Change of attitude

So here is the deal.... I haven't always been the most outspoken political person (it's me, the husband here), but I'm also not an idiot. During the election season/process, whatever you may choose to call it, I was one of two republicans in the office that I work. I freely admit that I did vote on my party lines, but do not consider myself, necessarily, in agreement with all the views of the republican party. During that process, however, I did feel that I received un-due criticism from some of the other people in my office because of my "declared" political alignment. I admit that I did lose some respect for now President Obama solely on the actions of other democrats that I know. Flash forward roughly 3 months.

With the employment that I have; I have the opportunity to be in peoples houses and interact with them on a 1 on 1 basis. I often deal with people that are not necessarily what most would consider young. I had an experience with one such person today. Her name is Mrs. Williams. Now Mrs. Williams is an 80+ year old lady. One that has lived in the south (Austin, TX) her entire life. She went to a segregated high school, remembers going to rallys where Dr. King spoke, and lived through the hatred of the civil rights movement. I had the opportunity to visit this wonderful woman today. This woman went and bought a TV for the sole purpose of watching the inaguration today. She woke up at 5 in the morning so she could get her errands done to be home for the 7 AM start of the TV coverage. The portion of todays events that I was able to see with this woman was the inagural parade when President Obama was WALKING down the street hand in hand with his wife. The new respect I have gained for this man was sparked by this man walking down the street. He showed no fear in his eye, although some crazy person would love to make a memory of himself by causing this man harm. He seems like one of the guys that you could invite over to watch the super bowl. He seems human. Now I am not that old, a mere 27 years, but I have read history books and talked to my parents and grand parents. The last president to have this type of appearence was Kennedy. I am in no way changing my political stances, but just sharing my change of opinion. I just have one word of advice (not like he'll read our blog anyways), but just please try to do what you say.

Good luck President Obama, may you be open to the inspiration of our Heavenly Father in guiding our country.

this week.....

So this week has flown by so fast and yet again gone by sooooooooo slow...

One of the best things was on Friday I packed the boys into the car and took a drive and on our way home stopped past the mail box and there was a package waiting there for us. It was from a dear friend from Mesa she is so sweet. In the box was something for each of my kiddos. And Chocolates and these magnets that she made with little uplifting sayings for moms. They have been on my fridge ever since and they help when the day hasn't gone so well. Thanks Laurie!!!




Question for all the moms out there in the blogging world... Lately Riley my 5 year old has been very sneaky/mean. Example yesterday she was playing with her brothers nicely and then we hear Hyde crying and go to see what is going on she is holding him saying its ok. We think oh that is nice. And go on then about 5 mins later Hyde comes in and find us and he has a bite mark on his arm. So we call Riley in and ask her what happened? She goes I don't know... I ask her again. her face gets low and she goes I DON'T KNOW!!!! I ask her one more time and she goes I bite him. I then ask her why and she says because he wasnt doing what I wanted him to do. WHAT....

Then this morning the kids where watching tv and being nice as I was making breakfast when Brody walks in and says Riley pinched me. I go where and there was a red mark on his skin under his shirt. I again asked her if she had done this or not and she goes gosh Brody. I didnt do it. I go what are you sure. Then she spills the beans and goes yes I did but you where not supposed to see it. What? I have told her if she can be good and help me then I will have time to do something with her but when she doesn't listen and makes problems then it makes it harder for me to get everything done and to want to let her do fun things. Am I wrong? What am I not doing? If you have any ideas please let me know.

Home

We are home and so far doing well. The hardest part is keeping him down and not running all over the house. It was a LONG night with its ups and downs as the doctor told us that night time is always the hardest time of the day for the little guys. In the early morning hours I really couldn't tell you exactly when but before the sun was up they came in for the 4th time in 24hours to draw blood and test it. And then came back in and started to wake him up and give me a lot of attention. Never a word was said to me as there was something wrong or not. But to come to find out I guess his blood level had dropped and they had to take another sample and luckly it came back up on its own or we would have been stuck in that hospital for more then just one day. The nurses where wonderful even at 2 am quietly asking me did he pee? But we are so glad to be home where the beds are just alittle softer and we can rest. We still have a long road and this is just the begining. We are scheaduled to go in and get the results of the tests Tuesday morning and we will let everyone know as soon as we can.

Thank you so much to all the wonderful people in our life who have already helped us so much. With watching kids or just playing with them so our hands would be free.

Brody Update

Today was the day we went in to surgery. It was a good day he got to play with his little brother all over the halls of the hospital. Riding Bikes watching movies.

He walked right back there with the doctors when it was time and was so brave. The doctor said he did really well and they had to take not two but three piece of his kidney as the first two had to much of the inner layer and they needed also the outer layer of the kidney. We are now in his room for the night and he is doing well. We are looking forward to being able to go home tomorrow.