CAN IT ALL BE COINCIDENCE?

by Don Fredrick, ©2012, blogging at The Obama Timeline http://www.colony14.net/id668.html

(Oct. 1, 2012) — As I noted in the introduction to my book, The Obama Timeline, a jury at a murder trial will often find the accumulated circumstantial evidence so overwhelming that a guilty verdict is obvious—even though there may be no witness to the crime. “The jurors in the Scott Peterson trial believed the collection of evidence more than they believed Scott Peterson. Among other things, the jury thought that being arrested with $15,000 in cash, recently-dyed hair, a newly-grown goatee, four cell phones, camping equipment, a map to a new girlfriend’s house, a gun, and his brother’s driver’s license certainly did not paint a picture of a grieving husband who had nothing to do with his pregnant wife’s disappearance and murder.”

In the four years I have been gathering information about—and evidence against—Barack Hussein Obama, I have encountered hundreds of coincidences that strike me as amazing. None of those coincidences, by themselves, may mean much. But taken as a whole it is almost impossible to believe they were all the result of chance. Consider the Obama-related coincidences:

Obama just happened to know 1960s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who just happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House advisor, and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing—which eventually just happened to require demolition.

Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.

Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya.

Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who just happens to live very close to Obama’s Chicago mansion, which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents just happen not to mind exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.

After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul “the Red” Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama’s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.

Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and just happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson, who just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who just happened to be a long-time friend of Obama’s political hatchet man, David Axelrod.

Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama just happened never to hear because he just happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his “most enthusiastic,” and Obama just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.

Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama just happened to receive an  impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations, which he just happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father, which just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who just happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine, which Obama just happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.

Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which just happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firm’s Judson Miner just happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.

In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit just happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving subprime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which just happened to spread nationwide, and which just happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the “New Party,” which just happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.

In late 1999 Obama purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who just happened to be the gay choir director of Obama’s Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of the church, just happened to be murdered, and both murders just happened to have never been solved. In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and just happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.

In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights, and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas just happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters. Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers just happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama just happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel “will never see a day of peace,” and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children’s dance whose performances just happened to include simulated beheadings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” and there has been “genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis,” and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just happens to refuse to make it public.

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull’s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.

Obama just happened to save $300,000 on the purchase of a $1.65 million Chicago mansion for which he deposited only $1,000 in earnest money, while the seller’s adjacent empty lot which was appraised at no more than $500,000 just happened to be sold at the inflated price of $625,000 to Rita Rezko, who just happened to earn only $37,000 per year working for Cook County government, and who just happened to be married to Tony Rezko, who just happened to be Obama’s main money man for his political campaigns, and who only days before the Obama mansion purchase just happened to obtain a $3.5 million loan from wealthy Iraqi Nadhmi Auchi, who just happened to have been kicked out of Iraq, and who just happened to have been convicted of corruption charges in France, and who just happened to ask Rezko to ask then-U.S. Senator Obama to help him obtain a visa to travel to the United States.

Rita Rezko just happened to borrow the money for the $625,000 empty lot from the Mutual Bank of Harvey, which just happened to be run by Tony Rezko’s pal Amrish Mahajan, whose wife Anita just happened to have been charged with fraudulently receiving $2 million in Illinois taxpayer dollars for drug tests never performed by her company, K. K. Bio-Science, which just happened to have a no-bid contract with the state, and whose computers just happened to disappear right before investigators arrived to take them away for evidence.

Obama just happened to obtain a $1.32 million mortgage for his mansion even though the payments of $8,000 per month (plus at least $1,500 per month in property taxes) exceeded 50 percent of his $162,100 U.S Senate salary income, and even though Michelle Obama was claiming that she and her husband were still paying off substantial student loans and were struggling to pay for piano lessons for their daughters, one of whom just happens to look remarkably like one of the daughters of Malcolm X.

