Tagged by Sarah: 7 Things

So this tag requires 7 random facts about me. Well, there is a lot most of you already know, some things you wouldn't care to know, and some things I don't want you to know! So you'll have to be satisfied with these:


1. I married my high school bully (that is no joke or exaggeration)- and converted him into the best husband, father(i already know*) and man ever. Recently I have realized how little we fight anymore, and that we have actually over the past 4 years, become MORE compatible. I always miss him and everything I do daily involves thinking about how it will affect him.


2. I am proud to have stood up for my right to wear pro-life clothing at my high school despite insecurity and intimidation of the dumb staff at my high school. This press release was on many sites in 2002, and even made it on to Dr. Laura's show!


3. My mom's dad Norman Lee Fox was a prisoner of war in WWII, while serving with the U.S. Navy in the Phillipines, and my dad's mom, while pregnant with my dad, was also held prisoner in the Phillipines during the war. (Not really about me, but interesting tidbit).


4. As a kid, I slept in the living room with my dad and little brother James. We would put all the couch cushions together on the floor and watch Unsolved Mysteries. Occasionally we would make Simeen (what Hawaiian's call top ramen) late at night. We always talked about supernatural stuff and I always told my dad I wanted him to come to me in a dream when he died to tell me he was okay. He passed in Dec 2005 and did in fact visit me in a dream- but thats another blog!



5. I was never 'popular' by high school standards, more notorious no j/k. But for some reason I was voted both "Best Female Musician" and "Most Likely to Succeed" in my senior class of >600...baffles me!


6. I am proud to have worked as a Rural Carrier for the USPS for a year in upstate NY. Hardest job I ever had, physically and mentally. But once I got the hang of things I was sometimes in and out of work in 5 or 6 hours, and still got paid for a full 8 hours. I passed the state test with a score of 99.1% which I was told most people barely pass with a 65%, thereby increasing my pay from $13/hr, to $17/hr.


7. Since Sarah had a poop one, I will too. There are many, believe me, but she will remember and appreciate this one. I don't know how old I was, pretty young. We had an above ground pool and all of us kids were playing in it. I didn't want to get out and go to the bathroom so I dropped a deuce in the pool and didn't tell anyone. I believe my sister Sarah thought it was a leaf and picked it up!!!--but all I remember was going in the house, into my moms room, taking off my bathing suit, and scooting my butt on the carpet. This was my senior yr of high school...just kidding lol. (that pic isn't mine- i searched, "swimming pool poop" isn't it perfect?)

how'd i do? Next I tag Katie Coughran!

Thank You Sarah

Here are some of the gifts we received from Grandma Emma, and our game night friend's Shawna + Jim in our soon to be nursery:


Here's one of Sarah's gifts we got in the mail this week- (she allowed us to put it together now!) And John figured it all out with my help :) This is the rocking cradle we will have next to our bed in our room. This weekend after the shower, we are going to pick up the crib and changing table for the nursery.




The completed cradle: Very cute- can't wait to put Lucas in it!

I Must Be Feeling Better

Well, still waiting for that dang stone-- going in for a second ultrasound on my kidney later this week.

But I have felt good enough to care about politics again :)
I just recently saw clips of this interview that Senator Biden did on a Florida News Channel (WFTV)--not so used to someone asking direct questions instead of dancing around with him and Obama like Ellen Degeneres does. In fact, the Obama campaign was so unhappy with the interviewer's questions that they cancelled any/all future interviews with the channel!
Here's the interview:


In response to the Obama campaign not giving money to ACORN:
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

BY the way, yesterday I received yet another phone call from "Obama volunteers" this time for a "BETHANY HODGE"?! I was so angered I said, "What..do you work for ACORN or something?" He said, "No." I said, "Well quit making up names and trying to get illegal votes for Obama." And I hung up. I am so mad that they are using my residence and MY LAST NAME to fill with fictional democrats just so they can call and send me propaganda. ACORN is not even under investigation in my state of VA--so that leads me to believe that there are many other "community organizations" adopting ACORN's fraudulent tactics. This election better not be screwed up because of these idiotic criminals.

