Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! 
I have soooo much to be thankful for this year! I am so grateful for my parents and for all of the many sacrifices they make for our family. They're the best! I'm grateful for my two brothers, my new sister-in-law, and my sister and new brother-in-law. And I am oh so grateful for my wonderful fiance!!! This list could go on and on :)
But now that Thanksgiving is over, I can finally start listening to Christmas music and preparing for my favorite holiday!
Happy Holidays!

Write A Letter!!!

Write A Letter!!!

I copied the following from Brandi Staheli's blog at jbstaheli.blogspot.com

     The heat is on. It is a great time in which we live!with so much at our finger tips, and our ability to grow and expand in so many ways it is incredible! But what is really fascinating about here and now, is how it seperates the great from the passive. Those who will stand up and make a difference and rise to the challenge. Those who will accept their calling when presented. Folks... NOW is that time! 
I purposely am going to be bold in my words, but please it is not meant to cause any offense or harm. Each generation has had something in which took standing up for! Thus far we have risen and succeeded in the cause of good and what is right! That what makes us so proud of our heritage and this amazing country we have been blessed with. We don't deserve it, but a loving God has given it to us so long as we are trying to keep his commandments and remember how it is that we have what we do. Really, it is that simple, but now things have become so confusing and grey. What is right and what is not, what is freedom or bondage, honest or dishonest, love or oppressive, all these seemingly clear black and white concepts have become fumbled and misconstrued into a limbo of uncertainty.
No longer can the average American turn on your televisions, computers, ipods, etc to a news generator and trust that what they are hearing is true journalism, filled with the truth of things as they really are. Some may say this is how it has been for a long time, and maybe so, but today it is so much worse. Famous News reporters and anchors have quite their jobs because of this, and of actual threats to their lives! (Lou Dobbs CNN) No longer can the average American attend a civil meeting and freely exercise his freedom of speech without fear of being brutally punished for it, and the government pretended it didn't even happen! (SEIU beating in St. Louis) And no longer can we feel that our government truly believes in the divinely inspired constitution and freedoms that have made our great nation what it is, because of oh so many things! (Health care reform, injustice, socialism, fear, favoritism, foolish spending...) But the current issue is that of the health care reform. I know that so many of us have had our ears full of the negative news on this issue, and I am sorry that we all feel this way, really I am.  Yet that is what it is, a NEGATIVE idea. But the common response of so many Americans to just turn the other cheek and "mind their own lives" is only going to hurt worse when they turn back around and get the slap in the face of what really happened when they were "minding their own lives" and receive the full consequences of something that they could have prevented. It won't just affect you and me, no it goes faaar beyond that! It affects the world, our kids and their kids! Do you want them to look back and ask why didn't they (us) try harder? What was SO Important that they felt they would rather do that than fight for freedom? 
Are we not grateful enough? No, I don't believe that is it! I think that either maybe we just don't understand the full weight of what is going on. Maybe we feel powerless and are not sure of a way in which we can do anything about it. Maybe we really just feel overwhelmed and like maybe they won't even listen. These are all understandable things, but we can't let it deter us. We have to pull out our full potential and find strength in ourselves, our families, friends, communities, and rally each other in the cause. Yes, it is true! One person CAN make a difference, but MANY people can change the course of history! 


Now here is your calling. What can you do to start snowball rolling? Write a letter! yup a letter, good old snail mail is making a come back!! Write your senators! Make sure you tell them you want them to vote NO for the health care bill (which in every way is unconstitutional) and vote NO for the cloture. Nebraska is a very big key state in all of this, Ben Nelson is on the fence and by writing to him you can make that difference! There are 4 other fence sitters as well. Find out if your senator is one of these and WRITE them, but everywhere write as well. They are wanting to vote on the health care bill by the END OF NEXT WEEK! Why a letter? well...

1. one hand written letter carries the weight of 1000 emails or phone calls!
2. It is easier to validate
3. It is seen as more sincere

But please calling everyday and emailing does make a difference as well! 
This Health care reform really is something that could change our entire way of living as we know it, and not for the better. Thank you for your time and support, and pleaseTAKE ACTION!