Will started Kindergarten and is doing great.  Lily loves her glasses and we are patching her eye 4 hours a day so the prognosis is good.  Iris and I did date night last night after she got back from UC Irvine… it was a long day (4am - 11pm) but we laughed for two hours straight at the show; we even did the sing-along with everyone else.

Starting to look forward to cooler weather and are making plans for heading up to the cabin (the kids are excited).

Anyone coming out here for Christmas???

HERE are some photos.

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Promised on his campaign website:

“will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”

-The Ledbetter bill was never posted to his website until after he signed it
-He signed SCHIP just 4 hours after it was passed in Congress

Since taking office the Military Band that usually plays Pomp & Circumstance has been asked to not be so formal for the President. Obama has them playing ‘Desert Rose’ by Sting and ‘Day & Night’ by Cole Porter

He has renamed the Faith Based initiatives to be ‘Faith Based and Community” initiatives. Thus allowing ACORN to receive money.

He also will deny Faith Based organization funds via this initiative if they discriminate by religion, sexual orientation, etc. So if you’re Church doesn’t allow women to be priests or gays to marry, then you can’t get government funds to help the poor. (This bill failed on 2/5/2009)

The “[ethics] policy we have is the strongest that any administration in the history of our country has had” (White House Spokesman)… so far Obama has nominated:

-Bill Richardson: Commerce Secretary - withdrew due to allegations of pay-for-play and pending federal investigation
-Tom Daschell: Health & Human Services - withdrew due to being a tax cheat
-Nancy Killefer: Chief Performance Officer - withdrew due to being a tax cheat
-Tom Geithner: Secretary of Treasury - confirmed despite being a tax cheat
-William Lynn: Deputy Sec of Defense - Nominated despite being a Raytheon lobbyist (and despite Obama’s campaign promise to ban all lobbyists)
-Hilda Solis: Secretary of Labor - While not guilty herself… her husband is a tax cheat. If you can’t marry an honest and ethical man how we trust your judgment.
-Judd Gregg: Commerce Secretary - Judd’s top aid is under federal investigation for pay-for-play scandal. Again, poor judgment about who he chooses to hire and associate with. (Gregg withdrew his name from the nomination on 2/12)

Due to Obama White House policy, all charges against USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have been dropped.

Breaking from 200 years of policy, Obama wants to move the Census accountability under the control of the White House, thus opening the possibility of politicizing the process.

Obama returned a gift of a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Government despite their request that we keep the it. The gift was given following 9/11 and has been in the oval office for the past 8 years.

Obama stated that America ‘invented the automobile’. This of course is factual incorrect. Thus, making him a liar.

Obama’s selection for ‘Urban Czar’ - Adolfo Carrion - pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money

Obama will select former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk for United States Trade Representative … of course Ron Kirk also under paid his taxes for the past three years and thus is just one more tax cheat in Obama’s administration.

I recently stumbled upon this Lake Vermillion Lodge in Minnesota.

Minnesota is good so that at least once family doesn’t have to fly anywhere.

I ran across this lodge in Colorado .

If you know of any cool places, forward them to me so I can add them to my list.  Thanks

Photos HERE