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Did you know that I usually drive a mini-van?
On a mom's night out, that has nothing to do with that other mom's night out, if I am lucky I get to drive my husband's car, otherwise known as our date car. It's a mercedes c230

Did you know that a manual c230 has 6 gears?
Did you know that a c230 can go 120 miles per hour?
Actually that's not true. A mercedes c230 can go 160 mph. But when you are going south on 680 at 10pm at night at 120 miles per hour you end up in Fremont before you know it and have to turn around and go home.

Did you know that going south on 680 at 120 mph at 10pm on a Monday night you can listen to The Rolling Stones, "Shattered" 10 times in a row between San Ramon and Fremont and back to San Ramon? Trust me you can and it rocks.

Bekah's First Earthquake

Friday night, September 5th, we had a 4.0 quake. It was at exactly 9p and the kids were still awake due to a late bedtime. The earthquake was long enough for me to look quizzically at my husband sitting next to me on the couch, and then run for a doorway. As soon as the shaking stopped I raced upstairs to check on the monkeys. Bekah was squealing so I opend her door to her hear say, "The house is wiggling, the house is wiggling!" Too cute. She wasn't crying so I just calmly agreed with her and told her it had stopped now and would she like some water. I filled her sippy cup and gave her a kiss and that was it. Phew. I sneaked a peek at the boys and they were oblivious. And during the entire time Erik did not move from the couch. I think women are just more tuned into this stuff.

Bekah is now 2 and a half years old but the picture above is from when she was 5 months old. Her eyes were still blue,but are hazel now. What I love about this picture is that her personality shines through. Even as an old woman she will still be able to flash this flirty expression.

Sibling Violence

See criminally insane 2 year old swipe blue monster truck

from excitable 4 year old.

See excitable 4 year old assault criminally insane 2 year old.

Yes they are naked sitting in a turtle full of water and sand and way too many toys, you gotta problem with that?

My Brother's Visit Before Going to Iraq

Ok so I apologize to anyone who has already seen this picture which is pretty much everyone in the United States. I have recently lost 25 pounds and then you stick me in between my 2 cute, "little" brothers and I am going to make you look whether you like it or not. The whole beard thing was a weird coincedence. Brandon's was for fun, Bill was instructed to grow facial hair cause Iraqi men take hairy men more seriously. And I just had mine waxed off.

These 2 are kindred spirits. My brother Bill is the only other human who can tire out my 4 year old Michael. They are clones right down to the cowlick in their hair.

This is why my brother needs to come back from Iraq alive. This is a picture of Bill and my oldest son Michael and see how natural it is for them to cuddle together. They love each other so much and I love the both of them so much.

My Brother's Visit Before Going to Iraq

So here is a portion of my awesome family. From left to right: my mom Louise, my youngest brother Brandon, my husband Erik holding our youngest Jake, me holding my gorgeous daughter Bekah, my younger brother Bill holding my oldest son Michael who is holding a football over his face, Bill's wife Ari, my dad Rankin, and my step-mom Cherie.

Palin doesn't rhyme with Stalin

Bye baby bunting

Father's gone a hunting

Mother's gone a milking

Sister's gone a silking

And brother has gone to get a skin

to wrap the baby bunting in

When I read this poem to my 3 toddlers a week ago I thought to myself that this mother had spaced her children really far apart. While reading this poem again tonight, at bedtime, I thought to myself that it sounded like Sarah Palin's family. Especially if "gone a silking" is a euphemism for something that gets you knocked up.

Sarah Palin getting nominated for the Republican's choice for Vice President really got people fired up! The Republicans are all happy and excited, at least the ones on television. I don't know many Republicans so I will just have to trust in the enthusiasm I see on my cable news shows. The Democrats are fired up but their faces don't seem so shiny and happy.

I think the Democrats are a tad nervous. Americans like fresh, new and exciting, we have short attention spans. That nervousness was never so obvious in the $8million in donations to Obama's campaign that came rolling in the day after Palin's acceptance speech. Ugh, we have 7 more weeks of this election and I already find her voice more annoying than George W. Bush's.

In fact I started this entry a week ago and now I don't even have the energy to finish it, I am already so sick of Sarah Palin! It just kills me that so many of the happy, shiny t.v. Republicans can actually say she has foreign relations experience because Alaska is next to Russia. That's like me saying since I am married to a doctor I am qualified to give you a rectal exam. I could fake it, but would you really want me to?