My Playlist

Ok, so my playlist on my blog is now songs from the Stephenie Meyer webpage. I took the songs I liked the most from the playlists she had on her site corresponding w/ her different books. Garrett actually likes a lot of the songs (especially of course the more hard core like Muse and Linkin Park). He said the music has now "peaked his interest." I am glad b/c I am going to need someone to come w/ me to the movie in November. I am just finishing up New Moon for the second time. If you haven't done so already, I definitely recommend reading them again (or for the first time). I find myself actually reading word for word instead of skipping through parts like I had. Whenever I read a new book, I skip through a lot of the descriptive to get to the dialogue. Doing that, however, makes for a lot of missed and important parts.

Differences between McCain and Obama

I have heard that Obama supported gay marriage and thinking that wasn't the case (but supported civil unions like McCain) I figured I should check it out. According to this article and others, they both support civil unions, but not gay marriage. Of course, there are other articles saying the opposite (that he doesn't believe gay marriage should be banned) so who really knows...


I saw this on CNN and thought is was interesting. Obviously, I don't see us making upwards of 603K every year, but the numbers are very interesting. I read that really the deficit would increase more w/ McCain, but in general the deficit would be about the same (relatively....McCains is about an extra billion towards the deficit, but supposedly that isn't very much w/ the total of the US GDP)

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates_taxproposals_tpc/index.htm

Here's how the average tax bill could change in 2009 if either John McCain's or Barack Obama's tax proposals were fully in place.

	MCCAIN	OBAMA
Income	Avg. tax bill	Avg. tax bill
Over $2.9M	-$269,364	+$701,885
$603K and up	-$45,361	+$115,974
$227K-$603K	-$7,871	+$12
$161K-$227K	-$4,380	-$2,789
$112K-$161K	-$2,614	-$2,204
$66K-$112K	-$1,009	-$1,290
$38K-$66K	-$319	-$1,042
$19K-$38K	-$113	-$892

More Pics from the Zoo

So this is actually from our first trip to the zoo. I didn't take a lot of pictures of animals because I figured they weren't going anywhere anytime soon. The pandas were awesome though and of course the macaw was gorgeous (I think it is a macaw). When we went yesterday, we saw a show that featured sea lions (not to be confused w/ seals mind you). We sat in the perfect spot b/c right at the beginning they had this huge looking owl (they said it weighed only five lbs) fly down right above our heads. Reagan was sitting in my lap and literally we could feel him flying right above us (as in I would have hit him if I even put my hand on my head..kind of freaky). The lady actually commented on the fact he was pretty close to getting Reagan's hair. I thought, great my child was almost scalped by a owl. Of course they thought it was all pretty cool. Garrett asked what there fav. part of the zoo was and interestingly enough it is the skyfari that is this small tram that holds four people that takes you from the bottom to the top of the hill and then you can go back down again on it. We can ride it for free b/c of our annual passes which is pretty cool. So my children like the ride better than the animals. Kind of funny, but cute at the same time. The skyfari is the best thing ever b/c the hill is VERY steep. I count it as part of my workout routine for the week. Kind of cheating, but I say it still counts. Pushing 25 lbs up a hill isn't too easy. Well I will put more pics up at some point. It is drizzly today so I think Rea and I will try to go to the beach next week. Hope you are all well!

The Zoo

We decided to get annual passes for the family. The girls and I have already gone twice and Garrett will come w/ us again on Saturday. Last Saturday the girls and I spent about 3 hours there. It is a large zoo so we didn't even see a fraction of it. Maddie has early release once a week so we went again. Our house is being sprayed again for bugs so we are going to go again (w/ G this time). I was informed I needed to put new pics up, so here are some from the zoo:

Just a reminder

Just a reminder of how we can all look back at old pictures and go "what were we thinking with that hairstyle?"