Update

Well, I am feeling alright today; no heartburn and very little nausea. Only slept til 2am, and napped intermittently today. My appetite is back, and Susan and John both went back to work today so things went back to normal a little and I did some much needed cleaning.

My sister Sarah is flying out from CA for my baby shower this week and the house just never can be kept clean enough with these darn dogs. I know I am just on edge because of my apprehension and lack of sleep. I washed the dishes today and cleaned the counters, took out the trash which smelled horrible from some thrown out brussel sprouts. Did some laundry. I am going to wash the master bathroom, but I need John to give the dogs baths first so I can unclog the drain of their hair before washing the tub. I love the dogs (at least my dog, Shmoopy :) but I just have no patience for them right now, and not having a fence in the back makes it a little more difficult.

It's rainy but humid today. Norman is over playing the guitar- he's bored. I keep offering him chores to entertain himself with lol. The sharp pains in my lower right abdomen are making me nervous that the real pain will soon commence. This anticipation of pain makes it worse I suppose, so I would like to just get through it.

It's 4:00pm and John and Susan are both on their way home. Thanks for all your guys' thoughts and prayers-- I really do have a lot of faith in prayer. Pain is a very humbling experience and it will make me even more grateful to get through this and have the reward of being a mommy. And yet, I am really scared of the pain. I would like to think I could just endure it and pray for strength to get through it, but I know if the pain is anything close to a miscarriage, I will be praying for God to just take the pain away. It's difficult because if I weren't pregnant, I would take and do anything to get rid of the pain. But I have Lucas to be responsible for and so I have to make very cautious and smart decisions. I know this is all obvious to you, but it's obviously all I have been thinking about the past few surreal days.

Thanks for reading and thinking of me- I appreciate the concern! I also wanted to thank Sarah for the gift I received yesterday...unfortunately, it was the big one that couldn't be gift-wrapped (she graciously bought a bunch of online only stuff from my baby registry, AND she is flying out here- which would've been enough!) but John and I greatly appreciate it and will act surprised for that one at the shower lol. It made us really excited to see how big it actually is- wish we could put it together now! But it would only make January 18th, seem so much farther away!

I am so exhausted. I never really did get to sleep more than an hour consecutively today since our ER visit. It's midnight now and I can't sleep. I have had terrible heartburn (the worst I ever had) off and on for the past 6 hours, and it's exacerbated by laying down. Now I am having horrid painful diarrhea that is literally just liquid. I wasn't really able to eat today except for a few peices of pear, and some brussel sprouts. I can't stop this nervous shaking of my head that started last night. So I came down here to read up on hydronephrosis and kidney stones. I AM TERRIFIED OF THE PAIN THAT IS MOST-LIKELY YET TO COME. I really need your guys' prayers to get through this. If any of you talked to me when I first found out I was pregnant back in May, you may remember my complaining of a deep paralyzing pain in my lower right back. This was around when I was 4 weeks pregnant, so I know it wasn't normal pregnancy back pain. I had had a bad cold and it was so painful when I would sneeze or cough. No matter who tried to massage it, it was too deep and internal a pain to reach or alleviate. I called my primary doctor to get it figured out, and the day of the appt 10 min before I was about to leave his receptionist called and told me , he "doesn't feel comfortable dealing with a pregnant woman- go to your OBGYN." Great. Yeah, it's my gynecologist's job to deal with non-pregnancy related intense back pain. And judging from numerous past interactions with this doctor, I could tell he just wanted to get out early and go home. Especially since my insurance doesn't require a co-pay. He wouldn't even prescribe me a pregnancy blood test when I first found out I was pregnant; I needed to know that my progesterone levels were normal...which I didn't get to find out until a visit to the emergency room, from spotting, during which they found that yes, my progesterone levels WERE in fact, low. So my point is that I have little doubt that my lower right back pain from 6 months ago, was directly related to my kidney. It's so frustrating that webmd.com serves more of a purpose than most doctors. Which is also why I am terrified.
My mom, everyone else, and everything I read keeps on emphasizing that the pain of kidney stones is worse than childbirth. I don't really know what to do...there is no way to determine the size of the stone, and how far along it is in the process of being passed, since they don't (or rarely) do CAT scans on pregnant women. But if it's caused hydronephrosis, which is:

Hydronephrosis is distention and dilation of the renal pelvis and calyces, usually caused by obstruction of the free flow of urine from the kidney, leading to progressive atrophy of the kidney.

