Welcoming the era of Obama

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness." President Barack Obama

What an inspiring speech. It brought tears to my eyes. I am looking forward with hope to the next 4 years. Congratulations, President Obama!

I know that over the months of being my devoted bloggy friends, most of you have come to expect perfection from me. And I certainly can't blame you, just like Mary Poppins, I like to consider myself practically perfect in every way.

So it is with sadness that I must at this time publish a retraction and a correction. It turns out I am not perfect and sometimes I do make mistakes. (Please don't anyone tell Rollin because with him I am staunchly maintaining that I am always right.)

I called D'vorac yesterday and called him Derrick and he took great pains to finally correct me. All this time I thought he was calling himself Derrick pronounced with an unusual accent on the ick. It turns out he was all this time saying Dev-reck. So now the v makes a little more sense and it ends up not being as strange as I heretofore imagined....but admittedly an unusual name.

Happy New Year to all.

We have had quite an eventful couple of weeks. And I have no photographic evidence to support this assertion. You will just have to believe the words and add picture in your head as I describe our adventures.


As many of you know, we recently got the news that we would need to move. The person who owns our house has stopped making her mortgage payments, and is about to be foreclosed upon. So we got the awesome news that we would need to spend some time right around Christmas making a move. Luckily, someone in our ward had a rental property available at the right time and for a great price. We moved most of our stuff in on the 22nd, and have spent the last couple of weeks running over to get another load of crap whenever we have a few minutes or the motivation. It is amazing to me how much crap we have accumulated over the 5 years we have been in the house. I have a gigantic pile of stuff for the DI and we had a good size load that went to the garbage as well.


Ok next on our adventure tour is Christmas. We had a couple days to get the tree set up after moving in, and a couple days to finish up our shopping. (Note: try to avoid the Build a bear workshop on the 23rd of December.) Christmas morning we woke to 6 inches of fresh fallen snow and no electricity, but the kids didnt mind opening their presents in the cold, semi-dark house. It was a nice lazy day of cooking and eating and playing with toys and sitting around....our 4 favorite things.


Two days after Christmas, Logan was baptized. I can hardly believe that she is so big. It was such a special day. There were about 8 kids being baptized that day and there were more people in the chapel than we usually have in Sacrament meeting. I took Logan to the wrong door to get into the font and Rollin had to redo the prayer a couple of times, so Logan has some memorable parental mess-ups with which to harrass us in the future. Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Cameron were able to come up and we went out to lunch afterwards, and it was all just a lovely day.


So that just about sums up our last couple of weeks. Pretty crazy, but not nearly as traumatic looking back on it as it seemed looking forward at it. That is not to say, however, that I would like to do it again any time soon.

Oh one more thing, no one got even close on the pronounce that name contest. He says it Derrick. Yeah I know, it doesnt make sense to me either.