Obama just happened to obtain his mansion mortgage from Northern Trust Bank, whose Board of Directors just happened to include Susan Crown, who just happened to be part of the wealthy Crown family, which just happened to donate to Obama’s campaigns, and which just happened to have ownership in defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation, and the  Crown family just happened to sit on the board of energy company Exelon, formerly known as Commonwealth Edison, which just happened to have had Thomas Ayers as its CEO, and the Crown family also owned the Maytag appliance company, which just happened to move its operations to Mexico, after its employees just happened to donate to Obama’s campaign, after he just happened to pledge that he would keep their jobs in Galesburg, Illinois.

In June 2005, just months after Obama became a U.S. Senator, Michelle Obama just happened to be named a “non-executive director” of the board of TreeHouse Foods, a supplier of Wal-Mart, for a salary of $51,200 in 2005 and $101,083 in 2006, and she just happened to be given 7,500 TreeHouse stock options, worth approximately $72,375, even though she just happened to know nothing about the private sector or running a business.

In 2006 Obama pushed for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago, and his wife Michelle just happened to be promoted to Vice-President of Community and External Affairs for the hospitals with a salary increase from $121,900 to $316,962, and she just happened to receive public relations help from Obama’s political strategist David Axelrod, whose mother just happened to write for a communist newspaper.

In 2006 Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland and Ellis, whose employees later contributed $87,722 to Obama’s presidential campaign, and whose partner Bruce I. Ettleson just happened to be a member of Obama’s campaign finance committee, just happened to write a paper calling for the elimination of the “natural born citizen” requirement in the U.S. Constitution.

Obama just happened to visit Kenya in 2006 to support his cousin, Raila Odinga, a Muslim socialist candidate for president, who just happened to have ties to both al-Qaeda and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, and who just happened to have been educated in communist East Germany, and who just happened to name his son Fidel, and who just happened to plan on establishing Shari’ah Muslim law in Kenya, and whose activities prompted the Kenyan government to lodge an official protest of Obama’s passport abuse and misconduct, and Obama’s actions just happened to have been denounced by the U.S. State Department as being in direct opposition to U.S. National Security, and after Odinga, for whom Obama just happened to have raised $950,000, lost the election, his Muslim followers just happened to burn Christian women and children alive in a church where they had sought refuge.

In 2006 Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias in his race for Illinois State Treasurer and stated that he is “…one of the most outstanding young men I could ever hope to meet”—even though Giannoulias just happened to be only 29 years old and even though his family’s Broadway Bank just happened to finance Chicago crime figures like Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicago thug with convictions for bookmaking and promoting prostitution, and even though virtually all of Chicago’s Democrat politicians were keeping their distance from Giannoulias, whose reputation was so questionable he even failed to get the endorsement of the Chicago Democrat Party—which just happens to almost never be concerned about questionable reputations.

Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, once worked for the Ford Foundation’s Asia program, which just happened to be run by Peter Geithner, who just happened to be the father of Timothy Geithner, who just happened to neglect to pay Social Security taxes on much of his income, which just happened to somehow qualify him to be Obama’s Treasury Secretary.

During the 2008 campaign Obama’s passport records just happened to have been illegally searched by an employee of a firm headed by John O. Brennan, and Lt. Quarles Harris, Jr., who was cooperating with federal investigators in connection with the incident, just happened to be found with a bullet in his head, and the murder just happened never to be solved, and Obama later just happened to make Brennan his terrorism and intelligence advisor.

On election night in 2008 in Chicago’s Grant Park, Obama just happened to wear a black suit and a red tie, and his older daughter just happened to wear a red dress, and his younger daughter just happened to wear a stark black dress, and his wife Michelle just happened to wear an arguably unattractive black dress that appeared to have a giant red X design, which just happened to prompt some to wonder if their clothing just happened to denote black power, communism, and Malcolm X, and at the very least prompted others to wonder why anyone would have his daughter wear a jet-black dress for a celebratory occasion—or where one could even just happen to find a store that sells black dresses for little girls.

From election night forward there are hundreds of other “just happeneds,” not the least of which is the long-form birth certificate released by Obama in April 2011 which just happened to consist of multiple image layers, including various objects which can be separated and rotated with computer software—which just happens to be impossible if a birth certificate is merely scanned and not computer-constructed by a forger.