Meaning if I already have hydronephrosis (unilaterally-only one kidney) then the blockage has already occured, and all I can do is wait for the pressure of backed up urine to push the stone into my ureter, which is tinier than tiny. That's the painful part- the long travel through the ureter from my kidney to my bladder, and finally out my urethra. Now I am having a wincing sharp pain that comes and goes starting right under my ribcage, radiating down my abdomen. And I am so scared that even after this ordeal, there is NO way to prevent further stones from developing in this pregnancy.
I am so scared of the pain and there is nothing anyone here can do to relieve it. I am worried it will affect Lucas. I am worried that the doctors didn't find everything that is or could be wrong. I gotta get to drinking more water and try to sleep sitting up, but there's no one up here and I needed to vent. I think I will have to take a vicodin tonight and I don't know if I will ever want to get pregnant again.

Another Night in the ER...

Over a month ago, I was hospitalized briefly for dehydration, which was causing the onset of pre-term labor symptoms. I had had diarrhea the night before and apparently didn't replenish my fluids quick enough. At the hospital, they monitored my contractions for a few hours, and I drank lots of water--John watched football and slept on the recliner; the maternity ward is very comfortable. This happened during John's overnight shift, but his work graciously allowed him to stay with me all night. I was eventually sent home and told to drink more water and have been fine.
Well, last night while making dinner, I started feeling some odd pains just under my ribs; it was a somewhat nauseous feeling, along with sudden sharp stabbing pains between where my ribs meet. I didn't think it was anything big, because it wasn't causing contractions. I couldn't finish my meal, and continued feeling these pains for 2 hours. John was of course on overnight shifts again, so he was getting ready at this point. Susan was on the computer so she decided to look up what it could be. She found this article: http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/who_gets_gallstones_gallbladder_disease_000010_4.htm
Basically the more she read about gallstones, the more I was sure this was them. I have had high cholesterol ever since it was first checked in 2005, and they are common during pregnancy, toward the last trimester (I am about 28 weeks--which is the beginning of the last trimester). So, I called my doctor's office since he was on call, and he said to go to the ER just to rule out any gallbladder problems.
At this point, I was feeling a few sharp pains but I wasn't too bad off. John was leaving for work and laughed at me, thinking I was being a hypochondriac lol. Susan had to work early, so I decided I better drive myself, as I was capable of it at that point. I knew I wouldn't regret going even if I was wrong, because it's not just me that I am worried about- it's Lucas.
When I got there I went upstairs to the maternity ward where I stayed from 10pm to 1:30am. They again monitored contractions, along with Lucas fluctuating heartrate (he kept moving around a lot!) and took some blood and urine tests. I was cleared obstetrically, so my doctor called and told them to take me to the ER downstairs to possibly do an ultrasound on my gallbladder.
While in the ER, the doctor on call gave me some Maalox, and something for my nausea which had gotten much worse since the maternity ward. A half hour later he comes in expecting to discharge me, and I told him my nausea got worse. He said, "Okay then we're gonna do an ultrasound." But the u/s tech was sleeping and took a few more hours to get to the hospital. During that time I started throwing up all over myself in the bathroom and shaking a lot. I pulled the nurse string while on the toilet and they came to clean me up. They immediately gave me an I.V.to re-hydrate me, and kill the nausea. I thought setting up the IV was going to be real painful but I evidently was so distracted as I continued to barf uncontrollably. They only gave me ice chips so my mouth tasted disgusting for a while. The sharp pains got stronger and more unbearable, and lower in my abdomen.
I called my mom crying and also tried calling John at work, and left a message. I eventually was pushed into the u/s room, where the lady pressed the thing into my right ribs pretty hard and made me hold my breath. After about 30 minutes of scanning, I was sent back to my room, where John soon met me- his work let him out at about 3:30 am. The doctor comes in to read the results and says, "Well, you don't have gallstones, you have a hydronephrotic right kidney and a kidney stone." !!!!
I was really caught off-guard, and kept asking questions. He told me it will take 5-6 days to 'pass' it, and that although they are relatively hereditary (my mom had one) pregnancy makes it easier to get them because the smooth muscles are so relaxed. So he gave me a prescription for painkillers and one for the nausea and we went home at 4:30am.
I didn't think I would need them yet, but the pain/nausea came back this morning and john had to pick up my prescriptions. I slept a few hours and feel okay now, just drinking lots of water and trying to eat a pear. Everyone keeps telling me the kidney stone pain trumps that of childbirth, but at this point it doesn't mean much because bad pain is bad pain! I am so scared to throw up because before last night I hadn't gotten sick like that since I was in grade school. Such an involuntary movement is scary- left me shaking and hallucinating- seeing little glitter specks like when I get migraines. The most important thing is that Lucas is fine--although his constant somersaults are making me a little more nauseous lol. John thankfully has a few days off to help me get through this, but boy am I glad I convinced myself to go to the ER last night! I ALMOST didn't go- and who knows what could've happened.
Please pray for God to give me the strength to get through this and to keep Lucas safe and protected for his last 3 months in the womb!

