Time Apart

It's really hard being apart from Eve and the baby for awile. She's in Utah staying with her friend Sariah and I'm still in California moving house and finishing up my work. I'll be joining her in April or May to start school at LDS Business College but I'm hoping she'll be able to find work earlier then that so we don't have to be apart for so long. I'm staying with my brother Shaun and his wife and two kids in Roseville. It's nice here and being around family helps me to deal better with the distance from my own family.

Shaun spent a whole week helping me move despite being on paternity leave becuase they just had a new baby girl. Eve definently got the better deal with the moving because although she did some packing she was able to jet off to Utah and I had to finish up all the moving and cleaning. She likes to point out that now that it's over I've got the better deal because I don't have to get up in the middle of the night to give Kensie a bottle or change any diapers. I'd change all her most nasty diapers if it meant that I got to cuddle her again.

A closer look at what's in the "Spending Bill"

Hello friends and family,

You may want to take a closer look at what the government is spending your money on (warning it will shock you). Please help me to make sure that this healthcare bill sees the light of public scrutiny. Here's an excerpt: "The goal... is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system."

"-+The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

Read it please!

Moving!!!

We sold our house and I am headed to Utah with Kensington at the end of February. The next two weeks are going to be complete chaos as we pack and get everything ready to move but we are already making good progress. Todd will be staying in CA for a while until I get a job and stuff and then he will come and we can get all nice and settled in.

For those of you who live in and around Roseville we aren't going to have a chance to have a garage sale but we are getting rid of a TON of stuff. So if you want anything thats mine come on by and take it. Everything is off to DI or Goodwill on Wednesday Feb 11.

Stop the Senate Pork Spending Bill

1. SO, HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE? If you started right now and spent a million dollars every day until you had spent the principle amount of the Stimulus Bill ($825 billion) today, you would spend your last penny on June 17, 4395. Well, you wouldn't. Your descendants 82 generations from now would. If someone had started spending a million dollars a day starting on January 1, 1 AD, they would still have over $138 billion dollars left and a little over 380 more years to go.

Email and call your Senator now because they're voting later today. http://www.senate.gov/

Government can't even afford to pay it's own obligations right now as we run trillion dollar deficits, we don't need to be bailing out corporations and banks who are insolvent and throwing good money after bad. The end result will be that the US will have their credit rating downgraded and the working class will be wiped out by a combination of high taxes and unemployment. A bankrupt country can't afford to defend itself from hostile countries or prevent all of our property and natural resources from being sold off to service the debt. So for the benefit of your retirement, safety, and future generations we must stop this wealth and power grab and remember that our elected officials are accountable to us and if they want to stay in power they better look out for our best interests instead of those of lobbyists and special interest groups. We live in a free republic and not a fascist dictatorship!

Alma 43:9 And now the design of the Nephites was to support their lands, and their houses, and their wives, and their children, that they might preserve them from the hands of their enemies; and also that they might preserve their rights and their privileges, yea, and also their liberty, that they might worship God according to their desires.

Please help me raise the title of liberty and pass this message on and call others to action.