Happy Birthday Dustin!

Happy Birthday Dustin! We love you so very much, and are so glad we get to celebrate this day with you. Catcher was excited to help make your cake, he loves you SO much! Thank you for being mine, and for being the best friend and father my boys could have. I love how you melt into a smile when Crew yells "Dad," when you get home, and how you take the time to flip Catcher threw the air a few times even though you are beat from your day....and how you always walk towards me with a little smile, and lean in for a soft kiss (mmm...did I just stop breathing). We are certainly LUCKY people. I won't make this a novel, but please know you are absolutely AmAzInG!!! I am so looking forward to our date tonight....thanks Crystal and Mom for helping with my boys!

Today's Feelings...

The Election is over, and we have a new President. As I have pondered this, my spirits have been very down, very low today. I am feeled with worry, with dread. A feeling that I cannot shake no matter how I try. I voted for John McCain yesterday, as did Dustin. We felt he was the man that could continue to lead this Country and keeps us safe form terrorists, and from liberal thinking. As I watched Obama sweep this election, my heart broke. I believe he is a man that can speak very well, he can win an audience with his words. I also believe he is a man that we do not know. He never really told us what he was going to DO to handle the crisis this Country is in. I also fear his religious beliefs, and what that means for our religious future as a country. He had a very radical Preacher as a friend for more that twenty years. A Preacher that did not respect our country, nor most of us that live in it. My boys little faces pop into my head as I think about the future, and as I wait, with all of you to see where this new President will take us. As I have thought and worried over these things and as I type this, I have oddly come to a little peace within myself. I know that my Heavenly Father lives, I know that His Son Jesus Christ lives, that He atoned for us. I KNOW that He will not leave us alone if we are living as He has asked us to. So what will I do now? I will prepare for the future of this country by doing as I should. I will pray daily, I will read my scriptures, I will attend my meetings, and most of all I will help instill Testimonies in my little boys that will not and cannot be broken no matter what is to come. My beliefs and my family are everything to me, and I know that I can have those things FOREVER. I love this Gospel with all of my heart, I love knowing that no matter what is in store, I have a Father that loves me, and guides me and my family in the direction we are to go.

I am so beyond excited that Prop 102 passed here in Arizona, as well as Prop 8 in California. We know the importance and sacredness of marriage, and we have helped protect that. Thanks to all of you for doing your part. I hope you don't mind that I have shared this today, I have just had it on my mind and writing always helps me.

What are your thoughts on the election?