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is being released on DVD today- I highly recommend buying it or renting it. I took John to see it on our anniversary (just before we conceived Lucas*) and we both thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you haven't heard about it, the movie is a documentary full of interviews with people who were fired and/or prevented from advancement in their workplace (mostly in science & education), due to their acknowledgement of the mere possibility that there could be other explanations to our existence besides Darwinian Evolution. These were not fanatics, or even deeply religious people themselves, and yet for preaching open-mindedness and tolerance of other possible reasons for our existence, they lost their jobs and credibility.

Also in the documentary, Ben interviews many outspoken atheists such as the infamous Richard Dawkins (author of "The God Delusion") and asks them for their explanations of how we came into being. Many of their theories are shocking and laughable, but the point of the movie was that differing views are being tolerated in many venues so long as they aren't Christian, or biblical explanations. This bias is most apparent in the mainstream media itself, and now it has spread to the ivory towers and beyond. This bias is also evident in the response to his movie in comparison to the rave reviews I am more than SURE Bill Maher's Religulous will receive. Totalitarianism is back in style, and Ben makes an awesome and eye-opening connection between what is happening now and what happened in our history as a result of only pushing Darwin's theories.
Ben Stein has done so much in his life and sadly many people only know him from his "Bueller" role, and "clear eyes" commercials. He is an attorney, a law professor at Pepperdine Univ, author of several books (my favorite "Can America Survive?") among them many investment/financial advice books, and was a speechwriter for both Presidents Nixon and Ford. He writes a regular article in the magazine "The American Spectator," which I always enjoyed reading. He would tell various stories of the events in his daily life with his wife Alexandra(of 2 times- they remarried in 1977 after a divorce!) , his dog Brigid, and his beautiful and expensive cars. He's a very adamant prolife advocate and I even emailed him once asking for permission to put his picture on a prolife shirt and his response was, "I'm not afraid, and I know you're not. Do it!" Very intelligent and interesting man.
Here's Ben and his wife in the 60's:

So next time you see him on "The Wonder Years" reruns, or clear eyes commercials, remember what a great American he is!

SUGGESTIONS!?

So in my previous post I made an agreement with John and let him shave his head if he found a hobby for him and Norman, my 13 yr old brother. Does anybody have any ideas for some good male bonding time? The thing is, it will have to be something they can do at pretty much any time of the week, seeing as Norman is in school, and John's work shifts change every week. My mom of course suggested Tennis but I think they want to try something else. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

It's Contagious Brianne + Brandon...

So John was told his hair was getting too long for military standards, so he was going to supercuts to get it cut. He usually gets a fade. He asked me today if I would let him shave his head. I told him he could do what he wanted, but I may not like him as much :) So then he felt guilty. Then I felt guilty. He doesn't want to bother with that extra 5 seconds it takes to comb his hair before work. I guess I can appreciate that so I told him I wouldn't hold it against him. I told him we could make a deal- he could shave his head if he finds a hobby for himself and my brother Norman to do together on a regular basis. He agreed. After going to supercuts and finding out they were doing some woman's hair that would take a while, we decided to go to walmart and buy some clippers of our own. Here are the pictures of him shaving his head in the garage:





He feels 10 lbs lighter:

Can someone say 'gayface?'

