Prayers Needed

Everyone, please keep Chance in your prayers today and tomorrow. He is Collin's friend from baseball who was diagnosed with ALL (a type of cancer) toward the end of last baseball season. He goes back to Children's in Dallas in the morning, and they are hoping his ANC counts will be high enough for him to continue his chemo regimen.

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On a lighter note, yesterday I noticed Cameron gathering a bunch of his books together and putting them in a bag. I became concerned because I didn't want him to throw them away, so I asked him what he was doing. "Mom," he told me "some kids at school are so poor, they don't have any books to read at their house. I'm taking these to my class so Mrs. Kilgore can give them to the kids who don't have any books!" My Cam is so sweet =)

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This morning, I asked the boys if they knew who won the election:
"John McCain!!!" they answered.
"Nope," I replied, "Barack Obama!"
"NO! John McCain!!!"
"Why do you boys like John McCain so much?"
"Because his name is John, like Dada!"
Silly me, I should have seen that one coming =o)

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Caitlyn Calls Barack Obama "Rock-A-Bama"

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I LOVE my kids =o)

Change has Come!

I know you haven't been living under a rock this morning, so you are well aware of yesterday's happenings. I am sooo excited about the outcome of this election. Actually, I would have been excited either way! We could have either ended up having a woman one missed heart beat away from the presidency (awesome!!!!!!!) or we could have ended up with our first black president. What a great time to be alive. What a great time to live in the United States of America.

Here is his party nomination acceptance speech.

Here is the first part of his presidential acceptance speech. There is a link on it to watch the rest of it.

I cried when I listened to it. Bawled. Really. It made me think of my boys. What an inspiration! To go from the son of a single teenage mother to President of the United States- it restores my faith in our country. Just think, in less than 50 years, we have gone from Jim Crow to a black family in the White House.

Here are some of the things I love about him:
1. He is such an eloquent speaker- that will be a nice change ;o)
2. He will reunite our military families.
3. His wife is unafraid to keep him in his place (love that!)
4. He gives me hope.
5. He has injected some much needed energy into politics.
6. He writes his own speeches.
7. His childhood story is very inspiring.

Sure, there are plenty of things that I don't like about him, but that's not my focus today.

God Bless America!!!

"The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly." -John McCain

It's election day- VOTE!!!

and read this

and take a couple minutes to remind yourself about this

and don't forget to thank God you live in the USA- where you are more likely to die of obesity-related illnesses than starvation.

AZ Trip

My mom booked her plane ticket this morning! She's flying in on the 20th, and we'll head out either the 21st or 22nd. Arizona here we come!!!

2 down, 8 to go

We have a bit of a mouse problem this year. I was in denial for quite a while, but after one of those cute little things ran out to say "hi" during the middle of the day, while we were all sitting in the front room watching TV, I decided it was time to take action! The kids and I went to Big Box Mart and purchased some lovely sticky traps. We placed them at strategic locales throughout the house and promptly caught a 60 pounder! Well, it was Cam...oops! I unstuck him and we were back in business!

This morning, John woke the kids up and showed them the mouse we caught during the night. They thought it was really cute. I didn't. I took it outside, filled up a container with hose water, and promptly dispatched our new little friend. The kids were livid! "Can't we keep him as a pet?!" they pleaded. "NO!" I began, making the lie up as I went, "the glue is too sticky, so if we try and free him, we'll pull off his legs. This is the nicest thing we can do to him!"

He is now waiting on the curb for the garbage man to take him to his eternal resting place. The kids are at school. I am home with my conscience... I am a murderer and liar all in one day. Two down, 8 to go.

******edited to clarify Two COMMANDMENTS- lying and murder- 8 to go, not two MICE 8 to go =o) *******

Happy Halloween!

Wow! Was Halloween fun or what? What?! That's what I thought!!

Well, we had a busy and enjoyable week. John took the week off to finish up some projects for school and to recharge a bit before finals. It was nice to have him home. He has spoiled me rotten all week. He cooked breakfast and dinner several times, loaded the dishwasher, and helped out a lot with the kids. It's been nice to have him around. You know, a girl could get used of this! Wow!

Thursday, we finally traded in our vehicles on a new one. I am sooo glad we finally did this! Our poor van has been on its last (borrowed, very borrowed) leg for some time now and our Jeep is too small to fit all of us legally (yikes!!!! Do you know how big of a ticket that is?!). Since we have loans on both (stupid, stupid- I know!), and were upside down on both loans, we weren't sure if we would be able to get into anything. Luckily, we went during a "sale" and worked with a really awesome salesman. He was able to get us into a brand new Dodge Grand Caravan for much less than the payment for both our "old" cars, plus our interest rate is incredible!! So without further adieu, let me introduce Reddy, the newest member of the Bryant household:


See how much room he has?


We LOVE his captain chairs! See Caleigh's foot? And the top of Cam's head?


I'm one HOT soccer mama when I drive this thing! (Sorry, no picture of me- I'm just way too hot!

For Halloween, we went to the town square and trick or treated. The kids enjoyed it.



After that, we went to the church and did some chili eating and more trick or treating. Now my teeth feel like they have fuzzy slippers on them and my head feels just a bit funny... maybe we had a bit too much sugar =)

After we came home, the university was having their Homecoming bonfire. They shoot off fireworks every year, and we watch it from the Wal Mart parking lot.


Cam LOVED it!


Now the Holiday season has officially begun!!! Yipee!