A Few Cartoons

Obama was serving his 11th day in office when the Nobel Peace Prize committee voted to give him the prize. In honor of their idiocy, here are a few cartoons and stuff floating around the web. Like him or not, even considering him for the award this early on was insane. Just sayin'...

This one is perfect. Isn't that exactly what they did?

Guess who I saw today???

Today I was a sinner. That's right, I met Shane (aka Elder Goodsell) today at the temple. I was able to sit and talk to him for quite a bit which was really nice. After we finished visiting, I was waiting for Shane to come out of the dressing room in the front of the temple and I saw Elizabeth Smart. Kind of random. So I got a few pictures of Shane and his companion for all of my family to see. Shane never takes pictures, so this might be it for awhile.

Shane's leaving for El Salvador on Monday!!!!

Yes mom, this is the "make shift suit" he's sporting these days!!

Lucky Me!

Today I was lucky enough to have Brandon accompany me to the grocery store. Of course we walked out with things that I don't normally buy including a Marie Calendars Banana Cream Pie. We thought it would be our dessert tonight. Unfortunately the pie takes too long to thaw, it will have to wait until tomorrow. I had my hopes up for dessert tonight and was sadly disappointed. We sat on the couch and I complained that we didn't have anything to eat for dessert. I mentioned how I wished we had Oreos, it's a favorite of mine. Without being asked or even suggesting he go get some, Brandon put on his coat and walked out the door to get me Oreos. Am I lucky or what (not just because I'll be eating oreos)????

Nuestro Arbol de la Navidad

Mel wanted me to take a picture of our Christmas tree so her family could see what she did with it. I had forgotten how much cooler Fall is than Winter in Utah. All color goes away and all you're left with is ugly browns and cold wind. So we bring all the colors indoors and Mel goes hog wild with Christmas decorations.

Also, Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Here's to distended bellies and football. God bless America!

Our tree has a hat.

Healthcare

Tonight I'm sitting home looking up the news on the internet, while Brandon is at school. I turned on 60 minutes and became frustrated beyond belief. This healthcare business is just plain ridiculous!! I would like to know who out there, real people, not Dirty Harry and Obama lovers, want this. Who truly wants this plan besides free-loaders???

So on 60 minutes some no-good Doctor was talking about how much end of life care is costing, especially in the ICU. They threw out these big $$$ amounts and the percentage of people who end up dying, instead of getting better in the ICU. Never once was mentioned all those people who survive and go on to live longer lives with their family. Well, this knuckle-head, who I'm sure is an Obama lover, goes into this 68 year old patient's room who is suffering from liver/kidney failure and says, if your heart stops would you like us to do CPR? Before letting him answers he tells him that it probably won't work considering the condition he's in and even if it does it might just send him back to the ICU to die a painful death. The patient's answer was: YES! When asked why the patient says the 2nd option was so good (meaning death).

Well he starts talking in the interview and says yes, "right now its the patients choice." Are you kidding me!! Right now? Shouldn't it always be. This Doctor went on to says we shouldn't have case by case judgements anymore about who can and can't get something. We need to make a rule that if your this age or in this condition you can't get "blank."

This is just absurd. Government healthcare will help this become a reality. They are going to say you can't have a pacemaker after 70 yrs old and you can't have chemotherapy after 65 yrs old. People think this is just some right-winged talking point to discredit the healthcare plan. No, no it's not. Does anyone find it interesting that the government and senators don't have to have the same healthcare it's people do?? Odd right?

I have so many thoughts about this healthcare business, but will leave it at that for now!

Cousin's Party 2009

About 2 weeks ago my whole family, excluding my dad (sad), came up to Idaho for our Annual Cousin's Halloween Party. We had a great time. One of the best things about my family is the close connection we have with all our cousins. We love it! My family decided we were going to dress up as characters from toy story, some followed through and others threw something together last minute! Here are a few pictures from the night.

Scott costume was a last minute one but came together quite nicely. He was the Swine flu!

Trevor... well he stole Jaxson gun ( he was Woody) and put his hood up and became a gangster. Way to go Trev! Ha

The whole gang!

I must give a shout out to Kaylee and Chazel who were Uncle Paul and Aunt Shelley. Truly a classic moment that won't be forgotten!

Brandon found this little number in the garage at the Campbell's house 3 minutes before the party!

I'm supposed to be Taylor Swift (not a lamanite Michelle!). People are always telling me I look like her and I didn't have a costume, so thanks to Kassidee we threw this together... not too bad I thought.

Oktoberfest (minus the fest)

School has kind of been a kick in the pants this semester, but we've managed to get out a couple of times when Mel wasn't working. One of those days we went hiking in the morning up Rock Canyon behind the Provo temple. The colors are changing and I knew Mel would want to see them so we checked it out. It was pretty sweet. That night we doubled with Ben and Wendy and went to Gardner Village near Salt Lake and carved pumpkins while we (mostly Ben and I) watched the BYU-UNLV game.

Gardner Village is a seasonal-type place that they deck out based on the next upcoming holiday. They have little Halloween sets everywhere and the shops are all Halloween theme right now. In a few months it'll be Christmas stuff and we'll no doubt go back for more.

A group of random ladies who were scuttling around the village dressed as witches. I wanted a picture with them, so I asked and they all proceeded to hand me their cameras. After taking the pictures OF them using their cameras, I asked again if I could take a picture WITH them. This time they understood and we got this little gem.

One of the many stuffed witches to be seen.

Juan Pablo Torres III - our Jack-O-Lantern for the evening.

(He didn't have a name until I started typing this caption.)

Rock Canyon

Rock Muscles