The post in pictures

A funny from Grace's bday - Tony being silly w/ Grace


Also on her bday - the walk for diabetes:
Excited!


Me - in lights! (or rather the sun, yikes!)


Grace needs to brush her teeth more often!


Pics from one of Tony's last football games:
I thought this was a funny shot


Thirsty


Then yesterday we took Grace to the B's house to ride horses. She doesn't know how - so Bro B was showing her. She had a fun time!










Sister B w/ one of the horses:




The sunset over the pond and thru the trees






The B's dragon

November 4 - a day in history

It was the day: The 7th grade football B team became district CHAMPS!!!! YAY!!!! GO middle child o' mine!!!!! (I really need to upload some pics but who has time??) They remained UNDEFEATED this season! And it's his FIRST year playing football! The funny thing is the 7th grade A team hasn't won a game. And up until this week (we don't know about this week - which is why I'm not including it) the 8th grade A AND B teams hadn't even been able to score ANY touchdowns! So YOU GO 7th grade ****B**** team!!!! You ROCK! (and T doesn't think he wants to play next year - lol! He wanted to try it out - and he did! Now we're going on to basketball and tennis - though I may limit him to just ONE - not both)



Oh - yeah - the other thing that happened on the 4th - America may have "lost" that day. Obama became president elect. I'm less than thrilled to say the least. They say it's a historic moment b/c he's the first black president - and it's huge. (but wasn't Bill Clinton the first black president? Didn't he tell us that??? LOL!) But see - I thought that the dream that Martin Luther King Jr had was based on the black man getting ahead based on skill and his mind and ability, not b/c of race. At the time he was held back b/c of race. Now we've elected a president b/c of his race. Race was a HUGE issue in this election - and it became so due in large part thanks to Obama himself. Whites were made to have this "white guilt" if we didn't want to vote for him. People were attacked and called racist. We're a racist nation if we don't elect a black president. How is he elected based on ability, skill, ideals? We have a man that has questionable terrorist ties, associations w/ a reverse racist pastor, voter fraud, real estate fraud, socialist policy ideals, etc. (and people were concerned b/c Palin was connected w/ large shopping bills? Or b/c now of infighting in the party and "he said/she said" moments based on geography and such making her look ditzy? I'd rather have a ditzy VEEP than a socialist/terrorist-loving pres - but hey, that's just me.) He wants to take away our freedoms. He SAYS he's bipartisan and he'll bring the country together.

Now it's 3 days later - and his chief of staff is R. Emmanuel - a Republican HATER (telling Rs to go {blank} themselves). He's came from Chicago politics - which is about as corrupt as you can get - and now he's bringing that to the white house.

The Dems want to re-enact the Fairness Doctrine - so the news media has to present a "fair and balanced" story to the public. Who determines if it's "fair and balanced"? It's a way to get rid of the conservative media is what it is.



I'm trying to be hopeful in the new guy. I'm trying to be prayerful for our nation. but it's very hard knowing what our prophets of old have prophesied for our times. And wondering if this is when things REALLY start to happen? You know - the communists have long sighted visions - they don't make decisions based on NOW or even just a few years from now. They look WAY WAY WAY down the road. And the Russsians, even back in the 60's - were determined to take down America. And they weren't goign to do it with force. They vowed to destroy us from the inside. And that's exactly what is happening. We need to be a unified nation - but how do I stand behind a man I don't trust or believe in?

The dad is reading an article on the making of a fuehrer - and how hitler came to power (not his massacre history but his rise to power); and Iran's leader Khomeini. Here's the link if your interested.

Gotta run - or rather walk - it's the Walk for Diabetes day!

Btw - LOVE the wii fit!!!!

Jealous much???

We got a wii fit! na na na na na na! plbtttttt!!!! LOL! We went to walmart today for groceries and other things (I really don't like walmart but it's the only regular store we have so we needed regular stuff - AND groceries - hence the 2 birds, 1 stone trip). Dad and D man happened to see it! They put it under a hoodie that D was getting. I went to rearrange the cart before we hit the grocery aisles - and THERE IT WAS! I jumped on dh and was smooching on him! ahhhhhhh! What a find! Merry Christmas to us early!!!!!!

