Deals of the day!

First and most exciting: I paid $1.95 per gallon of gas today! Woohee! How exciting is that? The place I stopped to fill up at was all out of gas my first time by, but I timed it just right on our way home so that I was able to "fill her up" for SUPER cheap! I never thought I'd see the day that i'd pay less than $2 a gallon. Miracles are happening!
Second, my freezer is chuck full, thanks to my mother! She called and told me about this amazing deal at Albertsons that I could not resist. Basically I spent $20 for a heck of a lot of food! However, when I got home, Igot a little nervous as I opened up the freezer and saw what little room I had. But we made it work!
Exciting news: we got to webcam w/ Parley. Parker was very excited about that! He is doing well and promises to shave his mustache before he comes home. THANK YOU PARLEY! :)
And I had a doc appointment today. Nothing too exciting about that. I just get to have my Rhogam shot (thanks to being a negative blood type) and I also get to have the glucose test done! Yippee! Who doesn't love getting stuck w/ a needle in the gluteous and then having all your blood drawn out of your veins?! Actually, it's not that bad. I've had 2 shots in the rear and have never experienced any pain from them. And then the blood draw is nothing compared to plasma selling! (had to make a little moolah in college)
Well, I'm signing out! I just had to brag about those two exciting deals and fill you in on our life!

Hip hip hooray!--I have a cute blog!

Thanks to my great friend Ashley, I am no longer blogologically challenged (at least not in the area of making it look cute)! So thank you Ashley!
Also, on a more serious note, I have been thinking a lot lately about the issues I mentioned in my last blog about Prop 8. However, not just on Prop 8, but on how one becomes involved. How does one become an active voice/participant in promoting these things? Sometimes I become overwhelmed by the "power" that it seems the media and wealthy have. However, although we may not be involved on a scale as large as what has occured in CA, we can be involved in our small circle of friends and in our community. I think we sometimes allow ourselves to become consumed by our day-to-day activities and it's easy to push out these important issues. But if we encourage dialogue among our friends and raise awareness on these issues, it will have an effect.
That has been on my mind a lot for the past couple days and I'm sure it will continue to be. I would love to hear any suggestions you might have as to what a person can do to have an influence!
And I apologize for standing on my soap box!
On a lighter note...today was one of those days that I was ready to put Parker to bed for his nap by 8:00 am--he'd only been up for about 30 minutes. I think the poor child is getting more molars (do they get 2 sets on the bottom?). He has had his hands in his mouth all day!
But I guess that's not really happy news...hmmmmmm....happy news....oh! I know!--we had a beautiful sunny day today! So, I took advantage of it and took Parker to the park (I hope that is not a sinful thing to do on Sundays!). Anyway, he decided he would go down a rather steep slide head first...you guessed it: he went flying off and landed on his face in the gravel (it's kind of soft gravel :)! Luckily he is a tough little dude and he just looked up at me wondering how he should react. So I gave a little laugh and he commenced to laugh, hop up, dust himself off, climb up the steps, and go down the slide again--this time, feet first!
I hope you have a happy day!

A great article on just some of the issues surrounding the fight for traditional marriage!

Thanks to Daddy Jones for sending us this article! It talks a lot about the intolerance of the opponents of Prop 8 in California toward those who support it. But I really like the last few paragraphs that cover some of the benefits of keeping traditional marriage and the scary things that could happen if the homosexual agend wins out!
Try this link for a good read: http://www.ldsmag.com/familyleadernetwork/081114tolerance.html
It really inspires me to make sure I use my voice and stand up for what I know is right!

I finally got my hair cut! I love it for multiple reasons: it's exactly what I wanted and it takes about 2 minutes to do....that is what I call the perfect hair cut! This pic was taken by yours truly about 5 min ago, so it doesn't accurately reflect how cute it is. But trust me; it's cute!

Disclaimer!

I think I am blogologically challenged (yes that says "blogologically." sound it out very carefully; it makes sense). Thus, the blog will be very simple: no fancy fonts, no fancy pics, no fancy links, and no other fancy doodahs! :) Unless I can figure it out in a relatively short period of time. Maybe it's really easy, but in the 10 minutes it took me to look at my options, I didn't find any of the fancy stuff. So until fancy becomes simplified, this blogologically handicapped person will not fancify! (fact about me: I love to make up words!)