I could go on… but you get the idea.

P.S. If Obama just happens to win reelection on November 6, remember that hyperinflation just happens to be the inescapable consequence of printing trillions of dollars to cover massive government deficits.

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Paul Ryan

I should have posted this a few weeks ago. It is still great information. Written by one of my favorite writers.

Vice Presedential candidate Paul Ryan recently gave a hard hitting speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa which put the blame for today's stalled economy squarely on the shoulder's of President Obama. FactCheck.org's reviewed Ryan's speech and and determined it contained several false claims. Ryan's false claims are detailed below.

FactCheck.org Claim: Ryan lied about Obamacare taking funds from Medicare

Obamacare takes $716B from Medicare as one of its sources of funding and that’s a fact. The savings will come from lower reimbursements to care providers. Which will cause fewer doctors and hospitals to see Medicare patients. The result will be decreased medical access for Medicare patients. This plan isn't workable, but the CBO has to take legislation at face value, so it gives Obamacare credit for this $716B even though the payments to doctors will probably have to go back up when doctors start bailing from the Medicare program.

The problem is that the CBO gives dubious legislation the same weight as reasonable legislation. When Ryan came up with his own budget plan he included this same dubious proposal to get $716B from Medicare or else his plan would have started out $716B in the hole compared to the plan offered by Democrats. Because Democrats gamed the system to get Obamacare a better CBO scoring than it deserved, Ryan did the same thing with his budget rather than have his plan start in a $716 B hole compared to Obamacare.

But Ryan's budget plan has nothing to do with his factual statement that Obamacare pulls $716B from medicare. The relevance of the Ryan budget is questionable since the Romney campaign isn't running on the Ryan budget. Why does FactCheck.org bring up a budget that was never passed to prove Ryan misrepresented Obamacare? If Ryan had something untrue about Obamacare perhaps FactCheck.org wouldn't need to use a smoke screen to make their point.

FactCheck.org Claim: Ryan lied about Obama's efforts to implement deficit reduction proposals from his own Simpson-Bowles Commission on debt reduction.

In his speech Ryan failed to mention he was on the Simpson-Bowles Commission and voted against their completed proposal. The Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended a balanced plan for deficit reduction that included both spending cuts and tax increases. Ryan wasn't willing to support the tax increases. Ryan developed his own alternative budget plan without tax increases.

But how does Ryan's decision to develop an alternate budget have anything to do with Obama’s failure to support the recommendations of his own debt commission? If the Simpson-Bowles budget was the best plan available why didn't Obama work with Harry Reid to get it passed as a bill in the Senate? Is the President off the hook because a member of Congress didn't support the recommendations of his commission?

In his speech at the RNC Ryan said, “He (Obama) created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.” Obama has added $5 trillion in new debt, more than all other presidents combined. Obama's last budget was so unserious that it didn't get a single vote in s Senate controlled by his own party. Harry Reid didn't even vote for Obama's budget! In fact, Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate hasn't passed any budget since Obama moved into the White House. The only deficit reduction proposal Obama has been pushing recently is to increase taxes on the rich, which would fund the government for approximately 8.5 days. Railing against the rich may poll well with voters, but its not exactly the kind of leadership will help America with our mounting debt crisis. Ryan wasn't lying when said Obama has done nothing to reduce the deficit. He was being generous.

FactCheck.org Claim: Ryan lied when he claimed average American were “cut out” of stimulus spending since more than a quarter of Obama's stimulus when toward tax relief.

Ryan should issue a statement stating that the American public was only cut out of three-quarters of Obama's stimulus. Unfortunately, the American public is stuck with the the bill for the whole thing, not just the one quarter in tax benefits that actually may have benefited them.

The biggest Keynesian experiment in our history has been a stunning failure. The big lie about the stimulus was that it would keep unemployment below 8% by financing shovel ready projects. Later the President admitted there weren't as many shovel ready jobs as he thought. Unemployment remains above (not below) 8% with 23 million Americans unemployed or underemployed.