I still love him, and I even still like him. (Besides, it will have grown out by the time we have Lucas so he doesn't scare him!*)

A Change in Plans

If you have been talking to me recently, or read my blogs you would know that I was ecstatic to get to have a 4-D ultrasound done this friday. I was so excited for John and I to see Lucas' face and who he resembles, see him suck his thumb, move around etc. After reading Iris's blog where she linked to this: FDA warns against 'keepsake' Ultrasounds I realized that I shouldn't have them done.

Although the article doesn't explicitly say that the ultrasounds are harmful, there hasn't been enough studies on it and the machine is using a lot of energy which should be respected. I also realized that I can't be a hypocrite, while fighting for the rights and safety of babies in the womb, I can't have an elective procedure done that could possibly jeopardize my own baby, just for the sake of seeing his face now. What's 3 more months!? It was very hard to give up, but I know it's right.

SO...we are exchanging a chance at a photo of Lucas in utero, for a huge photographic mural for Lucas' room! This is a photo of what the mural would look like, and it's really big, 12'9" by 8'10":

here is what it would look like in a room (it will cover one whole wall of the room):

Stretch Marks Galore

Well, I have not been able to avoid feeling insecure about all the changes my body has incurred during this pregnancy. But hey, at least my teeth are straight right? Though I am so grateful and excited, it's a little scary to notice new unattractive body parts daily...and to realize you weigh more than your husband!
I am only 26 wks; 14 weeks still to go...I thought these nasty stretch marks (which I call my scars from a tiger attack) were all I had to worry about thus far:



But John informed me of new ones I conveniently haven't been able to see from up here, without the help of the camera:

I could feel my belly skin stretching- see the dark scars? My belly button is almost gone too:

And another ~15 lbs is on it's way. Next friday is our 4d ultrasound appointment and I am sure that seeing Lucas's face will be so exciting and rewarding I won't care so much about my body. But lately I have been watching childbirth videos and realizing there is a lot more to worry about than my vanity. I am getting pretty scared of the pain, but I can't wait to hold Lucas. And I'm sorry Brianne, but I think I will HAVE to get the epidural!

First Gay Marriage, Now Gay Indoctrination

Click here to read a sad story, but not all that surprising about San Francisco...What is happening to this country?

Ken Blackwell on Obama

I just read an interesting article by former Secretary of the State of Ohio, Ken Blackwell on Obama's tax plan. I am sure we have all been drawn in by Obama's claim to give "tax cuts to 95% of Americans", but according to Blackwell, there is more to it than there initially seems to be:

"The statistics speak for themselves. Only 62 percent of Americans pay federal income tax, meaning that 38 percent get a 100 percent refund of any taxes withheld. So Mr. Obama's 95 percent that will receive money from the government includes roughly 33 percent of Americans who pay no income tax. One-third of Americans pay no income taxes yet would receive a government check of perhaps $1,000 or more. That is pure income redistribution. "
-Ken Blackwell

Meaning those who do not pay income tax for whatever reason (irresponsibility, or not making enough money to have to pay income tax) will be given free money. How does that make any sense when we are already idiotically literally printing out created dollars to 'bailout' the economy, from a crisis heavily caused by risky loans? And he also intends to raise taxes on citizens making over $250,000. And Obama has criticized Mccain for giving tax cuts to the 'rich', without realizing that his own cutoff of $250,000 is not very much for the thousands of small businesses across the U.S. Mccain won't raise taxes period.

Sidenote*-Mccain's plan wouldn't be increasing taxes on anybody, in fact his plan would give tax credits for each child in each household to help promote the growth of the American population, which is at a rate of .88%, below the world average annual rate of 1.16%. People like to say we are overpopulated, but the truth is, the WORLD'S population could comfortably fit in the state of texas, with a property of over 6000 sq ft per family. Part of the problem when it comes to our economy, is that we are outsourcing jobs because we don't have enough of a labor force. American's no longer want to have families; women want power and to dissociate themselves from anything intrinsically feminine- thanks to organizations like Planned Parenthood, they can have their cake and eat it too. One of the biggest methods of boosting the economy, is to grow our population; more labor, more military, more taxpayers, more opportunities for advancement.

