This is what your tax money pays for....

So for the last few months I have been so irritated with one of the dads that picks up his daughter at the same bus stop as landon. Just to give those reading a heads up if you have never done what I did because you can't believe people like me actually do that, don't judge me just agree with me that this man is a jerk and wasting your tax dollars.

Anyway, some days I will be at home and realize I am supposed to be at the bus stop at the end of my street to get landon. His bus driver likes to have parents there to make sure kids get home. Well when I am running late which is almost daily, I tell mackenzie to hurry and get in the car so the bus doesn't have to wait for us. Some days she gets in and buckles her seat belt others she climbs in the front and buckles the big seat belt and to be honest I don't worry about it. We are driving down the street at 15 mph and I think everyone has had the experience of helping mom or dad drive when they were very little. For those freaking out, yes I do know that it is not the safest thing in the world and yes it is against the law but get over it. So every time I drive up to wait at the bus stop this dad gives me this disgusted look and just shakes his head. It drives me crazy. Some days mackenzie will be buckled in her seat but when I stop the car and turn it off she gets out of her seat and climbs up front and even then he still shakes his head.

So the other day I was telling my friend Laura about this guys since she lives in our neighborhood. When I told her where he lived she told me that he is a highway patrol. So then I was thinking okay so he has good reason but why not just come up to me and tell me you know as a highway patrol I see lots of accidents blah blah blah. Don't just stand there and shake your head at me like you have perfected parenting. I also thought to myself well one of these days he is going to show up in his car and try and give me a ticket. Well that day was today.

My sister was over and I needed to go get landon so I took her car with no other kids in it. Landon gets off the bus and I open the back door for him and who do I see stopped behind the bus. My friend the highway patrol. He is waiting for the bus to put the stop sign down. Well, I laugh to myself because I am thinking this bus is ten minutes late and he has not been parked here since I have been waiting. He has been following the bus for who knows how long to try and surprise me. Well surprise to him I have no other kids with me today.

I start driving back home and he is stuck behind the bus. I turn the corner to my house and he isn't behind me so then I think well maybe he was just going home not coming for me. I get in the house look out my front window to see him pull up in front of my house and then turn around. Really? I am guessing he was hoping that he could write me one fat ticket to make up for the tax dollars wasted by following a bus for 40 mins. to try and catch the lady who lets her daughter ride in the car without being in her car seat some days. I can think of 5 people driving home from the grocery store that were doing something illegal that he could have given tickets to if he hadn't been following the bus. The war is on mr. police man and I promise I will win.

Fat Boy

So my mom and i went to the mall yesterday. We went into one store and found this onesie. We both started laughing since it obviously described ashton. I wasn't sure if i wanted to get it since it wasn't on sale, but my mom said he needs to wear this. So she said she was going to buy it for him as his christmas present and just let him wear it now. I put him in it this morning and just started laughing. I love his chunky legs with all the rolls.

Last one

So this is my last little rant and then it will all be out of my system. Then I will proceed to put up my Christmas Tree (yes I will do it this early) and listen to Christmas music to put me into a better mood.

How in the holy freakin' crap can prop 8 pass and prop 4 not pass. Are you kidding me? The same people that decided to preserve traditional marriage decided that they wouldn't want to be notified by the doctor that their minor was going to be having an abortion? Honestly this state is loading up in the hand basket to hell faster than I thought it would. I am wondering what the next medical procedure they will be able to perform on my child without my consent will be. Did they even read what they were voting for? Honestly, I did not know that I was surrounded by that many morons.

Now I am done.

And so it begins......

So it is officially over. Well, it really is only just beginning but at least I know the outcome now. The next 4 years are going to be an even bigger disaster than the last 4. My kids were almost as disappointed as I was that Obama was elected. Ethan is very concerned about what is going to happen to our money, now is when I am regretting that I even tried to explain any of it to him. My only hope is that Mitt runs again in 2012 since we will surely need someone who knows a thing or two about economics to even begin to fix what is going to happen over the next 4 years. The only satisfaction that I will get out of all of this is listening to the people who put him in office complain. I am fairly sure the woman in the video below will be pretty disappointed with the next 4 years. If what she says is true, I will need to write Mr. Obama and ask him if he can add student loans to the list of things I will no longer have to pay for.

I VOTED

DID YOU?

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote

-Andrew Lack

Photos.........done

Hopefully you are able to tell what the kids were for Halloween. It is a good thing we only had to wear them one night. By the time we got done with the trunk or treat and then going to a few house's in the neighborhood Ethan had less than half of the "bristles" he started with. Ashton lasted in his costume for a little while before he decided that he wanted it off of him. All in all we had a fun night. This morning I told Jared "Now I need to start thinking about Christmas Cards so I can get those ordered and ready to go." He just shook his head and ran his hands through the hair that used to be there.

Hallelujah Halloween Has Happened

Kim is always on my back about not posting to the blog, which I know I can't write on now that she has taken it over(I always start stuff and she takes it over because she is better at it or I am too scatter-brained to finish it). However, I am taking her up on her challenge tonight to say that I have never been happier to have such a meaningless holiday over with. The stress around this house lately has been incredibly high and I was starting to wonder if my wife had been swapped by a network television station without me knowing just to have cameras buried all over the house to get my candid reactions.

We did make it through with no loss of limb or life and I am still awake past 9:30. I will say that now all I have left to deal with is the Christmas flight to Texas on the stressometer, since Thanksgiving will most likely be at a restaurant(thanks Hodel's). I just hope some Asian people don't come out and start singing Jingle Bells and Deck the Halls, if you know what I mean. Kim is definitely an amazing woman and I am lucky to have her(every once in a while I just wish I could put her in her own rubber room around holiday times, somtimes.) Thanks Kim for making this Halloween special. Our family would be nothing without you.