In my opinion...

It wasn't laissez-faire.

The Law

No that's not Joseph Smith, nor any mormon for that matter. It's Frederic Bastiat and he wrote a book called The Law, just a few years after Joseph himself was doin' his thang.

So I read this book and it blew my mind. It puts our current government into perspective. I sure wish every person (I'm a person, you're a person, Brett's a person, that person over there's a person) would read this. It's like the frog/boiling water analogy. You can't boil a frog if the water is already hott, otherwise it'll jump out. You have to gradually raise the temperature. Well the government has succeeded in gradually raising the temperature.

Seeing as how the Church sometimes decides to get involved politically, I can't imagine them really believing what is written in this book and not doing something about it. It's a more disturbing issue than Prop 8 if you ask me. Somebody please read this book and tell me if I'm crazy.

Oh and beware to any Obama lovers. This read might make that tingly feeling in your leg go away, and I understand how special of a feeling that can be...

and Oh again, the version of The Law that I read had the attachment Cliches of Socialism, which is a compilation of numerous authors writing modern applications of Bastiat's brilliance. Modern applications such as social security, income redistribution, public education, etc. This compilation helped me "get the point" of The Law.

Baby it's getting cold outside

Nothing is more depressing for me than the thought of winter :( Luckily we'll have Seren now to keep our minds off of the fact that summer is no more. As you can see she doesn't mind making the most of the weather. Every day McKell and Seren walk to my school to pick me up and they escort me home. Very nice of them.

babies and more babies

As you can see Brennen is having the time of his life with his new little girl. As their favorite pastime, they love making faces at each other.

First Walk.
Hottie!


What up Dad!

After her first bath.

Pink Ninja outfit.
Smiles :)

Here are some more pictures of Seren.

Ultra Sound 21 weeks.

Where am I? Minutes old.
Mom, Dad and Seren Oct 13th.
Seren Smiles :)

Well, it's that time again. Seeing as I am a stay at home mom, and I don't have anything better to do than sleep, eat and go to the bathroom (sounds like my baby), I decided I'm getting better at putting Seren down for naps, and my free time is becoming a little more predictable. First off here are some pictures of Seren's cousins. They seem like giants to her, but we are excited to all get together for Thanks Giving.





Looks like all the cousins are having too much fun in Cali with the grown ups.

Just Pics, cuz I'm not good at Blogger...

Fall Preview

Kutest of Kin

'nuf said.

"Road trippin w/my two fav allies..."

Catching up on happenings this Summer: The Queen Sibling in my family, Joanna, and her bf&f Rich, blessed McKell and me with an awful (as in full of awe) road trip from Seattle to Vegas. We got to cruise in Rich's Rover and they even put us up in a "trippin" timeshare in Klamath Falls, OR. We love to road trip, McKell and I, and we got to scout out some killer earth, keeping our eyes open for perhaps a future place to call home. My favorite place was either Carson Valley, or Bishop, but mostly because those places don't appeal to enuf people to make the cost of living so high. We listened to some good audiobooks (I am America and so can You!, and the Golden Compass), sang with the windows down, ate lots of fibrous fruit, verbalized our thoughts together, and saw some freakin hott countryside. The treasure at the end of the trail was Rich's P(a)lace, where McKell did laps with our new stroller, courtesy of Vio and Co.

Goodbye Summer of 08

So my kind wife let me go on two more hikes without her before the summer ended, she being round with baby. I finally got up the ridge of Mt. Olympus (north ridge), but not without disturbing a slumbering rattle snake with my hand. He made for a squishy handhold, but held nevertheless. The Paul brothers once again accompanied me on this one, they'll go anywhere and do anything.

The second hike was up Timp via her face. I'd always wanted to hike Timp, but didnt want to spend all day switchbacking her hindside. The goal was to drive around and park on the saddle to save a few hours, but Desh (my Subaru) wasn't up for dinging his underbelly so we ended up just parking him in PG and heading up Grove Creek. Well we made it to the ridge, then to the shed, and back down but not without my knees swelling and refusing to bend and my tear glands getting sweaty. Actually it was such an unpleasant bushwack of a descent that I decided I'd had enough hiking. For life.

More WeddingStuffs

Here's just a few more photos of the wedding, to show the whole crew, and how beautiful the day was. We were very lucky!