Dad got called to jury duty. This is his SECOND time this year! I have NEVER EVER EVER been called to jury duty! And I'd lurve to be called! First, I think it's an awesome thing to do - you know, your civic duty and all that. I really do! And I do think I can totally be un/non-biased in a trial. I'm not a hang-em jane kind of gal. I do think I can look at both sides of a case and be fair. But the other reason - I'm SO nosey! I LOVE to know the details of things! I'd just love to sit on a juicy trial and just KNOW what happened! Isn't that awful of me???

So dh gets called and goes today. They are told they'll get divided between county court and circuit court - and he's thinking "oh no, not county court. I want circuit court!" Cuz county court - you know, a bunch of teenagers doing stupid stuff or really non-interesting cases or whatever. So - where do they take him? To county court. Bummer! But! The judge comes in and says all the cases for that day plead (pleaded? Pled? what is the right grammer on that???? He said she said "plead") out. But WAIT! A court on the other side has a big trial and so they are all being herded there cuz they need all the extra jurors. So that's where they go. And it's CIRCUIT court! So dh is THRILLED! A felony! SOmething interesting! (not good that it's a felony - boo on criminals but you know, if you're going to be on a jury, might as well be interesting, right? We're strange, we know it. I read too many crime novels - lol)

THEN - he made it thru todays rounds and gets to go back TOMORROW for round 2! I'm SO jealous! I've never been picked and he gets to go twice in a year and now it's possibly and a really interesting case! (I mean, it could be embellezing or something tax related or even something way above our heads that's cmpletely boring but still way way wrong on the law books but STILL! Way better than jury-ing a traffic ticket or somethign! LOL!) How interesting and kinda cool is that??? I'm way jealous!!!!



OH - and now - we just played w/ the wii fit - and my wii fit age is........ (duh duh duh) ***28***!!!! Like EIGHT years YOUNGER than my real age! How about THAT? NOW are ya jealous much??? HUH? HUH???? lol! (I wonder what I'd be on a bad joint/sore body day?! ROFL!)

Conversation w/ the kids in the car

We've talked a lot about politics in the last few months. "Change" and "Hope" looks like will most likely win, which is scary. We're not thrilled w/ the idea of socialism or communism. You know back in the 60's a young man had political aspirations and preached "change" and "hope" and was people really liked him. No one bothered to question his associations, or what "change" or what to "hope" for. The media really got behind him. the people supported him. He won the election as leader of his country. In a matter of months, the people were all destitute and unable to fight it. That leader was Fidel Castro. I do *not* like this "redistribution" of wealth plan of his. SCARY! So we've talked w/ the kids about it a lot. Tried to share w/ them what it all means. Here's an example.

G lost her tooth today.

G: "I hope the tooth fairy brings me twenty dollars!"
me: "$20? In this economy? Right. Like it hasn't affected the tooth fairy too!"
middle boy: "well, she doesn't drive, she flies - so she's not affected by gas prices."
oldest boy: "If she gives $20, I'm gonna punch her! I never got $20!"
me: "Well, if she gives $20, it won't be real money! haha! It'll be *change* (laugh from everyone)"
dad: "yeah, she's gotta start giving money to people that don't have teeth anymore now, even people with dentures."
me: "People that didn't lose their teeth get to get money G. You did that work of pulling your tooth out yourself, but people that didn't do anything get that benefit of having the tooth fairy bring them money too."
dad: "You'll be lucky to get a couple pennies."
G: "I hate this!"

Hubby was talking about the voters. How some people are voting for BO b/c he's black. Some people are voting for JM b/c BO is black. (gotta love the racism this has brought out as well as what has been injected into this, even BY the candidate. JMO though) But there are some uneducated people out there that are voting for BO b/c they have been told if they do, they get a "free pony". Unfortunately, we probably won't have enough ponies to go around. Are we prepared for that?


On a totally different note - I drove home from work this AM and passed a gas station and it was 1.98/gal! WOOHOO! Haven't seen that in forEVER! The sad thing is, it's all part of the election. Once it's over, the prices will go back up, even if it's just a little. Then next summer, we'll be back over 4/gal I'm sure. But this time last year we were 2.30-2.40. Last month we were 2.70-2.80s (at some points even higher post Ike). Last week it was from 2.30s Friday when I left for San Antonio for TOFW.