In Which...

Emily goes to the capitol...

Sits at the Governor's feet...

Asks a Question and Makes a Politician think...

Finds out she has the same last name as the Speaker of the House...

and Kathryn gets irritated that because of her darn desire to shoot all manual totally screws up a great shot. :(

But still has a great day!

I spent like 5 hours in the car today

Don't you love how I used the word like. Like it was so totally cool.

I attribute it to the fact that I did indeed spend 5 hours in the car today.

It was elective day, and library day, and science fair day (but to be fair no extra trips for that) and getting ready for Charter Day on the Hill day.

So...I listened to the radio. A LOT.

The Utah legislature is thinking of allowing school districts to put advertising on their buses. Good, brilliant, ingenious idea or STUPID STUPID STUPID?

My kids don't ride a bus and never have so the actual ad space wouldn't affect their day to day travel. Some points brought up in the radio discussion were Colleges and Universities could do targeted advertising, music stores could 'sponsor' Band trips. Perhaps athletic stores might like to sponsor a football trip. These ideas actually seem pretty A-Ok with me. In my case on the rare occasion our school 'rents' a bus for a field work they could have the cost defrayed by a local business. Two-thumbs up. BUT....if they allow one type of advertising would they have to allow another? What about the local pizza place...still ok? How about Coca-Cola? You know they would be first in line to advertise. No biggie? What about Red Bull? It seems a slippery line to walk and If I was cutting it off I would have to make it at the line of food. We already have a huge problem with obesity in our schools so much that schools are thinking of taking out their vending machines so the kids can walk around the block to the 7-11 and pick up the same thing in a much larger size. Why does everything have to have a slippery slope?

Then of course there is a safety issue. The reason buses are bright yellow and have tons of flashing lights is because little kids often don't think before they run out in traffic crossing the street to get home. What if a driver was 'distracted' by an advertisement. They would last until the first accident. But, we have distractions EVERYWHERE around us. If we use the argument about having no distractions while driving we would need to take down billboards and business signs and remove the radio from our car.

So my question is...what do you think? Should schools be able to use their vast moving fleet as billboards?

Alls Well that Ends Well

Remember THIS post? The one in which Kat goes to Logan blows out a three week old tire and has to buy a new one on Independence Day? Yeah, I do too..now. Well when the dust settled from that fun little episode, I took my new tire in to get it put on a rim for a spare. Alas...it doesn't fit underneath my car so after the two week obligatory bump around in the back of the van time I took it out to make it's home in the garage. Seems I shouldn't have.

Savanna had her long anticipated Valentine's Dance Party which I had the honor of attending. And Mike had digging snow caves with the scouts today. As I pulled into the parking lot and opened the door I heard a loud hissing sound from the front tire. That is NOT a good sign.

Luckily I have a great Valentine...

Farkle Etiquette

Writing this post *may* lead to an intervention. Of me. By those who do not play Farkle.

So I *might* like Farkle...I *may* play it a couple (or more) times a day in between emails and paying bills, and waiting for my kids to go to sleep.

It started out small. I just played here and there to reach 10,000 pts so I could 'unlock' some new world. Well that world is filled with strangers and for some reason the grand makers of Farkle thought we would want to chat with each other.

NEWSFLASH *WE DON'T*

Why do we not want to chat? Simple, we are using Farkle as an escape. An escape from reality. An escape from people. Mainly people that talk a lot. And well, why would we want to escape from people that talk a lot to more people that talk a lot but in texting form. Things like 'gl' and 'gg' are common expressions used in Farkle land. Do you know what they mean? It's very much open to interpretation it could mean. Good luck, Great legs or maybe good game or good gravy! But the point is WE DON'T CARE! We (being me) do not WANT to chat with strangers. It was a thrill one day last week to find the chat box gone, banished from the game. But alas, it was short lived and now I'm back to greeting strangers or feeling Farkle guilt if I ignore.

And yes with my tongue securely fit in my cheek I know there is a better way...and it straight to the off button but that's no fun now is it.

Too tired to do it again...

This post really belongs here rather than my photo blog, but it's all I had today.

Just have to love Savanna and the way she thinks.

I did it...

I signed up for the Little Red Bike Race again. As I was reminiscing with my sister about all the 'great' times last year I momentarily wavered. But alas, we decided to be tough and torture ourselves once more. :) Can't wait Peggy!

Do you want to join us? Little Red

Our Favorite Super Commercial

Somehow I think Tim might be a little more feared tomorrow at school



What was your fav?