It's a Very Merry Foster Teen Christmas!

Finally finished up my flier for our family Christmas project. We have 34 foster teens who are either in-between foster home or are going to age out of the system to provide Christmas morning for. Please help us give them a holiday morning they won't forget! If you want to donate or know someone who does please pass along this information.

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Man Powered Ferris Wheel. Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India.

Man Powered Ferris Wheel. Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India.
Originally uploaded by kirkclimber

If there is only one touristy thing we get to do on this particular trip, it would be to head down to Chowpatty Beach. Man powered ferris wheel? That's what I'm talkin' about.

See ya soon

Had a case of this

now after a week of that, 2 ER visits, 5 bags of fluids and 24 hours of flying we find ourselves here

See ya soon :)

Utah's Prop 1: The Mrs. vs The Mr.

In a quick nutshell: Prop one is a request for a multimillion bond to create a city emergency evacuation site and plans to strengthen our emergency vulnerability.

The Social Worker Mrs (aka-Me) : I initially thought it sounded great. We absolutely need an emergency "city center", called the Mr. and told him thinking I had beat him to the political punch and I would be educating HIM for a change. The conversation went a little something like this, "I would like you to know I am voting for Prop 1 and would encourage you to do the same...."

The City Planning/Business Minded Mr: "What?! You are? The prop is basically a multimillion dollar blank check. They haven't even conducted an initial feasibility study. I'm all for an emergency plan but they don't even have a plan yet. Who knows where that money will go"

The Social Worker Mrs.: "Huh, hadn't seen the planning/business side of that coin, just the community benefit side."

And that is how it came to be: The Mr. politically beat out the Mrs. once again and off to the polls we will go. To all of you: I am NOT voting for Utah's Prop 1 and would encourage you to do the same.

(Note: This picture is about 3 years ago...we look so little!)