Instead of creating additional plans to grow the economy and create jobs the Obama administration has focused on campaigning, fund raising, blaming Republicans, bashing the rich, and floating nonsense ideas such as the jobless recovery and 8% unemployment being the new normal. Its interesting liberals were making similar excuses near the end of the Carter Administration.

FactCheck.org Claim: Ryan lied when he blamed President Obama for the closing of the GM production plant in Janesville WI because it closed the month before Obama took office.

On February 13, 2008 at a speech in Janesville WI candidate Obama said,“I believe that if our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years.” Again in October of 2008 candidate Obama promised, “As president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying jobs in Wisconsin and all across America.” I'm sure the people of Janesville WI got the impression that if we implemented the President's stimulus and GM bailout that their local GM plant would continue to provide jobs.

In Ryan's RNC speech he said, “Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.” Ryan's statement is completely factual. While running for President Obama indicated that if they people supported his plan for the auto industry then the Janesville plant would retool and continue to employ people. This was President Obama's promise and it is completely reasonable for Ryan to compare the President's promises with what actually happened.

Ryan's point was that Obama's economic policies have left our economy week and stagnant. Comparing a closed auto plant to Obama's promise of being “here for a hundred years” is a fairly effective way to demonstrate the weakness of Obama's recovery.

Dishonesty regarding the closing of the Janesville plant resides with the MSM including FactCheck.org for claiming the Janesville plant closed in December of 2008 when in fact it continued to produce trucks for Isuzu until April of 2009. Most of the plant closed down in December 2008, but it continued to employ about 1200 workers until about four months into Obama's presidency. Any news organization claiming the Janesvilled GM plant closed in December 2008 is suffering from bias, incompetence, or both.

FactCheck.org Claim: Ryan lied when he blamed the historical downgrading of the US credit rating on Obama.

In his speech to the RNC Ryan said, “It (Obama's presidency) began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America.” Again, Ryan's statement is completely factual. Republicans were unwilling to raise taxes and Democrats were unwilling to cut entitlements. Whether Obama deserves the blame or not depends on who's position you find more reasonable. If you feel the federal government should increase taxes to provide more benefits and entitlements to create demand and spur economic growth then you should probably blame Ryan and the Republicans for not compromising. If you believe federal spending is out of control one of the causes of our current economic problems then you should probably blame Obama and the Democrats for being unwilling to compromise on spending.

Its interesting that FactCheck.org and the rest of the MSM were so quick to pile on Paul Ryan for telling lies when in fact Ryan's speech simply contains the bias one expects to find in campaign speeches. Do they really expect Ryan to be objective? Clearly Ryan is biased against bigger government and more federal spending. What's troubling is that the bias of FactCheck.org and most of the MSM is nearly as apparent as Ryan's.

What is FactCheck.org's judgment on the Obama Administration's claim that their stimulus was necessary to keep unemployement under 8%? Or how has FactCheck.org rated Present Obama's promises regarding the GM Janesville plant being around for the next 100 years? The Obama Administration frequently takes credit for all for all of the GM jobs that still exist. However, when Paul Ryan dares to point out GM and other jobs that no longer exist in the Obama recovery the MSM piles on fast. This says a lot more about the MSM than it does about Paul Ryan.  

September 3, 2012

Tom Martin

Why Benghazi Matters

The President and VP do not make security decisions for the embassies, they have bigger fish to fry.  Hillary is taking responsibility for the security of the Benghazi compound as she should.  Ambassador Stephens and others others in Libya requested improved security measures from the State Dept and they were denied.  I think Hillary's State Dept was attempting to conduct itself within the framework of Obama's overall foreign policy.  I think Obama's foreign policy certainly influenced how the State Dept conducted its security measures.  But I agree the Secretary of State is responsible for protecting her people and should be held accountable.  

