I found this articel very interesting and worth the few minutes it takes to read it! I'm scared for what our country might become! So please read and repost if you too are scared!

Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first. We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.

The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him. Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he l ost. Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.

Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty." Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.

Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francis co values, not Middle America values.

The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs. But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it! If you think I am crazy..Im sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate

EaStEr

For Easter my family went to Gunlock to go 4-wheeling with the Anderson side of the fam... it was alot of fun, really really windy but alot of fun! Brandon was so excited because we got to take his Grandpa's rhino out there with us! And if you know Brandon at all you would know that that made his day, he is obsessed with rhino's he wants one so bad its funny! So ya it was a lot of fun... we got to see alot of Gunlock that I didn't even know was there!

Bre and Regan driving around in a Razor

Brandon, Jessie and Regan!

Sophie being freaking cute riding the big 4-wheeler!

LaP tOp

So I came home last night from work and found this cute little lap top on my bed!!! Yes Brandon went out and bought me, well us a lap top for easter/our anniversary! I was so excited I was jumping up and down! I can't believe he did though! We have been talking about buying one for awhile now but since we are about to build our house I didn't think that he would spend this kind of money but boy did he prove me wrong!!! I am so excited I can barely stand it! So everybody watch out cus' as soon as I get this bad boy up and running full force with all my digital scrapbooking and pictures you are all in trouble cus' I'll probably be posting alot and I mean ALOT more!

RASCAL FLATTS!!!!

So we just went to the Rascal Flatts Concert in Salt Lake! And it was so much fun! Seriously amazing! We went with my two sisters and brother as well as Brandon's buddy and his date! This is the best shot we got of them and yes they were so unbelievably talented and entertaining!


Me and Brandon! He got all dressed up in his cowboy attire! It was funny and cute!


Me, Ty and Bre!!! Fun family I know!



Me and my siblings! Ty, Me, Bre, and Jessie! So much fun!!!

House Building Speed Bumps 1-4

As some of you know we are about to start building our house! Exciting I know! But it is a rather stressful process! We are doing alot of the work ourselves so it puts more pressure then normal on us but it's worth it! We were getting so excited because we are supposed to start building in a couple weeks right, wrong! We hit a few speed bumps just barely...
Speed Bump #1 we just found out that we have to haul about $5,000 worth of dirt onto our lot so that we can build up the area where our house is going to sit, because as of right now we are low enough that if there were a moderate amount of water coming down the road that we would get flooded! Minor problem I know! And this dirt was not in our budget so that sucks and puts us a little over but we will just have to cut a corner some where else!
Speed Bump #2 When we bought the lot the block wall surrounding our property was included in the price! We were really excited about that, but the block wall guy is some what of an idiot and quite lazy! For example we bought the lot about 5 months ago and the wall has been slowly going up since then well in December we found out that the wall guy didn't pay his material bill and so WE got a lien put on our property! Lame I know! Well we finally got that taken off just barely so there is one headache gone and we thought all would be good now! Wrong again! When we went out there this weekend we found out that he has built the wall in our backyard completely wrong... it is supposed to be a retaining wall to help hold the dirt in but he has built a normal wall that is not going to pass the inspection so now he has to tear the whole thing down and start over! And if that's no bad enough he has left all of his equipment on our lot and dumped his excess materials onto our lot so now we have big mounds of concrete that have to be chipped out! Well that HE has to chip out cus' it's his fault and I don't like him right now! So we are having to wait for dumb wall guy to fix his mistakes and clean up his mess before we can even bring the dirt in that we need to start building! So Speed Bump #2 actually is like 3 Speed Bumps!!!

So ya that about sums up our dilemma's right now! I'm sure there will be more to come but I felt like complaining today so there you have it!
I will try to keep updates going on the process of the house building with pictures as we get more into it!