Modern Version of the Ant and the Grasshopper

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant 's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Recent happenings

Finally someone came to visit us here in Washington. My sister Amber and my two nieces came to enjoy some unusually cold weather for a few days. We went to the riverfront park in downtown Spokane. It has these two huge scary waterfalls. Kya for some reason thought Amber was going to throw her off the bridge into the water so she didn't look too happy in this picture.

There is this GIANT radio flyer wagon at the park the kids can play on, pretty cool.

Brighton is enjoying her new stroller, nice and comfy. Right before she pooped all over it.

It was Kya's birthday while they were here, 5 years old. We had a little party for her, full of a bunch of adults. She was just happy to have her Hanna Montana cake. 

Zyan

Brighton loving on her daddy

Amber can get Brighton to smile better then I can. She really likes her Auntie.

Brighton at 1 month

It's been a month already!! It's gone by so fast, yet it seems like she has always been here.  She is starting to smile at her daddy and me, and I think she has started to figure out she has a voice, because she is always making some sort of noise. She loves to be naked, as you can see from the pictures. I really don't think we could have gotten an easier baby. She sleeps great at night, she is always happy, she eats good, she loves baths and being outside, so we got lucky.

 

I caught her flexing her guns

 
Wow, I didn't realize how different she looks from the last blog post. But looking at those pictures, it's amazing how much she has changed in 2 weeks

Little Miss

 So tomorrow little miss Brighton will be 2 weeks old. I thought it would be good to post some pictures, since we stole her away and took her to Washington.  She is looking different everyday. She seems to learn something new everyday too. Like last night, i was washing her face and the cold cloth must have scared her because she hissed at me, just like a cat. It was hilarious. 

New Summer in a New City

So here we are in Liberty Lake, Washington for another 4 months.  It is right in between Spokane, Wa and Couer d'Alene, ID. I'll be here for until the end of May and then I'll come back to Utah to have the baby, which is due on June 20th. Jesse will come back on the 15th. Hopefully everything will go as planned. Cross your fingers for us!

Couer d'Alene, ID

Spokane, Wa

Sorry, most of you were wrong, its a girl!

BOY OR GIRL?

So i get my ultra sound today to find out the sex of the baby. What do you think? Use your intuition and let me know. If you get it right you get a prize. The satisfaction of being right, come on you have a 50-50 chance.