Fleeting Moments in Time
9 years ago
Sunday, December 14, 2008
HE DID IT!
I am so excited! Braden will finally touch the snow and PLAY IN IT!! Before he would think it was a good idea but as soon as his boots or gloves (mittens) would hit the snow, he would scream and want to be A:Picked up or B: go in the house and watch from the window or C: Both. He has made a complete turn around. We went over to our cousin's house for brunch today and Trystan, Mia and Sloane went to play in the snow, Braden wanted to go too. I knew what was next, I would have to go rescue him. He watched for a while then picked some up, no screaming, and threw it at trystan. He was having so much fun, he couldn't get enough of it. He was the last one back inside and as we were leaving wanted to pick up more snow (with his bare hands). I nixed that but Yeah Braden! He did it! Now we can all play together :) YES!!!!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
What is wrong with people!!
I am so tired of hearing about married cheaters. You don't have to have sex with someone for it to be cheating. If you are married and kiss someone else (not as a friend), and by kissing I mean make out with someone, then you cheated!! Stop being so high and mighty and saying welll we didn't have sex, I love my___________. You obviously don't love them. If you did you would not act on your temptations. You would not snub your nose at other people who cheated on their spouses and say you would never do the same. It happens too often- especially with in the work place and alcohol is not an excuse! It makes me sick, either leave your spouse and have your playtime or don't give in; don't do it and honor your commitment and vows. It is horrible to know someone has been or is being cheated on and they "have no idea". I'm sure if they looked deep down they would know somwthing is fishy. And if you know, do you tell? What a horrible situation to put someone in. What selfish people. I'm just sick and tired of it!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
maybe next year......
That is the theme for Seattle sports teams this year. The Mariners- worst in history, Huskies- haven't won a game, Seahawks- keep losing in the last minute of the game. It is pathetic. There is no one to root for. We don't have the Sonics anymore but before they left they were losers too. Maybe everyone in Seattle should start rooting for our sports enemies because then they would start losing. I am afraid to root for the Mens Husky Basketball team becuase if we do they will probably have a losing season as well. UGH!!!! It is so frustrating to be a Seattle sports fan; in fact, I am embarrassed to even be one. Is there any team here worth watching? Maybe next year....
Saturday, November 22, 2008
problem?
Ok. So I have a problem. An addiction. It is called facebook. This problem was made worse by the addition of a laptop to our family. Now I can check it while hanging out with the kids. I can't seem to stop from checking it constantly and now there is an even bigger issue, I am addicted to this game geo challenge. ok so it hasn't even been 24 hours since I started that game but I find it soooo fun. Now my goal is to beat Jenny but before it was to just beat myself. I have the hardest time on the cities. I am putting them in random places in teh world for some reason (even though I know where it belongs) and my flag recognition has also gone down hill. I am thinking too hard, I need to go with my 1st instinct. As for facebook, I don't know why but I love to read people's status updates etc.. It's like being a voyeur and never having to leave the house. :) Like my people addiction for my celebrites. there is that addiction word again. hmmmmmm
Friday, November 7, 2008
I don't care what you believe or who you support. John McCain is an extraordinary human being. He is a passionate man on many levels. He genuinly cares for people and for this country he loves. My sister said" he makes me proud to be an American". I have to agree.
I wanted to post the remarks from Senator John McCain:
November 4, 2008
Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.
Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer in my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day, though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.
Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.
It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought as hard as we could.
And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.
I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset. But your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.
I am especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.
You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude, and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.
I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength. Her husband Todd and their five beautiful children with their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.
To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly month after month in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.
I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.
This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.
I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.
Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.
And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.
Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.
My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.
Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer in my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day, though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.
Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.
It is natural tonight to feel some disappointment, but tomorrow we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought as hard as we could.
And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.
I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset. But your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.
I am especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.
You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude, and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.
I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength. Her husband Todd and their five beautiful children with their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.
To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly month after month in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.
I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.
This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life. And my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.
I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.
Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president.
And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history, we make history.
Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.
Here goes...
Seems like everyone I know is blogging so I thought I'd join the party. That's it. Not sure how often I'll get to it, my kids take up most of my time but with the twins at school I seem to have a little more time on my hands but I need that time to FACEBOOK :)
That's all for now. I'm sure as soon as I sign on to facebook someone will say something in their status update I don't agree with, or after reading blogs I might have something to say, or my kids might do something cute. Who knows. This is a fun new experiment and now Auntie Jenny can stop telling me to start one.
That's all for now. I'm sure as soon as I sign on to facebook someone will say something in their status update I don't agree with, or after reading blogs I might have something to say, or my kids might do something cute. Who knows. This is a fun new experiment and now Auntie Jenny can stop telling me to start one.
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