Getting Cooler All the Time!
Dallin just gets more and more fun. We're enjoying seeing him grow up and are excited to see the fun new things that he's learning. This might give you a little taste of the pure awesome that is little Dallin.
Cooler still since these pictures... This morning Dallin was lounging on the table as we ate our breakfast. Eating as the principle activity was soon replaced to moving items on the table to dodge the thrashing limbs. And soon, he was rolling all over the table. That was the first time he'd rolled from back to stomach (he's done it the other way already). He did it once and then just kept on rolling. It was pretty funny. We were so excitedly loud the first time that we scared him and made him cry. But his realization that what he had just done was sufficiently awesome as to quickly eclipse our parent-inflicted startle.
Life Proportions
Scientific "Knowledge"
A Mission: Learn and Love
I just gave a little presentation on my mission to our young mens' group in our ward at church. Here are the visuals. I've taken out a few slides to protect the innocent, but other than that, you get full glory, minus other props. It was fun to talk about the mission and bear testimony with that group. Vivan los Chinos!
Update
I was just looking at the performance profile of this site, and found that the slideshow load time is horrendous and the files large. Therefore, watch it by going to this article page.
Log Files
EU Leaders Advise US Against State-run Healthcare
Here's a nice AP article, "Europe's free, state-run health care has drawbacks". Perhaps that's an understatement. From the advice of those who have experienced state-run healthcare for the past couple decades, it doesn't sound like a road worth trying. I feel like that as a matter of principle and also because of observable facts: facts of history -- history that doesn't have to be experienced here.
"Wise people learn from experience. Super-wise people learn from others' experience," I remember listening to on a talk on tape years ago.
Below are some excerpts from this article...
Read full article...Swashbuckler
Man, this just makes me happy to be a Mormon... and a little anxious to have Dallin of swashbuckling age. :) He'll just have to be the sleeping royalty for now. And April will have to play double parts: my companion w/ a blade and the maiden rocking the babe.
Seagull
Chatty Dallin
Dallin is fun to talk to and is requiring more and more in-your-face time. It's fun to hear him learn about his voice.
Obama Lucha Libre
This video is extremely entertaining w/ its tongue-in-cheek rendition of Obama the luchador who's come to save the day. We have to get our laughs somewhere; I guess it'll have to come from this sarcastic animation, because we'd probably all start crying were we to focus too much on reality.
Update
After listening to, reading, and watching a talk by Elder Dallin H. Oaks called "Where Will it Lead?", I decided that the content of this video, though hilarious, was not very respectful. Making fun isn't constructive, though it may be entertaining for the moment. Elder Oaks had concerns in four areas of public policy:
1. The focus on rights and diminishing of responsibilities
2. The dwindling readership in books and newspapers
3. What is taught and what is not taught in education
4. The mistrust and lack of respect for public officials
I figured my recommending of this video was in violation of numero 4, so it's gone. I'm sure we'll find plenty more to entertain us.