Another important quote of Blackwell's:

"Most credible economists warn that raising taxes during an economic downturn only makes the situation worse. Given our current economic situation, Mr. Obama's tax plan is the equivalent of pouring gasoline on a fire.

Then we come to the Team Obama fantasy that the Obama plan would cut taxes for most Americans. Yes, Mr. Obama says he will cut rates for lower-income Americans, but will more than offset that by raising taxes on dividends, capital gains, higher incomes, corporations, estates, and payrolls. But most Americans own stock, either directly or through their IRA, 401k or union pensions. Dividend and capital gains taxes will take money from all those. Those Americans on Main Street who own a house or have other investments will be punished by a capital gains tax increase.

Businesses and corporations do not pay taxes; we do. Businesses don't have huge piles of money sitting in the closet that they simply turn over to government when taxes increase. For every dollar that you increase taxes on a business, they simply increase their prices by a dollar. Who then pays the tax? We do. We do, when the product that we bought last week for $20 suddenly costs $21."

Pretty interesting, and further proving that Obama's whole platform is to make the United States into a socialist country. Unfortunately, Mccain hasn't done the best of taking advantage of all the opportunities to not only present his ideas in a more concise passionate way, but also to expose Obama's plans as what they truly are, which is Marxist.

Ken Blackwell is part of the American Civil Rights Union, which is basically a group that counters the effect of the evil American Civil Liberties Union which has even defended NAMBLA (The North American Man-Boy Love Association...YUCK!). Here he is recently on Fox talking about Obama's involvement with ACORN:

Is this the only way Obama can win?

Well, if you haven't heard about ACORN, it is a 'community organizing' group formed in 1970 heavily tied to Barack Obama. The Chicago branch leader Madeline Talbot recruited Obama, then a young community organizer, to train her employees working for ACORN. They claim to be a non-governmental organization aimed at fighting injustices within social issues predominantly involving housing and voter registration. But their unscrupulous tactics have long been ignored.

Obviously they have endorsed Obama for the presidency (he calls them his 'family')--that's their first offense in my book. And it's not just them endorsing him; Obama has given them $800,000 to 'get out the vote'. But they have also played a big role in the mortgage/economic crisis because they used intimidation to bully the "predatory lenders" into giving loans to risky buyers, typically poor black families who cannot afford housing. In 1994, there was a class action lawsuit: Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank which was later dismissed by both parties based on a settlement out of court. The plaintiff claimed she could not receive loans from Citibank based on her being black, and/or the area of Chicago she lived in; the premise of 'red-lining.' Because of these lawsuits and bullying tactics of both ACORN and democrats in general, banks were inadvertently forced into lending to lower and lower-income families. And who do you think was one of the plaintiff's attorneys? You got it--I am sick of saying his name--from now on, he is B.O.

More recently, they have been involved in major voter registration fraud ACROSS THE COUNTRY. They were found to be hiring ex-cons and current convicts to register voters, which basically allowed them to fake voter registrations with names like "Jive Turkey," "Mary Poppins," and even in Las Vegas Nevada, they falsely registered Dallas Cowboy Football players. They don't require I.D. to register, and if ever challenged, they will cry prejudice. The Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, is leading an investigation into their fraudulent voter registrations in his state. ACORN immediately said it was a "political shot"...I guess they failed to notice that Ross Miller is a democrat. Now they call it "racism." And they've been getting away with it for years. Two years ago ACORN threatened to sue election officials for not accepting all of their voter registrations in Washington state...because only 6 of the 1800 were valid!

But whats sad is that it's not just ACORN that needs to be investigated. Many other 'vote'-concerned groups are following their example.

