Category: family life

prop 8

I don’t know why I can’t stop thinking about the outcome of Proposition 8. But every time I do, I feel really sad for all of those families out there that can’t have the same civil liberties as everyone else; for all of the loved ones out there that have to be validated by someone else living hundreds of miles away; that other people’s prejudice and discrimination has a say in the way other people live and love.

The issue itself is either a moral or civil rights one, depending on which camp you reside, but for the life of me, I really, really, really don’t understand how one group can decide on the morality of another when the former is not causing any harm to anyone else. In every morality case I can think of – abortion, capital punishment, murder, theft, the guy cheating on his wife – someone else is getting hurt. But this, this just doesn’t make sense to me.

People that say “I don’t hate gay people, they just shouldn’t be allowed to get married”, um, excuse me, do you not see the hypocrisy in that statement, the hidden, subtle spite that you perpetuate? It makes me sad that hatred, ignorance and bigotry still has a huge place in people’s hearts.

how I met my husband

There was only one decision that I can think of that determined events:  My decision to leave the mold of Utah State and Cache Valley. God wasn’t fixing my early 20’s unrest – and why should it be so easy – so I left all I knew. Followed my gut and left what I no longer held near and dear. To start fresh, I wanted to work somewhere with what my interests were at the time. This happened to be astronomy and so naturally I went and applied at the Hansen Planetarium.    I even remember thinking at the time that I was pondering leaving Cache Valley, What If My Husband Is In SLC?

The fugitive entered my life in the fall of 1997. :)

How I met my wife, part 5 — meeting my love

Recap: got in trouble, community service at Hansen Planetarium.

So I finished the portion of my community service that I could do at the planetarium (there was a rule that said you couldn’t do them all in one place, or something like that), and had a few hours left, so I helped out the Forest Service. A few months later, after I was done with that, I went back to the planetarium, and asked my boss there if I could have a job, and they agreed and hired me on the spot. So I was working at the planetarium, hanging out, and met a girl.

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How I met my wife, part 4 — trouble

Recap: I had just found raves.

So, not long after my first rave (and I had been going to every single one every weekend since), around spring of ’95, I was at Confetti’s (which was open every Friday and Saturday nights, but Saturday nights were the raves, so we usually went to the club on Friday, discussed the logistics of the rave the next night, and then would pre-party at Confetti’s on Saturday until the rave started at midnight, which would make a large portion of the people at Confetti’s disappear, but back to the story…), and had met a couple of new people there, named Ben and Andy. They were both cousins, and we were talking, and hanging out, then I left for the rave as I usually did around midnight. Funny thing… I saw them at the rave, which made them even more likable. We began to hang out, and became very good friends, and they introduced me to several more people, namely Josh, and Angie.

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bathtime

Now that I have a YouTube account, and can post videos, I’m posting this one. It’s old, but I still love it.

Chalk this one up to being new parents, and not really knowing how to do it.

It’s still cute though.

She was 6 days old in this video, and we made tons of newbie parent mistakes, but I gush every time I see it.

sleep regressions

Skye as been starting to wake up once, sometimes twice, during the night. I knew it couldn’t be a coincidence that it started happening once she started crawling and trying to stand up. But this article basically says to me “Babies are in one big growth spurt and developmental milestone, so get used to sleep deprivation FOREVER!!:

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big cottonwood late afternoon

My parents bought us a baby back pack as a gift when I was pregnant. I’ve been contemplating whether or not we should take this cumbersome item to Slovakia since we hadn’t used it yet because Skye wasn’t big enough. We tried it out today on a short outing up Big Cottonwood. I’m glad we did because 1) the leaves up there are still gorgeous and 2) it validated taking the pack overseas. It was a fun lil family outing.

How I met my wife, part 3 — finding PLUR

Previously on “How I met my wife”…

My friend Jose introduced me to techno music when I was about 15, and I’ve loved it ever since. I would listen to it everywhere, and had a huge set of headphones, and would often get strange looks during class. Now, don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t listening to it during every class, but I had an english class where our teacher would give us personal time for ~10 minutes a day, and I would spend my time listening to this new found techno music.

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