up instead...
Thursday, April 2, 2009
A 2.6 Trillion Dollar Budget
... socialized medicine (that we didn't even get to debate about) and the Health Czar
... nationalized banks and Timothy Geitner
... bailouts, illegal taxation, AIG witch hunts, GM meddling
... Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank
... Mr. Porn Protector in the DA office
... more spending and earmarks than EVER before
... major tax hikes for EVERYONE after 2011
... the GIVE act (hello Hitler Youth - you wanna indoctrinate my kids you gotta get through me first. I will teach my children how to live and serve, not the government. You try to break down my family, and I will fight. HARD.)
... Big Government on unprecedented scale, entrenchment of the Welfare state
... Economics 101: taxing the rich has NEVER grown the economy. They're the ones creating jobs, until you take away their capital! Can we not learn from history?
... The energy czar ("If you use too much we'll shut you down." um, scary.)
... "punished with a baby", funding abortion clinics in Europe with our tax money, my tax $ for stem cell research and fetus farms
... ACORN!!!
... a lemming-filled media who beg at the back door of the White House for their daily information and fail to report any side of the issue but BHO's.
... the Fairness Act? Are you kidding me?????????? at least it failed to pass...
... so many other lies, deceptions, failures, corruption and it's only been 100 Days!
STOP THE INSANITY!!! I've got to do something. Joined a local Tea Party and the 9/12 Project. Am desperate to do more before the socialist in the White House (who IS that man???) and this insane Congress completely changes the face of this great nation. MY nation. The nation our children are going to inherit!
A few thoughts, take them as you will:
Brigham Young: “Will the Constitution be destroyed? No: it will be held inviolate by this people; and, as Joseph Smith said, ‘The time will come when the destiny of this nation will hang upon a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.’ It will be so.” (Journal of Discourses, 7:15.)
John Taylor: “When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States, the elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth, and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men, and extending the hand of fellowship to the oppressed of all nations.” (The Gospel Kingdom, Deseret Book Co., 1943, p. 219.)
George Q. Cannon: “the day will come when the Constitution and free government under it will be sustained and preserved by this people.” (JD, 23:104.)
... nationalized banks and Timothy Geitner
... bailouts, illegal taxation, AIG witch hunts, GM meddling
... Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank
... Mr. Porn Protector in the DA office
... more spending and earmarks than EVER before
... major tax hikes for EVERYONE after 2011
... the GIVE act (hello Hitler Youth - you wanna indoctrinate my kids you gotta get through me first. I will teach my children how to live and serve, not the government. You try to break down my family, and I will fight. HARD.)
... Big Government on unprecedented scale, entrenchment of the Welfare state
... Economics 101: taxing the rich has NEVER grown the economy. They're the ones creating jobs, until you take away their capital! Can we not learn from history?
... The energy czar ("If you use too much we'll shut you down." um, scary.)
... "punished with a baby", funding abortion clinics in Europe with our tax money, my tax $ for stem cell research and fetus farms
... ACORN!!!
... a lemming-filled media who beg at the back door of the White House for their daily information and fail to report any side of the issue but BHO's.
... the Fairness Act? Are you kidding me?????????? at least it failed to pass...
... so many other lies, deceptions, failures, corruption and it's only been 100 Days!
STOP THE INSANITY!!! I've got to do something. Joined a local Tea Party and the 9/12 Project. Am desperate to do more before the socialist in the White House (who IS that man???) and this insane Congress completely changes the face of this great nation. MY nation. The nation our children are going to inherit!
A few thoughts, take them as you will:
Brigham Young: “Will the Constitution be destroyed? No: it will be held inviolate by this people; and, as Joseph Smith said, ‘The time will come when the destiny of this nation will hang upon a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.’ It will be so.” (Journal of Discourses, 7:15.)
John Taylor: “When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States, the elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth, and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men, and extending the hand of fellowship to the oppressed of all nations.” (The Gospel Kingdom, Deseret Book Co., 1943, p. 219.)
George Q. Cannon: “the day will come when the Constitution and free government under it will be sustained and preserved by this people.” (JD, 23:104.)
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