Some have even sunk so low as to approach people on the streets(many homeless) that look like they would be swayed to vote for Obama, and shuttling them to poling places, where they can register and vote within the same day in Ohio. The shuttles are covered with Obama billboards, technically campaigning for Obama, which is not allowed within 100 ft of poling locations. See their efforts at work--pay attention to the people shuttled, and to the volunteers in their interviews (my favorite is at2:24):

And here is a girl in Columbus OH, talking about how many times she has registered to vote with ACORN..."i can't even count how many...":

Well thats great that she "learned it was fraud." She might need to help ACORN out in that realization too.
Because of democratic pressure, 40% of ACORN's revenues, are yours and my tax payer dollars. This obviously isn't getting out enough in the mainstream media--so why aren't Palin and Mccain exposing it? This is a big deal, and a CURRENT 'terrorist' association of B.O. And they're just now getting around to really talking about his terrorist colleague Bill Ayers? There is so much material to incriminate B.O. with, and all they can say is "maverick" "hockey mom" and "my friends." I guess Mccain's only hope is to assume (most likely correctly) that the polls are fixed too--which they are to an extent, since they are somewhat based on democratic voter registrations which we now know is full of duplicates and fake names and since some polls have admitted to poling specifically in predominantly black areas.

AND just yesterday I get a call for a "Christina Hodge" on behalf of Barack Obama and Mark Warner (running for senate in Virginia). I said there is no "Christina Hodge." So he nervously asks if I know who I am voting for president yet. I said "Yes, Mccain." And he said "what about for senator?" and I said, "Gilmore-- I am not voting for anyone who supports killing babies." He said, "Uh thanks for your input." and hung up. Looks like their shame has no limits-- lookout for "new" family members in your home being registered as B.O. supporters.

If you'd like to hear more about it, here is a video with a compilation of news articles involving ACORN/B.O.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmaZIdz6Vo

Tagged by Brianne

First time hearing about this tagging thing, but I was told to post my fourth picture in my fourth album and explain it. Sorry if it's a bit boring-

This is from April of 2006, at the Saratoga Springs State Park. We would take walks through there sometimes, this was before we had Shmoopy + Tyrone to walk. I have no idea why I posed with a fire hydrant. Here are some other pictures from that day:

Yes John looks so happy huh?

There were a lot of chipmunks at the park.

I liked this picture of some kid riding by John. It made me excited to see John as a father. He is so ready now and excited- as am I. We still can't believe we made a baby together- a whole new human. I can't wait until October 24th- I scheduled my 4d ultrasound!
So there is my boring tag--maybe next time the pictures will be more exciting! So now I tag my sister Sarah-- I am guessing you have to post your fifth picture of your fifth album and explain it!

Torture

Check out this email a CA friend just sent me...what's she trying to do to us!?

"In-n-Out’s 60th Year Anniversary is Wednesday, October 22nd. All hamburgers will be sold for 25 cents, Cheeseburgers 30 cents, Fries 15 cents, and drinks are 10 cents!!! So mark your calendars!"


For those of you who have not had the privelige of eating at In N Out Burger, it's a delicious burger chain that started in southern ca in 1948, and has spread out a little bit extending to a few other western U.S. states. They have a simple menu; burgers, shakes, fries..but the seasoned pro (my husband) knows you can order "7X7's" meaning SEVEN layers of everything on your burger! The Buns are toasted, thousand island is regularly on the burgers, and fries are freshly made. Here are some pictures:



Thanks Jackie...

Babysitting Alex

We watched our game night friend's baby on Monday so they could go to an important doctor's appointment in Norfolk. Alex is so cute and it was fun to spend the day with him! He will be 2 years old on Halloween, and this video was exactly a year ago on his first birthday:


I can't believe it's already been a year- and this time next year, he will have little Lucas to play with! Here are some pictures of our day:
It was wierd for him to be in someone else's car- a whole new view:

I think we enjoyed Toys R' Us more than he did:

He liked this jeep alright:

But this was his favorite- if we could afford it, it would have been worth it to see Jim's face when he walked in to see Alex in his Purple/Pink Corvette!:

Iris reminded me I don't have a picture of what we did buy him! We bought him a tool table with some tools and screws/nails...he liked it alright after john finally finished putting it together!

Vote Your Conscience Video

My grandma sent me a link to a blogspot made by her church's pastor in Porter Ranch, CA named Dudley Rutherford. You can check his blog out on the "Friends" menu on the left. I saw this video he has and I liked it so I decided to post it on my blog too. Vote Your Conscience.