But President Obama is responsible for how he responded and how his team responded after the attack.  Pres Obama's first response was to the attack on Sept 11 and the murder of one of his Ambassadors was: He flew to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.  Then before all the facts were in the Obama Administration started blaming somebody for the attacks. Who?  Terrorists?  Muslim extremists?  Nope, a Coptic Christian living in America.  Obama and his team blamed a You Tube video that few people had even seen.  It wasn't in the news, almost nobody knew it existed until Obama et al starting blaming the video for the causing the 9/11 attacks.  In the this claim the Obama Administration attempted to pretend the 9/11 protests had nothing to do with Obama’s foreign policy and they attempted paint the Benghazi attack with the same brush as the other protests. So where did the You Tube video story come from?  Protesters in Cairo and at other US embassies must have been chanting about the video, right?  Actually it was reported they were chanting  "Obama, Obama there are still a billion Osamas!"  

Obama and his team had access to Benghazi surveillance video within a day of the attack but they kept talking about a spontaneous protest for two weeks.  Obama’s team was telling a coordinated, prepared lie to cover up the true nature of the attack in Benghazi and the protests in Cairo and other cites across North Africa and the Middle East.  Why?  Because Democrats just got through bragging about killing Osama Bin Laden 21 times at the Democratic National Convention and they really wanted to shift the blame for the protests elsewhere.  Obama had a big advantage over Romney with foreign policy the events of 9/11 shows that all is not lollipops and rainbows with Obama's foreign policy.  Obama does not deserve to be impeached or voted out because of the 9/11 protests or because of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi.  Obama should be impeached or voted out for attempting to cover up what really happened.  

Tom Martin

October 16, 2012

Good friends, good times!

Atalie, me, Jamie, Jennifer & Lara

I grew up in the small town of Price, UT. I moved to Price from Orem when I was 14. It was a difficult adjustment for me. I felt like the rug had been pulled out from beneath me and that I would never fit in. I prayed that I would find good friends and that I would one day fit in. My prayers were answered. I was accepted into a group of friends that I stayed close to from 9th grade on into our college years. I loved these friends dearly. I still do. I knew I was blessed because of their influence on me. I hoped that I was being a good influence on them as well. In April I was able have a small reunion with these special ladies. Wendy wasn't able to make it because of a previous engagement. I sure hope she can make it to the next gathering. As we talked through the night and shared our personal adventures with one another I was overwhelmed with joy and happiness as I learned that each one of us still had testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ and that we are all active in the Church. I was able to have a better understanding and appreciation for what Alma and the sons of Mosiah must have experienced when they reunited. Alma 17:2 - "Now these sons of Mosiah were with Alma at the time the angel first appeared unto him; therefore Alma did rejoice exceedingly to see his brethren; and what added more to his joy, they were still his brethren in the Lord; yea, and they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the truth; for they were men of a sound understanding and they had searched the scriptures diligently, that they might know the word of God."

Homecoming....senior year for Tanner! 6th grade for Spencer!

Tanner and Sunnie

Tonight Tanner went to his senior homecoming dance withe a great friend. He and Sunnie have been friends since the 6th grade. She is a great girl. It sure makes a mom feel good to know her son has good friends.

I hope Tanner has a great senior year! I forgot how busy life is at that stage. He is constantly on the go. He is working, doing home work, going on dates and preparing for debate.

Spencer is our big 6th grader. He is busy too. This year he has more homework than what he has had in the past. He is getting used to that part of life. He is also busy with soccer. He has 2 games per week right now. He is also very busy with scouting and Young Men's.

Spencer had a soccer game today. He played goalie and forward. As goalie, he blocked two awesome shots. He also played forward and did very well.

I love these boys!! Who knew being a mom would be so much fun. I feel so blessed.

Spencer

Jr. Prom

Really? Is it really possible that Tanner is old enough to go to the Jr. Prom? It is amazing how fast time is going by. I am sure that is just the perspective of a mother. I find myself getting so emotional about my boys and how fast they are growing.


I am just going to post a few pictures. You will have to ask him about his big event. He had so much fun. I feel so blessed knowing that he has two best friends that are good boys too. It sure makes a mom feel good. I love you Tanner man!!